Good Time Jazz Records

{{short description|American jazz record company and label}} {{Infobox record label  | name = Good Time Jazz Records | image = Goodtimejazz logo.png | image_size = 150 | parent = Concord Music Group | founded = {{start date|1949}} | founder = Lester Koenig | defunct = {{end date|1969}} | status = Inactive | genre = Jazz | country = U.S. | location =  }}

'''Good Time Jazz Records''' was an American jazz record company and label. It was founded in 1949 by Lester Koenig to record the Firehouse Five Plus Two and earned a reputation for Dixieland jazz.<ref name="Yanow">{{cite web |last1 =Yanow|first1=Scott|title=The Good Time Jazz Story|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-good-time-jazz-story-mw0000172718 |website=AllMusic|accessdate=5 July 2016}}</ref>

The label produced new releases and reissues, including recordings by Jelly Roll Morton, Burt Bales, Turk Murphy's jazz band, Wally Rose, Luckey Roberts, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Lu Watters, Bob Scobey, Bunk Johnson, Kid Ory, George Lewis, Johnny Wiggs, Sharkey Bonano, Don Ewell, and blues musician Jesse Fuller.

Good Time Jazz was subsumed by Koenig's Contemporary Records. Its last recording was made in 1969. When Koenig died in 1977, the label's catalog was sold to Fantasy Records, which anthologized some of it. It was acquired by the Concord Music Group in 2004 when Fantasy was taken over.

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==External links== *Barry Kernfeld, "Good Time Jazz". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' online. *[https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?and%5B%5D=publisher:good%20time%20jazz Good Time Jazz Records] on the Internet Archive's [http://great78.archive.org/ Great 78 Project]

Category:Record labels established in 1949 Category:Record labels disestablished in 2004 Category:American jazz record labels Category:Defunct record labels of the United States