Columbia Records

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Sources

1. BookPerfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
2. BookThe Fabulous Phonograph, 1877–1977

Relations

label of:

• Bessie Smithsince Feb 1923

  Sources: The History of Jazz, Jazz: A History of America’s Music

• Billie Holiday1936 – 1942

  Sources: Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights

• Dave Brubecksince 1954

  Sources: The History of Jazz

• Miles Davissince 1955

  Sources: So What: The Life of Miles Davis

licensed from:

• Western Electric

  Sources: Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology, Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music

made:

• LP record

  Sources: Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music, The Fabulous Phonograph, 1877–1977

• Phonograph cylinder

  Sources: Cylinder Recordings: A Primer, History of the Cylinder Phonograph

Appears in12 items

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  Jazz8 items
  • The Original Dixieland Jass Band’s first record26 Feb 1917
  • Bessie Smith’s “Downhearted Blues”16 Feb 1923
  • Billie Holiday records “Strange Fruit”20 Apr 1939
  • The recording ban1 Aug 1942
  • Miles Davis’s “’Round Midnight” at Newport17 Jul 1955
  • Mingus’s “Fables of Faubus”May 1959
  • Kind of Blue is released17 Aug 1959
  • 
    Brubeck’s “Time Out” is releasedDec 1959
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  Recorded Sound4 items
  • 
    Cylinders1889
  • Electrical recording1925
  • Columbia launches the LP21 Jun 1948
  • 
    RCA answers with the 4531 Mar 1949