Brunswick Records
Brunswick Records, founded 1916: jazz artists and albums on the label.
Artists on Brunswick Records
Bing Crosby
1903–1977 · American singer and actor (1903–1977)
Billie Holiday
1915–1959 · American jazz singer (1915–1959)
Bobby Darin
1936–1973 · American singer and actor (1936–1973)
Art Tatum
1909–1956 · American jazz pianist (1909–1956)
Artie Shaw
1910–2004 · American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (1910-2004)
Mary Lou Williams
1910–1981 · American jazz pianist and composer (1910–1981)
Harry James
1916–1983 · American trumpeter, big band leader (1916-1983)
The Mills Brothers
1925– · American jazz and pop vocal quartet (1923-1981)
Raymond Scott
1908–1994 · American composer, bandleader, pianist, record producer…
Andy Kirk
1898–1992 · American jazz saxophonist and tubist, bandleader (1898-1992)
Marion Harris
1896–1944 · American singer (1896-1944)
Horace Heidt
1901–1986 · American musician (1901-1986)
Rolf Kühn
1929–2022 · German jazz clarinetist, composer and big band leader…
Glen Gray
1906–1963 · American musician (1906–1963)
Nick Lucas
1897–1982 · American jazz musician (1897–1982)
Claude Hopkins
1903–1984 · American pianist (1903-1984)
Roger Wolfe Kahn
1907–1962 · American composer (1907–1962)
Ambrose
1896–1971 · English bandleader (1896–1971)
Lou Stein
1922–2002 · American musician (1922–2002)
Label profile
US label; also appears as "Brunswick Records".
Label Code: LC 0136 / LC 00136
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Brunswick is an active American record label founded in 1916.
The company first began producing phonographs in 1916, then began marketing their own line of records as an after-thought. These first Brunswick Records used the vertical cut system (like Edison Disc Records), and were not sold in large numbers. They were recorded in the US but sold only in Canada. Records under the "Brunswick" label were first produced by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. In 1920, a new line of Brunswick Records were introduced in the US and Canada that employed the lateral cut system that was then becoming the default cut for 78 disc records. In late 1924, Brunswick acquired the Vocalion (2) Records label. In the spring of 1925 Brunswick introduced its own version of electrical recording (licensed from General Electric) using photoelectric cells, which Brunswick eventually called the "Light-Ray Process" .
In April 1930, Brunswick-Balke-Collender sold Brunswick Records to Warner Bros., who then leased the entire Brunswick record operation to the American Re
Profile from Discogs (CC0)