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OKeh Records

OKeh Records, founded 1918: jazz artists and albums on the label.

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Artists on OKeh Records

Billie Holiday 1915–1959 · American jazz singer (1915–1959) Ahmad Jamal 1930–2023 · American jazz pianist (1930-2023) Stacey Kent b. 1968 · American recording artist; singer Kurt Elling b. 1967 · American jazz singer and songwriter Lonnie Johnson 1899–1970 · American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, violinist and… Dhafer Youssef b. 1967 · Tunisian musician Regina Carter b. 1966 · American jazz violinist Mamie Smith 1891–1946 · American vaudeville singer (1891–1946) Eddie Lang 1902–1933 · American jazz guitarist (1902–1933) Frankie Trumbauer 1901–1956 · American musician (1901–1956) Miff Mole 1898–1961 · American jazz musician (1898–1961) Sippie Wallace 1898–1986 · American blues and jazz singer (1898–1986) Jeff Ballard b. 1963 · American jazz drummer Papa Celestin 1884–1954 · American jazz bandleader, trumpeter, cornetist and… Lizzie Miles 1895–1963 · African American blues singer (1895-1963) Johnny Desmond 1919–1985 · American pop singer (1919–1985) Magos Herrera b. 1970 · Mexican Jazz singer Shelton Brooks 1886–1975 · Canadian-born African American composer of popular music…

Label profile

American record label, named after its founder Otto K. E. Heinemann (stylized "OkeH" or "OKeh").
Label Code: LC 0288 / LC 00288
For unofficial releases/bootlegs of Okeh, please use Okeh (3).

Launched by the Otto Heineman Phonograph Supply Company, Inc., in 1918, Okeh records were initially produced as 10" vertical-cut discs bearing dark blue labels with an Indian head trademark. On October 1, 1919, the Heineman Corporation reorganized as the General Phonograph Corporation and vertical-cut discs were replaced with standard lateral-cut records. The Indian head label was replaced with a script trademark in 1920. Okeh released the first authentic vocal blues recording in November 1920 (Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues," on Okeh 4169), and became a leading producer of blues and rural American music during the 1920s.

The Okeh label was sold to Columbia Phonograph Company, Inc., in 1926, and came under control of the newly formed Okeh Phonograph Corporation. It operated more-or-less independently into the 1930s, maintaining its own studios, master numbering system, and artist and repertoire departments, even after its parent, Columbia Phonograph Company, Inc., was sold to the Grigsby-Grunow C

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