<p>Benny Goodman's Quintet. side 1: Pick-a-Rib [part 1]; side 2: Pick-a-Rib [part 2] (Blue Ace 224).<br>78 rpm. These tracks were originally recorded in 1938 and released on Victor 26166.</p>
<p>Blue Ace was a bootleg record label, founded around the late 1940s. The label was dedicated to the unauthorized reissue of jazz recordings from the 1935-1942 period. Brooklyn record store owner Sam Meltzer is allegedly to have produced the recordings, who was also associated with the bootleg Hot Jazz Club of America [HJCA] recordings, which focused on jazz recordings of the 1920s.</p>
Location:
Currently not on view
Related Publication:
Rust, Brian. Jazz Records 1897-1942, Vol. 1
Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
Credit Line:
Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)
