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The George H. Buck Jr. Jazz Foundation was created by George Buck in the 1980s to maintain the catalog of his jazz record labels. [1] The catalog includes dixieland jazz, swing, blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, and cabaret music.
Jazzology Records began when Buck commissioned a recording session in New York City on August 16, 1949. He was a college student who had been hosting a radio show for two years called Jazzology. The session consisted of Wild Bill Davison on coronet, Jimmy Archey on trombone, Tony Parenti on clarinet, Art Hodes on piano, Pops Foster on double bass, and Arthur Trappier on drums. He started GHB Records in the 1950s when he bought an album from Paradox Records, which was closing. He planned to use GHB for New Orleans jazz and Jazzology for Chicago jazz. During the 1960s he bought the labels Circle, Jazz Crusade, Icon, Mono, and Southland. With help from a bank loan and loyal customers, he bought World Transcriptions, a company that since the 1930 had provided prerecorded radio programs to independent jazz stations. During the 1970s and 1980s, he bought Audiophile Records, Progressive, Paramount, Monmouth-Evergreen, American Music Records, and Lang-Worth Transcription Company. [2] In the 1980s, Buck moved Jazzology from Atlanta to New Orleans. He and his wife lived in the French Quarter and ran the Palm Court Jazz Café. [1]
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