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Bookmark or Share- Paramount Records - WikipediaJazz, blues. Country of origin. U.S. Location. Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, U.S. Official website. www .jazzology .com. Paramount Records was an American record label known for its recordings of jazz and blues in the 1920s and early 1930s, including such artists as Ma Rainey, Tommy Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson .
- Paramount Records: The Label Inadvertently Crucial To ... - NPRBy some estimates Paramount made more than 100,000 recordings. Documenting the label's accomplishments was one reason Dean Blackwood launched the current reissue project. He's Scott's brother...
- In A Few Fateful Years, One Record Label Blew Open The BluesThe story of Paramount Records is a story of contradictions. It was a record label founded by a furniture company, a commercial enterprise that became arguably the most comprehensive chronicler...
- The Legacy of Paramount Records - Isthmus | Madison, WisconsinAccording to The New York Times, Paramount Records eventually recorded over 10,000 tracks of blues, hot jazz, hillbilly, treacly pop and ethnic music before the Depression. The label recorded...
- Paramount Records: How Grafton left a legacy on blues musicThe Paramount Records story: How Grafton left an unlikely legacy on American blues music. By Maddie Burakoff Milwaukee. PUBLISHED 9:00 AM ET Feb. 20, 2022. GRAFTON, Wis. — In the small village of Grafton, on the side of a grassy hill that slopes down to the Milwaukee River, a bright blue sign marks the spot.
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