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Much-Lauded Black-Run Jazz Label Faces Up To A Complicated History

MUSIC Posted: August 27, 2020 2:32 pm

The campaign that was intended to celebrate the partnership of Gene Russell, a Black pianist and producer who died in relative anonymity in 1981, and Dick Schory, a White percussionist and arranger who earned millions during RCA’s golden era, has instead revived a debate over the romantic mythology surrounding the label’s history. It has also brought to the surface the complicated, decades-old web of business dysfunction that kept these albums from being properly released over the years. – Washington Post

MUSIC Published: 08.27.20

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