Okeh
OKeh was founded by Otto K. E. Heinemann when he set up his own recording studio and gramophone record pressing plant in New York City in September 1918. Heinemann formed the name of the record label “OKeh”, from his initials. OKeh began by issuing popular songs, dance numbers, and vaudeville skits similar to the fare of other labels, but Heineman also wished to experiment with music for audiences neglected by the larger record companies. OKeh produced lines of recordings in German, Czech, Polish, Swedish, and Yiddish for the USA’s immigrant communities.
In 1920, Ralph Peer’s recordings by African-American blues singer Mamie Smith were a surprise smash hit for Okeh. The company perceived the significant, little-tapped market for blues and jazz by African American artists. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke are only a few names of jazz greats that have recorded for the label. By 1926 Columbia Records bought the label and kept it running into the 60′s with jazz and R&B recordings.
In 1994, Sony Music reactivated the OKeh label as a new-age Blues label. Okeh’s first new signings included Keb’ Mo, Popa Chubby, and Little Axe. By 2000, the Okeh label was again retired, but in 2013 it saw its re-launch as a jazz label once again.
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The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (Expanded Edition)
Soul - Released by Okeh on 19 Mar 1962
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What A Night! A Christmas Album
Christmas Music - Released by Okeh on 31 Oct 2008
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Jenny Wren
Baptiste Trotignon, Minino Garay
Jazz - Released by Okeh on 16 Sep 2016
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The Lagos Music Salon
Jazz - Released by Okeh on 6 Aug 2014
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Juice
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood
Jazz - Released by Okeh on 12 Sep 2014
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I Know You Love Me (Single version)
Vocal Jazz - Released by Okeh on 31 Aug 2018
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Shadows - Songs of Nat King Cole & Live at Jazz à Vienne
Vocal Jazz - Released by Okeh on 28 Aug 2015
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Smooth Operator (Radio Edit)
Pop - Released by Okeh on 22 Jun 2018
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Ancestral Memories
Baptiste Trotignon, Yosvany Terry, Baptiste Trotignon & Yosvany Terry
Jazz - Released by Okeh on 2 Jun 2017
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