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 GOOD TIME JAZZ RECORDS
While the jazz history books primarily classify the 1940s and '50s as
the era in which bebop developed into the jazz mainstream, another
musical movement was just as powerful and even more popular: the
revival of New Orleans jazz.
Starting in 1949 with the Firehouse Five Plus Two and continuing until
its final release in 1969, Lester Koenig's Good Time Jazz label was one
of the most important of all the traditional jazz record companies,
documenting a wide variety of legendary classic jazz musicians in their
prime.
Recently revived by Fantasy, Good Time Jazz has long been a legendary name among trad jazz fans.
Last Update: 9/24/2005
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