In September 1918, German-American Otto K E Heinemann, manager of the US office of the German Odeon records, decided, given events in Europe, that it might be wise to start a US-based record label. He ...

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Last month, I wrote an essay for The Atlantic about Sony's relaunch of the historic OKeh Records imprint, noting the absence of black American jazz artists among the label's initially announced batch ...

J.D. Harris (far left) spent most of his life in Asheville, North Carolina, where he took part in the Okeh recording sessions in 1925. A century ago, OKeh Records made the first attempt at capturing ...

Aura, the lastest album by the band RGG, has been released by OKeh Records, a label which presents the albums of the most important modern jazz musicians, such as Bill Frisell, John Medeski and Sonny ...

One hundred thirty-four years ago today, the man who spread country music to the world and forever changed the music business ...

Sony Classical is relaunching historic OKeh Records as its primary jazz imprint. Overseeing OKeh is Chuck Mitchell, and Wulf Muller. Upcoming releases include work by Bill Frisell, David Sanborn… By ...

Okay Toni Morrison lovers. We have a trivia question for you: What’s the link between Morrison’s fiction, Okeh records and the Daily News? Anyone who has read the Nobel Prize-winning author’s fiction ...

LOCAL STAR: Ernest Helton, left, a West Asheville-based musician of Native American heritage, performed “Royal Clog” for Okeh Records. He and his brother Osey, also seen in this circa-1940 photo, were ...

After unleashing on the world in 1986 the smooth jazz megahit “Double Vision” – and a torrent of imitators for years afterward – the last thing wanted to do was to repeat themselves. Unfortunately, ...