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Bessie Smith with Fletcher Henderson. Baby Doll from 1926 / Young Woman's Blues 1927. A reissue of Bessie Smith on UHCA (United Hot Clubs of America) from 1937. A wonderful example of the history of record collecting. It is the mid-1930s, the Jazz is now 20 years old (on vinyl that is). In a shop in New York Jazz “Hep Cats” stroll through containers of second hand 78 rpm records, mostly Jazz and blues. Milt Gabler ran this legendary shop, the Commodore Music Shop on East 42nd Street. Milt went one step further and founded “UHCA” (United Hot Clubs of America) around 1935. The label is releasing reissues of blues and jazz records that have become rare, The phenomenon Reissue label is born! The recordings were often transformed from the original old records and were often of superior quality. In 1938 Milt Gabler started the famous record label Commodore Records. Billy Holiday's famous "Strange Fruit" was one of the first releases. A Japanese site with more pictures, examples and a release list. http://www.sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/~jazzsp/topic/uhca.htm
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