Decca folded its Jazz arm (based at Fulham Road)
Good Time Jazz, Contemporary, Vogue, Vogue/Coral in September 1962. The
Vogue catalogue was sold to Pye and the others were absorbed into the Decca
subsidiaries Lester Koenig's Dixieland and traditional jazz
label created in 1949; became the sister label to his Contemporary Records,
launched two years later.The label was responsible for the 1950s revival of
Dixieland jazz and recording New Orleans Dixieland legends Kid Ory, Turk Murphy,
Lu Watters and Bunk Johnson as well as the Firehouse Five Plus Two, a Dixieland
combo led by Disney animators Ward Kimball and Frank Thomas and jazz
traditionalists George Smith and Harlem stride pianist Willie "The Lion"
Smith.Good Time Jazz was closed down in 1969 and sold to Fantasy along with its
parent Contemporary Records in 1984. Fantasy issued anthologies and reissued a
number of the LPs; in 1993, the label was revived with new recordings by The
Silver Leaf Jazz Band, Jacques Gauthe, Scott Black's Hot Horns and other New
Orleans-based muscians. Former Address: Vogue Records 113-115 Fulham Road London
S.W.3
EPV/EPC/EPG
1001-1285 (C denotes licensed from Contemporary, G denotes licensed from Good
Time Jazz, V denotes licensed from Vocalion.
