Claxtonola Records

Claxtonola was a jazz record label founded in 1918 by the Brenard Manufacturing Company in Iowa City, Iowa. It reissued Paramount, Black Swan, and Gennett Records masters on the Claxtonola and National labels. The label closed in 1925. The company also sold phonographs.

Discography

The company's recordings include:

The Wolverines:

The Bucktown Five:

Hitch's Happy Harmonists:

Midway Gardens Orchestra:

Fletcher Henderson, on National:

Jelly Roll Morton, on National:

Sam Ash

Charles Harrison

Eddie Peabody

The Seven Syncopaters

References

  1. 1 2 Rye, Howard (2002). Barry Kernfeld (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 456. ISBN 1561592846.
  2. ↑ Davis, John S. (2012), Historical Dictionary of Jazz, Scarecrow Press
  3. ↑ Crane, Frederick (2003), Claxtonola and National Records: A provisional catalog