OKeh Records has time to prevent a PR nightmare around the scant African-American presence on its roster. But for now, the label looks suspect to the global jazz community—a community that ...

Explain Sony's strategy with relaunching OKeh Records—what you wanted to do with its "global expression of jazz" tagline. Müller: I stole that [tagline] from Ornette Coleman.

Richmond's OKeh Sessions In October, 1929, 30 different groups from across Virginia converged on Richmond for sessions organized by OKeh Records. Though no future "stars" were "discovered" the ...

As labels such as Okeh, Paramount and Columbia rushed into the so-called "race records" market, they snapped up dozens of women like Smith, ("Queen of the Blues"), including Gertrude "Ma" Rainey ...

Okeh Records was one of the first labels to break the mold. Perry "Mule" Bradford, a Black composer, pushed Okeh to record Mamie Smith and her song "Crazy Blues" in 1920.

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 ...

OKeh soon signed Armstrong to a five-year contract, and on Saturday, June 12, the label rented out the Coliseum for another big blast, promoted as the OKeh Cabaret and Style Show.

Among those who recorded during the Okeh sessions were: Ernest V. Stoneman, an autoharp player and ballad singer from Galax, Va.; West Asheville-based half-Cherokee multi-instrumentalist Ernest ...

Mamie Smith made history in February 1920 when she became the first African-American singer to record a blues song, That Thing Called Love, for the pioneering OKeh label.