GREAT JAZZ LABELS...Roost/Roulette Roost Records (also known as Royal Roost Records) was a record label established in 1949, primarily to record jazz, taking its secondary name from the New York club with which it was associated. The saxophonist Stan Getz, early in his career, was the most celebrated musician to record for the label, though recordings by guitarist Johnny Smith are also highly regarded. It was acquired by Morris Levy in 1958 and incorporated into Roulette Records. Roulette Records is an American record label founded in late 1956 by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Khals, with creative control given to producers and songwriters Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. Levy was appointed director. The label had known ties to New York mobsters.[1] Levy ran the label with an iron fist.[2] In 1958, Roost Records was purchased. Goldner subsequently bowed out of his partnership interest in Roulette, and, to cover his gambling debts, sold his record labels Tico, Rama, and Gee, and years later End and Gone, to Levy, who grouped them into Roulette. Peretti and Creatore later left Roulette Records and worked as freelance producers for RCA Records throughout the 1960s. They co-founded Avco Records in 1969. In 1971, Roulette took over the catalog of Jubilee Records. Beverley Kenney https://youtube/watch?v=0Cv0o--ymJQ Johnny Smith https://youtube/watch?v=9_INpeb7zzw Sarah Vaughan https://youtube/watch?v=8iiKxNOoWW0 Dinah Washington https://youtube/watch?v=1ulism5Hokg
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