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Named after the notorious New Orleans district where jazz was born, the label was launched in Copenhagen in 1952 by jazz fanatic Karl Emil Knudsen. Storyville originally sold imported American records but when the burgeoning post war jazz scene attracted the American jazz artists to tour in Europe and Scandinavia Knudsen seized every opportunity to record his jazz heroes for the label.

By late 2003 when Karl Emil Knudsen, the self-styled “Doctor of Jazz Archaeology”, passed away, his Storyville label was considered by the jazz cognoscenti to be the Scandinavian equivalent to America’s Blue Note Records. The Storyville archive includes recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ben Webster, Duke Ellington, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Benny Carter, to name but a few. Storyville Records was also instrumental in launching the career of some of the most influential Danish jazz artists including Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Fessor's Big City Band, and the legendary Papa Bues Viking Jazz Band.

In 2005 Editions Wilhelm Hansen, a Danish company with over 150 years in music publishing and part of the Music Sales Group acquired Storyville from Knudsen’s family. Anders Stefansen and Mona Granager, both long standing associates who worked with Knudsen to build the label, have stayed on with Storyville and will preserve the label’s unique identity.

As part of the Music Sales family of companies Storyville Records is ideally placed to bring its wealth of classic recordings to new generations of jazz fans through album re-releases, special collectors’ editions of rare jazz recordings and digital downloads. We are sure that Karl Emil would be delighted to know that his label lives on within a fiercely independent music company that shares the same passion for great music.

Storyville Records

Country

Denmark

Genres

Jazz and Blues

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Something Tomorrow

2xHD - Storyville

Something Tomorrow

Artists Enrico Pierannunzi, André Ceccarelli, Thomas Fonnesbaek

Composers Pierannunzi, Fonnesbaek, Weill, Gershwin

  • Higher Rates Program
  • Not Available on SACD
Now You Has Jazz (Remastered)

2xHD - Storyville

Now You Has Jazz (Remastered)

Artists Louis Armstrong

Composers Hornez, Betti, Armstrong, Rene, Muse, Traditional, Turner, Porter

  • Higher Rates Program
  • Not Available on SACD
Dexter Gordon, Montmartre 1964 (Monophonic Recording)

2xHD - Storyville

Dexter Gordon, Montmartre 1964 (Monophonic Recording)

Artists Dexter Gordon, Alex Riel, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Tete Montoliu

Composers Bonfa, Maria, Stitt, Richards, Garner, Gordon

  • Higher Rates Program
  • Not Available on SACD
Solo Piano

2xHD - Storyville

Solo Piano

Artists Tommy Flanagan

Composers Powell, Rodgers, Hart, Capote, Arien, Kern, Harbach, Goodman, Webb, Sampson, Razaf, Strayhorn, Gillespie, Dameron, Sigman, Monk

  • Higher Rates Program
  • Not Available on SACD
Swing Me No Waltzes

2xHD - Storyville

Swing Me No Waltzes

Artists Roland Hanna

Composers Hanna, Ellington, James

  • Not Available on SACD
All of Me

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All of Me

Artists Billie Holiday

Composers Gershwin, Rainger, Camarata, Ahlert, Bloom, Ellington

  • Not Available on SACD
Southern Train

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Southern Train

Artists Brownie McGhee

Composers McGhee, Carr, Broonzy

  • Not Available on SACD
Sentiments

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Sentiments

Artists Sahib Shihab

Composers Shihab, Drew

  • Not Available on SACD
Ben Webster Plays Duke Ellington

2xHD - Storyville

Ben Webster Plays Duke Ellington

Artists Ben Webster

Composers Ellington, Strayhorn, Tizol

  • Not Available on SACD
The Blues

2xHD - Storyville

The Blues

Artists Sonny Boy Williamson

Composers Sonny Boy Williamson, Peter Chatman

  • Not Available on SACD
Archie Shepp: Emotions

2xHD - Storyville

Archie Shepp: Emotions

Artists Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp and The New York Contemporary Five, Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary Five

Composers Dixon, Tchicai, Coleman, Monk, Cherry

  • Not Available on SACD
Half & Half

2xHD - Storyville

Half & Half

Artists John Kirby's Sextet, Charlie Shavers, Johnny Hodges

Composers Shavers, Youmans, Porter, Gershwin, Gillespie, Henderson, Ellington, SIMONS, Tizol

  • Not Available on SACD
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