Ko-Ko; Conga Brava
date: label: recording date
content: 1940
name: label: recording artist
content: Duke Ellington Orchestra
label: manufacturer
content: Blue Ace
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Duke Ellington's Orchestra. side 1: Ko-Ko; side 2: Conga Brava (Blue Ace 208).<br>78 rpm. Both tracks were recorded in 1940 and released on Victor 26577.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Blue Ace was a bootleg record label, founded around the late 1940s. The label was dedicated to the unauthorized reissue of jazz recordings from the 1935-1942 period. Brooklyn record store owner Sam Meltzer is allegedly to have produced the recordings, who was also associated with the bootleg Hot Jazz Club of America [HJCA] recordings, which focused on jazz recordings of the 1920s.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Rust, Brian. Jazz Records 1897-1942, Vol. 1
label: Related Publication
content: Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0698.0962
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0698.0962
label: accession number
content: 1988.0698
label: maker number
content: 208
label: collector/donor number
content: E76
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shellac (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm