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Much-Lauded Black-Run Jazz Label Faces Up To A Complicated History by Artsjournal

The campaign that was intended to celebrate the partnership of Gene Russell, a Black pianist and producer who died in relative anonymity in 1981, and Dick Schory, a White percussionist and arranger who earned millions during RCA's golden era, has instead revived a debate over the romantic mythology surrounding the label's history. It has also […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PM on August 27, 2020

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