DIAL
1946 - 1954
Dial Records was an American record company and label that specialized first in bebop jazz and then in contemporary classical music. It was founded in 1946 by Ross Russell.
Dial Records were initially made for the Tempo Music Shop of Hollywood, California, but soon relocated to New York City.
In the summer of 1949, Ross Russell announced a change of focus, with the label turning to the release of classical music by contemporary composers.
Russell's interests shifted focus again in 1953, when he made field recordings of calypso music in the British, French, and Netherlands West Indies. This resulted in the Dial Ethnic Series (Dial 400 label) of ten ten-inch 33⅓ rpm discs, issued between June and November 1953.
Dial also continued to release material from jazz sessions recorded earlier, but in 1954 Russell sold his jazz recordings to Concert Hall Records, sending them the masters, pressing lists, and log sheets on June 3, 1954.
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