StoryvilleRecords

Storyville Records is the oldest independent jazz label in Europe.

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 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.