One hundred years ago in a ramshackle studio by a noisy railroad track in Indiana, Louis Armstrong and a handful of other innovative black musicians made their first discs. The pioneering sides of hot ...

A lot of America's most important music was recorded in a one-story studio that sat in a Richmond river gorge. In true humble Hoosier fashion, that fact is unsung. Gennett Records was the first to ...

This is where music for mass consumption—recorded music—started, in Richmond, Indiana, in the 1920s, in a piano factory by the railroad tracks in a glacier-carved gorge. Established in 1887, in the ...

In an interesting footnote in history, the Ku Klux Klan played an indirect role with a popular independent record company that played a much larger role in the growth of jazz music. Klan members in ...

The unlikely story of the Gennett Studios, where many great artists first recorded. During the early 20th century, one tiny recording studio in Richmond, Indiana, had a big impact on the soundtrack of ...

RICHMOND, Ind. — Music Gennett Records recorded here decades ago influences the music we hear today. A new Wayne County Historical Museum exhibit celebrates the Gennett Records story and the company's ...

A lot of America's most important music was recorded in a one-story studio that sat in a Richmond river gorge. In true humble Hoosier fashion, that fact is unsung. Gennett Records was the first to ...

One hundred years ago this week King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band visited the Gennett Records studio in Richmond for a two-day recording session, making history not only because of the participation of ...

In 1878, the Starr Piano Company was established by James and Benjamin Starr in Richmond, Indiana, near the Whitewater Valley gorge. By 1893, it had gained national recognition through the Chicago ‘s ...

Discover the story of the little studio in Indiana that recorded Jazz Age music legends. Discover the story of the little studio that recorded Jazz Age music legends Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, ...