Delmark
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Growing up in Wichita, Kansas, Delmark founder Bob Koester got hooked on jazz after hearing artists like Lionel Hampton. He soon turned his hobby into a business. He sold records in college, started a record sales company in St. Louis and recorded the Windy City Six as his first side for Delmark in 1953. In 1958, he moved the label to a storefront in Chicago and started Jazz Record Mart. Koester continually introduces the recordings of cutting-edge Chicago artists, from Roscoe Mitchell in the ‘60s to Jeff Parker and Josh Abrams today.
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