Crescent Records

Crescent Records was an American independent record label that produced jazz recordings from 1944 to 1946. It was founded by Nesuhi Ertegun to record a band that was assembled to perform on CBS Radio's 1944 variety series The Orson Welles Almanac . Only one group, Kid Ory 's Creole Jazz Band, was released on the Crescent label, which was distributed by Hollywood's Jazz Man Record Shop . Although only eight discs were released, Crescent Records was involved in the international revival of traditional jazz in the 1940s.