Musicraft's catalog encompassed many different musical styles, including classical music,
folk,
jazz,
Latin, popular vocal, and
calypso. Artists who recorded for Musicraft include singer
Mel Torme, vocalist
Sarah Vaughan, vocalist
Mindy Carson,
Duke Ellington, bebop comic
Harry "the Hipster" Gibson, pianist
Teddy Wilson, blues pioneer
Lead Belly, poet
Carl Sandburg,
Dizzy Gillespie,
Georgie Auld,
Artie Shaw,
Buddy Greco,
Billie Rogers, and others. Jazz accordionist
Art Van Damme made his first recordings for the label. According to the
New York Public Library, the first
original cast album, a set of songs recorded by the cast of
The Cradle Will Rock, by
Marc Blitzstein, was released in 1938 on Musicraft. Composer/musician
Walter Gross was an
A&R executive and arranger for the label in the late 1940s. International music entrepreneur Peter Fritsch was an executive for Musicraft in the late 1940s before leaving to found
Lyrichord Discs. After Musicraft's demise, jazz authority and promoter Albert Marx acquired the label's catalog and reissued many titles on his
Discovery Records label. ==See also==