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Black Swan Records was a jazz and blues-based label founded in 1921 by a black music businessman named Harry Pace. The label, known as the first black-owned record label, was named after Elizabeth Greenfield, a famous 19th-century black vocalist who was referred to as "the black swan" because of her voice. The label had its own distribution. I'm not quite sure that Pace owned his publishing as the owner of Black Swan, but before starting the label, he co-founded Pace-Handy Music with the "father of the blues,"W.C. Handy, that I believe he stepped down from. Black Swan's roster included singer Ethel Waters, butFletcher Henderson worked for the label as a pianist and manager. If you're familiar with the story of Bessie Smith, you may recognize Black Swan as the label she decided not to sign with early on in her career. The label went bankrupt after three short years and was discontinued after it was purchased by Paramount Records in 1924.

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