Good Time Jazz was an American jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 record label.

The label was founded in 1949 by Lester Koenig in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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; its first releases were from the Firehouse Five Plus Two

Firehouse Five Plus Two

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. It did both new releases and reissues of classic jazz; among the artists whose music was released on Good Time Jazz were Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe , known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer....

, Burt Bales

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, Wally Rose

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, Luckey Roberts

Luckey Roberts

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, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Lu Watters

Lu Watters

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, Bob Scobey

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Bob Scobey was an American jazz musician born in Tucumcari, New Mexico.He began his career playing in dance orchestras and nightclubs in the 1930s. In 1938 he worked as second trumpeter for Lu Watters in the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. By 1949 he was leading his own band under the name Bob Scobey's...

, Bunk Johnson

Bunk Johnson

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, Kid Ory

Kid Ory

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, George Lewis

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, Johnny Wiggs

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, Sharkey Bonano

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, and Don Ewell

Don Ewell

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.

Good Time was eventually subsumed by Koenig's Contemporary Records

Contemporary Records

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. Its last recording was made in 1969. Koenig died in 1977, and the label's material was then sold to Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records

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, who has anthologized some of it. It was acquired by the Concord Music Group

Concord Music Group

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 in 2004

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 when Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is a United States-based record label that was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record-pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label...

was taken over.