title: Solo Art Records
text: # Solo Art Records
  
  Solo Art Records is a U.S. based record label and was purchased by Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis from the original owner in 1946 and run alongside their Circle label. It had issued recordings of solo jazz and blues piano on 78s. The label was sold with the Circle label to the George H. Buck Jr. Jazz Foundation Inc., located in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1979.
  
  Since George Buck's acquisitionof the Solo Art label has remained dedicated to the presentation of solo performances of great jazz and blues pianists, now from the 1940s to the present.
  
  ## Artists
  
  Jazz artists featured on Solo Art Records include:
  
  * Albert Ammons
  * Evan Christopher
  * Lennie Felix
  * Duke Heitger
  * Eddie Higgins
  * Milt Hinton
  * Art Hodes
  * Pete Johnson
  * Tim Laughlin
  * Meade Lux Lewis
  * Cripple Clarence Lofton
  * David Paquette
  * Knocky Parker
  * Steve Pistorius
  * Luckey Roberts
  * Bobby Rosengarden
  * Ralph Sutton
  * Joe Turner
  * Dick Wellstood
  * George Wettling
  * Jimmy Yancey
  