Robert G. Koester

Bob Koester established Delmark Records in 1953 in St. Louis. It was known then as Delmar and was one of the first companies that issued entire 10-inch albums of traditional New Orleans jazz rather than seven-inch or 12-inch singles. Koester moved to Chicago in 1959 and changed the label's name to Delmark. The company had a three-fold strategy; Koester released traditional New Orleans jazz by ...more