Music Minus One
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| Industry | Music production and recording |
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| Founded | 1950 |
| Founder | Irv Kratka |
| Headquarters | , |
| Parent | Hal Leonard |
| Website | www |
Music Minus One (MMO) is an American music production and recording company in Westchester, New York. The company releases albums that are meant to be accompanied by the listener on whichever instrument (or voice type) is excluded from the recording, as an aid to practice, or as an accompaniment to home performance.
Background[edit]
Music Minus One was founded in 1950 by Irv Kratka, a 24-year-old college student. The company's first recording was based on Schubert's Trout Quintet, with one of the five instruments omitted in each of the versions. This release received a full page review in 1953 in The New York Times. It was also covered in mazagines such as Look, Life, Time and Newsweek.[1][third-party source needed]
In the following years, the company released chamber music and jazz rhythm recordings utilizing New York. Stan Getz, Hank Jones, George Barnes, Max Roach, Julius Baker, Elaine Douvas, Armando Ghitalla, Stanley Drucker, Christian Reichert have played on MMO recordings.[1] To date, MMO has produced approximately nine hundred albums,[citation needed] covering the genres of classical, chamber music, opera, lieder, popular, jazz and religious music.[1]
Sale to Hal Leonard[edit]
In 2016, the CEO of the Hal Leonard Corporation, Keith Mardak, purchased Music Minus One.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Music Minus One - About Us
- ^ "Hal Leonard Buys Play-Along Music Publisher Music Minus One". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
External links[edit]
- UK Distributors of Music Minus One
- NAMM Oral History Interview Irv Kratka reflects on the development of Music Minus One and the musicians on the recordings, September 13, 2005
- New York Times "Records: Play Along" Sept 13, 1953 review of MMO Trout Quintet recording.
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