The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!

The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz 1930-1945. "The Compleat Conductor" Oxford University Press 1998. Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music and Beauty.

Gunther Schuller (born November 22 1925) is an American composer conductor horn player author historian and jazz musician.