Growing up in Wichita, Kansas, Delmark founder Bob Koester got hooked on jazz after hearing artists like Lionel Hampton. He soon turned his hobby into a business. He sold records in college, started a record sales company in St. Louis and recorded the Windy City Six as his first side for Delmark in 1953. In 1958, he moved the label to a storefront in Chicago and started Jazz Record Mart. Koester continually introduces the recordings of cutting-edge Chicago artists, from Roscoe Mitchell in the ‘60s to Jeff Parker and Josh Abrams today. Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ... Lionel Hampton with George W. Bush Lionel Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002), was a bandleader, jazz percussionist and vibraphone virtuoso. ... Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African-American composer and jazz saxophonist. ... Jeff Parker can refer to more than one person: Jeff Parker (hockey player), a professional ice hockey player. ...
Delmark started to make its presence felt during the blues revival of the early '60s, as Koester helped locate and record major names like Sleepy John Estes, Roosevelt Sykes, and Yank Rachell.
Delmark enjoyed an upswing in activity during the latter half of the '90s, with new artists like Dave Specter and Lurrie Bell, as well as CD reissues of many of the label's past classics.
Nonetheless, Delmark was able to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2003, earning Koester numerous local honors and attention from the NARAS; by this time, he had already been inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame.
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