The Unique Quartette

The Unique Quartette

The Unique Quartette were a black vocal quartet. Founded in the mid-1880s, they are best known for a handful of wax cylinder recordings made in the first half of the 1890s. [cite book
first=Tim | last=Brooks | coauthors=Spottswood, Richard Keith | year=2005 | title=Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922 | pages=p. 75 | publisher=University of Illinois Press | isbn=9780252073076] They are the earliest known black vocal group to have been commercially recorded. [cite web | last=Gracyk | first=Tim | url=http://www.gracyk.com/early_ragtime.shtml | title=Early Recordings of African Americans/Early Ragtime]

Several of their wax cylinders survive, and are among the earliest extant recordings of any African-American musicians, along with recordings by George W. Johnson and a single surviving cylinder recorded by Louis Vasnier. [Brooks and Spotswood, p. 88]

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