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{{Short description|American record label}}
{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name	=504 Records
| founded	=  {{start date|1978}}
| founder	= Mike Dine
| distributor  =
| genre	= Dixieland, jazz
| country	= U.S.
| location	= [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]
| website	= {{URL|www.strochavrecordings.com}}
}}

'''504 Records''' is a [[record label]] founded by Mike Dine in 1979 that specializes in [[Dixieland|New Orleans jazz]]. The name comes from an [[Area code 504|area code in New Orleans.]]

==History==
Mike Dine was a British draughtsman and jazz fan living in England when he met Tom Stagg, now a British expatriate, jazz fan, and founder of NOLA Records. During the 1960s, Stagg had helped bring to Europe musicians such as [[John Handy]], [[Andrew Morgan (musician)|Andrew Morgan]], [[Louis Nelson (trombonist)|Louis Nelson]], [[Alton Purnell]], [[Emanuel Sayles]], and [[Kid Thomas (musician)|Kid Thomas]]. When Dine started 504 Records in 1979, he hired Stagg as a producer, and Stagg shut down NOLA Records.<ref name="roch">{{cite web |title=St. Roch Recordings |url=https://www.strochavrecordings.com/about/ |website=www.strochavrecordings.com |access-date=10 October 2018}}</ref>

Between 2005 and 2018, 504 Records collaborated with La Croix Records (UK) to co-produce 9 504/La Croix CDs in the Lord Richard New Orleans Sessions series. This series included tapes owned exclusively by Lord Richard Ekins, La Croix Records, supplemented with material owned by Mike Dine, 504 Records. 504 Records is now owned by Upbeat Recordings, UK, with the exclusive ownership of all 504/La Croix material passing to Lord Richard Ekins.

Dine released ''The 504 Records Story: 1978–2003 (25 Year Anniversary Release)''. He died in Welling, Kent, England, on December 17, 2016.<ref name="Ekins">{{cite web |last1=Ekins |first1=Richard |title=La Croix Records |url=http://www.lacroixrecords.com/part5.html |website=www.lacroixrecords.com |access-date=10 October 2018}}</ref>

==Artists==
*[[John Brunious]]
*[[Raymond Burke (clarinetist)|Raymond Burke]]
*[[Chuck Carbo]]
*[[Ken Colyer]]
*[[Lionel Ferbos]]
*[[Pete Fountain]]
*[[George Lewis (clarinetist)|George Lewis]]
*[[Freddie Lonzo]]
*[[Teddy Riley (trumpeter)|Teddy Riley]]
*[[Kid Sheik]]
*[[Michael White (clarinetist)|Michael White]]
*[[Young Tuxedo Brass Band]]
*[[Chester Zardis]]

==References==
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== See also ==
* [[List of record labels]]

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[[Category:Music of New Orleans]]
[[Category:American independent record labels]]
[[Category:American jazz record labels]]
[[Category:Record labels established in 1979]]
[[Category:Record labels based in Louisiana]]
[[Category:1979 establishments in Louisiana]]


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