Bob Dylan, when asked why he played so much old music on his Theme Time Radio Hour show, said ‘Because there is more of it’. And indeed there is an awful lot of it, you have no idea how much and frankly even we have no idea how much more there is and we have been doing this since 1975. The Ace archivists just keep discovering new old recordings that might as well have been made yesterday. Like any
great art form, recorded music endures, retaining its strength and its quality over decades. Ace aims to bring you the very best of it in a succinctly annotated, attractively packaged way with absolutely top-notch sound and to this end has teams of hugely knowledgeable music historians, designers with a keen eye for the right period look and highly-skilled trained audio engineers joyously producing hand-crafted CDs and vinyl. We want to share this wonderful world of sound, wisdom, entertainment, hilarity, absurdity, turmoil, in fact the full panoply of human emotion and experience. The very fact that you have read this far encourages us to believe that you share an obsession with recorded music, its history, its context and all things bright and beautiful about it. So welcome to what will hopefully be a long, strange and rewarding trip.
