443 Unique Quartette “Mama’s Black Baby Boy” 1893

“The Unique Quartette was the first black quartet to record commercially…it was a professional quartet with extensive stage experience and an interesting and distinctive repertoire. The quartet appears to have been founded by Joseph M. Moore in the mid-1880s, and performed primarily in the greater New York City area” (Tim Brooks, Richard Spottswood, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919, 2004). 

Unique Quartette “Mama’s Black Baby Boy”