Moses Asch

Moses "Moe" Asch.
American recording engineer and record executive. Son of Yiddish-language novelist-dramatist-essayist Sholem Asch; brother of authors Nathan Asch & John Asch and father of Professor Michael I. Asch.
Born: December 2, 1905 in Warsaw, Poland
Died: October 19, 1986, New York City, New York, USA
Moe Asch founded his first label, Asch Recording Studios, in 1941 and between 1941-1945 this label, its immediate successor, Asch Recordings (from ca. November 1941), and the related Asch International label provided an outlet for some important material by folk artists, including Leadbelly, Cisco Houston, and Woody Guthrie. In late 1945, Asch launched the label, which specialized in modern jazz. In December 1949, Asch founded Folkways Records to specialize in folk and ethnic recordings. His masters and rights to the Folkways label were acquired by in 1987. In addition to producing records, Moe Asch possessed one of the world's finest and most eclectic collections of traditional and folk music as well as jazz.