Magpie Records is a British record label set up in 1976 by Bruce Bastin. It was owned by Interstate Music. It specialises in re-issuing pre and post war blues and jazz recordings.
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz calls the series Piano Blues "of considerable jazz interest." This is a 21-volume set edited and produced by Francis Wilford-Smith and drawn largely from his own collection which systematically rescued hundreds of rare piano-driven blues sides.
Magpie also released important single-artist and thematic blues albums, including by Robert Wilkins, Bumble Bee Slim and Kokomo Arnold. See also Lists of record labels
References
External links Magpie Records at Interstate Music Ltd. Illustrated Magpie Records discography