Unique Quartette

The Unique Quartette was a black vocal quartet in New York City. Founded in the mid-1880s by Joseph Moore, it is best known for a handful of wax cylinder recordings made in the first half of the 1890s. It is the earliest known black vocal group to have been commercially recorded, with the first recordings made in December 1890 for the New York Phonograph Company.

Several of the quartet's wax cylin… More