When American Federation of Musicians boss James C. Petrillo announced a cessation of recording activity effective January 1, 1948, to try to force record companies to pay musicians a royalty rather than a session fee, the labels went to great lengths to ensure that they did not get caught without material to release......... During this time Modern Records was cutting acetates as fast as they could book studio time even by artists on whom they already had a stockpile of material.......Beating The Ban offers a fascinating window on Modern's recording activity in the time immediately leading up to the ban........In addition to 50 great late 40s recordings, the two CDs preserve all existing fragments of session chatter from the sessions, which really puts the listener in the studio with the artists.....This set compliments ACE Records 2012 release of : MODERN- THE FIRST YEAR..........
