TheRiseandFallofBlackSwan:EpisodeOnefrom TheVanishingofHarryPace, asix-partseriescreatedbyJadAbumradandShimaOliaee. 

HarryPacefoundedBlackSwanRecordsexactly100yearsago. Pace launchedthecareerofEthelWaters,inadvertentlyinventedthetermrocknroll, playedanimportantroleinW.C.Handybecoming"FatheroftheBlues," inspired Ebony and Jet magazines,and helpeddesegregate theSouthSideofChicagoinanepicSupremeCourtbattle. Then,hedisappeared.  The VanishingofHarryPace isaseriesaboutthephenomenalbutforgottenmanwhochangedtheAmericanmusicscene.It'sastoryaboutbetrayal,family,hiddenidentities,andatimelikenoother.

ThisserieswasproducedincollaborationwithauthorKieseLaymon,scholarImaniPerry,screenwriterCordJefferson,andWQXR’sTerranceMcKnight.JamiFloydisourconsultingproducer;ourfactcheckerisNatalieMeade.PeterPace lenthisvoiceforourreadings.Basedonthebook BlackSwanBlues:theHardRiseandBrutalFallofAmerica’sFirstBlackOwnedRecordLabel byPaulSlade.Theseriesfeatures interviewswithPace'sdescendantsandoverfortymusicians,historians,writers,andmusicologists,allofwhomgrapplewithPace’senduringlegacy.