Pace and Handy Music Company

Pace and Handy Music Company The second black-owned music publishing company. It was formed in Memphis, Tennessee, by W. C. Handy and Harry Herbert Pace (1884–1943). Harry Pace supplied the money and business contacts, while Handy ran the firm and composed much of its music. They had written their first song together in 1907, “In the Cotton Fields of Dixie,” published by George Jaberg of Cincinnati. The first number they published themselves was Handy’s “Jogo Blues ” in 1913. The idea to start…