Gus Statiras
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Gus P. Statiras (July 6, 1922āApril 2, 2004)[1] was a music dealer, record producer, and briefly a New York radio disc jockey under the moniker "Gus Grant."
The founder of Progressive Records, Statiras produced and distributed jazz records in the 1950s. His label was bought and sold twice over twenty years, then re-emerged under Statiras in the 1970s and 1980s with Japanese backing for another run as an independent record label. Statiras sold it for a second time and then ran the label for Jazzology Records.