Ace Records

Ace is often remembered as a New Orleans label, but Johnny Vincent, born in Hattiesburg, ran it from Jackson. The first Ace sessions, including Earl King's "Lonely, Lonely Nights," were cut in the Trumpet Records studio. Huey "Piano" Smith gave the label early R&B hits such as "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu." Vincent wanted more than the limited R&B market, and his biggest successes came from the clean-cut teen idols Jimmy Clanton and Frankie Ford, whose crossover hits took Ace onto the pop charts.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farish Street Historic District — 0.2 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Old Capitol Museum — 0.6 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 0.7 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 3.1 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• Original SEC Office — steps away
• Edwards Hotel — steps away
• Jesse Robinson — steps away
• Scott Radio Service — steps away