Metronome Records
Metronome Records was a Swedish pop and jazz - music label with branches in Denmark and the Federal Republic of Germany , which in the 1950s and 1960s was active years.
history
founding
The record label Metronome was founded in Stockholm in 1949 by jazz drummer Anders Burman , his brother Lars and a friend of the two, Börje Elberg; In 1950 a Danish and in 1954 a German offshoot of the label was created in Hamburg . Most recordings in Sweden were released on EPs , the 7-inch format , in the 1950s . The leading label in Swedish jazz was Metronome, on which more than 500 albums were released in that decade, mostly jazz recordings, but also blues by Josh White and popular music by Siw Malmkvist , Lill-Babs , Ulla Norden , Danny Marino , Tommy Kent and other singers .
1950s
Stockholm as one of the centers of European jazz attracted many American musicians such as Charlie Parker , Sonny Rollins , James Moody , Stan Getz and others to perform and record there. Starting with the production of 78s , the first record appeared in 1951; in 1953 the first vinyl EP , a concert recording by Stan Getz from 1951 ( “ Dear Old Stockholm ” ), which was later published in full on a 10-inch LP. This format was retained until the early 1960s, when the 30 cm LPs became popular.
As early as 1953, the American label Prestige released eleven of Metronome's 10-inch LPs. Their productions have also been taken over by EmArcy and Roost Records and in the UK they have appeared on Esquire and Vogue . Some recordings were produced directly for the US market; Leonard Feather came to Sweden several times in the early 1950s and arranged a few recording sessions.
On Metronome published recordings American artist with Swedish musicians such as Clifford Brown / Art Farmer , George Wallington , Quincy Jones , the Zoot Sims Quartet with Frank Rosolino and Åke Persson , Charlie Norman / Harry Arnold , Roy Haynes with Bjarne Nerem , also music Scandinavian Musicians like Lars Gullin , Georg Riedel , Bengt-Arne Wallin , Arne Domnérus , Bengt Hallberg , Reinhold Svensson, Pugh Rogefeldt and Nils-Bertil Dahlander .
1960s
After classical music was published in addition to jazz in the 1950s, the focus from the 1960s was on pop and folk productions, especially in the genre of the Swedish singer-songwriter scene influenced by Bob Dylan , such as Fred Åkerström and Cornelis Vreeswijk . Metronome also published hits by Siw Malmkvist, Ann-Louise Hanson and Anna-Lena Löfgren . In the 1960s, new songwriters set the tone and paved the way for rock music with Swedish lyrics. Pugh Rogefeldt was considered the first musician of the new generation, followed by John Holm, Marie Bergman, Bernt Staf and Ola Magnell. As early as the 1960s, Metronome began producing productions from the US catalogs of the Atlantic , Volt, Atco , Prestige and Concord Records labels .
1970s
In the 1970s, the Metronome catalog was sold to the Warner Music Group and the brand continued as a pop, hit and radio play label ( Tim und Struppi ). On the Metronome Sublabel BRAIN also published Krautrock musician like Thirsty Moon and Charly Maucher plates. In the 1980s , albums by artists such as Milva , Lisa Nemzo , Extrabreit and Peter Maffay were released there . The label later joined the Universal Records group. Music by Tim Buktu , Camouflage , Die Ärzte and Wolf Maahn appeared there . In the late 1990s, Metronome was disbanded and merged with Warner Music Sweden.
Cover design
Metronome's in-house graphic designer was Stig Söderqvist, who was also known as a trumpeter and trombonist; among other things he played with Bernt Rosengren . Söderqvist created hundreds of covers for the label, based on the cover illustrations by David Stone Martin . Bengt H. Malmqvist, who otherwise worked for newspapers during the day, was responsible for the photographs. He documented the visits of many American jazz musicians to Stockholm; the pictures also appeared in the Swedish jazz magazine Orkester Journalen and in the British Melody Maker . Bengt H. Malmqvist took photos for over 700 covers by the early 1990s .
literature
- Håkan Lahger and Lasse Ermalm: De legendariska åren. Metronome Records. 2010, ISBN 978-91-89136-70-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jazz in Sweden from Birkajazz , accessed on May 1, 2010.
- ↑ Information on the label from Ted Staunton ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 1, 2010.
- ↑ Book Review in premium publishing , accessed on 1 May, 2010.
- ↑ archive the Albums Cover with Birkajazz , accessed on 1 May, 2010.
