Bob Thiele

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Bob Thiele (born July 27, 1922 in Brooklyn , New York City , New York , † January 30, 1996 in New York City) was an American music producer and composer .

Life

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When he was 14, Thiele hosted his own radio show. In 1939 the then 17-year-old Thiele founded his own record label Signature and was also the publisher of his own jazz magazine. After Signature ended in 1948, Thiele went to Decca Records in 1952 and founded the subsidiary label Coral Records there. In 1961, ABC Paramount brought Thiele and Rudy Van Gelder to Impulse to support Creed Taylor ! Records that had previously signed John Coltrane . After Taylor left, he took over the management of Impulse !. In 1969 Thiele left Impulse! and founded a number of smaller record labels, including Flying Dutchman Records , now part of Sony BMG .

From 1945 to 1947 he was married to actress Monica Lewis , in the 1950s to Jane Harvey , with whom he had a son, and since 1972 he was married to singer Teresa Brewer .

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Thiele was already producing artists such as Lester Young and Erroll Garner with his first label . In 1943 - at the age of 21 - Thiele was responsible for a production by Coleman Hawkins , who is considered the first important tenor saxophonist in jazz history.

After switching to Impulse! Thiele worked with John Coltrane, Charles Mingus , Dizzy Gillespie , Sonny Rollins , Archie Shepp and Albert Ayler, among others . It was also Thiele who persuaded the pianist McCoy Tyner to record solo albums after his recordings as a member of Coltrane's Quartet. In addition to the company's musical profile, Thiele also shaped its visual appearance, so he introduced the orange-black clamshell covers typical of Impulse! Records - simple slip-in sleeves were normal.

Thiele’s most outstanding work as a producer is the 1964 John Coltrane album A Love Supreme. His best known work as a composer is the Louis Armstrong title What a Wonderful World , which he composed with George David Weiss .

In the late 1960s, Thiele worked with blues musicians such as BB King , T-Bone Walker and Big Joe Turner .

Recordings (selection)

As a composer
  • 1967: What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong) with George David Weiss
As a producer
  • 1962: Inception (McCoy Tyner, Impulse!)
  • 1963: Duke Ellington & John Coltrane ( Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, Impulse!)
  • 1964: A Love Supreme (John Coltrane, Impulse!)
  • 1970: Small Talk at 125th & Lenox Ave ( Gil Scott-Heron , Flying Dutchman Records)

literature

  • Bob Thiele, Bob Golden: What a Wonderful World. A Lifetime of Recordings . Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1995, ISBN 0-19-508629-5 .
  • Ashley Kahn : Impulses! The label that Coltrane created . Rogner and Bernhard, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8077-1026-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim E. Berendt: The Jazz Book . Universal Edition, 1976.
  2. ^ McCoy Tyner. ( Memento of March 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Jazz News. October 27, 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Thiele, Bob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1996
Place of death New York City , New York