Flying Dutchman Records
Flying Dutchman Records is a 1969 by Bob Thiele after (and during) his departure from Impulse! Records founded Jazz - Label . In a press release in April 1969, Thiele announced the founding of three labels of his Flying Dutchman Productions : Flying Dutchman Records, Amsterdam and BluesTime, with the funds coming from the Dutch Philips group. The US distribution was initially taken over by Atlantic Records , later by RCA . One of Thiele's goals was to re-publish jazz recordings that would appeal to the general public with a crossover to soul and funk at the beginning of the fusion era in the 1970s. But he also published avant-garde jazz musicians that he had looked after since his Impulse time, such as Pharoah Sanders , Ornette Coleman , Archie Shepp , Leon Thomas and other jazz musicians whose record contracts had expired ( Bud Freeman , Oliver Nelson , among others his Black, Brown and Beautiful ), but also jazz veterans like Duke Ellington (with Teresa Brewer , Thiele's wife, among others ), Johnny Hodges , Earl Hines , Sonny Stitt , Count Basie , Bobby Hackett , Shelly Manne , an album for his 70th birthday by Louis Armstrong . Other musicians were Gato Barbieri ( The third world, Fenix, El Pampero, Bolivia, Under Fire ), whom Thiele discovered during his time at Impulse, Larry Coryell , George Russell , Lonnie Liston Smith , Jan Garbarek , Bernard Purdie , Bucky Pizzarelli , Elek Bacsik , Steve Allen , Chico Hamilton , Stanley Crouch and Tom Scott . There were also records by political activist Angela Davis and poet Gil Scott-Heron , about the My Lai massacre (based on New York Post journalist Peter Hamill with music by James Spaulding ), a record by leftist politician and journalist Robert Scheer about a prison ( A night at Santa Rita , 1969), Thiele's own band sessions (Bob Thiele Emergency, Bob Thiele and his New Happy Times Orchestra) and the gospel singer Queen Esther Marrow . Gunter Hampel's record The 8th of July 1969 , which was initially self-published, was licensed on the label. There were also re-issues on the label, for example by Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young .
In 1971 the label was taken over by a sub-label of Atlantic Records , Atco. The label released until 1976 (most recently Stomp Off, let's Go by Sonny Stitt). In 1976 it was taken over by its US distribution partner RCA Records , which re-released some of the Flying Dutchman label's recordings rediscovered in the club scene in the 1980s on its Bluebird label. Bob Thiele himself then had other labels such as Doctor Jazz and Red Baron.
The catalog is now part of Sony Music Entertainment (Legacy Recordings).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ In the beginning, he also worked for Impulse as a producer. Ashley Kahn Impulse , Rogner and Bernhard / Zweiausendeins, p. 227
- ↑ Ashley Kahn, loc. Cit. P. 233
- ↑ Thiele booked with Sanders and Leon Thomas in the transition period to his new label with Impulse! 1969 a success with Karma (album) . Thiele then came up with Impulse! but still a contract with Sanders, which had previously been rejected by the label managers.
- ↑ Nelson had also looked after Thiele at Impulse, most recently with the successful Soulful Brass , whose follow-up album (also with Steve Allen) became the first Flying Dutchman album.
- ↑ He played on the Impulse recording Liberation Music Orchestra (album) by Charlie Haden , which Thiele also had on the label before he left. After his success with the score for The Last Tango, Barbieri was again signed for Impulse
- ^ Marshall Bowden, given web link