Jazz Workshop (Label)
Jazz Workshop was, on the one hand, an American record label owned by Charles Mingus , which existed with an interruption from 1957 to the mid-1960s. On the other hand, Mingus used the term for numerous band projects of his own. Furthermore, the still existing publishing house in which Mingus published his compositions is called Jazz Workshop Inc. , which is now operated by Sue Graham Mingus .,
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The Jazz Workshop label was founded by Mingus in 1957, based on the previous use of Jazz Workshop as a name for his various band projects, starting with the Jazz Composers Workshop around 1955 . Initially, only two re-releases of Charlie Parker's live recordings from 1948 and 1950 appeared on the label , some of which had already appeared on the Danish label Debut Records in the mid-1950s . In 1964 the company was revived by Mingus after he signed his contract with Impulse! Records had ended.
At that time, Mingus wanted to expand the Jazz Workshop concept into an open school that should include (jazz) music, art and dance, but this failed at an early stage due to financial and organizational problems. The label of the same name - organized as a mail order company with its own mailbox - claimed to be the first record company in the USA to take a step towards more justice for the musicians, Mingus said in his announcement. But the record label was only very short-lived; in the mid-1960s, Mingus had already sold the catalog of the previous company Debut Records to Saul Zaentz 'label Fantasy Records ; In 1968 he also took over the few productions of the Jazz Workshop label.
Discographic notes
- Charlie Parker: Bird on 52nd Street (JWS 501) with Miles Davis , Duke Jordan , Tommy Potter , Max Roach (1948)
- Charlie Parker: Bird at St. Nick’s (JWS 500) with Red Rodney , Al Haig , Tommy Potter, Roy Haynes (1950)
- Charles Mingus: Mingus at Monterey (JWS 001/002; 1964)
- Charles Mingus: Town Hall Concert 1964 Vol. 1 (JWS 005; 1965)
- Charles Mingus: My Favorite Quintet , Vol. 1: Tyrone Guthrie Theater (JWS 009; 1965)
- Charles Mingus: Music Written for Monterey 1965. Not Heard ... Played in Its Entirety at UCLA , Vol. 1 & 2 (JWS 013/014; 1965)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Brian Priestley : Mingus. A Critical Biography . London: Paladin 1985, ISBN 0-586-08478-9 , pp. 65, 91ff., 122, 150
- ↑ See Brian Priestley: Mingus. A Critical Biography . London: Paladin 1985, ISBN 0-586-08478-9 , p. 131
- ↑ See website of Sue Graham Mingus ; this company also manages the Mingus Big Band , the Mingus Orchestra and the Mingus Dynasty .
- ↑ The Jazz Workshop label at Discogs
- ↑ Hi fi / stereo review, Volume 14 (1965)
- ^ Scott Saul: Freedom is, freedom ain't: jazz and the making of the sixties
- ^ Mingus discography
- ^ Mingus discography