Mod Records

Mod Records , also Mod Records Cologne , was an independent music label for jazz music that was active in West Germany in the mid-1950s.

history

The record label Mod Records was founded in 1954 by the jazz impresario Gigi Campi in Cologne. It is considered the first independent European jazz label. Between 1954 and 1956 Campi released a total of eleven long-playing records and five EPs with modern jazz from Europe on Mod Records . The covers of the records, but also posters for the mod label, were usually designed by Wolfgang Raquet (1928–2013), often based on photographs taken by the Cologne-based photo artist Chargesheimer .

The label's repertoire included recordings by Harald Banter Ten-Tet , Jutta Hipp , Roland Kovac , Bill Grah , Lars Gullin , Lee Konitz , Hans Koller , Bill Russo , the Rudi Sehring Trio (with Attila Zoller and Johnny Fischer , bass) and of the brothers Emil and Albert Mangelsdorff .

In 1956 Campi stopped its label activities. Some of the recordings he produced could no longer be released on the label; they appeared z. Partly in licensed editions for Italian labels. The recordings made for Mod Records were in a box set ( Mod Records Cologne - Jazz in West Germany 1954–56 ) in 2014 at BE! Jazz relaunched.

Discography

Hans Koller: Hans Koller New Jazz Stars 1954 (BMLP 06013)
Hans Koller: Joachim Ernst Berendt Presents Hans Koller - The Musician of the Year 1955 (BMLP 06014)
Jam Session: Albert Mangelsdorff-Hans Koller Combo, Hans Koller Combo, Fatty George Combo (only released in 2014)
Roland Kovac; Piano Time in Germany (BMEP 06016)
Jutta Hipp and Her Combo: Europe's First Lady of Jazz (BMEP 06015)
Bill Grah: A New Star from Germany (BMEP 06017)
Hans Koller Studies Feat. Bill Grah: Starting 55 (BMEP 06018)
Attila Zoller: Shivi Guitar (BMP 06019; Single )
The Rudi Sehring Trio: Rhythm and Something More (BMEP 06021)
Bill Russo and the Hans Koller Quintet (BMLP 06020)
Lee Konitz Ensemble (previously partly on Italian labels)

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Notes and individual references

↑ Cast Josef Keuser (tp), Karl-Heinz Wiemeyer (fhr), Kurt Becker (fl, vib), Robby Schmitz (cl, as), Hans Koller, Werner Laufer, Karl Drewo (ts), Heinz Hötter (p, arr ), Friedel Berlipp (git), Ferdinand Klein (b), Karl Neumann (dr), Harald Banter (actually Gerd von Wysocki) (ldr, arr). See Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online)
↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 6, 2017)
↑ Mod Records (Bear Family Records)
↑ With Lars Gullin and Hans Koller's New Jazz Stars : Lee Konitz (as), Hans Koller (ts), Lars Gullin, Willi Sanner (bar) Roland Kovac (p), Johnny Fischer (kb), Rudi Sehring (dr) Cologne, January 17, 1956 ( East of Eden, Late summer and Stephany ); and Lee Konitz with Hans Koller (ts), Lars Gullin (bar), Roland Kovac (p), Johnny Fischer (kb), Karl Sanner (dr) in Cologne, January 21, 1956 ( Lee-la-lu , I'm Getting Sentimental Over You , Variazione no.8 della Passacaglia , En Rodage and Absolution )

[1] Cast Josef Keuser (tp), Karl-Heinz Wiemeyer (fhr), Kurt Becker (fl, vib), Robby Schmitz (cl, as), Hans Koller, Werner Laufer, Karl Drewo (ts), Heinz Hötter (p, arr ), Friedel Berlipp (git), Ferdinand Klein (b), Karl Neumann (dr), Harald Banter (actually Gerd von Wysocki) (ldr, arr). See Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online)

[lord-2] Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 6, 2017)

[3] Mod Records (Bear Family Records)

[4] With Lars Gullin and Hans Koller's New Jazz Stars : Lee Konitz (as), Hans Koller (ts), Lars Gullin, Willi Sanner (bar) Roland Kovac (p), Johnny Fischer (kb), Rudi Sehring (dr) Cologne, January 17, 1956 ( East of Eden, Late summer and Stephany ); and Lee Konitz with Hans Koller (ts), Lars Gullin (bar), Roland Kovac (p), Johnny Fischer (kb), Karl Sanner (dr) in Cologne, January 21, 1956 ( Lee-la-lu , I'm Getting Sentimental Over You , Variazione no.8 della Passacaglia , En Rodage and Absolution )