Pablo Records
Pablo Records is one of Norman Granz based American Jazz - Label .
History of the record label
Pablo Records was founded in 1973 by Granz who had sold his record label Verve Records to MGM Records in 1962. Pablo Records named Granz after his favorite painter Pablo Picasso . In order to finance his new label, Granz had to sell some Picasso works. Artists released by Pablo Records were mainly Ella Fitzgerald , Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass . This was later followed by recordings by Count Basie , John Coltrane , Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan, as well as new editions of Clef / Norgran and Verve recordings such as The Tatum Group Masterpieces Vol. 5 (1975). In the mid-1970s, Milt Jackson and Paulinho da Costa also recorded for Pablo . The extensive documentation of the Montreux Jazz Festival from 1975 and 1977, the publication of live recordings by Muddy Waters , the JATP All-Stars and John Coltrane ( Afro Blue Impressions , 1963) as well as the republication of the works of Art Tatum ( Complete Group Masterpieces ). In 1987 the label was taken over by Fantasy Records , which then released previously unreleased recordings under the Pablo label .
Quote
“ I still remember seeing Norman Granz come out of a meeting with sales managers from the big record companies that Pablo Records sold here in the country. The sales managers had concerns that only 3,000 copies of a particular album by pianist Tommy Flanagan had been sold. 'So what?' She yelled at Granz. 'If 3,000 people enjoy Tommy Flanagan's music, why not let them get it?' "
Web links
literature
- Bielefeld catalog jazz 1988 & 2001
- Jim Haskins: Ella Fitzgerald . Munich, Heyne Verlag, 1992
Remarks
- ↑ quoted from: Jim Haskins: Ella Fitzgerald . Munich, Heyne Verlag, 1992