Richard Bock

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Richard "Dick" Bock (* 1927 ; † 1988 ) was an American jazz producer, founder of Pacific Jazz Records .

Richard Bock founded Pacific Jazz Records in 1952 in Los Angeles with the drummer Roy Harte and made it the most important label of West Coast Jazz , a cool jazz variant that was created by the mass exodus of musicians from the late 1940s. East Coast band scene looking for work in Los Angeles as a studio musician was triggered. His musicians have included Gerry Mulligan (their first release, "The Gerry Mulligan Quartet"), Chet Baker , Art Pepper , Bud Shank , Bob Brookmeyer , Lee Konitz , the Chico Hamilton Quintet, Jim Hall , the Jazz Crusaders and Les McCann . In 1954 he founded the offshoot Pacifica, which also published Pop. October 1957 Pacific Jazz was renamed "World Pacific" and at the same time George Avakian was co-producer there; together they produced u. a. the Gil Evans album New Bottle, Old Wine (1958). Even after he sold World Pacific to Liberty Records in 1964, he continued to work for the label until around 1970 as a part-time producer and also advised Contemporary Records , when their boss Lester Koenig reactivated his label in the 1970s.

In Los Angeles in the 1950s he was also the musical director of The Haig jazz club on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.

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