Roost Records
Roost Records is an American jazz - music label .
History of the record label
The record label Roost Records (also known as Royal Roost Records ) was founded in 1949 primarily as a jazz label. The name refers to the New York club The Royal Roost , where many famous jazz greats of the time, such as Charlie Parker, performed. The most famous musician on the Roost label was the saxophonist Stan Getz , who recorded the legendary Roost Recordings at the beginning of his career in the early 1950s, partly with the guitarist Johnny Smith . The label also released Charlie Parker's live recordings from 1953 from the Boston Club Storyville and recordings by Dizzy Gillespie . Other musicians who made records on Roost Records were Johnny Hartman , Gene Quill , Sonny Stitt , Eddie Bonnemere , Seldon Powell , Johnny Smith, Tony Aless , Art Tatum , Ruth Price , Billy Taylor , Bud Powell , Shirley Scott , Terry Gibbs , Buddy Rich / Louie Bellson .
In 1968 the label was taken over by Morris Levy and incorporated into Roulette Records .
literature
- Bielefeld catalog jazz 1988 and 2001