Savoy Records

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78 shellac record by Don Byas on Savoy Records: "Worried and Blue"

Savoy Records was an American record label for jazz and gospel music . It was instrumental in the success of bebop and later hardbop .

History of the label

Savoy Records, based in Newark, New Jersey , was founded in 1942 by Hermann Lubinsky. Its main producers were Teddy Reig and from 1954 Ozzie Cadena ; he is also mentioned as a producer on all records of the label . Savoy released many important bebop records, first as a 78er, then as a long-playing record. As early as the late 1940s, Savoy took over the Regent catalog , and in the late 1950s that of the short-lived label Signal . When sales declined with the advent of rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s, Lubinsky focused his business interests more on gospel music. In this area he was successful in collaboration with James Cleveland and the Gospel Music Workshop of America .

After Lubinsky's death in 1974, Clive Davis , the manager of Arista Records, acquired the Savoy bebop catalog. After that, the Japanese company Denon began a major reissue ( re-release ) campaign in the 1990s .

The current owner is Columbia Music Entertainment ; she releases the CDs under the Savoy Label Group sub- label .

The bebop and hardbop releases

His fame in the jazz community owes Savoy Records primarily the publications of Bebop - alto saxophonist Charlie Parker : From 1945-1948 released on Savoy necessary for the Modern Jazz groundbreaking standards such as Ko Ko , Billies Bounce , Cheryl , Barbados , Constellation , Scrapple From The Apple and many others. In addition, the classic records appeared on the label on the transition from the late swing of small bands to bebop by Billy Eckstine , Lester Young , Don Byas , Erroll Garner , George Shearing , Charlie Ventura . The main work, however, were the records of bebop (starting with Charlie Parker's Ko Ko Session ( The Charlie Parker Story ), 1945) and hardbop: First the early Dexter Gordon (produced by Ralph Bass ), Fats Navarro , Stan Getz , Wardell Gray , Howard McGhee , Jay Jay Johnson , then, from the mid-1950s, the hardboppers Cannonball Adderley , Nat Adderley , Kenny Clarke , Gigi Gryce , Duke Jordan , Hank Jones , Lee Morgan , Curtis Fuller , Red Rodney and finally Wilbur Harden and John Coltrane .

In the early 1960s, Savoy tried to bring out some of the then important avant-garde jazz musicians such as Paul Bley , Sun Ra , Perry Robinson and Archie Shepp . Compared to the big jazz labels like Blue Note Records and the recently founded Impulse Records , Savoy Records could not assert itself on the market. Paul Bley's 1964 record Footloose would be one of the label's last jazz releases.

Important albums

  • 1944 - Lester Young: The Master's Touch
  • 1944 - Charlie Parker: The Immortal Charlie Parker
  • 1945 - Charlie Parker: The Charlie Parker Story
  • 1946 - Fats Navarro: Memorial
  • 1946 - JJ Johnson: Jazz Quintets
  • 1947 - Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker Memorial Volume 1
  • 1947 - Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker Memorial Volume 2
  • 1949 - Charlie Parker: The Bird Returns
  • 1949 - George Wallington : The George Wallington Trio
  • 1950 - Dizzy Gillespie : Groovin 'High
  • 1954 - Charles Mingus , Teo Macero , John LaPorta : Jazz Composers Workshop
  • 1955 - George Shearing: Great Britain's Marian McPartland & George Shearing
  • 1955 - Kenny Clarke : Bohemia After Dark
  • 1955 - Duke Jordan: Duke Jordan Trio & Quintet
  • 1955 - Hank Jones : Quartet / Quintet
  • 1955 - Gigi Gryce: Nica's Tempo
  • 1956 - Milt Jackson : The Jazz Skyline ; Jackson's-Ville
  • 1956 - Lee Morgan: Introducing Lee Morgan
  • 1957 - Red Rodney: Fiery
  • 1957 - Sahib Shihab: Jazz Shihab
  • 1958 - Wilbur Harden and John Coltrane: Tanganyika Strut ; Mainstream 1958 , Jazz Way Out
  • 1959 - Curtis Fuller: The Curtis Fuller Jazztet with Benny Golson
  • 1959 - Curtis Fuller: Blues-ette
  • 1961 - Su Ra: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
  • 2016 - Classic Savoy Be-Bop Sessions 1945-49 ( Mosaic Records )

Savoy Records sublabels

  • Acorn Records (1949-1951)
  • Gospel Records (1958 - early 1970s)
  • Regent Records (1947-1964)
  • Sharp Records (1960-1964)

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