Jazz/Labels
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For a time, I used to push all label data on one page, which has quickly proved unmanageable. Below are the remains of this attempt, waiting to be properly migrated in the new one-label/one-page architecture.
Major Labels
Label Name/Site | Country | Active Period | Sold to | Discographic ressources | Subsidiaries | Comment |
Fantasy (wp) | USA | 1949- | Concord | Debut Records, Good Time, Prestige (1971), Riverside, Milestone (1972), Stax Records (1977), Contemporary (1984), Specialty Records (1991), Pablo (1987), Takoma Records, Kicking Mule Records (1995) | Gobbled a good number of jazz label, which were cd reissued in the 80s90s under the collection/label name Original Jazz Classics (apparently on mondays during 85-95) | |
Gennet Records (wp) | USA | 1917-1934 | Decca Records (1935) | Oldies from the 20s | ||
Impulse! (wp) | USA | 1960-late 70s | Verve Music Group | JD.com | Now a reissue label. Has been shortly revived for new stuff though. | |
Liberty Records (wp) | USA | 1955-? | EMI (?) | Pacific Jazz (1957), Blue Note (1965) | A complicated history also... | |
Limelight wp | USA | X | JD.com | Mercury subsidiary | ||
Milestone (wp) | USA | 1966-1972 | Fantasy | JD.com | Reissued stuff from Gennett Records | |
Mercury (wp) | USA (UK now) | 1945- | Verve Group | JD.org | Blue Rock Records, Cumberland Records, EmArcy Records, Fontana Records, Limelight Records, Philips Records, Smash Records and Wing Records | |
Original Jazz Classics (wp) | USA | 1983- | Is a sub/collection of Fantasy | Reissued on cd most stuff owned by OJC in the 80s-90s | ||
Pablo (wp) | USA | 1973 | Fantasy (1987) | JD.com JD.org | Fantasy continued to use the name to release stuff after 1987 | |
Prestige (wp) | USA | 1949-1971 | Fantasy (1971) | Plosin JD.org | Used funny coll. names like Swingsville, Bluesville, Moodsville, and "New Jazz" | The junkies label |
Riverside wp | USA | 1953-1963 | Fantasy (1972) | JD.com JD.org | ||
[Savoy USA] wp | USA | 1942-?1980? | Bop catalog sold to Arista Records (1974) | JD.com JD.org |