Antilles Records
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Antilles Records was an American record label that was a subsidiary of Island Records
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Its jazz catalog is now managed by Verve Records
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Island Records
Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...
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Its jazz catalog is now managed by Verve Records
Verve Records
Verve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records , and material which had been licensed to Mercury previously.-Jazz and folk origins:The Verve...
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Discography
- 1001 Joanne BrackeenJoanne BrackeenJoanne Brackeen is an American jazz pianist and music educator.-Biography:She was born Joanne Grogan in Ventura, California. She attended the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, but devoted herself to jazz by imitating Frankie Carle albums...
- Special Identity 1981 - 1002 Biréli LagrèneBiréli LagrèneBiréli Lagrène is a French guitarist and bassist. He came to prominence in the 1980s for his Django Reinhardt-influenced style on the classical guitar, as well as for being a jazz fusion virtuoso on the electric guitar...
- Routes To Django 1980 - 1003 Heath BrothersHeath BrothersThe Heath Brothers was an American jazz group, formed in 1975 by the brothers Jimmy , Percy , and Albert "Tootie" Heath ; and pianist Stanley Cowell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tony Purrone and Jimmy's son Mtume joined the group later...
- Brotherly Love 1981 - 1004 Ben SidranBen SidranBen Sidran is an American jazz and rock pianist, organist, vocalist and writer born in Chicago, noted for his work with the early Steve Miller Band.-Biography:...
- Old Songs For The New Depression 1981 - 1005 Anthony BraxtonAnthony BraxtonAnthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s...
- Six Compositions: Quartet 1981 - 1006 Phil WoodsPhil WoodsPhilip Wells Woods is an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer.-Biography:...
- Birds Of A Feather 1981 - 1007 AirAir (jazz group)Air was a free jazz trio founded in 1971 by saxophone player Henry Threadgill, double bassist Fred Hopkins and drummer Steve McCall. They combined radical free improvisation with a strong sense of tune and equal emphasis on each instrument in the group....
- 80° Below '8280° Below '8280° Below '82 is an album by the improvisational collective Air featuring Henry Threadgill, Steve McCall, and Fred Hopkins recorded in 1982 for the Antilles label.-Reception:...
1982 - 1008 Ronald Shannon JacksonRonald Shannon JacksonRonald Shannon Jackson is an American jazz drummer. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas.Jackson is notable for his unusual approach to his instrument, which draws as much inspiration from military and parade bands as from traditional jazz drumming.He is the only person to have recorded and performed...
- Mandance 1982 - 1009 Bireli Lagrene - 15 1982
- 1010 Gil EvansGil EvansGil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...
- Priestess 1977 - 1011 ZaharaZahara (band)Zahara were a jazz fusion ensemble who released one album for Antilles Records.They consisted of several notable members including Reebop Kwaku Baah , Paul Delph , Bryson Graham , Rosko Gee ....
- Flight Of The Spirit 1983 - 1012 Ben Sidran - Bop City 1983
- 1013 Woods, Phil- At The Vanguard 1982
- 1014 Swingrass '83Swingrass '83Swingrass '83 was a jazz and folk music ensemble which recorded one eponymous album for Antilles Records.Members Andy Statman, Richard Greene, Marty Crystal, Peter Ivers, Fred Tackett, Peter Erskine and Buell Neidlinger crafted the album in studio but with no overdubbing.The album consists of...
- Swingrass '83 1982 - 1015 Jackson, Ronald Shannon- Barbeque Dog 1983
- 1016 Heath Brothers - Brothers And Others 1983
- 1017 ElementsElements (band)Elements was an American jazz fusion ensemble founded by bass guitarist Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb in 1982. Both Egan and Gottlieb were former members of the Pat Metheny Group, and Elements' sound draws deeply from their experience as Metheney's former rhythm section...
- Elements 1982 - 1018 Steve KhanSteve KhanSteve Khan is an American jazz guitarist.Born in Los Angeles, California, Khan is known for his work with artists such as Steely Dan, Billy Joel, Michael Franks, Hubert Laws, Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, James Brown, Maynard Ferguson, and Weather Report...
- Eyewitness 1981 - 1019
- 1020 Khan, Steve- Casa Loco 1983
- 1021 Elements- Forward Motion 1983
- 2001 Coleman, Ornette - Of Human FeelingsOf Human Feelings- Side A :# "Sleep Talk" – 3:34# "Jump Street" – 4:24# "Him and Her" – 4:20# "Air Ship" – 6:11- Side B :# "What is the Name of That Song?" – 3:58# "Job Mob" – 4:57# "Love Words" – 2:54# "Times Square" – 6:03-Personnel:*Denardo Coleman – Drums...
1979 - 7005 Third World (Steve WinwoodSteve WinwoodStephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
& Remi KabakaRemi KabakaRemi Kabaka is a Nigerian drummer who has performed with Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, John Martyn, Hugh Masekela, on Rhythm of the Saints by Paul Simon, Short Cut Draw Blood by Jim Capaldi and on Band on the Run by Paul McCartney. His London-based son, also called Remi Kabaka, provided the voice of...
) - Aiye - Keta 1973 - 7011 White NoiseWhite noiseWhite noise is a random signal with a flat power spectral density. In other words, the signal contains equal power within a fixed bandwidth at any center frequency...
- An Electric StormAn Electric Storm-Personnel:The following people contributed to An Electric Storm:*David Vorhaus - Production co-ordinator*Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson - Electronic sound realisation*Paul Lytton - Percussion*John Whitman, Annie Bird, Val Shaw - Vocals-Releases:...
1973 (1st issue 1969 on Island) - 7023 Tim HardinTim HardinJames Timothy "Tim" Hardin was an American folk musician and composer. He wrote the Top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter", covered by, among others, Joan Baez, Bobby Darin, Johnny Cash, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Robert Plant, and "Reason to Believe", covered by many, including Rod Stewart, as well...
- NineNine (Tim Hardin album)Nine is an album by folk artist Tim Hardin, recorded in England and released in 1973. It was Hardin's final finished studio album. His next album, Unforgiven was incomplete when he died of a drug overdose....
1976 - 7034 Don CherryDon Cherry (jazz)Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...
- Eternal Now 1973 - 7035 Johnny DyaniJohnny DyaniJohnny Mbizo Dyani was a South African jazz double bassist and pianist, who played with such musicians as Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, David Murray and Leo Smith....
- An Electric StormAn Electric Storm-Personnel:The following people contributed to An Electric Storm:*David Vorhaus - Production co-ordinator*Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson - Electronic sound realisation*Paul Lytton - Percussion*John Whitman, Annie Bird, Val Shaw - Vocals-Releases:...
1973 - 7067 Various Artists - No New YorkNo New YorkNo New York is a compilation album released in 1978 by Antilles Records under the curation of producer Brian Eno. Although it only contained songs by four different artists, it is considered by many to be the definitive single album documenting New York City's late-1970s No Wave...
1978 - 8701 Nana VasconcelosNaná VasconcelosNaná Vasconcelos is a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, most notable for his works with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Egberto Gismonti, and Gato Barbieri....
- Bush Dance 1986