Flying Dutchman Records
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Flying Dutchman Records was a jazz record label which was owned by veteran music industry executive, producer and songwriter Bob Thiele
.http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/bob_thiele.htm Initially distributed by Atlantic Records
, it was later distributed by RCA Records
which took over the label in 1976.http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/various/various-flyingfunk.shtml Some of the musicians who recorded several albums for the label include singer Leon Thomas
, saxophonist Gato Barbieri
, arranger Oliver Nelson
, saxophonist Tom Scott
and pianist Lonnie Liston Smith
.
Gil Scott-Heron
released three albums for the label, including his debut Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
and Free Will
.
Sony Music Entertainment
now owns the Flying Dutchman catalog which is distributed by their Legacy Recordings
label.
Bob Thiele
Bob Thiele was an American record producer who worked on countless classic jazz albums and record labels.-Biography:...
.http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/bob_thiele.htm Initially distributed by Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...
, it was later distributed by RCA Records
RCA Records
RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...
which took over the label in 1976.http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/various/various-flyingfunk.shtml Some of the musicians who recorded several albums for the label include singer Leon Thomas
Leon Thomas
Amos Leon Thomas Jr was an American avant garde jazz singer from East St. Louis, Illinois.Thomas studied music at Tennessee State University. In the 1960s he was a vocalist for Count Basie and others....
, saxophonist Gato Barbieri
Gato Barbieri
Leandro Barbieri , better known as Gato Barbieri , is an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.-Biography:Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music...
, arranger Oliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson
Oliver Edward Nelson was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger and composer.-Early life and career:...
, saxophonist Tom Scott
Tom Scott (musician)
Tom Scott is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, conductor and bandleader of the west coast jazz/jazz fusion ensemble The L.A. Express.-Biography:Scott was born in Los Angeles, California...
and pianist Lonnie Liston Smith
Lonnie Liston Smith
Lonnie Liston Smith, Jr. is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician who played with important free jazz artists such as Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before forming Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic Echoes, recording a number of albums widely regarded as classics in the fusion / Quiet Storm /...
.
Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron
Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...
released three albums for the label, including his debut Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
-Personnel:* David Barnes – percussion, vocals* Charlie Saunders, Eddie Knowles – congas* Gil Scott-Heron – guitar, piano, vocals* Charles Stewart – cover art* Bob Thiele – producer-External links:* at Discogs...
and Free Will
Free Will (album)
2001 compact disc reissue bonus tracks.-Personnel:Musicians* Gil Scott-Heron - vocals, piano, guitar* Horace Ott - conductor, arranger* Brian Jackson - acoustic piano, electric piano, vocals* Gerald Jemmott - bass* Pretty Purdie - drums...
.
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....
now owns the Flying Dutchman catalog which is distributed by their Legacy Recordings
Legacy Recordings
Legacy Recordings is Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division. It was founded in 1990 by CBS Records under the leadership of Jerry Shulman, Richard Bauer, Gary Pacheco and Amy Herot to handle reissues of recordings from the vast catalogues of Columbia Records, Epic Records and associated...
label.
Discography
- 10101 Oliver NelsonOliver NelsonOliver Edward Nelson was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger and composer.-Early life and career:...
& Steve AllenSteve AllenSteve Allen may refer to:*Steve Allen , American musician, comedian, and writer*Steve Allen , presenter on the London-based talk radio station LBC 97.3...
- Soulful Brass - 10101 Oliver Nelson & Steve Allen - Soulful Brass #2
- 10102 Spontaneous CombustionSpontaneous Combustion (band)Spontaneous Combustion were an English progressive rock power trio, active in the 1970s. The band consisted of Gary Margetts on guitar and lead vocals, his brother Tristiam "Tris" Margetts on bass guitar, and drummer Tony Brock. Spontaneous Combustion released two albums, Spontaneous Combustion ...
- Come and Stick Your Head In - 10103 Jon AppletonJon AppletonJon Howard Appleton is an American composer and teacher who was a pioneer in electro-acoustic music. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. Chef d'Oeuvre and Newark Airport Rock attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called programmatic electronic music...
- Appleton Syntonic Menagerie - 10104 Bob ThieleBob ThieleBob Thiele was an American record producer who worked on countless classic jazz albums and record labels.-Biography:...
- Emergency - Head Start - 10105 Stanley CrouchStanley CrouchStanley Crouch is an American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism, and his novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?- Biography :...
- Ain’t No Ambulances For No Nigguhs Tonight - 10106 Tom ScottTom Scott (musician)Tom Scott is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, conductor and bandleader of the west coast jazz/jazz fusion ensemble The L.A. Express.-Biography:Scott was born in Los Angeles, California...
- Hair to Jazz - 10107 Horace TapscottHorace TapscottHorace Tapscott was an American jazz pianist and composer. He formed the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in 1961 and led the ensemble through the 1990s...
- The Giant is Awakened - 10108 John CarterJohn Carter (musician)For the jazz clarinet player John Carter, see John Carter .John Carter is an English singer, songwriter and record producer.-Overview:...
& Bobby BradfordBobby BradfordBobby Lee Bradford is an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, bandleader, and composer. He is noted for his work with Ornette Coleman...
- Flight For Four - 10109 Jimmy GordonJimmy GordonJames "Jimmy" Eadie Gordon was a Scottish footballer who spent most of his career with Rangers. During the First World War he was a Sergeant in the Highland Light Infantry....
- Hog Fat - 10110 Ron AnthonyRon AnthonyRon Anthony is a renowned American jazz musician. He is also a music teacher.He studied guitar with Jerry Condorato becoming a musician. He was also the first teacher of Ron Affif his nephew. In 1955 I became a member of the 7th Army Jazz Band in Stuttgart, Germany...
- Oh! Calcutta! - 10111 Robert ScheerRobert ScheerRobert Scheer is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig which is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation...
- A Night At Santa Rita - 10112 Duke EllingtonDuke EllingtonEdward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
- My PeopleMy People (Duke Ellington album)My People is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington written and recorded in 1963 for a stage show and originally released on Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman label and later released on CD on the Red Baron label... - 10113 Esther Marrow - Newport News, Virginia
- 10114 Tom Scott - Paint Your Wagon
- 10115 Leon ThomasLeon ThomasAmos Leon Thomas Jr was an American avant garde jazz singer from East St. Louis, Illinois.Thomas studied music at Tennessee State University. In the 1960s he was a vocalist for Count Basie and others....
- Spirits Known and Unknown - 10116 Oliver Nelson - Black, Brown and Beautiful
- 10117 Gato BarbieriGato BarbieriLeandro Barbieri , better known as Gato Barbieri , is an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.-Biography:Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music...
- The Third World - 10118 Peter Hamill - Massacre at Mai Lai
- 10120 Johnny HodgesJohnny HodgesJohn Cornelius "Johnny" Hodges was an American alto saxophonist, best known for his solo work with Duke Ellington's big band. He played lead alto in the saxophone section for many years, except the period between 1932–1946 when Otto Hardwick generally played first chair...
- Shades of Blue - 10121 Jon Appleton & 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...
- Human Music - 10122 George Russell - Othello Ballet Suite / Electronic Organ Sonata No. 1
- 10123 Ornette ColemanOrnette ColemanOrnette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....
- Live at Prince Street: Friends and Neighbours - 10124 George Russell - Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by NatureElectronic Sonata for Souls Loved by NatureElectronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature is a work by jazz arranger George Russell originally written in 1968 and first recorded in concert in Norway on April 28, 1969 and released on the Flying Dutchman label...
- 10125 Jan GarbarekJan GarbarekJan Garbarek is a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war Czesław Garbarek and a Norwegian farmer's daughter...
- Esoteric CircleEsoteric CircleEsoteric Circle is the debut album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, originally released under the band name "The Esoteric Circle" on Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman label but re-issued under his name on the Freedom imprint, performed by Garbarek with Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen and Jon... - 10126 Gunther Hampel - The 8th of July, 1969
- 10127 Peter Hamill - Murder at Kent State University
- 10128 John Carter & Bobby Bradford - Self-Determination Music
- 10130 Oliver Nelson - The Mayor and the People
- 10131 Gil Scott-HeronGil Scott-HeronGilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...
- Small Talk at 125th & Lenox - 10132 Leon ThomasLeon ThomasAmos Leon Thomas Jr was an American avant garde jazz singer from East St. Louis, Illinois.Thomas studied music at Tennessee State University. In the 1960s he was a vocalist for Count Basie and others....
- The Leon Thomas Album - 10133 Steve Allen - Soulful Brass #3
- 10134 Oliver Nelson - Berlin Dialogue for Orchestra
- 10135 Chico HamiltonChico HamiltonChico Hamilton , is an American jazz drummer and bandleader.-Early life through 1960s:Hamilton was born in Los Angeles, California. He had a fast-track musical education in a band with Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Royal, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Collette and Jack Kelso...
- El Exigente/The Demanding One - 10136 Leon Thomas & H. Rap BrownH. Rap BrownJamil Abdullah Al-Amin , also known as H. Rap Brown, was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, and during a short lived alliance between SNCC , later the Justice Minister of the Black Panther Party...
- SNCC’s Rap - 10137 Starring Spiro T. Agnew - The Great Comedy Album
- 10138 Count BasieCount BasieWilliam "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years...
- Afrique - 10139 Larry CoryellLarry CoryellLarry Coryell is an American jazz fusion guitarist.-Biography:Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from Richland High School, in Richland, Washington, where he played in local bands The Jailers, The Rumblers, The Royals, and The Flames. He also played with The Checkers from nearby...
- Barefoot BoyBarefoot BoyBarefoot Boy is Larry Coryell's first and only album for the Flying Dutchman label, a company created by Impulse! Records founder Bob Thiele. The album was produced by Thiele, with production assistance from Lillian Seyfert and engineered by Eddie Kramer... - 10140 Mike LipskinMike LipskinMike Lipskin is a stride pianist of the pre-bop jazz style, piano instructor, record producer and author. He has striven to keep alive the form of jazz piano known as Harlem Stride Piano. He played piano and organ on Papa John Creach's self-titled album, produced Ryo Kawasaki's Juice album, and...
- California Here I Come - 10141 Angela DavisAngela DavisAngela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis was most politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party...
- Soul & Soledad - 10142 Leon Thomas - In Berlin
- 10143 Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man
- 10144 Gato Barbieri - Fenix
- 10145 Harold Alexander - Sunshine Man
- 10146 Coleman HawkinsColeman HawkinsColeman Randolph Hawkins was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Hawkins was one of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument. As Joachim E. Berendt explained, "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn"...
/Lester YoungLester YoungLester Willis Young , nicknamed "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He also played trumpet, violin, and drums....
- Classic Tenors - 10147 Earl HinesEarl HinesEarl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, was an American jazz pianist. Hines was one of the most influential figures in the development of modern jazz piano and, according to one source, is "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz".-Early...
- The Mighty Fatha - 10148 Harold Alexander - Are You Ready?
- 10149 Oliver Nelson & al - Swiss Suite
- 10150 Shelly ManneShelly ManneShelly Manne , born Sheldon Manne in New York City, was an American jazz drummer. Most frequently associated with West Coast jazz, he was known for his versatility and also played in a number of other styles, including Dixieland, swing, bebop, avant-garde jazz and fusion, as well as contributing...
- Contact CM 4 - 10151 Gato Barbieri - El Pampero
- 10152 Bob Thiele - Those Were The Days
- 10153 Gil Scott-Heron - Free WillFree Will (album)2001 compact disc reissue bonus tracks.-Personnel:Musicians* Gil Scott-Heron - vocals, piano, guitar* Horace Ott - conductor, arranger* Brian Jackson - acoustic piano, electric piano, vocals* Gerald Jemmott - bass* Pretty Purdie - drums...
- 10154 Bernard Purdie - Soul Is...
- 10155 Leon Thomas - Blues and the Soulful Truth
- 10156 Gato Barbieri - Under Fire
- 10157 Richard Davis - Song For Wounded Knee
- 10158 Gato Barbieri - Bolivia
- 10159 Bobby Hackett - What A Wonderful World
- 10161 Count Basie & Teresa BrewerTeresa BrewerTeresa Brewer was an American pop singer whose style incorporated elements of country, jazz, R&B, musicals and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording nearly 600 songs. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular...
- The Songs of Bessie Smith - 10163 Lonnie Liston SmithLonnie Liston SmithLonnie Liston Smith, Jr. is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician who played with important free jazz artists such as Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before forming Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic Echoes, recording a number of albums widely regarded as classics in the fusion / Quiet Storm /...
- Astral Traveling - 10164 Leon Thomas - Facets: An Anthology
- 10165 Gato Barbieri - The Legend of Gato Barbieri
- 10166 Teresa Brewer - It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t got That Swing
- 10167 Leon Thomas - Full Circle
- 0550 Gato Barbieri - Yesterdays
- 0591 Lonnie Liston Smith - Cosmic Funk
- 0592 Oliver Nelson - With Oily Rags
- 0825 Oliver Nelson - Skull Session
- 0827 Richard HolmesRichard HolmesRichard Holmes may refer to:* Richard Holmes , American actor* Richard Holmes , British biographer* Richard Holmes , British soldier and military historian...
- Onsaya Joy - 0829 Bobby Hackett - Strike Up the Band
- 0830 Cesar - Cesar 830
- 0833 Tom Scott - In L.A.
- 0834 Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
- 0964 Bob Thiele - I Saw Pinetop Spit Blood
- 1082 Elek BacsikElek BacsikElek Bacsik was a Hungarian-born American jazz violinist and guitarist.Bacsik was born in Budapest, the son of Arpad Bacsik and Erzsebet Pocsi. He was of Romani ethnicity and studied violin at the Budapest Conservatory, but found his primary musical inspiration in bebop pioneers Dizzy Gillespie...
- Bird and Dizzy: A Musical Tribute - 1120 Bucky PizzarelliBucky PizzarelliJohn Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli is an American Jazz guitarist and banjoist, and the father of jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli and upright bassist Martin Pizzarelli. Pizzarelli has also worked for NBC as a staffman for Dick Cavett and also ABC with Bobby Rosengarden in...
& Joe Venuti - Nightwings - 1145 Shelly Manne - Hot Coles
- 1146 Richard Holmes - Six Million Dollar Man
- 1147 Gato Barbieri - El Gato
- 1196 Lonnie Liston Smith - Visions of a New World
- 1197 Sonny StittSonny StittEdward "Sonny" Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He was also one of the best-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording over 100 albums in his lifetime...
- Dumpy Mama
- 1371 The World’s Greatest Jazz Band - In Concert at the Lawrenceville
- 1372 Mike WoffordMike WoffordMike Wofford is a jazz pianist born February 28, 1938 in San Antonio, Texas, raised in San Diego, California.He is best known as an accompanist to and music director for singers Sarah Vaughan , Ella Fitzgerald and others...
- Scott Joplin Interpretations - 1378 Bud FreemanBud FreemanLawrence "Bud" Freeman was a U.S. jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet. He had a smooth and full tenor sax style with a heavy robust swing. He was one of the most influential and important jazz tenor saxophonists of...
& Bucky Pizzarelli - Bucky & Bud - 1449 Oliver Nelson - A Dream Deferred (Compilation)
- 1460 Lonnie Liston Smith - Reflections of a Golden Dream
- 1461 Steve MarcusSteve MarcusSteve Marcus was an American jazz saxophonist....
- Sometime Other Than Now - 1537 Richard Holmes - I’m In the Mood for Love
- 1538 Sonny Stitt - Stomp Off, Let’s Go
- 2568 Steve KuhnSteve KuhnSteve Kuhn is an American jazz pianist, composer and trio leader.-Biography:He began studying piano at the age of five and studied under Boston piano teacher Margaret Chaloff, mother of jazz baritone saxophonist Serge Chaloff, who taught him the "Russian style" of piano playing. At an early age he...
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