desert island jazz labels

[alocispepraluger102]

if we could only take recordings from 3 labels (throughout the history of jazz) with us to wherever we may be going, what would those 3 be?

mine, at first thought, would be impulse, columbia, and prestige, in that order.

Edited September 21, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[Big Beat Steve]

Contemporary, Columbia Jazz and Prestige (in no particular order).

Thinking strictly in LP terms, I'd probably have picked Pacific Jazz instead of Columbia, but since I'd want some SWING too I'd have to choose Columbia for its all-round appeal.

[BeBop]

Not very imaginative, but:

Blue Note

Rounder

Deutshe Grammophon

Wait! Delmark. Can't I take that too?

Edited September 21, 2012 by BeBop

[brownie]

I would take Mosaic, Masters of Jazz and Classics

[A Lark Ascending]

Fresh Sounds anyone?

[Daniel A]

Blue Note, MPS and Verve.

[sidewinder]

Mosaic, Blue Note and EMI/Columbia Lansdowne. Honourable mention - Contemporary.

Edited September 22, 2012 by sidewinder

[Dan Gould]

The former Gene Harris Fanatic requires Concord, then Blue Note and I'm thinking Verve gets you an awful lot of swing masters at their mature stage, plus Bird so that's pretty good.

[colinmce]

Tough. Black Saint/Soul Note, Columbia, and ... Blue Note, I suppose. That would get me most of my favorites. No Bird, though

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Oh goodness, what a question!!!

OK,

1 Prestige - mainly for Soul Jazz

2 Syllart - for recordings covering most of francophone West Africa

3 Atlantic - mainly for R&B & Soul

But I'd want Savoy, too, for its Gospel music. And what about Chess?

Oh, you really mean jazz labels? Well, take Syllart out and put Savoy in, although I'm not nearly as interested in the Bebop as I am in the honkers and screamers and the Gospel material.

MG

[alocispepraluger102]

Oh goodness, what a question!!!

OK,

1 Prestige - mainly for Soul Jazz

2 Syllart - for recordings covering most of francophone West Africa

3 Atlantic - mainly for R&B & Soul

But I'd want Savoy, too, for its Gospel music. And what about Chess?

Oh, you really mean jazz labels? Well, take Syllart out and put Savoy in, although I'm not nearly as interested in the Bebop as I am in the honkers and screamers and the Gospel material.

MG

for honkers and screamers, are you sure you don't want 60s and 70s impulse?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Not very imaginative, but:

Blue Note

Rounder

Deutshe Grammophon

Wait! Delmark. Can't I take that too?

Hey, you can have Delmark instead of Deutsche Grammophon, which ain't a jazz label. Or I'm going to put Syllart back in

I'm not familiar with the whole range of Rounder - only have a couple of jazz albums on that label.

Oh, and Columbia (not your choice, I know, Bebop) is hardly a jazz label. Only a tiny proportion of its output has been jazz, compared to Atlantic, Savoy and Chess.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Oh goodness, what a question!!!

OK,

1 Prestige - mainly for Soul Jazz

2 Syllart - for recordings covering most of francophone West Africa

3 Atlantic - mainly for R&B & Soul

But I'd want Savoy, too, for its Gospel music. And what about Chess?

Oh, you really mean jazz labels? Well, take Syllart out and put Savoy in, although I'm not nearly as interested in the Bebop as I am in the honkers and screamers and the Gospel material.

MG

for honkers and screamers, are you sure you don't want 60s and 70s impulse?

MG

[Peter Friedman]

Not very imaginative, but:

Blue Note

Rounder

Deutshe Grammophon

Wait! Delmark. Can't I take that too !

Hey, you can have Delmark instead of Deutsche Grammophon, which ain't a jazz label. Or I'm going to put Syllart back in

I'm not familiar with the whole range of Rounder - only have a couple of jazz albums on that label.

Oh, and Columbia (not your choice, I know, Bebop) is hardly a jazz label. Only a tiny proportion of its output has been jazz, compared to Atlantic, Savoy and Chess.

MG

Columbia may not be primarily a jazz label, but look what you get! !

Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, Monk, Mingus, Stan Getz, Ellington, Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith,Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, and countless others.

Also need to add Woody Herman, Bud Powell, Basie, Dexter Gordon, Brubeck, Jimmy Rowles & Bill Evans.

Edited September 22, 2012 by Peter Friedman

[alocispepraluger102]

Not very imaginative, but:

Blue Note

Rounder

Deutshe Grammophon

Wait! Delmark. Can't I take that too !

Hey, you can have Delmark instead of Deutsche Grammophon, which ain't a jazz label. Or I'm going to put Syllart back in

I'm not familiar with the whole range of Rounder - only have a couple of jazz albums on that label.

Oh, and Columbia (not your choice, I know, Bebop) is hardly a jazz label. Only a tiny proportion of its output has been jazz, compared to Atlantic, Savoy and Chess.

MG

Columbia may not be primarily a jazz label, but look what you get! !

Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, Monk, Mingus, Stan Getz, Ellington, Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith,Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, and countless others.

amen.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Not very imaginative, but:

Blue Note

Rounder

Deutshe Grammophon

Wait! Delmark. Can't I take that too !

Hey, you can have Delmark instead of Deutsche Grammophon, which ain't a jazz label. Or I'm going to put Syllart back in

I'm not familiar with the whole range of Rounder - only have a couple of jazz albums on that label.

Oh, and Columbia (not your choice, I know, Bebop) is hardly a jazz label. Only a tiny proportion of its output has been jazz, compared to Atlantic, Savoy and Chess.

MG

Columbia may not be primarily a jazz label, but look what you get! !

Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, Monk, Mingus, Stan Getz, Ellington, Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith,Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, and countless others.

amen.

Yes, you certainly get a lot of jazz with Columbia, but I was taking what you said as what you meant, Aloc

Anyway, I wouldn't want most of the people Peter mentioned I have hardly any Columbia records in my collection.

MG

[GA Russell]

Prestige for the 50s

Verve for the 60s

Atlantic for the later 60s

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Atlantic for the later 60s

Is that for the recordings of Les McCann, Hank Crawford, David Newman, Roy Ayers, Herbie Mann etc or other stuff?

MG

[JSngry]

I'd pick three and then sneak in Moon and/or Alamac when nobody was looking.

[paul secor]

Good idea for a thread, but impossible for me to answer. I listen to musicians rather than follow labels.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Good idea for a thread, but impossible for me to answer. I listen to musicians rather than follow labels.

I don't listen to musicians at all - I just follow labels

MG

[alocispepraluger102]

Good idea for a thread, but impossible for me to answer. I listen to musicians rather than follow labels.

I don't listen to musicians at all - I just follow labels

MG

goldy raises a fine point, in jest.

don't tell me we don't have some old, hopefully, reformed, prestige, riverside, and mosaic freaks.

back in the early 70s, i had this ecm hangup for a year or so--i wouldn't buy anything else. i'm cured. these days you couldn't give me an ecm recording unless it's an old vinyl.

throughout most of my life, you couldn't give me an A&M or CTI recording.

Edited September 22, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[A Lark Ascending]

It's not about 'following' labels. It's just that some labels you learn to trust to provide music that works for you (and other labels you know are not going to be your cup of PG Tips).

Couldn't reduce to three (but then I'm never going to end up on a desert island as I rarely venture further than Cornwall).

The Virgin label of its first couple of years, Harvest, Island always perked my interest back in the day.

Ogun became an icon I could trust as I was tentatively exploring jazz.

Topic has a stunning catalogue of British folk.

Hyperion, Chandos and Lyrita (when active) do great things in classical.

Thank god it can't be limited to three. Couldn't do it.

[alocispepraluger102]

of current labels, patrik landolt/barry guy's little known label intakt consistently produces stellar projects.

[JSngry]

Of current labels issuing exclusively new material, Pi, most likely.