Black Lion Records

Black Lion was an English jazz label, which was founded in 1968 by Alan Bates. It published more mainstream jazz is moved American jazz musicians, such as Ben Webster, Buck Clayton, Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, Dexter Gordon, Barney Kessel and Oscar Pettiford, as well as Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk ( his last recordings as a leader, " The London Collection " 1971), as well as Stéphane Grappelli and Abdullah Ibrahim. In addition, English jazz musician Humphrey Lyttelton as Alex Welsh and Chris Barber were brought out. The sub-labels Freedom published more avant-garde jazz musicians assigned as Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Julius Hemphill or the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Freedom was later acquired by Arista. In the 1990s, some of the titles in DA Music ( German Austrophon, part of the Pallas Group, Diepholz ) were re-released.

Alan Bates took over in the 1980s, Candid Records.