Flying Dutchman Records

Flying Dutchman Records is a 1969 by Bob Thiele after (and during) his departure from Impulse! Records based jazz label. In a press release in April 1969, Thiele announced the establishment of three labels of his Flying Dutchman Productions at: Flying Dutchman Records, Amsterdam and Blue Time, with the funds from the Dutch Philips group arrived. The U.S. distributor was initially later acquired by Atlantic Records, RCA. One goal of Thiele was to re- publish jazz recordings, which also addressed the general public with a crossover to soul and funk, to the beginning of the fusion era of the 1970s. He also published avant-garde jazz musicians he oversaw since his Impulse time as Pharoah Sanders, Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Leon Thomas, and other jazz musicians whose board contracts had expired ( Bud Freeman, Oliver Nelson, including the Black, Brown and Beautiful ), but also jazz veterans like Duke Ellington (including with Teresa Brewer, wife of Thiele ), Johnny Hodges, Earl Hines, Sonny Stitt, Count Basie, Bobby Hackett, Shelly Manne, an album 's 70th birthday by Louis Armstrong. Other musicians were Gato Barbieri (The third world, Fenix, El Pampero, Bolivia, Under Fire ), the Thiele discovered in his time at Impulse, Larry Coryell, George Russell, Lonnie Liston Smith, Jan Garbarek, Bernard Purdie, Bucky Pizzarelli, Elek Bacsik, Steve Allen, Chico Hamilton, Stanley Crouch and Tom Scott. There were also plates of the political activist Angela Davis and poet Gil Scott -Heron, about the My Lai massacre ( after the New York Post journalist Peter Hamill with accompanying music by James Spaulding ), a plate of left-wing politician and journalist Robert Scheer of a prison (A night at Santa Rita, 1969), own band sessions of Thiele (Bob Thiele Emergency, Bob Thiele and his New Happy Times Orchestra ) and the gospel singer Queen Esther Marrow. Gunter Hampel's plate The 8th of July 1969, which was initially self-published, appeared on the label under license. On the label there was also re-issues, for example, by Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young.

In 1971 the label was taken over by a sub- label of Atlantic Records, Atco. The label released until 1976 ( last Stomp Off, Let's Go by Sonny Stitt ). 1976, it was acquired by its U.S. distributor RCA Records, which brought out some of the newly rediscovered in the club scene of the 1980s recordings of the Flying Dutchman label in his Bluebird label. Bob Thiele himself had then further labels such as Doctor Jazz, Red Baron.

The catalog now belongs to Sony Music Entertainment ( Legacy Recordings ).