Metronome Records
Metronome Records was a Swedish pop and jazz record label, with branches in Denmark and the Federal Republic of Germany, which was active in the 1950s and 1960s.
The record label Metronome was founded in Stockholm in 1949 by the jazz drummer Anders Burman, his brother Lars and a friend of the two, Börje Elberg; 1950 Danish and 1954, a German offshoot of the label was created in Hamburg. Most of all recordings made in Sweden, published the 7- inch format in the 1950s on EPs. Leading label in Swedish jazz was metronomes, appeared on over 500 albums in this decade, mostly jazz recordings, as well as blues, among others, Josh White and Popular Music of Siw Malmkvist, Lill- Babs, Ulla North, Danny Marino, Tommy Kent and other singers.
Stockholm as one of the centers of European jazz moved into that time many American musicians such as Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, James Moody, Stan Getz and others perform there and take. Starting with the production of 78ern, appeared in 1951, the first record; in 1953 the first vinyl EP, a live recording of Stan Getz from 1951 ( " Dear Old Stockholm " ), which was later published in full on a 10- inch LP. This format was maintained until the early 1960s until penetrated the 30 -inch LPs.
Already in 1953, the American label Prestige eleven of the 10 - inch LPs by Metronome. Their productions have also been adopted by EmArcy and Roost Records and in the UK they were published by Esquire and Vogue. Partial recordings were produced directly for the U.S. market; Leonard Feather came for the early 1950s several times to Sweden and arranged a number of recording sessions.
House graphic designer at Metronome was Söderqvist Stig, who was also known as a trumpeter and trombonist; among other things he played with Bernt Rosengren. Söderqvist created hundreds of covers for the label, inspired by the cover illustrations by David Stone Martin. Bengt H. Malmqvist for the photographs was responsible, which otherwise worked during the day for newspapers. He documented the visits of many American jazz musicians in Stockholm; the images also appeared in the Swedish jazz magazine Orkester journals and in the British Melody Maker. Bengt H. Malmqvist took until the early 1990s photos for over 700 on cover.
Scandinavian On Metronome published recordings American artist with Swedish musicians such as Clifford Brown / Art Farmer, George Wallington, Quincy Jones, Zoot Sims Quartet with the Frank Rosolino and Åke Persson, Charlie Norman / Harry Arnold, Roy Haynes with Bjarne Nerem, also music musicians such as Lars Gullin, Georg Riedel, Bengt -Arne Wallin, Arne Domnérus, Bengt Hallberg, Reinhold Svensson, Nils- Bertil Pugh Rogefeldt and Dahlander.
Having already beside Jazz and Classical Music was published in the 1950s, the focus of Fred Åkerström and Cornelis Vreeswijk was from the 1960s pop and folk productions, especially in the genre of influenced by Bob Dylan Swedish singer- songwriter scene, . In Metronome also hit by Siw Malmkvist, Ann -Louise Hanson and Anna -Lena Löfgren published. In the 1960s, new singer-songwriter set the tone and paved the way for rock music with Swedish lyrics. Pugh Rogefeldt was the first musician of the new generation, followed by John Holm, Marie Bergman, Bernt Staf and Ola Magnell. Already in the 1960s, published by Metronome productions from the U.S. catalogs of Label Atlantic, Volt, Atco, prestige and Concord Records.
In the 1970s, the Metronome catalog was sold to the Warner Music Group and continue the brand as a pop, pop and radio play label ( Tintin ). On the Metronome sublabel BRAIN also published Krautrock musicians like Thirsty Moon and Charly Maucher plates. In the 1980s, albums by artists like Milva, Lisa Nemzo or Peter Maffay appeared there. Later came was the label for Universal Records Group. Here appeared Music by Tim Buktu, Camouflage, The doctors and Wolf Maahn. The late 1990s was dissolved Metronome.