Strata Records

Strata Records was an American independent record label from Detroit, which consisted in the first half of the 1970s.

History of Labels

The label Strata Records released 1969-1975 six LPs from the field of jazz, funk and soul music of Detroit. The idea for the independent record label created after the race riots of 1967 and the assassination of Martin Luther King; further Einflüss had the protests against the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in the United States. Strata was founded in 1969 by trumpeter Charles Moore and pianist Kenny Cox, who had previously released two albums for Blue Note Records with his Contemporary Jazz Quintet ( CJQ ). Strata acted first as a non-profit organization that built initially food programs and jazz events at the local level. After Cox had initially operated the label of his living room in the Michigan Avenue from, he found rooms in a studio in the Selden Avenue, where it became a community center, the Strata Concert Gallery beginning of the 1970s. There came on, inter alia, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Elvin Jones and Herbie Hancock. Among the significant supporters of the Strata label belonged to John Lennon; the contact was about the poet John Sinclair to pass, who was manager of the Detroit rock band The Stooges and MC5 at this time. After Lennon's support for the imprisoned Sinclair means of protest songs John Sinclair (included on Lennon's LP Some Time in New York City, 1972), he supported the Strata project by funding a portable recording studio and a Hammond B3 organ.

From recorded in Strata Studio Material of over 30 master tapes to 1975 saw overall six LP productions, including the album Time (1975 ) of Marvin Gaye saxophonist Larry Nozero, showing the influence of Motown on Strata; many of the Strata - musicians worked until 1972 as a studio musician for the Hit label of Berry Gordy. Last album of Strata was Saturday Night Special of the Lyman Woodard Organization.

For Kenny Cox Strata stood in a tradition with his friend, the Detroit musicians collective Tribe, the Black Artists Group in St. Louis and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ( AACM ) in Chicago; artistic independence as a political statement took precedence over financial considerations to break with traditional structures of the music industry and marketing. The cover artwork supplied the Michigan artist Herb Boyd and John Sinclair, whose characteristic was the rough black and white aesthetic.

The label had influence on the further establishment of a independent labels in jazz, Strata - East Records in New York City. The catalog is currently owned by Amir Abdullah, who on his label publishes the historical Strata albums and previously unreleased material 180 Proof. From the estate of the label was Kenny Cox 'Album Clap Clap on 180 Proof including the following: The Joyful Noise! released by 1975.

Discography

  • SRI -101- 74 - The Contemporary Jazz Quintet - Location (1973 )
  • SRI -102- 74 - Bert Myrick - Live'n Well ( 1974), with Kenny Cox, George Bohanon
  • SRI -103 74 - Sphere - Inside Ourselves (1974 ), with Ed Nuccilli, Larry Nozero
  • SRI -104 74 - Maulawi - Maulawi (1974 ), inter alia, with Rufus Reid, Maulawi Nururdin, Adam Rudolph, Edwin Williams
  • SRI 105-75 - The Lyman Woodard Organization - Saturday Night Special (1975 )
  • SRI 106-75 - Kenny Cox - Clap Clap ( The Joyful Noise)
  • SRI 107-75 - Contemporary Jazz Quintet - The Black Hole
  • SRI 108-75 - Ron English -Fish Feet
  • SRI 109-75 - Larry Nozero Featuring Dennis Tini - Time
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