Freedom Records
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Freedom Records was a jazz record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 linked with the producer Alan Bates, as with his Black Lion Records
Black Lion Records
Black Lion Records was a jazz record label based in London, England.Black Lion was founded by Alan Bates in 1968. The label had two series of releases, one for British jazz musicians and one for international musicians...

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Individual recordings were distributed via Polydor Records
Polydor Records
Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...

 and Transatlantic Records
Transatlantic Records
Transatlantic Records was a British independent record label. It was established in 1961. It started began primarily as an importer of American folk, blues and jazz records - by many of the artists who influenced the burgeoning British folk and blues boom. Within a couple of years, the company had...

 during the early 1970s before the company was bought by Arista Records
Arista Records
Arista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...

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Discography

  • 1000 Albert Ayler
    Albert Ayler
    Albert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved...

     & Don Cherry
    Don Cherry (jazz)
    Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...

    - Vibrations
  • 1001 Marion Brown
    Marion Brown
    Marion Brown was a jazz alto saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. He is most well known as a member of the 1960s avant-garde jazz scene in New York City, playing alongside musicians such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, and John Tchicai...

     - Porto Novo
  • 1002 Charles Tolliver
    Charles Tolliver
    Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter and composer. Tolliver was born in Jacksonville, Florida, where, as a child, he received his first trumpet as a gift from his grandmother. He attended Howard University in the early 1960s as a pharmacy student, when he decided to pursue music as a...

     - Paper Man
  • 1003 Gato Barbieri
    Gato Barbieri
    Leandro Barbieri , better known as Gato Barbieri , is an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.-Biography:Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music...

     & Dollar Brand- Confluence
  • 1004 Randy Weston
    Randy Weston
    Randy Weston , is an American jazz pianist and composer, of Jamaican parentage.-Biography:Weston studied classical piano as a child. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he ran a restaurant that was frequented by many of the leading bebop musicians...

    - Carnival
  • 1005 Cecil Taylor
    Cecil Taylor
    Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...

     - Silent Tongues
    Silent Tongues
    -Track listing:# "Abyss "/"Petals and Filaments "/"Jitney " - 18:23# "Crossing Part 1 " - 8:36# "Crossing Part 2 " - 10:00# "After All " - 9:59...

  • 1006 Roswell Rudd
    Roswell Rudd
    Roswell Rudd is a Grammy Award-nominated American jazz trombonist and composer....

     - Flexible Flyer
  • 1007 Andrew Hill
    Andrew Hill
    Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one of the most important innovators of jazz piano in the 1960s...

     - Spiral
    Spiral (Andrew Hill album)
    Spiral is an album by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill recorded in late 1974 and ealy 1975 and released on the Freedom label. The album features six of Hill's original compositions and one interpretation of a jazz standard performed by a quartet and quintet...

  • 1008 Oliver Lake
    Oliver Lake
    Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet. He is known mainly on alto saxophone but also performs on soprano saxophone and flute....

     - Heavy Spirits
  • 1009 Stanley Cowell
    Stanley Cowell
    Stanley Cowell is an American jazz pianist and founder of the Strata-East Records label. He played with Roland Kirk while studying at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and later with Marion Brown, Max Roach, Bobby Hutcherson, Clifford Jordan, Harold Land, Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz...

    - Brilliant Circles
  • 1010 Roland Hanna
    Roland Hanna
    Roland Hanna was an American Jazz pianist.Hanna studied classical piano as a boy, but was strongly interested in jazz. This increased after his time in military service.He studied at Eastman School of Music and Juilliard School...

    - Perugia
  • 1011 Dewey Redman
    Dewey Redman
    Dewey Redman was an American jazz saxophonist, known for performing free jazz as a bandleader, and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett....

    - Look for the Black Star
    Look for the Black Star
    Look for the Black Star is the debut album by American jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman featuring performances recorded in 1966 and originally released on the Dutch Fontana label but later released in the U.S...

  • 1012 Julius Hemphill
    Julius Hemphill
    Julius Arthur Hemphill was a jazz composer and saxophone player. He performed mainly on alto saxophone; less often soprano and tenor saxophones and flute.-Biography:...

    - Coon Bid'ness
    Coon Bid'ness
    Coon Bid'ness is an album released by Julius Hemphill in 1975 featuring performances by Hemphill, Baikida Carroll, Abdul Wadud, Phillip Wilson, Arthur Blythe, Barry Altschul and Daniel Zebulon...

  • 1013 Mal Waldron
    Mal Waldron
    Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...

    - Blues for Lady Day
    Blues for Lady Day
    Blues for Lady Day is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron featuring performances recorded in Baarn, Holland in 1972 and released on the Freedom label...

  • 1014 Weston, Randy - Blues To Africa
  • 1015 Frank Lowe
    Frank Lowe
    Frank Lowe was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer.Born and brought up in Memphis, Tennessee, Lowe took up the tenor saxophone and then moved to San Francisco...

    - Fresh
  • 1016 Archie Shepp
    Archie Shepp
    Archie Shepp is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and...

    - There's a Trumpet in My Soul
    There's a Trumpet in My Soul
    There's a Trumpet in My Soul is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp released in 1975 on the Arista Freedom label. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "Two vocals and a poem recitation weigh down the music a bit, although Shepp gets in some good licks...

  • 1017 Tolliver, Charles - Ringer, The
  • 1018 Ayler, Albert - Witches And Devils
  • 1019 New York Mary
    New York Mary
    New York Mary was an American jazz/rock fusion group, which released two albums on Arista/Freedom Records in 1976. A Piece Of The Apple was produced by Michael Cuscuna and Don Elliot...

    - New York Mary
  • 1020 Hampton Hawes
    Hampton Hawes
    Hampton Hawes was an American bebop and hard-bop jazz pianist, recognized as one of the finest and most influential of the 1950s.-Biography:...

     - Live At The Montmartre
  • 1021 Ted Curson
    Ted Curson
    Theodore "Ted" Curson is a jazz trumpeter. He is perhaps best-known for recording and performing with Charles Mingus....

     - Tears for Dolphy
    Tears for Dolphy
    Tears for Dolphy is a 1964 album by jazz trumpeter Ted Curson. The album's title track, an elegy for Eric Dolphy, has been used in the films Teorema, Last Date, and The Brown Bunny.- Track listing :All tracks recorded on August 1, 1964....

  • 1022 Human Arts Ensemble
    Human Arts Ensemble
    The Human Arts Ensemble was a 1970s musical collective operating in St. Louis, Missouri. Members explored free jazz and loosely associated themselves with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the Black Artists' Group collective...

    - Under The Sun
  • 1023 Hill, Andrew - Live At Montreux
    Live at Montreux (Andrew Hill album)
    Live at Montreux is a live album of a solo performance by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975 and released on the Freedom label...

  • 1024 Oliver Lake
    Oliver Lake
    Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet. He is known mainly on alto saxophone but also performs on soprano saxophone and flute....

     - Ntu
  • 1025 John Payne & Louis Levin - Bedtime Stories
  • 1026 Weston, Randy - Berkshire Blues
  • 1027 Shepp, Archie - Montreux One
    Montreux One
    Montreux One is a live album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975 and released on the Arista Freedom label...

  • 1028 Hemphill, Julius - Dogon A.D.
    Dogon A.D.
    -Track listing:# "Dogon A.D." -14:30# "Rites" - 8:07# "The Painter" - 15:00-Personnel:* Julius Hemphill - alto sax, flute* Baikida E.J. Carroll - trumpet* Abdul Wadud - cello* Philip Wilson - drums* Oliver Sain - engineer...

  • 1029 Rudd, Roswell - Inside Job
  • 1030 Curson, Ted - Flip Top
  • 1031 Jan Garbarek
    Jan Garbarek
    Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war Czesław Garbarek and a Norwegian farmer's daughter...

     - Esoteric Circle
    Esoteric Circle
    Esoteric Circle is the debut album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, originally released under the band name "The Esoteric Circle" on Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman label but re-issued under his name on the Freedom imprint, performed by Garbarek with Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen and Jon...

  • 1032 Cowell, Stanley - Blues For The Viet Cong
  • 1033 Stephane Grappelli
    Stéphane Grappelli
    Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands....

    - Parisian Thoroughfare
  • 1034 Shepp, Archie - Montreux Two
    Montreux Two
    Montreux Two is a live album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975 and released on the Arista Freedom label. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp was at a turning point of sorts in 1975...

  • 1035 New York Mary - Piece Of The Apple
  • 1036 Payne, John & Louis Levin - Razor's Edge
  • 1037 Richard Teitelbaum
    Richard Teitelbaum
    Richard Teitelbaum is an American composer, keyboardist, and improvisor. Born in New York, he is a former student of Allen Forte, Mel Powell, and Luigi Nono. He is best known for his live electronic music and synthesizer performance. For example, he brought the first moog synthesizer to Europe...

     & Anthony Braxton
    Anthony Braxton
    Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s...

    - Time Zones
  • 1038 Taylor, Cecil - Indent
    Indent (album)
    Indent is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in Ohio in March 1973 and originally released on Taylor's own Unit Core label as Mysteries and subsequently more widely released on the Arista Freedom label as Indent. It was the first solo piano performance released by Taylor but was recorded over...

  • 1039 Human Arts Ensemble - Whisper Of Dharma
  • 1040 Miroslav Vitous
    Miroslav Vitouš
    Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš , is a Czech jazz bassist.-Biography:Born in Prague, he began the violin at age six, and started playing the piano at age ten, and bass at fourteen. As a young man in Europe, Vitouš was a competitive swimmer. One of his early music groups was the Junior Trio with his...

    - Miroslav
  • 1041 Dudu Pukwana
    Dudu Pukwana
    Mtutuzel Dudu Pukwana was a South African saxophonist, composer and pianist .-Early years in South Africa:...

    - Diamond Express
  • 1042 Waldron, Mal - Signals
    Signals (Mal Waldron album)
    Signals is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron featuring performances recorded in Baarn, Holland in 1971 and released on the Freedom label.-Reception:...

  • 1043 Hawes, Hampton - A Little Copenhagen Night Music
  • 1900 Ornette Coleman
    Ornette Coleman
    Ornette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....

    - The Great London Concert
  • 1901 Paul Bley
    Paul Bley
    Paul Bley, CM is a pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing.-Biography:...

    - Copenhagen And Haarlem
  • 1902 Braxton, Anthony - The Complete Braxton 1971
  • 1903 Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Paris Session (The Spiritual
    The Spiritual (album)
    The Spiritual is an album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in 1969 for the Freedom label as the same sesioons that produced Tutankhamun...

    and Tutankhamun
    Tutankhamun (album)
    Tutankhamun is a 1969 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded for the Freedom label. It features performances by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell and Malachi Favors Maghostut...

    reissued together)
  • 1904 Marion Brown
    Marion Brown
    Marion Brown was a jazz alto saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. He is most well known as a member of the 1960s avant-garde jazz scene in New York City, playing alongside musicians such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, and John Tchicai...

    - Duets
  • 1905 Taylor, Cecil - Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come
  • 1906 Dave Burrell
    Dave Burrell
    Davis Burrell is an American jazz instrumentalist, most notably on the piano. He has worked for many jazz musicians including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown and David Murray.- Biography :...

    - High Won-High Two
    High Won-High Two
    High Won-High Two is the second studio album released by jazz pianist Dave Burrell. It was recorded on February 9, 1968 and was first released as an LP record later that year by Black Lion Records.-Track listing:#"West Side Story Medley" — 19:49...


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