Landmark Records
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Landmark Records was an American jazz
record label founded in 1985 by Orrin Keepnews
as a successor to Milestone Records
. Landmark Records published albums recorded by the Kronos Quartet
of music by Bill Evans
and Thelonious Monk
, as well as straight jazz albums. Landmark passed to Muse Records
in 1993.
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
record label founded in 1985 by Orrin Keepnews
Orrin Keepnews
Orrin Keepnews is an American writer and jazz record producer. In June 2010, he received a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.- Career :...
as a successor to Milestone Records
Milestone Records
Milestone Records is a United States based jazz record label, founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City. The company was incorporated into Fantasy Records in 1972, since then it has been used for reissues as well as for new recordings....
. Landmark Records published albums recorded by the Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973 in Seattle, Washington. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola, and Joan...
of music by Bill Evans
Bill Evans
William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...
and Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...
, as well as straight jazz albums. Landmark passed to Muse Records
Muse Records
Muse Records was an American record label which released jazz and blues music.Muse was founded in the early 1970s by Joe Fields, who had previously worked as an executive for Prestige Records in the 1960s...
in 1993.
1300 Series
LCD ARTIST TITLE- 1301 Cannonball Adderley - Them Dirty BluesThem Dirty BluesThem Dirty Blues is an album by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, recorded in 1960.- Track listing :# “Work Song” – 5:07#“Dat Dere” – 5:29#“Easy Living” – 4:19...
- 1302 Cannonball Adderley - Cannonball's Bossa NovaCannonball's Bossa NovaCannonball's Bossa Nova' is a 1962 album by jazz musician Julian "Cannonball" Adderley.-Track listing:# "Clouds" – 4:49# "Minha Saudades" – 2:20# "Corcovado" – 6:41...
- 1304 Cannonball Adderley - Cannonball Adderley and the Poll WinnersCannonball Adderley and the Poll WinnersCannonball Adderley and the Poll Winners is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Wes Montgomery, Ray Brown, Victor Feldman, and Louis Hayes...
- 1305 Cannonball Adderley - The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the LighthouseThe Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the LighthouseThe Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring a performance by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Victor Feldman, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars...
- 1306 Cannonball Adderley - Cannonball Takes ChargeCannonball Takes ChargeCannonball Takes Charge is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb with Percy and Albert Heath replacing Chambers and Cobb on two selections...
- 1307 Cannonball Adderley - Cannonball in Europe!Cannonball in Europe!Cannonball in Europe! is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Comblain-la-Tour in Belgium and released on the Capitol label featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes...
- 1308 Helen MerrillHelen MerrillHelen Merrill is an internationally known jazz vocalist.Merrill's recording career has spanned six decades and she is popular with fans of jazz in Japan and Italy as well as in her native United States...
& Dick KatzDick KatzDick Katz was an American jazz pianist and arranger. He freelanced throughout much of his career, and worked in a number of ensembles. He co-founded Milestone Records in 1966 with Orrin Keepnews....
- A Shade Of Difference [reissue] - 1309 Cannonball Adderley & Eddie VinsonEddie VinsonEddie "Cleanhead" Vinson was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was accidentally destroyed by lye contained in a hair straightening product.-Biography:Vinson was born in Houston, Texas...
- Back Door Blues - 1310 Bobby HutchersonBobby HutchersonBobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern...
- Landmarks [compilation]
500/1500 Series
LLP/LCD ARTIST TITLE- 1501 Bobby Hutcherson - Good Bait
- 1502 Yusef LateefYusef LateefDr. Yusef Lateef is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.Although Lateef's main instruments are the tenor saxophone and flute, he is known for...
- In Nigeria - 1503 Keith MacDonald - This Is Keith MacDonald
- 1504 Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnette is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. He is one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th century, due to extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians like Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and Sonny...
- The Jack DeJohnette Piano AlbumThe Jack DeJohnette Piano AlbumThe Jack DeJohnette Piano Album is an album by Jack DeJohnette with Eddie Gomez and Freddie Waits recorded in 1985 and released on the Landmark label in 1985. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "This album was a surprise when it was released for it features drummer Jack DeJohnette... - 1505 Kronos QuartetKronos QuartetKronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973 in Seattle, Washington. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola, and Joan...
- Monk Suite - 1506 Jimmy HeathJimmy HeathJames Edward Heath , nicknamed Little Bird, is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger. He is the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath.-Biography:...
- New Picture - 1507 Mulgrew MillerMulgrew MillerMulgrew Miller is an American jazz pianist who performs in a number of jazz idioms. He began his career as member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.-Biography:...
- Keys To The City - 1508 Bobby Hutcherson - Color Schemes
- 1509 Keith MacDonald - Waiting
- 1510 Kronos QuartetKronos QuartetKronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973 in Seattle, Washington. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola, and Joan...
- Music Of Bill Evans - 1511 Mulgrew Miller - Work!
- 1512 Buddy MontgomeryBuddy MontgomeryCharles "Buddy" Montgomery was an American jazz vibraphonist and pianist. He was the youngest brother of Wes and Monk Montgomery. He and brother, Monk, formed the "Mastersounds," in the late 50's and produced ten recordings...
- Ties Of Love - 1513 Bobby Hutcherson - In The Vanguard
- 1514 Jimmy Heath - Peer Pleasure
- 1515 Mulgrew Miller - Wingspan
- 1516 Donald ByrdDonald ByrdDonaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II, is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd is best known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while simultaneously remaining a...
- Harlem Blues - 1517 Bobby Hutcherson - Cruisin' The Bird
- 1518 Buddy MontgomeryBuddy MontgomeryCharles "Buddy" Montgomery was an American jazz vibraphonist and pianist. He was the youngest brother of Wes and Monk Montgomery. He and brother, Monk, formed the "Mastersounds," in the late 50's and produced ten recordings...
- So Why Not? - 1519 Mulgrew Miller - The Countdown
- 1520 Ralph MooreRalph Moore-Biography:Ralph Moore was born in London, England and grew up in a crowded inner city area. He evinced no particular musical interest until his mother bought him a trumpet when he was 13. Ralph studied with the late Alan Briggs, a local musician, in Brixton, and was soon sitting in with pub bands....
- Images - 1521 Charlie RouseCharlie RouseCharlie Rouse was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist. His career is marked by the collaboration for more than ten years with Thelonious Monk.- Biography :...
- Epistrophy - 1522 Bobby Hutcherson - Ambos Mundos
- 1523 Donald Byrd - Getting Down To Business
- 1524 Weslia Whitfield - Lucky To Be Me
- 1525 Mulgrew Miller - From Day To Day
- 1526 Ralph MooreRalph Moore-Biography:Ralph Moore was born in London, England and grew up in a crowded inner city area. He evinced no particular musical interest until his mother bought him a trumpet when he was 13. Ralph studied with the late Alan Briggs, a local musician, in Brixton, and was soon sitting in with pub bands....
- Furthermore - 1527 Vincent HerringVincent HerringVincent Herring is an American jazz hard bop and post-bop saxophonist and flautist.-Biography:Herring's formal musical education began at age 11, when he started playing saxophone in school bands and studying privately at Dean Frederick's School Of Music in Vallejo, California...
- Evidence - 1528 Nat AdderleyNat AdderleyNathaniel Adderley was an American jazz cornet and trumpet player who played in the hard bop and soul jazz genres. He was the brother of saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley....
- Talkin' About You - 1529 Bobby Hutcherson - Mirage
- 1530 Donald Byrd - A City Called Heaven
- 1531 Weslia Whitfield - Live In San Francisco
- 1532 Mulgrew Miller - Time And Again
- 1533 Vincent HerringVincent HerringVincent Herring is an American jazz hard bop and post-bop saxophonist and flautist.-Biography:Herring's formal musical education began at age 11, when he started playing saxophone in school bands and studying privately at Dean Frederick's School Of Music in Vallejo, California...
- Dawnbird - 1534 Elvin JonesElvin JonesElvin Ray Jones was a jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
- Live At The Village Vanguard Vol. 1 - 1535 Joe RoccisanoJoe RoccisanoJoseph Lucian "Joe" Roccisano was an American jazz saxophonist and arranger.Roccisano received his BS in music education from SUNY-Potsdam in 1963...
- The Shape I'm In - 1536 Indigo Quartette - Quartette Indigo
- 1537 Dannie RichmondDannie RichmondDannie Richmond was an American drummer who was best known among jazz fans for his work with Charles Mingus, and among pop fans for his work with Joe Cocker, Elton John and Mark-Almond....
- The Last Mingus Band A.D. - 1538 Jimmy Heath - The Time And The Place
- 1539 Don BradenDon BradenDon Braden is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Braden was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He began playing tenor sax at age 13 and started playing professionally at 15. As a high schooler he played in the McDonald's All-American High School Jazz Band...
- Landing Zone - 1540 Leon Lee DorseyLeon Lee DorseyLeon Lee Dorsey is an American jazz bassist, known for his well-received debut for Landmark Records. He is also Assistant Professor of Jazz Performance at University of Pittsburgh.-As leader:...
- The Watcher - 1541 Joe Roccisano - Leave Your Mind Behind
- 1542 John HicksJohn Hicks (jazz pianist)John Josephus Hicks, Jr. was an American jazz pianist and composer, active in the New York and the international jazz scene from the mid-1960s.-Biography:...
- In The Mix - 1543 Mel LewisMel LewisMel Lewis was an American drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born Melvin Sokoloff in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents....
- Mellifluous - 1544 Weslia Whitfield - Nice Work
- 1545 John Hicks - Piece For My Peace
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- 1548 Michael CochraneMichael Cochrane (musician)Michael Cochrane is an American jazz pianist who has recorded extensively for SteepleChase Records, as well as Soul Note and Landmark Records....
- Impressions - 1549
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- 1551 Weslia Whitfield - Nobody Else But Me [reissue]