DJ Timmy Richardson
11-22-2003, 05:40 PM
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Fantasy's story is actually the story of a number of outstanding record labels which, over the last quarter century, have happened to find themselves under one roof. Fantasy Records itself, along with its subsidiary Galaxy, was established in San Francisco in 1949 by Max and Sol Weiss, who ran a pressing plant and ended up owning a record company. Their first artist was an Oakland pianist named Dave Brubeck, and when Brubeck's recordings began to sell, they went on to record Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and Cal Tjader, as well as Odetta, beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, and comic Lenny Bruce.
Saul Zaentz, who had joined Fantasy as a salesman in 1955, assembled a group of investors in 1967 and purchased the label from the Weiss brothers. They hit the jackpot the following year with Creedence Clearwater Revival, the most successful four-piece American rock 'n' roll band of all time. In an eighteen-month period, CCR scored no fewer than 20 Hot 100 singles and nine consecutive Top 10 singles in the U.S.; they earned 21 RIAA-certified gold or plantinum records with total sales of over 100 million worldwide!
The enormous success of Creedence enabled Fantasy to expand. In the early 70s, under the leadership of label president Ralph Kaffel, Fantasy purchased the catalogs of three of New York's top jazz independents: Prestige (also including its subsidiaries New Jazz, Bluesville, Folklore, Swingville, Tru-Sound, and Moodsville), which had been founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock; Riverside, established in '53 by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews (Jazzland followed in 1960); and Milestone, which Keepnews had started up in '66 after the demise of Riverside. (Fantasy also owned distribution rights to Debut, founded in New York in 1952 by Charles Mingus and Max Roach.)
These acquisitions provided a substantial boost to Fantasy's catalog operations, and the label began an extensive reissue program of music by jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, and the Modern Jazz Quartet, to name a few. (Throughout the 70s most reissues were in the form of "twofers," while in the 80s most were released in the Original Jazz Classics series, featuring original artwork and format. Both methods were much praised and widely imitated. Fantasy also released the first boxed set by a jazz artist—Miles Davis's Complete Prestige Recordings—in 1980.)
During the 70s, Keepnews joined Fantasy as a producer and helped build up a major jazz recording program at the company. There was a great deal of black pop activity as well, with The Blackbyrds, Pleasure, and Sylvester scoring gold records and Top Ten hits.
In 1977, Fantasy went on to acquire the catalog of another legendary independent, the Memphis-based Stax Records (and affiliated labels Volt, Enterprise, and Gospel Truth), which had since 1960 been producing contemporary soul masterpieces by artists like Isaac Hayes, Johnnie Taylor, the Dramatics, the Staple Singers, and Albert King.
Other label purchases followed: in 1984, Contemporary/Good Time Jazz, which had been founded in Los Angeles in '51 by producer Lester Koenig and brought in the music of Hampton Hawes, Art Pepper, André Previn, and Shelly Manne; and in 1986, Pablo, an L.A. company begun by noted jazz impresario Norman Granz in '73, which had recorded stars like Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie.
In 1991 Fantasy announced the purchase of yet another catalog, Specialty, one of the first post-war independent labels to have specialized in black popular music. Founded by Art Rupe in Los Angeles in 1946, Specialty was a pioneer in recording early stars of rock 'n' roll, rhythm & blues, and gospel such as Little Richard, Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, Percy Mayfield, Lloyd Price, and Joe Liggins.
In 1995, Fantasy acquired two new labels–Takoma and Kicking Mule–that add to the company's already considerable holdings of high-quality roots-based music. Takoma was founded in the Washington, DC suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland when guitarist John Fahey recorded his now-legendary Blind Joe Death in 1959. Guitarists Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho, and Peter Lang also made influential recordings for the label. Kicking Mule was founded in Berkeley in the early Seventies by ED Denson (also the co-founder of Takoma) and guitarist/educator Stefan Grossman.
Fantasy's ambitious reissue programs have been influential industry-wide, highlighting aspects of its vast catalog from acid jazz to folk and blues to classic jazz in "twofer" CDs, boxed sets, 20-bit remastered CDs, and beginning in summer 2003, SACDs.
Fantasy and associated labels also maintain an active recording roster which currently includes Sonny Rollins, Eric Alexander, Jimmy Scott, Jim Snidero, Ithamara Koorax, Dave Ellis, and Jimmy McGriff, among others.
Ahmed Abdul-Malik
Pepper Adams
Cannonball Adderley
Nat Adderley
Ron Affif
Afro Blue Band
Joe Albany
Eric Alexander
Monty Alexander
Ernestine Allen
Rance Allen
Mose Allison
Diego Amador
Juan Amalbert
Gene Ammons
Clifton Anderson
Mildred Anderson
Pink Anderson
Lil Hardin Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Billy Boy Arnold
Dorothy Ashby
The Astors
Mike Auldridge
Claire Austin
David Axelrod
Azymuth
Harry Babasin
Chet Baker
Duck Baker
Shorty Baker
Burt Bales
Tom Ball
The Banjo Kings
The Bar-Kays
"Sweet Emma" Barrett
Ray Barretto
Gary Bartz
Robbie Basho
Count Basie
Bay City Jazz Band
Sidney Bechet
Bix Beiderbecke
William Bell
Louis Bellson
Jesse Belvin
George Benson
Steve Berrios
José Roberto Bertrami
Andy Bey
Big Star
The Birdlanders
Walter Bishop Jr.
Scott Black
The Blackbyrds
Black Nasty
Scrapper Blackwell
Norman Blake
Art Blakey
Paul Bley
Michael Bloomfield
Peter Bocage
Luiz Bonfá
Booker T. & The MGs
Alex Bradford
Bread & Roses
David Bromberg
Bob Brookmeyer
Clifford Brown
Les Brown
Ray Brown
Ruth Brown
Shirley Brown
Bob Brozman
Dave Brubeck
Lenny Bruce
Ray Bryant
Rusty Bryant
Hiram Bullock
Ralph Burns
Kenny Burrell
Billy Butler
Jaki Byard
Charlie Byrd
Donald Byrd
George Cables
Jackie Cain & Roy Kral
Terry Callier
Gary Campbell
John Campbell
Canhoto Da Paraíba
Gus Cannon
Wynona Carr
Benny Carter
Ron Carter
Al Casey
The Castle Jazz Band
Teddy Charles
The Charles River Valley Boys
The Chartbusters
Clifton Chenier
The Chosen Gospel Singers
Charlie Christian
James Clay
Judy Clay/Veda Brown
Buck Clayton
Dorothy Love Coates
Arnett Cobb
Jimmy Cobb
Junie C. Cobb
Al Cohn
Freddy Cole
Richie Cole
Earl Coleman
Ornette Coleman
Buddy Collette
John Coltrane
Chris Connor
Junior Cook
Sam Cooke
Bob Cooper
Tom Coster
Louis Cottrell
Curtis Counce
Ida Cox
Hank Crawford
Hank Crawford/Jimmy McGriff
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Sonny Criss
Steve Cropper
Ronnie Cuber
Ted Curson
King Curtis
Cybotron
Paulinho Da Costa
Adela Dalto
Tadd Dameron
Eddie Daniels
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Miles Davis
Rev. Gary Davis
Buddy DeFranco
Jack DeJohnette
The Delfonics
The Dells
John Dennis
Paul Desmond
Raul De Souza
The Detroiters/
The Golden Echoes
Walt Dickerson
Floyd Dixon
Willie Dixon
Eric Dolphy
Don & Dewey
Lou Donaldson
Kenny Dorham
K.C. Douglas
The Dramatics
Ray Draper
Kenny Drew
Kenny Drew, Jr.
Driftin’ Slim
Mad & Eddie Duran
Blind Snooks Eaglin
Jon Eardley
Charles Earland
Bill Easley
Billy Eckstine
Harry "Sweets" Edison
Teddy Edwards
Roy Eldridge
Duke Ellington
Don Elliott
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Dave Ellis
Don Ellis
Herb Ellis
The Emotions
Enchanette
Peter Erskine
Booker Ervin
Pete & Sheila Escovedo
The Estrada Brothers
Bill Evans
Bill Evans & Tony Bennett
Dave Evans
Gil Evans
Betty Everett
Don Ewell
John Fahey
Tal Farlow
Art Farmer
Joe Farrell
Fat Larry's Band
Victor Feldman
Firehouse Five Plus Two
Ella Fitzgerald
Tommy Flanagan
Eddie Floyd
John Fogerty
Tom Fogerty
Jimmy Forrest
Frank Foster
Pete Franklin
Bud Freeman
Chico Freeman
Russ Freeman
Don Friedman
David Frishberg
The Fugs
Curtis Fuller
Jesse Fuller
Funk, Inc.
Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders
Red Garland
Jacques Gauthé
Hal Gaylor/Walter Norris/
Billy Bean
Paul Gayten
Matthew Gee
Stan Getz
Terry Gibbs
Bob Gibson
Dizzy Gillespie
Allen Ginsberg
Per Goldschmidt
Benny Golson
Paul Gonsalves
Virgil Gonsalves
Jerry Gonzalez & the
Fort Apache Band
Dexter Gordon
Honi Gordon
Joe Gordon
Davey Graham
Otis Grand
Stephane Grappelli
Wardell Gray
Bennie Green
Mitch Greenhill
Johnny Griffin
Tiny Grimes
Stefan Grossman
Marty Grosz
Gigi Gryce
Vince Guaraldi
Guitar Slim
Michael Gulezian
Al Haig
Jim Hall
Juanita Hall
Jimmy Hamilton
Herbie Harper
Tom Harrell
Barry Harris
Bill Harris
Hampton Hawes
Coleman Hawkins
Clancy Hayes
Isaac Hayes
Roy Haynes
Jimmy Heath
Duke Heitger
Eddie Henderson
Joe Henderson
Ernie Henry
Woody Herman
Joe Hicks/Jimmy Hughes
Chuck Higgins
Earl "Fatha" Hines
Johnny Hodges
Smokey Hogg
Jay Hoggard
Joe Holiday
Brenda Holloway
Red Holloway
Ron Holloway
The Hollywood Flames
Richard "Groove" Holmes
The Holy Modal Rounders
Homesick James
John Lee Hooker
Elmo Hope
Claude Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
Rildo Hora
Paul Horn
Joe Houston
Camille Howard
Freddie Hubbard
Helen Humes
Percy Humphrey
Alberta Hunter
Bobby Hutcherson
Franz Jackson
Milt Jackson
Willis Jackson
Illinois Jacquet
Etta James
Bert Jansch
Bobby Jaspar
Jazz At The Philharmonic
The Jazztet
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Eddie Jefferson
John Jenkins
Bill Jennings
The “JFK” Quintet
Mable John
Budd Johnson
Bunk Johnson
J.J. Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
Osie Johnson
Ruby Johnson
Boogaloo Joe Jones
Carmell Jones
Curtis Jones
Elvin Jones
Etta Jones
Hank Jones
Jo Jones
Philly Joe Jones
Sam Jones
Thad Jones
Clifford Jordan
Taft Jordan
Margie Joseph
Richie Kamuca/Bill Holman
Roger Kellaway
Bev Kelly
Wynton Kelly
Stan Kenton
Barney Kessel
Keystone Trio
Ali Akbar Khan
Albert King
Roland Kirk
Eddie "Blues Man" Kirkland
Eric Kloss
Frederick Knight
Jean Knight
Lee Konitz
Ithamara Koorax
Leo Kottke
Charles Kynard
Steve Lacy
Harold Land
Peter Lang
John La Porta
Prince Lasha
Yusef Lateef
Tim Laughlin
Elliot Lawrence
Barbara Lea
Michel Legrand
Dirceu Leitte
Rod Levitt
Barbara Lewis
Furry Lewis
George Lewis
Meade Lux Lewis
Jimmy Liggins
Joe Liggins
The Lilly Brothers
The Lighthouse All-Stars
Abbey Lincoln
Little Milton
Little Richard
Little Sonny
Joe Locke
Joe Loco
Mundell Lowe
Nonato Luiz
Johnny Lytle
Harold Mabern
Teo Macero
Machito
Doug MacLeod Band
Madeline MacNeil
The Mad Lads
Sidney Maiden
Junior Mance
Gus Mancuso
Chuck Mangione
Herbie Mann
Shelly Manne
Charlie Mariano
Francisco Mário
The Mar-Keys
The Sallie Martin Singers
Pat Martino
Marvin & Johnny
The Mastersounds
Ronnie Mathews
David Matthews
Turk Mauro
Brother Joe May
Percy Mayfield
Jimmy McCracklin
Country Joe McDonald
Fred McDowell
Jack McDuff
Brownie McGhee
Howard McGhee
Jimmy McGriff
Ken McIntyre
Hal McKusick
Jackie McLean
Charles McPherson
Blind Willie McTell
The Meditation Singers
Mel & Tim
Gil Melle
Memphis Slim
Memphis Willie B.
The MGs
Dale Miller
Roy Milton
Charles Mingus
Blue Mitchell
Red Mitchell
Hank Mobley
The Modern Jazz Quartet
Thelonious Monk
Montego Joe
Little Brother Montgomery
Wes Montgomery
The Montgomery Brothers
Tete Montoliu
James Moody
Moondog
Ada Moore
Brew Moore
Dorothy Moore
Wild Bill Moore
Frank Morgan
Lanny Morgan
Lee Morgan
Melissa Morgan
Jelly Roll Morton
Paulo Moura / Raphael Rabello
George Mraz
Idris Muhammad
Gerry Mulligan
Lyle Murphy
Mark Murphy
Turk Murphy
Fats Navarro
Oliver Nelson
The New Orleans Rhythm Kings
Phineas Newborn, Jr.
Joe Newman
Lennie Niehaus
Sal Nistico
Red Norvo
Anita O'Day
Arturo O’Farrill
Chico O'Farrill
Odetta
Ollie & the Nightingales
Opa
Manny Oquendo & Libre
The Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama
Kid Ory
Korla Pandit
Jorge Pardo
Charlie Parker
Joe Pass
Pata Negra
Don Patterson
Freda Payne
Curtis Peagler
Duke Pearson
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Art Pepper
Marco Pereira &
Cristóvão Bastos
Bill Perkins
Houston Person
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Pettiford
Sonny Phillips
Greg Piccolo
Billie & Dede Pierce
Dave Pike
The Pilgrim Travelers
John Pisano
Trudy Pitts
Pleasure
King Pleasure
Billie Poole
David Porter
Baden Powell
Bud Powell
André Previn
Lloyd Price
Ruth Price
Julian Priester
Arthur Prysock
Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers
Bernard Purdie
Flora Purim
Paul Quinichette
Raphael Rabello
Ma Rainey
Jimmy Raney
Tom Ranier
Sonny Red
Freddie Redd
Otis Redding
Dewey Redman
Dizzy Reece
Lucy Reed
Django Reinhardt
L. J. Reynolds
Mel Rhyne
Jerome Richardson
The Riverside Reunion Band
Max Roach
Luckey Roberts
Rev. Cleophus Robinson
Jim Robinson
Betty Roché
Claudio Roditi
Red Rodney
Willie Rodriguez
Sonny Rollins
Dom Um Romão
Celedonio & Celin Romero
Pepe Romero
Wally Rose
Frank Rosolino
Billy Ross
Charlie Rouse
Tom Rush
Patrice Rushen
George Russell
Pee Wee Russell
Doug Sahm
The Sandole Brothers
Mongo Santamaria
Merl Saunders
Bob Scobey
Hazel Scott
Jimmy Scott
Shirley Scott
Al Sears
Angel Sessions
Bola Sete
Shakey Jake
Bud Shank
Ravi Shankar
Ian Shaw
Woody Shaw
George Shearing
Side Effect
Robertinho Silva
Horace Silver
Silver Leaf Jazz Band
Sonny Simmons
Frankie Lee Sims
Zoot Sims
Hal Singer
The Sir Douglas Quintet
Don Sleet
Carol Sloane
Al Smith
Bill Smith
Jimmy Smith
Johnny "Hammond" Smith
Smoky Babe
Jim Snidero
Elmer Snowden
Lew Soloff
Soul Children
The Soul Stirrers
Les Spann
Otis Spann
Melvin Sparks
Leon Spencer
The Spinners
Victoria Spivey
The Staple Singers
Mavis Staples
Helyne Stewart
Rex Stewart
Arbee Stidham
Sonny Stitt
St. Louis Jimmy
Frank Strozier
Jorge Strunz & Ardeshir Farah
L. Subramaniam
Sunnyland Slim
Swamp Dogg
Swan Silvertones
The Sweet Inspirations
Roosevelt Sykes
Sylvester
Sylvia Syms
Tampa Red
Baby Tate
Buddy Tate
Grady Tate
Duane Tatro
Art Tatum
Taxxi
Art Taylor
Billy Taylor
Cecil Taylor
Johnnie Taylor
Little Johnny Taylor
Martin Taylor
Jack Teagarden
The Temprees
Clark Terry
Sonny Terry
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Toots Thielemans
Carla Thomas
Kid Thomas
René Thomas
Rufus Thomas
Lucky Thompson
Teri Thornton
Bobby Timmons
Cal Tjader
Tomatito
Joe Turner
Stanley Turrentine
24-Carat Black
Two Tons
McCoy Tyner
Peter Ustinov
Melvin Van Peebles
Dave Van Ronk
Sarah Vaughan
Benny Velarde
Leroy Vinnegar
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Mal Waldron
George Wallington
Cedar Walton
Mercy Dee Walton
Wilbur Ware
Grover Washington, Jr.
Muddy Waters
Doug Watkins
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Lu Watters
Chuck Wayne
Ben Webster
Dick Wellstood
Frank Wess
Jeanie West
Randy Weston
Gerald Wiggins
Don Wilkerson
Randy Wilkinson
Big Joe Williams
Joe Williams
Larry Williams
Lenny Williams
Lester Williams
Mary Lou Williams
Robert Pete Williams
Lem Winchester
Jimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Woods
Rev. Maceo Woods
Phil Woods
John Wright
Albert Wynn
Joh Yamada
Larry Young
Lester Young
Webster Young
Fantasy's story is actually the story of a number of outstanding record labels which, over the last quarter century, have happened to find themselves under one roof. Fantasy Records itself, along with its subsidiary Galaxy, was established in San Francisco in 1949 by Max and Sol Weiss, who ran a pressing plant and ended up owning a record company. Their first artist was an Oakland pianist named Dave Brubeck, and when Brubeck's recordings began to sell, they went on to record Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and Cal Tjader, as well as Odetta, beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, and comic Lenny Bruce.
Saul Zaentz, who had joined Fantasy as a salesman in 1955, assembled a group of investors in 1967 and purchased the label from the Weiss brothers. They hit the jackpot the following year with Creedence Clearwater Revival, the most successful four-piece American rock 'n' roll band of all time. In an eighteen-month period, CCR scored no fewer than 20 Hot 100 singles and nine consecutive Top 10 singles in the U.S.; they earned 21 RIAA-certified gold or plantinum records with total sales of over 100 million worldwide!
The enormous success of Creedence enabled Fantasy to expand. In the early 70s, under the leadership of label president Ralph Kaffel, Fantasy purchased the catalogs of three of New York's top jazz independents: Prestige (also including its subsidiaries New Jazz, Bluesville, Folklore, Swingville, Tru-Sound, and Moodsville), which had been founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock; Riverside, established in '53 by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews (Jazzland followed in 1960); and Milestone, which Keepnews had started up in '66 after the demise of Riverside. (Fantasy also owned distribution rights to Debut, founded in New York in 1952 by Charles Mingus and Max Roach.)
These acquisitions provided a substantial boost to Fantasy's catalog operations, and the label began an extensive reissue program of music by jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, and the Modern Jazz Quartet, to name a few. (Throughout the 70s most reissues were in the form of "twofers," while in the 80s most were released in the Original Jazz Classics series, featuring original artwork and format. Both methods were much praised and widely imitated. Fantasy also released the first boxed set by a jazz artist—Miles Davis's Complete Prestige Recordings—in 1980.)
During the 70s, Keepnews joined Fantasy as a producer and helped build up a major jazz recording program at the company. There was a great deal of black pop activity as well, with The Blackbyrds, Pleasure, and Sylvester scoring gold records and Top Ten hits.
In 1977, Fantasy went on to acquire the catalog of another legendary independent, the Memphis-based Stax Records (and affiliated labels Volt, Enterprise, and Gospel Truth), which had since 1960 been producing contemporary soul masterpieces by artists like Isaac Hayes, Johnnie Taylor, the Dramatics, the Staple Singers, and Albert King.
Other label purchases followed: in 1984, Contemporary/Good Time Jazz, which had been founded in Los Angeles in '51 by producer Lester Koenig and brought in the music of Hampton Hawes, Art Pepper, André Previn, and Shelly Manne; and in 1986, Pablo, an L.A. company begun by noted jazz impresario Norman Granz in '73, which had recorded stars like Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie.
In 1991 Fantasy announced the purchase of yet another catalog, Specialty, one of the first post-war independent labels to have specialized in black popular music. Founded by Art Rupe in Los Angeles in 1946, Specialty was a pioneer in recording early stars of rock 'n' roll, rhythm & blues, and gospel such as Little Richard, Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, Percy Mayfield, Lloyd Price, and Joe Liggins.
In 1995, Fantasy acquired two new labels–Takoma and Kicking Mule–that add to the company's already considerable holdings of high-quality roots-based music. Takoma was founded in the Washington, DC suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland when guitarist John Fahey recorded his now-legendary Blind Joe Death in 1959. Guitarists Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho, and Peter Lang also made influential recordings for the label. Kicking Mule was founded in Berkeley in the early Seventies by ED Denson (also the co-founder of Takoma) and guitarist/educator Stefan Grossman.
Fantasy's ambitious reissue programs have been influential industry-wide, highlighting aspects of its vast catalog from acid jazz to folk and blues to classic jazz in "twofer" CDs, boxed sets, 20-bit remastered CDs, and beginning in summer 2003, SACDs.
Fantasy and associated labels also maintain an active recording roster which currently includes Sonny Rollins, Eric Alexander, Jimmy Scott, Jim Snidero, Ithamara Koorax, Dave Ellis, and Jimmy McGriff, among others.
Ahmed Abdul-Malik
Pepper Adams
Cannonball Adderley
Nat Adderley
Ron Affif
Afro Blue Band
Joe Albany
Eric Alexander
Monty Alexander
Ernestine Allen
Rance Allen
Mose Allison
Diego Amador
Juan Amalbert
Gene Ammons
Clifton Anderson
Mildred Anderson
Pink Anderson
Lil Hardin Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Billy Boy Arnold
Dorothy Ashby
The Astors
Mike Auldridge
Claire Austin
David Axelrod
Azymuth
Harry Babasin
Chet Baker
Duck Baker
Shorty Baker
Burt Bales
Tom Ball
The Banjo Kings
The Bar-Kays
"Sweet Emma" Barrett
Ray Barretto
Gary Bartz
Robbie Basho
Count Basie
Bay City Jazz Band
Sidney Bechet
Bix Beiderbecke
William Bell
Louis Bellson
Jesse Belvin
George Benson
Steve Berrios
José Roberto Bertrami
Andy Bey
Big Star
The Birdlanders
Walter Bishop Jr.
Scott Black
The Blackbyrds
Black Nasty
Scrapper Blackwell
Norman Blake
Art Blakey
Paul Bley
Michael Bloomfield
Peter Bocage
Luiz Bonfá
Booker T. & The MGs
Alex Bradford
Bread & Roses
David Bromberg
Bob Brookmeyer
Clifford Brown
Les Brown
Ray Brown
Ruth Brown
Shirley Brown
Bob Brozman
Dave Brubeck
Lenny Bruce
Ray Bryant
Rusty Bryant
Hiram Bullock
Ralph Burns
Kenny Burrell
Billy Butler
Jaki Byard
Charlie Byrd
Donald Byrd
George Cables
Jackie Cain & Roy Kral
Terry Callier
Gary Campbell
John Campbell
Canhoto Da Paraíba
Gus Cannon
Wynona Carr
Benny Carter
Ron Carter
Al Casey
The Castle Jazz Band
Teddy Charles
The Charles River Valley Boys
The Chartbusters
Clifton Chenier
The Chosen Gospel Singers
Charlie Christian
James Clay
Judy Clay/Veda Brown
Buck Clayton
Dorothy Love Coates
Arnett Cobb
Jimmy Cobb
Junie C. Cobb
Al Cohn
Freddy Cole
Richie Cole
Earl Coleman
Ornette Coleman
Buddy Collette
John Coltrane
Chris Connor
Junior Cook
Sam Cooke
Bob Cooper
Tom Coster
Louis Cottrell
Curtis Counce
Ida Cox
Hank Crawford
Hank Crawford/Jimmy McGriff
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Sonny Criss
Steve Cropper
Ronnie Cuber
Ted Curson
King Curtis
Cybotron
Paulinho Da Costa
Adela Dalto
Tadd Dameron
Eddie Daniels
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Miles Davis
Rev. Gary Davis
Buddy DeFranco
Jack DeJohnette
The Delfonics
The Dells
John Dennis
Paul Desmond
Raul De Souza
The Detroiters/
The Golden Echoes
Walt Dickerson
Floyd Dixon
Willie Dixon
Eric Dolphy
Don & Dewey
Lou Donaldson
Kenny Dorham
K.C. Douglas
The Dramatics
Ray Draper
Kenny Drew
Kenny Drew, Jr.
Driftin’ Slim
Mad & Eddie Duran
Blind Snooks Eaglin
Jon Eardley
Charles Earland
Bill Easley
Billy Eckstine
Harry "Sweets" Edison
Teddy Edwards
Roy Eldridge
Duke Ellington
Don Elliott
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Dave Ellis
Don Ellis
Herb Ellis
The Emotions
Enchanette
Peter Erskine
Booker Ervin
Pete & Sheila Escovedo
The Estrada Brothers
Bill Evans
Bill Evans & Tony Bennett
Dave Evans
Gil Evans
Betty Everett
Don Ewell
John Fahey
Tal Farlow
Art Farmer
Joe Farrell
Fat Larry's Band
Victor Feldman
Firehouse Five Plus Two
Ella Fitzgerald
Tommy Flanagan
Eddie Floyd
John Fogerty
Tom Fogerty
Jimmy Forrest
Frank Foster
Pete Franklin
Bud Freeman
Chico Freeman
Russ Freeman
Don Friedman
David Frishberg
The Fugs
Curtis Fuller
Jesse Fuller
Funk, Inc.
Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders
Red Garland
Jacques Gauthé
Hal Gaylor/Walter Norris/
Billy Bean
Paul Gayten
Matthew Gee
Stan Getz
Terry Gibbs
Bob Gibson
Dizzy Gillespie
Allen Ginsberg
Per Goldschmidt
Benny Golson
Paul Gonsalves
Virgil Gonsalves
Jerry Gonzalez & the
Fort Apache Band
Dexter Gordon
Honi Gordon
Joe Gordon
Davey Graham
Otis Grand
Stephane Grappelli
Wardell Gray
Bennie Green
Mitch Greenhill
Johnny Griffin
Tiny Grimes
Stefan Grossman
Marty Grosz
Gigi Gryce
Vince Guaraldi
Guitar Slim
Michael Gulezian
Al Haig
Jim Hall
Juanita Hall
Jimmy Hamilton
Herbie Harper
Tom Harrell
Barry Harris
Bill Harris
Hampton Hawes
Coleman Hawkins
Clancy Hayes
Isaac Hayes
Roy Haynes
Jimmy Heath
Duke Heitger
Eddie Henderson
Joe Henderson
Ernie Henry
Woody Herman
Joe Hicks/Jimmy Hughes
Chuck Higgins
Earl "Fatha" Hines
Johnny Hodges
Smokey Hogg
Jay Hoggard
Joe Holiday
Brenda Holloway
Red Holloway
Ron Holloway
The Hollywood Flames
Richard "Groove" Holmes
The Holy Modal Rounders
Homesick James
John Lee Hooker
Elmo Hope
Claude Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
Rildo Hora
Paul Horn
Joe Houston
Camille Howard
Freddie Hubbard
Helen Humes
Percy Humphrey
Alberta Hunter
Bobby Hutcherson
Franz Jackson
Milt Jackson
Willis Jackson
Illinois Jacquet
Etta James
Bert Jansch
Bobby Jaspar
Jazz At The Philharmonic
The Jazztet
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Eddie Jefferson
John Jenkins
Bill Jennings
The “JFK” Quintet
Mable John
Budd Johnson
Bunk Johnson
J.J. Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
Osie Johnson
Ruby Johnson
Boogaloo Joe Jones
Carmell Jones
Curtis Jones
Elvin Jones
Etta Jones
Hank Jones
Jo Jones
Philly Joe Jones
Sam Jones
Thad Jones
Clifford Jordan
Taft Jordan
Margie Joseph
Richie Kamuca/Bill Holman
Roger Kellaway
Bev Kelly
Wynton Kelly
Stan Kenton
Barney Kessel
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