Freedom Records

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Freedom Records
Parent companyArista Records
FounderAlan Bates
Distributor(s)Polydor Records
Transatlantic Records
GenreJazz
Country of originU.S.

Freedom Records was a jazz record label headed by Shel Safran[1] and founded by Alan Bates as a division of Black Lion Records.[2]

Individual recordings were distributed via Polydor Records and Transatlantic Records during the early 1970s before the company was bought by Arista Records with the imprint dubbed Arista/Freedom in 1975.[3]

Discography[]

  • 1000: Albert Ayler & Don Cherry - Vibrations
  • 1001: Marion Brown - Porto Novo
  • 1002: Charles Tolliver - Paper Man[4]
  • 1003: Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand- Confluence
  • 1004: Randy Weston - Carnival
  • 1005: Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues
  • 1006: Roswell Rudd - Flexible Flyer
  • 1007: Andrew Hill - Spiral
  • 1008: Oliver Lake - Heavy Spirits
  • 1009: Stanley Cowell - Brilliant Circles
  • 1010: Roland Hanna - Perugia
  • 1011: Dewey Redman - Look for the Black Star
  • 1012: Julius Hemphill - Coon Bid'ness
  • 1013: Mal Waldron - Blues for Lady Day
  • 1014: Randy Weston - Blues to Africa
  • 1015: Frank Lowe - Fresh
  • 1016: Archie Shepp - There's a Trumpet in My Soul
  • 1017: Tolliver, Charles - The Ringer
  • 1018: Ayler, Albert - Witches & Devils
  • 1019: New York Mary - New York Mary
  • 1020: Hampton Hawes - Live at the Montmartre
  • 1021: Ted Curson - Tears for Dolphy
  • 1022: Human Arts Ensemble - Under the Sun
  • 1023: Hill, Andrew - Live At Montreux
  • 1024: Oliver Lake - Ntu
  • 1025: John Payne & Louis Levin - Bedtime Stories
  • 1026: Randy Weston - Berkshire Blues
  • 1027: Shepp, Archie - Montreux One
  • 1028: Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
  • 1029: Rudd, Roswell - Inside Job
  • 1030: Ted Curson - Flip Top
  • 1031: Jan Garbarek - Esoteric Circle
  • 1032: Stanley Cowell - Blues for the Viet Cong
  • 1033: Stephane Grappelli - Parisian Thoroughfare
  • 1034: Archie Shepp - Montreux Two
  • 1035: New York Mary - Piece of the Apple
  • 1036: Payne, John & Louis Levin - Razor's Edge
  • 1037: Richard Teitelbaum and Anthony Braxton - Time Zones
  • 1038: Cecil Taylor - Indent
  • 1039: Human Arts Ensemble - Whisper Of Dharma
  • 1040: Miroslav Vitous - Miroslav
  • 1041: Dudu Pukwana - Diamond Express
  • 1042: Mal Waldron - Signals
  • 1043: Hawes, Hampton - A Little Copenhagen Night Music
  • 1900: Ornette Coleman - The Great London Concert
  • 1901: Paul Bley - Copenhagen And Haarlem
  • 1902: Braxton, Anthony - The Complete Braxton 1971
  • 1903: Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Paris Session (The Spiritual and Tutankhamun reissued together)
  • 1904: Marion Brown - Duets
  • 1905: Taylor, Cecil - Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come
  • 1906: Dave Burrell - High Won-High Two

See also[]

  • List of record labels

References[]

  1. ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 21 November 1970. p. 84. ISSN 0006-2510.
  2. ^ Kennedy, Gary (2002). Barry Kernfeld (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 848. ISBN 1561592846.
  3. ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 11 January 1975. p. 3. ISSN 0006-2510.
  4. ^ "Charles Tolliver Leader Entry". Jazzdiscography.com. Retrieved 9 June 2021.

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