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Horizon Records
Horizon Records was an American independent record label founded in 1960 by Dave Hubert. Horizon was originally a folk and blues label distributed by World Pacific Records. When Liberty Records acquired World Pacific in 1965, it also took over the distribution of Horizon. From 1974–1978 the label became a subsidiary imprint of A&M Records for issuing jazz. and pop, During this period, the label was known for producing albums with high-quality audio and packaging. The catalogue includes albums by Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Paul Desmond, Charlie Haden, and Jim Hall. John Snyder, the founder of the label, left in 1977 and started Artists House. In 1979 Horizon struck gold with debut albums by Brenda Russell and the Yellow Magic Orchestra. By 1980, the label disappeared. In 1984, A&M went into a deal with Word Distribution, giving more powerful distribution for Word's labels, such as Myrrh Records, Word Records, and Exit Records. Horizon was reactivated with its 1979 artwork i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A&M Records
A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Due to the success of the discography A&M released, the label garnered interest and was acquired by PolyGram in 1989 and began distributing releases from Polydor Ltd. from the UK. Throughout its operations, A&M housed well-known acts such as Alpert himself, Squeeze, Gin Blossoms, Dishwalla, Joe Cocker, Procol Harum, Captain & Tennille, Sting, Sergio Mendes, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Supertramp, Bryan Adams, Burt Bacharach, Liza Minnelli, The Carpenters, Paul Williams, Quincy Jones, Janet Jackson, Cat Stevens, Peter Frampton, Elkie Brooks, Carole King, Styx (band), Styx, Dennis DeYoung, Extreme (band), Extreme, Amy Grant, Joan Baez, The Police, Jann Arden, CeCe Peniston, Shanice, Blues Traveler, Soundgarden, Duffy (singer), Duffy, Phil Ochs, Sheryl Crow, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Nazareth_(band), Nazareth. PolyGram was acquired by Seagram and dissolved into Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group Corp. ( d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the " big three" recording companies and the third-largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME). Formerly part of Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery), WMG was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange from 2005 until 2011, when it announced its privatization and sale to Access Industries. It later had its second IPO on Nasdaq in 2020, once again becoming a public company. With a multibillion-dollar annual turnover, WMG employs more than 3,500 people and has operations in more than 50 countries throughout the world. The company owns and operates some of the largest and most successful labels in the world, including Elektra Records, Reprise Records, Warner Records, Parlophone Records (formerly owned by EMI), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exit Records
Exit Records was an independent record label founded in 1982 and run by Mary Neely, a veteran of the music business and a host of several national rock and roll radio shows, including '' Rock Scope''. The label folded in 1987. Based in a large building on the west side of Sacramento, California, Neely set up her label with the hopes of encouraging art and creativeness over commercial success. Exit began with two small releases from the 77s and Vector before signing a production and distribution deal with A&M Records and Island Records. Included in the arrangement was a promotion deal with Bill Graham Productions. Artists * The 77s * Charlie Peacock * First Strike * Robert Vaughn and the Shadows * Steve Scott * Thomas Goodlunas and Panacea * Vector Catalogue * The 77s – '' Ping Pong Over the Abyss'' (1983, released with A&M Record]) * Steve Scott – ''Love in the Western World'' (1983, released with A&M Records) * Vector – ''Mannequin Virtue'' (1983, released with A&M Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ira Sullivan (album)
''Ira Sullivan'' is an eponymous album by multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan which was recorded in 1975-76 and released on the Horizon label. accessed October 17, 2017 Reception The review by Scott Yanow stated "Ira Sullivan has long been a remarkable multi-instrumentalist with a personal sound on each of his horns. On this A&M release, Sullivan mostly sticks to soprano and flute although he plays trumpet briefly ... The generally thoughtful music is not as exciting as some of Sullivan's other sessions (particularly the later ones with[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hall Live!
''Jim Hall Live!'' is a live album by guitarist Jim Hall recorded in 1975 at the Bourbon Street jazz club in Toronto, Canada and released on the Horizon label. accessed December 4, 2019 Reception awarded the album 4 stars with the review by Scott Yanow stating "The interplay between the three players is sometimes wondrous, and although the five selections are all familiar standards ... Hall makes the music sound fresh and full of subtleties". Guitarist , in the liner notes to the 2012 album ' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awakening (Sonny Fortune Album)
''Awakening'' is an album by American saxophonist Sonny Fortune recorded in 1975 and released on the Horizon label. accessed February 2, 2015 Reception In '''', Robert Christgau said while ''Awakening'' featured nothing innovative, it did showcase Fortune's knack for "great synthesis", including "shades of and late-'50s Miles in a more[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Duets
A duet is a musical composition or piece for two performers. Duets or The Duets may also refer to: Films and television * ''Duets'' (film), a 2000 film, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Giamatti and Huey Lewis * "Duets" (''Glee''), a 2010 episode in the second season of ''Glee'' * ''Duets'' (TV series), a music-based reality competition show on ABC Music * Duets (Bach), works for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach Albums * ''Duets'' (Ane Brun album), 2005 * ''Duets'' (Barbra Streisand album), 2002 * ''Duets'' (Carla Bley & Steve Swallow album), 1988 * ''Duets'' (Dizzy Gillespie album), 1957 * ''Duets'' (Elton John album), 1993 * ''Duets'' (Emmylou Harris album) * ''Duets'' (Frank Sinatra album), 1993 * ''Duets II'' (Frank Sinatra album), a 1994 album by Frank Sinatra * ''Duets'' (Helen Merrill and Ron Carter album), a 1989 album by Helen Merrill and Ron Carter * ''Duets'' (Jimmy Raney and Doug Raney album), 1979 * ''Duets'' (Linda Ronstadt album), 2014 * ''Duets II'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Hands
''Sweet Hands'' is an album by saxophonist David Liebman which was recorded in California in 1975 and released on the Horizon label. accessed September 12, 2017 Reception The review by Richard S. Ginell stated, "The influence of India upon jazz had not been spent entirely when Dave Liebman and Lookout Farm recorded the first of his Horizon albums, which pursues the East-meets-West direction of his former employer , but without the latter's dramatic thrust ... Fascinating music, if not always convincing."[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suite For Pops
''Suite for Pops'' is a 1975 big band jazz album recorded by the The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the A&M Records, A&M Horizon label. Track listing LP record, LP side A: # "Meetin' Place" # "The Summary" # "The Farewell" # "Toledo By Candlelight" LP side B: # "The Great One" # "Only For Now" # "A Good Time Was Had By All" Personnel * Thad Jones – trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion * Mel Lewis – drums * Roland Hanna – piano * Richard Davis (double bassist), Richard Davis – double bass * George Mraz - double bass * Steve Gilmore - double bass * Jerry Dodgion – soprano & alto saxophone, flute * Eddie Xiques – alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute * Billy Harper – tenor saxophone, flute * Eddie Daniels – tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute * Ron Bridgewater - tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute * Frank Foster (jazz musician), Frank Foster - tenor saxophone, clarinet * Gregory Herbert, Greg Herbert - tenor saxopho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Lewis
Melvin Sokoloff (May 10, 1929 – February 2, 1990), known professionally as Mel Lewis, was an American jazz drummer, session musician, professor, and author. He received fourteen Grammy Award nominations. Biography Early years Lewis was born in Buffalo, New York, to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents Samuel and Mildred Sokoloff. He started playing professionally as a teen, eventually joining Stan Kenton in 1954. His musical career brought him to Los Angeles in 1957 and New York City in 1963.''All Music Guide to Jazz''. Yanow, Scott (1996). Miller Freeman Books. Career In 1966 in New York, he teamed up with Thad Jones to lead the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. The group started as informal jam sessions with the top studio and jazz musicians of the city, but eventually began performing regularly on Monday nights at the famed venue, the Village Vanguard. In 1979, the band won a Grammy for their album '' Live in Munich''. Like all of the musicians in the band, it was only a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The McKameys
The McKameys are a professional Southern gospel group based in Clinton, Tennessee. Current members are Ruben and Peg Bean, Sheryl Farris, Connie Fortner, Roger Fortner, and Eli Fortner. On November 23, 2019 the McKameys played their last concert in Knoxville, Tennessee. On average, the McKameys play approximately 150 bookings annually throughout the United States and Canada. With 16 No. 1 singles, the group was honored by Horizon Records in 1999 for having the most No. 1 hits in the history of Southern Gospel music. The McKameys also hold the record for having the most No. 1 songs on '' Singing News'' magazine's charts. Group history The group first organized in 1954 as a trio of sisters: Dora, Peg, and Carol McKamey. As their father was a Christian minister, the girls grew up singing in church. One day Dora announced to her astonished sisters that they were going to sing with her in church the next Sunday as a trio. "She gathered us up in her kitchen, started singing and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kingsmen Quartet
The Kingsmen Quartet (better known as The Kingsmen) is an American Southern gospel vocal quartet. Musical career and Awards The Kingsmen are a Southern Gospel vocal quartet based out of Asheville, North Carolina. Many singers of Southern Gospel including Jim Hamill, Squire Parsons, Anthony Burger, Mark Trammell, and others have been members of The Kingsmen. The group was most well known in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s for their live concert recordings and band. GMA Dove Awards * Album of the Year – ''Big and Live'' (1974) * Album of the Year – ''Chattanooga Live'' (1978) * Southern Gospel Album of the Year – ''From Out of the Past'' (1980) Singing News Fan Awards * Favorite Group (1980, 1985) * Favorite Traditional Male Quartet (1981) * Favorite Horizon Group (2002, as Carolina Boys) * Favorite Lead: Jim Hamill (1974, 1975, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985) * Favorite Male Singer: Jim Hamill (1981, 1984, 1985) * Favorite Tenor: Johnny Parrack (1976), Ernie Phillips (1980, 1981) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
