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Pit Inn (jazz Club)
The is a jazz club in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The original opened in 1966 and was forced by demolition to close in 1992. It re-opened at a different site in Shinjuku later that year. ''DownBeat'' wrote in 2019 that the Pit Inn "is almost universally regarded as Japan's most important jazz club". First Shinjuku Pit Inn The first Pit Inn was located in Shinjuku 3-chōme. It opened in February 1966, as a jazz coffee shop.Atkins, Everett Taylor (1997) ''This Is Our Music''. (Doctoral thesis). p. 223. Two years later, it became even more focused on jazz and was in the style of a Greenwich Village hangout. From its early days, both domestic and international musicians played there. In 1968, for instance, The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra played at the Pit Inn. Other activities also took place: a photography exhibition in 1968 was an early example. Some of the most prominent Japanese jazz musicians played at the club early in their careers. Many continue to play there regularly, including Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also Arista Records, and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, classical, rock, hip hop, afrobeat, electronic, R&B, blues, jazz, and country. Its name is derived from the initials of its defunct parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). RCA Records was fully acquired by Bertelsmann in 1987, making it a part of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) and became a part of Sony BMG Music Entertainment after the 2004 merger of BMG and Sony; it was acquired by the latter in 2008, after the dissolution of Sony/BMG and the restructuring of Sony Music. RCA Records is the corporate successor of the Victor Talking Machine Company, founded in 1901, making it the second-oldest record label in American his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cadence Jazz Records
Cadence Jazz is an American record company and label specializing in noncommercial modern jazz. It is associated with ''Cadence Magazine''. Cadence Jazz was founded by Bob Rusch in Redwood, New York in 1980. By 2000 the label had issued more than 100 albums. Its catalogue includes Marilyn Crispell, Beaver Harris, and Frank Lowe. This label is different from the Cadence that produced pop music in the 1950s and 1960s. Artists *Abdul Zahir Batin *Ahmed Abdullah *Chet Baker *Borbetomagus *Markus Burger *Marilyn Crispell *Bill Dixon *Barbara Donald *Dominic Duval *Scott Fields *Paul Flaherty *Frode Gjerstad *Beaver Harris *Fred Hess *Lindsey Horner *Noah Howard *Per Husby *Paul Lovens *Frank Lowe *Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre *Don Menza *Jemeel Moondoc *Ivo Perelman * Abbey Rader * Saheb Sarbib *Paul Smoker *Glenn Spearman * Roman Stolyar *Thorgeir Stubø Thorgeir Stubø (12 November 1943 – 22 October 1986) was a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) and composer. He was the fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smalltown Superjazzz
Smalltown Superjazzz is an independent record label based in Oslo, Norway, that concentrates on new forms of jazz. It is a subsidiary of the label Smalltown Supersound. The catalog includes albums by Free Fall, Mats Gustafsson, The Thing See also * List of record labels File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, b ... External links Official site Norwegian independent record labels Record labels established in 2004 {{Norway-record-label-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus Records
Venus Records is a Japanese jazz record label. It was founded in 1992 by Tetsuo Hara, who had worked as a producer for RCA Victor. It mostly works with a select group of artists from Italy, the United States, and Japan, and uses a signature 24-bit mastering process, named "Hyper Magnum Sound," that produces "very powerful sound with strong presence". It is also known for its album covers, which use well-known photographers and frequently feature nudity. Discography * VENUS-1002 Albert Ayler ''Bells'' (CD, RE, Promo) 1993 * TKCZ-79136 Marzette Watts ''Marzette Watts'' (CD, Album, RE) 1993 * TKCZ-79134 Burton Greene Trio ''The On Tour'' (CD, Album, RE) 1993 * TKCZ-79130 Giuseppi Logan ''More'' (CD, Album, RE) 1993 * TKCZ-79126 Patty Waters ''Sings'' (CD, Album, RE) 1993 * TKCZ-79118 ''Why Not?'' (CD, Album, RE) 1993 * TKCZ-79108 Giuseppi Logan Quartet '' The Giuseppi Logan Quartet'' (CD, Album, RE) 1993 * TKCZ-79102 Albert Ayler ''Spirits Rejoice'' (CD, Album, RE) 1993 * TKCZ-7910 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on January 15, 1889, evolving from the Graphophone#Commercialization, American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Laboratory and Bureau#Commercialization of phonograph patents, Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the second major company to produce records. From 1961 to 1991, its recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records International, CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels, alongside former longtime rival RCA Records, as well as Arista Records and Epic Records. Artists who have recorded for Columbia include AC/DC, Adele, Aerosmith, Julie And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribute To John Coltrane "A Love Supreme"
''Tribute to John Coltrane "A Love Supreme"'' is a live album by jazz drummer Elvin Jones featuring two of John Coltrane's compositions performed by Jones' "Special Quartet" featuring Wynton Marsalis recorded in 1992 at the Pit Inn in Tokyo, Japan and released on the Columbia label.Elvin Jones discography accessed April 30, 2012 Reception The review stated "An essential recording for Jones and Marsalis completists".Turner, GAllmusic Review accessed April 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live In Japan (Material Album)
''Live in Japan'' is a 1993 live album by the New York based No Wave music group Material. Track listing #"Invocation" (Bernie Worrell) – 5:21 #"Leaving Earth" (Foday Musa Suso, Bill Laswell) – 6:39 #"Desert Star" (Suso, Laswell) – 9:38 #"Out of the Dreamtime" (Suso) – 5:29 #"Obsessed" (Ginger Baker, Aiyb Dieng) – 10:45 #"Into the Seventh House" (Suso, Laswell, Nicky Skopelitis) – 6:20 #"Dousongonni Song" (Suso) – 4:46 #"The Receiver" (Suso, Laswell, Skopelitis) – 8:06 #"The Creator Has a Master Plan" (Pharoah Sanders, Leon Thomas) – 8:50 #"The Image of the One" (Worrell) – 2:28 Personnel *Bill Laswell – bass ;Additional personnel *Foday Musa Suso – kora, dousongonni, guitar, percussion, vocal *Bernie Worrell – piano, Hammond organ, clavinet, synthesizer *Nicky Skopelitis – 6 and 12 string guitars *Aïyb Dieng – chatan, congas, talking drum, percussion *Ginger Baker Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019) was an En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BMG Victor
Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) was a division of a German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008. Although it was established in 1987, the music company was formed as RCA/Ariola International in 1985 as a joint venture to combine the music label activities of RCA's RCA Records division and Bertelsmann's Ariola Records and its associated labels which include Arista Records. It consisted of the BMG Music Publishing company, the world's third largest music publisher and the world's largest independent music publisher, and (since August 2004) the 50% share of the joint venture with Sony Music, which established the German American Sony BMG from 2004 to 2008. Acquisition In March 1998, BMG sold its video game publisher BMG Interactive to Take-Two Interactive, with Bertelsmann taking a 16 percent stake in Take-Two. BMG Interactive published the ''Grand Theft Auto'' video game series. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DIW Records
DIW Records is a Japanese record label specializing in avant-garde jazz. It is a subsidiary of Disk Union. Kazunori Sugiyama was an executive producer for the label before starting Tzadik Records with John Zorn. DIW's name stands for "Discs in the World" and is from a music magazine sold at Disk Union stores that announced the latest releases from American and European labels. Wilber Morris recorded the first album for DIW in 1983 in New York City. The catalogue includes music by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Lester Bowie, James Carter, Steve Grossman, Harold Mabern, David Murray, James Blood Ulmer, David S. Ware, Rodney Whitaker Rodney Whitaker (born February 22, 1968) is an American jazz double bass player and educator. Biography Born in Detroit, Whitaker attended Wayne State University, and studied with Robert Gladstone, principal bass with the Detroit Symphony Orche ..., and John Zorn. Discography References {{DEFAULTSORT:Diw Records Japanese record labels Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
''Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion'' (subtitled ''Live at Pit-Inn, Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988'') is a live album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in Tokyo in 1988 and released on the Japanese DIW label.Sun Ra discography accessed July 21, 2010 Reception The review by Jesse Jarnow awarded the album 3 stars stating "The recording captures the band sympathetically, managing to keep the chaos under control through a crisp and deep mix... a good introduction to Sun Ra's work".Jarnow, J.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Records (Japan)
, commonly known as King Records, is a Japanese record company founded in January 1931 as a division of the Japanese publisher Kodansha. It initially began operating as an independent entity in the 1950s. It later became part of the Otowa Group. Today, King Records is one of Japan's largest record companies which is not owned by a multinational entity. The label's headquarters are in Bunkyo, Tokyo. The label's name is actually based from the now-defunct ''Kingu'' magazine published by Kodansha from 1924 to 1957. Sub-labels Its Starchild label, was managed by animation producer Toshimichi Ōtsuki, specialised in anime music and film. King Records also distributes the Up-Front Works–owned and –operated labels Piccolo Town and Rice Music, and also released video games for the PC-88, Famicom, and MSX2 computers. On February 1, 2016, King Records restructured Starchild and renamed it King Amusement Creative. Paddle Wheel Records is a division of King Record Co. You! Be Cool i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
