Gazell is a jazz
record label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...
founded by John Engelbrekt in
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
, Sweden, in 1949.
History
In 1949, John Engelbrekt created the label Gazell in Stockholm, Sweden,
to distribute
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 ...
albums. In September 1950, he founded a jazz club in Stockholm called Gazell.
In 1957, recordings from the club and by Engelbrekt were sold to the Scandinavian Record Company (
Sonet Records
Sonet Records was a jazz, pop and rock record label operating as an imprint of Universal Music Sweden. It was founded in Sweden in 1956.
Sonet Records was established by Sven Lindholm and Gunnar Bergström, who managed the label into the 1980s ...
) run by Gunnar Bergström and Sven Lindholm, while the rights to the label Gazell were sold to Dag Häggqvist,
though other sources say Häggqvist started the label himself in 1950.
Häggqvist sold Gazell to Sonet in 1960 and was run by Sam Charters until Sonet was acquired by
PolyGram
PolyGram N.V. was a multinational entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1962 as the Grammophon-Philips Group by Dutch corporation Philips and German corporation Siemens, to be a ...
in 1991. Häggqvist retained the rights to the label again in 1993 when he formed Gazell Music AB.
In 2004, Häggqvist made a deal with Bonnier Music Publishing, a subsidiary of The Bonnier Group.
Since then, the companies have been called Bonnier Gazell Music.
See also
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List of record labels
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References
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Swedish record labels
Record labels established in 1949
Jazz record labels