Catalyst Records was a record company and label specializing in

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 ...

. It was formed in Los Angeles in 1975. Catalyst released both new recordings and reissues. The catalogue was available through the 1980s, though recording ceased in 1977. This label should not be confused with the

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(BMG) subsidiary which was founded in the early 1990s. Catalyst released new albums by

Gary Bartz Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist. He has won two Grammy Awards. Biography Bartz studied at the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, he performed with Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner in Charles Mingus' Jazz Works ...

, Hadley Caliman, Frank Foster,

Terumasa Hino is a Japanese jazz trumpeter. He is considered one of Japan's finest jazz musicians. His instruments include the trumpet, cornet, and flügelhorn. Early life He was born in Tokyo, Japan, and his father was a trumpeter and tap dancer. Hino start ...

Ahmad Jamal Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones, July 2, 1930) is an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and educator. For six decades, he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz. Biography Early life Jamal was born Fr ...

, Irene Kral,

Sam Most Samuel Most (December 16, 1930 – June 13, 2013) was an American jazz flutist, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, based in Los Angeles. He was "probably the first great jazz flutist", according to jazz historian Leonard Feather. Biography He wa ...

Sonny Stitt Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone, he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his ...

, and

Frank Strazzeri Frank Strazzeri (April 24, 1930 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz pianist. Career Strazzeri began on tenor saxophone and clarinet at age 12, then switched to piano soon after. He attended the Eastman School of Music, then took a job as a hou ...

. It reissued albums by

Paul Gonsalves Paul Gonsalves ( – ) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue ...

, Charlie Mariano, and

Michał Urbaniak Michał Urbaniak (born January 22, 1943) is a Polish jazz musician who plays violin, lyricon, and saxophone. His music includes elements of folk music, rhythm and blues, hip hop, and symphonic music. History He was born in Warsaw, Poland. U ...

Discography

7601–7628

* CAT–7601: Ron Jefferson – ''Vous Ete's Swing'' (1976) * CAT–7602: George Muribus – ''Brazilian Tapestry '' (1976) * CAT–7603: Flip Nuñez – ''My Own Time and Space'' (1976) * CAT–7604: Hadley Caliman – ''Projecting'' (1976) * CAT–7605: Jim Gannon – ''Gannon's Back in Town'' (1976) * CAT–7606:

– '' Recorded Live at Oil Can Harry's'' (1976) * CAT–7607:

– ''After the Rain'' (1976) * CAT–7608:

with Red Holloway – '' Forecast: Sonny & Red'' (1976) * CAT–7609:

– ''But Beautiful'' (1976) * CAT–7610:

– ''Ju Ju Man'' (1976) * CAT–7611: Billy Mitchell – '' Now's the Time'' (1976) * CAT–7612: Pat Britt – ''Starrsong'' (1975) * CAT–7613: Frank Foster – ''Here and Now'' (1976) * CAT–7614: Mark Levine – ''Up 'Til Now '' (1977) * CAT–7615: Michael Howell – ''Alone'' (1977) * CAT–7616: Sonny Stitt – ''

I Remember Bird ''I Remember Bird'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt featuring performances recorded in 1976 for the Catalyst label.

'' (1977) * CAT–7617: Don Menza – ''First Flight '' (1977) * CAT–7618:

Henry Franklin Henry "Skipper" Franklin (born Henry Carl Franklin on October 1, 1940) is an American jazz double bassist. Career Franklin played on Hugh Masekela's 1968 number one single, "Grazing in the Grass," as well as with Masekela's band at the Monte ...

– ''Tribal Dance'' (1977) * CAT–7619: George Muribus – ''Trio '77 '' (1977) * CAT–7620: Sonny Stitt – '' Sonny Stitt with Strings: A Tribute to Duke Ellington'' (1977) * CAT–7621: Jimmy Stewart – ''Fire Flower'' * CAT–7622:

Earl Hines Earl Kenneth Hines, also known as Earl "Fatha" Hines (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983), was an American jazz pianist and bandleader. He was one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano and, according to one source, " ...

– ''Jazz is His Old Lady and My Old Man'' * CAT–7623: Frank Strazzeri – ''Straz'' (1977) * CAT–7624: Hadley Caliman – ''Celebration'' * CAT–7625: Irene Kral – '' Kral Space'' (1977) * CAT 7626: Baroque Jazz Ensemble – ''The Baroque Jazz Ensemble featuring Ira Schulman'' (1977) * CAT–7627: Albert Dailey – ''Renaissance'' (1977) * CAT–7628: Junior Cook – ''

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'' (1977)

7901

*CAT–7901:

– ''Fuji'' *CAT–7902:

Art Blakey Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1 ...

– ''

Jazz Messengers '70 ''Jazz Messengers '70'' is a live album by drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers recorded in Tokyo in 1970 and originally released on the Catalyst label.Helen Merrill & Teddy Wilson – ''Helen Sings, Teddy Swings'' *CAT–7904: Carmen McRae – ''As Time Goes By Alone Live at the Dug'' *CAT–7905:

George Lewis George Lewis may refer to: Entertainment and art * George B. W. Lewis (1818–1906), circus rider and theatre manager in Australia * George E. Lewis (born 1952), American composer and free jazz trombonist * George J. Lewis (1903–1995), Mexican ...

– ''And His New Orleans Jazz All–Stars'' *CAT–7906:

Mal Waldron Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...

Gary Peacock Gary George Peacock (May 12, 1935September 4, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist. He recorded a dozen albums under his own name, and also performed and recorded with major jazz figures such as avant garde saxophonist Albert Ayler, pianist ...

– '' First Encounter'' *CAT–7907: Martha Miyake – ''My Heart Belongs to Teddy'' *CAT–7908: Jorge Lopez Ruiz – ''Amor Buenos Aires'' (1977) *CAT–7909:

– ''The Beginning'' (1976) *CAT–7910:

– ''At Berlin Jazz Festival'' (1971) *CAT–7911: Sadao Watanabe & Charlie Mariano – ''Nabesada and Charlie'' *CAT–7912: Helen Merrill – ''Autumn Love'' (1977) *CAT–7913:

– ''With

Willie Cook Willie Cook (November 11, 1923 – September 22, 2000) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cook was born in Tangipahoa, Louisiana, on November 11, 1923.Hogan, E"Willie Cook" AllMusic. Retrieved July 13, 2017. He grew up in Chicago and learned to pl ...

Enrique Villegas Enrique "Mono" Villegas (3 August 1913 – 11 July 1986) was an Argentine jazz pianist and composer. Life and career Born in Buenos Aires into an aristocratic family, Villegas studied piano under the guidance of the composer Alberto Williams. T ...

: The Buenos Aires Session'' (1977) *CAT–7914: Alberto Favero – ''Suite Trane (In Memoriam John Coltrane)'' *CAT–7915: Charlie Mariano – ''Reflections'' (1977) *CAT–7916: Masabumi Kikuchi – ''Matrix'' (1977) *CAT–7917: Chivo Borraro – ''Buenos Aires Blues'' (1977)

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