Freedom Records
{{short description|Jazz record label}}
{{about|the jazz record label|the short-lived subsidiary of Liberty Records|Freedom (record label)|the R&B label|Freedom Records (Houston based label)}}
{{Infobox record label
| name = Freedom Records
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| parent = Arista Records
| founded =
| founder = Alan Bates
| fate =
| defunct =
| status =
| distributor = Polydor Records
Transatlantic Records
| genre = Jazz
| country = U.S.
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| url =
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Freedom Records was a jazz record label headed by Shel Safran{{cite book|author=|title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tCkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT84|date=21 November 1970|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|page=84|issn=0006-2510}} and founded by Alan Bates as a division of Black Lion Records.{{cite book|last=Kennedy|first=Gary|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1|year=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1561592846|edition=2nd|editor=Barry Kernfeld|page=848}}
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.{{cite book|author=|title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT3|date=11 January 1975|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|page=3|issn=0006-2510}}
Discography
- 1000: Albert Ayler & Don Cherry - Vibrations
- 1001: Marion Brown - Porto Novo
- 1002: Charles Tolliver - Paper Man{{Cite web|url=http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/TolliverCharles-ldr.php|title=Charles Tolliver Leader Entry|website=Jazzdiscography.com|access-date=9 June 2021}}
- 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: Point from Which Creation Begins
- 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
References
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External links
- [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Labels/freedom.htm Freedom Records at www.jazzdiscography.com]
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Category:Defunct record labels of the United States
Category:American jazz record labels
Category:Smooth jazz record labels