Impulse! Records

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Impulse! Records
Parent company Universal Music Group
Founded 1960
Founder Creed Taylor
Distributing label Verve Records (In the US)
Genre Jazz
Country of origin US
Official website Impulse!

Impulse! Records was an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City. John Coltrane was Impulse!'s first major signing and the label came to be known in retrospect as "the house that Trane built". [1]

Most Impulse! albums were produced by Bob Thiele who joined the company after Taylor left to head Verve Records, assisted by the sound engineer, Rudy Van Gelder.

Impulse! releases are known for their distinctive design, dominated by black and orange on the sleeve spine and record label. Impulse! LPs had a distinctive, sparse back cover design with the slogan, "The New Wave of Jazz is on IMPULSE!". The company is perhaps best remembered as a free jazz label. New recordings from the label ceased in the late 1970s, but ABC-Paramount Records kept putting out reissues of classic albums until the company was sold to MCA Records in 1979.

The label name has since been revived for new recordings only for short periods. Impulse! has released new recordings from those who had historic ties to the label, such as (McCoy Tyner and Alice Coltrane), but also more mainstream and commercial artists like Diana Krall. Impulse! is now part of Universal Music Group's jazz holdings, The Verve Music Group and has been relegated to a reissue-only label.[2]

Contents

[edit] Discography

Catalog number Artist Title
1 J. J. Johnson & Kai Winding Swinging Together Again
2 Ray Charles Genius+Soul=Jazz
3 Kai Winding Incredible Kai Winding Trombones, The
4 Gil Evans Out of the Cool
5 Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth
6 John Coltrane Africa/Brass
7 Art Blakey Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!
8 Max Roach Percussion Bitter Sweet
9 Gil Evans Into The Hot
10 John Coltrane Live! at the Village Vanguard
11 Quincy Jones The Quintessence
12 Benny Carter Further Definitions
13 Curtis Fuller Soul Trombone
14 Milt Jackson Statements
15 Count Basie And The Kansas City 7
16 Max Roach It's Time
17 Jackie Paris Song Is Paris
18 McCoy Tyner Inception
19 Manny Albam Jazz Goes To The Movies
20 Shelly Manne 2, 3, 4
21 John Coltrane Coltrane
22 Curtis Fuller Cabin In The Sky
23 Roy Haynes Out Of The Afternoon
24 Michael Brown Alarums And Excursions
25 Oscar Brand Morality
26 Duke Ellington Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
27 Freddie Hubbard Artistry
28 Coleman Hawkins Desifinado
29 Chico Hamilton Passin' Thru
30 John Coltrane & Duke Ellington Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
31 George Wein And The Newport Festival All Stars
32 John Coltrane Ballads
33 McCoy Tyner Reaching Fourth
34 Coleman Hawkins Today And Now
35 Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
36 Various Artists Americans In Europe 1
37 Various Artists Americans In Europe 2
38 Freddie Hubbard Body And The Soul, The
39 McCoy Tyner Nights Of Ballads And Blues
40 John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
41 Paul Gonsalves Cleopatra Feelin' Jazzy
42 John Coltrane Impressions
43 Sonny Stitt Now!
44 Beverly Jenkins Gordon Jenkins Presents My Wife The Blues Singer
45 Art Blakey Jazz Message
46 Gary McFarland Point Of Departure
47 Gloria Coleman 'Soul Sisters
48 McCoy Tyner Live At Newport 7/5/63
49 Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison Illumination
50 John Coltrane Live at Birdland
51 Shirley Scott For Members Only
52 Sonny Stitt & Paul Gonsalves Salt And Pepper
53 Freda Payne After The Lights Go Down Low
54 Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
55 Paul Gonsalves Tell It the Way It Is!
56 Yusef Lateef Jazz Round The World
57 Johnny Hartman I Just Dropped By To Say Hello
58 Terry Gibbs Take It From Me
59 Chico Hamilton Man From Two Worlds, The
60 Charles Mingus Mingus Plays Piano
61 Johnny Hodges Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges
62 Lorez Alexandria Alexandria The Great
63 McCoy Tyner Today And Tomorrow
64 Clark Terry Happy Horns Of Clark Terry, The
65 Ben Webster See You At The Fair
66 John Coltrane Crescent
67 Shirley Scott Great Scott!!
68 J. J. Johnson Proof Positive
69 Yusef Lateef Live At Pep's
70 Milt Jackson Jazz 'n Samba
71 Archie Shepp Four For Trane
72 Billy Taylor & Quincy Jones My Fair Lady Loves Jazz
73 Shirley Scott Everybody Loves A Lover
74 Johnny Hartman Voice That Is, The
75 Oliver Nelson More Blues And The Abstract Truth
76 Lorez Alexandria More Of The Great Lorez Alexandria
77 John Coltrane A Love Supreme
78 Lionel Hampton You Better Know It!!!
79 McCoy Tyner Plays Duke Ellington
80 Russian Jazz Quartet Happiness
81 Shirley Scott Queen Of The Organ
82 Chico Hamilton Chic Chic Chico
83 Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Sing A Song Of Basie
84 Yusef Lateef 1984
85 John Coltrane The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
86 Archie Shepp Fire Music
87 Coleman Hawkins Wrapped Tight
88 Elvin Jones Dear John C.
89 Lawrence Brown Inspired Abandon
90 John Coltrane New Wave In Jazz
91 Sonny Rollins On Impulse
92 Yusef Lateef Psychicemotus
93 Shirley Scott Latin Shadows
94 John Coltrane & Archie Shepp New Thing at Newport
95 John Coltrane Ascension 1
95 John Coltrane Ascension 2
96 Pee Wee Russell & Marshall Brown Ask Me Now!
97 Archie Shepp On This Night
98 Dannie Richmond "In" Jazz For The Culture Set
99 Various Artists Definitive Jazz Scene 1
100 Various Artists Definitive Jazz Scene 2
1972 Various Artists Irrepressible Impulses
9101 Various Artists Definitive Jazz Scene 3
9102 Chico Hamilton El Chico
9103 John Lee Hooker It Serves You Right to Suffer
9104 Gary McFarland Tijuana Jazz
9105 Gábor Szabó Gypsy '66
9106 Coltrane, John Kulu Se Mama
9107 Louie Bellson Thunderbird
9108 Earl Hines Once Upon A Time
9109 Shirley Scott On A Clear Day
9110 John Coltrane Meditations
9111 Sonny Rollins Alfie
9112 Gary McFarland Profiles
9113 Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle
9114 Chico Hamilton Further Adventures Of El Chico, The
9115 Stanley Turrentine Let It Go
9116 Benny Carter Additions To Further Definitions
9117 Yusef Lateef A Flat, G Flat And C
9118 Archie Shepp Live In San Francisco 2/19/66
9119 Shirley Scott Roll 'Em: Shirley Scott Plays The Big Bands
9120 John Coltrane Expression
9121 Sonny Rollins East Broadway Run Down
9122 Gary McFarland & Gabor Szabo Simpatico
9123 Gabor Szabo Spellbinder
9124 John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard Again!
9125 Yusef Lateef Golden Flute, The
9126 Roswell Rudd Everywhere
9127 Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill Spanish Rice
9128 Gabor Szabo Jazz Raga
9129 Oliver Nelson Sound Pieces
9130 Chico Hamilton The Dealer
9131 Zoot Sims Waiting Game
9132 Hank Jones & Oliver Nelson Happenings
9133 Shirley Scott & Clark Terry Soul Duo
9134 Archie Shepp Mama Too Tight
9135 Chico O'Farrill Nine Flags
9136 Gary McFarland & Steve Kuhn October Suite, The
9137 Pee Wee Russell & Red Allen College Concert, The
9138 Pharoah Sanders Tauhid
9139 Marion Brown Three For Shepp
9140 John Coltrane Om
9141 Shirley Scott Girl Talk
9142 Original Soundtrack Sweet Love, Bitter
9143 Phil Woods Greek Cooking
9144 Oliver Nelson Kennedy Dream, The
9145 Various Artists Intercollegiate Music Festival 1
9146 Gabor Szabo Sorcerer, The
9147 Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson Spirit of '67, The
9148 John Coltrane Cosmic Music
9149 Dizzy Gillespie Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
9150 Jazzbo Collins Lovely Bunch Of Jazzbo Collins And The Bandidos, A
9151 Gabor Szabo Wind, Sky And Diamonds
9152 Mel Brown Chicken Fat
9153 Oliver Nelson Live From Los Angeles
9154 Archie Shepp Magic Of Ju-Ju, The
9155 Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village 12/18/66 2/26/67
9156 Alice Coltrane A Monastic Trio
9157 Clark Terry It's What's Happening - The Varitone Sound of CT
9158 Rolf Kuhn & Joachim Kühn Impressions Of New York
9159 Gabor Szabo Light My Fire
9160 Elvin Jones & Richard Davis Heavy Sounds
9161 John Coltrane Selflessness
9162 Archie Shepp Three For A Quarter, One For A Dime
9163 Tom Scott Honeysuckle Breeze, The
9164 Bill Plummer Cosmic Brotherhood
9165 Albert Ayler Love Cry
9166 Emil Richards Journey To Bliss
9167 Szabo, Gabor More Sorcery
9168 Nelson, Oliver & Steve Allen Soulful Brass
9169 Brown, Mel Wizard, The
9170 Shepp, Archie Way Ahead, The
9171 Scott, Tom Rural Still Life
9172
9173 Szabo, Gabor Best Of
9174 Hamilton, Chico Best Of
9175 Ayler, Albert New Grass
9176 Jamal, Ahmad At The Top - Poinciana Revisited
9177
9178 Coleman, Ornette Ornette At 12
9179
9180 Brown, Mel Blues For We
9181 Pharoah Sanders Karma
9182 Richards, Emil Spirit Of 1976
9183 Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra
9184 MacKay, Dave & Vicky Hamilton Dave MacKay And Vicky Hamilton
9185 Alice Coltrane Huntington Ashram Monastery
9186 Brown, Mel I'd Rather Suck My Thumb
9187 Coleman, Ornette Crisis
9188 Shepp, Archie For Losers
9189 Jackson, Milt That's The Way It Is
9190 Sanders, Pharoah Jewels Of Thought
9191 Ayler, Albert Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe
9192 Buddy Montgomery This Rather Than That
9193 Jackson & Ray Brown Memphis Jackson
9194 Ahmad Jamal Awakening, The
9195 John Coltrane Transition
9196 Alice Coltrane Ptah, the El Daoud
9197 Clifford Coulter East Side San Jose
9198 Dave MacKay & Vicky Hamilton Rainbow
9199 Pharoah Sanders Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)
9200 Coltrane, John His Greatest Years 1
9201
9202 Coltrane, John Live in Seattle
9203 Coltrane, Alice Journey in Satchidananda
9204 Gabor Szabo His Great Hits
9205 Genesis Trespass
9206 Pharoah Sanders Thembi
9207 Howard Roberts Antelope Freeway
9208 Albert Ayler The Last Album
9209 Brown, Mel Mel Brown's Fifth
9210 Coltrane, Alice Universal Consciousness
9211 Coltrane, John Sun Ship
9212 Shepp, Archie Things Have Got To Change
9213 Hamilton, Chico His Great Hits
9214 Klemmer, John Constant Throb
9215 White, Michael Spirit Dance
9216 Coulter, Clifford Do It Now, Worry 'Bout It Later
9217 Jamal, Ahmad Freeflight
9218 Alice Coltrane World Galaxy
9219 Pharoah Sanders Black Unity
9220 John Klemmer Waterfalls
9221 Michael White Pneuma
9222 Archie Shepp Attica Blues
9223 Coltrane, John His Greatest Years 2
9224 Alice Coltrane Lord Of Lords
9225 Alice Coltrane John Coltrane: Infinity
9226 Jamal, Ahmad Outertimeinnerspace
9227 Sanders, Pharoah Live At The East
9228 Various Artists Impulse Energy Essentials
9229 Sanders, Pharoah Best Of
9230 Jackson, Milt & Ray Brown Just The Way It Had To Be
9231 Shepp, Archie Cry Of My People, The
9232 Coltrane, Alice Reflection On Creation And Space
9233 Sanders, Pharoah Wisdom Through Music
9234 Mingus, Charles Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9235 Tyner, McCoy Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9236 Rollins, Sonny Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9237 Hubbard, Freddie Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9238 Jamal, Ahmad Tranquility
9239 Sun Ra Atlantis
9240 Jarrett, Keith Fort Yawuh
9241 White, Michael Land Of Spirit And Light, The
9242 Sun Ra Nubians Of Plutonia, The
9243 Sun Ra The Magic City
9244 John Klemmer Intensity
9245 Sun Ra Angels And Demons At Play
9246 John Coltrane Live in Japan
9247 Gary Saracho En Medio
9248 Gato Barbieri Chapter 1: Latin America
9249 Mel Brown Big Foot Country Girl
9250 Dewey Redman Ear Of The Behearer, The
9251 Rivers, Sam Streams
9252 Brown, Marion Geechee Recollections
9253 Various Artists Saxophone, The
9254 Sanders, Pharoah Village Of The Pharoahs
9255 Sun Ra Astro Black
9256 Ellington, Duke Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9257 Ayler, Albert Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9258 Hawkins, Coleman Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9259 Lateef, Yusef Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9260 Jamal, Ahmad Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9261 Sanders, Pharoah Elevation
9262 Shepp, Archie Kwanza
9263 Barbieri, Gato Chapter Two - Hasta Siempre
9264 Various Artists Impulse Artists on Tour
9265 Sun Ra Jazz In Silhouette
9266 Various Artists Impulsively
9267 Various Artists No Energy Crisis
9268 White, Michael Father Music, Mother Dance
9269 Klemmer, John Magic & Movement
9270 Sun Ra Fate In A Pleasant Mood
9271 Sun Ra Supersonic Sounds
9272 Various Artists Drums, The
9273 Coltrane, John Africa/Brass 2
9274 Jarrett, Keith Treasure Island
9275 Brown, Marion Sweet Earth Flying
9276 Sun Ra Bad And The Beautiful, The
9277 Coltrane, John Interstellar Space
9278 Coltrane, John His Greatest Years 3
9279 Barbieri, Gato Viva Emiliano Zapata
9280 Sanders, Pharoah Love In Us All
9281 White, Michael Go With The Flow
9282 Jackson, Milt Impulse Years, The
9283 Jones, Elvin Impulse Years, The
9284 Various Artists Bass, The
9285 Various Artists Ellingtonia 2
9286 Rivers, Sam Crystals
9287 Sun Ra Night Of The Purple Moon [NEVER ISSUED]
9288 Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth [NEVER ISSUED]
9289 Sun Ra My Brother, The Wind
9290 Sun Ra Sound Sun Pleasure [NEVER ISSUED]
9291 Sun Ra Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy [NEVER ISSUED]
9292 Sun Ra We Travel The Spaceways [NEVER ISSUED]
9293 Sun Ra Other Planes Of There [NEVER ISSUED]
9294 Sun Ra Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow [NEVER ISSUED]
9295 Sun Ra Monorails And Satellites [NEVER ISSUED]
9296 Sun Ra Cymbals [NEVER ISSUED]
9297 Sun Ra Crystal Spears [NEVER ISSUED]
9298 Sun Ra Pathways To Unknown Worlds
9299 Howard Roberts Equinox Express Elevator
9300 Dewey Redman Coincide
9301 Keith Jarrett Death And The Flower
9302 Rivers, Sam Hues
9303 Barbieri, Gato Chapter 4: Alive In New York
9304 Marion Brown Vista
9305 Jarrett, Keith Back Hand
9306 Coltrane, John Gentle Side Of John Coltrane, The
9307 Lucky Thompson Dancing Sunbeam
9308 Brass Fever Brass Fever
9309
9310 Lateef, Yusef Club Date
9311 Gloria Lynne I Don't Know How To Love Him
9312 Sonny Criss Warm And Sonny
9313 Ponder, Jimmy Illusions
9314 John Handy Hard Work
9315 Jarrett, Keith Mysteries
9316 Rivers, Sam Sizzle
9317 Bland, Bobby Blue & B.B. King Together Again…Live
9318 Marcus, Wade Metamorphosis
9319 Brass Fever Time Is Running Out
9320
9321 Betty Carter What A Little Moonlight Can Do
9322 Jarrett, Keith Shades
9323
9324 Handy, John Carnival
9325 Coltrane, John Other Village Vanguard Tapes, The 11/61
9326 Criss, Sonny Joy Of Sax, The
9327 Ponder, Jimmy White Room
9328 Mitchell, Blue African Violet
9329 McCann, Les Music Lets Me Be
9330 Tate, Grady Master Grady Tate
9331 Jarrett, Keith Byablue
9332 Coltrane, John First Meditations
9333 Les McCann Live At The Roxy
9334 Jarrett, Keith Bop-Be
9335 Nelson, Oliver Three Dimensions
9336 Ayler, Albert Village Concerts, The
9337 Dorham, Kenny/Sonny Criss Bopmasters, The
9338 Tyner, McCoy Early Trios, The
9339 Taylor, Cecil New Breed, The
9340 Evans, Gil/McFarland, Gary Great Arrangers, The
9341 Scott, Shirley Great Live Sessions, The 9/23/64
9342 Jones, Quincy Quintessential Charts, The
9343 Hugh Masekela The African Connection
9344
9345 John Coltrane Feelin' Good - Mastery 1
9346 John Coltrane To The Beat Of A Different Drum - Mastery 2
9347 Blue Mitchell Summer Soft
9348 Keith Jarrett Best Of
9349 Sonny Rollins There Will Never Be Another You
9350 Duke Ellington Great Tenor Encounters, The
9351 Count Basie Retrospective Sessions
9352 Sam Rivers Trio Sessions, The
9353 Yusef Lateef Live Session, The
9354 Tom Scott/John Klemmer/Gato Barbieri Foundations
9355
9356 Paul Horn Plenty Of Horn
9357 Archie Shepp Further Fire Music
9358
9359 Pee Wee Russell Salute To Newport
9360 John Coltrane Jupiter Variations - Mastery 3
9361 John Coltrane Trane's Modes - Mastery 4

[edit] See also

[edit] External Links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ashley Kahn (2006) The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-05879-4
  2. ^ Impulse!