Landmark Records Explained

Landmark Records
Status:Inactive
Genre:Jazz
Country:U.S.

Landmark Records was an American jazz record company and label founded in 1985 by Orrin Keepnews. Landmark's releases included music by Donald Byrd, Jack DeJohnette, Jimmy Heath, Vincent Herring, Bobby Hutcherson, Mulgrew Miller, Buddy Montgomery, and reissues of Cannonball Adderley.[1]

Its catalogue also included two jazz albums by the Kronos Quartet in which they covered the work of Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk. Landmark was bought by Muse Records in 1993. Muse and Landmark were acquired by 32 Jazz in 1996.[2] [3] [4] In 2003, Savoy Jazz (which had become a subsidiary of Nippon Columbia) acquired the rights to the Muse and Landmark catalogs from 32 Jazz.[5]

Discography

1300 Series

LCD ARTIST TITLE[6]

(1301–1307 were released under The Cannonball Addderley Collection Volumes 1–7 and consisted of the Riverside Records masters (originally produced by Orrin Keepnews) that Adderley took with him when he moved to Capitol Records after Riverside Records went bankrupt. This explains why these were never released as part of the "Original Jazz Classics" series from Fantasy Records, the subsequent owner of the Riverside Records catalog–in addition, V.7 was previously unreleased in the US).

500/1500 Series

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Catalog No. (LLP/LCD) Artist Title Notes
1501Good Bait
1502In Nigeria
1503This Is Keith MacDonald
1504The Jack DeJohnette Piano Album
1505Kronos Quartet
1506New Picture
1507Keys to the City
1508Color Schemes
1509Waiting
1510Kronos QuartetMusic of Bill Evans
1511Work!
1512Ties of Love
1513In the Vanguard
1514Peer Pleasure
1515Wingspan
1516Harlem Blues
1517Cruisin' the 'Bird
1518So Why Not?
1519The Countdown
1520Images
1521Epistrophy
1522Ambos Mundos
1523 Sextet featuring Joe HendersonGetting Down to Business
1524Lucky to Be Me
1525From Day to Day
1526Furthermore
1527Evidence
1528 QuintetTalkin' About You
1529Mirage
1530A City Called Heaven
1531Live in San Francisco
1532Time and Again
1533Dawnbird
1534Live at the Village Vanguard Volume One
1535 OrchestraThe Shape I'm In
1536Indigo QuartetteQuartette Indigo
1537 QuintetThe Last Mingus Band A.D.reissue of Gatemouth LP
1538The Time and the Place
1539Landing Zone
1540The Watcher
1541 OrchestraLeave Your Mind Behind
1542In the Mix
1543Mellifluousreissue of Gatemouth LP
1544Nice Work
1545Piece for My Peace
1548Impressions
1551 with Mike Greenhill QuartetNobody Else But Mereissue of Myoho LP

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kernfeld. Barry. Kernfeld. Barry. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2002. Grove's Dictionaries Inc.. New York. 1-56159-284-6. 545. 2. 2nd.
  2. Jim. Bessman . 32 Proves To Be A Prodigious Number For Producer/Label Head Joel Dorn . 40–41 . 18 January 1997 . . 13 October 2014 .
  3. Book: Gitler, Ira . Ira Gitler . Leonard Feather . Leonard Feather . The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz . Preface . https://books.google.com/books?id=CibYUWF-ZXkC&pg=PT21 . 2007 . 1999 . Page 21 in Google Books preview . Oxford University Press . 9780199729074 . 13 October 2014 .
  4. News: Al . Hunter Jr. . Jazz For The Masses 32 Records Is Carving Out A Niche With Reissued Tracks . . 4 March 1999 . 13 October 2014 .
  5. Web site: Christopher . Porter . Savoy Acquires Muse & Landmark Catalogs . 16 January 2003 . . 13 October 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141018093318/http://jazztimes.com/articles/22216-savoy-acquires-muse-landmark-catalogs . 2014-10-18 . dead .
  6. Web site: Complete discography listing.