Tag Archives: Bob Thiele
GATO BARBIERI-THE THIRD WORLD.
dereksmusicblog ♦ February 13, 2014 ♦ Leave a comment
GATO BARBIERI-THE THIRD WORLD. It was through working with Charlie Haden’s on his album Liberation Music Orchestra that Gato Barbieri first met Bob Thiele. Gato played tenor saxophone and clarinet, while Bob produced Liberation Music Orchestra. This would be one of the final albums Bob Thiele produced for Impulse. He was about to leave Impulse, …
CESAR 830-CESAR.
dereksmusicblog ♦ January 31, 2014 ♦ Leave a comment
CESAR 830-CESAR. Originally, Cesar Ascarrunz came from Bolivia to California to study economics and psychology. Caesar wanted to continue his education and the University of California, in Berkeley seemed the perfect place. When he arrive in California in 1960, he was twenty-five. Although interested in music, he couldn’t play an instrument. This changed in 1961, …
LEON THOMAS-SPIRITS KNOWN AND UNKNOWN.
dereksmusicblog ♦ December 3, 2013 ♦ Leave a comment
LEON THOMAS-SPIRITS KNOWN AND UNKNOWN. In 1969, Leon Thomas released his debut album Spirits Known and Unknown for Bob Thiele’s Flying Dutchman Records. This eleven years after he released his “other” debut album. Confused? The story begins in 1958, when Leon Thomas, aged just nineteen years old, signed to RCA Records. Now signed to RCA, …
DUES PAID-THE BLUESTIME STORY.
dereksmusicblog ♦ November 8, 2013 ♦ Leave a comment
DUES PAID-THE BLUESTIME STORY. After eight years running Impulse, one of jazz’s premier labels, Bob Thiele found himself at loggerheads with Larry Newton, the head of ABC Records. It looked as if Bob’s time at ABC was coming to an end. Given what he’d done for ABC, he was going to be sorely missed. Not …
GATO BARBIERI-FENIX.
dereksmusicblog ♦ October 23, 2013 ♦ Leave a comment
GATO BARBIERI-FENIX. When Bob Thiele founded Flying Dutchman Records, he was a man with a vision. His vision was for his nascent label to release music that was cutting-edge, innovative and pushed musical boundaries. To do that, he signed some of the most progressive artists. He was looking for leaders, rather than followers. Bob wanted …
LEON THOMAS-THE LEON THOMAS ALBUM.
dereksmusicblog ♦ October 20, 2013 ♦ Leave a comment
LEON THOMAS-THE LEON THOMAS ALBUM. There aren’t many artists who record two debut albums. Leon Thomas did. Having signed to RCA in 1958, Leon recorded what should’ve been his debut album. It was never released. Instead, another eleven years passed before Leon Thomas released his debut album Spirits Known and Unknown for Bob Thiele’s Flying …
ESTHER MARROW-NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA.
dereksmusicblog ♦ July 30, 2013 ♦ Leave a comment
ESTHER MARROW-NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA. Having founded Flying Dutchman and Amsterdam labels in 1969, Bob Thiele set about building a roster that encompassed jazz, pop and experimental music. This was Bob’s musical dream. The inspiration for this was Bob’s former employer, ABC Records. They too, had two labels, Impulse and ABC Records. Impulse was a jazz …
ORNETTE COLEMAN-FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS- ORNETTE LIVE AT PRINCE STREET.
dereksmusicblog ♦ July 29, 2013 ♦ Leave a comment
ORNETTE COLEMAN-FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS- ORNETTE LIVE AT PRINCE STREET. Back in 1970, Ornette Coleman, one of the most innovative musicians and composers of the free jazz movement, found himself without a record company. He’d just left Impulse Records, having released Ornette at 12 in 1969. However, he wouldn’t be without a record label for long. …
BOB THIELE EMERGENCY-HEAD START.
dereksmusicblog ♦ July 21, 2013 ♦ Leave a comment
BOB THIELE EMERGENCY-HEAD START. Flying Dutchman Rcords was the second record label Bob Thiele founded. The first was Signature Records, founded by Bob in 1939, when he was just seventeen. A lot had happened in the intervening thirty years. Bob had worked with many of the giants of jazz. John Coltrane, Charlie Mingus, Sonny Rollins, …
LIBERATION MUSIC-THE SPIRITUAL JAZZ AND THE ART OF PROTEST ON FLYING DUTCHMAN RECORDS 1969-1974.
dereksmusicblog ♦ April 13, 2013 ♦ Leave a comment
LIBERATION MUSIC-THE SPIRITUAL JAZZ AND THE ART OF PROTEST ON FLYING DUTCHMAN RECORDS 1969-1974. Looking back at the roster of artists Flying Dutchman Records amassed during the first five years of its existence, can’t help but be impressed. After all, between 1969 and 1974, Flying Dutchman Records couldn’t just boast true jazz legends, but pioneers …
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