Antilles Records

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Parent company Island Records Status Inactive Genre Jazz Parent organization Island Records		Founder Jeff Walker Distributor(s) Verve Country of origin U.S. Date founded 1980
Artists Steve Khan, Gil Evans, Don Cherry, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Cornell Dupree

Antilles Records was a record label founded as a division of Island Records. It began as a jazz label, recording Joanne Brackeen, Biréli Lagrène, and Phil Woods, though its catalogue did expand to include eclectic musicians like Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. It was the first to introduce the Slits and Nick Drake to American audiences. One of its founders was Jeff Walker, an employee at Island and the first A&R director for Antilles.

In the 1990s, Antilles recorded Peter Apfelbaum, Johnny Griffin, Frank Morgan, Steve Turre, and Randy Weston. Polygram bought Island, Seagram's bought Polygram, and by the end of the decade Antilles stopped recording jazz.

Discography

1001: Joanne Brackeen – Special Identity (1981)

1002: Biréli Lagrène – Routes to Django (1980)

1003: Heath Brothers – Brotherly Love (1981)

1004: Ben Sidran – Old Songs for the New Depression (1981)

1005: Anthony Braxton – Six Compositions: Quartet (1981)

1006: Phil Woods – Birds of a Feather (1981)

1007: Air – 80° Below '82 (1982)

1008: Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society – Mandance (1982)

1009: Biréli Lagrène – 15 (1982)

1010: Gil Evans – Priestess (recorded 1977 [1983])

1011: Zahara – Flight of the Spirit (1983)

1012: Ben Sidran – Bop City (1983)

1013: Phil Woods – Phil Woods at the Vanguard (1982)

1014: Swingrass '83 – Swingrass '83 (1982)

1015: Ronald Shannon Jackson – Barbeque Dog (1983)

1016: Heath Brothers – Brothers and Others (1983)

1017: Elements – Elements (1982)

1018: Steve Khan – Eyewitness (1981)

1019: Biréli Lagrène – Down in Town

1020: Steve Khan – Casa Loco (1983)

1021: Elements – Forward Motion (1983)

2001: Ornette Coleman – Of Human Feelings (1979)

7001: Fripp & Eno – (No Pussyfooting) (1973)

7005: Third World (Steve Winwood & Remi Kabaka) – Aiye – Keta 1973)

7010: Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left (1973, 1st issue on Island)

7011: White Noise – An Electric Storm (1973, 1st issue 1969 on Island)

7023: Tim Hardin – Nine (1976)

7027: Albion Country Band – Battle of the Field (1976)

7029: Gay and Terry Woods – The Time Is Right (1976)

7034: Don Cherry – Eternal Now (1973)

7035: Johnny Dyani, Okay Temiz, Mongezi Feza – Music for Xaba (1972)

7067: Various Artists – No New York (1978)

8701: Naná Vasconcelos – Bush Dance (1986)

8706: Jim Pepper – Comin' and Goin' (1987)

References

Antilles Records Wikipedia

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