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Antilles Records

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Parent company
  
Status
  
Inactive

Genre
  
Parent organization
  
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 BrackeenSpecial Identity (1981)
  • 1002: Biréli LagrèneRoutes to Django (1980)
  • 1003: Heath BrothersBrotherly Love (1981)
  • 1004: Ben SidranOld Songs for the New Depression (1981)
  • 1005: Anthony BraxtonSix Compositions: Quartet (1981)
  • 1006: Phil WoodsBirds 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: ZaharaFlight of the Spirit (1983)
  • 1012: Ben Sidran – Bop City (1983)
  • 1013: Phil Woods – Phil Woods at the Vanguard (1982)
  • 1014: Swingrass '83Swingrass '83 (1982)
  • 1015: Ronald Shannon Jackson – Barbeque Dog (1983)
  • 1016: Heath Brothers – Brothers and Others (1983)
  • 1017: ElementsElements (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 ColemanOf Human Feelings (1979)
  • 7001: Fripp & Eno((No Pussyfooting)) (1973)
  • 7005: Third World (Steve Winwood & Remi Kabaka) – Aiye – Keta 1973)
  • 7010: Nick DrakeFive Leaves Left (1973, 1st issue on Island)
  • 7011: White NoiseAn Electric Storm (1973, 1st issue 1969 on Island)
  • 7023: Tim HardinNine (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 FezaMusic for Xaba (1972)
  • 7067: Various Artists – No New York (1978)
  • 8701: Naná VasconcelosBush Dance (1986)
  • 8706: Jim PepperComin' and Goin' (1987)
  • References

    Antilles Records Wikipedia


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