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Antilles

Antilles, founded 1975: jazz artists and albums on the label.

Artists on Antilles

Ornette Coleman 1930–2015 · American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and… Gil Evans 1912–1988 · American composer, arranger, bandleader, and pianist… Don Cherry 1936–1995 · American jazz trumpeter (1936–1995) Anthony Braxton b. 1945 · American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945) Phil Woods 1931–2015 · American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader… Johnny Griffin 1928–2008 · American musician (1928–2008) Naná Vasconcelos 1944–2016 · Brazilian percussionist (1944–2016) Marc Ribot b. 1954 · American musician Patricia Barber b. 1955 · American composer, jazz singer and pianist as well as… Steve Khan b. 1947 · American musician Ronald Shannon Jackson 1940–2013 · American jazz drummer (1940–2013) Teddy Edwards 1924–2003 · American jazz tenor saxophonist Ben Sidran b. 1943 · American pianist and vocalist Joanne Brackeen b. 1938 · American jazz pianist and music educator Steve Turre b. 1948 · American jazz trombonist Danny Gottlieb b. 1953 · American drummer Frank Morgan 1933–2007 · American jazz saxophonist (1933–2007) Kenny Drew, Jr. 1958–2014 · American jazz pianist (1958–2014) Remi Kabaka b. 1944 · Nigerian musician Graham Haynes b. 1960 · American musician

Label profile

US label
Label Code: LC 6176 / LC 06176 .
To further expand their U.S. operation and categorically organize the music they release in America, Island Records established its own parent organization and holdings company, Antilles Communications Ltd. The Antilles label was launched in August 1975 in the U.S. and early 1976 in Canada. Antilles was first and foremost a subsidiary that explored Progressive Rock, Jazz, Disco, and other more experimental forms of music.

Antilles Communications changed its name to Island Entertainment Group in 1980 but wasn't made known to the public -- on label copy and promotional literature -- until 1987. In the mid eighties, Antilles was a division of . By that same time, the Antilles label refocused its efforts on experimental Jazz and was renamed until 1989 when PolyGram purchased the rest of Island's open share, prompting Island to revert the imprint back to the proper Antilles name and accordingly focus the label strictly on the Jazz genre.

In 1992, Antilles was shuffled over to the Verve division of PolyGram Classics & Jazz, and was dissolved upon the merger of PolyGram and MCA that created the Universal Music Group in January 1999.

Antilles

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