Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records, fondazione 1949: artisti e album jazz dell'etichetta.

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La Fantasy Records è una storica etichetta discografica statunitense fondata da Max e Sol Weiss nel 1949 a San Francisco (California) attualmente di proprietà dell'Concord Music Group e distribuita dall'Universal Music Group. Durante i primi anni l'etichetta si dedicò alla pubblicazioni dei lavori del pianista jazz Dave Brubeck, che era anche uno dei finanziatori. Successivamente divenne nota principalmente per le pubblicazioni del comico e artista Lenny Bruce, del musicista jazz Vince Guaraldi, e del gruppo rock Creedence Clearwater Revival.

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Artisti di Fantasy Records

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For unofficial releases, see Fantasy (4).
Fantasy Records, along with its subsidiary , was established in San Francisco, California, USA, in 1949 by Max and Sol Weiss. Their first artist was an Oakland pianist named Dave Brubeck, and when Brubeck's recordings began to sell, they went on to record Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and Cal Tjader, as well as Odetta, beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, and comic Lenny Bruce.

In August 1958, Fantasy introduced its first stereo discs, 4 previously unreleased and 6 having been released earlier in mono.

Saul Zaentz, who had joined Fantasy as a salesman in 1955, assembled a group of investors in 1967 and purchased the label from the Weiss brothers. They hit the jackpot the following year with Creedence Clearwater Revival, the most successful four-piece American rock 'n' roll band of all time.

The enormous success of Creedence enabled Fantasy to expand. In the early 1970s, under the leadership of label president Ralph Kaffel, Fantasy purchased the catalogs of three of New York's top jazz independents: Prestige (also including its subsidiaries New Jazz, Bluesville, Folklore, Swingville, Tru-Sound, and Moodsville), Riverside (

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