Gazell

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Bonnier Gazell Music
Parent company The Bonnier Group
Founded 1949 (1949)
Founder John Engelbrekt
Dag Häggqvist
Distributor(s) Bonnier Music Publishing
Genre Jazz
Country of origin Sweden
Location Stockholm
Official website www.gazell.net

Gazell is a jazz record label founded by John Engelbrekt in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1949.

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing, promotion, and enforcement of copyright for sound recordings and music videos, while also conducting talent scouting and development of new artists, and maintaining contracts with recording artists and their managers. The term "record label" derives from the circular label in the center of a vinyl record which prominently displays the manufacturer's name, along with other information. Within the mainstream music industry, recording artists have traditionally been reliant upon record labels to broaden their consumer base, market their albums, and be both promoted and heard on music streaming services, radio, and television. Record labels also provide publicists, who assist performers in gaining positive media coverage, and arrange for their merchandise to be available via stores and other media outlets.

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History

In 1949, John Engelbrekt created the label Gazell in Stockholm, Sweden, [1] to distribute jazz albums. In September 1950, he founded a jazz club in Stockholm called Gazell. [2] In 1957, recordings from the club and by Engelbrekt were sold to the Scandinavian Record Company (Sonet Records) run by Gunnar Bergström and Sven Lindholm, while the rights to the label Gazell were sold to Dag Häggqvist, [2] [3] though other sources say Häggqvist started the label himself in 1950.

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Jazz is seen by many as "America's classical music". Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

Sonet Records Swedish record label

Sonet Records is a jazz/pop record label operating as an imprint of Universal Music Sweden. It was founded in Sweden in 1956.

Häggqvist sold Gazell to Sonet in 1960 and was run by Sam Charters until Sonet was acquired by PolyGram in 1991. Häggqvist retained the rights to the label again in 1993 when he formed Gazell Music AB. [2]

PolyGram, founded in 1962, acquired by Universal Music Group in 1998 and merged into that group in 1999, was a Dutch entertainment company, which started as a major record label founded by Dutch Philips and German Siemens as a holding company for their music interests in 1972. The name was chosen to reflect the Siemens interest Polydor Records and the Philips interest Phonogram Records. The company traced its origins through Deutsche Grammophon back to the inventor of the flat disk gramophone, Emil Berliner.

In 2004, Häggqvist made a deal with Bonnier Music Publishing, a subsidiary of The Bonnier Group. [4] Since then, the companies have been called Bonnier Gazell Music.

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References

  1. ↑ Barry Kernfeld, ed. (2002). "Gazell (i)". The new Grove dictionary of jazz, vol. 2 (2 ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 23. ISBN   1561592846.
  2. 1 2 3 "GAZELL - introduction in English". Archived from the original on 2007-03-05. Retrieved 2007-01-14.
  3. ↑ "Are they only in it for the money? – Subsidiary strategy and impact on local clusters in the recorded music industry: the case of Sweden" by Daniel Hallencreutz and Per Lundequist, retrieved here Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine . on January 14, 2006.
  4. ↑ "Bonnier Music Publishing - Frontpage". Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Retrieved 2007-01-14.
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