Landmark Records

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Landmark Records
Founded1985 (1985)
Founder Orrin Keepnews
Defunct1992 (1992)
StatusInactive
Genre Jazz
Country of originU.S.

Landmark Records was an American jazz record company and label founded in 1985 by Orrin Keepnews. Landmark's releases included music by Donald Byrd, Jack DeJohnette, Jimmy Heath, Vincent Herring, Bobby Hutcherson, Mulgrew Miller, Buddy Montgomery, and reissues of Cannonball Adderley. [1]

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Its catalogue also included two jazz albums by the Kronos Quartet in which they covered the work of Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk. Landmark was bought by Muse Records in 1993. Muse and Landmark were acquired by 32 Jazz in 1996. [2] [3] [4] [5] In 2003, Savoy Jazz (which had become a subsidiary of Nippon Columbia) acquired the rights to the Muse and Landmark catalogs from 32 Jazz. [6]

Discography

1300 Series

LCD ARTIST TITLE [7]

(1301–1307 were released under The Cannonball Addderley Collection Volumes 1–7 and consisted of the Riverside Records masters (originally produced by Orrin Keepnews) that Adderley took with him when he moved to Capitol Records after Riverside Records went bankrupt. This explains why these were never released as part of the "Original Jazz Classics" series from Fantasy Records, the subsequent owner of the Riverside Records catalog–in addition, V.7 was previously unreleased in the US).

500/1500 Series

Catalog No. (LLP/LCD)ArtistTitleNotes
1501 Bobby Hutcherson Good Bait
1502 Yusef Lateef In Nigeria
1503Keith MacDonaldThis Is Keith MacDonald
1504 Jack DeJohnette The Jack DeJohnette Piano Album
1505 Kronos Quartet Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk
1506 Jimmy Heath New Picture
1507 Mulgrew Miller Keys to the City
1508Bobby Hutcherson Color Schemes
1509Keith MacDonaldWaiting
1510Kronos Quartet Music of Bill Evans
1511Mulgrew Miller Work!
1512 Buddy Montgomery Ties of Love
1513Bobby Hutcherson In the Vanguard
1514Jimmy Heath Peer Pleasure
1515Mulgrew Miller Wingspan
1516 Donald Byrd Harlem Blues
1517Bobby Hutcherson Cruisin' the 'Bird
1518Buddy Montgomery So Why Not?
1519Mulgrew Miller The Countdown
1520 Ralph Moore Images
1521 Charlie Rouse Epistrophy
1522Bobby Hutcherson Ambos Mundos
1523Donald Byrd Sextet featuring Joe Henderson Getting Down to Business
1524Weslia WhitfieldLucky to Be Me
1525Mulgrew Miller From Day to Day
1526Ralph Moore Furthermore
1527 Vincent Herring Evidence
1528 Nat Adderley Quintet Talkin' About You
1529Bobby Hutcherson Mirage
1530Donald Byrd A City Called Heaven
1531Weslia WhitfieldLive in San Francisco
1532Mulgrew Miller Time and Again
1533Vincent Herring Dawnbird
1534 Elvin Jones Live at the Village Vanguard Volume One
1535 Joe Roccisano OrchestraThe Shape I'm In
1536Indigo QuartetteQuartette Indigo
1537 Dannie Richmond Quintet The Last Mingus Band A.D. reissue of Gatemouth LP
1538Jimmy Heath The Time and the Place
1539 Don Braden Landing Zone
1540 Leon Lee Dorsey The Watcher
1541Joe Roccisano Orchestra Leave Your Mind Behind
1542 John Hicks In the Mix
1543 Mel Lewis Mellifluous reissue of Gatemouth LP
1544Weslia WhitfieldNice Work
1545John Hicks Piece for My Peace
1548 Michael Cochrane Impressions
1551Weslia Whitfield with Mike Greenhill QuartetNobody Else But Mereissue of Myoho LP

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