About
US label. Label Code: LC 0236 / LC LC 00236. For unofficial releases/counterfeit/bootlegs, please [l132473]. [b]1960[/b] The Impulse! label was established as a jazz subsidiary of Am-Par Record Corp., initially under the direction of Creed Taylor and soon afterwards Bob Thiele. In the 60s, the Canadian versions of the label were manufactured by Sparton Of Canada Ltd. and wear the Sparton Impulse! Records label. [b]1962[/b] The company names changed to ABC-Paramount Records, Inc. - The Sparton Impulse! Records remains to mention Am-Par Record Corp. after the company name changed. [b]1967[/b] A new change to ABC Records, Inc. In this period sometimes a second ABC Records brand appears on the label. [b]1974[/b] Versions on the concentric label design from the 70s commonly display the ABC Impulse! label brand. It operated until 1979, though new recordings had stopped by 1977; it survived on with reissues. [b]1979[/b] ABC was bought by MCA Records and Impulse! shut down along with all of the other ABC-affiliated labels. Impulse is known as [i]The House That Trane Built[/i] because of John Coltrane's 1961-67 association with the label. MCA revived the label mainly as a reissue imprint with a few new releases in the 1980s. It was reactivated as part of MCA-owned [l1071] with new artist signings including Diana Krall in the 1990s. Following a series of major label buy-outs and mergers, Impulse! is now part of the The Verve Music Group unit of the larger multi-national Universal Music Group.
Sub-labels
MCA Impulse!
The third incarnation of the Impulse! label, formerly [l202935]. Started after [l878] acquired [l12220] in 1979.
The Impulse! Reissue Series
1995-1997 limited edition series of Impulse reissues remastered from analog. These can only be definitively distinguished by the runouts, which say MASTERED BY CAPITOL. The 1995 series initiall...
Impulse! Master Sessions
Series by the [l=Impulse!] label. [b]This is a series, not a label. Only add this to the "Series" field, together with the actual label of the release.[/b]
The Dedication Series
Impulse! Spiritual Village
Pharoah Sanders Collection
The Virtuoso Series
[l26557] probably attempt to create a series to participate in the "Third Stream" and fuse jazz with classical elements.
University Series Of Fine Recordings
The New Thing
Impulse! CD Collection
Impulse! Originals
[b]This is a series, not a label. Only add this to the "Series" field, together with the actual label of the release.[/b] Started about 2005 by the [l=Impulse!] label with an equal layout of the...
Sparton Impulse! Records
Label used for [l=Impulse!] releases in Canada while the label was being handled by [l=Sparton Of Canada Ltd.] prior to 1968.
The Definitive Jazz Scene
Series of jazz compilations released by [l26557],
Contact
E-Mail: contact[at]vervemusicgroup.com