Impulse!

label de jazz basé à New York

Impulse!, occasionnellement stylisé ¡mpulse! Records et ¡!, est un label discographique américain, basé à New York.

Impulse!
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Fondation 1960
Fondateur Creed Taylor
Maison de disques Universal Music Group
Distributeur Verve Records
Genre Jazz
Pays d'origine Drapeau des États-Unis États-Unis
Siège New York
Site web www.impulserecords.com

Histoire

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Lancé en 1960 par Creed Taylor comme filiale jazz de ABC-Paramount Records, Impulse! signe dès 1961 John Coltrane et produira tous ses disques jusqu'à sa mort. La même année, Taylor est remplacé par Bob Thiele, qui s'associe à l'ingénieur du son Rudy Van Gelder : ensemble, ils vont pendant 13 ans, enregistrer ce qu'ils appellent eux-mêmes « The new wave in jazz » (« la nouvelle vague/courant du jazz »). Mais si le label est surtout connu pour ses productions d'artistes de free jazz (Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp...), il enregistra aussi des musiciens plus accessibles au grand public, comme Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, ou Shirley Scott.

Impulse! produisit des disques jusqu'en 1974 et est vendue à MCA Records en 1979 ; depuis 1995, le nom du label est ponctuellement réutilisé pour de nouveaux albums et son catalogue appartient à Verve Records, au sein de Universal Music Group.

Les albums d'Impulse! sont connus pour leur attrait visuel. La livrée noire, orange et blanche est conçue par Fran Attaway (alors connue sous le nom de Fran Scott), à qui Taylor attribue également l'établissement de la tradition du label consistant à utiliser des photographes de pointe pour ses pochettes[1]. Le schéma de couleurs est choisi pour sa luminosité et parce qu'aucun autre label n'utilisait ce mélange[2].

Le logo du label présentait le nom Impulse! dans une police lourde, sans empattement et en minuscules, suivi d'un point d'exclamation qui reflétait le « i » minuscule du début. Pendant la majeure partie des années 1960, les pochettes des albums d'Impulse! présentaient le logo en lettres orange dans un cercle blanc, avec des points d'exclamation noir et orange au-dessus, et le numéro de catalogue en dessous. L'album A Love Supreme fait exception à la règle, puisqu'il utilise le logo en noir et blanc. En 1968, le badge circulaire de la pochette a été remplacé par un motif unicolore représentant le logo simplifié d'Impulse! et le logo d'ABC Records côte à côte dans une bordure rectangulaire divisée.

Artistes notoires

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Discographie

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N# Artiste Album
1 J. J. Johnson et Kai Winding The Great Kai and J.J.
2 Ray Charles Genius + Soul = Jazz
3 Kai Winding The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones
4 Gil Evans Out of the Cool
5 Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth
6 John Coltrane Africa/Brass
7 Art Blakey Jazz Messengers
8 Max Roach Percussion Bitter Sweet
9 Gil Evans Into the Hot
10 John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard
11 Quincy Jones The Quintessence
12 Benny Carter Further Definitions
13 Curtis Fuller Soul Trombone
14 Milt Jackson Statements
15 Count Basie And the Kansas City 7
16 Max Roach It's Time
17 Jackie Paris Song is Paris
18 McCoy Tyner Inception
19 Manny Albam Jazz Goes to the Movies
20 Shelly Manne 2, 3, 4
21 John Coltrane Coltrane
22 Curtis Fuller Cabin in the Sky
23 Roy Haynes Out of the Afternoon
24 Michael Brown Alarums and Excursions
25 Oscar Brand Morality
26 Duke Ellington Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
27 Freddie Hubbard The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard
28 Coleman Hawkins Desifinado
29 Chico Hamilton Passin' Thru
30 John Coltrane & Duke Ellington Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
31 George Wein And the Newport Festival All Stars
32 John Coltrane Ballads
33 McCoy Tyner Reaching Fourth
34 Coleman Hawkins Today And Now
35 Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
36 Compilation Americans In Europe 1
37 Compilation Americans In Europe 2
38 Freddie Hubbard The Body and the Soul
39 McCoy Tyner Nights of Ballads and Blues
40 John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
41 Paul Gonsalves Cleopatra Feelin' Jazzy
42 John Coltrane Impressions
43 Sonny Stitt Now!
44 Beverly Jenkins Gordon Jenkins Presents My Wife The Blues Singer
45 Art Blakey A Jazz Message
46 Gary McFarland Point of Departure
47 Gloria Coleman 'Soul Sisters
48 McCoy Tyner Live at Newport
49 Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison Illumination
50 John Coltrane Live at Birdland
51 Shirley Scott For Members Only
52 Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves Salt and Pepper
53 Freda Payne After the Lights Go Down Low
54 Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
55 Paul Gonsalves Tell It the Way It Is!
56 Yusef Lateef Jazz Round The World
57 Johnny Hartman I Just Dropped By To Say Hello
58 Terry Gibbs Take It From Me
59 Chico Hamilton Man From Two Worlds, The
60 Charles Mingus Mingus Plays Piano
61 Johnny Hodges Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges
62 Lorez Alexandria Alexandria The Great
63 McCoy Tyner Today and Tomorrow
64 Clark Terry Happy Horns of Clark Terry, The
65 Ben Webster See You At The Fair
66 John Coltrane Crescent
67 Shirley Scott Great Scott!!
68 J. J. Johnson Proof Positive
69 Yusef Lateef Live At Pep's
70 Milt Jackson Jazz 'n Samba
71 Archie Shepp Four For Trane
72 Billy Taylor & Quincy Jones My Fair Lady Loves Jazz
73 Shirley Scott Everybody Loves A Lover
74 Johnny Hartman Voice That Is, The
75 Oliver Nelson More Blues And The Abstract Truth
76 Lorez Alexandria More Of The Great Lorez Alexandria
77 John Coltrane A Love Supreme
78 Lionel Hampton You Better Know It!!!
79 McCoy Tyner McCoy Tyner Plays Ellington
80 Russian Jazz Quartet Happiness
81 Shirley Scott Queen of the Organ
82 Chico Hamilton Chic Chic Chico
83 Lambert, Hendricks and Ross Sing a Song of Basie
84 Yusef Lateef 1984
85 John Coltrane The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
86 Archie Shepp Fire Music
87 Coleman Hawkins Wrapped Tight
88 Elvin Jones Dear John C.
89 Lawrence Brown Inspired Abandon
90 John Coltrane New Wave In Jazz
91 Sonny Rollins On Impulse
92 Yusef Lateef Psychicemotus
93 Shirley Scott Latin Shadows
94 John Coltrane & Archie Shepp New Thing at Newport
95 John Coltrane Ascension 1
95 John Coltrane Ascension 2
96 Pee Wee Russell and Marshall Brown Ask Me Now!
97 Archie Shepp On This Night
98 Dannie Richmond "In" Jazz For The Culture Set
99 Compilation Definitive Jazz Scene 1
100 Compilation Definitive Jazz Scene 2
1972 Compilation Irrepressible Impulses
9101 Compilation Definitive Jazz Scene 3
9102 Chico Hamilton El Chico
9103 John Lee Hooker It Serves You Right to Suffer
9104 Gary McFarland Tijuana Jazz
9105 Gábor Szabó Gypsy '66
9106 John Coltrane Kulu Sé Mama
9107 Louie Bellson Thunderbird
9108 Earl Hines Once Upon A Time
9109 Shirley Scott On A Clear Day
9110 John Coltrane Meditations
9111 Sonny Rollins Alfie
9112 Gary McFarland Profiles
9113 Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle
9114 Chico Hamilton Further Adventures Of El Chico, The
9115 Stanley Turrentine Let It Go
9116 Benny Carter Additions to Further Definitions
9117 Yusef Lateef A Flat, G Flat And C
9118 Archie Shepp Live In San Francisco 2/19/66
9119 Shirley Scott Roll 'Em: Shirley Scott Plays The Big Bands
9120 John Coltrane Expression
9121 Sonny Rollins East Broadway Run Down
9122 Gary McFarland & Gábor Szabó Simpatico
9123 Gábor Szabó Spellbinder
9124 John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard Again!
9125 Yusef Lateef Golden Flute, The
9126 Roswell Rudd Everywhere
9127 Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill Spanish Rice
9128 Gábor Szabó Jazz Raga
9129 Oliver Nelson Sound Pieces
9130 Chico Hamilton The Dealer
9131 Zoot Sims Waiting Game
9132 Hank Jones & Oliver Nelson Happenings
9133 Shirley Scott & Clark Terry Soul Duo
9134 Archie Shepp Mama Too Tight
9135 Chico O'Farrill Nine Flags
9136 Gary McFarland & Steve Kuhn October Suite, The
9137 Pee Wee Russell & Red Allen College Concert, The
9138 Pharoah Sanders Tauhid
9139 Marion Brown Three For Shepp
9140 John Coltrane Om
9141 Shirley Scott Girl Talk
9142 Bande-son Sweet Love, Bitter
9143 Phil Woods Greek Cooking
9144 Oliver Nelson Kennedy Dream, The
9145 Compilation Intercollegiate Music Festival 1
9146 Gábor Szabó Sorcerer, The
9147 Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson Spirit of '67, The
9148 John Coltrane Cosmic Music
9149 Dizzy Gillespie Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
9150 Jazzbo Collins Lovely Bunch Of Jazzbo Collins And The Bandidos, A
9151 Gábor Szabó Wind, Sky And Diamonds
9152 Mel Brown Chicken Fat
9153 Oliver Nelson Live From Los Angeles
9154 Archie Shepp Magic Of Ju-Ju, The
9155 Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village 12/18/66 2/26/67
9156 Alice Coltrane A Monastic Trio
9157 Clark Terry It's What's Happening - The Varitone Sound of CT
9158 Rolf Kühn & Joachim Kühn Impressions Of New York
9159 Gábor Szabó Light My Fire
9160 Elvin Jones & Richard Davis Heavy Sounds
9161 John Coltrane Selflessness
9162 Archie Shepp Three For A Quarter, One For A Dime
9163 Tom Scott Honeysuckle Breeze, The
9164 Bill Plummer Cosmic Brotherhood
9165 Albert Ayler Love Cry
9166 Emil Richards Journey To Bliss
9167 Gábor Szabó More Sorcery
9168 Oliver Nelson & Steve Allen Soulful Brass
9169 Mel Brown Wizard, The
9170 Archie Shepp Way Ahead, The
9171 Tom Scott Rural Still Life
9172
9173 Gábor Szabó Best Of
9174 Chico Hamilton Best Of
9175 Albert Ayler New Grass
9176 Ahmad Jamal At The Top - Poinciana Revisited
9177
9178 Ornette Coleman Ornette at 12
9179
9180 Mel Brown Blues for We
9181 Pharoah Sanders Karma
9182 Emil Richards Spirit of 1976
9183 Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra
9184 Dave MacKay & Vicky Hamilton Dave MacKay and Vicky Hamilton
9185 Alice Coltrane Huntington Ashram Monastery
9186 Mel Brown I'd Rather Suck My Thumb
9187 Ornette Coleman Crisis
9188 Archie Shepp For Losers
9189 Milt Jackson That's The Way It Is
9190 Pharoah Sanders Jewels Of Thought
9191 Albert Ayler Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe
9192 Buddy Montgomery This Rather Than That
9193 Jackson & Ray Brown Memphis Jackson
9194 Ahmad Jamal Awakening, The
9195 John Coltrane Transition
9196 Alice Coltrane Ptah, the El Daoud
9197 Clifford Coulter East Side San Jose
9198 Dave MacKay and Vicky Hamilton Rainbow
9199 Pharoah Sanders Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)
9200 John Coltrane His Greatest Years 1
9201
9202 John Coltrane Live in Seattle
9203 Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda
9204 Gábor Szabó His Great Hits
9205 Genesis Trespass
9206 Pharoah Sanders Thembi
9207 Howard Roberts Antelope Freeway
9208 Albert Ayler The Last Album
9209 Mel Brown Mel Brown's Fifth
9210 Alice Coltrane Universal Consciousness
9211 John Coltrane Sun Ship
9212 Archie Shepp Things Have Got To Change
9213 Chico Hamilton His Great Hits
9214 John Klemmer Constant Throb
9215 Michael White Spirit Dance
9216 Clifford Coulter Do It Now, Worry 'bout It Later
9217 Ahmad Jamal Freeflight
9218 Alice Coltrane World Galaxy
9219 Pharoah Sanders Black Unity
9220 John Klemmer Waterfalls
9221 Michael White Pneuma
9222 Archie Shepp Attica Blues
9223 John Coltrane His Greatest Years 2
9224 Alice Coltrane Lord of Lords
9225 Alice Coltrane John Coltrane: Infinity
9226 Ahmad Jamal Outertimeinnerspace
9227 Pharoah Sanders Live at the East
9228 Compilation Impulse Energy Essentials
9229 Pharoah Sanders Best of
9230 Milt Jackson & Ray Brown Just The Way It Had To Be
9231 Archie Shepp Cry of My People, The
9232 Alice Coltrane Reflection On Creation And Space
9233 Pharoah Sanders Wisdom Through Music
9234 Charles Mingus Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9235 McCoy Tyner Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9236 Sonny Rollins Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9237 Freddie Hubbard Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9238 Ahmad Jamal Tranquility
9239 Sun Ra Atlantis
9240 Keith Jarrett Fort Yawuh
9241 Michael White Land of Spirit and Light, The
9242 Sun Ra The Nubians of Plutonia
9243 Sun Ra The Magic City
9244 John Klemmer Intensity
9245 Sun Ra Angels and Demons at Play
9246 John Coltrane Live in Japan
9247 Gary Saracho En Medio
9248 Gato Barbieri Chapter 1: Latin America
9249 Mel Brown Big Foot Country Girl
9250 Dewey Redman Ear Of The Behearer, The
9251 Sam Rivers Streams
9252 Marion Brown Geechee Recollections
9253 Compilation Saxophone, The
9254 Pharoah Sanders Village of the Pharaohs
9255 Sun Ra Astro Black
9256 Duke Ellington Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9257 Albert Ayler Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9258 Coleman Hawkins Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9259 Yusef Lateef Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9260 Ahmad Jamal Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9261 Pharoah Sanders Elevation
9262 Archie Shepp Kwanza
9263 Gato Barbieri Chapter Two - Hasta Siempre
9264 Compilation Impulse Artists on Tour
9265 Sun Ra Jazz In Silhouette
9266 Compilation Impulsively
9267 Compilation No Energy Crisis
9268 Michael White Father Music, Mother Dance
9269 John Klemmer Magic and Movement
9270 Sun Ra Fate In a Pleasant Mood
9271 Sun Ra Supersonic Sounds
9272 Compilation Drums, The
9273 John Coltrane Africa/Brass 2
9274 Keith Jarrett Treasure Island
9275 Marion Brown Sweet Earth Flying
9276 Sun Ra The Bad And The Beautiful
9277 John Coltrane Interstellar Space
9278 John Coltrane His Greatest Years 3
9279 Gato Barbieri Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata
9280 Pharoah Sanders Love in Us All
9281 Michael White Go With The Flow
9282 Milt Jackson Impulse Years, The
9283 Elvin Jones Impulse Years, The
9284 Compilation Bass, The
9285 Compilation Ellingtonia 2
9286 Sam Rivers Crystals
9287 Sun Ra Night of The Purple Moon (jamais sorti)
9288 Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth (jamais sorti)
9289 Sun Ra My Brother, the Wind
9290 Sun Ra Sound Sun Pleasure (jamais sorti)
9291 Sun Ra Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy (jamais sorti)
9292 Sun Ra We Travel the Spaceways (jamais sorti)
9293 Sun Ra Other Planes of There (jamais sorti)
9294 Sun Ra Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow (jamais sorti)
9295 Sun Ra Monorails and Satellites (jamais sorti)
9296 Sun Ra Cymbals (jamais sorti)
9297 Sun Ra Crystal Spears (jamais sorti)
9298 Sun Ra Pathways To Unknown Worlds
9299 Howard Roberts Equinox Express Elevator
9300 Dewey Redman Coincide
9301 Keith Jarrett Death and the Flower
9302 Sam Rivers Hues
9303 Gato Barbieri Chapter Four: Alive In New York
9304 Marion Brown Vista
9305 Keith Jarrett Backhand
9306 John Coltrane Gentle Side of John Coltrane, The
9307 Lucky Thompson Dancing Sunbeam
9308 Brass Fever Brass Fever
9309
9310 Yusef Lateef Club Date
9311 Gloria Lynne I Don't Know How to Love Him
9312 Sonny Criss Warm and Sonny
9313 Jimmy Ponder Illusions
9314 John Handy Hard Work
9315 Keith Jarrett Mysteries
9316 Sam Rivers Sizzle
9317 Bobby Blue Bland & B.B. King Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together Again...Live
9318 Wade Marcus Metamorphosis
9319 Brass Fever Time Is Running Out
9320
9321 Betty Carter What A Little Moonlight Can Do
9322 Keith Jarrett Shades
9323
9324 John Handy Carnival
9325 John Coltrane Other Village Vanguard Tapes, The 11/61
9326 Sonny Criss Joy of Sax
9327 Jimmy Ponder White Room
9328 Blue Mitchell African Violet
9329 Les McCann Music Lets Me Be
9330 Grady Tate Master Grady Tate
9331 Keith Jarrett Byablue
9332 John Coltrane First Meditations
9333 Les McCann Live At The Roxy
9334 Keith Jarrett Bop-Be
9335 Oliver Nelson Three Dimensions
9336 Albert Ayler Village Concerts, The
9337 Kenny Dorham/Sonny Criss Bopmasters, The
9338 McCoy Tyner Early Trios, The
9339 Cecil Taylor New Breed, The
9340 Gil Evans & Gary McFarland Great Arrangers, The
9341 Shirley Scott Great Live Sessions, The 9/23/64
9342 Quincy Jones Quintessential Charts, The
9343 Hugh Masekela The African Connection
9344
9345 John Coltrane Feelin' Good - Mastery 1
9346 John Coltrane To the Beat of a Different Drum - Mastery 2
9347 Blue Mitchell Summer Soft
9348 Keith Jarrett Best of
9349 Sonny Rollins There Will Never Be Another You
9350 Duke Ellington Great Tenor Encounters, The
9351 Count Basie Retrospective Sessions
9352 Sam Rivers Trio Sessions, The
9353 Yusef Lateef Live Session, The
9354 Tom Scott, John Klemmer, Gato Barbieri Foundations
9355
9356 Paul Horn Plenty Of Horn
9357 Archie Shepp Further Fire Music
9358
9359 Pee Wee Russell Salute To Newport
9360 John Coltrane Jupiter Variations - Mastery 3
9361 John Coltrane Trane's Modes - Mastery 4

Notes et références

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  1. (en) « Birka Jazz - Impulse jazz album covers ».
  2. (en-US) « The Impulse Records Story : The House That Trane Built - JazzTimes », sur JazzTimes (consulté le ).

Liens externes

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