Savoy Records
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Savoy Records the name of two record labels, one in the United States of America, and the other in the United Kingdom.
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Savoy Records (USA)
Savoy Records is a United States record label founded in 1942 by Herman Lubinsky and Ozzier Cadena (father of rock musician Dez Cadena and punk rock singer Tony Cadena). The Newark, New Jersey label issued many of the important early bebop jazz albums. With the rise of Rock and Roll, Lubinsky shifted to focus more on Gospel music, recording many of the finest groups of the 1950s and cementing Savoy's preeminence in this field through its association with James Cleveland and his Gospel Music Workshop of America.
Malaco Records acquired Savoy's gospel titles and contracts in the 1960s. After Lubinsky's death in 1974, Clive Davis (then manager of Arista Records) acquired the label's bebop catalogue.
African American Newark artists never liked Herman Lubinsky, who they believed grossly underpaid them for their work. Tiny Price, a journalist for the black newspaper The Newark Herald News said of Savoy and Lubinsky.
- There's no doubt everybody hated Herman Lubinsky. If he messed with you, you were messed. At the same time, some of those people — many of them Newark's top singers and musicians — would never have been exposed to records if he didn't do what he did. Except for Lubinsky, all the hot little numbers, like Buddy Johnson's 'Cherry' would have been lost. The man may have been hated, but he saved a lot of our history — for us and for future generations.
Savoy Artists
USA Savoy disc of the 1940s
- Cannonball Adderley
- Albert Ayler
- Chet Baker
- Art Blakey
- Paul Bley
- Ray Bryant
- Donald Byrd
- The Caravans
- Sonny Clark
- James Cleveland
- Dorothy Love Coates
- Ornette Coleman
- John Coltrane
- Sonny Criss
- Miles Davis
- The Davis Sisters
- Paul Desmond
- Eric Dolphy
- Lou Donaldson
- Kenny Dorham
- Kenny Drew
- Booker Ervin
- Bill Evans
- Tommy Flanagan
- Red Garland
- Stan Getz
- Dexter Gordon
- Grant Green
- Johnny Griffin
- Hampton Hawes
- Keith Jarrett
- Duke Jordan
- Jackie McLean
- Roberta Martin
- Charles Mingus
- Hank Mobley
- Thelonious Monk
- Wes Montgomery
- Lee Morgan
- Phineas Newborn Jr.
- Charlie Parker
- Art Pepper
- Bud Powell
- Sonny Rollins
- Wayne Shorter
- Horace Silver
- Bobby Timmons
- Lennie Tristano
- McCoy Tyner
- Mal Waldron
- Clara Ward
Further reading
"Swing City:Newark Nightlife, 1925-1950," by Barbara K. Kukla.
External links
- SavoyJazz.com (http://www.savoyjazz.com)
- Discographical listing (http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Labels/savoy.htm)
- Gospel discography (http://www.island.net/~blues/savoy.htm)
Savoy Records (UK)
Savoy Records is also a British label based in Manchester.
External link
- Savoy UK (http://www.abel.net.uk/~savoy/1records.html)