Landmark Records

Landmark Records
Founded	1985 (1985)
Founder	Orrin Keepnews
Defunct	1992 (1992)
Status	Inactive
Genre	Jazz
Country of origin	U.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]

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 Cannonball Adderley – Them Dirty Blues
• 1302 Cannonball Adderley – Cannonball's Bossa Nova
• 1303 Cannonball Adderley – Jazz Workshop Revisited
• 1304 Cannonball Adderley – Cannonball Adderley and the Poll-Winners
• 1305 Cannonball Adderley – The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse
• 1306 Cannonball Adderley – Cannonball Takes Charge
• 1307 Cannonball Adderley – Cannonball in Europe!

(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).

• 1308 Helen Merrill & Dick Katz – A Shade of Difference (reissue)
• 1309 Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson and Cannonball Adderley – Cleanhead & Cannonball
• 1310 Bobby Hutcherson – Landmarks (compilation)

500/1500 Series

Catalog No. (LLP/LCD)	Artist	Title	Notes
1501	Bobby Hutcherson	Good Bait
1502	Yusef Lateef	In Nigeria
1503	Keith MacDonald	This 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
1508	Bobby Hutcherson	Color Schemes
1509	Keith MacDonald	Waiting
1510	Kronos Quartet	Music of Bill Evans
1511	Mulgrew Miller	Work!
1512	Buddy Montgomery	Ties of Love
1513	Bobby Hutcherson	In the Vanguard
1514	Jimmy Heath	Peer Pleasure
1515	Mulgrew Miller	Wingspan
1516	Donald Byrd	Harlem Blues
1517	Bobby Hutcherson	Cruisin' the 'Bird
1518	Buddy Montgomery	So Why Not?
1519	Mulgrew Miller	The Countdown
1520	Ralph Moore	Images
1521	Charlie Rouse	Epistrophy
1522	Bobby Hutcherson	Ambos Mundos
1523	Donald Byrd Sextet featuring Joe Henderson	Getting Down to Business
1524	Weslia Whitfield	Lucky to Be Me
1525	Mulgrew Miller	From Day to Day
1526	Ralph Moore	Furthermore
1527	Vincent Herring	Evidence
1528	Nat Adderley Quintet	Talkin' About You
1529	Bobby Hutcherson	Mirage
1530	Donald Byrd	A City Called Heaven
1531	Weslia Whitfield	Live in San Francisco
1532	Mulgrew Miller	Time and Again
1533	Vincent Herring	Dawnbird
1534	Elvin Jones	Live at the Village Vanguard Volume One
1535	Joe Roccisano Orchestra	The Shape I'm In
1536	Indigo Quartette	Quartette Indigo
1537	Dannie Richmond Quintet	The Last Mingus Band A.D.	reissue of Gatemouth LP
1538	Jimmy Heath	The Time and the Place
1539	Don Braden	Landing Zone
1540	Leon Lee Dorsey	The Watcher
1541	Joe Roccisano Orchestra	Leave Your Mind Behind
1542	John Hicks	In the Mix
1543	Mel Lewis	Mellifluous	reissue of Gatemouth LP
1544	Weslia Whitfield	Nice Work
1545	John Hicks	Piece for My Peace
1548	Michael Cochrane	Impressions
1551	Weslia Whitfield with Mike Greenhill Quartet	Nobody Else But Me	reissue of Myoho LP

See also

• List of record labels

References

1. Kernfeld, Barry (2002). Kernfeld, Barry (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 545. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.
2. Bessman, Jim (18 January 1997). "32 Proves To Be A Prodigious Number For Producer/Label Head Joel Dorn". Billboard: 40–41. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
3. Gitler, Ira; Leonard Feather (2007) [1999]. "Preface". The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press. Page 21 in Google Books preview. ISBN 9780199729074. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
4. Jacobs, Qa'id. Groove Jammy: Rare Groove Classics from the Muse Catalog at AllMusic
5. Hunter Jr., Al (4 March 1999). "Jazz For The Masses 32 Records Is Carving Out A Niche With Reissued Tracks". Philadelphia Daily News. Archived from the original on October 26, 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
6. Porter, Christopher (16 January 2003). "Savoy Acquires Muse & Landmark Catalogs". JazzTimes. Archived from the original on 2014-10-18. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
7. "Complete discography listing".