Freedom Records was a jazz record label headed by Shel Safran and founded by Alan Bates as a division of

Black Lion Records Black Lion Records was a British jazz record company and record label, label based in London, England. Alan Bates founded Black Lion Records in 1968. The label had two series of releases, one for British jazz musicians and one for internation ...

. Individual recordings were distributed via

Polydor Records Polydor Limited, also known as Polydor Records, is a British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group. It has a close relationship with Universal's Interscope Geffen A&M Records label, which distributes Polydor's releases in ...

and

Transatlantic Records Transatlantic Records was a British independent record label. The company was established in 1961, primarily as an importer of American folk, blues and jazz records by many of the artists who influenced the burgeoning British folk and blues boom ...

during the early 1970s before the company was bought by

Arista Records Arista Records ( ) is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was previously a division of Bertelsmann Music G ...

with the imprint dubbed Arista/Freedom in 1975.

Discography

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Albert Ayler Albert Ayler (; July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer. After early experience playing rhythm and blues and bebop, Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s. Ho ...

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Gato Barbieri Leandro "Gato" Barbieri (November 28, 1932 – April 2, 2016) was an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and is known for his Latin jazz recordings of the 1970s. His nickname, Gato, is Spa ...

Dollar Brand Abdullah Ibrahim (born Adolph Johannes Brand on 9 October 1934), previously known as Dollar Brand, is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cap ...

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Cecil Taylor Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet. Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting in comple ...

- '' Silent Tongues'' *1006:

Roswell Rudd Roswell Hopkins Rudd Jr. (November 17, 1935 – December 21, 2017) was an American jazz trombonist and composer. Although skilled in a variety of genres of jazz (including Dixieland, which he performed while in college), and other genres of musi ...

- '' Flexible Flyer'' *1007: Andrew Hill - ''

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Oliver Lake Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American List of jazz saxophonists, jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano saxophone, soprano and flute. D ...

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Heavy Spirits ''Heavy Spirits'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Oliver Lake, which was recorded in 1975 and released on the Freedom Records, Arista Freedom label. The album features Lake playing in different settings: three quintet tracks with Olu Dar ...

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Dewey Redman Walter Dewey Redman (May 17, 1931 – September 2, 2006) was an American saxophonist who performed free jazz as a bandleader with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett. Redman mainly played tenor saxophone, though he occasionally also played alto s ...

- '' Look for the Black Star'' *1012:

Julius Hemphill Julius Arthur Hemphill (January 24, 1938 – April 2, 1995) was a jazz composer and saxophone player. He performed mainly on alto saxophone, less often on soprano and tenor saxophones and flute. Biography Hemphill was born in Fort Worth, Texas, ...

- '' Coon Bid'ness'' *1013:

Mal Waldron Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...

- '' Blues for Lady Day'' *1014: Randy Weston - '' Blues to Africa'' *1015:

Frank Lowe Frank Lowe (June 24, 1943 – September 19, 2003) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer. Biography Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Lowe took up the tenor saxophone at the age of 12. As an adult he moved to San Francisco, where h ...

- ''Fresh'' *1016:

Archie Shepp Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz. Biography Early life Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but ...

- '' There's a Trumpet in My Soul'' *1017: Tolliver, Charles - '' The Ringer'' *1018: Ayler, Albert - '' Witches & Devils'' *1019: New York Mary - ''New York Mary'' *1020:

Hampton Hawes Hampton Barnett Hawes Jr. (November 13, 1928 – May 22, 1977) was an American jazz pianist. He was the author of the memoir ''Raise Up Off Me'', which won the Deems-Taylor Award for music writing in 1975. Early life Hampton Hawes was born on No ...

- ''Live at the Montmartre'' *1021: Ted Curson - '' Tears for Dolphy'' *1022: Human Arts Ensemble - ''Under the Sun'' *1023: Hill, Andrew - '' Live At Montreux'' *1024:

- '' Ntu: Point from Which Creation Begins'' *1025: John Payne & Louis Levin - ''Bedtime Stories'' *1026: Randy Weston - '' Berkshire Blues'' *1027: Shepp, Archie - '' Montreux One'' *1028:

- '' Dogon A.D.'' *1029: Rudd, Roswell - ''

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'' *1030: Ted Curson - '' Flip Top'' *1031:

Jan Garbarek Jan Garbarek () (born 4 March 1947) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Østfold, southeastern Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war, Czesław Gar ...

- '' Esoteric Circle'' *1032: Stanley Cowell - '' Blues for the Viet Cong'' *1033: Stephane Grappelli - ''Parisian Thoroughfare'' *1034: Archie Shepp - '' Montreux Two'' *1035: New York Mary - ''Piece of the Apple'' *1036: Payne, John & Louis Levin - ''Razor's Edge'' *1037:

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and

Anthony Braxton Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Braxton grew up on the South Side of Chi ...

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'' *1038: Cecil Taylor - '' Indent'' *1039: Human Arts Ensemble - '' Whisper of Dharma'' *1040: Miroslav Vitous - ''Miroslav'' *1041:

Dudu Pukwana Mthutuzeli Dudu Pukwana (18 July 1938 – 30 June 1990) was a South African saxophonist and composer. Early years in South Africa Dudu Pukwana was born in Walmer, Port Elizabeth, Walmer Township, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He grew up studyin ...

- '' Diamond Express'' *1042: Mal Waldron - ''

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Ornette Coleman Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Ja ...

- '' The Great London Concert'' *1901:

Paul Bley Paul Bley, Order of Canada, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a Canadian jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live per ...

- ''Copenhagen And Haarlem'' *1902: Braxton, Anthony - '' The Complete Braxton 1971'' *1903: Art Ensemble Of Chicago - ''Paris Session'' ('' The Spiritual'' and ''

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'' reissued together) *1904: Marion Brown - ''Duets'' *1905: Taylor, Cecil - '' Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come'' *1906: Dave Burrell - '' High Won-High Two''

References

External links

Freedom Records at www.jazzdiscography.com
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