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| + | "In 1969 [[Ruth White (composer)|Ruth White]] recorded ''[[Flowers of Evil]]'', a record based on French poet Charles Baudelaire’s volume of poetry ''Les Fleurs du mal'', reciting Baudelaire’s words over electronic music – more specifically the Moog synthesizer. The work, released on [[Limelight Records]], is noted for its dark and uncompromisingly [[obtuse]] sound structure."--Sholem Stein | ||
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| - | [[Baudelaire]]'s [[Flowers of Evil]] were put to an [[electronic music|electronic]] setting in 1969. The poems were realized by [[Ruth White]] and released by [[Limelight Records]]. | + | '''Limelight Records''' was a jazz record label and subsidiary of [[Mercury Records]] started in 1962. The catalogue included music by [[Art Blakey]], [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[Earl Hines]], [[Milt Jackson]], [[Gerry Mulligan]], and [[Oscar Peterson]]. |
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| + | Originally headed by [[Quincy Jones]], its activities were directed by the producer [[Jack Tracy]]. Though mainly a jazz label, it also released [[rock and roll|rock]], [[experimental music|experimental]], [[electronic music|electronic]], and [[Music of India|Indian music]]. | ||
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| + | The label's masters are now controlled by [[Verve Records]] and [[The Island Def Jam Music Group]], which has reissued some of the Limelight releases on CD. | ||
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| + | ==Discography== | ||
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| + | ===Albums=== | ||
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| + | ! # | ||
| + | ! Artist | ||
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| + | | 86001 || [[Art Blakey|Blakey, Art]] || ''[['S Make It]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86002 || Various Artists || ''[[I/We Had a Ball]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86003 || Baker, Chet || ''[[Baby Breeze]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86004 || [[Gerry Mulligan|Mulligan, Gerry]] || ''[[Butterfly with Hiccups]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86005 || [[Terry Gibbs|Gibbs, Terry]] || ''El Nutto'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86006 || Jackson, Milt || ''[[In a New Setting]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86007 || Gillespie, Dizzy || ''[[Jambo Caribe]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86008 || Kirk, Roland || ''[[I Talk with the Spirits]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86009 || Adderley, Cannonball & John Coltrane || ''[[Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago|Cannonball and Coltrane]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86010 || Peterson, Oscar || ''[[Canadiana Suite]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86011/12 || Brown, Clifford || ''The Immortal Clifford Brown'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86013 || Dolphy, Eric || ''[[Last Date (Eric Dolphy album)|Last Date]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86014 || [[The Three Sounds|Three Sounds, The]] || ''[[Three Moods]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86015 || Mingus, Charles || ''[[Mingus Revisited]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86016 || McCann, Les || ''[[But Not Really]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86017 || Various Artists || ''[[Charlie Parker 10th Memorial Concert]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86018 || Blakey, Art || ''[[Soul Finger (album)|Soul Finger]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86019 || Baker, Chet || ''[[Baker's Holiday]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86020 || [[Earl Hines|Hines, Earl]] || ''Grand Reunion 1'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86021 || Mulligan, Gerry || ''[[If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em!]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86022 || Gillespie, Dizzy || ''[[The New Continent]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86023 || Peterson, Oscar || ''[[Eloquence (Oscar Peterson album)|Eloquence]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86024 || Jackson, Milt || ''[[Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86025 || McCann, Les || ''[[Beaux J. Pooboo]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86026 || Three Sounds, The || ''[[Beautiful Friendship (The Three Sounds album)|Beautiful Friendship]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86027 || Kirk, Roland || ''[[Rip, Rig and Panic (album)|Rip Rig and Panic]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86028 || Hines, Earl || ''Grand Reunion 2'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86029 || Peterson, Oscar || ''[[With Respect to Nat]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86030 || Mulligan, Gerry || ''[[Feelin' Good (Gerry Mulligan album)|Feelin' Good]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86031 || McCann, Les || ''[[Beaux J. Pooboo]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86032 || Adderley, Cannonball & Nat || ''[[Introducing Nat Adderley|Them Adderleys]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86033 || Kirk, Roland || ''[[Slightly Latin]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86034 || Blakey, Art || ''[[Buttercorn Lady]]'' | ||
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| + | | 86035 || Peterson, Oscar || ''[[With Respect to Nat]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86036 || McCann, Les || ''[[Live at Shelly's Manne-Hole]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86037 || Three Sounds, The || ''[[Today's Sounds]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86038 || Blakey, Art || ''[[Hold On, I'm Coming (album)|Hold On, I'm Coming]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86039 || Peterson, Oscar || ''[[Blues Etude]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86040 || Mulligan, Gerry || ''[[Something Borrowed - Something Blue]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86041 || McCann, Les || ''[[Les McCann Plays the Hits]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86042 || Gillespie, Dizzy || ''[[The Melody Lingers On]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86043 || McCann, Les || ''[[Bucket O' Grease]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86044 || Peterson, Oscar || ''[[Soul Español]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86045 || Jackson, Milt || ''[[Born Free (Milt Jackson album)|Born Free]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86046 || McCann, Les || ''[[Live at Bohemian Caverns - Washington, DC]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86047 || Various Artists || ''Images Fantastiques'' | ||
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| + | | 86048 || Various Artists || ''Panorama Electronique'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86049 || [[Pierre Henry|Henry, Pierre]] || ''Le Voyage'' | ||
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| + | | 86050 || [[Tom Dissevelt|Dissevelt, Tom]] & [[Dick Raaymakers|Kid Baltan]] || ''Songs of the Second Moon'' | ||
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| + | | 86051 || [[Les Percussions de Strasbourg|Percussions Of Strasbourg, The]] || ''The Percussions of Strasbourg'' | ||
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| + | | 86052 || [[Bengt Hambraeus|Hambraeus, Bengt]] || ''Constellations and Interferences'' | ||
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| + | | 86053 || [[Deben Bhattacharya|Bhattacharya, Deben]] || ''Classical Ragas of India'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86054 || [[Mecki Mark Men]] || ''Mecki Mark Men'' | ||
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| + | | 86055 || [[Henk Badings|Badings]] & [[Dick Raaymakers|Raaijmakers]] || ''Evolutions and Contrasts'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86056 || Khan, Lateef Ahmed || ''Ragas: Streams of Light – Three North Indian Ragas'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86057 || Various Artists || ''Santur, Tunbuk, and Tar: Music and Drum Rhythms from Iran'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86058 || [[Ruth White (composer)|White, Ruth]] || ''Seven Trumps from the Tarot Card/Pinions'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86059 || Henry, Pierre || ''Variations for a Door and a Sigh'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86060 || [[Paul Bley|Bley, Paul]] || ''[[Mr. Joy]]'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86061 || Various Artists || ''Response/Electronic Music from Norway'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86062 || [[Fifty Foot Hose]] || ''[[Cauldron (Fifty Foot Hose album)|Cauldron]]'' | ||
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| + | | 86063 || Sound of Feeling, The || ''Spleen'' | ||
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| + | | 86064 || Percussions of Strasbourg, The || ''Signals'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86065 || Henry, Pierre || Mass for Today/The Green Queen | ||
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| + | | 86066 || White, Ruth || ''Flowers of Evil'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86067 || [[Don Robertson (composer)|Robertson, Don]] || ''Dawn'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86068 || [[Mecki Mark Men]] || ''Running in the Summernight'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86069 || [[Beaver & Krause]] || ''Ragnarok - Electronic Funk'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86070 || Electronic Concept Orchestra, The || ''Moog Groove'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86071 || [[Melvin Jackson|Jackson, Melvin]] || ''Funky Skull'' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 86072 || Electronic Concept Orchestra, The || ''Electric Love'' | ||
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"In 1969 Ruth White recorded Flowers of Evil, a record based on French poet Charles Baudelaire’s volume of poetry Les Fleurs du mal, reciting Baudelaire’s words over electronic music – more specifically the Moog synthesizer. The work, released on Limelight Records, is noted for its dark and uncompromisingly obtuse sound structure."--Sholem Stein |
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Limelight Records was a jazz record label and subsidiary of Mercury Records started in 1962. The catalogue included music by Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Milt Jackson, Gerry Mulligan, and Oscar Peterson.
Originally headed by Quincy Jones, its activities were directed by the producer Jack Tracy. Though mainly a jazz label, it also released rock, experimental, electronic, and Indian music.
The label's masters are now controlled by Verve Records and The Island Def Jam Music Group, which has reissued some of the Limelight releases on CD.
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Discography
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Albums
| # | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 86001 | Blakey, Art | 'S Make It |
| 86002 | Various Artists | I/We Had a Ball |
| 86003 | Baker, Chet | Baby Breeze |
| 86004 | Mulligan, Gerry | Butterfly with Hiccups |
| 86005 | Gibbs, Terry | El Nutto |
| 86006 | Jackson, Milt | In a New Setting |
| 86007 | Gillespie, Dizzy | Jambo Caribe |
| 86008 | Kirk, Roland | I Talk with the Spirits |
| 86009 | Adderley, Cannonball & John Coltrane | Cannonball and Coltrane |
| 86010 | Peterson, Oscar | Canadiana Suite |
| 86011/12 | Brown, Clifford | The Immortal Clifford Brown |
| 86013 | Dolphy, Eric | Last Date |
| 86014 | Three Sounds, The | Three Moods |
| 86015 | Mingus, Charles | Mingus Revisited |
| 86016 | McCann, Les | But Not Really |
| 86017 | Various Artists | Charlie Parker 10th Memorial Concert |
| 86018 | Blakey, Art | Soul Finger |
| 86019 | Baker, Chet | Baker's Holiday |
| 86020 | Hines, Earl | Grand Reunion 1 |
| 86021 | Mulligan, Gerry | If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em! |
| 86022 | Gillespie, Dizzy | The New Continent |
| 86023 | Peterson, Oscar | Eloquence |
| 86024 | Jackson, Milt | Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art |
| 86025 | McCann, Les | Beaux J. Pooboo |
| 86026 | Three Sounds, The | Beautiful Friendship |
| 86027 | Kirk, Roland | Rip Rig and Panic |
| 86028 | Hines, Earl | Grand Reunion 2 |
| 86029 | Peterson, Oscar | With Respect to Nat |
| 86030 | Mulligan, Gerry | Feelin' Good |
| 86031 | McCann, Les | Beaux J. Pooboo |
| 86032 | Adderley, Cannonball & Nat | Them Adderleys |
| 86033 | Kirk, Roland | Slightly Latin |
| 86034 | Blakey, Art | Buttercorn Lady |
| 86035 | Peterson, Oscar | With Respect to Nat |
| 86036 | McCann, Les | Live at Shelly's Manne-Hole |
| 86037 | Three Sounds, The | Today's Sounds |
| 86038 | Blakey, Art | Hold On, I'm Coming |
| 86039 | Peterson, Oscar | Blues Etude |
| 86040 | Mulligan, Gerry | Something Borrowed - Something Blue |
| 86041 | McCann, Les | Les McCann Plays the Hits |
| 86042 | Gillespie, Dizzy | The Melody Lingers On |
| 86043 | McCann, Les | Bucket O' Grease |
| 86044 | Peterson, Oscar | Soul Español |
| 86045 | Jackson, Milt | Born Free |
| 86046 | McCann, Les | Live at Bohemian Caverns - Washington, DC |
| 86047 | Various Artists | Images Fantastiques |
| 86048 | Various Artists | Panorama Electronique |
| 86049 | Henry, Pierre | Le Voyage |
| 86050 | Dissevelt, Tom & Kid Baltan | Songs of the Second Moon |
| 86051 | Percussions Of Strasbourg, The | The Percussions of Strasbourg |
| 86052 | Hambraeus, Bengt | Constellations and Interferences |
| 86053 | Bhattacharya, Deben | Classical Ragas of India |
| 86054 | Mecki Mark Men | Mecki Mark Men |
| 86055 | Badings & Raaijmakers | Evolutions and Contrasts |
| 86056 | Khan, Lateef Ahmed | Ragas: Streams of Light – Three North Indian Ragas |
| 86057 | Various Artists | Santur, Tunbuk, and Tar: Music and Drum Rhythms from Iran |
| 86058 | White, Ruth | Seven Trumps from the Tarot Card/Pinions |
| 86059 | Henry, Pierre | Variations for a Door and a Sigh |
| 86060 | Bley, Paul | Mr. Joy |
| 86061 | Various Artists | Response/Electronic Music from Norway |
| 86062 | Fifty Foot Hose | Cauldron |
| 86063 | Sound of Feeling, The | Spleen |
| 86064 | Percussions of Strasbourg, The | Signals |
| 86065 | Henry, Pierre | Mass for Today/The Green Queen |
| 86066 | White, Ruth | Flowers of Evil |
| 86067 | Robertson, Don | Dawn |
| 86068 | Mecki Mark Men | Running in the Summernight |
| 86069 | Beaver & Krause | Ragnarok - Electronic Funk |
| 86070 | Electronic Concept Orchestra, The | Moog Groove |
| 86071 | Jackson, Melvin | Funky Skull |
| 86072 | Electronic Concept Orchestra, The | Electric Love |
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