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[email protected] www.richardwitts.com Mitch Miller 1961 Goddard Lieberson with Barbra Streisand 1969 Clive Davis with Janis Joplin 1969 source: Hicks, M 2017 : Mass Marketing the American Avant-Garde, 1967–1971. American Music, volume 35, number 3, Fall 2017, University of Illinois Press CBS MUSIC OF OUR TIME (MOOT series, imprint of CBS Masterworks) 1968 11 Electronics and Percussion: Five Realizations by Max Neuhaus (MS 7139, MOOT, prod. DB): Brown, Bussotti, Cage, Feldman, Stockhausen • 12 Terry Riley: In C (MS 7178, MOOT, prod. David Behrman) 1969 • 13 Elliott Carter: Variations for Orchestra, Double Concerto (MS 7191, MOOT, prod. Andrew Kazdin) • 14 The Music of Harry Partch (MS 7207, MOOT, prod. John McClure) • 15 Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano (MS 7222, MOOT, prod. Luis Baston) • 16 Steve Reich: Live/Electric Music (MS 7265, prod. David Behrman) • [17 Untitled orchestral LP] (MS 7281, MOOT, prod. Richard Killough) Del Tredici, Nono, Takemitsu, Xenakis • [18 Untitled String Quartet LP] (MS 7284, MOOT, prod. Andrew Kazdin and Richard Killough): Kirchner, Weinberg • 19 Jacques Lasry: Chronophagie (MS 7314, MOOT, prod. Ario-Paris studios [Paris]) • 20 Terry Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air (MS 7315, prod. David Behrman) Ad in Rolling Stone 07.12.1968 Record labels formed to promote progressive repertoire 1967-70 [avant-garde, experimental, improvisation, fusion] 1967 Buddah Records Nonesuch 1968 Bizarre Deutsche Grammophon (avantgarde) Limelight [electronic] Straight Vanguard (Apostolic) 1969 Charisma 1970 Apple Record labels focussed in the 1960s on ‘the new jazz’ Atlantic Ornette Coleman Blue Note Don Cherry Chick Corea Eric Dolphy Herbie Hancock Cecil Taylor Columbia Miles Davis ESP-Disc Albert Ayler Impulse John Coltrane Charles Mingus Archie Shepp Saturn Sun Ra 1968-71 Free improvisation recordings and their major labels.