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Solid State Records was a jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

record label

Record label

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formed in 1966

1966 in music

-Events:*January 3 – Hullabaloo shows promotional videos of The Beatles songs "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work it Out".*January 8 – Shindig! airs for the last time on ABC, with musical guests the Kinks and the Who...

by noted producers Sonny Lester

Sonny Lester

Sonny Lester is a Grammy-award winning music producer from New York City. He started his career as a musician in a big band jazz ensemble before being drafted into the U.S. Army. During the war he earned a Purple Heart and worked under Henry Kissinger, who was an intelligence officer at time...

and Phil Ramone

Phil Ramone

Phil Ramone is a South-African violinist, composer, recording engineer, and record producer.-Biography:As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten...

, with arranger Manny Albam

Manny Albam

Manny Albam was a jazz baritone saxophone player who eventually put the instrument down in favour of a long and respected career as an arranger, writer, and teacher.-Biography:The son of Lithuanian immigrants, who was born in the Dominican Republic when his mother went into labour en route...

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The label released original recordings in the mid to late 1960s by Joe Williams

Joe Williams (jazz singer)

Joe Williams was a well-known jazz vocalist, a baritone singing a mixture of blues, ballads, popular songs, and jazz standards.-Early life:...

, Chick Corea

Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...

, Jimmy McGriff

Jimmy McGriff

James Harrell McGriff was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who developed a distinctive style of playing the Hammond B-3 organ.-Early years and influences:...

, Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...

, The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and many others before its jazz artists were consolidated under United Artists

United Artists Records

United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 initially to distribute records of its movie soundtracks, though it soon branched out into recording music of a number of different genres.-History:...

' Blue Note

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

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Discography

#	Leader	Album	Year
SS-93	Various artists	Demonstration Record: Highlights From Solid State
SS-94	Various artists	You've Got To Hear It To Believe It
SS-18000 SM-17000	Manny Albam Manny Albam Manny Albam was a jazz baritone saxophone player who eventually put the instrument down in favour of a long and respected career as an arranger, writer, and teacher.-Biography:The son of Lithuanian immigrants, who was born in the Dominican Republic when his mother went into labour en route...	Brass On Fire	1966
SS-18001 SM-17001	Jimmy McGriff Jimmy McGriff James Harrell McGriff was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who developed a distinctive style of playing the Hammond B-3 organ.-Early years and influences:...	The Big Band	1966
SS-18002 SM-17002	Jimmy McGriff	A Bag Full Of Soul	1966
SS-18003 SM-17003	Thad Jones/Mel Lewis	Presenting Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra Presenting Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra Presenting Thad Jones / Mel Lewis & The Jazz Orchestra is a 1966 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Solid State Records label. It is the debut release by the orchestra...	1966
SS-18004 SM-17004	Kokee Band	Exotica 1970	1966
SS-18005 SM-17005	The In Crowd Singers	Will Bronson Presents The In Crowd Singers	1966
SS-18006 SM-17006	Jimmy McGriff	Cherry	1966
SS-18007 SM-17007	Manny Albam	Introducing The Passion Guitars	1966
SS-18008 SM-17008	Thad Jones/Mel Lewis	Presenting Joe Williams and Thad Jones / Mel Lewis, The Jazz Orchestra Presenting Joe Williams and Thad Jones / Mel Lewis, The Jazz Orchestra Presenting Joe Williams and Thad Jones / Mel Lewis, The Jazz Orchestra is a 1966 big band jazz album recorded by Joe Williams with the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Solid State Records label.-Track listing:...	1966
SS-18009 SM-17009	Manny Albam	Soul Of The City	1966
SS-18010 SM-17010	Kokee Band	Hawaii And Other Exotic Movie Themes	1966
SS-18011 SM-17011	The Will Bronson Singers	Best of Broadway
SS-18012 SM-17012	Ted Sommer	Percussion Mariachi	c. 1967
SS-18013 SM-17013	Nelson Riddle Nelson Riddle Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s...	Music For Wives & Lovers	1967
SS-18014	Johnny Lytle	A Man And A Woman	1967
SS-18015	Joe Williams Joe Williams (jazz singer) Joe Williams was a well-known jazz vocalist, a baritone singing a mixture of blues, ballads, popular songs, and jazz standards.-Early life:...	Something Old, New and Blue	1967
SS-18016	Thad Jones/Mel Lewis	Live At The Village Vanguard Live at the Village Vanguard (Jones / Lewis album) Live at the Village Vanguard is a 1967 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Solid State Records label. The album was nominated for a 1967 Grammy award in the "Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group..." category...	1967
SS-18017	Jimmy McGriff	A Bag Full Of Blues	1967
SS-18018	Bill Evans/Jim Hall	Undercurrent	reissue (UA: 1962)
SS-18019	Charles Mingus Charles Mingus Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...	Wonderland	reissue (UA: 1959)
SS-18020	Herbie Mann Herbie Mann Herbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was a Jewish American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music...	Jazz Impressions of Brazil	reissue (UA: 1962)
SS-18021	King Pleasure King Pleasure King Pleasure was a jazz vocalist and an early master of vocalese, where a singer sings words to a famous instrumental solo....	Mr. Jazz	reissue (UA: 1962)
SS-18022	Duke Ellington	Money Jungle Money Jungle Money Jungle is a jazz album by Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach recorded on September 17, 1962 and released in February 1963 by United Artists Jazz....	reissue (UA: 1962)
SS-18023	Herbie Mann	St. Thomas	reissue (UA: 1962)
SS-18024	Charles Mingus	Town Hall Concert	reissue (UA: 1962)
SS-18025	John Coltrane	Coltrane Time Coltrane Time Stereo Drive is an album by jazz musician Cecil Taylor featuring John Coltrane, released in 1959 on United Artists Records, catalogue UAS 5014. The mono edition was issued as UAL 4014 with the title Hard Driving Jazz, and later reissued under Coltrane's name in 1963 as Coltrane Time...	reissue (UA: 1958)
SS-18026	Johnny Lytle	The Sound Of Velvet Soul	1968
SS-18027	Various artists	Jazz For A Sunday Afternoon (Vol. 1)	1967
SS-18028	Various artists	Jazz For A Sunday Afternoon (Vol. 2)	1967
SS-18029	Mike Mainieri Mike Mainieri Michael T. Mainieri, Jr. is a vibraphonist best known for his work with the jazz fusion group Steps Ahead....	Insight	1968
SS-18030	Jimmy McGriff	I've Got A New Woman	1967
SS-18031	Billy Strayhorn Billy Strayhorn William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn was an American composer, pianist and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington lasting nearly three decades. His compositions include "Chelsea Bridge", "Take the "A" Train" and "Lush Life".-Early...	The Peaceful Side of Billy Strayhorn	reissue (UA: 1961)
SS-18032	Count Basie Count Basie William "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years...	Basie Meets Bond	reissue (UA: 1965)
SS-18033	Jimmy McGriff	The Days Of Wine And Roses	=SS-18030
SS-18034	Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...	Live At The Village Vanguard	1967
SS-18035	Modern Jazz Quartet Modern Jazz Quartet The Modern Jazz Quartet was established in 1952 by Milt Jackson , John Lewis , Percy Heath , and Kenny Clarke . Connie Kay replaced Clarke in 1955...	On Tour
SS-18036	Jimmy McGriff	Honey	1968
SS-18037	Various artists	Jazz For A Sunday Afternoon (Vol. 3)	1967
SS-18038	Vi Redd Vi Redd Vi Redd is an American jazz alto saxophone player, vocalist and educator. She has been active since the early 1950s and is known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles...	Birdcall	reissue (UA: 1962)
SS-18039	Chick Corea	Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Now He Sings, Now He Sobs is a highly influential jazz piano trio album by Chick Corea, released March 14, 1968.The musicians on this album are Corea , Miroslav Vitouš , and Roy Haynes...	1968
SS-18040	Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...	Lady Love	reissue (UA: 1954)
SS-18041	Thad Jones/Mel Lewis	The Big Band Sound of Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Featuring Miss Ruth Brown The Big Band Sound of Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Featuring Miss Ruth Brown The Big Band Sound of Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Featuring Miss Ruth Brown, also released as Fine Brown Frame, is a 1968 Solid State Records recording of vocalist Ruth Brown with the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.-Track listing:...	1968
SS-18042	Soul Strings	Soul Strings And A Funky Horn	1968
SS-18043	Chico Hamilton Chico Hamilton Chico Hamilton , is an American jazz drummer and bandleader.-Early life through 1960s:Hamilton was born in Los Angeles, California. He had a fast-track musical education in a band with Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Royal, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Collette and Jack Kelso...	The Gamut	1967
SS-18044	Johnny Lytle Johnny Lytle Johnny Lytle was a jazz drummer and vibraphonist.-Biography:...	Be Proud	1969
SS-18045	Jimmy McGriff	The Worm	1968
SS-18046	Monk Higgins Monk Higgins Milton Bland better known as Monk Higgins, was an American musician and saxophonist who was born in Menifee, Arkansas....	Extra Soul Perception	1969?
SS-18047	Sonny Stitt Sonny Stitt Edward "Sonny" Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He was also one of the best-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording over 100 albums in his lifetime...	Little Green Apples	1968
SS-18048	Thad Jones/Mel Lewis	Monday Night Monday Night Monday Night, Recorded Live at the Village Vanguard is a 1968 big band jazz album recorded at the Village Vanguard club in New York City by the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Solid State Records label...	1968
SS-18049	Mike Maineri	Journey Thru An Electric Tube	1969
SS-18050	Chico Hamilton	The Head Hunters	1969
SS-18051	Randy Brecker Randy Brecker Randal "Randy" Brecker is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears,...	Score	1969
SS-18052	Various artists	Jazz For A Sunday Afternoon (Vol. 4)	1967
SS-18053	Jimmy McGriff	Step 1	1968
SS-18054	Dizzy Gillespie	It's My Way	1969
SS-18055	Chick Corea	Is The Complete "Is" Sessions The Complete "Is" Sessions is a 2002 Blue Note Records compilation / re-issue album by Chick Corea of material recorded in May 1969. The material of the "Is" sessions was released originally in 1969 as two separate albums on two different record labels...	1969
SS-18056	Johnny Lytle	Close Enough For Jazz	1969
SS-18057	Sonny Stitt	Come Hither	1968
SS-18058	Thad Jones/Mel Lewis	Central Park North Central Park North (Jones / Lewis album) Central Park North is a 1969 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Solid State Records label. The album was nominated for a 1969 Grammy award in the "Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group..." category...	1969
SS-18059	Jeremy Steig Jeremy Steig -Biography:Steig is the son of New Yorker cartoonist William Steig,At age 19 Steig was involved in a motorcycle accident which left him paralyzed on one side...	This Is Jeremy Steig	1969
SS-18060	Jimmy McGriff	A Thing To Come By	1969
SS-18061	Dizzy Gillespie	Cornucopia	1969
SS-18062	Ray Nance Ray Nance Ray Willis Nance was a jazz trumpeter, violinist and singer.Nance is best known for his long association with Duke Ellington through most of the 1940s and 1950s, after he was hired to replace Cootie Williams in 1940...	Body And Soul	1969
SS-18063	Jimmy McGriff	The Way You Look Tonight	1969
SS-18064	Earth Disciples	Getaway Train	1969
SS-18065	Wali & The Afro Caravan	Home Lost and Found The Natural Sound	1969
SS-18066	Candido Camero Candido Camero Candido de Guerra Camero, also known simply as Candido is a Cuban percussionist who backed many Afro-Cuban jazz and straightforward jazz acts since the 1950s...	Thousand Finger Man	1969
SS-18067
SS-18068	Jeremy Steig	Legwork	1967?
SS-19000	Duke Ellington	70th Birthday Concert 70th Birthday Concert (Duke Ellington album) 70th Birthday Concert is a live album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded in England recorded at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England and originally released on the Solid State label in 1970...	1969

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