USA:
When ABC Records sought to form a jazz subsidiary in 1960, Creed Taylor
was recruited to oversee it all. He called the company "Impulse!"
(connoting the spontaneous feeling of jazz).
Taylor
jumped ship to accept a lucrative offer to run Verve Records, the jazz
label Norman Granz sold to MGM Records in 1961. In November 1967, Taylor
arranged with A&M's Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss to begin his own organization,
CTI Records. The label had 4 subsidiaries: Kudu, Salvation, Three Brothers
and Greenstreet.
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