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Savoy Records is an American record company and label established by Herman Lubinsky in 1942 in Newark, New Jersey. (2026). 9781561592845, Grove's Dictionaries Inc.. ISBN 9781561592845 Savoy specialized in jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel music.
In September 2017, Savoy was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music.
After Lubinsky's death in 1974, Clive Davis, then manager of Arista Records, acquired Savoy's catalogue. After that, Joe Fields of Muse Records purchased the catalogue from Arista. In 1986, Malaco Records acquired Savoy's black gospel titles and contracts.
In 1991, Nippon Columbia acquired Savoy and its library, and distributed Savoy releases through its wholly owned subsidiary, Savoy Jazz. In 2003, Savoy Jazz acquired the rights to the Muse Records and Landmark Records catalogues from 32 Jazz. In 2009, the label entered a distribution arrangement with Warner Music Group. Savoy included the rock imprint 429 Records.
Many of the label's African American artists begrudged the label's founder, Herman Lubinsky, feeling underpaid for their work. Tiny Price, a journalist for the African American newspaper The Newark Herald News, said of Savoy and Lubinsky:
There's no doubt everybody hated Herman Lubinsky. If he messed with you, you were messed. At the same time, some of those people, many of them Newark's top singers and musicians, would never have been exposed on records if he didn't do what he did. Except for Lubinsky, all the hot little numbers, like Buddy Johnson's "Cherry", would have been lost. The man may have been hated, but he saved a lot of our history for us and for future generations.
Savoy's artistic directors included Buck Ram, Teddy Reig, Ralph Bass (1948–1952), Fred Mendelsohn (1953), and Ozzie Cadena (1954–1962).
| Memorial 1 |
| Immortal Charlie Parker, The |
| Penthouse Serenade |
| Serenade to Laura |
| At Storyville/At the Hickory House |
| Lullaby of Birdland |
| Telefunken Blues |
| Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins |
| Back to Back |
| Memorial 1 |
| Jay and Kai |
| Fats, Bud, Klook, Sonny, Kinney |
| Jazz Concert – West Coast |
| The Hawk Returns |
| Genius of Parker |
| Musician of the Year |
| Great Britain's Marian McPartland & George Shearing |
| Bohemia After Dark |
| Presenting Cannonball Adderley |
| Encore |
| Groovin' High |
| That's Nat |
| Flutes & Reeds |
| The Trio |
| Borderline |
| Man with the Horns |
| Howard McGhee and Milt Jackson |
| Very Truly Yours |
| Reflections |
| Montage |
| Jazz Young Blood |
| New Orleans Nightingale |
| Byrd's Word |
| Deep in a Dream |
| Jazz at Storyville 1 |
| At Storyville |
| Opus de Jazz |
| Quartet-Quintet |
| New Orleans Jazz 1 |
| Joltin' Joe Roland |
| Boyd Meets Stravinsky |
| Jazz at Storyville 2 |
| Roll 'Em Bags |
| The Jazz Keyboard |
| Top Brass |
| Jazz Composers Workshop |
| The Quartet |
| The Champ |
| Al Cohn's Tones |
| A Pair of Pianos |
| New Orleans Jazz 2 |
| Mighty Mike |
| The Amazing Johnny Costa |
| The Trio with Guests |
| Vibrations |
| Ringside at Condon's |
| The Philosophy of Urso |
| Serenade in Blue |
| I Think of You |
| Jazz Composers Workshop 2 |
| Singin' & Swingin′ |
| Meet Milt Jackson |
| Swing, Not Spring |
| Wilder 'n' Wilder |
| The Jazz Message of Hank Mobley |
| Klook's Clique |
| Solo |
| Bowin' Singin' Slam |
| Blue Lester |
| Brock's Tops |
| The Jazz Skyline |
| The Master's Touch |
| North, South, East....Wess |
| Night People |
| Loaded |
| All About Ronnie |
| How I Play Jazz Piano |
| The Jazz Guitarist |
| No 'Count |
| Story |
| Jackson's Ville |
| Trio |
| Portrait |
| Jazzmen: Detroit |
| Have You Met Hank Jones |
| Opus in Swing |
| Trombones |
| Hank Jones' Quartet |
| Move! |
| Surf Ride |
| Dixieland (Pick-a-rib Boys) |
| Introducing Lee Morgan |
| Jazz Message No. 2 |
| Midnight on Cloud 69 |
| By the Fireside |
| Jazz for Playboys |
| Trumpets All Out |
| Lookin' for a Boy |
| Jumpin' Bands, The (never issued) |
| Jazz Recital |
| I Just Love Jazz Piano (Pianos: Down & Out) |
| Dancing Jazz |
| Flute Suite |
| Jazz Mood |
| Essais |
| Lestorian Mode |
| J. J. Johnson's Jazz Quintets |
| Mann Alone |
| Yardbird Suite |
| Jazz for the Thinker |
| Dizzy Gillespie Story |
| Changing the Jazz at Buckingham Palace |
| The Jazz We Heard Last Summer |
| The Paris Scene |
| Opus De Bop |
| Stable Mates |
| Blues for Night People |
| Prayer to the East |
| Pretty for the People |
| In the Beginning ... Bebop! |
| Jazz and the Sounds of Nature |
| Jazz for Playgirls |
| Jazz at Hotchikiss |
| Jazz Is Busting Out All Over! |
| Jazz Sahib |
| Many Faces of Blues, The |
| Jazz Hour, The |
| Mainstream 1958 |
| Dixieland Jazz Party |
| Jazz Carousel, A (never issued) |
| Dexter Rides Again |
| Jazz Way Out |
| Blues Suite |
| Nostalgia |
| Plays the King and I |
| Gift of Jazz |
| Tanganyika Strut |
| Nica's Tempo |
| Bird's Night |
| Dreamer |
| The Fabric of Jazz |
| Blues-ette |
| Opus de Blues |
| The Curtis Fuller Jazztet |
| Imagination |
| Do-It-Yourself Jazz |
| Do-It-Yourself Jazz |
| Patterns of Jazz |
| Fiery |
| The Fabulous Jimmy Scott |
| (never issued) |
| An Evening at Home |
| Miles Ahead (never issued) |
| Cookin' |
| Jazz Immortal Series 2 |
| Opus De Jazz 2 |
| Jazz Argo |
| Music Minus Many Men |
| The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron |
| Voice of Barbara Long, The |
| (never issued) |
| Modern Windows |
| Images of Curtis Fuller |
| (never issued) |
| The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra |
| Saying Something |
| Midnight Session |
| Adams Theme |
| Four French Horns Plus Rhythm |
| The Vibe-rant Quintet |
| Gone Native |
| The Giants of Jazz |
| Funk Dumpling |
| Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet |
| Bird Returns |
| And Then I Said |
| If You Only Knew |
| Footloose! |
| Hot Line |
| Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 |
| New Concepts |
| Newly Discovered Sides |
| Vinson Hill Trio |
| New Advanced Jazz |
| Good Golly, Miss Nancy |
| The Dragon Suite |
| Elysa |
| Electrifying Sounds |
| The Marzette Watts Ensemble |
| The Gift |
| Doug Carn Trio |
| Jazz Concert West Coast |
| Concerto for Cozy |
| Jazz Classics by Charlie Ventura's Band |
| Pete's Blues |
| Crazy Rhythms |
| Jazz Eyes |
| East of Suez |
| Free and Easy |
| Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson, Joe Carroll |
| South Pacific Jazz |
| Bright's Spot |
| Dixieland Strut |
| We Dig Dixieland Jazz |
| Jazz ...It's Magic! |
| Jazz on the Rocks |
| The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams |
| The Jazz Harpist |
| Dixieland Mainstream |
| Dixieland |
| Two Altos |
| Sings |
| Singin' and Swingin' |
| Down Home Blues |
| Mildred Bailey |
| The Girls Sing |
| Very Truly Yours |
| The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott |
| The Fabulous Voice of Jimmy Scott |
| Motivation |
| Rock 'n Rhythm |
| Blues Suite |
| Plays the King and I |
| Dixieland Jazz Party |
| Jazz Way Out |
| Tanganyika Strut |
| Blues-ette |
| The Dreamer |
| The Fabric of Jazz |
| Opus de Blues |
| Jazztet Feat. Benny Golson |
| Imagination |
| Midnight Moods |
| Sings |
| If You Only Knew |
| Rock |
| Sings |
| Angry Tenors |
| Concerto for Cozy |
| Candy |
| And the Blues'll Make You Happy, Too! |
| Careless Love |
| House Rent Party |
| Back Country Blues |
| The Right Time |
| Golden Saxophone |
| (never issued) |
| The Gospel Soul of Houston Person |
| Livin' With the Blues |
| The Garden of My Mind |
| Can't We Begin Again |
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