Record Label

Flying Dutchman

Jazz label established in New York by Bob Thiele in 1969. The label issued significant albums by Gil Scott-Heron, Gato Barbieri, Oliver Nelson, Lonnie Liston Smith and Thiele's wife, Teresa Brewer. It also released recordings of speeches by SNCC leader H. Rap Brown, radical Angela Davis and black professor/critic Stanley Crouch. Thiele's son Bob Thiele Jr. revived the label in 2023 with the release of [m=3032090]. Former distributors: Mainstream Records, Inc. from 1969 Atco / Atlantic Recording Corporation: from 1971 Independent: from 1972 RCA Records (USA): from 1973