Fantasy
Getting Started in Fantasy
Top Fantasy Albums
Editor's Picks
Top Tracks from Fantasy
| Listen | Track Name | Length | Download |
|---|
| 1. |  |
Bags' Groove [Take 1]
|
11:16 |  |
| 2. | |
Oleo
|
5:14 | |
| 3. | |
Airegin
|
5:01 | |
| 4. | |
Doxy
|
4:55 | |
| 5. | |
But Not for Me [Take 2]
|
5:45 | |
| 6. | |
Bags' Groove [Take 2]
|
9:24 | |
| 7. | |
Broken
|
3:45 | |
| 8. | |
But Not for Me [Take 1]
|
4:36 | |
| 9. | |
Another Country
|
4:44 | |
| 10. | |
Something To Me
|
4:11 | |
About Fantasy
During the 1940s brothers Max and Sol Weiss operated a San Francisco plastic molding business that included a record pressing plant, one of whose early clients was pianist Dave Brubeck. Due to the local success of the Brubeck discs, the pressing plant metamorphosed into a label, which the Weisses named Fantasy after a science-fiction magazine. Besides such jazz musicians as Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Cal Tjader, and Vince Guaraldi, the company signed all manner of performers, including comedian Lenny Bruce.
In 1968, a year after a group of investors headed by Fantasy sales manager Saul Zaentz purchased the company, Fantasy began hitting platinum many times over with the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. Based in Berkeley since 1970, Fantasy continued its success with such varied artists as the Blackbyrds, Stanley Turrentine, Sylvester, Ruth Brown, and Freddy Cole, as well as with the best-selling Amadeus and The English Patient soundtracks, and is today the country's largest independent label.
Other labels in the Fantasy family include: Contemporary, Debut, Good Time, Jazz Workshop, Jazzland, Kicking Mule, Milestone, Pablo, Prestige, Riverside, Specialty, Stax and Takoma.
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