Impulse! Label Being Reactivated by Universal Music Group
Maiden release is Henry Butler-Steven Bernstein and the Hot 9’s “Viper’s Drag”
By Jeff Tamarkin
Jazztimes.com April 23, 2014
Impulse! Records, the imprint that, in the 1960s and ’70s, released classic recordings by John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Gil Evans, Sonny Rollins and many other artists, is being revived by the Universal Music Group. The label’s reactivation will launch with the release of Viper’s Drag, by Henry Butler-Steven Bernstein and the Hot 9, due out July 15 in the U.S. —