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Jerry Moss of A&M Records on His Career in Music, Part 7 of 7: Leaving A&M and Founding Almo Sounds
Jerry Moss
Jerry Moss is co-founder with Herb Alpert of the legendary A&M record label, for which he worked until 1994 – more than thirty years total. During that time he worked closely with a who’s who of American pop music - Burt Bacharach, The Carpenters, The Police and Janet Jackson among many, many others. He now runs the Almo Sounds label with Alpert, which has released albums by artists like Garbage, Ozomatli, Imogen Heap and Gillian Welch, as well by as Alpert himself. Moss is also an avid breeder of race horses – his horse Giacomo won the Kentucky Derby in 2005. In 2006, Moss was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. |
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Description: Jerry Moss, cofounder of the legendary A&M label, discusses the business reasons behind his and Herb Alpert’s decision to sell A&M Records to PolyGram in 1989, what that decision ultimately meant to him, the label, and to Polygram, and the reasons that he and Alpert chose to re-enter the record industry with the 1994 founding of the Almo Sounds label.
Shoot Date: March 2007 |
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