10 Facts About CTI Records

CTI Records is a jazz record label founded in 1967 by Creed Taylor.

CTI Records was later joined by Bob James and then David Matthews in the mid-1970s.

CTI Records was commercially successful with certain albums well-received by critics.

CTI Records's best-selling album was Deodato's Prelude, which reached No 3 on the US Billboard albums chart in 1973.

Taylor's productions for CTI Records helped to establish smooth jazz as a commercially viable musical genre.

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CTI Records became known for its striking album sleeve designs, most of them with images by photographer Pete Turner.

Kudu CTI Records was established in 1971 and concentrated on soul jazz with albums by Joe Beck, Hank Crawford, Grant Green, Idris Muhammad, Esther Phillips, Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Dr Lonnie Smith, and Grover Washington Jr.

Salvation CTI Records released 10 albums during its existence, including music by Airto, Roland Hanna, Faith Howard, New York Jazz Quartet, Johnny "Hammond" Smith, and Gabor Szabo Greenestreet and Three Brothers (with recordings by The Clams, Lou Christie, Duke Jones, and Cassandra Morgan).

CTI Records, though, remained active until 1984, releasing studio albums by Ray Barretto, Urszula Dudziak, Jim Hall, Roland Hanna, Nina Simone, and the all-star studio band Fuse One.

In 2009, Taylor produced a reissue series of twenty CTI Records titles remastered by Van Gelder for release on SHM-CD format in Japan.