Impulse! Records: The '60s
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Founded in 1960, Impulse! Records has a reputation as one of the decade's most fearless and forward-thinking jazz labels. Impulse! released albums by legends like Duke Ellington as well as up-and-comers like Archie Shepp. Icons like Charles Mingus and Art Blakey also called the label home, but no artist was more closely associated with the label than saxophonist John Coltrane.