Salvation

US label
Label Code: LC 03336
Salvation was created as a "gospel" subsidiary of the [l=CTI Records] label in 1972. It was initially devised to showcase the [a=The B. C. & M. Choir], which released the album Hello Sunshine for the label in 1972. But Salvation Records really never took off on its own until the release of percussionist [a=Airto Moreira]'s 1974 secular release, Virgin Land. Thereafter, Salvation's few releases during 1974-75 focused on jazz and R & B releases that did not feature Creed Taylor's production or engineer Rudy Van Gelder's assistance. Between 1975 and 1977, three [a=Roland Hanna] records were also issued by the label - but only in Japan. Taylor tried launching the label again in 1982 with The Power The Glory And The Music, a collection of previously-issued CTI music alluding to gospel themes, and once more in 1996 with [a=Faith Howard] and Visions' strong, but little known gospel CD, He's Got Everything.

Note: Most of the albums on this label were NOT produced by Creed Taylor.