Celebrating CTI Records’ 40th Anniversary – Part 1
Contributed by guest blogger Doug Payne (Sound Insights) In February 1970, producer Creed Taylor launched the CTI Records label. He’d already spent several years in a production deal with A&M Records, producing a variety of jazz, jazz-pop and Brazilian-styled records, crafting significant hits for Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Antonio Carlos Jobim and others.