<![CDATA[Cranberry Records]]>In late 1985, MCA Records offered basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar his own jazz imprint, Cranberry Records. Unfortunately, the label never got off the ground. What follows is a documentation of the label’s short life as told through primary sources:

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New York Times, December 16, 1985

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Billboard, December 28, 1985, p. 71

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Billboard, February 15, 1986, p. 56

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Billboard, February 22, 1986, p. 52

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Billboard, March 22, 1986, p. 60

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Rolling Stone, April 10, 1986, p. 17

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Billboard, March 21, 1987, p. 31

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Down Beat, April 1987, p. 13

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Billboard, April 4, 1987, p. 33

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Billboard, May 16, 1987, p. 66

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Billboard, July 4, 1987, p. 31

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Billboard, March 5, 1988, p. 59

Ben Sidran interviews Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about jazz. Conversation about Cranberry begins about 6 minutes in:

KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR TALKING JAZZ

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Los Angeles Times, June 24, 1996

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