So, former White Stripe and Third Man label founder Jack White has now moved into jazz? It was a question that intrigued me when I first heard about the partnership between Universal Music and White’s Third Man Records, a vinyl reissue series called Verve By Request. Was Universal just a client for Third Man’s relatively new LP pressing plant in Detroit, or was this a genuine collaboration? And what the hell does Jack White know about jazz?
“When you look at the breadth and the scope of the releases that Universal were gonna). We found nice parallels to the rock’n’roll, punk, and garage stuff that we’ve been known for since our early years.
