Editing Impulse! Records (section)

===The 1970s===
Under the guidance of [[Ed Michel]], Thiele's successor, Impulse! continued to issue significant recordings. The company also acquired LP masters that [[Sun Ra]] had recorded for his private label, making them more widely available for the first time.

In the early 1970s, ABC restructured its recording division, merging the ABC label with its other pop-rock subsidiary, [[Dunhill Records]], whose roster included [[The Mamas & the Papas]], [[Steppenwolf (band)|Steppenwolf]], [[Three Dog Night]], and [[The Grass Roots]]. Impulse! was moved to share headquarters with ABC-Dunhill in [[Los Angeles]]. By this time, pop-rock acts dominated the company's output, with Impulse! releases accounting for only 5 percent of total sales. It was also during this time that Impulse! became the first all-jazz label to release a rock album when it issued ''[[Trespass (album)|Trespass]]'', the second album by [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]], in the U.S. in 1970.

In 1974, ABC acquired the [[Famous Music]] labels and catalog from [[Gulf+Western]], and subsequently, that company's jazz recordings were incorporated into the Impulse! catalog. New recordings from the label ceased in the late 1970s, but ABC reissued titles until the company was sold to [[MCA Records]] in 1979. The label lay dormant until it was resurrected in 1992 as part of MCA’s [[GRP Records]], during which time the label started releasing important titles that had otherwise been unavailable and began signing new artists during the late 1990s. In 1999, Impulse! became part of [[Universal Music Group]]'s jazz holdings, under the aegis of [[Verve Records|the Verve Label Group]], where it has remained until the present.