a different sort as Daniels' clarinet solos were mixed with a huge London Orchestra creating a very elaborate and popular album that melded both jazz and classical together. A year later, Daniels' follow-up album for the label To Bird With Love, would be the very first "pure" jazz recording for the label dedicated to the late saxophonist Charlie Parker, gaining positive reviews. The late pianist Chick Corea would also make his official debut for the label introducing a new band called Chick Corea Elektric Band, which is also the name of the album they recorded for the label and would later introduce Chick Corea Akoustic Band in 1989 with fellow members John Patitucci and Dave Weckl, who also recorded for the label along with Eric Marienthal, who was a member of Chick Corea Elektric Band between 1988 and 1994. By 1987, the label was no longer independent as they signed a distribution deal with MCA Distributing, one of the six largest distribution companies in the US at the time. The deal was significant at the time because it helped the label reach the top of the Billboard Magazine charts as the number one jazz label in the world starting in 1988, according to the Billboard polls, as more people would have access to their recordings unlike before. They also produced and released a similar project to that of the Glenn Miller Band dedicated to one of jazz's greatest legends, Duke Ellington. The album Digital Duke reassembled members of Duke Ellington's band under the direction of his son, Mercer, in a digital recording setting with the latest technology. The album was produced in conjunction to the USPS's official $0.22 stamp dedicated to Ellington a year earlier commemorating his 87th birthday. The label also signed vibraphonist Gary Burton and saxophonist Tom Scott, who would make significant contributions to the label with well-received albums of their own in Reunion and Born Again, which is Scott's first pure jazz recording for the label and the first in more than a decade at the time and Them Changes, which was the music from the short-lived The Pat Sajak Show that ran on CBS from January 1989 to 1990, where Scott was the musical director on. 1988 marked a couple of firsts for the label. Flautist Dave Valentin recorded his first "Live" album for the label and that for any solo artist, Live at the Blue