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CAMJazz
by Donald Elfman
Smart and inventive improvisers and composers and adventurous and forward (and backward) thinking labels continue to find each other and this symbiotic relationship defines the recorded jazz scene in the 21st century. A great deal of the label searching emanates from Europe and Italy has always been a source of great jazz--not to mention film music ...
Cuneiform Records
by Marc Medwin
"I've spent 23 years trying to disappoint people--I love doing that," Cuneiform frontman Steve Feigenbaum laughs, but there's a lot of truth to the quip. Since the spring of 1984, the small but prolific label has been thwarting expectation in or near or in-between a number of genres, that misunderstood and mislabeled beast known as “prog" ...
MCG Jazz: A Mighty Non-Profit With a Mission
by Ken Dryden
MCG Jazz evolved from Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, a non-profit arts program started in 1968 by Bill Strickland. Beginning with no more than a single ceramic art wheel and a radio playing jazz in the background, the program was initially housed in the basement of a row home in the Manchester section of Pittsburgh, targeting inner-city high ...
Mighty Quinn Records
by Donald Elfman
It is almost a truism that anyone who ever got into the jazz record business did it for the love of the music. Its practitioners and promoters do so despite the vagaries of the market and that market is, at this juncture, even tougher than previously. Yet, still, there are small and middling entrepreneurs that want ...
577 Records
by Marc Medwin
"Art should be real, it should be authentic, it needs to speak to me in some way, even in a way that I don't necessarily like immediately or recognize. Often, you look at a piece of writing or a painting and there's some sort of instant connection... Listening to drummer Federico Ughi speak ...
Art of Life Records
by Marc Medwin
"It's gotta be done right, Art of Life frontman Paul G. Kohler says matter-of-factly. His is a voice that exudes neither superfluous zeal nor unnecessary self-importance. “It has to sound good, that's all. His label has been run along similarly stringent lines; Kohler might just as soon put out a reissue as drop a new session ...
Atavistic Records: Down Beats and No Wave
by Clifford Allen
Imagining approaches to music as seemingly incompatible as free improvisation, minimalism, post-punk, noise, jazz and agit-ambient soundscapes brought together under one roof is a difficult proposition. It's uncommon in the music world for a label to have a vision that not only stretches across such boundaries, but is also totally in love with all sorts of ...
AUM Fidelity
by Marc Medwin
"I'm still on a mission from God," laughs Steven Joerg, AUM Fidelity frontman. Maybe Lone Ranger would be a more apt descriptor. “Yeah, it's mostly me. That's one of the things that sets the label apart--this really is a one-man operation." Joerg is always quick to acknowledge the help he has received from ...
Engine Records: Just Say No to Dumbass Music
by Taran Singh
Engine Records is a very small New York based, basement-run record label that boasts thirty-one releases by original artists, amongst which are saxophonist Andrew Lamb, the unsung percussionist Warren Smith, and newcomers saxophonist Niko Higgins and bassist Paul Steinbeck. Engine Records' founder Steven Walcott records this literally underground music (recorded in his basement), and makes it ...
ZOHO Music
by Elliott Simon
Placing an emphasis on contemporary NYC jazz with a Latin flavor, ZOHO Music in two short years has been able to carve out a special niche defined by infectious rhythms, tight music and a cosmopolitan flair. Debut releases from two of NYC's top working bassists - the brilliant tango nuevo of Pablo Aslan's exquisite Avantango and ...
