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Ayler Records
by Andrey Henkin
For a genre with as small a market share as jazz, there are no end to labels big and small peddling artists known and unknown. As the big three become more staid and conservative, it is up to small independent outfits to make sure of some level of vibrancy and innovation. It is ...
Concord Records
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behelf of Steven Robinson From Concord, Concord Jazz, Concord Picante, and The Jazz Alliance, to its joint ventures and alliances with Stretch Records, Feinery, Peak Records, and Playboy Jazz - Concord Records is presently in midst of its 30th Anniversary celebration. In 1973, Carl Jefferson, car dealer and local ...
HighNote/Savant Records
by Celeste Sunderland
In the mid '60s, when HighNote/Savant president Joe Fields was a young record executive at the Prestige label, he recognized talent in a young saxophone player called Houston Person. “I felt if I were to have a record company, he'd be the kind of artist I'd want," said Fields. Last month Person released his seventh album ...
Sunnyside Records
by Celeste Sunderland
A girl in a sailor dress skips rope. She's pretty, she's free, she's having fun. She's the logo for Sunnyside Records. Founder Francois Zalacain discovered her on a rubber stamp in a Greenwich Village shop 21 years ago. “It says everything we want to say. Music is about bouncing' dancing. And my wife liked it."
RKM Music
by Elliott Simon
Label founder, Ravi Coltrane, passionately defends the “Music without filters" ethos that underpins the first three releases from RKM Music; “The major labels are falling apart and restructuring into bigger companies with bigger overhead. There is pressure to put out a product that conforms to formulas that sell: all star records, theme records, whatever...If Charlie Parker ...
Mosaic Records
by David Adler
Talking to Michael Cuscuna while Nelly's “Hot In Herre" plays on the jukebox is about as strange a dissonance as modern life has to offer. Cuscuna is the head of Mosaic Records and one of the most prolific reissue producers in the business. His work takes him deep inside the tape vaults, far away from the ...
Intakt Records
by Kurt Gottschalk
“We didn't want to have a label. We told people we would do one record, maybe two." So says Patrik Landolt, executive director and one of the founders of the highly regarded Swiss label Intakt. Landolt was working as a journalist at the leftist weekly he founded (and still edits) 17 years ago ...
Sonance Records
by AAJ Staff
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, there is a doctor in the house. Or in this case, a musician. Since the birth of Sonance Records (Ambler, PA) in 1999, CEO Rick Frimmer has preserved the label’s mission: to provide the highest quality audio and visual recordings for bands, among other things. Frimmer has all the experience to back ...
Criss Cross Records
by David Adler
It's mid-December at Systems Two Studios in Brooklyn. Gerry Teekens, founder and head of the Netherlands-based Criss Cross label, is wrapping up one of his semi-annual trips to the States, producing nine recording sessions in less than two weeks ("Criss Cross" is not a reference to the Monk tune, but rather to transoceanic travel). Today's agenda ...
Hyena Records
by Matt Rand
The first thing you notice about a Hyena Records release is just that - you notice it. A bright red cover announces each disc, along with a snarling (or is it laughing?) hyena, and the label eschews the traditional jewel case in favor of a plastic Q-pack. “I want people to walk into record stores and ...
