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Pirouet Records
by Donald Elfman
The compilation disc from Pirouet Records is entitled The Best is Yet To Come. That's a startling approach to a collection of music in 2009 because it celebrates both the wonderful music since the label's founding but also confidently asserts that the label will survive. To hear a jazz label at this stage of the game ...
Fresh Sound-New Talent
by Laurel Gross
Fresh Sound-New Talent owner and founder Jordi Pujol lives in Barcelona where his label is based but he's been up all night following the US Presidential election. Speaking from his native Spain the “morning after," he expresses the hope that the selection of President Elect Barack Obama might bode well not only for America but Europe ...
Philology Records
by Ken Dryden
No one ever said running a jazz record label was an easy business. But Paolo Piangiarelli, a devoted jazz fan who named Philology for Phil Woods (using the alto saxophonist's famous leather cap as his logo), has managed to stay afloat in spite of the financial and marketing challenges of running an essentially one-man operation on ...
Jazzwerkstatt
by Andrey Henkin
In September in Berlin, an ambitious new jazz festival, A European Jazz Jamboree, took over several venues in the city with a wide-ranging program that according to its organizers is an art concept in itself: it displays the whole range of the current European jazz scene, from free jazz to traditional modern jazz, and a jazz ...
Porter Records: A Collector's Rewards
by Clifford Allen
In a review of discs released by recently arrived Porter Records, I was struck by the diversity of sounds found within this quartet of releases. A reissue of reedman Byard Lancaster's free jazz classic, Live at Macalester College alongside the modal psychedelia of trumpeter Ted Daniel's Tapestry doesn't seem too hard to fathom, but put those ...
Moserobie Music Production
by Robert Iannapollo
It was around 1999 when Swedish saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar felt he was ready to document his music and his quartet. For those who haven't heard this remarkable player, Kullhammar is one of those saxophonists whose excursions convey an exuberant joy in improvising and playing jazz. He has assembled an equally ebullient quartet with pianist Torbjorn Gulz, ...
RogueArt
by Kurt Gottschalk
Historians differ on the origins of the French flag. The theory that the tricolor banner simply combined the colors of the Parisian coat of arms (red and blue) with the color used to connote French royalty (white) is probably the simplest, but a competing claim--one perhaps taught more often in schoolrooms in America than France--has it ...
Telarc Records
by Tom Greenland
Telarc, established by Jack Renner and Robert Woods in 1977 in Cleveland, Ohio began as a classical music label, later branching into jazz with the 1989 release of Andre Previn's After Hours and eventually adding blues to its docket in 1993. In 2005, the company was annexed by Concord Music Group, while retaining its distinctive identity ...
Alma Records: Getting to the Essence of Jazz
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Jazz has been listened to and played in Canada arguably as early as it evolved from the blues. The recorded history of jazz in Canada dates back to 1917, when the New Orleans Quintet, Original Dixieland Jazz Band first recorded Sheldon Brooks' “Darktown Strutters' Ball." Then for 41 years there was virtually no recording activity although ...
Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
by Mark F. Turner
The launch of Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records in the Spring of 2008 was a clear indication of the sign of the times where musicians are taking control of their own destinies, creating labels that are autonomous and imaginatively focused on their own ideas. A point of interest is that BJURecords is a sister company of the ...
