(Full disclosure: I’m one of the voters.) During that same period, ECM has won the top spot as the best jazz record label. In the most recent poll, both Eicher and ECM again won their categories by a ...

The two volumes that reach independent record stores ... Feldman says.) The Jazz Detective imprint is not Feldman’s sole 2022 start-up. It’s actually part of a larger label group he’s ...

Dante Zaballa Supported by By Marcus J. Moore This month, we look at the legacy of Blue Note Records, perhaps the best-known label in jazz, with its instantly recognizable blue-and-white vinyl ...

There are a handful of independent record labels doing a better job of showcasing the cutting edge in jazz than the majors. The fearless Pi Recordings comes to mind, as does trumpeter Dave Douglas ...

This month, we decided to highlight a record label ... Strata-East released some of the best jazz heard on any label, and shouldn’t be discounted because it wasn’t one of the majors.

Sharpe has toured the world playing as a sideman for a variety of jazz band leaders, then led his own bands and in 1993 started the artist-owned record label JKNM Records, where he has cut more ...

Blue Note’s founder Alfred Lion came from a cultivated Jewish background in Berlin, first hearing jazz by an ... he offered to record Lewis and Ammons for his new label, and Blue Note was ...

Some record labels create huge market and financial clout ... Vally gave a voice to the new black jazz of the Seventies on a shoestring, at first just from a corner shelf in his father’s ...