The independent labels

[lkaven]

All props to Smalls.

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Thank you sir.

[Dr. Rat]

Isn't Telarc owned by BMG/whoever they are?

--eric

[BruceH]

Among various labels missing from the list:

Black & Blue

Dreyfus

Nessa

Philology

Owl

Smalls

Uptown

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I like Uptown.

(Nessa ain't bad, either.)

[BruceH]

Whatever happened to Trilobite Records?

[Guest Chaney]

[Д.Д.]

European free improvisation: records labels

And a personal favority:

[Rooster_Ties]

Searching online for a list of less well known jazz labels (for no particular reason at all, just something to browse over lunch, thought maybe I’d see a handful I’d forgotten, or never knew)…

And as with most all of my jazz searches, the results led back to an Organissmo thread (this one). So bump!!

[Ken Dryden]

Philology has quite a run, Paolo Piangiarelli was a dedicated fan but with a small marketing budget. He attended IAJE IN 2004 and raved about the young alto saxophonist FraHe was long frustrated with US jazz magazines not reviewing his recordings because he didn't have the funds to buy ads. Just his array of releases by Phil Woods and Lee Konitz, along with Italian jazz greats like Franco D'Andrea and Renato Sellani, to name just a few, is very impressive. I heard that he was battling depression around the time that his website went off line. He died on January 1, 2022. Philology titles regularly appear on Dusty Groove, but some are hard to find.