ICTUS Records

ICTUS Records
Founded	1976;49 years ago (1976)
Founder	Andrea Centazzo, Carla Lugli
Genre	Jazz
Country of origin	Italy
Official website	www.ictusrecords.com

ICTUS Records is an avant-garde jazz record label founded in 1976 by Andrea Centazzo and Carla Lugli. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

History

ICTUS in Bologna, Italy

Andrea Centazzo and his wife at the time, Carla Lugli, founded ICTUS in Bologna, Italy, in 1976. ^[5] Centazzo is a drummer, percussionist, electronicist, and composer. ICTUS folded in 1984 due to financial duress and the divorce of Centazzo and Lugli. ^[6]

ICTUS in Long Beach, California

Centazzo revived ICTUS in 2006 in Long Beach, California, ^[7] initially, to raise funds for Bosnian refugees. ^[2] On January 1, 2006, ICTUS released ICTUS Records' 30th Anniversary Collection, a 12-volume CD retrospective of its work. ^[8] In 2010, ICTUS released its Ictus 35th Anniversary Collection on 1 CD. ^[9]

Selected artists

• Derek Bailey
• Kent Carter
• Andrea Centazzo
• Lol Coxhill
• Andrew Cyrille
• Pierre Favre
• Robert Gluck
• Noboru Jones
• Steve Lacy
• Guido Mazzon
• Aran Ortiz
• Gianluigi Trovesi
• Roberto Zorzi
• Rova Saxophone Quartet
• Confusion Bleue (Chris Kelsey (soprano sax), Nobu Stowe (keyboards), Ross Bonadonna (guitars, alto sax, bass clarinet), Ray Sage (drums), Lee Pemberton (sound)) ^[10]

Other labels and studios by the same name

• Free jazz artists Ed Summerlin and Don Heckman recorded three albums between 1965 and 1967 on a label of the same name; ^[10] but that label was not affiliated with that of this article.
• Producciones Ictus, aka ICTUS Studios, is based in Mexico City and is not affiliated

References

1. Lexikon des Jazz (in German), Jürgen Wölfer (ed.), Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Austria: Hannibal Verlag (1999); OCLC   246200865
2. Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 1 (A–J), by Todd S. Jenkins, Greenwood Press (2004), pg. 182; OCLC   873596704, 61142235
3. "Review: Danger High Voltage", by arwulf arwulf (fi) (pseudonym of Theodore R. Grenier; born 1957), AllMusic (retrieved 16 April 2014)
4. "About Ictus". Ictus Records. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
5. "New Companies", Billboard , December 15, 1976, Vol. 88, No. 52, pg. 61, col. 2; ISSN   0006-2510
6. Breznikar, Klemen (May 13, 2012). "Andrea Centazzo interview". It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine . Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
7. "ICTUS Records Nights @ The Stone (NYC) April 1-14", by Michael Ricci, All About Jazz , March 21, 2012
8. ICTUS Records' 30th Anniversary Collection, ICTUS Records (2006); OCLC   69017094
9. ICTUS 35th Anniversary Collection, ICTUS Records (2010); OCLC   805069015
10. TJD Online, Tom Lord (ed.), Chilliwack, Canada: Lord Music Reference Inc. (retrieved 16 April 2014); OCLC   182585494, 690104143

External links

• Official site
• Andrea Centazzo