Michael Cain is a pianist and composer.
Walter Dewey Redman was an American saxophonist who performed free jazz as a bandleader and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett.
George Garzone is a saxophonist and jazz educator from Boston, Massachusetts.
Cadence Jazz is an American record company and label specializing in noncommercial modern jazz. It is associated with Cadence magazine.
˚HighNote Records is a jazz record company and label founded by Joe Fields with his son, Barney Fields, in 1997.
Mapleshade Records is an American jazz record company and independent record label founded by Pierre Sprey in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, United States, in 1990.
Music & Arts is a classical and jazz record label founded in Berkeley, California by Frederick Maroth.
India Navigation was an American record company and independent record label that specialized in avant-garde jazz in the 1970s and 1980s. It was founded by Bob Cummins, a corporate lawyer who helped jazz musicians with legal matters. Its catalogue included Arthur Blythe, Pharoah Sanders, Hamiet Bluiett, Chico Freeman, Cecil McBee, and the Revolutionary Ensemble. In addition to this, some recordings of minimal music, such as Arnold Dreyblatt, Phill Niblock and Joseph Celli, or Tom Johnson, also appeared.
Novus Records was an American jazz record label run by Steve Backer. Backer worked at Impulse! Records until 1974, when Clive Davis, founder of Arista Records, asked him to oversee the jazz division at Arista.
Creative Improvised Music Projects, usually abbreviated CIMP or C.I.M.P., is an American jazz record company and label. It is associated with Cadence magazine and Cadence Jazz Records. The label is noted for its minimal use of electronic processing and its spare microphoning technique. Bob Rusch founded CIMP in 1995, with his son Marc Rusch as the recording engineer and his daughter Kara Rusch producing cover art.
James Emery is an American jazz guitarist. He grew up in Willoughby, Ohio and Shaker Heights, Ohio. Emery plays archtop guitar, semi-acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and soprano guitar.
New World Records is a record label that was established in 1975 through a Rockefeller Foundation grant to celebrate America's bicentennial (1976) by producing a 100-LP anthology, with American music from many genres.
Matthew Edward Wilson is an American jazz drummer.
Freedom Records was a jazz record label headed by Shel Safran and founded by Alan Bates as a division of Black Lion Records.
Ron Horton is an American jazz trumpeter.
Clarence Lacquese Penn is an American jazz drummer and composer.
Curtis Rae Hasselbring is an American jazz trombonist, guitarist and composer.
Konnex Records is a German jazz record label founded in 1984. Record producer Manfred Schiek, who had previously run the label Vinyl Records, founded the label in Berlin to issue contemporary jazz recordings from British and continental European performers. In the 1990s the label expanded into reissues of music by Elvin Jones and Cecil Taylor. Konnex operates a sublabel, Atonal, for electronic music.
Mons Records is a German independent record label for jazz and classical music founded in 1991 by Thilo Berg in Trippstadt. The label has released music by among others Clark Terry, Jeff Hamilton, Bobby Shew, Tom Harrell, Ray Brown, Benny Green, Dado Moroni, Larry Fuller, Nancy King, Allan Harris, Carl Allen, Richard Bona, Manu Katché, Quentin Dujardin, Ivan Paduart, Barbara Morrison, Nicholas Payton, Bob Mintzer, Ben Wolfe, Greg Hutchinson, Dewey Redman, Ethan Iverson, Ralph Moore, Robert Hurst, Dee Daniels, Jiggs Whigham, Don Braden, Joris Teepe, the Metropole Orkest, Christian Bruckner, Scott Colley, Wolfgang Haffner, Kevin Hays, Eric Marienthal, Benyamin Nuss, Clarence Penn, Steffen Schorn, Stan Sulzmann, George Whitty, and Young Voices Brandenburg.
Unspoken is an album by the Cecil McBee Band, led by double bassist Cecil McBee, who is joined by saxophonist Randall Connors, trumpeter James Zollar, pianist David Berkman, and drummer Matt Wilson. Featuring eight compositions by McBee, it was recorded on October 20, 1996, at Sound on Sound in New York City, and was released in 1997 by Palmetto Records.
