Silkheart Records

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Silkheart Records
Founded1985 (1985)
FounderLars-Olof Gustavsson
Keith Knox
Genre Jazz
Country of origin Sweden
Location Stockholm
Official website www.silkheart.se

Silkheart Records is a Swedish record company and label dedicated to improvised music and free jazz.

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Lars-Olof Gustavsson and Keith Knox founded Silkheart in 1985. In 1991, Jimmy Johnson of Forced Exposure suggested that Silkheart "could easily be considered for the new ESP-Disk throne." [1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz describes the four albums that Dennis González recorded for the label as "part of a determined effort to wrest creative initiative back from New York and the West Coast". [2] :513–514 Charles Brackeen (whom Silkheart's management [3] and González [2] :513–514 had coaxed out of retirement) recorded three albums for Silkheart. [2] :159

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References

  1. Johnson, Jimmy (1991). "CHARLES GAYLE QUARTET: Always Born CD; CHARLES GAYLE TRIO: Homeless CD [album reviews]". Forced Exposure. Waltham, Massachusetts: Forced Exposure, Inc. (17): 87. ISSN   0893-5599.
  2. 1 2 3 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (1996) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (Third ed.). London: Penguin Group. ISBN   0-14-051368-X.
  3. Wynn, Ron (1994), All Music Guide to Jazz , San Francisco: Miller Freeman, p.  103, ISBN   0-87930-308-5