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Uptown Records is a jazz record label based in Champlain, New York. [1] It was founded by Robert E. Sunenblick MD. (Bob Sunenblick) in 1981. Former seat has been in Harrington Park, New Jersey. [2]
| Catalog | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Moore, Ralph | [NEVER ISSUED] see Reservoir Records | |
| 27.01 | Joe Thomas | Raw Meat |
| 27.02 | J.R. Monterose | Live in Albany |
| 27.03 | John W. Bubbles | Back on Broadway |
| 27.04 | Beryl Booker | [NEVER ISSUED] |
| 27.05 | Paul Quinichette | [NEVER ISSUED] |
| 27.06 | J.R. Monterose & Tommy Flanagan | ...And a Little Pleasure |
| 27.07 | Dickie Wells | Lonesome Road |
| 27.08 | Hod O'Brien | Bits and Pieces |
| 27.09 | Allen Eager | Renaissance |
| 27.10 | Dave Schildkraut | [NEVER ISSUED] |
| 27.11 | Philly Joe Jones Dameronia | To Tadd with Love |
| 27.12 | Joe Thomas & Jay McShann | Blowin' in from K.C. |
| 27.13 | Haywood Henry | The Gentle Monster |
| 27.14 | Frank Wess & Johnny Coles | Two at the Top |
| 27.15 | Philly Joe Jones Dameronia | Look Stop Listen |
| 27.16 | Pepper Adams | Live at Fat Tuesday's |
| 27.17 | Don Sickler | The Music of Kenny Dorham |
| 27.18 | Charlie Rouse & Red Rodney | Social Call |
| 27.19 | Budd Johnson | Ole Dude and the Fundance Kid |
| 27.20 | Barry Harris | For the Moment |
| 27.21 | Buddy Tate & Al Grey | Just Jazz |
| 27.22 | Joe Puma | [NEVER ISSUED] see Reservoir Records |
| 27.23 | Don Joseph | One of a Kind |
| 27.24 | Peter Leitch | Exhilaration |
| 27.25 | Maria Muldaur | Transbluency |
| 27.26 | Kenny Barron | Autumn in New York |
| 27.27 | Claudio Roditi | Claudio! |
| 27.28 | Carl Fontana | The Great Fontana |
| 27.29 | Tommy Flanagan | Nights at the Vanguard |
| 27.30 | Freddie Redd | Lonely City |
| 27.31 | Pepper Adams | The Adams Effect |
| 27.32 | Jimmy Gourley | The Left Bank of New York |
| 27.33 | Various Artists | An Uptown Christmas |
| 27.34 | Charlie Rouse & Sahib Shihab | Soul Mates |
| 27.35 | Chet Baker | Boston, 1954 |
| 27.36 | Charlie Parker | Montreal, 1953 |
| 27.37 | Densil Pinnock | I Waited for You |
| 27.38 | Serge Chaloff | Boston, 1950 |
| 27.39 | Don Sickler | Night Watch |
| 27.40 | Sonny Clark | Oakland, 1955 |
| 27.41 | Kenny Barron | New York Attitude |
| 27.42 | Charlie Parker | Boston, 1952 |
| 27.43 | Jack Sheldon | Playing for Change |
| 27.44 | Dodo Marmarosa | Pittsburgh, 1958 |
| 27.45 | Coleman Hawkins | Jamestown, NY, 1958 |
| 27.46 | Lee Wiley | Music of Manhattan |
| 27.47 | Barry Harris | For the Moment |
| 27.48 | Charles Mingus | Charles 'Baron' Mingus |
| 27.49 | Allen Eager | In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee |
| 27.50 | Charlie Rouse & Red Rodney | Social Call |
| 27.51 | Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie | Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 |
| 27.84 | Jeri Southern | Blue Note, Chicago, March 1956 |
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