Wide Sound is an Italian jazz label.
Artists who have recorded for the label include Norah Jones, [1] Roberto Gatto, Irio De Paula, Marco Di Meco, Peter Erskine, Danilo Rea, Maurizio Rolli, Angelo Valori, Fabrizio Bosso, Paolo Di Sabatino, Luca Mannutza, Fabio Morgera, Stefano di Battista, Bruce Cox, Krystle Warren, Josh Roseman.
Paolo Fresu is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music.
Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Capitol Music Group. Established in 1939 by German-Jewish emigrants Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derived its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz around 1947. From there, Blue Note grew to become one of the most prolific, influential and respected jazz labels of the mid-20th century, noted for its role in facilitating the development of hard bop, post-bop and avant-garde jazz, as well as for its iconic modernist art direction.
Verve Records is an active American record label owned by Universal Music Group (UMG). Founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, the label is home to the world's largest jazz catalogue, which includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Cal Tjader, Nina Simone, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, Jon Batiste, and Diana Krall among others as well as a diverse mix of other recordings that fall outside of jazz including albums from disparate artists like the Velvet Underground, Kurt Vile, Arooj Aftab, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and many more. It absorbed the catalogues of Granz's earlier label, Clef Records, founded in 1946; Norgran Records, founded in 1953; and material which was previously licensed to Mercury Records.
Albert Laurence Di Meola is a Berklee-educated, Grammy Award winning Italian American guitarist known for his work in jazz fusion and world music. His breakthrough came through joining Chick Corea's Return to Forever group in 1974. He launched, from 1976 afterwards, a successful and critically acclaimed solo career, noted for his technical mastery, complex compositions and explorations of latin music. Some highlights of his work are Elegant Gypsy, his Friday Night in San Francisco collaboration and the World Sinfonia trilogy.
Jean-Luc Ponty is a French jazz and jazz fusion violinist and composer.
Stefano Bollani is an Italian composer, pianist and singer, also active as a writer and a television presenter.
Roberto Gatto is an Italian jazz drummer, born October 6, 1958, in Rome.
Aldo Romano is an Italian jazz drummer. He also founded a rock group in 1971.
Stefano Di Battista is an Italian jazz musician who plays soprano and alto saxophone.
Mina is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, issued in 1964 through Ri-Fi.
Qué Alegría is an album by the John McLaughlin Trio, featuring percussionist Trilok Gurtu and bass guitarist Dominique Di Piazza. Di Piazza is replaced by Kai Eckhardt on two tracks. It was released on the Verve label in 1992. The album reached 1992 number 5 in the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.
Jazz French Horn is the third album by American jazz French horn player and composer Tom Varner recorded in 1985 and released as an LP on the New Note label, and later as a CD on the Italian Soul Note label.
ACT is a German record label founded in 1992 by Siegfried Loch. It is a division of ACT Music + Vision founded by Loch and Annette Humpe in 1988. ACT started as a pop music label but folded soon after it started. Loch turned it into a jazz label, at first reissuing music he had recorded for Liberty, Philips, and WEA before turning to new recordings.
Chaos is an album by pianist Paul Bley, bassist Furio Di Castri and drummer Tony Oxley, recorded in Italy in 1994 and released on the Soul Note label in 1998.
My Son the Jazz Drummer! is an album by drummer Shelly Manne performing jazz adaptations of traditional and contemporary Jewish music, recorded in 1962 and released on the Contemporary label. The album was re-released on CD in 2004 as Steps to the Desert.
European Episode is an album by American jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz and French pianist Martial Solal recorded in Italy in 1968 and released on the Campi label.
Jazz Nocturne is an album by saxophonist Lee Konitz's Quartet, recorded in 1992 for the Japanese Venus label and released in the US on the Evidence label.
Straight Ahead is an album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis with the Tommy Flanagan Trio recorded in 1976 and released on the Pablo label.
Sound of Surprise is an album by saxophonist Lee Konitz recorded in 1999 and released on the French RCA Victor label.
Label Bleu is a French jazz record label founded by Michel Orier.