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Allegro Label Showcase

Allegro distributes over two hundred individual independent labels, each as distinctive as the artists they record. The pages in this section offer links to some of these labels, and your opportunity to develop a closer understanding of their vision and music.

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Children's Music Labels

A Gentle Wind
Honored with over 37 national awards, recordings from A Gentle Wind are a treasure chest of songs, stories and good times for the entire family. With over sixty titles featuring everything from fingerplays and activity songs for toddlers, to captivating stories from around the world, spirited sing-alongs, or silly songs that tickle the funny bone, A Gentle Wind has something for every age and musical taste. These award winning children’s recordings lift your spirit, spark your imagination and celebrate childhood.

Click here to view a listing of all available A Gentle Wind titles.

American Melody Records
Bluegrass and folk music for all ages are featured on the over 20 award-winning releases on this Connecticut-based label. Founded in 1985 by lead singer/guitarist of the bluegrass supergroup the Seldom Scene, the focuses on "family" music—much intended for children, but all with great appeal to all ages! Lots of lively banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar and more, wonderful harmony singing, and some of the best versions of alltime classic American folk songs. Featured artists include Phil Rosenthal, Jonathan Edwards, Cathy Fink, the Smith Sisters, Dave Mallett, John McCutcheon, Larry Penn, and other folk and bluegrass notables.

Click here to view a listing of all available American Melody titles.

Music For Aardvarks
The children’s songs by David Weinstone, originally intended for use simply as a reference to class activities, have captured the imaginations and touched the hearts of families all across the country and around the world.

Click here to view a listing of all available Music For Aardvarks titles.

Baby Road Trip
The multi award-winning Baby Road Trip Video Series takes children on educational and entertaining musically themed journeys to different exciting destinations! This video series was designed especially for parents to enjoy just as much as their babies and toddlers. Taking a break from classical music, Baby Road Trip features original, upbeat music orchestrated especially for each location and also features proven educational principles for each level of a child’s development while enhancing cognitive, sensory and emotional developments. The production quality of Baby Road Trip goes unprecedented with other videos of the same genre in the market today! Bright colors, upbeat happy images, children at play and the unique combination of real life footage, and graphic imagery make Baby Road Trip your child’s favorite video series for years to come.
Click here to view a listing of all available Baby Road Trip titles.

Casablanca Kids
Casablanca Kids is home to some internationally renowned artists & performers such as Sharon, Lois & Bram, Fred Penner, and David Suzuki. Casablanca Kids is dedicated to bringing you recordings for your children that are fun, jazzy, and educational, and represent good values that parents want to instill in their children.

Click here to view a listing of all available Casablanca Kidstitles.

Creative Kids Productions
Creative Kids Productions is dedicated to the creative spirit within each child. Most of our CDs come with an instructional booklet that helps children in various areas of their lives such as: falling asleep at night, developing creativity, discovering the talent they were born with, developing attention, improving grades, developing imagination or just plain humor and laughter.

Click here to view a listing of all available Creative Kids titles.

Delos
New ways to help your child fall in love with classical music.

Click here to view a listing of all available Delos titles.

Dream Flight Productions
Dream Flight Productions is a label dedicated to creating quality children's audio recordings that nurture a child's mind, body and spirit. It is best known for the unique audio series created by owner/artist Patti Teel; the recordings feature gentle songs and orchestrations that use yoga techniques to help children relax and fall asleep.

Click here to view a listing of all available Dream Flight titles.

Gadfly Records
Gadfly Records is "fighting the battle of the bland." We feature unique and offbeat recordings, with a wide range of musical styles, including releases in the folk, rock, ethnic, instrumental, and spoken word genres.
Click here to view a listing of all available Gadfly titles.

Kevin Roth Music
Childrens and folk.
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KIDZUP Productions
KIDZUP Productions is a leading educational publisher for children. Our teacher-created materials help build basic skills and reinforce learning programs through music, workbooks and flash cards. Our award-winning programs help kids learn early childhood lessons, phonics, math facts, languages, and more. Popular titles include I'm Learning To Multiply, I'm Learning My ABC's, Phonics Songs and Grammar & Punctuation.
Click here to view a listing of all available KIDZUP titles.

Kimbo Educational
Kimbo is renowned for their award-winning music and movement activities. Kimbo specializes in a variety of music for early childhood, but also has products for elementary school-age children, special needs, senior citizens, and P.E. titles for Junior and Senior High School. From lullabys to square dancing, dance recordings set to popular music and singable songs, Kimbo will meet your needs. Kimbo is celebrating their 50th anniversary.
Click here to view a listing of all available Kimbo titles.

Lovely Baby Music
The Lovely Baby CD music series, created by award-winning Dutch composer and international baby music expert, Raimond Lap, is the first and only original music series in the world specifically created for babies ages newborn to 36 months old. Used in elite infant education programs, including those of the U.S. military and national day care providers, Lovely Baby CDs help in the emotional, intellectual and physical development of babies. Named to the "Top Creative Toys for 2004" by Creative Child Magazine.
Click here to view a listing of all available Lovely Baby titles.

Odds Bodkin
Odds Bodkin’s character-voice and music-filled storytelling style has been mesmerizing listeners, young and old, for twenty-one years. During his 32-show Off-Broadway debut at Lincoln Center, The New York Times dubbed him "a consummate storyteller" while TIMEOUT New York wrote, "Master Storyteller Odds Bodkin is the talk of the town with his remarkable one-man Art of the Tale." His most recent recording, Little Proto and the Volcano’s Fire, won the Parent’s Choice Silver Award.
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Pocket Snails
Pocket Snails™ products have been specifically created to provide a Soaring Start for Little Minds™ by helping to enhance and enrich intellectual growth during this important developmental window. Pocket Snails will enchant and educate your child with its innovative approach to educational entertainment. Carefully designed to appeal to the growing interests, skills and humor of your 2 to 5 year old, this innovative series is a positive and beneficial step towards realizing the optimum in their intellectual development.
Click here to view a listing of Pocket Snails titles.

Power Arts Company
Powers Arts Company, Inc. are the producers of two cartoon bands called Teacher and the Rockbots and The Blankies. They are also a proud partner with World Vision in building a better world for children. Through World Vision's network of Teacher Resource Centers, Power Arts Company is providing schools in low-income neighborhoods with music CDs, enabling and encouraging fun and learning for students and teachers.To learn more, visit www.worldvision.org

Click here to view The Blankies titles.
Click here to view Teacher And The Rockbots titles.

Purple Frog Records
Features new recordings by multi-award winning children's artist Joanie Bartels, famous for her triple platinum selling "Magic Series".
Click here to view a listing of Purple Frog titles.

Re-Bop Records
Since 1989, Vermont's Re-Bop Records has been pioneering age-appropriate children's audio entertainment, and winning every major parenting award, many times over. Chief Re-Bop Diana Winn, a former educator, gives the concepts and content of Re-Bop recordings a great deal of thought and care, and then brings together talented songwriters and musicians, and extraordinary kid and grownup vocalists to make them. In Winn's words: "Good kids' music should run the gamut of feelings and not be afraid of metaphors and ambiguity. It should be full of repetition, ingenuity, simplicity, and intelligence. At Re-Bop, we shoot for recordings that are hip without being slick; music that is both authentic and age-appropriate. It gives kids credit for having the whole range of emotions."
Click here to view a listing of Re-Bop titles.

Sugar Beats
Sugar Beats was created in 1993 by Sherry Goffin Kondor, daughter of legendary songwriters Carole King & Gerry Goffin, when she realized there was not enough music she and her children could enjoy together. Sugar Beats has gained great success by featuring both talented kid performers and great adult musicians and vocalists performing together! Sugar Beats award winning albums feature fun & fresh covers of classic rock n' roll songs from the 60's, 70's and 80's that are guaranteed to get the entire family dancing & singing!
Click here to view a listing of Sugar Beats titles.

Teach Me Tapes
Foreign Language Using Music and Stories. 22 titles in 10 languages. These products fill the need for a fun, educationally entertaining approach to language learning. Because music is a natural and universal means of communication, we use children's favorite songs sung in the native language. These innovative book and audio sets teach numbers, days of the week, the alphabet, everyday phrases and more. Familiar tunes are sung by native children accompanied by professional musicians. The "Sesame Street" approach makes them favorites among parents and teachers. Favorite songs include: Day-O, Head, Shoulders Knees and Toes, The More We Get Together, Going to the Zoo, If You're Happy and You Know It, The Butterfly Song and many more.
Click here to view a listing of Teach Me Tapes titles.

Under God’s Rainbow
Under God’s Rainbow, you will always find inspiration & faith. Children of all ages will enjoy these uplifting collections of sing-along bible songs. Each CD includes twelve brand-new versions of all-time favorite songs of praise, plus a bonus 125-page printable coloring book featuring traditional bible images! Produced by king of the Yard Productions, Flying Colors brings a unique vision, boundless energy, and an attitude of fun to their material. Performed in a variety of styles including classic rock, world, blues, and folk, each song is infused with a newfound joy that is guaranteed to put a smile on even the most serious face!
Click here to view a listing of Under God’s Rainbow titles.


Classical Labels

Alpha (Outhere)
Records that are as beautiful to look at as to listen to: that’s how the press greeted the creation of Alpha in 1999. Alpha loves to shape each production into a unique object, reflecting the century-old links between various forms of artistic expression.

Click here to view a listing of all available Alpha Titles.

Arte Nova Classics
Arte Nova, an imprint of BMG Classics, has long been unavailable to the American and Canadian markets. The highly respected label boasts a hefty catalogue of classical warhorses and contemporary works. One of the cornerstones of the Arte Nova catalogue is the critically acclaimed Beethoven symphony cycle, conducted by David Zinman leading the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Zinman has also recently launched a lauded Strauss orchestral cycle for Arte Nova. Other noted Arte Nova recordings include works performed by famed violinist Pamela Frank, pianist Ursula Oppens, conductors Christopher Hogwood, Adrian Leaper, Vaclav Neumann and René Clemencic and a fine series of celebrated orchestral works from Ross Pople and The London Festival Orchestra.

Click here to view a listing of all available Arte Nova Titles.

Arte Verum
Barbara Hendricks created Arte Verum in January 2006 and now records exclusively for her label. In the upcoming months, Arte Verum will release Barbara Hendricks performing Spanish Songs and Schumann Lieder. "I created Arte Verum because it is possible for artists today to control their creative endeavors from the beginnings in the rehearsal room, to the concert hall, beyond into the recording studio, and then directly to the public. The technological advances that have made this step possible would have been unthinkable just ten years ago. Arte Verum will reflect the passion that I have for the recital repertoire of lieder and mélodie, chamber music, orchestral song, and jazz, as well as baroque and contemporary music. I have always been a performing artist who records, with the belief that a recording should only be the natural by-product of my actual performing repertoire, the result of a long process of many performances and much time—sometime years—spent with the scores. It is very important for me that the repertoire of my recordings should truthfully reflect my actual performing activity. During more than 30 years I have had the privilege and freedom to perform and record the repertoire that I love with partners that I respect and admire. However, until now the life of my work after the actual recording was no longer in my hands, and now this will change. Every aspect of my work can be produced with the same gratitude, joy, and integrity.” – Barbara Hendricks
Click here to view a listing of all available Arte Verum titles.

Bel Canto Society
Bel Canto Society offers CDs, DVDs and videos of recent and historical opera performances. Artists include Caballe, Callas, Corelli, Carreras, Cossotto, Del Monaco, Di Stefano, Domingo, Gencer, Gigli, Gobbi, Kiepura, Nilsson, Olivero, Printemps, Mado Robin, Schmidt, Simionato, Supervia, Tauber, Tebaldi and hundreds of others.
Click here to view a listing of all available Bel Canto Society titles.

Bravissimo Opera Library
Bravissimo Opera Library brings the fi nest singers of the 20th century to your living room in deluxe superbudget box sets! Stunningly beautiful music at a stunningly beautiful price!
Click here to view a listing of all available Bravissimo Opera Library titles.

CAvi-music
CAvi-music is an artist-centric label focusing on collaborative projects that support artists’ personal ideas and performances. With a focus on chamber music, CAvi-music offers hand-picked, beautiful music in outstanding performances featuring classical stars such as Christian Tetzlaff, Dennis Russell Davies, Lars Vogt, and Sabine Meyer.
Click here to view a listing of all available CAvi-music titles.

Cedille Records
The Chicago Classical Recording Foundation is a publicly-supported, not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting the finest musicians, ensembles, and composers in the Chicago area through the production of audiophile-quality recordings on the Cedille Records label.
Click here to view a listing of all available Cedille Records titles.

Challenge Classics
Founded in 1994, Challenge has gained worldwide recognition with well identifiable productions. In spite of our youth, there's a strong regard for the past as well as the contemporary, including a fair representation of Dutch artists.

Challenge Classics is the label's new classical music imprint.
Click here to view a listing of all available Challenge titles.

Cold Blue Records
Cold Blue is well known as a primary source for innovative, contemporary West Coast music.
Click here to view a listing of all available Cold Blue titles.

Doremi Music
Doremi's cutting edge audio restoration technology brings to life the rich, distinctive, original sonority of the great classical artists on the Legendary Treasures series. Discerning listeners and critics are astonished by the new, superior restoration and mastering process of historic recordings at Doremi's digital audio laboratories, setting a new standard of excellence.
Click here to view a listing of all available Doremi titles.

Gothic Records
Your best choice for premium choral and organ recordings.
Click here to view a listing of all available Gothic titles.

Hänssler Classic
For more than 30 years Hänssler Classic, based near Stuttgart Germany as an independent label with now more than 600 CDs and DVDs available, has produced award-winning recordings, first on LP and then on CD. The label has also recorded Neville Marriner, Iona Brown, Roger Norrington, Andreas Schmidt, Gerhard Oppitz, Thomas Quasthoff, Christine Schaefer, the Amadeus Guitar Duo, and many other leading artists. The Hänssler catalog contains many exciting recordings of rarities by the great composers as well as reissues of rare classic recordings by great artists of the past. It focuses also on the great choral works as well as on its exclusive cooperation with the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, Germany and the SWR - one of the largest radio and TV stations in Europe with its orchestras and ensembles - with the the primary focus to provide high quality recordings of the highest standards.
Click here to view a listing of all available Hänssler titles.

Integra Records UK
Integra Records UK was founded by Christian Forshaw in February 2007 with the intention of providing a creative environment, without the pressures of market forces, for the release of future recordings. This will enable artists to experiment freely with ideas, leading to more personal and interesting discs.
Click here to view a listing of all available Integra Records UK titles.

Landor Records
Landor Records, a new 'artist led' company, was launched in 2006 and is now widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of classical music.
Click here to view a listing of all available Landor titles.


Loft Recordings
The mission of Loft Recordings is to generate enthusiasm for and literacy in classical music, particularly music for choirs and pipe organs, through recordings and broadcast media.
Click here to view a listing of all available Loft titles.

Meridian Records
Meridian has a strong reputation for making recordings of unusual repertoire, often by mainstream composers. The current catalogue includes première recordings of chamber music by Ethel Smyth, Kenneth Leighton, Alan Bush, George Enescu, Thomas Wilson, Copland, Earl of Kelly, Mackenzie, McEwen etc. and, string quartets by Rimsky-Korsakov, symphonies and concertos by Bernard Stevens, orchestral music by John Jeffreys and Jim Parker and choral works by Antony le Fleming and Rihards Dubra, as well as chamber music by Charles Camilleri, Paul Patterson and many others. The catalogue covers all periods and genres of 'classical' music along with recordings of big-band, salon and world music.
Click here to view a listing of all available Meridian titles.

Nimbus Records
An independent Classical Record label, with a catalogue covering orchestral and chamber music, World music, and archive transfers from 78s and piano rolls.
Click here to view a listing of all available Nimbus titles.

Paradizo
Paradizo features the recordings of Skip Sempé, harpsichordist and founder/ director of Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, and the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra. Following fifteen years of distinctions and awards with three prestigious labels, Sempé created Paradizo, featuring authoritative, bold music-making and celebrating a renewed vision of creative interpretation in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians has cited Sempé as “striving to transfer the spontaneity of a live performance to the recorded medium.” In recording, Sempé is one of the few classical musicians to be directly involved in the adventure behind the scenes. Skip Sempé maintains that, when prepared under carefully selected and controlled circumstances, a recording can offer an extra dimension to the sensation of intimate and immediate musical communication, and can provide the listener with the experience of a live concert performance. The best seat in the house could be in front of your own speakers. Paradizo will focus on chamber music and instrumental virtuosity in repertoire from 1500–1750. The label will also feature debut recordings of two important new performers: Julien Martin (recorder) and Josh Cheatham (viola da gamba). The Paradizo catalogue is an ever-changing “Pandora’s Box” of adventurous repertoire and programming. Paradizo places prime importance on all aspects of preparation, recording, and post-production, combining a high level of musical science with the artistic craft involved in the phenomenon of recording..
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Reference Recordings
The goal of Reference Recordings is to recreate the sound of real musicians making music in real space. RR's classical and jazz recordings have received extraordinary praise worldwide for both performance and sound quality. 2006 marks the 30th Anniversary year of Reference Recordings, the esteemed independent record label dedicated to the highest standards of recording art and technology. Grammy® nominations include six "Best Engineered, Classical" for engineer Keith O. Johnson and a "Classical Producer of the Year" nod for J. Tam Henderson in 1998. RR artists and productions have garnered five additional nominations and two winners.
Click here to view a listing of all available Reference titles.

Stradivarius
Click here to view a listing of all available Stradivarius titles.

Summit Records
Brought to the forefront of classical brass music by the brass ensemble that American Record Guide has called "...the best in the world," (Summit Brass), Summit Records has historically specialized in brass. However, other styles of recordings on the label such as Chamber Music, Orchestra and now, a strong emphasis in Jazz, have been critically acclaimed and make Summit a label to watch with interest over the next few years.
Click here to view a listing of all available Summit titles.

Well Tempered Productions
Specializing in audiophile quality classical and eclectic music.
Click here to view a listing of all available Well Tempered titles.

Western Wind
Specializing in a cappella Holiday Programs created for public radio; Early American Music, Vocal Jazz, and Judaica.
Click here to view a listing of all available Western Wind titles.

Winter & Winter
Eclectic music grouped into four "editions": Music Edition: "wondrous music in hardcover editions" - The music tends to be categorised into little compartments. However, it's possible to free oneself of these categories. Film Edition: "celluloid improvisations in fine editions" - The tempting play with stories, locations and time is the step across the border into the middle of the moment. JMT Edition: "Jazz Music Today" - For one decade (1985-1995) JMT made 81 recordings including the landmark debuts by Cassandra Wilson, Steve Coleman and Uri Caine as well as over ten milestone recordings by Paul Motian and the unexpected comeback by John McLaughlin. AudioFilm: "Cinema for Closed Eyes" - AudioFilms are musical essays about a whore house in Paris, the sidewalks of New York, the journey with the Orient Express, the travelogue about a trip to La Habana, and more.
Click here to view a listing of all available Winter & Winter titles.

Zig-Zag Territoires
With a catalog of over 100 titles, Zig-Zag Territoires recently celebrated 10 years of bringing their unique and indispensable music to the public. Zig-Zag Territoires wishes to offer a genuine intellectual and aesthetic complement through in-depth booklet notes and original artwork by the painter Anne Peultier. The CDs are unique objects, halfway between individual craftsmanship and industry. it has turned out to be an exciting adventure, enriching the experience of record making, which becomes an artistic exchange between label, musicians, sound engineer, painter, and designer. Allegro Classical is pleased to make Zig-Zag Territoires more widely accessible in the United States.
Click here to view a listing of all available Zig-Zag Territoires titles.

Jazz and Blues Labels

1201 Music
1201 Music brings you new releases in traditional and contemporary jazz, blues and new age music. Our catalog encompasses some of the best recording artists in the music business. "...simply the best in jazz and new adult contemporary music..."
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Act Music + Vision
Internationally acclaimed for innovative and high-quality recordings of jazz and world music, ACT is an acknowledged leader in defining the genre of world-jazz. Founded in 1988 by music industry veteran Siegfried (Siggi) Loch, the company is based in Munich, Germany.
Click here to view a listing of all available Act Music + Vision titles

Alanna Records
Quality, Eclectic, Timeless Entertainment Growing with the times and needs for varied, creative, quality recordings, and with the greatest everlasting heritage of standard popular classics.
Click here to view a listing of all available Alanna titles.

Amulet Records
Amulet is an artist run label devoted to uncomprimising forms of sound. Many self produced projects by Billy Martin (Medeski Martin & Wood) with a Mozown series: Bob Moses records dating back to 1967. Artists include: Billy Martin, Grant Calvin Weston, Bob Moses, DJ Logic, John Medeski, Chris Wood, DJ Olive, Steve Steve Swallow, Keith Jarrett, Larry Coryell, Marty Ehrlich, Daniel Carter, Tsziji Munoz, Jim Pepper, Eddie Gomez, Club D'Elf, Jennifer Charles, Miho Hatori...and many more...

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Arbors Jazz
Home of Classic Jazz.
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AUM Fidelity
AUM Fidelity is a recording label with a focus on the wide dissemination of procreative sound and song created by highly advanced human beings. Some call it avant-garde jazz; we prefer to call it avant-garde instrumental soul music. It is becoming slowly but surely understood that the artists who record for AUM Fidelity are modern masters of intuitive tone, and that the works which they make for the label reside in the vanguard of sonic expression.
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Basta Music
BastaMusic.com, a veritable treasure trove of extraordinary music. Based in Aalsmeer (Tulip City) in The Netherlands, Basta produces and reissues in a steady flow recordings in the most different genres: jazz, world, classics, electro (from 1956 till now!), as well as contemporary music. Artist roster includes Raymond Scott, The Beau Hunks, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Fay Lovsky, Powderblue, Kid Baltan, Dick Raaijmakers, Tom Dissevelt, and The Metropole Orchestra. Designers of most of the CDs are Chris Ware, Piet Schreuders, Robert Crumb and Joost Swarte.

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Buzz Records
Hop on the Buzz and enjoy a ride into adventurous new music. With musicians like Trevor Dunn, Kitty Brazzelton, Satoko Fujii, Misha Mengelberg and John Tchicai Buzz already made a statement amongst people who are looking for music without boundaries.
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Cellar Live
Cellar Live presents the finest in live jazz recordings from Vancouver’s Cellar Restaurant/Jazz Club. The label boasts an impressive catalog of local and international artists, and prides itself on sonically and aesthetically pleasing records.
Click here to view a listing of all available Cellar Live titles.

Challenge Jazz
Founded in 1994, Challenge has gained worldwide recognition with well identifiable productions. In spite of our youth, there's a strong regard for the past as well as the contemporary, including a fair representation of Dutch artists.
While jazz continues to be the label's mainstay, we keep our ears open for interesting acts to emerge in other genres as well. Challenge's two sub-labels are A Records and Retrieval:

   A Records
With over 200 releases already, A-Records features artists that are at the door of the jazz of tomorrow. Underrated greats, young and promising heroes and hidden treasures found their home in A-Records with space for 'non-jazz' genres as well. We had very succesful releases with the New Cool Collective, vocalist Diane Hubka (featuring Lee Konitz), singer/bass player Jim Ferguson, pianist Jarmo Savolainen, altist David Pietro (with Dave Holland, Kenny Werner, Bill Stewart), singer Roseanna Vitro (with Eddie Gomez), french/american pianist Jean Michel Pilc, pianist Ivan Paduart (with Philip Catherine, Bob Malach, Toots Thielemans), UMO Jazz Orchestra (with Kenny Wheeler and Norma Winstone), saxophonist Barend Middelhoff and Hendrik Meurkens (with Dado Moroni and Jimmy Cobb) among lots of others. A-Records will continue to release tomorrow's jazz classics with percussionist Gerardo Rosales, fado group Quatro Ventos, Dick de Graaf, Dan Willis, Monica Akihary and many more.
   Retrieval
Retrieval took over the British Fountain / Retrieval LP label founded by the late Ron Jewson, Norman Stephens and famous audio restoration expert John R.T. Davies, who until hus untimely death in May 2004, was responsible for most of the work on Chris Ellis' compilations. Since our first release ( Glenn Miller - The Great Instrumentals) we have found ready acceptance for such gems of jazz history as 'The King Oliver Creole Jazz Band' (The Complete Set), Tommy Dorsey's Clambake 7 featuring Bud Freeman, Ted Lewis and his band featuring Benny Goodman, Mugsy Spanier and Fats Waller, the pioneering with band recordings from 1918-1920; jazz saxophone-pioneer Adrian Rollini, Eddie Lang, Carl Kress and Dick McDonough - Pioneers of Jazz Guitar', ' Red Nichols and Miff Mole with The Hottentots and The Arkansas Travellers', ‘The Young Nat Gonella’ and ‘Django Reinhardt and the Singers with Jean Sablon’. Also the Lost Chords CD gained a lot of international attention as great listening material for the withgoing book written by Richard M. Sudhalter. All CDs contain complete discographical details and liner notes by such noted experts as Richard M. Sudhalter, Brian Rust and Mark Berresford.

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Chiaroscuro Jazz
One of the oldest and most renowned mainstream jazz labels, with more than 140 active titles, featuring many legendary jazz greats.
Click here to view a listing of all available Chiaroscuro titles.

DixieFrog
DIXIEFROG, home to contemporary blues, country and rock, is building an eclectic catalog with their sights set well beyond the territories of France. With a recent incursion towards Mali (Lobi Traore) and the Ivory Coast (Manou Gallo), Dixiefrog maintains their course vis-à-vis the majors—smaller, but just as good!
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DMP
Specializing in audiophile quality and modern jazz.
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Document Records
The worlds largest catalogue for vintage blues, gospel, spirituals, boogie-woogie, jazz and country music. Over 850 titles.
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Downtown Sound
Exciting world beat, funk, avant garde and non traditional jazz recordings.

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ELM Records
In 1978, Ellis Marsalis made his first recording for his own label, ELM Records. A follow-up album was made in 1983, but it wasn’t until 1998, when his son Jason worked with him, that they were released. A few years later, Ellis started to make new records under the ELM label and has been doing so for the past few years. Look for future new releases and re-issues to come from ELM Records.

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GM Recordings
GM Recordings is an independent classical and jazz label founded in 1980 by Gunther Schuller. The 100-title catalog covers a wide array of music, from Beethoven and Bach to Babbitt and Stravinsky, from avant-garde jazz to Scott Joplin's 'Red Back Book'. Explore GM's diversity at our web site.
Click here to view a listing of all available GM titles.

Go Jazz
Go Jazz is based around one simple idea: to create a vehicle for music which embodies the warm relationship between the human voice and the instruments of jazz, to present great players, performing terrific songs, from the past, present and future.  Go Jazz fills the gap left by other labels and presents a wide range of great music. With Go Jazz there is no new or old music, just music that stands the test of time.
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