Leo Records
Leo Records is an English jazz record label, which releases Russian jazz in addition to material from American and British musicians.
Leo Records was founded in 1979 by Leo Feigin (also known under his broadcasting name Aleksei Leonidov), a Russian immigrant to Britain.[1] The label was particularly associated with establishing the world reputation of the Ganelin Trio during the 1970s and 1980s.[2]
It is generally associated with more experimental releases. The label has a close relationship with the artists who release material on the label; it does not sign artists to contracts, but releases their material on a single-album basis. By 2010 there were over 700 titles in Leo Records catalogue. Leo Records comprises four labels: Leo Records, Leo Lab (Leo Records Laboratory), Golden Years of New Jazz, and FeetFirst records.
Artists
- Aardvark Jazz Orchestra
- Art Ensemble of Chicago
- Anthony Braxton
- Arcady Kirichenko
- John Wolf Brennan
- Jaki Byard
- Vladimir Chekassin
- Eugenio Colombo
- Marilyn Crispell
- Carlo Actis Dato
- Patrick Defossez
- Joe Fonda
- Satoko Fujii
- Vyacheslav Ganelin/Ganelin Trio
- Joachim Gies
- Katsuyuki Itakura
- Italian Instabile Orchestra
- Hans Kumpf
- Sergey Kuryokhin
- Joëlle Léandre
- Pago Libre
- Misha Lobko
- Keshavan Maslak
- Phil Minton
- Amina Claudine Myers
- Joe Morris
- Famoudou Don Moye
- Simon Nabatov
- Sainkho Namtchlyak
- Mark Nauseef
- Maggie Nicols
- Evan Parker
- Ivo Perelman
- Umberto Petrin
- Valentina Ponomaryova
- Sun Ra
- Ned Rothenberg
- Wadada Leo Smith
- Miroslav Tadic
- Aki Takase
- Cecil Taylor
- Gebhard Ullmann
- Reggie Workman
References
- ↑ Leo Records, Allaboutjazz.com, 10 February 2004.
- ↑ Kelsey, Chris. "Ganelin Trio: Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-01-09.
Further reading
- Leo Feigin. all that jazz Sankt Petersburg: АМФОРА, 2009 (ISBN 978-5-367-01140-1)
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