Jazz Record Labels Ma-Mz
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MA Recordings
Established in Japan in the spring of 1988, the MA label sticks to modern acoustic jazz. Artists include Milcho Leviev, Dave Holland, Sheila Jordan, Harvie Swartz, Michael Cain, Ralph Alessi, Peter Epstein, and the Metamorphosis Jazz Sextet.
Mack Avenue Records
Headed by Crusaders drummer and founder Stix Hooper, Mack Avenue’s artist roster includes Eugene Maslov, Terry Gibbs, and a project called “the Legacy Lives On,” which features new recordings of jazz’s greatest living icons and innovators.
Mapleshade Records
Mapleshade Records is an American jazz record label, founded in 1989 by Pierre Sprey.
Marsalis Music
Marsalis Music is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based record label founded in 2002 by saxophonist Branford Marsalis. The label was formed to allow Marsalis and other musicians to document their music free of the commercial constraints imposed by other record labels.
Matchless Recordings
“Matchless Recordings has survived and developed through the unstinting labour of musicians and the continued support of listeners. The guiding principle has been to release material that would add something to the sum of the parts that make up an alternative musical life.” In other words, free jazz and the avant guarde.
Meantime Records
Karin Krog privately owns this independent record company, and she has released most of her latest CDs on this label. Some of her older recordings have been reissued as CD on this label as well.
M.E.L.T 2000
An acronym for Musical Energy & Loud Truth beyond 2000, the label releases a carefully-selected choice of unreleased and new World Music and Jazz recordings from the African continent.
Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings
Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings encompasses recordings by worldbeat, jazz, contemporary jazz, and pop/rock artists, including John Scofield, Tribal Tech, and Al DiMeola.
Meta Records
Meta Records is the recording outlet for drummer Alan Rudolph. The label’s motto is “Music for the mind’s ear.”
Milan Records
Milan Entertainment, Inc. is an independently owned record company releasing soundtracks for film and television, electronic music, a diverse roster of acclaimed artists, and best selling compilation albums offering samples of tangos, film and Latin music. It was created around 1980. Today it also operates in rock, spiritual, jazz, tango and world music.
Moonjune Records
MoonJune is a new progressive music label out of New York City. MoonJune loves progressive music and jazz music, and especially loves those musics were progressive and jazz cross paths!
Morrison Records
Morrison Records is an independent Australian jazz record label that is co-owned and run by James Morrison, his brother John Morrison and friend David Green. Artists currently on the label include James himself, his brother John’s Swing City big band and renowned vocalist Emma Pask.
Mosaic Records
Mosaic Records is an American specialist jazz record label, founded in 1983 by Michael Cuscuna and Charlie Lourie to issue coherent limited edition box sets (initially on LP) of jazz recordings by individual musicians, which had fallen out-of-print.
Mosaic Contemporary
Mosaic Contemporary, an offshoot of Mosaic Records, releases original recordings in the Contemporary Jazz idiom. Some of the artists that have recorded for Mosaic Contemporary include Kirk Whalum, Patti Austin, and Earl Klugh.
Moserobie
Moserobie is an independent Swedish jazz record label with artists such as Jonas Kullhammar, Torbjörn Zetterberg, Nacka Forum, Alberto Pinton and many others. The company was founded in 2000 by saxophone player Jonas Kullhammar, and has released over 50 releases since then.
Music and Arts
Music & Arts is an American record label based out of Berkeley, California. Music & Arts is a daughter company of Music and Arts Programs of America, which was formed in Berkeley by Frederick J. Maroth in 1984. The label began as a classical music reissue label, and began releasing new and classic jazz recordings in 1989. They have released transcription broadcasts by Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, and Duke Ellington, in addition to more than 70 new releases, mostly in the avant-garde vein, from jazz musicians.