AUM fidelity
AUM Fidelity is an American jazz and indie rock record label that was founded in Brooklyn in 1997 .
The label was founded by Steven Joerg , a former employee of the Homestead Records label . The name of the label is partly derived from the Charles Mingus album Mingus Ah Um . It is dedicated to the music of American free jazz musicians , appearing on AUM Fidelity albums by Daniel Carter , Joe Morris , Roy Nathanson , William Parker , Reuben Radding , Matthew Shipp and David S. Ware as well as music by avant-garde rock bands such as Shrimp Boat . AUM Fidelity also sells the independent labels CaseQuarter , High Two and Riti .
Selected albums
William Parker & Rashid Bakr 1976
- Joe Morris: A Cloud of Black Birds (1998)
- Other Dimensions in Music : Time Is of the Essence Is Beyond Time (1997, with William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell , Rashid Bakr , Daniel Carter)
- William Parker: The Peach Orchard (1998)
- David S. Ware: Corridors and Parallels (2001)
- Bill Dixon : 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (2008)
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-141-02327-9 .