Boxholder Records

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Boxholder Records is an American record label specializing in jazz and new improvisation music that was founded by Lou Kannenstine in the late 1990s and is based in Woodstock, Vermont .

Label history

After the label founder Lou Kannenstine retired after 21 years in the publishing industry in New York and moved to Vermont in 1980, he founded the independent record label Boxholder Records in 1998 , which he financed with the sale of his publishing house Countryman Press . Kannenstine saw his label in the tradition of European labels such as Soul Note , Black Saint , Hat ART and Free Music Production . His first release was Budbill's Zen Mountains / Zen Streets album with poems by the poet David Budbill , accompanied by free jazz bassist William Parker ; of this album he was only able to sell 1000 copies. Since then, recordings by musicians such as Sonny Simmons , Joe McPhee , Raphe Malik , Ivo Perelman , Ken Vandermark , Alan Silva , Kidd Jordan , Noah Howard , Bobby Few , Paul Flaherty , Bill Cole and Borah Bergman have appeared on the small label . He also released a tribute album on the Texan songwriter Doug Sahm by Eugene Chadbourne . Boxholder's biggest sales success to date was the second album by The Cosmosamatics , which featured Sonny Simmons, Michael Marcus , Curtis Lundy and Jay Rosen .

William Parker
Bobby Few

Selected productions

  • 1983 Visitation - Joe McPhee
  • 1984 - Last Set: Live at the 1369 Jazz Club - Raphe Malik
  • 1991 Jewels Sonny Simmons
  • 1993 Song Cycle William Parker
  • 1997 - Toronto 1997 - Borah Bergman / Thomas Chapin
  • 1999 - Emancipation Suite # 1 - Alan Silva
  • 2000 - The River of Sounds - Borah Bergman
  • 2002 - The Cosmonautics II
  • 2002 - Sympathy - Raphe Malik
  • 2003 Heavenly Places Bobby Few

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