Cryptogramophone Records

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Cryptogramophone Records is an American music label founded in 1998 for jazz and new improvisation music .

Cryptogramophone Records was founded in 1998 by violinist Jeff Gauthier in Los Angeles ; it is a sub-label of the avant-garde label Nine Winds . Initially it was dedicated to the work of his late friend and colleague, the bassist Eric von Essen . Her first releases were the albums Jeanette Wrate / Northern Lights Ensemble: Echoes of a Northern Sky (1999), Alex Cline Ensemble: Sparks Fly Upward (1999) and the compilation The Music of Eric von Essen I (2000). Since then, the label's catalog has primarily included the music of artists from the west coast of the United States in the fields of new improvisational music , composition and modern creative jazz .

Cryptogramophone has since released albums by musicians such as Nels and Alex Cline , Myra Melford , Steuart Liebig , Bennie Maupin , GE Stinson , Alan Pasqua , Don Preston and Jeff Gauthier. Cryptogramophone also released music from the New York downtown scene such as Mark Dresser and Erik Friedlander . Cryptogramophone sponsors a weekly concert series in Los Angeles called Cryptonight at Club Tropical and the website www.indiejazz.com.

Selected discography

  • CG131 Myra Melford: The Image of Your Body (2006)
  • CG130 Nels Cline: New Monastery: A View Into the Music of Andrew Hill (2006)
  • CG129 Bennie Maupin Ensemble: Penumbra (2006)
  • CG128 Jeff Gauthier Goatette: One and the Same (2006)
  • CG127 Erik Friedlander: Prowl (2006)
  • CG126 Ben Goldberg : the door, the hat, the chair, the fact (2006)
  • CG124 Mark Dresser / Denman Maroney : Time Changes (2005)
  • CG122 Alan Pasqua : My New Old Friend (2005)
  • CG121 Alex Cline / Kaoru / Miya Masaoka / GE Stinson : Cloud Plate (2005)
Erik Friedlander
  • CG120 Nels Cline Singers: The Giant Pin (2004)
  • CG118 Erik Friedlander: Quake (2003)
  • CG114 Gregg Bendian / Gauthier / Liebig / Stinson: Bone Structure (2003)
  • CG113 Nels Cline Singers: Instrumentals (2002)
  • CG112 Jeff Gauthier Goatette: Mask (2002)
  • CG111 Mark Dresser Trio: Aquifer (2002)
  • CG110 Alex Cline Ensemble: The Constant Flame (2001)
  • CG109 Steuart Liebig: Pomegranate (2001)
  • CG108 Various Artists: The Music of Eric von Essen II (2001)
  • CG107 Don Preston: Transformation (2001)
  • CG106 Cline / Gauthier / Stinson: The Other Shore (2000)
  • CG105 Nels Cline: The Inkling (2000)
  • CG104 Mark Dresser / Frances-Marie Uitti : Sonomondo (2000)
  • CG143 Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (2010)

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