HighNote Records

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High Note Records is an American jazz - label from New York.

The HighNote Records label was founded in 1996 by Joe Fields. In the following years they produced u. a. Cedar Walton , David Fathead Newman , Don Braden , Larry Coryell , John Hicks , the singer Mark Murphy , Vincent Herring , Eric Alexander , Tom Harrell , Houston Person , Steve Nelson , Freddy Cole , Etta Jones , Ernestine Anderson , Larry Willis ( Blue Fable ), Harold Mabern ( Mr. Lucky: A Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr. ), Freddy Cole ( This Love of Mine ), and Wallace Roney . They also publish reissues of classical jazz musicians such as Art Tatum , Thelonious Monk and Woody Shaw ; Montreal Memories by Frank Morgan and George Cables was published in 2018 .

The jazz label Savant and the blues label Fedora are closely associated with the label.

Fields, who started at Prestige Records in the mid-1960s , founded Muse Records in the 1970s, which he sold in the 1980s. Many of the musicians at HighNote (and many of its collaborators) have previously been with Muse (such as David Newman, Wallace Roney, Mark Murphy).

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