Inner City Records

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Inner City Records is a jazz label founded in 1976 by Irv Kratka and producer Eric Kriss . Today it is based in Elmsford (New York) and was active until 1985. It is part of the Music Minus One Records founded by Kratka in the 1950s .

In 1980 the label won the Down Beat Critics Poll for jazz record companies together with ECM .

Connected is the sister label Classic Jazz , which is also releasing older European jazz recordings, as well as the sister label Aural Explorer and Guitar World .

First recordings appeared in 1976. The label's artists include David Friedman , Oliver Nelson , Pepper Adams , the Art Ensemble of Chicago , Don Cherry , Johnny Griffin , Jackie McLean , Anthony Braxton , Lee Konitz , Phil Woods , Archie Shepp , Chet Baker , Gato Barbieri , Charlie Mariano , Cecil Taylor , Susannah McCorkle , Abbey Lincoln , Gil Evans , Sun Ra , Lew Tabackin and Toshiko Akiyoshi , Jean-Luc Ponty and Stéphane Grappelli , Andrew Hill , Chet Baker, Zoot Sims , Johnny Hodges , Michal Urbaniak and Urszula Dudziak , Lennie Tristano , Stan Getz , Jeff Lorber , Art Farmer , Django Reinhardt , André Ceccarelli , Junior Mance , Cecil McBee , Sir Roland Hanna and the New York Jazz Quartet , Dexter Gordon , Milt Jackson , Jonah Jones , Eddie Jefferson , David Friesen , Nat Adderley , Paul Bley , Clifford Brown , Elmo Hope , Mel Martin , Toots Thielemans , Ted Curson , Jimmy Smith , Monica Zetterlund , Ann Burton , Al Haig , Earl Hines , Cat Anderson , Cam Newton , Judy Rober ts .

The label also released licensed recordings for the North American market by Enja and other European labels, such as Tete Montoliu ( Catalonian Fire , under license from the Danish SteepleChase Records ), Attila Zoller and Phil Woods .

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  1. ^ Previously New York City
  2. ^ Discography by Montoliu
  3. ↑ Heinz Protzer: Attila Zoller. His life, his time, his music . Erftstadt 2009, pp. 272, 276