Muse Records
Muse Records was an American record label that released jazz and blues music. It has a kithara as its logo .
Muse was founded in the early 1970s by Joe Fields, who previously worked as a director at Prestige Records in the 1960s and headed the Cobblestone Records label around 1970 . Muse also had a sister label, Onyx Records, which existed until 1978 when Fields and associate Don Schlitten split up.
From 1972 until it was sold to 32 Jazz in 1996 (a label owned by producer Joel Dorn and musician and lawyer Robert Miller), Muse was a label for hardbop musicians such as Pepper Adams , Jaki Byard , Walter Bishop, Jr. , Richard Davis , James Moody , Houston Person , Willis Jackson , Sonny Stitt , Woody Shaw and Cedar Walton , the next generation like Jay Hoggard or Wallace Roney and avant-garde musicians like Lester Bowie and Joe Chambers . Artists like Tiny Grimes and Muddy Waters also recorded for Muse.
Fields sold the Muse label in 1995 and founded HighNote Records and Savant Records; many muse artists later recorded for these labels as well. The Muse catalog was then re-released on CD on the 32nd Jazz Label. Fields died in July 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Allaboutjazz
- ↑ Joe Fields at Discogs (English)