OmniTone Records

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OmniTone Records
Active years 1999-
founder Frank Tafuri
Seat Brooklyn
Sub-label Tone science
Genre (s) Modern Creative , New Improvisation Music

Omnitone Records is an American jazz - label .

History of the label

OmniTone was founded in Brooklyn in 1999 by Frank Tafuri, who also runs the Tone Science sub-label . Tafuri began his career as a disc jockey at the radio station WVXU in Cincinnati , where he presented the weekly jazz program Bop Connection from 1979 , co-founded the jazz festival Stone Valley Jazz Fest Inc and in the 1990s the distribution of the Italian label Black Saint and Soul Note for the US Organized market. The first release on his label OmniTone was the duo album The Willow by pianist Frank Kimbrough with vibraphonist Joe Locke .

Since then, Tafuri's label has released music by Michael Bisio , Bob Bowen , Cameron Brown , Baikida Carroll , Marty Ehrlich , John Hollenbeck , Ron Horton , Lee Konitz , Dave Liebman , Tony Malaby , Jim McNeely , John McNeil , Joe Morris , Oscar Noriega , Angelica Sanchez , Christophe Schweizer , Lynn Seaton , Steve Slagle , Tom Varner , Johnnie Valentino , Cuong Vu and Dan Willis as well as the formations Equal Interest (with Myra Melford , Joseph Jarman and Leroy Jenkins ), the Brooklyn Saxophone Quartet (with Rudresh Mahanthappa , Fred Ho and Sam Furnace ), the MOB Trio around Matt Wilson and the String Trio of New York . Tafuri released new improvisational music by Russ Johnson and Mick Rossi's formation New Math on the Tone Science sub-label .

Selection discography

  • 1999 - Marty Ehrlich's Traveler's Tales: Malinke's Dance
  • 2000 - Jim McNeely: Group Therapy
  • 2000 - Tom Varner: Second Communion
  • 2003 - John Hollenbeck Orchestra: A Blessing

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Selection based on the evaluation of Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 (8th edition ISBN 0-14-102327-9 ).