Pi recordings
Pi Recordings is a music label for jazz music based in New York , which was founded in 2001 by Seth Rosner. The label mainly publishes works by musicians who are classified as creative jazz .
The label
Pi Recordings was founded by Rosner, then manager of Knitting Factory Works , to publish Henry Threadgill's recordings. Since 2002 he has been supported by Yulun Wan as a partner.
The German jazz magazine Jazz thing selected the Pi recordings by Henry Threadgill's band Zooid ( This Brings Us To, Vol. 1 ) and Steve Lehman Octet ( Travail, Transformation, and Flow ) as the top two best jazz publications of 2009. Ten years after the label was founded, Jen Shyu was the first woman to publish on the label.
Publications (selection)
- Pi 01: Henry Threadgill - Everybodys Mouth's a Book
- Pi 02: Henry Threadgill - Up Popped the Two Lips
- Pi 03: Roscoe Mitchell - Song for My Sister
- Pi 04: Wadada Leo Smith - The Year of the Elephant
- Pi 05: Fieldwork - Your Life Flashes
- Pi 06: Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton - Organic Resonance
- Pi 07: Art Ensemble of Chicago - The Meeting
- Pi 08: Liberty Ellman - Tactiles
- Pi 09: Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd - In What Language?
- Pi 10: Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton - Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace
- Pi 11: Art Ensemble of Chicago - Sirius Calling
- Pi 12: Various artists - Juncture
- Pi 13: Revolutionary Ensemble - And Now ...
- Pi 14: Rudresh Mahanthappa - Mother Tongue
- Pi 15: Marc Ribot - Spiritual Unity
- Pi 16: Fieldwork - Simulated Progress
- Pi 17: Steve Lehman - Demian as Posthuman
- Pi 18: James Blood Ulmer - Back in Time
- Pi 19: Liberty Ellman - Ophiuchus Butterfly
- Pi 20: Art Ensemble of Chicago - Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City
- Pi 21: Rudresh Mahanthappa - Codebook
- Pi 22: Muhal Richard Abrams , George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell - Streaming
- Pi 23: Muhal Richard Abrams - Vision Towards Essence
- Pi 24: Amir ElSaffar - Two Rivers
- Pi 25: Steve Lehman - On Meaning
- Pi 26: Fieldwork - Door
- Pi 27: Marc Ribot - Party Intellectuals
- Pi 29: Corey Wilkes - Cries from tha Ghetto
- Pi 46: David Virelles - Continuum
- Pi 54: Steve Lehman - Mise en Abîme
- Pi 55: Hafez Modirzadeh - In Convergence Liberation
- Pi 57: Steve Coleman - Synovial Joints