SteepleChase Records
SteepleChase Records is a Danish jazz label founded in 1972 by Nils Winther (* 1944) in Copenhagen . After Richard Cook it is one of the leading European independent labels in the field of modern jazz .
Winther, then a student in Copenhagen, took on the performance of the Jackie McLean Quartet at the Jazzhus Montmartre through Kenny Drew senior , from which the first record "Jackie McLean Quartet - Live at the Montmartre" came about, which he received with the money from his scholarship Issued 500 copies. When he subsequently made recordings with McLean in New York in 1974, Andrew Hill , who had lost his Blue Note Records contract five years earlier , joined them. In 1974 the label began working with Dexter Gordon ("The Apartment") , who lives in Copenhagen . Other musicians on the label are Horace Parlan , Duke Jordan ("Flight to Denmark" 1973), Chet Baker , Stan Getz , Archie Shepp , Thad Jones , Vic Juris and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen . The label is primarily interested in bebop and the trends that develop from it; only a few albums, for example by Anthony Braxton or Lee Konitz, point to the avant-garde. The albums are all produced by Winther.
literature
- Richard Cook : Jazz Encyclopedia London: Penguin, 2007; ISBN 978-0-141-02646-6
- Jürgen Wölfer : Lexikon des Jazz Wien 1999 ISBN 3-85445-164-4 (2nd edition)