Timeless Records

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Timeless Records is a Dutch jazz record label that was founded in 1975.

Timeless Records was founded in 1975 in Wageningen by the impresario Wim Wigt . It specializes in modern jazz , but also has recordings from Dixieland Jazz to Swing in its program. Timeless Records , which also includes the sublabel Limetree Records and World Wide Jazz , also sells the music of numerous small labels such as Archeophone Records , Jazz Oracle , Little Beat Records , Sunny and Upbeat .

The record label released recordings of the Timeless All Stars , a loosely composed jazz formation that included Harold Land , Curtis Fuller , Bobby Hutcherson , Cedar Walton , Buster Williams and Billy Higgins . This group also recorded some albums for the label in 1982/83 and toured Europe regularly.

Timeless Records has released music by American musicians such as George Adams , Chet Baker , Art Blakey , Kenny Drew senior , Bill Evans , Tommy Flanagan , Don Friedman , Lionel Hampton , Peanuts Hucko , Hank Jones , Kirk Lightsey , Pharoah Sanders , Archie Shepp , McCoy Tyner ( Bon Voyage , 1987), Cedar Walton , Ben Webster, and Jessica Williams .

Recordings by European musicians such as the Dutch Swing College Band , Acker Bilk , Chris Barber , Urs Leimgruber , Tete Montoliu , Philip Catherine , Eugen Cicero as well as Dutch musicians such as Rein de Graaff , Gijs Hendriks , Rob van den Broeck , Maarten have also appeared on Timeless van Norden , Harry Verbeke , Steve Houben , Huub Janssen and Diederik Wissels .

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