Cadence Jazz is an American record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 specializing in noncommercial jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 music. It is associated with Cadence Magazine.

Cadence Jazz was founded by Bob Rusch

Bob Rusch

Bob Rusch is an American jazz critic and record producer.Rusch studied clarinet and drums in his youth. During the 1970s, Rusch played drums in workshops with Jaki Byard and Cedar Walton. He wrote for the magazines Down Beat, Jazz Journal and Jazz Forum in the 1970s before founding Cadence...

 in Redwood, New York

Redwood, New York

Redwood is a census-designated place in Jefferson County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the area population was 584.Redwood is in the eastern part of the Town of Alexandria The community is near the southeast town line.-Geography:...

 in 1980. By 2000 the label had issued more than 100 albums.

Artists

• Ahmed Abdullah
  Ahmed Abdullah
  Ahmed Abdullah is a jazz trumpeter. He began playing when he was 13 years old. By the 1970s he was performing in New York's loft scene, and joined the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1976. Since that time he has played with Chico Freeman, Ronnie Boykins, Charles Brackeen, Steve Reid, John Hicks and Marion Brown...
  
  
• Chet Baker
  Chet Baker
  Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...
  
  
• Borbetomagus
  Borbetomagus
  Borbetomagus are a free improvisation/noise music group. They are cited by critics as pioneers of aggressive improvised noise music.- Biography :...
  
  
• Markus Burger
  Markus Burger
  Markus Burger is a German pianist, composer and music educator currently residing in Santa Monica, California, who teaches at Los Angeles City College and Fullerton College in Los Angeles...
  
  
• Marilyn Crispell
  Marilyn Crispell
  Marilyn Crispell is an American jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:Crispell studied classical piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been a resident of Woodstock, NY since 1977 when she came to study and teach at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio...
  
  
• Bill Dixon
  Bill Dixon
  Bill Dixon was an American musician, composer, visual artist, and educator. Dixon was one of the seminal figures in the free jazz movement. He played the trumpet, flugelhorn, and piano, often using electronic delay and reverberation as part of his trumpet playing.-Biography:Dixon hailed from...
  
  
• Dominic Duval
  Dominic Duval
  Dominic Duval is an American free jazz bassist.Since the 1990s, Duval has been active principally on the New York City jazz scene. He did not begin recording regularly until the 1990s, but since then has appeared on a very large number of albums, particularly on the labels CIMP, Cadence Jazz, and...
  
  
• Scott Fields
  Scott Fields
  Scott Fields , is a guitarist, composer and band leader. He is best known for his attempts to blend music that is composed and music that is written and for his modular pieces...
  
  
• Frode Gjerstad
• Beaver Harris
  Beaver Harris
  William Godvin "Beaver" Harris was an American jazz drummer, who worked extensively with Archie Shepp.-Biography:...
  
  
• Fred Hess
  Fred Hess
  Fred Hess is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Hess was raised in New Jersey and studied at Trenton State College. His early experiences include studies with saxophonist Phil Woods, a stint with bandleader Fred Waring, and composing music for the world premiere of a Sam Shepard play...
  
  
• Noah Howard
  Noah Howard
  Noah Howard was an American free jazz alto saxophonist.-Biography:An American born in New Orleans, Howard played music from childhood in his church. He first learned trumpet and later switching to alto, tenor and soprano saxophone. He was an innovator influenced by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler...
  
  
• Per Husby
  Per Husby
  Per Husby is a Norwegian jazz musician, , composer, teacher, civil engineer, and orchestra leader known for a number of recordings.-Career:...
  
  
• Paul Lovens
  Paul Lovens
  Paul Lovens is a musician. He plays drums, percussion, singing saw and various selected and unselected cymbals. He has also performed with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra and Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra....
  
  
• Frank Lowe
  Frank Lowe
  Frank Lowe was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer.Born and brought up in Memphis, Tennessee, Lowe took up the tenor saxophone and then moved to San Francisco...
  
  
• Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
  Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
  Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre is an American free jazz tenor saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist.McIntyre was born in Clarksville, Arkansas but his family moved to Chicago when he was a child. He began playing drums at seven, then switched to saxophone...
  
  
• Don Menza
  Don Menza
  Don Menza is an American saxophonist, arranger, composer, session musician, and jazz educator noted for his many contributions to American jazz and big band music. -Early years:...
  
  
• Jemeel Moondoc
  Jemeel Moondoc
  Jemeel Moondoc is a jazz saxophonist who plays alto saxophone. He is a proponent of a highly improvisational style....
  
  
• Ivo Perelman
  Ivo Perelman
  Ivo Perelman is a Brazilian free jazz saxophonist born in Sao Paulo.Perelman learned to play guitar, cello, clarinet, trombone, and piano while young, and concentrated on tenor sax from age 19. He attended the Berklee College of Music for one semester and then dropped out, moving to Los Angeles in...
  
  
• Saheb Sarbib
  Saheb Sarbib
  Saheb Sarbib is an American jazz double-bassist and bandleader.Sarbib, born Jean Henri Sarbib, was raised in Europe. His father was Roger Sarbib a well-respected French pianist and innovator of the Big Band style in Portugal in the 40's and 50's also pianist of icons of French song such as: Edith...
  
  
• Paul Smoker
  Paul Smoker
  Paul Alva Smoker is an American jazz trumpeter.Smoker grew up in Davenport, Iowa, and moved to Chicago to play professionally. He worked there in the 1960s, playing with Bobby Christian among others...
  
  
• Glenn Spearman
  Glenn Spearman
  Glenn Spearman was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He was specifically associated with free jazz and experimental music....
  
  
• Thorgeir Stubø
• Bob Szajner
• Bobby Zankel

Discography

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!align="center" valign="bottom" width="200"|Artist
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1000LiveAhmed Abdullah

Ahmed Abdullah

Ahmed Abdullah is a jazz trumpeter. He began playing when he was 13 years old. By the 1970s he was performing in New York's loft scene, and joined the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1976. Since that time he has played with Chico Freeman, Ronnie Boykins, Charles Brackeen, Steve Reid, John Hicks and Marion Brown...

lp only; w/ Vincent Chancey
1001Big BandSaheb Sarbiblp only; w/ Jameel Moondoc, Jack Walrath
1002 Beaver Harrislp only; w/ Grachan Moncur, III, Maurice McIntyre
1003 Beaver Harrislp only; w/ Don Pullen, Hamiet Bluiett, McIntyre
1004Art of BopHugh Brodielp only
1005   
1006LiveJemeel Moondoc

Jemeel Moondoc

Jemeel Moondoc is a jazz saxophonist who plays alto saxophone. He is a proponent of a highly improvisational style....

lp only; w/ Roy Campbell, Wm. Parker
1007 Frank Lowe

Frank Lowe

Frank Lowe was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer.Born and brought up in Memphis, Tennessee, Lowe took up the tenor saxophone and then moved to San Francisco...

lp only; w/ Damon Choice, Butch Morris
1008UFOSaheb Sarbib

Saheb Sarbib

Saheb Sarbib is an American jazz double-bassist and bandleader.Sarbib, born Jean Henri Sarbib, was raised in Europe. His father was Roger Sarbib a well-respected French pianist and innovator of the Big Band style in Portugal in the 40's and 50's also pianist of icons of French song such as: Edith...

lp only; w/ Mark Whitecage
1009Rams RunKalaparusha Maurice McIntyre

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre is an American free jazz tenor saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist.McIntyre was born in Clarksville, Arkansas but his family moved to Chicago when he was a child. He began playing drums at seven, then switched to saxophone...

lp only; w/ Julius Hemphill, Malachi Thompson
1010AishaSaheb Sarbiblp only; big band w/ Jameel Moondoc, Frank Wright
1011Olympia LiveBarbara Donaldlp only; w/ Carter Jefferson
1012 Kim Parkerlp only
1013Bebop Loose & LiveJ. R. Monterose

J. R. Monterose

J. R. Monterose , born Frank Anthony Peter Vincent Monterose, Jr. in Detroit, Michigan,was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.- Early life :...

lp only
1014 Dwight Jameslp only; w/ Byard Lancaster
1015Spirit MusicMarilyn Crispell

Marilyn Crispell

Marilyn Crispell is an American jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:Crispell studied classical piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been a resident of Woodstock, NY since 1977 when she came to study and teach at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio...

lp only; w/ Billy Bang
1016Rory Stuart QuartetRory Stuartlp only
1017 Barbara Donaldlp only; w/ Carter Jefferson
1018 Jimmy Stewartlp only
1019The ImprovisorChet Baker

Chet Baker

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...

CD only
1020Shapes Sounds TheorySteve Cohnlp only; w/ Reggie Workman
1021OK!Lee Shawlp only
1022Chasin' a ClassicBob Nelllp only
1023   
1024   
1025   
1026Borbetomagus JamBorbetomagus

Borbetomagus

Borbetomagus are a free improvisation/noise music group. They are cited by critics as pioneers of aggressive improvised noise music.- Biography :...

lp only; w/ Toshinori Kondo, Peter Kowald
1027RainsplashAlan Simon

Alan Simon (musician)

Alan Simon is a French folk-rock musician and composer best known for his rock operas which are performed with collaboration from other noted rock musicians. Simon is associated with Breton Celticism, and his most ambitious works are typically on themes linked to Celtic myth and history...

CD only
1028Tough Tenor Red HotErnie Krivda

Ernie Krivda

Ernie Krivda is a jazz saxophone player.Ernie Krivda began his professional career in 1963 with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. During the 1960s he played in bands of two Cleveland legends, organist Eddie Baccus and guitarist Bill DeArango...

lp only
1029Sextet LiveAbdul Zahir Batinlp only; w/ Bobby Watson, Robin Eubanks
1030Rhythm-A-NingThorgeir Stubølp only
1031Red Green & BluePaula Owenlp only
1032Man with a SaxRobert Shurelp only; w/ Heikki Samanto
1033Shades of MeaningDavid Sidmanlp only; w/ Thurman Barker
1034ScenarioJoe Locke

Joe Locke

Joseph Paul Locke is a US American jazz vibraphonist, composer, recording artist and educator.-Biography:Locke was born in Palo Alto, California, but raised in Rochester, New York...

lp only; w/ Andy Laverne
1035ChicplacityJon Hazillalp only; w/ John Hicks
1036End of a TuneThorgeir Stubølp only; w/ Art Farmer, Doug Ramey
1037Sonic ExplorationsMatthew Shipplp only; w/ Rob Brown
1038Nostalgia in Times SquarePeter Compolp only
1039Well You Needn'tErnie Krivdalp only
1040She's BackJan Labatelp only
1041Colour CircleWilliam Hookerlp only; w/ Roy Campbell
1042Endangered SpeciesPaul Flahertylp only
1043Compelling ForcesErroll Parkerlp only
1044Setting the StandardEllery Eskelin

Ellery Eskelin

Ellery Eskelin American tenor saxophonist. Born in Wichita, Kansas, raised in Baltimore, Maryland from the age of two. His parents, Rodd Keith and Bobbie Lee, were also musicians. Rodd Keith died in 1974 in Los Angeles, California and became a cult figure after his death in the little known...

lp only
1045HomecomingAbbey RaderCD only; w/ Dave Liebman
1046ImpactPaul Flahertylp only
1047What Is This Magic?Paula Owenfrom 1047 only in CD format
1048Searching for HarmonyAlvaro Is Rojas 
1049   
1050Seeking SpiritBobby Zankelw/ Odeon Pope, Johnny Coles
1051InnocenceJoe Gallivan

Joe Gallivan

Joe Gallivan is an American jazz and avant-garde musician. He plays drums, percussion and synthesizer....

big band, w/ Evan Parker
1052Home on the RangeChuck Florencew/ Jaki Byard, Alan Dawson
1053DreamlandDarrell Katz Jazz Composers Alliancew/ Julius Hemphill
1054Fat OnionsPaul Flaherty 
1055Speech & SongEric Pakula 
1056So Nice to Meet YouErnie Krivda 
1057All Stories Are TrueDavid Whitew/ Valery Ponomarev
1058Bitten MoonJon Hazilla 
1059Emerging from EarthBobby Zankelw/ Uri Caine
1060Is Waiting for YouMichael Pagan 
1061Tonal AdventuresAlvaro Is Rojas 
1062PoGressionsLou Grassiw/ Herb Robertson, Perry Robinson, Steve Swell
1063Covert ChoreographyMichael Bisio 
106448 MotivesScott Fields

Scott Fields

Scott Fields , is a guitarist, composer and band leader. He is best known for his attempts to blend music that is composed and music that is written and for his modular pieces...

w/ Joseph Jarman, Marilyn Crispell
1065Falling in Flat SpaceHerb Robertsonw/ Dominic Duval
1066Blue Monk VariationsIvo Perelman

Ivo Perelman

Ivo Perelman is a Brazilian free jazz saxophonist born in Sao Paulo.Perelman learned to play guitar, cello, clarinet, trombone, and piano while young, and concentrated on tenor sax from age 19. He attended the Berklee College of Music for one semester and then dropped out, moving to Los Angeles in...

 
1067 Tom Cohen 
1068Last DetailJohn Stevens

John Stevens

John Stevens may refer to:In politics, law and public service:*John H. Stevens , built the first house west of the Mississippi in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota*John L. Stevens , U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Hawai'i...

 
1069Seeing New York from the EarFrode Gjerstadw/ Rashid Bakr, Wm. Parker
1070Red Rope: 3 Pieces for 2 PlayersGeorge Cartwright 
1071Passion SuiteDale Fielder 
1072Nightbird InventionsDominic Duval

Dominic Duval

Dominic Duval is an American free jazz bassist.Since the 1990s, Duval has been active principally on the New York City jazz scene. He did not begin recording regularly until the 1990s, but since then has appeared on a very large number of albums, particularly on the labels CIMP, Cadence Jazz, and...

solo bass
1073Inside the SphereMick Rossi 
1074Velvet HeatPieter Ostrander 
1075Great Concert, volume 1Paul Plummer 
1076Benedito of Santa CruzIvo Perelmanwith Matthew Shipp
1077Encounters with MyselfAlvaro Is Rojas 
1078Great Concert, volume 2Paul Plummer 
1079Essential ExpressionsPaul Dumall 
1080Suite EmpathyEhran Elishaw/ Roy Campbell
1081Kith 'n Kin OrchestraThomas Borgmann 
1082The Twilight of TimeKen Simon 
1083There Will Never Be Another YouRick Holland 
1084In Concert at BimhuisNoah Howard

Noah Howard

Noah Howard was an American free jazz alto saxophonist.-Biography:An American born in New Orleans, Howard played music from childhood in his church. He first learned trumpet and later switching to alto, tenor and soprano saxophone. He was an innovator influenced by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler...

w/ Bobby Few
1085Bottoms OutJoe Fonda

Joe Fonda

Joe Fonda is an American jazz bassist.Fonda was born in Amsterdam, New York to parents who both played jazz. He played guitar as a youth but switched to bass guitar later on. He studied bass at Berklee College of Music, where he also began playing upright bass. He played in the New Haven,...

w/ Mark Whitecage
1086No TrainSteuart Liebigw/ Vinny Golia
1087Shades of GreeneBurton Greene

Burton Greene

Burton Greene is a free jazz pianist born in Chicago, Illinois, though most known for his work in New York City. He has explored a variety of genres, including avant-garde jazz and the Klezmer medium.-Biography:...

solo
1088Sweet DreamsPucci Amanda Jhonesw/ Kenny Barron
1089Ikosa MuraFrode Gjerstadw/ Bobby Bradford, Borah Bergmann
1090Toni's Delight: Live in SeoulHeinz Geisserw/ Guerino Mazzola
1091BorealisFrode Gjerstadw/ the Circulasione Totale Orchestra
1092Qu'a: Live at the Irridium, volume 1Cecil Taylor

Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...

 
1093Only BelieveDon Glandenw/ Ernie Watts
1094The Free Improv Ensemble (1964)The Free Improv Ensemblew/ Burton Greene
1095Second CourseMarc Sabatella 
1096Positive SettingsRick Holland 
1097Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Irridium, vol. 2Cecil Taylor