Silkheart Records
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Silkheart Records is a Swedish
record label
dedicated to recording improvised music and free jazz
. Lars-Olof Gustavsson and Keith Knox founded Silkheart in 1985
. In 1991, Jimmy Johnson of Forced Exposure
suggested that Silkheart "could easily be considered for the new ESP-Disk
throne." The Penguin Guide to Jazz
describes the four albums that Dennis González recorded for the label as "part of a determined effort to wrest creative initiative back from New York and the West Coast". Charles Brackeen (whom Silkheart's management and González had coaxed out of retirement) recorded three albums for Silkheart.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
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,...
dedicated to recording improvised music and free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...
. Lars-Olof Gustavsson and Keith Knox founded Silkheart in 1985
1985 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1985.-January–March:*January 1 - The newest music video channel, VH-1, debuts on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV...
. In 1991, Jimmy Johnson of Forced Exposure
Forced Exposure
Forced Exposure was an independent music magazine published sporadically out of Massachusetts from the early-'80s to 1993, edited by Jimmy Johnson and Byron Coley. It was printed on cheap newsprint with plain design and filled with corrosive yet humorous writing...
suggested that Silkheart "could easily be considered for the new ESP-Disk
ESP-Disk
ESP-Disk is a New York-based record label, founded in 1964 by lawyer Bernard Stollman.From the beginning, the label's goal has been to provide its recording artists with complete artistic freedom, unimpeded by any record company interference or commercial expectations—a philosophy summed-up by the...
throne." The Penguin Guide to Jazz
The Penguin Guide to Jazz
The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which are currently available in Europe or the United States...
describes the four albums that Dennis González recorded for the label as "part of a determined effort to wrest creative initiative back from New York and the West Coast". Charles Brackeen (whom Silkheart's management and González had coaxed out of retirement) recorded three albums for Silkheart.
Releases
- 101 Dennis GonzálezDennis GonzálezDennis González is a jazz musician, poet, visual artist and music educator based in Dallas, Texas....
New Dallas Quartet - Stefan - 102 Steve LacySteve LacySteve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....
Sextet - The Gleam - 103 Steve Lacy Quartet - One Fell Swoop
- 104 Ahmed AbdullahAhmed AbdullahAhmed 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...
Quartet - Liquid Magic - 105 Charles Brackeen Quartet - Bannar
- 106 Dennis GonzálezDennis GonzálezDennis González is a jazz musician, poet, visual artist and music educator based in Dallas, Texas....
New Dallas Sextet - Namesake - 107 Michael Bisio Quartet - In Seattle
- 108 Ethnic Heritage EnsembleEthnic Heritage EnsembleEthnic Heritage Ensemble is an American jazz ensemble with several notable members, including Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Kahil El'Zabar, Joseph Bowie, Ernest Dawkins, Light Henry Huff and Edward Wilkerson....
- Ancestral Song - 109 Ahmed AbdullahAhmed AbdullahAhmed 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...
and the Solomonic Quintet - Featuring Charles Moffett - 110 Charles Brackeen Quartet - Attainment
- 111 Charles Brackeen Quartet - Worshippers Come Nigh
- 112 Dennis GonzálezDennis GonzálezDennis González is a jazz musician, poet, visual artist and music educator based in Dallas, Texas....
New Dallasorleanssippi - Debenge-Debenge - 113 David S. WareDavid S. WareDavid Spencer Ware , is an American jazz saxophonist.Ware grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey and graduated from Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School. He attended the Berklee College of Music and worked in New York City as a cab driver for 14 years, later returning to Scotch Plains to live...
Trio - Passage to Music - 114 Booker T. Williams - Go Tell It on the Mountain
- 115 Charles GayleCharles GayleCharles Gayle is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist.-Biography:Charles Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York. Some of Gayle's history is unclear. He was apparently homeless for approximately twenty years, playing saxophone on street corners and subway platforms...
Quartet - Always Born - 116 Charles GayleCharles GayleCharles Gayle is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist.-Biography:Charles Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York. Some of Gayle's history is unclear. He was apparently homeless for approximately twenty years, playing saxophone on street corners and subway platforms...
Trio - Homeless - 117 Charles GayleCharles GayleCharles Gayle is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist.-Biography:Charles Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York. Some of Gayle's history is unclear. He was apparently homeless for approximately twenty years, playing saxophone on street corners and subway platforms...
Trio - Spirits Before - 118 Charles TylerCharles Tyler (musician)Charles Lacy Tyler was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.Tyler was born in Cadiz, Kentucky and spent his childhood years in Indiana, New York City and Cleveland, Ohio...
+ Brus Trio - Autumn in Paris - 119 William Hooker Quartet - Lifeline
- 120 Other Dimensions in Music - Other Dimensions in Music
- 121 Dennis Charles Triangle - Queen Mary
- 122 Rob Brown Trio - Breath Rhyme
- 123 William Hooker Ensemble - The Firmament Fury
- 124 Dennis GonzálezDennis GonzálezDennis González is a jazz musician, poet, visual artist and music educator based in Dallas, Texas....
New DallasAngeles - The Desert Wind - 125 Joel FuttermanJoel FuttermanJoel Futterman is an American jazz pianist and curved soprano saxophonist. He has appeared on more than 65 recordings as of 2009....
Quartet - Vision in Time - 126 Roscoe MitchellRoscoe MitchellRoscoe Mitchell is an African American composer, jazz instrumentalist and educator, mostly known for being "a technically superb—if idiosyncratic—saxophonist." He has been called "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz who has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past...
+ Brus Trio - After Fallen Leaves - 127 David S. WareDavid S. WareDavid Spencer Ware , is an American jazz saxophonist.Ware grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey and graduated from Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School. He attended the Berklee College of Music and worked in New York City as a cab driver for 14 years, later returning to Scotch Plains to live...
Quartet - Great Bliss vol. 1 - 128 David S. WareDavid S. WareDavid Spencer Ware , is an American jazz saxophonist.Ware grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey and graduated from Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School. He attended the Berklee College of Music and worked in New York City as a cab driver for 14 years, later returning to Scotch Plains to live...
Quartet - Great Bliss vol. 2 - 129 Matthew ShippMatthew ShippMatthew Shipp is an American pianist, composer and bandleader.Shipp was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and began playing piano at six years old. His mother was a friend of trumpeter Clifford Brown....
Quartet - Points - 130 Various artists - Spirit of New Jazz
- 131 Joel FuttermanJoel FuttermanJoel Futterman is an American jazz pianist and curved soprano saxophonist. He has appeared on more than 65 recordings as of 2009....
Trio - Berlin Images - 132 Ernest DawkinsErnest DawkinsErnest Dawkins is an American jazz saxophonist, principally active in free jazz and post-bop.Ernest Khabeer Dawkins was a neighbor of Anthony Braxton as a child. He played bass and drums early in life before switching to saxophone in 1973...
New Horizons Ensemble - South Side Street Songs - 133 Jim Hobbs Trio - Babadita
- 134 Charles GayleCharles GayleCharles Gayle is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist.-Biography:Charles Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York. Some of Gayle's history is unclear. He was apparently homeless for approximately twenty years, playing saxophone on street corners and subway platforms...
Quartet - Translations - 135 Hal Russell & Joel Futterman Quartet - Naked Colours
- 136 Jim Hobbs Fully Celebrated Orchestra - Peace & Pig Grease
- 137 Charles GayleCharles GayleCharles Gayle is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist.-Biography:Charles Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York. Some of Gayle's history is unclear. He was apparently homeless for approximately twenty years, playing saxophone on street corners and subway platforms...
Quartet - Raining Fire - 138 Bob Ackerman Trio - Old & New Magic
- 139 Roy Campbell Pyramid - Communion
- 140 Ernest DawkinsErnest DawkinsErnest Dawkins is an American jazz saxophonist, principally active in free jazz and post-bop.Ernest Khabeer Dawkins was a neighbor of Anthony Braxton as a child. He played bass and drums early in life before switching to saxophone in 1973...
New Horizons Ensemble - Chicago Now vol. 1 - 141 Ernest DawkinsErnest DawkinsErnest Dawkins is an American jazz saxophonist, principally active in free jazz and post-bop.Ernest Khabeer Dawkins was a neighbor of Anthony Braxton as a child. He played bass and drums early in life before switching to saxophone in 1973...
New Horizons Ensemble - Chicago Now vol. 2 - 142 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - 21st Century Union March
- 143 The Joel FuttermanJoel FuttermanJoel Futterman is an American jazz pianist and curved soprano saxophonist. He has appeared on more than 65 recordings as of 2009....
& Kidd JordanKidd JordanEdward "Kidd" Jordan is an American jazz saxophonist and music educator from New Orleans, Louisiana....
Quintet - Nickelsdorf Konfrontation - 144 Steve LacySteve LacySteve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....
- 5 x Monk, 5 x Lacy - 145 David S. WareDavid S. WareDavid Spencer Ware , is an American jazz saxophonist.Ware grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey and graduated from Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School. He attended the Berklee College of Music and worked in New York City as a cab driver for 14 years, later returning to Scotch Plains to live...
Quartet - Oblations and Blessings - 146 Andrew CyrilleAndrew CyrilleAndrew Charles Cyrille is an avant-garde jazz drummer.Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York into a family with a mother from Haiti. He began studying science at St...
- Richard Teitelbaum Duo - Double Clutch - 147 William Hooker - Billy Bang Duo - Joy (Within)!
- 148 Assif Tsahar Trio - Ain Sof
- 149 AALY Trio + Ken VandermarkKen VandermarkKen Vandermark is an American jazz composer and saxophone and clarinet player.A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compositions, which typically balance intricate orchestration with passionate...
- Hidden in the Stomach - 150 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - Ka-Real
- 151 Borgmann / Morris / Charles Trio - The Last Concert - Dankeschön
- 152 Kidd JordanKidd JordanEdward "Kidd" Jordan is an American jazz saxophonist and music educator from New Orleans, Louisiana....
Quartet - New Orleans Festival Suite - 153 Heinz Geisser & Guerino MazzolaGuerino MazzolaGuerino Mazzola is a Swiss mathematician, musicologist, jazz pianist as well as book writer.He graduated at the University of Zürich in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Crystallography and completed his PhD in Mathematics in 1971. In 1980, he habilitated in Algebraic Geometry and...
Duo - Folia / The Unam Concert - 154 Heinz Geisser & Guerino MazzolaGuerino MazzolaGuerino Mazzola is a Swiss mathematician, musicologist, jazz pianist as well as book writer.He graduated at the University of Zürich in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Crystallography and completed his PhD in Mathematics in 1971. In 1980, he habilitated in Algebraic Geometry and...
Duo - Someday - 155 SironeSirone (musician)Norris Jones, better known as Sirone was an American jazz bassist and composer.-Biography:Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Sirone worked in Atlanta late in the 1950s and early in the 1960s with "The Group" alongside George Adams; he also recorded with R&B musicians such as Sam Cooke and Smokey Robinson...
Bang Ensemble - Configuration - 156 Matt LavelleMatt LavelleMatt Lavelle ,.began his Music career with Hildred Humphries,.a Swing era veteran that played with Count Basie,Billie Holiday,and many others of the time.Lavelle played Trumpet during this time as a member of Hildred's band.Lavelle then made his move on New York City to go through the trials of all...
Trio - Spiritual Power - 157 Charles GayleCharles GayleCharles Gayle is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist.-Biography:Charles Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York. Some of Gayle's history is unclear. He was apparently homeless for approximately twenty years, playing saxophone on street corners and subway platforms...
Quartet - Blue Shadows - 158 Fay Victor with Other Dimensions in Music - Kaiso Stories