The Artists we support

Just Jazz Records distributes labels who support the finest and most influential composers, free players and improvising musicians of our time. Many of these, like Denis Charles, Roy Eldridge, Julius Hemphill, Earl Hines, Sergei Kuryokhin, Manfred Schulze, and Glenn Spearman are deceased. But not forgotten.

Whether dead or alive, these artists share certain characteristics:

they are creative

they are innovative

they influence and inspire other musicians and listeners alike

they make the world understandable

they're not yet ripe for mass appeal

and their times are yet to come

In these pages, we pay tribute to the artists who make the music happen. Wherever possible we provide biographical details, comment on their music, discographical information about music they produced that we can supply. The following links take you to pages featuring lead artists listed alphabetically by their last name (e.g. Derek Bailey) or by the group name (e.g. AMM, The Jazz Passengers, Trio Hurricane).

• Aa-Az - from AACM to David Azarian
• Ba-Bu - from Derek Bailey to John Butcher
• Ca-Cz - from John Cage to Chaya Czernowin
• Eh-Gu - from Marty Ehrlich to Barry Guy
• He-Ly - from Julius Hemphill to Jimmy Lyons
• Ma-My - from Cecil McBee to Claudine Amina Myers
• Na-Pr - from Sainkho Namtchylak to Eddie Prévost
• Ra-Zo - from Enrico Rava to John Zorn

please note: all pages are still under construction and therefore, incomplete

Just Jazz Records has gleaned information in these pages from the following sources.

Books:

Abbreviations in brackets after the reference indicates that particular quote or reference is taken from, for example [PGJ4] indicates the Penguin Guide to Jazz (4th Ed) and so on.

• Valerie Wilmer: As Serious As Your Life - (1977, 1992) Serpent's Tail, London [VW]
• Peter Larkin: The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz - (1999) Virgin Books, London [VEJ]
• Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather & Brian Priestly: The Rough Guide To Jazz - (1995) Rough Guides, London [RGJ]
• Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide To Jazz - (1992-2000) Penguin Books, London [PGJ]
• Leo Feigin (Ed): Russian Jazz: New Identity - (1985) Quartet Books, London
• Gary Giddins: Visions of Jazz - The First Century - (1998) Oxford University Press, New York, U.S.A.
  

Magazines:

• Cadence (New York, U.S.A.); DownBeat (Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S.A.); Jazziz (Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A.); JazzTimes (Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A.)

Other sources:

• Word of mouth from musicians and associates. Please feel free to post any corrections, additional information, anecdotes etc to info@justjazz.net.nz - all contributions will be gratefully acknowledged.

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