Universal Music Canada proudly announces that it will be the new distributor of Maximum Jazz. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia and founded five years ago by President Brian Watson, Maximum Jazz ...

It’s treasure trove time, thanks to Craft Recordings, Resonance Records and Elemental Records, along with Jazz Detective Records. On the one hand, we have Sig Sigworth with Craft; on the other, ...

Within the annals of endless discussions about jazz, there has never been a lack of debate or self-questioning over the very nature of this Great American Music. On the list of possibly unanswerable ...

Honored once before in 2007, Origin Records is again among 6 labels up for Jazz Label of the Year at the 7th annual JazzWeek Awards in Rochester, NY. JazzWeek, the definitive national jazz radio ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - This year's Grammy Awards tabulations reveal again, especially in jazz, that David-like lean slays Goliath-like bulk. Case in point: the upstart Zoho Music label, which boasted ...

Whether you have noticed it or not, there's been a prolific outpouring of CDs from the jazz community in recent months with no sign of easing of creative capability. The trend among jazz musicians in ...

A group of jazz fans gather at a Mid-City venue earlier this fall for a Minaret Records show. Based in Los Angeles, the upstart label has attracted a community of people to its DIY shows. (Jett Lara / ...

STAMFORD -- Scott Wenzel has been listening to jazz since he was 3 years old. A black and white photo in his office shows the young Wenzel sitting on the floor in front of a turntable, looking up at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some record labels create huge market and financial clout. Some stay much smaller, but punch way above their weight in terms of ...

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's capital is normally associated with the melancholic fado music, but a new Portuguese jazz label is making a name for itself around the world with an adventurous approach ...

NEWPORT, R.I. — What do we mean when we describe a piece of music as “jazzy”? On Saturday, the second day of the 71st Newport Jazz Festival – the “granddaddy of all music festivals,” as the annual ...