Maxjazz (corporately styled MAXJAZZ) was an American
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
record label founded in 1998 by investment banker Richard McDonnell. Maxjazz recordings are generally regarded as a "straight-ahead" acoustic style of jazz. It was based in
St. Louis
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,
Missouri
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.
"Record Label: Mazzjazz"
. All About Jazz. Retrieved December 7, 2013. In 2016, Maxjazz was bought by Mack Avenue Records
Mack Avenue Records is an independent record label in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.
Background
Mack Avenue was founded in 1999 by Gretchen Carhartt Valade, a jazz fan and Chairperson, chair of the American apparel company Carhartt. The company ...
.
Recording artists
* Claudia Acuña
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Biography
Born July 3 1971 in Santiago and raised in Concepcion, she was inspired as a child to perform a variety of music, including folk, pop and op ...
* Bruce Barth
Bruce David Barth (born September 7, 1958) is a jazz pianist, composer, and producer.
Early life
Barth was born in Pasadena, California, on September 7, 1958. He started to play the piano around the age of five. He had private jazz lessons wit ...
* Erin Bode
Erin Bode is an American singer from Minnesota who describes her music as a combination of jazz, folk, and pop.
Biography
In the decade-plus since Erin Bode began her professional recording career, she has garnered much critical praise for her ...
* LaVerne Butler
* Carla Cook
Carla Cook is a Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist.
Biography
Cook was drawn to a life of music at an early age. As a student at Cass Technical High School she played string bass in the school orchestra, studied piano and voice on weekends, and s ...
* Emanuele Cisi
* Dena DeRose
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B ...
* Asa Harris
* Christine Hitt
* Geoffrey Keezer
Geoffrey Keezer (born November 20, 1970) is an American jazz pianist.
Keezer was playing in jazz clubs as a teenager, playing piano for Art Blakey at age 18 and touring with Joshua Redman, Benny Golson and Ray Brown in his 20s. He has toured w ...
* Nancy King
* Frank LoCrasto
* Romero Lubambo
Romero Lubambo (born 1955) is a Brazilian jazz guitarist.
Career
He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He grew up with American jazz and classical music in the house because his uncle played guitar, lived next door, and visited frequently. Luba ...
* Russell Malone
Russell Malone (born November 8, 1963) is an American jazz guitarist. He began working with Jimmy Smith in 1988 and went on to work with Harry Connick, Jr. and Diana Krall throughout the 1990s.Neuroth, Matt. (2008). ''Bio: Russell Malone.'' Retr ...
* Phillip Manuel
* René Marie
René Marie (born René Marie Stevens, November 7, 1955 in Warrenton, Virginia, United States) is an American songwriter and jazz vocalist.
Career
She began her professional music career at age 42. Originally she performed as René Croan; she ...
* Peter Martin
* Rebecca Martin
* Cassandre McKinley
* Mulgrew Miller
Mulgrew Miller (August 13, 1955 – May 29, 2013) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. As a child he played in churches and was influenced on piano by Ramsey Lewis and then Oscar Peterson. Aspects of their styles remained in ...
* Ben Paterson
* Jeb Patton
* Jeremy Pelt
Jeremy Pelt (born November 4, 1976, in California) is an American jazz trumpeter.
Career
Pelt studied classical trumpet as a child and focused on jazz after playing in a high school jazz ensemble. He studied at Berklee College of Music. Among th ...
* John Proulx
John Proulx is a jazz pianist, vocalist, educator, and composer based in Los Angeles, California. His singing style has elicited comparisons with a young Chet Baker. He is a recording artist with four albums to his credit. His most recent album, â ...
* Eric Reed
* Mary Stallings
Mary Stallings (born August 16, 1939) is an American jazz vocalist and mother of soul singer Adriana Evans.
Biography
One of eleven children, Mary Stallings was born in San Francisco, California. She grew up in the neighborhood of Laurel Hei ...
* Terrell Stafford
Terrell Lamark Stafford (born November 25, 1966, Miami) is an American jazz trumpeter.
Stafford studied music formally, taking a bachelor's degree in Music Education at the University of Maryland in 1988 and a master's degree at Rutgers in 1991.Ga ...
* Trio Da Paz
Trio da Paz is a Brazilian jazz group formed in 1986 that consists of Romero Lubambo on guitar, Nilson Matta
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& Joe Locke
* Manuel Valera
* Patti Wicks
* Jack Wilkins
Jack Rivers Lewis (born June 4, 1944), known professionally as Jack Wilkins, is a jazz guitarist.
Career
A native of New York City, Wilkins grew up listening to his parents' music, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Billie Holiday. He ...
* Jessica Williams
* Steve Wilson
* Ben Wolfe
Benjamin Jonah Wolfe is an American jazz bassist who has performed in groups with Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., and Diana Krall. He is currently on the teaching faculty at The Juilliard School Jazz Division.
Career
Wolfe was born in Baltim ...
* Denny Zeitlin
Denny Zeitlin (born April 10, 1938) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. Since 1963, he has recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the ...
References
External links
Maxjazz catalog at Mack Avenue Records
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American record labels
Jazz record labels