Smoke Sessions Records is an independent record label based in New York City.
History
Smoke jazz club started the label in 2014.
[Hovan, C. Andrew (April 23, 2014]
"Smoke Sessions: A Threesome from Herring, Jackson, & Hazeltine"
AllAboutJazz. The co-founders were Frank Christopher and Paul Stache; Damon Smith was added to the organization soon afterwards.
In its first year, a vinyl sampler and nine CDs were released.
[Kaplan, Fred (December 19, 2014]
"Smoke Sessions on Record"
''Stereophile''. The music is mostly
post-bop jazz.
Early releases included recordings led by
Harold Mabern,
Vincent Herring,
Javon Jackson
Javon Anthony Jackson (born June 16, 1965) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, bandleader, and educator. He first became known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1987 until Blakey's death in 1990. and went on to release 22 recor ...
, and
David Hazeltine
David Perry Hazeltine (born October 27, 1958) is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and educator.
Early life
Hazeltine was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on October 27, 1958. He began studying the piano at the age of nine, and first pe ...
.
They were recorded in concert at the club and were engineered by Stache.
[Potter, Jeff (March 2014) "Capturing Magic". ''Down Beat''. p. 50.]
Practices
Releases are usually taken from recordings of concerts in the club.
A late 2014 list of recording equipment included: "a matched pair of Schoeps Mk. 4 and a Neuman U87 microphones on the piano; U47 and Royer 122Vs on tenor sax; RCA 77 ribbons on alto sax; a vintage RCA 44 and a Coles 4038 on trumpets; an RCA 44 and Sennheister 409 on bass; and, for drums, a pair of Neuman KM84s and a Coles 4038 overhead, a D12 or FET47 on the bass drum, and an SM57 on the snare".
References
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Jazz record labels
Record labels established in 2014