Record label
| Leo Records | |
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| Founded | 1979 (1979) |
| Founder | Leo Feigin |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Country of origin | UK |
| Location | London, England |
| Official website | leorecordsmusic |
Leo Records is a British record company and label which releases jazz from Russian, American, and British musicians. It concentrates on free jazz.
Leo Records was founded in 1979 by Leo Feigin (also known under his broadcasting name Aleksei Leonidov), a Russian immigrant to Britain. The label was particularly associated with establishing the world reputation of the Ganelin Trio during the 1970s and 1980s.
It is generally associated with more experimental releases. The label has a close relationship with the artists who release material on the label; it does not sign artists to contracts, but releases their material on a single-album basis. By 2010 there were over 700 titles in Leo Records catalogue. Leo Records comprises four labels: Leo Records, Leo Lab (Leo Records Laboratory), Golden Years of New Jazz, and FeetFirst records.
This label is different from the Leo Records that was formed by Edward Vesala in Helsinki, Finland, in 1978.
In March 2024 the Website of the Label shows:"This year we are having a CLOSING DOWN SALE. It might be the last sale in the history of Leo Records."
Artists
- Aardvark Jazz Orchestra
- Art Ensemble of Chicago
- Anthony Braxton
- Arcady Kirichenko
- John Wolf Brennan
- Jaki Byard
- Vladimir Chekassin
- Eugenio Colombo
- Marilyn Crispell
- Carlo Actis Dato
- Patrick Defossez
- Joe Fonda
- Satoko Fujii
- Vyacheslav Ganelin/Ganelin Trio
- Joachim Gies
- Katsuyuki Itakura
- Italian Instabile Orchestra
- Hans Kumpf
- Sergey Kuryokhin
- Joëlle Léandre
- Pago Libre
- Misha Lobko
- Keshavan Maslak
- Phil Minton
- Amina Claudine Myers
- Joe Morris
- Don Moye
- Simon Nabatov
- Sainkho Namtchylak
- Mark Nauseef
- Maggie Nicols
- Evan Parker
- Ivo Perelman
- Umberto Petrin
- Valentina Ponomaryova
- Sun Ra
- The Remote Viewers
- Ned Rothenberg
- Wadada Leo Smith
- Miroslav Tadić
- Aki Takase
- Cecil Taylor
- Gebhard Ullmann
- Matthew Welch
- Reggie Workman
- Vlady Bystrov
References
- ^ Adams, Simon (2002). Barry Kernfeld (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 573. ISBN 1561592846.
- Leo Records, All About Jazz, 10 February 2004.
- Kelsey, Chris. "Ganelin Trio: Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
- Leo Records Closing Down Sale retrieved on 6 March 2024
Further reading
- Leo Feigin. all that jazz Sankt Petersburg: АМФОРА, 2009 (ISBN 978-5-367-01140-1)