Hello. Does anyone here have a favorite label that they enjoy listening to most? I don't know all the labels, of course Blue Note, Fantasy/Riverside, Verve, ECM, but not too many of the smaller ones except for Leo and Hat Hut (that I can remember, anyways!). I think that it is a contest between Blue Note and Fantasy/Riverside for me. I will have to decide who wins later.

Does anyone else have favorites?

http://www.radiomute.com/14893-your-...zz-labels.html

Hey Satchmo, you never posted your top 5 (five!) jazz labels to that thread. Give it up, man


edit - BTW, I like jazzrocks' avatar, the cover art from the Art Ensemble of Chicago's "Third Decade". Cool art, nice album. A good album for one to start with the AEC. And it's on one of my favorite lables, ECM.

Oh, sorry. I wasn't aware of that one. There are some in there that I don't know, so I'll look into those.

I have never heard of these:

Jazz Actuel/BYG
Black Saint / Soul Note
Grammavision

I have to give my vote to Verve, but, if this isn't outside the remit of this forum, then I give a vote to TruThoughts as well for the more breakbeat jazz/latin funk side of the genre.