International Anthem
Boundary-defying Chicago label focused on jazz and its offshoots ★★★★
New Focus Recordings
Prominent NYC label releasing contemporary classical, avant-garde jazz and cross-genre music. ★★★★
ECM Records
German label releasing jazz, experimental, classical and cross-genre music (Keith Jarrett, Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny) ★★★★
Blue Note
Iconic NYC jazz label ★★★★
Greenleaf Music
NYC jazz label (Dave Douglass) ★★★
impulse!
classic Jazz imprint released many early records by John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, etc. Now releasing a trickle of re-issues and new jazz artists. Subsidiary of UMG & Verve. ★★★
ESP-Disk’
NYC label releasing new + reissued avant garde jazz (Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders) ★★★
Strut Records
UK label "home to jazz, funk and global sounds - past, present and future" ★★★
Jazzland Recordings
Norwegian jazz label ★★★
Hubro
Norwegian label releasing avant garde jazz and folk music ★★★
W.E.R.F.
Belgian Jazz label that also produces contemporary theatre in Brugge, Belgium
Clean Feed
Portuguese jazz label
Gearbox Records
UK jazz label
In+Out Records
German Jazz label
Whirlwind Recordings
London jazz label created by American bassist Michael Janisch
We Jazz
Finnish jazz label
Edition Records
Welsh jazz label
Intakt Records
Swiss avant garde jazz label (Fred Frith)