Resonance Records Announces Historic 10th Anniversary Celebrations and Releases

This fall, Resonance Records will commemorate 10 years as jazz's preeminent model of artist-first preservation. Having devoted the past decade to unearthing some of the genre's most historically significant discoveries, all while cultivating a new generation of talent, the label has grown "from a roguish upstart to a leader in its field," according to the New York Times, "doubling down on the collector's ideal of album-as-artifact." The Los Angeles non-profit prides itself on delivering ultra-deluxe and unparalleled physical releases that always incite fervor in the music community. Over the next several months, a new series of celebrations and transitions are in store.

Head to WBGO for Nate Chinen's story detailing the upcoming milestones, including a premiere of unreleased Eric Dolphy music: https://bit.ly/2xrPZlN - and read more below.

On October 28th and 29th, Resonance will take over New York City's Birdland Jazz Club in honor of their 10th anniversary. An All-Star band of 17 artists associated with the label, featuring vocalists Polly Gibbons and Aubrey Logan, will perform an eclectic array of highlights from the Resonance catalog. Headliners include clarinetist Eddie Daniels paying tribute to Brazil's Egberto Gismonti with the Harlem Quartet, violinist Christian Howes, and trumpeter Claudio Roditi, joined by a rhythm section of Josh Nelson (Natalie Cole), Richie Goods (Chris Botti, Alicia Keys), Mark McLean (Jamie Cullum, Billy Joel), and many more.

On January 25, 2019, Resonance is set to unveil the holy grail of lost Eric Dolphy music with the release of Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Sessions, the jazz giant's first official, previously unissued studio recordings in over 30 years. Captured after he left Prestige, and just before his timeless classic Out to Lunch, the release contains Dolphy's under-appreciated masterpieces Conversations and Iron Man, plus 85 minutes of previously unreleased studio material. The original monoaural tapes spent decades in Dolphy's personal suitcase before reaching the "Indiana Jones of Jazz" (Stereophile), Resonance co-president Zev Feldman, by way of flutist/educator and co-producer James Newton. Musical Prophet also features saxophonist Sonny Simmons, trumpeter Woody Shaw, bassist Richard Davis and NEA Jazz Master vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson plus others. The music is complemented by an exhaustive 100-page CD booklet with rare and previously unpublished photos by Chuck Stewart, Val Wilmer and others, plus essays and interviews with a number of Dolphy contemporaries, experts, and scholars such as Sonny Rollins, Henry Threadgill, Nicole Mitchell, Steve Coleman, Robin D.G. Kelley and more! A limited-edition 3LP configuration will also be released exclusively on Black Friday Record Store Day (Nov. 23rd).

Come February 2019, Resonance will make its first major foray into music streaming with a series of compilations exploring the work of Wes Montgomery, Bill Evans, and the label's catalog of Vocal Jazz and Piano Jazz. The compilations will feature exclusive artwork by Takao Fujioka (Way Out West Magazine - Japan, Newport Jazz Festival, Stan Getz Moments in Time) and will be available on Spotify, Apple Music, and across all digital platforms. This marks a major turning point for co-presidents George Klabin and Zev Feldman, who have ambitious plans to expand the reach of the label by way of these unique compilations. But make no mistake, you still won't find any full versions of their signature, deluxe historical releases available for streaming any time soon, just enough to whet a jazz-lover's appetite.

Spring of 2019 will see releases of previously-unissued recordings from Wes Montgomery and Bill Evans, plus a host of other archival discoveries in the works for the remainder of the year. The coming months promise continued growth and expansion for one of jazz's most authoritative and lovingly curated labels. There will be more news to follow these initial announcements.

About Resonance
Resonance Records is a truly unique record label. Set up as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Los Angeles and dedicated to preserving jazz for future generations to come, the Grammy Award-winning label actively seeks out never-before-released live or studio recordings and rising jazz stars of future generations to come. The label was founded in 2008 by audio engineer and producer George Klabin - who has recorded a who's who of music greats from James Brown to Quincy Jones to Keith Jarrett - as home for nurturing and supporting young artists, but also an 'audio museum' for important historical jazz recordings that would otherwise languish in the vaults. The historical release efforts are spearheaded by label co-president Zev Feldman, who has a 25-year music career going back to PolyGram and Verve Records in the 1990s and been referred to as "the Indiana Jones of jazz" by Stereophile Magazine. He produces all the archival jazz discoveries for Resonance. Young and old, past and present - Resonance is growing and preserving jazz.

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