CIMP

CIMP is an American label for jazz and improvised music New.

CIMP is an acronym for Creative Improvised Music Projects and is a sub-company of Cadence Jazz Records with partially overlapping alignment. The label founded in 1996, the longtime editor of Cadence, Robert Rusch; his children Marc and Kara work with him as a recording engineer and artwork designers. CIMP started with a trio recording of Evan Parker, which was recorded in June 1995 ( The Redwood Sessions with Joe McPhee, Paul Lytton and Barry Guy ).

In the following years more than 300 albums released ( as of 2004); numerous U.S. and European improvisation and avant-garde jazz musicians published since music on CIMP. Most shots were taken in The Spirit Room, a studio in Rossie, New York. 2009 and 2011 CIMP was a guest in Europe. At the invitation of the Cultural Forum Villach guest appearances 15 musicians of the CIMP label in Villach.

In the 2000s, it created the sublabel CIMPoL ( for Creative Improvised Music Projects on location ), with concert recordings, inter alia, by Joe McPhee, Gebhard Ullmann and Salim Washington.

Appeared on the CIMP label, for example albums by Tom Abbs, Barry Altschul, Billy Bang, Patrick Brennan, Dave Burrell, Dominic Duval, Frode Gjerstad, Lou Grassi, David Haney, Fred Hess, Chris Kelsey, Frank Lowe, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Ivo Perelman, Odean Pope, Hugh Ragin, Herb Robertson, Perry Robinson, Roswell Rudd, Ursel Schlicht, Sonny Simmons, Paul Smoker, Glenn Spearman, Mark White Cage and Bobby Zankel.

Links / sources

  • Www.cimprecords.com
  • Detailed Label Portrait of Sean Patrick Fitzell in at all about jazz
  • Label Portrait of CIMP on European Free Improvisation Pages
  • CIMP - Label Discography at Discogs (English)
  • Jazz label
  • Independent label
  • American music label
  • Abbreviation
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