DIW Records
DIW Records is a Japanese jazz and avant-garde record label.
The label
The label DIW Records is a sublabel of the company Disc Union and specializes in the fields of jazz and avant-garde music. Producer of the label was Kazunori Sugiyama, who with John Zorn founded the avant-garde label Tzadik later. In DIW also appeared the first ten albums of Wrath Masada project, as the album Masada: Alef and numerous live recordings from the New York club soundscape, by Frank Lowe, Bill Laswell material, Odean Pope, Arthur Rhames and the Sun Ra Arkestra.
DIW since the 1980s, published the music of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Rashied Ali, Geri Allen, Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Marion Brown, Peter Brötzmann, George Cables, Steve Coleman, Stanley Cowell, Dave Douglas, Steve Grossman, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, John Hicks, ICP Orchestra, Clifford Jordan, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Harold Mabern, David Murray, the Music Revelation Ensemble, James Blood Ulmer, David S. Ware and James Williams. In DIW published musicians of Japanese jazz and improvisation scene as Kaoru Abe, Toshinori Kondo, Masahri Yoshida, Otomo Yoshihide and Masayuki Takayanagi; the label also issued some reissues of older recordings by Blossom Dearie 1963 ( Sings Rootin ' Songs) and Sunny Murray Trio with Albert Ayler and Don Cherry of 1965.
Selected albums of the label
- Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Alternative Express ( DIW 832; 1990)
- Berlin Contemporary Orchestra; Live In Japan '96 (DIW 922; 1996)
- George Cables: Night And Day (DIW 606; 1991)
- Stanley Cowell Trio: Close To You Alone ( DIW 603; 1990)
- Dave Douglas: Moving Portrait ( DIW 934; 1997) with Bill Carrothers, James Genus, Billy Hart
- Billy Harper: If Our Hearts Could Only See ( DIW 931; 1997) with Eddie Henderson, Francesca Tanksley
- John Hicks Trio with David Murray: Sketches Of Tokyo (DIW 812; 1985)
- Lee Konitz Trio with Greg Cohen & Joey Baron: Some New Stuff (DIW 939; 2000)
- Harold Mabern Trio: Mabern 's Grooveyard (DIW 621; 1996)
- Masada: Masada: Alef (DIW 888; 1994)
- Material: Live From Soundscape (DIW 389; 1981) with Bill Laswell, Fred Frith
- Misha Mengelberg Trio: No Idea (DIW 619 ) in 1996, with Greg Cohen and Joey Baron
- David Murray: Lovers ( DIW 814; 1988); Tenors (DIW 881; 1988); Ballads (DIW 840; 1988); Spirituals (DIW 841; 1988); Ballads For Bass Clarinet (DIW 880; 1991); David Murray Big Band Conducted by Lawrence " Butch" Morris (DIW -851, 1991)
- David Murray and Milford Graves: Real Deal (DIW 867; 1991)
- David Murray: Special Quartet (DIW 843; 1990); Fast Life (1993 )
- Sonny Murray Albert Ayler & Don Cherry with: Sonny's Time Now (DIW 355; 1965)
- Music Revelation Ensemble: In The Name Of ... ( DIW 885; 1993)
- Phalanx ( George Adams, James Blood Ulmer, Sirone, Rashied Ali ): In Touch (DIW 826; 1988)
- James Williams: Meets the Saxophone Masters (DIW 868; 1981) with Joe Henderson, George Coleman, Billy Pierce, James Genus, Tony Reedus
Swell
- Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley: Rough Guide to Jazz. 2nd edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-476-01892-2.
- Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6