Inner City Records

Inner City Records is a established in 1976 by ​​Irv Kratka and producer Eric Kriss jazz label now based in Elmsford (New York), which was active until 1985. It is part of the founded in the 1950s, Music Minus One Records of Kratka.

1980 won the label along with the ECM Downbeat Critics Poll for jazz record labels.

Connected is the sister label Classic Jazz, the new releases and older European jazz recordings, as well as the sister label Aural Explorer and Guitar World.

First recordings were released in 1976. Among the artists of the label include David Friedman, Oliver Nelson, Pepper Adams, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Don Cherry, Johnny Griffin, Jackie McLean, Anthony Braxton, Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Archie Shepp, Chet Baker, Gato Barbieri, Charlie Mariano, Cecil Taylor, Susannah McCorkle, Abbey Lincoln, Gil Evans, Sun Ra, and Toshiko Akiyoshi Lew Tabackin, Jean -Luc Ponty and Stephane Grappelli, Andrew Hill, Chet Baker, Zoot Sims, Johnny Hodges, Michal Urbaniak and Urszula Dudziak, Lennie Tristano, Stan Getz, Jeff Lorber, Art Farmer, Django Reinhardt, André Ceccarelli, Junior Mance, Cecil McBee, Sir Roland Hanna, and the New York Jazz Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Milt Jackson, Jonah Jones, Eddie Jefferson, David Friesen, Nat Adderley, Paul Bley, Clifford Brown, Elmo Hope, Mel Martin, Toots Thielemans, Ted Curson, Jimmy Smith, Monica Zetterlund, Ann Burton, Al Haig, Earl Hines, Cat Anderson, Cam Newton, Judy Roberts.

The label made ​​for the North American market and license recordings from Enja and other European labels out of Tete Montoliu about ( Catalonian Fire, as the license of the Danish Steeplechase Records ) by Attila Zoller or Phil Woods.