Nessa Records
Nessa Records is an American jazz label, which was founded in 1967 by Chuck Nessa in Chicago.
History of Labels
Chuck Nessa (* 1944) studied 1966 Bob Koester, owner of Delmark Records and Jazz Record Mart in Chicago know who offered the job of manager of the record store it. This he accepted, under the condition that they can also record their own jazz records at Koester. He produced some sessions for Delmark in 1966 with the band projects of AACM members, such as Roscoe Mitchell's Sound, Joseph Jarman's Song For, Muhal Richard Abrams ' Levels and Degrees of Light. 1967 founded his own label Nessa Records and began with the release of LPs. The mid-1970s Nessa worked with the Chicago Jazz Institute, which organized the Chicago Jazz Festival. The mid-1980s, he moved with his family to Whitehall, Michigan. After several years of reduced activity of the label due to economic difficulties Nessa his extensive archival material on compact disc format began in the 1990s to publish, as in a 5 - CD box early recordings by Roscoe Mitchell with the Art Ensemble of Chicago from the 1967 as well as new material from Anthony Braxton and trumpeter John McDonough.
The label released music by Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, the Art Ensemble of Chicago (People in Sorrow ), Von Freeman, Warne Marsh, Ben Webster, Air, Lucky Thompson, Charles Tyler, Wadada Leo Smith, the NRG Ensemble, Eddie Johnson, Fred Anderson and Hal Russell / Mars Williams and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble.
Nessa also worked with Dr Robert E. Sunenblick of Uptown Records; on the reissue label released the historical recordings In the Land of Oo- Blah -Dee 1947-1953 tenor saxophonist Allen Eager and Charles ' Baron ' Mingus, West Coast, 1945-49, which compiled the early 78s by Charles Mingus.
Auswahldiskographie
- Art Ensemble of Chicago: Art Ensemble 1967-1968
- Air: Air Time (1977 )
- Fred Anderson: The Missing Link (1979 )