Great Record Labels

[Blumlein 88]

Alligator records if you like Blues.

Discography Since 1971 - Blues, Roots, R&B Music - Alligator Records - Genuine Houserockin' Music Since 1971

Album titles and artist name for Alligator Records Discography.

www.alligator.com

 

[RichT]

Hi I used to really like the CTI (Creed Taylor) stuff: Freddy Hubbard, George Benson, Billy Cobham, Joe Farrell- Wow. Been listening to Joe Farrell's "Moon Germs" lately, fantastic, regards

 

[levimax]

Blue Note Records... great Jazz artists and Rudy Van Gelder pioneered high quality recording techniques and technology that still sound great 60 years later.

 

[VMAT4]

Rounder Records found here.

 

[MRC01]

Alpha has a variety of classical music, recording quality varies from good to excellent.
Pentatone has consistently great classical music recordings.
Decca has a history of great historical recordings, as does EMI.
Deutsche Grammophon has a long history and continues to make great classical music recordings.
Sony Classical, from the early digital days with engineer Bud Graham, through and including today.
Telarc is a great label for both classical and jazz.
Genuin makes consistently great classical music recordings.
Lawo also makes fine recordings with a variety of music.
BIS made great recordings back to the 70s up to today. Their house sound is overly bright but still quite good.

 

[Multicore]

I'm diggin' Fat Possum recently.

 

[Soandso]

For the more vintage decades of the blues, at different times, it was Chess, Rounder and Alligator record labels that were important. Some big "box-set" type collections taken from their respective blues catalogues have been released if any reader is interested.

That was in the era when blues artists often moved on to a new recording label when one label folded or a label got bought out as it floundered. This accounts, in part, why we sometimes come across several versions of recordings by key musicians like Howlin' Wolf that diverge a lot from our memory of it's classic rendition.

 

[Chrispy]

Blue Thumb Records - a nice collection is All Day Thumbsucker Revisited

 

[Chrispy]

Another one that was short lived was Thunderbird Records, got a few recordings from them....

 

[Dustyc]

VITAL records. David Manley ( of VTL fame) constructed a recording studio and used a single point tube Mic for their recordings. They didn't release much material but I think every audiophile should have at least one of their releases. Most of the material is vinyl but some had a CD release.