specialized in producing and releasing jazz-rock and fusion
recordings. Please support them as they will continue to support
artist that are creating the music we so much love.
 | Bardo Records - home label for some of Jonas Hellborg & | |
| Shawn Lane records. Featured artists include Michael Shrieve, Buckethead, Jeff Sipe, V. Selvaganesh and other famous Indian percussionists; |
| Buckyball Music - Released some Brand X and Tunnels | |
| albums; |
| Charly Records - Minor label that has released some of the | |
| Canterbury scene material, especially from late '70s and early '80s *(Hatfield and the North, National Health, etc.); |
| Cuneiform Records – Major label with albums in a vast | |
| range, from progressive rock to jazz-rock, to fusion, to avant- garde and contemporary music. Some of the musicians and bands that were released through this label include Soft Machine, Happy the Man, National Health, Nucleus, Deus Ex Machina, Hugh Hopper, Gilgamesh, Robert Wyatt, Universe Zero, Djam Karet, etc; |
| ECM Records - Simply the most influential label as far as | |
| modern jazz is concerned. With a huge list of artists that have released albums through Manfred Eicher’s label, it’s really hard to come up with any highlight; |
| Favored Nations Records - This is Steve Vai’s own record | |
| label that now has sign up a bunch of jazz-rock and fusion artists such as Allan Holdsworth, Chad Wackerman, Frank Gambale, Gregg Bissonette, Stuart Hamm or Mike Keneally; |
| Heptagon Records - Swedish label that has released fusion | |
| and rock albums for Scandinavian artists, chiefly the Johansson brothers; |
| LoLo Records - This label was mainly established to release | |
| Gongzilla material. Over time it became home for all Gongzilla alumni, Bon Lozaga, Hansford Rowe and Vic Stevens releasing albums at this record house; |
| MoonJune Records - small label that released Soft Machine’ | |
| s reincarnation through Soft Works and also other material from Elton Dean, Tripod and Italian bands DFA and Finisterre; |
| Shrapnel Records - This is actually a group that bundles | |
| three labels: Shrapnel Records (releasing guitar instrumental and hard rock albums), Tone Center Records (oriented on jazz and fusion) and Blues Bureau Records (that puts out blues rock albums). Tone Center Records is one of the most important labels for modern jazz-rock and fusion in the ‘90s and on. Artists and bands such as Frank Gambale, Stuart Hamm, Steve Smith, Larry Coryell, Tom Coster, Tony Macalpine, Bunny Brunel, Dennis Chambers, Vital Tech Tones and Tribal Tech have released a number of essential records for this genre; |
| Unicorn Records - Canadian recording company based in | |
| Quebec, released albums of such bands as Spaced Out, Parallel Minds, Xinema, Talisma, etc. Sample MP3s available from almost every album they have released. |
| Wenlock Records - Tiny label that has released all the | |
| albums for fusion outfit Network; |
| Wounded Bird Records - Another monster label with an | |
| impressive roster including Billy Cobham, Lenny White, Larry Coryell, Passport, Oregon, John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra, Flora Purim, Jean-Luc Ponty, David Sancious and Jaco Pastorious just to name a few of them; |
