HighNote Records
American record label
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::summary American record label ::
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| Field | Value |
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| name | HighNote Records |
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| founder | Barney Fields |
| Joe Fields | |
| distributor | |
| genre | Jazz |
| country | United States |
| location | New York City |
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| name = HighNote Records | image = | image_size = | parent = | founded = | founder = Barney Fields Joe Fields | distributor = | genre = Jazz | country = United States | location = New York City | url = HighNote Records is a jazz record company and label founded by Joe Fields with his son, Barney Fields, in 1997.
Joe Fields worked for Prestige Records in the 1960s, and in the 1970s founded Muse Records. After he sold Muse, he started the HighNote and Savant labels with his son, Barney. Many of the artists on HighNote previously recorded for Muse.
The catalogue includes Cindy Blackman, Larry Coryell, Joey DeFrancesco, Charles Earland, Russell Gunn, Etta Jones, Sheila Jordan, Houston Person, and Jimmy Ponder.
Sister label
- Fedora Records, founded in the late 1990s
References
References
- (28 October 2003). "HighNote/Savant Records".
- (2002). "The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz". Grove's Dictionaries Inc..
- Tamarkin, Jeff. (July 16, 2017). "Joe Fields, Exec at Several Key Jazz Labels, Dead at 88 – Founder of Muse, HighNote and Savant Records produced hundreds of jazz recordings".
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