Jazz labels

A selection of current UK and Irish independent jazz labels. Links, styles, notes in brief

Audio B 
Run by bassist Malcom Creese. Chamber jazz in outlook with a bop flavour.

Babel 
Sometimes known as the Babel label or Babel records, current artists include Black Top and Stephen Davis. Avant and improv-minded.

Basho 
Home to The Impossible Gentlemen and Liam Noble.

Brownswood 
Recent successes have included albums by Zara McFarlane.

Chaos Collective 
Roster includes Laura Jurd.

Confront
Mark Wastell’s adventurous improv label.

Destin-E Records 
Saxophonist Courtney Pine’s label.

Diatribe 
Cream of the Dublin improv and alt.jazz scene. OKO and Redivider are both on their radar.

Edition 
Phronesis are label stars.

Gearbox 
Mainly vinyl. Recent successes have included Binker & Moses’ Dem Ones.

Jellymould Jazz 
Home to jam king Hannes Riepler.

Linn 
Mainly classical, with a proud jazz tradition too. Recent successes have included Liane Carroll’s Seaside.

Lyte 
Run by drummer David Lyttle whose album Faces picked up acclaim in 2015.

Naim 
Home to Get the Blessing, Eska and Neil Cowley.

Provocateur
Home to the Mask Orchestra and Colin Towns’ back catalogue

Spartacus
Scots saxophonist Tommy Smith’s pioneering label.

Trio 
Drummer Clark Tracey’s mainstream, bebop and hard bop label. Output includes Stan Tracey classic reissues.

Whirlwind Recordings 
Influential hard bop and Cool School label run by bassist Michael Janisch.

Woodville
Mainstream redoubt