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Associated Press
28-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
ArkivMusic now selling SteepleChase jazz albums on vinyl and CD
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Naxos of America is proud to assume physical distribution of the renowned Danish jazz label SteepleChase. The SteepleChase catalogue is now for sale on CD at and HB Direct, your sources for great jazz and classical recordings on vinyl and CD. SteepleChase owes its inception in 1972 to American expatriates such as Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Kenny Drew, and Duke Jordan who became a major force on the European jazz scene of the 60s and 70s'. SteepleChase has also introduced to the world some of the finest European jazz musicians such as Tete Montoliu, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Pierre Dørge and re-introduced neglected American artists like Shirley Horn, Louis Smith, and Walt Dickerson. SteepleChase is proud to have introduced a host of now-famous artists such as Andy LaVerne, Rich Perry, Stephen Riley, George Colligan, Gary Versace, Brian Charette, Jason Palmer, and Allegra Levy, among many others to the world by offering them their debut dates. SteepleChase releases 20 plus recordings per year with new recordings. Other labels within the SteepleChase group include SteepleChase LookOut that offers a platform for those up-and-coming artists who deserve exposure and recognition; Kontrapunkt is dedicated to contemporary and classical annotated music, while Canzone was founded in Denmark in the 1980s by Danish classical musician/sound engineer Jesper Jørgensen to feature under-recorded elite artists both in classical and jazz repertoire. ' SteepleChase has, with a potent sense of direction, produced one of the most powerful independent labels on the jazz scene.' Chris Sheridan – Jazz Circle News, UK Contacts:
Wall Street Journal
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century' Review: Cold Clime, Warm Welcome
New York Dexter Gordon and Slide Hampton's jazz album 'A Day in Copenhagen'—piped into the galleries—is the principal soundtrack for 'Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century,' at Scandinavia House through March 8. Organized by the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, where it had its debut last year, the exhibition features African-American artists, musicians, performers, scholars and writers who sought creative freedom, education, inspiration, love and work—as well as refuge from racial discrimination and Jim Crow segregation—in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
