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Inner City Records

Inner City Records, founded 1976: jazz artists and albums on the label.

Inner City Records was a jazz record company and label founded by Irv Kratka in 1976 in New York City. The company was a division of Music Minus One and also owned the label Classic Jazz. It started with reissues, then moved on to new recordings covering various types of jazz. Other non-jazz labels it released under the Inner City Records umbrella included Aural Explorer and City Sounds. Inner City Records released over 60 albums between 1976 and 1980 and was voted the 1979 Record Label of the Year in the International Jazz Critics Poll. Many Inner City albums were also issued on the Japanese East Wind Records, including Sam Morrison's Dune, The Three (Joe Sample, Ray Brown, Shelly Manne), and albums from Japanese musicians Sadao Watanabe and Terumasa Hino. Additional international labels licensed for release in the US include SteepleChase Records, Black & Blue, Vogue, and Enja.

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Artists on Inner City Records

Urszula Dudziak b. 1943 · Polish singer Susannah McCorkle 1946–2001 · American jazz singer (1946–2001) Ray Mantilla 1934–2020 · American jazz drummer (1934–2020)

Albums on Inner City Records

Little Jazz · Inner City Records Stolen Moments 1975 · Inner City Records Firm Roots 1975 · Inner City Records Professor Jive: A Jazz Symphony by Charles Schwartz 1976 · Inner City Records Doodlin’ 1976 · Inner City Records I Concentrate on You 1976 · Inner City Records Julian 1976 · Live · Inner City Records A Ghetto Lullaby 1976 · Inner City Records Jubilant Power 1976 · Inner City Records My Dear Life 1977 · Inner City Records Betrayal 1977 · Inner City Records To Duke With Love 1978 · Inner City Records Prism 1978 · Inner City Records Eight Mile Road 1978 · Inner City Records Descent Into the Maelstrom 1978 · Inner City Records A Date in New York 1979 · Inner City Records Brother In Swing 1979 · Inner City Records Holy Mama: Junior Mance 1979 · Inner City Records I Remember Harlem 1980 · Inner City Records Notorious Tourist From The East 1980 · Inner City Records Surya 1980 · Inner City Records Roland Hanna Plays the Music of Alec Wilder 1980 · Inner City Records Plays the Music of Jerome Kern 1980 · Inner City Records "Broken Wing" 1981 · Inner City Records Casa Forte 1981 · Inner City Records Trilogy 1981 · Inner City Records Live 2 1982 · Live · Inner City Records Fireworks: The New School Concert 1983 1985 · Inner City Records The Main Man 1996 · Inner City Records Future Talk 2008 · Inner City Records First Lady of the Piano 2009 · Inner City Records Tenderly 2009 · Inner City Records Urbaniak 2013 · Inner City Records In the Beginning 2017 · Inner City Records