Nonesuch Records
Nonesuch Records, founded 1964: jazz artists and albums on the label.
Artists on Nonesuch Records
Joni Mitchell
b. 1943 · Canadian musician
Dr. John
1941–2019 · American singer-songwriter (1941-2019)
Tigran Hamasyan
b. 1987 · Armenian musician
Joshua Redman
b. 1969 · American jazz saxophonist and composer
Michael Feinstein
b. 1956 · American musician
Kenny Garrett
b. 1960 · American musician
Cécile McLorin Salvant
b. 1989 · American jazz singer of French and Haitian roots
Don Byron
b. 1958 · American musician
Brian Blade
b. 1970 · American jazz drummer
Cường Vũ
b. 1969 · Vietnamese-American jazz musician and professor
Label profile
Label Code: LC 0286 / LC 00286.
US record label that is the trading name of Nonesuch Records / Nonesuch Records Inc. Releases with either "Nonesuch" or "Nonesuch Records" logos should use this label. Company credits as on release.
References to Nonesuch Records Inc. are the company identity and not the label.
Elektra indicates that Elektra Records was founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman. Under his leadership, Nonesuch was created in 1964 as a budget label for classical releases licensed from large classical record companies in Britain and France that did not have a cost-effective means to directly distribute their releases in North America. Bill Harvey designed the packaging, and releases were marketed as "Recordings at the Price of a Quality Paperback." Nonesuch eventually hosted a large catalog of adventurous music from around the globe, and world-premiere recordings of contemporary composers of avant-garde, electronic and computer music.
Warner Communications Inc. provides the most coherent summary of ownership and identity changes from 1969 onward. As a division of Elektra, Nonesuch was also acquired by Warner Communications (Kinney/WEA at the time) in 1970. Releases from Ele
Profile from Discogs (CC0)