Thirsty Ear Recordings
Thirsty Ear Recordings, founded 1977: jazz artists and albums on the label.
Thirsty Ear Recordings is an American independent record label. It was founded in the late 1970s as a marketing company for the then-unnamed alternative music field, and expanded to issue its own records in 1990. Thirsty Ear came to prominence in the mid-1990s with a series of CD reissues of early industrial albums by artists such as Foetus, Einstürzende Neubauten, Marc Almond, Swans, and Test Dept. The label also released new albums by alternative rock bands such as Baby Ray, Madder Rose, and The Church. Foetus would remain on the label, recording original music on Thirsty Ear through 2001. More recently, Thirsty Ear has released jazz albums as part of its Blue Series. Enlisting Matthew Shipp as the artistic director.
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Artists on Thirsty Ear Recordings
William Parker
b. 1952 · American jazz musician
Matthew Shipp
b. 1960 · American pianist, composer, and bandleader
Bobby Previte
b. 1951 · American drummer
Mary Halvorson
b. 1980 · US avant-garde jazz guitarist
Craig Taborn
b. 1970 · American musician
Weasel Walter
b. 1972 · American composer
Mat Maneri
b. 1969 · American composer, improviser and jazz violin and viola…
Label profile
Established in the late 70s as an independent marketing company, Thirsty Ear pioneered the concept of specialized marketing to the yet-unnamed alternative music world in the U.S. As such, Thirsty Ear was hired to implement campaigns in this new area for virtually every major label, working with such now-legendary artists as David Bowie, The Talking Heads and The Police, among many others.
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