Arabesque Records

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| name = Arabesque Records

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| founded = {{start date|1987}}

| founder = Ward Botsford, Marvin Reiss

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| genre = Jazz, classical

| country = U.S.

| location = New York City

| url = {{URL|www.arabesquerecords.com}}

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Arabesque Records is an American record company and label specializing in jazz and classical music.

It was founded by Caedmon Audio as a classical music label. In 1988 it was bought by Ward Botsford and Marvin Reiss, becoming an independent label, and in 1992 added jazz to its production, with early releases by Craig Handy and Carmen Lundy. Its catalogue grew to include Jane Ira Bloom, Thomas Chapin, Dave Douglas, Art Farmer, Billy Hart, Myra Melford, and Charles McPherson, and Horace Tapscott.{{cite book|last=Kennedy|first=Gary|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1|year=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1561592846|edition=2nd|editor=Barry Kernfeld|page=62}}

Discography

=Jazz=

Catalogue No: AJO !Artist !Album
class="wikitable sortable"
101	{{sortname\|Craig\|Handy}}	Split Second Timing
102	{{sortname\|Carmen\|Lundy}}	Moment to Moment
103	8 Bold Souls	Sideshow
104	{{sortname\|Leandro\|Braga\|nolink=1}}	E Por Que Nao? (And Why Not?)
105	{{sortname\|Billy\|Hart}}	Amethyst
106	{{sortname\|Ray\|Drummond}}	Excursion
107	{{sortname\|Jane Ira\|Bloom}}	Art and Aviation
108	String Trio of New York	Intermobility
109	{{sortname\|Craig\|Handy\|nolink=1}}	Introducing Three for All + One
110	{{sortname\|Thomas\|Chapin}}	I've Got Your Number
111	{{sortname\|Ray\|Drummond\|nolink=1}}	Continuum
112	{{sortname\|Art\|Farmer}} & Tom Harrell	The Company I Keep
113	{{sortname\|Charles\|McPherson\|Charles McPherson (musician)}}	First Flight Out
114	8 Bold Souls	Ant Farm
115	{{sortname\|Thomas\|Chapin\|nolink=1}}	You Don't Know Me
116	{{sortname\|Barry\|Finnerty}}	Straight Ahead
117	{{sortname\|Charles\|McPherson\|nolink=1}}	Come Play with Me
118	{{sortname\|Art\|Farmer\|nolink=1}}	The Meaning of Art
119	{{sortname\|Horace\|Tapscott}}	Aiee! The Phantom
120	{{sortname\|Jane Ira\|Bloom\|nolink=1}}	The Nearness
121	{{sortname\|Charles\|Sullivan\|Charles Sullivan (musician)}}	Kamau
122	{{sortname\|Ray\|Drummond\|nolink=1}}	Vignettes
123	{{sortname\|Bert\|Wilson\|Bert Wilson (musician)}}	Endless Fingers
124	{{sortname\|Frank\|Foster\|Frank Foster (jazz musician)}}	Leo Rising
125	{{sortname\|Marc\|Cary}}	Listen
126	{{sortname\|Dave\|Douglas\|Dave Douglas (trumpeter)}}	Tiny Bell Trio: Live in Europe
127	{{sortname\|Marlon\|Jordan}}	Marlon's Mode
128	{{sortname\|Horace\|Tapscott\|nolink=1}}	Thoughts of Dar es Salaam
129	{{sortname\|Billy\|Hart\|nolink=1}}	Oceans of Time
130	{{sortname\|Art\|Farmer\|nolink=1}}	Silk Road
131	{{sortname\|Ben\|Monder}}	Dust
132	{{sortname\|Dave\|Douglas\|nolink=1}}	Stargazer
133	Lost Tribe	Many Lifetimes
134	{{sortname\|Charles\|McPherson\|nolink=1}}	Manhattan Nocturne
135	{{sortname\|Jack\|Wilkins}}	Trio Art
136	{{sortname\|Adrienne\|Wilson\|nolink=1}}	She's Dangerous
137	{{sortname\|Justin\|Robinson\|Justin Robinson (musician)}}	The Challenge
138	{{sortname\|Patrick\|Zimmerli}}	Twelve Sacred Dances
139	{{sortname\|Dave\|Douglas\|nolink=1}}	Magic Triangle
140	{{sortname\|Marc\|Cary\|nolink=1}}	The Antidote
141	{{sortname\|Ray\|Drummond\|nolink=1}}	1-2-3-4
142	{{sortname\|Myra\|Melford}}	Above Blue
143	{{sortname\|Norman\|Hedman\|nolink=1}}	One Step Closer
144	{{sortname\|Jane Ira\|Bloom\|nolink=1}}	The Red Quartets
145	{{sortname\|Dave\|Douglas\|nolink=1}}	Leap of Faith
146	{{sortname\|Ted\|Nash\|Ted Nash (saxophonist, born 1960)}}	Rhyme & Reason
147	{{sortname\|Myra\|Melford\|nolink=1}}	Dance Beyond the Color
148	{{sortname\|Ben\|Monder\|nolink=1}}	Excavation
149	{{sortname\|Bobby\|Sanabria}}	Live & In Clave!![http://www.newschool.edu/facultyexperts/faculty.aspx?id=23670 "Faculty Experts”] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714225707/http://www.newschool.edu/facultyexperts/faculty.aspx?id=23670 \|date=2014-07-14 }}, The New School. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
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151	{{sortname\|Donny\|McCaslin}}	Seen from Above
152	{{sortname\|Scott\|Colley}}	The Magic Line
153	{{sortname\|Tony\|Malaby}}	Sabino
154	{{sortname\|Myra\|Melford\|nolink=1}} & Marty Ehrlich	Yet Can Spring
155	{{sortname\|Jane Ira\|Bloom\|nolink=1}}	Sometimes the Magic
156	{{sortname\|Ted\|Nash\|nolink=1}}	Sidewalk Meeting
157	{{sortname\|Hilton\|Ruiz}}	Enchantment
158	{{sortname\|Jane Ira\|Bloom}}	Chasing Paint
159	{{sortname\|Myra\|Melford\|nolink=1}}	Where the Two Worlds Touch
160	{{sortname\|Donny\|McCaslin\|nolink=1}}	The Way Through
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164	{{sortname\|John\|O'Gallagher\|nolink=1}}	Abacus
165
166	{{sortname\|Rez\|Abbasi}}	Snake Charmer
180	{{sortname\|Steve\|Wiest}} Big Band	Excalibur
189	{{sortname\|Steve\|Wiest\|nolink=1}}	Out of the New

=Classical (early issues)=

Schubert and Schnabel – An Historical Recording, Volume IV., Therese Behr (1987)
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sir Yehudi Menuhin Conducting the English Chamber Orchestra (1988)
The Complete Chopin Piano Works – Garrick Ohlsson, piano (1989)
Music of Alkan – Ronald Smith, piano (1985)
The Complete Piano Variations of Johannes Brahms – Ian Hobson, piano (1994)
George Gershwin: An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F – London Symphony Orchestra, Mitch Miller, conductor, David Golub, piano (1992)
Mozart: Complete Works for Four Hands – Artur Balsam & Gena Raps, piano (1995)
Richard Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica; 4 Orchestral Songs – Wilhelm Furtwängler, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1989)
Benjamin Britten: Illuminations; Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge; Simple Symphony - English Chamber Orchestra; Elisabeth Söderström, Soprano; Gilbert Levine, Conductor (1989)
Dmitri Shostakovitch: Symphony No. 1; Piano Concerto; Age of Gold Suite - Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra; Garrick Ohlsson, Piano; Gilbert Levine, Conductor (1989)

=Classical (later issues)=

Encore Rossini, Rockwell Blake
Inner Cities (2003), Alvin Curran, Bruce Brubaker, piano
Karol Szymanowski: Solo Piano Works, Emily White, piano (2009)
Chopin: 24 Etudes, op.10 and op.25, Matthew Cameron, piano (2015)
Schumann: Liederkreis (Kerner Lieder; Lenau Lieder and Requiem; Eichendorff Liederkreis), Sergey Schepkin with Darren Chase, baritone (2013)
Quynh Nguyen plays Schubert, Chopin (2004)
Matthew Cameron plays Romantic Favorites for Piano (2012)
Forgotten Americans Z6823, includes: "A Life," Ernst Bacon, Joel Krosnick, cello and Gilbert Kalish, piano.
La fedeltà premiata, Haydn, Z6751-3 (1999)
Schumann: Song Cycles Op. 24, 42 & 48 – Leon Fleisher, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, John Shirly-Quirk (2009)
Franz Schubert: String Quartets – Guarneri String Quartet, (2009)

References

External links

[http://www.arabesquerecords.com/ Arabesque Records website]

Category:Record labels based in New York (state)

Category:American jazz record labels