Fresh Sound

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{{Infobox record label

| name = Fresh Sound

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| founded = {{start date|1983}}

| founder = Jordi Pujol

| distributor = Bluemoon

| genre = Jazz

| country = Spain

| location = Barcelona

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

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Fresh Sound, or Fresh Sound New Talent, is a jazz record label established in Barcelona, Spain, by Jordi Pujol. The label was initially founded as a reissue label.{{cite book|last1=Yanow|first1=Scott|editor1-last=Erlewine|editor1-first=Michael|editor2-last=Bogdanov|editor2-first=Vladimir|editor3-last=Woodstra|editor3-first=Chris|editor4-last=Yanow|editor4-first=Scott|title=All Music Guide to Jazz: the experts' guide to the best jazz recordings|date=1998|publisher=Miller Freeman Books|location=San Francisco|isbn=0-87930-530-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/allmusicguidetoj00erle_0/page/1332 1332]|edition=3rd|chapter=Labels|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/allmusicguidetoj00erle_0}}

The catalog includes work by musicians both major and minor that was recorded before 1962, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker. Sources include Argo, Dawn, Prestige/New Jazz, RCA, Royal Roost, Riverside, and Verve. Fresh Sound has released music by obscure singers Jane Fielding, Beverly Kenney, Marilyn Moore, Lucy Ann Polk, and Helyne Stewart{{cite web|last1=Klauber|first1=Bruce|title=Fresh Sound Records and the Legacy of Recorded Jazz|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/fresh-sound-records-and-the-legacy-of-recorded-jazz-by-bruce-klauber.php?pg=2|website=All About Jazz|access-date=2 May 2017|language=en|date=22 November 2012}}

In the early 1990s, the label began to produce new recordings. This included music by Georges Arvanitas and David Murray; Mundell Lowe and Tete Montoliu; Gabe Baltazar, Eddie Bert, Bob Cooper, Dick Hafer, Charlie Mariano, J. R. Monterose, Bill Perkins, Frank Strazzeri, and Claude Williamson. The Fresh Sound New Talent label was inaugurated in the 1990s with the work of Vinny Golia.{{cite book|last1=Gardner|first1=Mark|last2=Kernfeld|first2=Barry|editor1-last=Kernfeld|editor1-first=Barry|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz|date=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1-56159-284-6|page=172|volume=1|edition=2nd}}