Nine Winds is an American

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record label that was founded in 1977 by

Vinny Golia Vinny Golia (born March 1, 1946) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in woodwind instruments. He performs in the genres of contemporary music, jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation. Career As a composer, Golia fuses ...

. Golia is a self-taught musician who plays over fifty

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, in addition to brass. In the early 1970s, he believed it was impossible for musicians who lived outside New York City to get contracts with record labels. He founded Nine Winds to produce his own albums and that of others who played

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, and other forms of

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that were difficult to sell. He issued several of his own albums, then the debut album by guitarist

Nels Cline Nels Courtney Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American guitarist and composer. He has been a guitarist for the band Wilco since 2004. In the 1980s he played jazz, often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex, a percussionist. He has wor ...

. The roster grew to include unconventional music by Alex Cline, Jeff Gauthier, and Wayne Peet.

Roster

* Aardvark Jazz Orchestra * Steve Adams * Susan Allen * Eric Barber * Bonnie Barnett * Bill Barrett * John Bergamo *

Dick Berk Richard Alan Berk (May 22, 1939 – February 8, 2014) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Career A native of San Francisco, California, he studied at the Berklee College of Music and played in the Boston area early in the 1960s. In 19 ...

* Ron Blakeslee *

Bobby Bradford Bobby Lee Bradford (born July 19, 1934) is an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, bandleader, and composer. In addition to his solo work, Bradford is noted for his work with John Carter, Vinny Golia and Ornette Coleman. In October 2009, Brad ...

* Ellen Burr * Paul Carman * John Carter *

Luciano Chessa Luciano Chessa (born 12 January 1971, in Sassari, Italy) is a musician, performance/visual/installation artist, and musicologist. As a composer, conductor, pianist, and musical saw / Đàn bầu, Vietnamese dan bau soloist, Luciano Chessa has b ...

* Alex Cline *

Mark Dresser Mark Dresser (born September 26, 1952) is an American double bass player and composer. Career Dresser was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. In the 1970s, he was a member of Black Music Infinity led by Stanley Crouch and performed w ...

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* Harris Eisenstadt * Eric Von Essen * Ken Filiano * Stephen Flinn *

Bruce Fowler Bruce Lambourne Fowler (born July 10, 1947) is an American trombonist and composer. He played trombone on many Frank Zappa records, as well as with Captain Beefheart and in the Fowler Brothers Band. He composes and arranges music for movies, a ...

* Lori Freedman * Wolfgang Fuchs * John Fumo * Jeff Gauthier * Matthew Goodheart *

* Jonathan Golove * Phillip Greenlief *

John Gross John Gross FRSL (12 March 1935 – 10 January 2011) was an English man of letters. A leading intellectual, writer, anthologist, and critic. ''The Guardian'' (in a tribute titled "My Hero") and ''The Spectator'' were among several publication ...

* Richard Grossman *

Rich Halley Rich Halley (born November 25, 1947, in Portland, Oregon) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. He has released 25 recordings as a leader. As Down Beat described him: “Oregon-based saxophonist Rich Halley has been turning out smar ...

* Joel Hamilton * Edwin Harkins * Rick Helzer * Anna Homler * Trey Henry * David Earle Johnson * Jeff Kaiser * Kaoru * Carla Kihlstedt * Ronit Kirchman * Larry Koonse * Marilyn Lerner * George Lewis * Steuart Liebig *

Tony Malaby Tony Malaby (born January 12, 1964) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Malaby was born in Tucson, Arizona. He moved to New York City in 1995 and played with several notable jazz groups, including Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, ...

* Billy Mintz * Giorgio Occhipinti * Andrew Pask * Wayne Peet *

Barre Phillips Barre Phillips (October 27, 1934 – December 28, 2024) was an American jazz double bass, bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he moved to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. From 1972 he was based in southern France, where in ...

* John Rapson *

Kim Richmond Kim Richmond (July 24, 1940 – September 20, 2024) was an American jazz saxophonist and arranger. Life and career Richmond was born in Champaign, Illinois, on July 24, 1940. He played piano, clarinet, and saxophone when young, and made his profes ...

* Bob Rodriguez * William Roper * Ken Rosser *

Wadada Leo Smith Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (born December 18, 1941) is an American trumpeter and composer, working primarily in the field of creative music. He was one of three finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for ''Ten Freedom Summers'', released on ...

* Paul Smoker * G.E. Stinson *

Mark Trayle Mark Trayle, born Mark Evan Garrabrant (January 17, 1955, in San Jose, California – February 18, 2015, in Ventura, California) was a California-based musician and sound artist working in a variety of media including live electronic music, impro ...

* Bertram Turetzky *

Johnnie Valentino Johnnie Valentino (born September 2, 1957) is an American composer /guitarist and sound designer originally from Philadelphia who now lives in Los Angeles. Biography Valentino spent his youth in a Philadelphia neighborhood that was filled with ...

* Michael Vlatkovich * Scott Walton * Mark Weber * Tad Weed * Jeanette Wrate

References

External links

Nine Winds: Blowing Hot Out of LA
Allaboutjazz.com, April 6, 2005. {{Authority control American jazz record labels Record labels established in 1977 1977 establishments in California Record labels based in California