DIW Records is a Japanese record label specializing in
avant-garde jazz
Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz, experimental jazz, or "new thing") is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. It originated in the early 1950s and developed through the late 1 ...
. It is a subsidiary of Disk Union.
Kazunori Sugiyama was an executive producer for the label before starting
Tzadik Records with
John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conducting, conductor, saxophonist, arrangement, arranger and record producer, producer who "deliberately resists category". His Avant-garde music, avant-garde and experimental music, ex ...
.
DIW's name stands for "Discs in the World" and is from a music magazine sold at Disk Union stores that announced the latest releases from American and European labels.
recorded the first album for DIW in 1983 in New York City. The catalogue includes music by the
Art Ensemble of Chicago
The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM) in the late 1960s. The ensemble integrates many jaz ...
,
Lester Bowie,
James Carter,
Steve Grossman,
Harold Mabern,
David Murray,
James Blood Ulmer
James "Blood" Ulmer (born February 8, 1940) is an American jazz, free funk and blues music, blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer plays a Gibson Byrdland guitar. His guitar sound has been described as "jagged" and "stinging". His singing has been ...
,
David S. Ware,
Rodney Whitaker, and John Zorn.
Discography
References
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Japanese record labels
Jazz record labels