HighNote Records is a
jazz record company and label founded by Joe Fields with his son, Barney Fields, in 1997.
Joe Fields
Joseph Charles Fields Jr. (born November 14, 1953) is a former professional American football center and guard in the National Football League for the New York Jets and the New York Giants.
Raised in Deptford Township, New Jersey, Fields ...
worked for
Prestige Records
Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City which issued recordings in the mainstream, bop, and cool jazz idioms. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz music ...
in the 1960s, and in the 1970s founded
Muse Records. After he sold Muse, he started the Highnote and Savant labels with his son, Barney. Many of the artists on Highnote previously recorded for Muse.
The catalogue includes
Cindy Blackman
Cindy Blackman Santana (born November 18, 1959), sometimes known as Cindy Blackman, is an American jazz and rock drummer. Blackman has recorded several jazz albums as a bandleader and has performed with Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Simmons, Ron Carter ...
,
Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell (born Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III; April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist.
Early life
Larry Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas, United States. He never knew his biological father, a musician. He w ...
,
Joey DeFrancesco,
Charles Earland
Charles Earland (May 24, 1941 – December 11, 1999) was an American jazz organist.
Biography
Earland was born in Philadelphia and learned to play the saxophone in high school. He played tenor with Jimmy McGriff at the age of 17 and in 1960 form ...
,
Russell Gunn,
Etta Jones,
Sheila Jordan,
Houston Person, and
Jimmy Ponder
Jimmy Ponder (May 10, 1946 – September 16, 2013) was an American jazz guitarist.
Career
When Ponder's brother entered the military, he left his guitar, and Ponder picked it up. In his early teens he received lessons from the guitarist in a ba ...
.
DiscographyHighNote Records Catalog
accessed February 21, 2019
HighNote Records
Savant Records
Sister label
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Fedora Records
Fedora Records is a blues-oriented record label launched by producer Joe Fields as a sister label to HighNote Records in the late 1990s. Artist who've recorded on the label include Tommy Bankhead, Homesick James, and Fillmore Slim.
Roster
Li ...
, founded in the late 1990s
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American record labels
Jazz record labels