Purchase Records is a small record label started in 2000 by Joe Ferry, Jim McElwaine, and Karl Kramer, to showcase the talents of the students and faculty at the Purchase College Conservatory of Music.Purchase Records
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nominations for Best Contemporary Folk Album, 2000 (''Public Domain''); Best Classical Vocal Performance, 2001; and Best Classical Keyboard Performance, 2002. Student work featured in the first release, ''Public Domain'', includes "Mockingbird" by

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'', November 5, 2000, retrieved 2010-06-20 The Purchase facilities include a 48-track studio.Hershenson, Roberta (2001)
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'', December 9, 2001, retrieved 2010-06-20 Releases include albums by Jacque Trussel, chairman of the college's voice department, Doug Munro, head of the jazz studies program, and Bradley Brookshire, director of graduate studies at Purchase. All proceeds from sales are donated to the conservatory's scholarship fund.

Releases

*''Public Domain'' (2000) - nominated for a Grammy as Best Contemporary Folk Album *''Jacque Trussel, Tenor: Sounds & Sweet Airs: Scenes & Arias for Tenor'' (2001) - nominated for a Grammy as Best Classical Vocal Performance"Purchase CDs nominated for Grammy", ''Westchester County Business Journal'', January 7, 2002, retrieved 2010-06-20 *''Bradley Brookshire, Harpsichord: J.S. Bach, The French Suites'' (2001) - nominated for a Grammy as Best Classical Keyboard Performance *''

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, Mariano Mangas: Jazz Flamenco Guitars'' (2001) *''Jazz Faculty @ Purchase College - 10th Anniversary Celebration'' (2002)

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