Muse Records
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Muse Records was an American record label which released jazz and blues music.
Muse was founded in the early 1970s by Joe Fields, who had previously worked as an executive for Prestige Records in the 1960s.[1] Muse also had a sister label, Onyx Records, which operated until 1978, when Fields and collaborator Don Schlitten parted ways. Fields sold the Muse imprint in the 1980s, and in the 1990s founded HighNote Records and Savant Records; many Muse artists later recorded for these labels as well. Muse catalog items have been re-released to CD on 32 Jazz.
Among the artists who recorded for Muse as leaders are James Moody, Richard Davis, Roy Brooks, Jimmy Raney, Don Patterson, Sonny Stitt, Jaki Byard, Muddy Waters, Mark Murphy, Cedar Walton, Pete LaRoca, Tiny Grimes, Dom Um Romao, Grant Green, Cecil Payne, Duke Jordan, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Joao Donato, Kenny Barron, Eric Kloss, The Visitors, Catalyst, Pat Martino, Jimmy Heath, Neal Creque, Bobby Pierce, Albert Heath, Bu Pleasant, Red Rodney, Joe Chambers, Willis Jackson, Phil Woods, Carlos Garnett, Eddie Jefferson, Teddy Edwards, Louis Hayes, Kenny Dorham, Harold Vick, Lester Bowie, Woody Shaw, Robin Kenyatta, Linc Chamerlain, Walter Bishop, Jr., Joe Bonner, Sonny Criss, Stan Bronstein, David Matthews, Creative Construction Company, Clifford Jordan, Buster Williams, Rickie Boger, Dom Salvador, Hermeto Pascoal, Elmore James, Dave Pike, Etta Jones, Steve Kuhn, Harold Ousley, David Schnitter, David Friesen, Houston Person, Eddie Vinson, Hank Jones, Barry Altschul, Louis Hayes, Charles Earland, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Jonathan Schwartz, Sam Jones, Vic Juris, Bill Hardman, Johnny Lytle, Junior Cook, Gene Ludwig, Morgana King, Walt Barr, Mickey Tucker, Pepper Adams, Ron Eschete, Ricky Ford, Arnett Cobb, Charlie Shoemaker, Mack Goldsbury, John Lee Hooker, Steve Giordano, Memphis Slim, Gil Goldstein, Tony Scott, David Newman, Charles Bobo Shaw, Bruce Forman, Melvin Sparks, Art Hodes, Mitch Farber, Jimmy Witherspoon, Mal Waldron, Larry Coryell, Bud Shank, Earle Warren, Bobby Jones, Members Only, Benny Waters, Wallace Roney, Jack McDuff, Jack Walrath, Akio Sasajima, Bill Barron, Michael Carvin, Jay Hoggard, Marty Ehrlich, Dakota Staton, Graham Haynes, Jimmy Ponder, Glenda Powrie, Groove Holmes, Buck Hill, Lorez Alexandria, Larry O'Neill, John DeFrancesco, Tex Allen, Della Griffin, Radam Schwartz, Lafayette Harris, Nat Simpkins, Hannibal Marvin Peterson, Philip Harper, Jim McNeely, Ron Jackson, Sonny Phillips, Randy Johnston, Joey DeFrancesco, Cindy Blackman, and Russell Gunn.
