Sackville Records

Sackville Records
Founded 1968 (1968)
Founder John Norris
Bill Smith
Genre Jazz
Country of origin Canada
Location Toronto, Ontario

Sackville Records is a Canadian record company and label that specializes in jazz.[1][2]

Sackville was founded in 1968 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by John Norris and Bill Smith of the jazz magazine CODA. The bulk of the label's new releases are from sessions recorded in Canada. It has also done reissues. In the 1990s it became the distributor for American Music, Chiaroscuro, Nagel-Heyer, Classics, Storyville, and Timeless.[1][2]

Its catalogue includes Doc Cheatham, Don Ewell, Art Hodes, Keith Ingham, Geoffrey Keezer, Humphrey Lyttelton, Harold Mabern, Junior Mance, Jay McShann, Don Menza, Sammy Price, Don Pullen, Frank Rosolino, Archie Shepp, Ralph Sutton, and Buddy Tate.[1]

Roster

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gardner, Mark; Kernfeld, Barney (2002). Kernfeld, Barry, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 3 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 486. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.
  2. 1 2 Gardner/Kernfeld, "Sackville". Grove Jazz online.
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