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Best Jazz Record Labels

By Michael Ricci
January 4, 2021
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We conducted three polls in 2020 with the goal of identifying the top jazz record labels, the top jazz cities, as well as who our readers would book at their "fantasy" jazz festival. Of the 8,500+ record labels listed in our database, the following received the most votes:

1
ECM Records
Gr?felfing, Germany
2
Blue Note Records
New York, NY
3
MoonJune Records
New York, NY
4
Impulse! Records
Santa Monica, CA
5
El Negocito Records
Ghent, Belgium
6
Clean Feed Records
Lisboa, Portugal
7
ACT Music
Munich, Germany
8
Nonesuch Records
New York, NY
9
RareNoiseRecords
London, United Kingdom
10
Verve Music Group
New York, NY
11
Edition Records
Cardiff, United Kingdom
12
Mack Avenue Records
Harper Woods, MI
13
Cuneiform Records
Washington, DC
14
Intakt Records
Zurich, Switzerland
15
Pi Recordings
New York, NY
16
Smoke Sessions Records
New York, NY
17
Concord Music Group
Beverly Hills, CA
18
Tzadik
New York, NY
19
Columbia Records
New York, NY
20
Prestige Records
Los Angeles, CA
21
Sunnyside Records
New York, NY
22
Resonance Records
Los Angeles, CA
23
Mot��ma Music
New York, NY
24
Criss Cross
Amsterdam, Netherlands
25
Atlantic Records
New York, NY
26
Ropeadope
Haddon Heights, NJ
27
Posi-Tone Records
Los Angeles, CA
28
Mosaic Records
Stamford, CT
29
Whirlwind Recordings
London, United Kingdom
30
International Anthem Recording Company
Chicago, IL
31
Firehouse 12 Records
New Haven, CT
32
HighNote Records
New York, NY
33
SteepleChase Records
Copenhagen, Denmark
34
AUM Fidelity
Brooklyn, NY
35
Rune Grammofon
Oslo, Norway
36
Astral Spirits
Austin, TX
37
Riverside
Los Angeles, CA
38
Origin Records
Seattle, WA
39
Fresh Sound Records
Barcelona, Spain
40
Hubro Music
Oslo, Norway
41
Abstract Logix
Cary, NC
42
Greenleaf Music
New York, NY
43
Enja Records
Munich, Germany
44
Sony Music
New York, NY
45
Hat Hut Records
Basel, Switzerland
46
NoBusiness Records
Vilnius, Lithuania
47
Cellar Live
Burnaby, Canada
48
DGM Live
Beverly Hills, CA
49
TUM Records
Helsinki, Finland
50
Okeh
New York, NY

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