Nessa Records is an American jazz record label founded in Chicago in 1967 by producer Chuck Nessa.
After working at Delmark Records for a year, Nessa started the label at the urging of Roscoe Mitchell and Lester Bowie. The first album was released under Bowie’s name because Mitchell was under contract to Delmark.[1] Since the mid 80’s the label has been based in Whitehall, Michigan.[2][3]
Discography
- n-1 Lester Bowie – Numbers 1 & 2 (available in Art Ensemble Box – ncd-2500 and reissued complete as ncd-31/32)
- n-2 Roscoe Mitchell – Congliptious (available in Art Ensemble Box – ncd-2500 and reissued complete as ncd-2)
- n-3 Art Ensemble of Chicago – People in Sorrow
- n-4 Art Ensemble of Chicago – Les Stances a Sophie
- n-5 Roscoe Mitchell – Old/Quartet (available in Art Ensemble Box – ncd-2500)
- n-6 Von Freeman – Have No Fear (available as ncd-6 with 1 extra track)
- n-7 Warne Marsh – All Music (available as ncd-7 w/7 bonus tracks)
- n-8 Ben Webster – Did You Call? (rights have reverted to Ensayo-Spain)
- n-9/10 Roscoe Mitchell – Nonaah (available as ncd-9/10 w/5 bonus tracks)
- n-11 Von Freeman – Serenade & Blues (available as ncd-11 w/extra track)
- n-12 Air – Air Time (available as ncd-12)
- n-13 Lucky Thompson – Body & Soul (rights have reverted to Ensayo – Spain)
- n-14/15 Roscoe Mitchell – L-R-G / The Maze / S II Examples (available as ncd-14)
- n-16 Charles Tyler– Saga of the Outlaws (available as ncd-16)
- n-17/18 Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Bobby Bradford, John Stevens – Live Vols. 1 & 2 (available as ncd-17/18)
- n-19 Wadada Leo Smith – Spirit Catcher (available as ncd-19 w/extra track)
- n-20 Roscoe Mitchell – Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin’ Shoes (available as ncd-20 HDCD encoded)
- n-21 Hal Russell – NRG Ensemble
- n-22 Eddie Johnson – Indian Summer (available on lp only)
- n-23 Fred Anderson – The Missing Link (available as ncd-23 w/extra track)
- n-24 Hal Russell/Mars Williams– Eftsoons (available on lp only)
- n-25 Hal Russell NRG Ensemble with Charles Tyler – Generation (CD)
- ncd-26 Wadada Leo Smith – Procession of the Great Ancestry (CD)
- ncd-27/28 Roscoe Mitchell – Old/Quartet Sessions
- ncd-29 Art Ensemble – Early Combinations (CD)
- ncd-30 Von Freeman – Vonski Speaks (CD)
- ncd-31/32 Lester Bowie – All the Numbers (expanded reissue of n-1)
- ncd-33 Anthony Braxton & John McDonough – 6 Duos (Wesleyan) 2006
- ncd-34 Roscoe Mitchell – Before There Was Sound (CD)
- ncd-35 Ira Sullivan – Circumstantial (CD)
- ncd-36 Bobby Bradford / Frode Gjerstad Quartet – Silver Cornet (CD)
- ncd-37 Roscoe Mitchell Quartet – Celebrating Fred Anderson (CD)
- ncd-38 Roscoe Mitchell With Yuganaut – Four Ways
- ncd-39 Nick Mazzarella & Tomeka Reid – Signaling
- ncd-40 Roscoe Mitchell – Ride the Wind
References
- ^ Chuck Nessa interview at Delmark Records
- ^ Allaboutjazz Archived 2012-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ “About”. Nessa Records. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
