- Sonet Records
Sonet Records is a
jazz record company founded inSweden in 1956.Sonet Records was established by
Sven Lindholm andGunnar Bergström , who managed the label into the 1980s. Dag Haeggqvist, the owner ofGazell Records , became an executive of the label in 1960, and Sonet eventually acquired Gazell's catalogue. The label set up offices throughout Europe and expanded into film, video, and other visual arts in addition to music. It acquired the Danish labelStoryville Records at some point. The label released both new material and reissues, many byScandinavia n artists in addition to albums by American jazz musicians and some non-jazz material such as pop and rock music. It was distributed byPickwick Records inNorth America in the 1960s, where it was involved in releasing some ofBill Haley 's latter-day material, among other things.Artists who have released material on Sonet Records
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Alrune Rod
*Svend Asmussen
*Bob Brookmeyer
*Al Cohn
*Arne Domnerus
*Rolf Ericson
*Lars Gullin
*Bill Haley
*Bengt Hallberg
*Komeda
*New York Contemporary Five
*Karin Krog
*Archie Shepp
*Zoot Sims
*Joey Tempest
*Toots Thielemans References
*Erik Kjellberg, "Sonet". "The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz".
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