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Novus Records (later Arista Novus and RCA Novus was a United States jazz and contemporary jazz record label. It was an Arista Records imprint focused on then-contemporary jazz artists. During the 1980s it became an imprint of RCA Records.
Artists who released material on the later incarnation, RCA Novus, include Air, Chet Baker, Nina Simone, Roy Hargrove, Marcus Roberts, Warren Bernhardt, Hugh Masekela, Liz Story, Michael Shrieve, Elements, John Pizzarelli, Steve Coleman, Henry Threadgill and Opafire featuring Zachary Norman E.
The catalog is now managed by Sony Masterworks through its Masterworks Jazz imprint.
Discography
3000-N (RCA) series
- 3000 Muhal Richard Abrams - Lifea Blinec
- 3001 Warren Bernhardt - Solo Piano
- 3002 Air - Open Air Suit
- 3003 Oliver Lake - Life Dance Of Is
- 3004 Baird Hersey - Looking For That Groove
- 3005 Larry Coryell - European Impressions
- 3006 Ran Blake - Rapport
- 3007 Muhal Richard Abrams - Spiral Live at Montreux 1978
- 3008 Air - Montreux Suisse
- 3009 Mike Mainieri & Warren Bernhardt - Free Smiles
- 3010 Oliver Lake - Shine
- 3011 Warren Bernhardt - Floating
- 3012 Michael Gregory - Gifts
- 3013 Henry Threadgill - X-75 Volume 1
- 3014 Air - Air Lore
- 3015 Michael Gregory - Heart And Center
- 3016 Baird Hersey - Have You Heard?
- 3017 Larry Coryell - Tributaries
- 3018 John Scofield - Who's Who?
- 3019 Ran Blake - Film Noir
- 3020 Warren Bernhardt - Manhattan Update
- 3021 Pharoah Sanders & Norman Connors - Beyond A Dream
- 3022 John Scofield - Bar Talk
- 3023 Steve Khan - Evidence
- 3024 Larry Coryell - Standing Ovation
- 3032 Michael Shrieve & Steve Roach - The Leaving Time
- 3084 Opafire - Opafire featuring Zachary Norman E.
- 3176 Opafire - Without a Trace
External links
- Discogs, http://www.discogs.com/label/Arista+Novus
- Discogs, http://www.discogs.com/label/Novus (some albums are erroneously filed there, such as "AN 3007 - Muhal Richard Abrams - Spiral: Live At Montreux 1978")
- Jazz Discography, http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Labels/novus.htm
- Robert Christgau, http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_label.php?id=1723&name=Arista+Novus
Categories:- American record labels
- Jazz record labels
- Defunct record labels
- Novus Records albums
- Novus Records artists
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