Eremite Records

Eremite Records
Founded	1985
Founder	Michael Ehlers
Genre	Jazz
Country of origin	United States
Location	Northampton, Massachusetts
Official website	www.eremite.com

Eremite Records is an independent American jazz record label founded in 1995 by Michael Ehlers with early involvement from music writer Byron Coley. After college, Ehlers started producing some concerts around Amherst, Massachusetts and Eremite evolved from that. The label name came from an alternate title for the Thelonious Monk tune "Reflections": "Portrait of an Eremite". The logo is an image of Joe McPhee playing soprano saxophone.^[1] Eremite organized a concerts series in Western Massachusetts that continued until 2008 & produced nearly 100 concerts, including five Fire in the Valley festivals.

The first four Eremite releases were diverse adventurous new music, but then Ehlers started focusing on free jazz, working with neglected and underrecorded survivors of the 1960s and 1970s free jazz scene: drummers Sunny Murray and Denis Charles, saxophonists Sabir Mateen and Jemeel Moondoc, trumpeter Raphe Malik, bassists Alan Silva and William Parker.^[1]

Releases[]

• MTE-01 Jemeel Moondoc - Tri-P-Let
• MTE-02 Ellery Eskelin & Andrea Parkins - Green Bermudas
• MTE-03 Gregg Bendian - Interzone
• MTE-04 Assif Tsahar - Shekina
• MTE-05 Raphe Malik - The Short Form
• MTE-06 Christopher Cauley - FINland
• MTE-07 Tom Bruno & Sabir Mateen - Getting Away with Murder
• MTE-08 Jemeel Moondoc - Fire in the Valley
• MTE-09 Denis Charles - Captain of the Deep
• MTE-10 Trio Hurricane - Live at Fire in the Valley
• MTE-11 Sabir Mateen - Divine Mad Love
• MTE-12 William Parker - Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace
• MTE-13 Raphe Malik - ConSequences
• MTE-14 Sunny Murray with Sabir Mateen - We Are Not at the Opera
• MTE-15 Glenn Spearman - First & Last
• MTE-16 Malcolm Goldstein - Live at Fire in the Valley
• MTE-17 Alan Silva & William Parker - A Hero's Welcome: Pieces For Rare Occasions
• MTE-18 Peter Brötzmann Die Like a Dog Quartet - From Valley to Valley
• MTE-19 Noah Howard - Patterns/Message To South Africa
• MTE-20 Jemeel Moondoc & William Parker - New World Pygmies
• MTE-21 Test - Live/Test
• MTE-22 Tom Bruno - White Boy Blues
• MTE-23/24 Fred Anderson Hamid Drake, Kidd Jordan, William Parker - 2 Days in April
• MTE-25 Marco Eneidi, William Parker, Donald Robinson - Cherry Box
• MTE-26 Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra - Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra
• MTE-27 Alan Silva & Oluyemi Thomas - Transmissions
• MTE-28 Jemeel Moondoc - Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys
• MTE-29 Jemeel Moondoc and the Jus Grew Orchestra - Spirit House
• MTE-30/31 Jemeel Moondoc & William Parker with Hamid Drake - New World Pygmies vol. 2
• MTE-32/33 William Parker Clarinet Trio - Bob's Pink Cadillac
• MTE-34 Raphe Malik - Companions
• MTE-35 Hamid Drake & Sabir Mateen - Brothers Together
• MTE-36 William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra - Raincoat in the River
• MTE-37/38 Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, William Parker - Never Too Late But Always Too Early
• MTE-39/40/41/42 Alan Silva - H.Con.Res.57/Treasure Box
• MTE-43 Jemeel Moondoc with Denis Charles - We Don't
• MTE-44 Marshall Allen, Hamid Drake, Kidd Jordan, William Parker - The All-Star Game
• MTE-45 Sunny Murray - Perles Noires vol. 1
• MTE-46 Sunny Murray - Perles Noires vol. 2
• MTE-47/48 Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake, William Parker - Blue Winter
• MTE-49 John Blum - John Blum Astrogeny Quartet
• MTE-50 Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble - Drumdance to the Motherland
• MTE-61 Joshua Abrams - Natural Information
• MTE-62 Joshua Abrams - Represencing
• MTE-63/64 Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception
• MTE-65 Jeff Parker (musician) - Slight Freedom
• MTE-67 Joshua Abrams - Music for Life Itself & The Interrupters
• MTE-68 Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Simultonality

References[]

External links[]

• Official site