Arabesque Records

Arabesque Records is an American classical and jazz record label.

Arabesque began as a classical music subsidiary of the Caedmon company. In 1988, Marvin Reiss and Ward Botsford bought the company, turning it into an independent record label, and continued releasing classical until 1992, when it switched to jazz under Daniel Chriss's supervision. The label began recording classical music again under the Arabesque Recordings imprint in the 1990s. They are based in New York.

Discography

Jazz

Catalogue No: AJO	Artist	Album
101	Handy, Craig	Split Second Timing
102	Lundy, Carmen	Moment to Moment
103	8 Bold Souls	Sideshow
104	Braga, Leandro	E Por Que Nao? (And Why Not?)
105	Hart, Billy	Amethyst
106	Drummond, Ray	Excursion
107	Bloom, Jane Ira	Art and Aviation
108	String Trio of New York	Intermobility
109	Handy, Craig	Introducing Three for All + One
110	Chapin, Thomas	I've Got Your Number
111	Drummond, Ray	Continuum
112	Farmer, Art & Tom Harrell	The Company I Keep
113	McPherson, Charles	First Flight Out
114	8 Bold Souls	Ant Farm
115	Chapin, Thomas	You Don't Know Me
116	Finnerty, Barry	Straight Ahead
117	McPherson, Charles	Come Play With Me
118	Farmer, Art	The Meaning of Art
119	Tapscott, Horace	Aiee! The Phantom
120	Bloom, Jane Ira	The Nearness
121	Sullivan, Charles	Kamau
122	Drummond, Ray	Vignettes
123	Wilson, Bert	Endless Fingers
124	Foster, Frank	Leo Rising
125	Cary, Marc	Listen
126	Douglas, Dave	Tiny Bell Trio: Live in Europe
127	Jordan, Marlon	Marlon's Mode
128	Tapscott, Horace	Thoughts of Dar es Salaam
129	Hart, Billy	Oceans of Time
130	Farmer, Art	Silk Road
131	Monder, Ben	Dust
132	Douglas, Dave	Stargazer
133	Lost Tribe	Many Lifetimes
134	McPherson, Charles	Manhattan Nocturne
135	Wilkins, Jack	Trio Art
136	Wilson, Adrienne	She's Dangerous
137	Robinson, Justin	The Challenge
138	Zimmerli, Patrick	Twelve Sacred Dances
139	Douglas, Dave	Magic Triangle
140	Cary, Marc	The Antidote
141	Drummond, Ray	1-2-3-4
142	Melford, Myra	Above Blue
143	Hedman, Norman	One Step Closer
144	Bloom, Jane Ira	The Red Quartets
145	Douglas, Dave	Leap Of Faith
146	Nash, Ted	Rhyme & Reason
147	Melford, Myra	Dance Beyond the Color
148	Monder, Ben	Excavation
149	Sanabria, Bobby	Live & In Clave!!
150
151	McCaslin, Donny	Seen from Above
152	Colley, Scott	The Magic Line
153	Malaby, Tony	Sabino
154	Melford, Myra & Marty Ehrlich	Yet Can Spring
155	Bloom, Jane Ira	Sometimes the Magic
156	Nash, Ted	Sidewalk Meeting
157	Ruiz, Hilton	Enchantment
158	Bloom, Jane Ira	Chasing Paint
159	Melford, Myra	Where the Two Worlds Touch
160	McCaslin, Donny	The Way Through
161
162
163
164	O'Gallagher, John	Abacus
165
166	Abbasi, Rez	Snake Charmer
180	Wiest, Steve, Big Band	Excalibur
189	Wiest, Steve	Out of the New

Classical (early issues)

• Schubert and Schnabel – An Historical Recording, Volume IV., Therese Behr (1987)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sir Yehudi Menuhin Conducting the English Chamber Orchestra (1988)
• The Complete Chopin Piano Works – Garrick Ohlsson, piano (1989)
• Music of Alkan – Ronald Smith, piano (1985)
• The Complete Piano Variations of Johannes Brahms – Ian Hobson, piano (1994)
• George Gershwin: An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F – London Symphony Orchestra, Mitch Miller, conductor, David Golub, piano (1992)
• Mozart: Complete Works for Four Hands – Artur Balsam & Gena Raps, piano (1995)
• Richard Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica; 4 Orchestral Songs – Wilhelm Furtwängler, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1989)

Classical (later issues)

• Encore Rossini, Rockwell Blake
• Inner Cities (2003), Alvin Curran, Bruce Brubaker, piano
• Chopin: 24 Etudes, op.10 and op.25, Matthew Cameron, piano (2015)
• Schumann: Liederkreis (Kerner Lieder; Lenau Lieder and Requiem; Eichendorff Liederkreis), Sergey Schepkin with Darren Chase, baritone (2013)
• Quynh Nguyen plays Schubert, Chopin (2004)
• Matthew Cameron plays Romantic Favorites for Piano (2012)
• Forgotten Americans Z6823, includes: "A Life," Ernst Bacon, Joel Krosnick, cello and Gilbert Kalish, piano.
• La fedeltà premiata, Haydn, Z6751-3 (1999)
• Schumann: Song Cycles Op. 24, 42 & 48 – Leon Fleisher, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, John Shirly-Quirk (2009)
• Franz Schubert: String Quartets – Guarneri String Quartet, (2009)

See Also

List of Record Labels

Further reading

• S. Gribetz, "Label Watch: Arabesque's Dual Personality". Jazz Times vol. 22, no. 9 (1992), p. 24.

External links

• Arabesque Records website