HighNote Records

HighNote Records
Founded1997 (1997)
FounderBarney Fields
Joe Fields
GenreJazz
Country of originUnited States
LocationNew York City
Official websitewww.jazzdepot.com

HighNote Records is a jazz record company and label founded by Joe Fields with his son, Barney Fields, in 1997.

Joe Fields worked for Prestige Records in the 1960s, and in the 1970s founded Muse Records. After he sold Muse, he started the HighNote and Savant labels with his son, Barney. Many of the artists on HighNote previously recorded for Muse.[1]

The catalogue includes Cindy Blackman, Larry Coryell, Joey DeFrancesco, Charles Earland, Russell Gunn, Etta Jones, Sheila Jordan, Houston Person, and Jimmy Ponder.[2]

  1. ^ Sunderland, Celeste (October 28, 2003). "HighNote/Savant Records". www.allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
  2. ^ Kennedy, Gary (2002). Kernfeld, Barry (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 237. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.

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