Jazzman Records
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Jazzman Records is a record label
Record label
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 founded by London
London
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 DJ Gerald Short in 1998
1998 in music
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, specialising in re-releasing hard-to-find jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 and soul
Soul music
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 vinyl records. It also has several sublabels, namely FUNK45, SOUL7, Stark Reality, Soul Spectrum, Fryers and Jukebox Jam.

Jazzman Records is distributed in the UK by PIAS, Boombox, in Germany/Switzerland/Austria by Groove Attack, in Japan by P-Vine and in the US by Groove Distribution.

Jazzman has released over 100 vinyl singles and 29 albums on CD and LP such as:
  • Texas Funk: Black Gold from the Lone Star State, 1968-1975 (2004)
  • Midwest Funk: Funk 45s from Tornado Alley (2005)
  • Florida Funk: Funk 45s from the Alligator State, 1968-1975 (2007)
  • Carolina Funk: First in Funk (2008)
  • Spiritual Jazz (2008)
  • The Best of Nathan Davis (2009)
  • Lloyd Miller - A Lifetime in Oriental Jazz (2009)

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