Stretch Records
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Stretch Records was established in 1997 by pianist/composer/producer Chick Corea
and music industry veteran Ron Moss.
The label claims to promote "music with no boundaries" though it has mostly released jazz music.
Corea is the main artistic director of the label which is marketed and distributed by Concord Records
.
Stretch Records has released albums by such artistes as Bob Berg
, Avishai Cohen, Eddie Gomez
, John Patitucci
, Bud Powell
(Stretch Archives), Wallace Roney
, and Dave Weckl
, among others.
Corea and Moss initially launched the label in 1992 with John Patitucci
's Heart of the Bass, (distributed by MCA) though there was no significant output until Stretch joined with Concord in February 1997.
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
and music industry veteran Ron Moss.
The label claims to promote "music with no boundaries" though it has mostly released jazz music.
Corea is the main artistic director of the label which is marketed and distributed by Concord Records
Concord Records
Concord Records is a U.S. record label now based in Beverly Hills, California. Originally known as Concord Jazz, it was established in 1972 as an off-shoot of the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California by festival founder Carl Jefferson, a local automobile dealer and jazz fan who sold his...
.
Stretch Records has released albums by such artistes as Bob Berg
Bob Berg
Bob Berg was a jazz saxophonist originally from Brooklyn, New York City. He started his musical education at the age of six when he began studying classical piano. He began playing the saxophone at the age of thirteen. Bob Berg was a Juilliard graduate influenced heavily by the late 1964–67 period...
, Avishai Cohen, Eddie Gomez
Eddie Gomez
Edgar "Eddie" Gómez is a Puerto Rican jazz double bassist born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, perhaps most notable for his work done with the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977.-Biography:...
, John Patitucci
John Patitucci
John Patitucci is an American Grammy-winning jazz double bass and jazz fusion electric bass player.-Biography:Patitucci is of Italian descent and was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he began playing the electric bass at age ten, composing and performing at age 12, as well as the acoustic bass at...
, Bud Powell
Bud Powell
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk...
(Stretch Archives), Wallace Roney
Wallace Roney
Wallace Roney is an American hard bop and post-bop trumpeter.Roney took lessons from Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie and studied with Miles Davis from 1985 until the latter's death in 1991...
, and Dave Weckl
Dave Weckl
Dave Weckl is a highly acclaimed jazz fusion drummer. Weckl attended Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, MO and graduated in 1978. He majored in jazz studies at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut...
, among others.
Corea and Moss initially launched the label in 1992 with John Patitucci
John Patitucci
John Patitucci is an American Grammy-winning jazz double bass and jazz fusion electric bass player.-Biography:Patitucci is of Italian descent and was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he began playing the electric bass at age ten, composing and performing at age 12, as well as the acoustic bass at...
's Heart of the Bass, (distributed by MCA) though there was no significant output until Stretch joined with Concord in February 1997.