Leo Records

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Leo Records
File:Leo Records logo.jpg
Founded1979 (1979)
FounderLeo Feigin
GenreJazz
Country of originUK
LocationLondon, England
Official websiteleorecordsmusic.com

Leo Records is a British record company and label, founded in 1979, which releases jazz from Russian, American and British musicians. It concentrates on free jazz.[1] This label is different from the Leo Records that was formed by Edward Vesala in Helsinki, Finland, in 1978.[1]

History

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Leo Records was founded in 1979 by Leo Feigin (also known under his broadcasting name Aleksei Leonidov), a Russian immigrant to Britain.[2] The label was particularly associated with establishing the world reputation of the Ganelin Trio during the 1970s and 1980s.[3]

In its first ten years, releases from Leo included albums by musicians from the Soviet Union such as Sergey Kuryokhin, Sainkho Namtchylak and Valentina Ponomaryova.[4] By the end of 1986, Leo had released more than 20 albums by musicians from Communist countries, including the Soviet Union.[5] In 1987, a DownBeat reviewer commented that Leo had been "the main conduit for the Soviet avant garde's recorded output anywhere, East or West."[6] Leo's promotion of Soviet jazz musicians helped secure concerts for some of them spread over a week at the 1989 Zurich jazz festival; recordings from the concerts were released as Conspiracy: Soviet Jazz Festival, Zurich 1989.[7]

By the mid-1990s, Leo had introduced the Leo Lab series, "as an imprint for emerging and unknown artists".[8] Leo has released more than 50 recordings by saxophonist Ivo Perelman.[9]

By 2019, Feigin had ceased being actively involved in production, instead concentrating on "handling administrative tasks while the musicians themselves record and design artwork."[4] In 2024, he reached an agreement with Phil Freeman, a writer and owner of a record label, to make some of Leo's back catalogue available via Bandcamp.[10][11]

Noted artists

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References

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Further reading

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  • Leo Feigin. all that jazz Sankt Petersburg: АМФОРА, 2009 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
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