Silkheart Records

Silkheart Records is a Swedish record company and label dedicated to improvised music and free jazz.

Silkheart Records
Founded	1985 (1985)
Founder	Lars-Olof Gustavsson Keith Knox
Genre	Jazz
Country of origin	Sweden
Location	Stockholm
Official website	www.silkheart.se

Lars-Olof Gustavsson and Keith Knox founded Silkheart in 1985. In 1991, Jimmy Johnson of Forced Exposure suggested that Silkheart "could easily be considered for the new ESP-Disk throne."^[1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz describes the four albums that Dennis González recorded for the label as "part of a determined effort to wrest creative initiative back from New York and the West Coast".^{[2]: 513–514} Charles Brackeen (whom Silkheart's management^[3] and González^{[2]: 513–514} had coaxed out of retirement) recorded three albums for Silkheart.^[2]: 159

Releases

• 101 Dennis González New Dallas Quartet – Stefan
• 102 Steve Lacy Sextet – The Gleam
• 103 Steve Lacy Quartet – One Fell Swoop
• 104 Ahmed Abdullah Quartet – Liquid Magic
• 105 Charles Brackeen Quartet – Bannar
• 106 Dennis González New Dallas Sextet – Namesake
• 107 Michael Bisio Quartet – In Seattle
• 108 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Ancestral Song
• 109 Ahmed Abdullah – Ahmed Abdullah and the Solomonic Quintet
• 110 Charles Brackeen Quartet – Attainment
• 111 Charles Brackeen Quartet – Worshippers Come Nigh
• 112 Dennis González New Dallasorleanssippi – Debenge – Debenge
• 113 David S. Ware Trio – Passage to Music
• 114 Booker T. Williams – Go Tell It on the Mountain
• 115 Charles Gayle Quartet – Always Born
• 116 Charles Gayle Trio – Homeless
• 117 Charles Gayle Trio – Spirits Before
• 118 Charles Tyler + Brus Trio – Autumn in Paris
• 119 William Hooker Quartet – Lifeline
• 120 Other Dimensions in Music – Other Dimensions In Music
• 121 Denis Charles Triangle – Queen Mary
• 122 Rob Brown Trio – Breath Rhyme
• 123 William Hooker Ensemble – The Firmament Fury
• 124 Dennis González New Dallas Angeles – The Desert Wind
• 125 Joel Futterman Quartet – Vision in Time
• 126 Roscoe Mitchell + Brus Trio – After Fallen Leaves
• 127 David S. Ware Quartet – Great Bliss, Vol. 1
• 128 David S. Ware Quartet – Great Bliss, Vol. 2
• 129 Matthew Shipp Quartet – Points
• 130 Various artists – Spirit of New Jazz
• 131 Joel Futterman Trio – Berlin Images
• 132 Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble – South Side Street Songs
• 133 Jim Hobbs Trio – Babadita
• 134 Charles Gayle Quartet – Translations
• 135 Hal Russell & Joel Futterman Quartet – Naked Colours
• 136 Jim Hobbs Fully Celebrated Orchestra – Peace & Pig Grease
• 137 Charles Gayle Quartet – Raining Fire
• 138 Bob Ackerman Trio – Old & New Magic
• 139 Roy Campbell Pyramid – Communion
• 140 Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble – Chicago Now Vol. 1
• 141 Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble – Chicago Now Vol. 2
• 142 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – 21st Century Union March
• 143 The Joel Futterman & Kidd Jordan Quintet – Nickelsdorf Konfrontation
• 144 Steve Lacy – 5 x Monk 5 x Lacy
• 145 David S. Ware Quartet – Oblations and Blessings
• 146 Andrew Cyrille – Richard Teitelbaum Duo – Double Clutch
• 147 William Hooker – Billy Bang Duo – Joy (Within)!
• 148 Assif Tsahar Trio – Ain Sof
• 149 AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark – Hidden in the Stomach
• 150 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Ka – Real
• 151 Borgmann / Morris / Charles Trio – The Last Concert – Dankeschön
• 152 Kidd Jordan Quartet – New Orleans Festival Suite
• 153 Heinz Geisser & Guerino Mazzola Duo – Folia / The Unam Concert
• 154 Heinz Geisser & Guerino Mazzola] Duo – Someday
• 155 Sirone Bang Ensemble – Configuration
• 156 Matt Lavelle Trio – Spiritual Power
• 157 Charles Gayle Quartet – Blue Shadows
• 158 Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor – Kaiso Stories

See also

• List of record labels
• Ayler Records, Sister label