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Pi Recordings is a
jazz record label founded by Seth Rosner in 2001.
[1] He was soon joined as partner by Yulun Wang.
[1] Pi specializes in
avant-garde jazz .
[1] Its first two albums were by Henry Threadgill.
[1]
Pi's roster includes
Amir ElSaffar ,
Anthony Braxton ,
Corey Wilkes ,
James Blood Ulmer ,
Leroy Jenkins ,
Liberty Ellman ,
Marc Ribot ,
Muhal Richard Abrams ,
Roscoe Mitchell ,
Rudresh Mahanthappa ,
Steve Lehman ,
Art Ensemble of Chicago ,
Steve Coleman ,
Vijay Iyer , and
Wadada Leo Smith .
[2]
In its first twenty years, Pi released fewer than a hundred recordings.
[1] In 2021,
DownBeat wrote that "Pi releases rigorous, pathbreaking music that stretches the boundaries of jazz while honoring its history."
[1]
Discography
Main series
Everybodys Mouth's a Book (2001) –
Henry Threadgill
Up Popped the Two Lips (2001) –
Henry Threadgill
Song for My Sister (2002) –
Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory
The Year of the Elephant (2002) –
Wadada Leo Smith 's Golden Quartet
Your Life Flashes (2002) – Fieldwork (
Vijay Iyer ,
Elliot Humberto Kavee ,
Aaron Stewart )
Organic Resonance (2003) –
Wadada Leo Smith &
Anthony Braxton
The Meeting (2003) –
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Tactiles (2003) –
Liberty Ellman
In What Language? (2003) –
Vijay Iyer &
Mike Ladd
Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace (2004) –
Wadada Leo Smith &
Anthony Braxton
Sirius Calling (2004) –
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Juncture (2004) – Various Artists
And Now... (2004) –
Revolutionary Ensemble
Mother Tongue (2004) –
Rudresh Mahanthappa
Spiritual Unity (2005) –
Marc Ribot
Simulated Progress (2005) – Fieldwork (
Vijay Iyer ,
Steve Lehman ,
Elliot Humberto Kavee )
Demian as Posthuman (2005) –
Steve Lehman
Back in Time (2005) –
James Blood Ulmer
Ophiuchus Butterfly (2006) –
Liberty Ellman
Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City (2006) –
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Codebook (2006) –
Rudresh Mahanthappa
Streaming (2006) –
Muhal Richard Abrams ,
George E. Lewis &
Roscoe Mitchell
Vision Towards Essence (2007) –
Muhal Richard Abrams
Two Rivers (2007) –
Amir ElSaffar
On Meaning (2007) – Steve Lehman
Door (2008) – Fieldwork (
Vijay Iyer ,
Steve Lehman ,
Tyshawn Sorey )
Party Intellectuals (2008) –
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog
Kinsmen (2008) –
Rudresh Mahanthappa
Cries from tha Ghetto (2009) – Corey Wilkes
Travail Transformation and Flow (2009) –
Steve Lehman
This Brings Us to Volume 1 (2009) –
Henry Threadgill Zooid
Radif Suite (2010) –
Amir ElSaffar &
Hafez Modirzadeh
Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (2010) –
Steve Coleman and Five Elements
Silent Movies (2010) –
Marc Ribot
Apex (2010) –
Rudresh Mahanthappa &
Bunky Green
This Brings Us to Volume 2 (2010) –
Henry Threadgill Zooid
SoundDance (2011) –
Muhal Richard Abrams with
Fred Anderson and
George E. Lewis
The Mancy of Sound (2011) –
Steve Coleman and Five Elements
Synastry (2011) –
Jen Shyu &
Mark Dresser
Oblique–1 (2011) –
Tyshawn Sorey
Inana (2011) –
Amir ElSaffar
Dialect Fluorescent (2012) –
Steve Lehman Trio
Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp (2012) –
Henry Threadgill Zooid
Post–Chromodal Out! (2012) – Hafez Modirzadeh
Reunion: Live in New York (2012) –
Sam Rivers Trio
Continuum (2012) –
David Virelles
Functional Arrhythmias (2013) –
Steve Coleman and Five Elements
Moment and the Message (2013) – Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defence
Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project (2013) –
Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd
Fiction (2013) –
Matt Mitchell
Alchemy (2013) –
Amir ElSaffar
Fourteen (2014) –
Dan Weiss
Live at the Village Vanguard (2014) – Marc Ribot Trio
Mise en Abîme (2014) –
Steve Lehman Octet
In Convergence Liberation (2014) – Hafez Modirzadeh,
ETHEL
Alloy (2014) –
Tyshawn Sorey
Synovial Joints (2015) –
Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance
In for a Penny, In for a Pound (2015) – Henry Threadgill's Zooid
Crisis (2015) –
Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble
Radiate (2015) –
Liberty Ellman
Sounds and Cries of the World (2015) –
Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue
Vista Accumulation (2015) –
Matt Mitchell
Sixteen: Drummers Suite (2016) – Dan Weiss
Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (2016) –
Henry Threadgill
The Inner Spectrum of Variables (2016) –
Tyshawn Sorey
Sélébéyone (2016) –
Steve Lehman
Moving Still (2016) – Jonathan Finlayson
Trickster (2017) –
Miles Okazaki
Morphogenesis (2017) –
Steve Coleman 's Natal Eclipse
Verisimilitude (2017) –
Tyshawn Sorey
A Pouting Grimace (2017) – Matt Mitchell
Song of Silver Geese (2017) – Jen Shyu
Dirt… And More Dirt (2018) – Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg
Starebaby (2018) – Dan Weiss
Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus (2018) – Henry Threadgill
Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (The Embedded Sets) (2018) – Steve Coleman and Five Elements
3 Times Round (2018) – Jonathan Finlayson
Igbó Alákọrin (The Singer’s Grove) Vol. I & II (2018) – David Virelles
Clockwise (2019) –
Anna Webber
We Are On The Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration (2019) – Art Ensemble of Chicago
Phalanx Ambassadors (2019) – Matt Mitchell
The People I Love (2019) – Steve Lehman
The Adornment of Time (2019) – Tyshawn Sorey &
Marilyn Crispell
The Sky Below (2019) – Miles Okazaki
Last Desert (2020) – Liberty Ellman
Natural Selection (2020) – Dan Weiss
Reissues
See also
References
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f Freeman, Phil (June 2021). "Pi Recordings @ 20". DownBeat . Vol. 88, no. 6. p. 18.
^ Rosner, Seth; Wang, Yulan.
"About Pi Recordings" . Pi Recordings . Retrieved 18 November 2016 .
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