Parent company 32 Jazz Genre Jazz Location New York City Founder Joe Fields Defunct 1997 | Status Inactive Country of origin U.S. Parent organization 32 Records Founded 1972 | |
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Artists Houston Person, Pat Martino, Woody Shaw, Sonny Stitt, Charles Earland Albums Consciousness, Epistrophy & Now's the Time, Fast Last!, The Free Slave, This Bud’s for You… | ||
Art of the mix sound of the muse records
Muse Records was a jazz record company and label founded in New York City by Joe Fields in 1972.
Fields worked as an executive for Prestige Records in the 1960s. Several of the albums were previously released on Cobblestone Records. Muse also had another label, Onyx Records, which operated until 1978, when Fields and collaborator Don Schlitten ended their professional relationship.
In the late 1970s, Muse partnered with the Dutch Timeless Records to distribute Timeless Muse.
Muse was sold in 1996 to 32 Jazz, which repackaged and reissued a large amount of Muse recordings. In 2003, Savoy Jazz (which had become a subsidiary of Nippon Columbia) acquired the rights to the Muse catalog (along with that of Landmark) from 32 Jazz.
Fields later founded HighNote Records and Savant Records; many Muse artists later recorded for these labels as well.