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Origin RecordsOrigin Records

8649 Island Drive South
Seattle, WA 98118
206-781-2589
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We are a Seattle-based jazz label, run for musicians by musicians. Our fundamental goals are simple: to provide a home for our artists' ongoing work as their careers and musical voices evolve, and to introduce our audience to new and refreshingly unexpected music while maintaining an uncompromised artistic quality. Celebrating our 25th year in 2022, we release two to three dozen new records a year and represent over 350 artists on 725 albums across the Origin, OA2, Origin Classical, and Origin World labels.

Our main focus lies in the collaborative efforts of the many artists we partner with. Teaming with inspired artistic communities from around the world, our artists have a hand in curation as their fellow musicians learn of the labels and see it as a possible home for their own musical statements. The result is a wide-ranging catalog, with music from some of the great large ensemble composers, to the creative improvised music of the “Zurich Series,” to the array of “modern mainstream” projects which define the core of the catalog's sound. Works from vital veterans of the music such as Hal Galper, Don Lanphere, Jessica Williams, Benny Powell and Hadley Caliman, or from active, pivotal performers of the last 30 years such as Nnenna Freelon, New York Voices, Joe Locke, Bobby Broom, Rodney Whitaker, Sam Yahel, & George Colligan, all whose recordings reflect decades of collaborations and provide a grounding and perspective for the younger artists we will partner with into the future.

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Year established: 1997

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Back Burner

Martin Budde
published: March 16, 2024 | views: 1,002

This Light Has No Darkness, Volume 1

David Friesen
published: February 14, 2024 | views: 2,263

Equilibrio

Gabriel Guerrero & Quantum
published: February 02, 2024 | views: 1,070

Improbable Solutions

Bill Anschell
published: January 09, 2024 | views: 2,581

Improbable Solutions

Bill Anschell
published: December 31, 2023 | views: 3,532

Hindsight

Affinity Trio
published: November 27, 2023 | views: 3,939

Antwerp

John Bishop / Bram Weijters / Piet Verbist
published: October 25, 2023 | views: 3,957

What Place Can Be for Us? - A Suite in Ten Movements

Anthony Branker & Imagine
published: October 09, 2023 | views: 2,162

Caught in the Rhythm

Benjamin Boone
published: September 28, 2023 | views: 3,758

Grooveyard

John La Barbera Big Band
published: September 27, 2023 | views: 3,673

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Red

From the album Back Burner
Martin Budde
February 27, 2024 | Listens: 849

Motivation

From the album This Light Has No Darkness, Volume 1
David Friesen
February 6, 2024 | Listens: 2,467

Persistence of Memory

From the album The Magician: Live in Jerusalem
Alon Farber
February 5, 2024 | Listens: 1,657

Somewhere

From the album Bernstein in Vienna
Peter Erskine
January 15, 2024 | Listens: 1,239

Ambulator

From the album Improbable Solutions
Bill Anschell
January 9, 2024 | Listens: 3,286

Rücksichtslos

From the album Antwerp
John Bishop
October 24, 2023 | Listens: 3,308

Haflat Zifaf

From the album Live at LunÀtico
Arthur Kell
October 22, 2023 | Listens: 1,714

Present Moment

From the album Equilibrio
Gabriel Guerrero
October 21, 2023 | Listens: 1,569

Open Windows

From the album Hindsight
Eric Jacobson
October 4, 2023 | Listens: 1,659

Ropa Vieja

From the album While We Have Time
Maddie Vogler
September 8, 2023 | Listens: 1,967

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