NPR has an interesting piece on this topic.
Yesterday, NPR’s All Songs Considered posed the question: do record labels matter? For the fearsome foursome of Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, Carrie Brownstein and Stephen Thompson, indie rock labels like Kill Rock Stars and Sub Pop dominated the discussion. Manfred Eicher‘s ECM label was also mentioned. The proclivity toward the indie is telling, and more and more, the same case can be made for jazz.
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