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Okka Disk is an independent American jazz record company and label founded in Chicago by Bruno Johnson in 1994.
Okka began as a rock music label, but Johnson soon changed direction to record free jazz. Vintage Duets are the unreleased tapes recorded in 1980 by saxophonist Fred Anderson with drummer Steve McCall, and Caffeine, a trio featuring Chicago scene instigator Ken Vandermark. These were the albums that started the label. Okka Disk released many key early works by Ken Vandermark and was partly responsible for Fred Anderson's late-career renaissance.
The label also recorded European free jazz musicians such as Peter Brötzmann, documenting his transatlantic Chicago Octet and Tentet over ten albums. Since 2009, it organizes the Okka Fest, held in Milwaukee, where Johnson moved in 2002.




Releases


OD12001 Fred Anderson/Steve McCall – Vintage Duets
OD12002 Caffeine – Caffeine
OD12003 Marilyn Crispell/Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake – Destiny
OD12004 Peter Brötzmann/Hamid Drake– The Dried Rat–Dog
OD12005 Steelwool Trio – International Front
OD12006 Mats Gustafsson – Parrot Fish Eye
OD12007 Fred Anderson – Birdhouse
OD12008 Hamid Drake/Michael Zerang – Ask the Sun
OD120010 Mats Gustafsson/Barry Guy/Paul Lovens – Mouth Eating Trees and Related Activities
OD120012 DKV Trio – Baraka
OD120013 Peter Brötzmann/Mahmoud Gania/Hamid Drake – The Wels Concert
OD120014 Fred Anderson/ DKV Trio – Fred Anderson / DKV Trio
OD120016 Joe McPhee/Ken Vandermark/Kent Kessler – A Meeting in Chicago
OD120017 Evan Parker – Chicago Solo
OD120018 Anthony Braxton/Georg Gräwe – Duo (Amsterdam) 1991
OD120019 FJF – Blow Horn
OD120022 Peter Brötzmann – The Chicago Octet/Tentet
OD120023 Fred Anderson – Live at the Velvet Lounge
OD120024 Georg Gräwe – Melodie und Rhythmus
OD120025 Joe McPhee/Jeb Bishop – The Brass City
OD120027 Joe Morris/DKV Trio – Deep Telling
OD120028 Evan Parker/Georg Gräwe – Unity Variations
OD120029 Jeb Bishop – Jeb Bishop Trio
OD120030 DKV Trio – Live in Wels & Chicago, 1998
OD120032 Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet – Stone/Water
OD120033 Evan Parker/Joe McPhee – Chicago Tenor Duets
OD120034 Loos – Armstrong
OD120035 AALY Trio/DKV Trio – Double or Nothing
OD120036 Joe McPhee/Hamid Drake – Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom
OD120037 School Days – Crossing Divisions
OD120038 Kent Kessler – Bull Fiddle
OD120039 Jeb Bishop – Afternoons
OD120040 Territory Band 1 – Transatlantic Bridge
OD120041 School Days – In Our Times
OD120042 DKV Trio – Trigonometry
OD120043 Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 2 – Broken English
OD120044 Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 2 – Short Visit to Nowhere
OD120045 Triage – Twenty Minute Cliff
OD120046 Ken Vandermark – Furniture Music
OD120047 Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet – Images
OD120048 Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet – Signs
OD120049 Atomic/School Days– Nuclear Assembly Hall
OD120050 Territory Band 2 – Atlas
OD120051 FME – Underground
OD120052 Triage – American Mithology
OD120053 Sonore – No One Ever Works Alone
OD120056 Jim Baker/Steve Hunt/Brian Sandstrom/Mars Williams – Extraordinary Popular Delusions
OD120057 Jeb Bishop/Dave Rempis/Nate McBride/Tim Daisy – The Engines
OD120059 Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet – Be Music, Night
OD120060 Territory Band 3 – Map Theory
OD120061 FME – Cuts
OD120062 Peter Brötzmann/Joe McPhee/Kent Kessler/Michael Zerang – GUTS
OD120065 Ken Vandermark/Pandelis Karayorgis – Foreground Music
OD120067 Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet – American Landscapes 1
OD120068 Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet – American Landscapes 2
OD120070 Territory Band 4 – Company Switch
OD120071 FME – Montage
OD120072 Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet – At Molde 2007
OD120073 Atomic/School Days – DISTIL
OD120075 Ken Vandermark – Collecting Fiction
OD120076 Peter Brötzmann – Hairy Bones
OD120077 Artifact iTi – Live in St. Johann
OD120078 The Frame Quartet – 35 mm
OD120079 The Engines – Wire and Brass
OD120080 Territory Band 5 – New Horse for the White House
OD120083 Sonore – Call Before You Dig
OD120090 Territory Band 6 – Collide
OD99721 Ken Vandermark Topology Nonet – Impressions of PO Music
ODMAR001 The Margots – Pescado




Limited edition releases


ODL10001 DKV Trio - DKV Live
ODL10002 Günter Christmann / Mats Gustafsson - One to (Two)...
ODL10003 Hamid Drake / Mats Gustafsson - For Don Cherry
ODL10005 Peter Brötzmann / Hamid Drake / Kent Kessler - Live at the Empty Bottle
ODL10006 Peter Brötzmann / Hamid Drake / Fred Hopkins - The Atlanta Concert
ODL10007 FME - Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe
ODL10008 Dave Rempis / Tim Daisy - Back to the Circle
ODL10009 Paul Lytton / Ken Vandermark / Phil Wachsmann - CINC
ODL10010 Peter Brötzmann/ Sonny Sharrock - Fragments
ODL10011 Full Blast + Friends - Crumbling Brain




References


Kennedy, Gary W. (2001). "Okka Disk". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.‎




Notes






External links


Official site

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Okka Disk
• Okka
• Peter Brötzmann
• Ken Vandermark discography
• Okka Kshanam
• Anthony Braxton
• Evan Parker
• Jeb Bishop discography
• Joe McPhee
• Mahmoud Guinia