Eremite Records

Eremite Records is an independent American jazz record label founded in 1995 by Michael Ehlers with early involvement from music writer Byron Coley. After college, Ehlers started producing some concerts around Amherst, Massachusetts and Eremite evolved from that. The label name came from an alternate title for the Thelonious Monk tune "Reflections": "Portrait of an Eremite". The logo is an image of an unknown man playing soprano saxophone. Eremite organized a concerts series in Western Massachusetts that continued until 2008 & produced nearly 100 concerts, including five Fire in the Valley festivals.

The first four Eremite releases were diverse adventurous new music, but then Ehlers started focusing on free jazz, working with neglected and underrecorded survivors of the 1960s and 1970s free jazz scene: drummers Sunny Murray and Denis Charles, saxophonists Sabir Mateen and Jemeel Moondoc, trumpeter Raphe Malik, bassists Alan Silva and William Parker.

Releases
 MTE-01	Jemeel Moondoc - Tri-P-Let
 MTE-02 	Ellery Eskelin & Andrea Parkins - Green Bermudas
 MTE-03	Gregg Bendian - Interzone
 MTE-04 	Assif Tsahar - Shekina
 MTE-05	Raphe Malik - The Short Form
 MTE-06 	Christopher Cauley - FINland
 MTE-07	Tom Bruno & Sabir Mateen - Getting Away with Murder
 MTE-08 	Jemeel Moondoc - Fire in the Valley
 MTE-09	Denis Charles - Captain of the Deep
 MTE-10 	Trio Hurricane - Live at Fire in the Valley
 MTE-11	Sabir Mateen - Divine Mad Love
 MTE-12 	William Parker - Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace
 MTE-13	Raphe Malik - ConSequences
 MTE-14 	Sunny Murray with Sabir Mateen - We Are Not at the Opera
 MTE-15	Glenn Spearman - First & Last
 MTE-16 	Malcolm Goldstein - Live at Fire in the Valley
 MTE-17	Alan Silva & William Parker - A Hero's Welcome: Pieces For Rare Occasions
 MTE-18 	Peter Brötzmann Die Like a Dog Quartet - From Valley to Valley
 MTE-19	Noah Howard - Patterns/Message To South Africa
 MTE-20 	Jemeel Moondoc & William Parker  - New World Pygmies
 MTE-21	Test - Live/Test
 MTE-22 	Tom Bruno - White Boy Blues
 MTE-23/24 Fred Anderson Hamid Drake, Kidd Jordan, William Parker - 2 Days in April
 MTE-25	Marco Eneidi, William Parker, Donald Robinson - Cherry Box
 MTE-26 	Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra - Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra
 MTE-27	Alan Silva & Oluyemi Thomas - Transmissions
 MTE-28 	Jemeel Moondoc - Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys
 MTE-29	Jemeel Moondoc and the Jus Grew Orchestra - Spirit House
 MTE-30/31 Jemeel Moondoc & William Parker with Hamid Drake - New World Pygmies vol. 2
 MTE-32/33 William Parker Clarinet Trio - Bob's Pink Cadillac
 MTE-34	Raphe Malik - Companions
 MTE-35	Hamid Drake & Sabir Mateen - Brothers Together
 MTE-36 	William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra - Raincoat in the River
 MTE-37/38 Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, William Parker - Never Too Late But Always Too Early
 MTE-39/40/41/42	Alan Silva - H.Con.Res.57/Treasure Box
 MTE-43 	Jemeel Moondoc with Denis Charles - We Don't
 MTE-44 Marshall Allen, Hamid Drake, Kidd Jordan, William Parker - The All-Star Game
 MTE-45	Sunny Murray - Perles Noires vol. 1
 MTE-46	Sunny Murray - Perles Noires vol. 2
 MTE-47/48 Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake, William Parker - Blue Winter
 MTE-49 John Blum - John Blum Astrogeny Quartet
 MTE-50 	Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble - Drumdance to the Motherland
 MTE-61 	Joshua Abrams - Natural Information
 MTE-62 Joshua Abrams - Represencing
 MTE-63/64 Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception
MTE-65 Jeff Parker (musician) - Slight Freedom
 MTE-67 Joshua Abrams - Music for Life Itself & The Interrupters
 MTE-68 Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Simultonality

References

External links 
 Official site

Category:American record labels
Category:Jazz record labels
Category:Record labels established in 1995