East Wind Records

East Wind Records is a Japanese jazz record label established in Tokyo in 1974. The label is associated with the development and circulation of jazz recordings in Japan, operating within a period when Japanese labels were documenting both domestic jazz activity and internationally connected performances. Publicly available reference material identifies its core field as jazz and confirms Tokyo as its place of establishment, but provides limited information about its ownership, corporate structure, executive leadership, commercial scale, catalogue size, or current operating status. No reliable source in the supplied material establishes a founder, parent company, official website, listed status, or present-day management. East Wind Records should therefore be understood primarily as a historically documented Japanese jazz-label name rather than as a broadly documented contemporary entertainment conglomerate. The label’s known role was the release and distribution of jazz albums. Detailed artist rosters, release chronology, imprint relationships, and catalogue ownership would require specialist discography or archival sources. A separate label also called East Wind was established in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1984 by David Barrick, Steve Boulay, Ted Everts, and Gerald A. Friedman, with a focus on Russian jazz. That American operation is a distinct namesake and is not treated here as the Japanese label described by the authoritative subject.

East Wind Records was established in Tokyo in 1974 as a Japanese jazz record label. Its founding placed it within Japan’s postwar recorded-music industry, where specialist labels played an important role in documenting jazz performances and making them available to domestic listeners and collectors. The available reference material identifies jazz as the label’s concentration but does not provide a complete account of its founders, initial financing, distribution arrangements, artist contracts, or early catalogue. Consequently, the label’s specific launch strategy and relationship to other Japanese music companies cannot be stated reliably from the supplied sources. The label is documented primarily through its identity as a jazz imprint and through discographic references. Its principal business activity was the release of jazz albums, rather than the operation of a general-pop music brand. The surviving public description does not establish whether the label remained continuously active, was absorbed into another company, or continued through licensing and catalogue arrangements. Its present status is therefore recorded as unknown rather than active or defunct. The name has also been used by a separate American record label. A second East Wind was established in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1984 by David Barrick, Steve Boulay, Ted Everts, and Gerald A. Friedman, and concentrated on Russian jazz. That entity is a separate namesake from the Japanese label founded in Tokyo in 1974. The distinction is important because references to East Wind in discographies may otherwise combine two unrelated operations. This dossier covers the Japanese East Wind Records subject identified by the authoritative Wikipedia title.

• 1984

  Separate Hartford label founded under the East Wind name

  [1]East Wind Recordsen.wikipedia.org

  A distinct record label using the East Wind name was established in Hartford, Connecticut, with a focus on Russian jazz. This was not the Japanese label founded in 1974.

• 1974

  East Wind Records established in Tokyo

  [1]East Wind Recordsen.wikipedia.org

  A Japanese jazz record label named East Wind Records was established in Tokyo.

A specialist jazz label focused on recorded jazz music.

• Recorded music · 1974

  Jazz albums

  The label’s documented product category was the jazz album. East Wind Records functioned as a specialist recording imprint rather than a broad consumer-products brand, issuing recorded jazz for listening, distribution, and collection. The available reference does not identify specific album titles or artists with sufficient detail to create a reliable catalogue list.

1. 1East Wind Recordsen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Great Jazz Trio at Discogsdiscogs.com
3. 3East Wind at Discogsdiscogs.com