MAXJAZZ is an American jazz record label founded in 1999. Its catalog contains sixty-eight vocal and instrumental recordings. MAXJAZZ recordings are generally regarded as a “straight-ahead” acoustic style of jazz.

Recording Artists

Claudia Acuña

Claudia Acuña

Claudia Acuña is a Chilean vocalist. Born in Santiago and raised in Concepcion, she was inspired as a child to perform a variety of music, including folk, pop and opera, by Victor Jara and Violetta Parra. Her attention turned to American popular music and jazz at the age of 15, when she first...

Bruce Barth

Bruce Barth

Bruce Barth, born September 7, 1958 in Pasadena, California, is a jazz pianist. He has played the piano since the age of five. Barth's career had included major work with ensembles, as well as solo work...

Erin Bode

Erin Bode

Erin Bode is an American singer, reluctant to be classified as a jazz vocalist. Though Bode began her recording career in 2001, she has already garnered much praise...

LaVerne Butler
Carla Cook

Carla Cook

-Biography:A Detroit, Michigan native, music seized hold of Cook at an early age. As a student at Cass Technical High School she played string bass in the school orchestra, studied piano and voice on weekends, and sang in her church’s choir...

Dena DeRose

Dena DeRose

Dena DeRose is an American jazz pianist, singer and educator. Although she began her career just as a pianist, medical problems with her hand forced her to become a vocalist as well. She has released seven solo albums.-Early life:...

Asa Harris
Christine Hitt
Geoffrey Keezer
Nancy King
Frank LoCrasto
Romero Lubambo

Romero Lubambo

Romero Lubambo is a Brazilian jazz guitar player.Romero Lubambo started learning classic piano at a very early age...

Russell Malone

Russell Malone

Russell Malone is an essentially self-taught swing and bebop jazz guitarist. He began working with Jimmy Smith in 1988, and went on to work with Harry Connick, Jr. and Diana Krall throughout the 1990s...

Phillip Manuel
Rene Marie
Peter Martin (jazz pianist)

Peter Martin (jazz pianist)

Peter Martin is an American jazz pianist. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and currently resides there. He has released two albums on the Max Jazz label, Something Unexpected and In The P.M....

Rebecca Martin

Rebecca Martin

((Rebecca Martin (born April 24, 1969, Portland, Maine) is an American singer and songwriter from Rumford, Maine. She and Jesse Harris formed Once Blue in the early 1990s and released a self-titled debut. In 1998, she released the solo album Thoroughfare....

Cassandre McKinley
Mulgrew Miller

Mulgrew Miller

Mulgrew Miller is an American jazz pianist who performs in a number of jazz idioms. He began his career as member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.-Biography:...

Jeb Patton
Jeremy Pelt
John Proulx

John Proulx

John Proulx is a jazz pianist, vocalist, and Grammy Award winning composer out of Los Angeles, California. His singing style has elicited comparisons to a young Chet Baker. He is a MAXJAZZ recording artist. His debut album, Moon and Sand, was released on August 1, 2006.-Career:John Proulx is...

Eric Reed
Mary Stallings

Mary Stallings

Mary Stallings is an American jazz vocalist and mother of R&B/soul singer Adriana Evans.-Biography:Mary Stallings was born in San Francisco, one of the eldest of 11 children in the Stallings family; saxophonist Ron Stallings is her first cousin...

Terell Stafford

Terell Stafford

Terell Stafford is a professional jazz trumpet player and current Director of Jazz Studies at Temple University.Terell Stafford born in Miami, Florida and raised in both Chicago, Illinois and Silver Spring, Maryland. He went on to get a degree in music education from University of Maryland in 1988...

Trio Da Paz & Joe Locke

Joe Locke

Joseph Paul Locke is a US American jazz vibraphonist, composer, recording artist and educator.-Biography:Locke was born in Palo Alto, California, but raised in Rochester, New York...

Manuel Valera
Patti Wicks
Jack Wilkins

Jack Wilkins

Jack Wilkins is a guitarist born on June 3, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York. He has played with many jazz greats including Stanley Turrentine, Jimmy Heath, Epitaph , and bassist Eddie Gomez, as well as with singers Mel Tormé, Ray Charles, Morgana King, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, The Manhattan...

Jessica Williams

Jessica Williams

Jessica Jennifer Williams is an American pianist and composer who has deep roots in jazz. She has been called "one of the top jazz pianists of today."-History:...

Steve Wilson (jazz musician)

Steve Wilson (jazz musician)

Steve Wilson is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.-Biography:As a teenager, he played in various rhythm and blues and funk bands. After a year accompanying singer Stephanie Mills, he attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he majored in music. In 1987 he moved to New...

Ben Wolfe

Ben Wolfe

Ben Wolfe is an American jazz double bassist and academic.-Early life:Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Wolfe was raised in Portland, Oregon.-Career:...

Denny Zeitlin

Denny Zeitlin

Denny Zeitlin is an American jazz pianist and composer, and a clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco...