Calliope Records

Calliope Records was an American jazz record label based in Sherman Oaks, California. It released jazz recordings and was distributed by Festival Records. The label is best known for its "Sessions Live" series, a set of 36 partly compilation albums drawn from recordings made between July 1956 and December 1958. Artists featured in the series included a trio of André Previn, Red Mitchell and Shelly Manne, as well as Harry James, Les Brown, Red Nichols, Cal Tjader, Chico Hamilton, Oscar Peterson, Firehouse Five Plus 2, and Art Blakey and His Jazz Messengers. The label's catalog and current operational status are not clearly documented in the available evidence; it appears to have been active primarily in the late 1950s. A separate entity, Indésens Calliope Records, operates a classical music catalog and website, but its relationship to the original American jazz label is not established by the evidence provided.

Calliope Records was an American jazz label headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California. It was distributed by Festival Records. The label's most notable output was the "Sessions Live" series, which comprised 36 partly compilation albums of recordings made between July 1956 and December 1958. These recordings featured prominent jazz artists of the era, including a trio with André Previn, Red Mitchell, and Shelly Manne; Harry James; Les Brown; Red Nichols; Cal Tjader; Chico Hamilton; Oscar Peterson; Firehouse Five Plus 2; and Art Blakey and His Jazz Messengers. Beyond this, details about the label's founding, ownership, and eventual fate are not available in the provided evidence. A separate classical music label, Indésens Calliope Records, maintains a website with a catalog of classical recordings, but no evidence connects it directly to the American jazz label.

• Recordings for the 'Sessions Live' series were made between July 1956 and December 1958.

Jazz record label specializing in live and studio sessions from the late 1950s.

• Sessions Live series (36 partly compilation albums)

  A series of albums featuring jazz recordings from July 1956 to December 1958 by artists such as André Previn, Red Mitchell, Shelly Manne, Harry James, Les Brown, Red Nichols, Cal Tjader, Chico Hamilton, Oscar Peterson, Firehouse Five Plus 2, and Art Blakey and His Jazz Messengers.

1. 1Calliope Records (jazz) - Wikipedianl.wikipedia.org
2. 2Calliope Records - Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3Indésens Calliope Recordsindesenscalliope.com