Pi Recordings

Pi Recordings is a jazz record label founded by Seth Rosner in 2001. He was soon joined as partner by Yulun Wang. Pi specializes in avant-garde jazz. Its first two albums were by Henry Threadgill.

Pi's roster includes Amir ElSaffar, Anthony Braxton, Corey Wilkes, James Blood Ulmer, Leroy Jenkins, Liberty Ellman, Marc Ribot, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Steve Lehman, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, and Wadada Leo Smith.

In its first twenty years, Pi released fewer than a hundred recordings. In 2021, DownBeat wrote that "Pi releases rigorous, pathbreaking music that stretches the boundaries of jazz while honoring its history."

Discography

Main series Everybodys Mouth's a Book (2001) – Henry Threadgill Up Popped the Two Lips (2001) – Henry Threadgill Song for My Sister (2002) – Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory The Year of the Elephant (2002) – Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet Your Life Flashes (2002) – Fieldwork (Vijay Iyer, Elliot Humberto Kavee, Aaron Stewart) Organic Resonance (2003) – Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton The Meeting (2003) – Art Ensemble of Chicago Tactiles (2003) – Liberty Ellman In What Language? (2003) – Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace (2004) – Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton Sirius Calling (2004) – Art Ensemble of Chicago Juncture (2004) – Various Artists And Now... (2004) – Revolutionary Ensemble Mother Tongue (2004) – Rudresh Mahanthappa Spiritual Unity (2005) – Marc Ribot Simulated Progress (2005) – Fieldwork (Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, Elliot Humberto Kavee) Demian as Posthuman (2005) – Steve Lehman Back in Time (2005) – James Blood Ulmer Ophiuchus Butterfly (2006) – Liberty Ellman Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City (2006) – Art Ensemble of Chicago Codebook (2006) – Rudresh Mahanthappa Streaming (2006) – Muhal Richard Abrams, George E. Lewis & Roscoe Mitchell Vision Towards Essence (2007) – Muhal Richard Abrams Two Rivers (2007) – Amir ElSaffar On Meaning (2007) – Steve Lehman Door (2008) – Fieldwork (Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey) Party Intellectuals (2008) – Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog Kinsmen (2008) – Rudresh Mahanthappa Cries from tha Ghetto (2009) – Corey Wilkes Travail Transformation and Flow (2009) – Steve Lehman This Brings Us to Volume 1 (2009) – Henry Threadgill Zooid Radif Suite (2010) – Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (2010) – Steve Coleman and Five Elements Silent Movies (2010) – Marc Ribot Apex (2010) – Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green This Brings Us to Volume 2 (2010) – Henry Threadgill Zooid SoundDance (2011) – Muhal Richard Abrams with Fred Anderson and George E. Lewis The Mancy of Sound (2011) – Steve Coleman and Five Elements Synastry (2011) – Jen Shyu & Mark Dresser Oblique–1 (2011) – Tyshawn Sorey Inana (2011) – Amir ElSaffar Dialect Fluorescent (2012) – Steve Lehman Trio Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp (2012) – Henry Threadgill Zooid Post–Chromodal Out! (2012) – Hafez Modirzadeh Reunion: Live in New York (2012) – Sam Rivers Trio Continuum (2012) – David Virelles Functional Arrhythmias (2013) – Steve Coleman and Five Elements Moment and the Message (2013) – Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defence Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project (2013) – Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd Fiction (2013) – Matt Mitchell Alchemy (2013) – Amir ElSaffar Fourteen (2014) – Dan Weiss Live at the Village Vanguard (2014) – Marc Ribot Trio Mise en Abîme (2014) –Steve Lehman Octet In Convergence Liberation (2014) – Hafez Modirzadeh, ETHEL Alloy (2014) – Tyshawn Sorey Synovial Joints (2015) – Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance In for a Penny, In for a Pound (2015) – Henry Threadgill's Zooid Crisis (2015) – Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble Radiate (2015) – Liberty Ellman Sounds and Cries of the World (2015) – Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue Vista Accumulation (2015) – Matt Mitchell Sixteen: Drummers Suite (2016) – Dan Weiss Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (2016) – Henry Threadgill The Inner Spectrum of Variables (2016) – Tyshawn Sorey Sélébéyone (2016) – Steve Lehman Moving Still (2016) – Jonathan Finlayson Trickster (2017) – Miles Okazaki Morphogenesis (2017) – Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse Verisimilitude (2017) – Tyshawn Sorey A Pouting Grimace (2017) – Matt Mitchell Song of Silver Geese (2017) – Jen Shyu Dirt… And More Dirt (2018) – Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg Starebaby (2018) – Dan Weiss Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus (2018) – Henry Threadgill Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (The Embedded Sets) (2018) – Steve Coleman and Five Elements 3 Times Round (2018) – Jonathan Finlayson Igbó Alákọrin (The Singer’s Grove) Vol. I & II (2018) – David Virelles Clockwise (2019) – Anna Webber We Are On The Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration (2019) – Art Ensemble of Chicago Phalanx Ambassadors (2019) – Matt Mitchell The People I Love (2019) – Steve Lehman The Adornment of Time (2019) – Tyshawn Sorey & Marilyn Crispell The Sky Below (2019) – Miles Okazaki Last Desert (2020) – Liberty Ellman Natural Selection (2020) – Dan Weiss

Reissues 901 Blood Sutra (2006) – Vijay Iyer – originally released on Artists House in 2003 902 Reimagining (2006) – Vijay Iyer – originally released on Savoy Jazz in 2005 903 Raw Materials (2006) – Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa – originally released on Savoy Jazz in 2006 904 Panoptic Modes (2010) – Vijay Iyer – originally released on Red Giant in 2001

Pi Recordings

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