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Mack Avenue

Mack Avenue

Founded in the late 1990’s in Detroit, Michigan, Mack Avenue Records’ beginnings were conceived out of a genuine love for jazz and the artists that create it. Gretchen Valade, the label’s founder, sat at the grand piano in her living room composing Nat King Cole and Peggy Lee–inspired vocal charts and wanted to find a way to get them recorded. In that moment Mack Avenue was born. The label’s first few recordings spotlighted both young talent and storied jazz veterans, a mix which contributed to the label's artistic philosophy in the years that followed.

Mack Avenue’s recordings have won or been nominated for multiple Grammy®, NAACP, A2IM Libera Awards and other media honors, including its most recent Grammy® nominees Stanley Clarke and Alfredo Rodríquez (2015) and Cecile McLorin Salvant, Jimmy Greene, Kirk Whalum and Christian McBride (2016).

Further Reading: Mack Avenue

Recording of the Week, Oscar Peterson Trio - Con Alma: Live in Lugano, 1964

This previously unheard recording of the Oscar Peterson Trio performing live in Switzerland at the height of their creative peak is being released for the first time.

Recording of the Week, Alfredo Rodríguez - Coral Way

The Cuban-born pianist brings the party for a festive gathering in celebration of Miami's Latino culture and communal identity.

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