Eremite Records

Eremite Records is an independent American jazz record label founded in 1995 by Michael Ehlers, with early involvement from music writer Byron Coley . Ehlers was a student of Archie Shepp 's at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . After college, he began producing concerts in the Amherst area, and Eremite evolved from those events. The label name came from an alternate title to the Thelonious Monk tune " Reflections ": "Portrait of an Eremite". The label's logo, designed by Savage Pencil , is an image of a robed Joe McPhee playing soprano saxophone. Eremite organized a concert series in Western Massachusetts that ran through 2008 and produced roughly 100 concerts, including five Fire in the Valley festivals. From 1998 to 2018, Eremite managed a touring organization that arranged hundreds of concerts across North America for its artists.

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