# Evidence Music

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{{Short description|American record label}}
{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name          = Evidence Music
| image         = <!-- logo, such as "LABEL-LOGO.jpg" -->
| image_size    = <!-- size -->
| parent        = <!-- parent company, such as "[Warner Music Group](/source/Warner_Music_Group)" -->
| founded       = {{start date|1991}}
| founder       = Howard Rosen, Jerry Gordon
| distributor   = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| genre         = [Jazz](/source/Jazz), [blues](/source/blues)
| country       = U.S.
| location      = <!-- headquarters city and state -->
| url           = <!-- such as "{{URL|www.atlanticrecords.com}}" -->
}}

'''Evidence Music''' is an American [jazz](/source/jazz) and [blues](/source/blues) record label founded in 1991 by Howard Rosen and Jerry Gordon. The label's name comes from the song "Evidence" by [Thelonious Monk](/source/Thelonious_Monk).

The label's first releases were reissues of [Sun Ra](/source/Sun_Ra) albums from the catalog of the [Saturn](/source/El_Saturn_Records) label. The catalogue also includes [Nat Adderley](/source/Nat_Adderley), [Art Blakey](/source/Art_Blakey), [Gil Evans](/source/Gil_Evans), [Pharoah Sanders](/source/Pharoah_Sanders), and blues musicians [Buddy Guy](/source/Buddy_Guy), [Otis Rush](/source/Otis_Rush), and [Big Joe Turner](/source/Big_Joe_Turner).<ref name="Marymont">{{cite web|last1=Marymont|first1=Mark|title=A Clear Record Of Success For Evidence Music|url=http://articles.philly.com/1993-10-07/entertainment/25936988_1_saturn-label-arkestra-evidence-music|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080339/http://articles.philly.com/1993-10-07/entertainment/25936988_1_saturn-label-arkestra-evidence-music|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2016|website=philly.com|access-date=1 August 2016|date=7 October 1993}}</ref>

Evidence has reissued recordings originally recorded and issued by the [Bethlehem](/source/Bethlehem_Records), [Black & Blue](/source/Black_%26_Blue_Records), and [Theresa](/source/Theresa_Records) labels.<ref name="All Music">{{cite book|last1=Yanow|first1=Scott|editor1-last=Erlewine|editor1-first=Michael|editor2-last=Bogdanov|editor2-first=Vladimir|editor3-last=Woodstra|editor3-first=Chris|editor4-last=Yanow|editor4-first=Scott|title=All Music Guide to Jazz: the experts' guide to the best jazz recordings|date=1998|publisher=Miller Freeman Books|location=San Francisco|isbn=0-87930-530-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/allmusicguidetoj00erle_0/page/1331 1331]|edition=3rd|chapter=Labels|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/allmusicguidetoj00erle_0}}</ref>

==See also==
*[: Category:Evidence Music albums](/source/%3A_Category%3AEvidence_Music_albums)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Discogs label|label=Evidence Music, Inc.}}

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Category:Blues record labels
Category:American jazz record labels

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