By Wulf Mueller, Wulf’s Music + Blog
It seems while at home many people use their social networks more than usual and therefore a lot of challenges have popped up – I did the photo one charting my life in 9 pictures, but some of the others I can’t do. How can someone who goes to gigs constantly for over more than 45 years pick his top 10 of these or how can someone who has thousands of records select his top 10? For me that’s simply impossible – each period in my life has important records in many ways, so this is one challenge I pass on. In general, I don’t like these kind of challenges and therefore I didn’t respond – even so I found the one concerning ones most influential labels quite interesting – for me that would be (not in any order): amadeo, CTI, Strata East, Gramavision, enja, ECM, Emarcy, Verve/Impulse, Jazzland, Okeh, Edition, Ropeadope to mention the ones that jump into my head right now (including obviously the ones I worked with). Different periods in my life had different main labels, but most of them, once with me, stayed with me. And their music I am still listening to …..Read the full review here.