Soon the label started releasing jazz and German (especially Moselle Franconian) folk music as well.

Sedimental is an independent recording label based in Greenfield, Massachusetts releasing mainly experimental, sound art, noise, free jazz, avant garde and drone music.

By the early 1960s, Mercury was releasing jazz under the flagship label and was an early leader in the new stereo sound releases.

In 1968, Van Morrison released the influent Astral Weeks, a mixture of folk, jazz, blues, soul and classical music.

In the early 1980's, one major record label released jazz; now virtually every major label has some sort of a jazz presence.

MPS was the first German label to exclusively release jazz.

This allowed them to release vintage jazz and blues recordings.

In 2004, the company launched the sub-label Smalltown Superjazzz which is intended to release "jazz with a punk attitude".

Leo Records is an English jazz record label, which releases Russian jazz in addition to material from American and British musicians.

They were a pioneering label in Finnish rock music but also released jazz, political songs, ethnic music and so on.