Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music. The name of the label comes from the artwork of Klaus Baumgartner. Hathut encompasses the labels hat ART, hatOLOGY, and hat NOIR.
The label's first releases were by Joe McPhee. Its roster includes Ray Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Lisle Ellis, Georg Graewe, Gerry Hemingway, Franz Koglmann, Steve Lacy, Joelle Leandre, Myra Melford, Paul Plimley, Max Roach, Horace Tapscott, Cecil Taylor, Mike Westbrook, John Zorn, Vienna Art Orchestra, David Murray, Luzia von Wyl, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Lyons, Tony Coe, Michel Portal, and Sun Ra,Out There Music: About Hat Hut, accessed July 9, 2018
The label progressed through a range of series featuring distinct packaging styles, from the initial runs of 12-inch LPs with alphabetical and numerical catalog numbers with sleeve drawings and paintings by Klaus Baumgärtner, to elaborately packaged boxes with inserts and postcards, and then black and white photography on CD releases.Spencer, R. Hep to HatHut, All About Jazz accessed July 9, 2018
From 1985 until 2000 the label received funding from the Swiss Bank Corporation.Gottschalk, K. HatHut Records: Expanding Scope And Vision, All About Jazz accessed July 9, 2018 Its catalogue was acquired by the Belgian music publisher Outhere Music in 2017. "Outhere Music acquires HatHut Records"
Discography HatHut "ABC" Series Werner X. Uehlinger started the HatHut label in 1975 to release recordings by Joe McPhee and soon followed with albums by emerging avant-garde jazz musicians including Steve Lacy, David Murray, David S. Ware and Jimmy Lyons. The first releases on HatHut between 1975 and 1979 had alphabetic catalog numbers starting with A and ending with a triple LP Y/Z/Z making a total of twenty albums in the series.HatHut "ABC" series discography accessed July 29, 2018 Catalog Artist Album HAT A Black Magic Man HAT B The Willisau Concert HAT C Tenor HAT D Rotation HAT E Hah! HAT F Clinkers HAT G and Claude Bernard Pot-Pourri pour Parce Que HAT H The Constant Extension of Inescapable Tradition HAT I/J Graphics HAT K/L Stamps HAT M/N The Spoken Word HAT O Variations on a Blue Line HAT P Glasses HAT Q Esoteric HAT R Saxanimalier HAT S/T , Milo Fine and Steve Gnitka (MFG) MFG in Minnesota HAT U/V 3D Family HAT W Birth of a Being HAT X and Rüdiger Carl The Very Centre of Middle Europe HAT Y/Z/Z Push Pull
HatHut Numeric "R0" Series From 1980 to 1981, following the last alphabetic catalog number, HatHut releases had a written numeric catalog number followed by a bracketed "RO" code where the first digit of the code indicated a single ("1RO"), double ("2RO") or triple ("3RO") LP.HatHut "R01" series discography accessed July 29, 2018 A total of 22 albums were released in this series. Catalog Artist Album hat Hut ONE (1R01) Old Eyes hat Hut TWO (3R02) One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye hat Hut THREE (2R03) The Way hat Hut FOUR (1R04) Distinction Without a Difference hat Hut FIVE (2R05) Windward Passages hat Hut SIX (2R06) and Anthony Braxton One in Two – Two in One hat Hut SEVEN (1R07) For the People hat Hut EIGHT (1R08) , Léon Francioli and Radu Malfatti Humanimal hat Hut NINE (1R09) Ghost of a Trance hat Hut TEN (1R10) Orange Juice/Nice Food hat Hut ELEVEN (1R11) The Entrance Gates of Tshee Park hat Hut TWELVE (2R12) and Joe McPhee featuring Raymond Boni Tales and Prophecies hat Hut THIRTEEN (2R13) and Archie Shepp The Long March hat Hut FOURTEEN (2R14) Capers hat Hut FIFTEEN (2R15) and Alan Silva The Ongoing Strings hat Hut SIXTEEN (2R16) It Is in the Brewing Luminous hat Hut SEVENTEEN (2R17) Sun Ra Sunrise in Different Dimensions hat Hut EIGHTEEN (1R18) MIT Knoten hat Hut NINETEEN (2R19) Performance 9/1/79 hat Hut TWENTY (1R20) and Steve Potts featuring Irene Aebi Tips hat Hut TWENTYONE (2R21) and Sunny Murray Jump Up / What to Do About hat Hut TWENTYTWO (2R22) , Léon Francioli and Michel Portal Arrivederci Le Chouartse
Hat MUSICS Series From 1981 to 1983 Hathut released a series of seventeen albums on the hat MUSICS label.HatHut MUSICS discography accessed June 29, 2018 Catalog Artist Album hat MUSICS 3500 Lörrach / Paris 1966 hat MUSICS 3501 and Mal Waldron Snake Out hat MUSICS 3502 and Daunik Lazro Aeros hat MUSICS 3503 featuring Karen Borca Riffs hat MUSICS 3504 Orgy Boys hat MUSICS 3505 Tribulat hat MUSICS 3506 Nomadic Winds hat MUSICS 3507 and Circo del Arca Dies Irae hat MUSICS 3508 The Eighth hat MUSICS 3509 Traumtänzer hat MUSICS 3510 L'Homme Étoilé hat MUSICS 3511 Timbre hat MUSICS 3512 and Denis Charles Bangception hat MUSICS 3513 Musica Libera Dialog & Begegnung hat MUSICS 3514 Po Music Oleo hat MUSICS 3515 and Mal Waldron Herbe de L'Oubli hat MUSICS 3516 3D Family Vol. 1 hat MUSICS 3517 and Peggy Knaack Inside the Plastic Lotus
HatHut hat ART discography: LPs From 1981 to 1987 Hathut released a total of fifty-one albums in the initial hat ART LP series, many of which were packaged in fold-open cardboard box like sleeves which sometimes included postcards, additional 45rpm EPs, 7" singles, or single sided albums.HatHut hatART discography: LPs accessed July 2, 2018 Catalog Artist Album hat ART 1980/81 Vienna Art Orchestra Concerto Piccolo hat ART 1982/83 Ballets hat ART 1984 Composition 98 hat ART 1985/86 and Brion Gysin Songs hat ART 1987/88 Po Music Topology hat ART 1989/90 Musique Pour 8: L'Oc hat ART 1991/92 Vienna Art Orchestra Suite for the Green Eighties hat ART 1993/94 Garden hat ART 1995/96 Open Aspects '82 hat ART 1997/98 Catalogue Pénétration hat ART 1999/2000 Vienna Art Orchestra From No Time to Rag Time hat ART 2001 Seven Prospectus hat ART 2002 Sonic Waters hat ART 2003 Musique Pour 3 & 8: Errance hat ART 2004 Coe, Oxley & Co. Nutty (On) Willisau hat ART 2005 Vienna Art Orchestra The Minimalism of Erik Satie hat ART 2006 Two, Five & Six Blinks hat ART 2007 , Léon Francioli and Pierre Favre Arrivederci Le Chouartse hat ART 2008 Tettet Neurotica hat ART 2009 Live Lörrach/Germany and Paris/France 1966 hat ART 2010 Sweet Zee hat ART 2012 Orchestra On Duke's Birthday hat ART 2013 Rova Saxophone Diplomacy hat ART 2014 Three N.Y. Capers hat ART 2015 and Mal Waldron Herbe de L'oubli - Snake-Out hat ART 2016 3D Family hat ART 2017 Sun Ra Arkestra Sunrise in Different Dimensions hat ART 2018 Sunnymoon Lunatico hat ART 2019 Performance for Quartet 1979 hat ART 2020 The Well and the Gentle hat ART 2021 Alesia Cosmos Aéroproducts hat ART 2022 Nine Futurities hat ART 2023 Solodrumming hat ART 2024 Vienna Art Orchestra Perpetuum Mobile hat ART 2025 Windward Passages hat ART 2027 Ganelin Trio Non Troppo Hat ART 2028 & Sunny Murray Trio Jump Up / What to Do About hat ART 2029 Five The Way hat ART 2030 Braxton & Stockhausen hat ART 2031 Trio Love for Sale hat ART 2032 Rova The Crowd: For Elias Canetti hat ART 2033 Po Music A Future Retrospective hat ART 2034 Cobra hat ART 2035 Mante hat ART 2036 The Eighth hat ART 2037 Quintett Schnipp Schnapp hat ART 2038 and Mal Waldron Let's Call This hat ART 2039 Ich hat ART 2040 Westbrook-Rossini hat ART 3011 One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye hat ART 4026 The Long March: Duos with Archie Shepp and Anthony Braxton
HatHut hatART discography: CDs Hathut began releasing compact discs on the hat ART label in 1988 with a 6000 series catalog numbers featuring new music and reissues of vinyl albums, sometimes with additional material. The series featured 201 releases and concluded in 1997 when the hatART label was replaced by two labels: hatOLOGY for jazz releases and hat(new)ART for classical music.HatHut hatART discography: CDs accessed July 2, 2018