Nessa Records is an American jazz record label founded in Chicago in 1967 by producer Chuck Nessa.

After working at Delmark Records for a year, Nessa started the label at the urging of Roscoe Mitchell and Lester Bowie. The first album was released under Bowie's name because Mitchell was under contract to Delmark.^[1] Since the mid 80's the label has been based in Whitehall, Michigan.^[2][3]

Discography

• n-1 Lester Bowie - Numbers 1 & 2 (available in Art Ensemble Box – ncd-2500 and reissued complete as ncd-31/32)
• n-2 Roscoe Mitchell - Congliptious (available in Art Ensemble Box – ncd-2500 and reissued complete as ncd-2)
• n-3 Art Ensemble of Chicago - People in Sorrow
• n-4 Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les Stances a Sophie
• n-5 Roscoe Mitchell - Old/Quartet (available in Art Ensemble Box – ncd-2500)
• n-6 Von Freeman - Have No Fear (available as ncd-6 with 1 extra track)
• n-7 Warne Marsh - All Music (available as ncd-7 w/7 bonus tracks)
• n-8 Ben Webster - Did You Call? (rights have reverted to Ensayo-Spain)
• n-9/10 Roscoe Mitchell - Nonaah (available as ncd-9/10 w/5 bonus tracks)
• n-11 Von Freeman - Serenade & Blues (available as ncd-11 w/extra track)
• n-12 Air - Air Time (available as ncd-12)
• n-13 Lucky Thompson - Body & Soul (rights have reverted to Ensayo – Spain)
• n-14/15 Roscoe Mitchell - L-R-G / The Maze / S II Examples (available as ncd-14)
• n-16 Charles Tyler- Saga of the Outlaws (available as ncd-16)
• n-17/18 Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Bobby Bradford, John Stevens - Live Vols. 1 & 2 (available as ncd-17/18)
• n-19 Wadada Leo Smith - Spirit Catcher (available as ncd-19 w/extra track)
• n-20 Roscoe Mitchell - Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin' Shoes (available as ncd-20 HDCD encoded)
• n-21 Hal Russell - NRG Ensemble
• n-22 Eddie Johnson - Indian Summer (available on lp only)
• n-23 Fred Anderson - The Missing Link (available as ncd-23 w/extra track)
• n-24 Hal Russell/Mars Williams- Eftsoons (available on lp only)
• n-25 Hal Russell NRG Ensemble with Charles Tyler - Generation (CD)
• ncd-26 Wadada Leo Smith - Procession of the Great Ancestry (CD)
• ncd-27/28 Roscoe Mitchell - Old/Quartet Sessions
• ncd-29 Art Ensemble - Early Combinations (CD)
• ncd-30 Von Freeman - Vonski Speaks (CD)
• ncd-31/32 Lester Bowie - All the Numbers (expanded reissue of n-1)
• ncd-33 Anthony Braxton & John McDonough - 6 Duos (Wesleyan) 2006
• ncd-34 Roscoe Mitchell - Before There Was Sound (CD)
• ncd-35 Ira Sullivan - Circumstantial (CD)
• ncd-36 Bobby Bradford / Frode Gjerstad Quartet - Silver Cornet (CD)
• ncd-37 Roscoe Mitchell Quartet - Celebrating Fred Anderson (CD)
• ncd-38 Roscoe Mitchell With Yuganaut - Four Ways
• ncd-39 Nick Mazzarella & Tomeka Reid - Signaling
• ncd-40 Roscoe Mitchell - Ride the Wind