Hat Hut Records
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,
The label progressed through a range of series featuring distinct packaging styles, from the initial runs of initial 12 inch LP's 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.
From 1985 until 2000 the label received funding from the Swiss Bank Corporation. Its catalogue was acquired by the Belgian music publisher Outhere Music in 2017.
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.| 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 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, double or triple LP. A total of 22 albums were released in this series.| Catalog | Artist | Album |
| hat Hut ONE | Old Eyes | |
| hat Hut TWO | One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye | |
| hat Hut THREE | The Way | |
| hat Hut FOUR | Distinction Without a Difference | |
| hat Hut FIVE | Windward Passages | |
| hat Hut SIX | and Anthony Braxton | One in Two – Two in One |
| hat Hut SEVEN | For the People | |
| hat Hut EIGHT | , Léon Francioli and Radu Malfatti | Humanimal |
| hat Hut NINE | Ghost of a Trance | |
| hat Hut TEN | Orange Juice/Nice Food | |
| hat Hut ELEVEN | The Entrance Gates of Tshee Park | |
| hat Hut TWELVE | and Joe McPhee featuring Raymond Boni | Tales and Prophecies |
| hat Hut THIRTEEN | and Archie Shepp | The Long March |
| hat Hut FOURTEEN | Capers | |
| hat Hut FIFTEEN | and Alan Silva | The Ongoing Strings |
| hat Hut SIXTEEN | It Is in the Brewing Luminous | |
| hat Hut SEVENTEEN | Sun Ra | Sunrise in Different Dimensions |
| hat Hut EIGHTEEN | MIT | Knoten |
| hat Hut NINETEEN | Performance 9/1/79 | |
| hat Hut TWENTY | and Steve Potts featuring Irene Aebi | Tips |
| hat Hut TWENTYONE | and Sunny Murray | Jump Up / What to Do About |
| hat Hut TWENTYTWO | , 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.| 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.| 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 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 |