| Okka Disk | |
| Founder: | Bruno Johnson |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Country: | U.S. |
| Location: | Chicago, Illinois Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Okka Disk is an independent American jazz record company and label founded in Chicago by Bruno Johnson in 1994.
Okka began as a rock music label, but Johnson soon changed direction to record free jazz.[1] [2] Vintage Duets are the unreleased tapes recorded in 1980 by saxophonist Fred Anderson with drummer Steve McCall, and Caffeine, a trio featuring Chicago scene instigator Ken Vandermark. These were the albums that started the label.[3] Okka Disk released many key early works by Ken Vandermark and was partly responsible for Fred Anderson's late-career renaissance.[4]
The label also recorded European free jazz musicians such as Peter Brötzmann, documenting his transatlantic Chicago Octet and Tentet over ten albums. Since 2009, it organizes the Okka Fest, held in Milwaukee, where Johnson moved in 2002.[5]