Solid State Records (jazz label)

Solid State Records
Parent companyUnited Artists Records
Founded1966 (1966)
FounderPhil Ramone
Sonny Lester
Manny Albam
GenreJazz
Country of originU.S.

Solid State Records was a jazz record label formed in 1966 by producers Sonny Lester and Phil Ramone, with arranger Manny Albam.

The label released original recordings in the mid to late 1960s by Joe Williams, Chick Corea, Jimmy McGriff, Dizzy Gillespie, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and many others before its jazz artists were consolidated under United Artists' Blue Note label.[1]