“Some of the best contemporary British jazz from outside London.” – London Jazz News

Founded less than five years ago, Stoney Lane is an inventive and independent artist-led record label, growing out of a whole host of musical inventions, collaborations, experiments, friendships and weird & wonderful ideas, centered around the city of Birmingham, UK, and growing nationwide and into Europe. We focus on distinctive and exciting new music that we love, going wherever the music takes us – often with jazz at its core, yet crossing the eclectic worlds of improvisation, contemporary classical, subtle electronics, and world/roots-inspired music.

Stoney Lane supports and develops brilliant young UK musicians, alongside internationally touring and established artists, whilst committing to release only a select number of albums each year as we strive to maintain the artistry, adventure and surprise of our records. We make beautiful physical releases on both CD and vinyl, from limited edition hand pressings (no we don’t live in Shoreditch) to experimental artwork and original design, alongside properly-loved and faithful HQ audio.

Already the Stoney Lane catalogue is home to recordings featuring the exceptional and thriving talents of Chris Mapp, Hans Koller, Percy Pursglove, Sara Colman and Mike Fletcher, to young musicians burgeoning from Birmingham and beyond, including Alex Woods, Ben Lee, Jonathan Silk, Mark Pringle, Xhosa Cole and Young Pilgrims, to leading lights Steve Swallow, Arve Henriksen, John O’Gallagher, Stan Sulzmann and the NDR Bigband.

We produce an ongoing performance programme of Stoney Lane artists at London’s King’s Place, and also run the official Cheltenham Jazz Festival record store for the six days of the festival each spring, promoting independent musicians and labels.  All of our records are now crafted and released on limited-run CD, each complete with high resolution digital downloads, with selected releases on 180g vinyl when the bank manager is feeling generous.

Buy, listen and download all of our records at our Emporium, with releases also available from Propermusic / Amazon UK / iTunes;  your local independent record store, plus Spotify / Apple Music / Deezer and co (but go on, invest and buy some lovely albums as well as streaming!)

(‘Stoney Lane’ was the home of West Bromwich Albion, from 1885 to 1900, a time when they actually won something for a change.  Our catalogue numbers follow a similarly misguided path).