ABSTRACT
Danish-based jazz/blues label founded in 1951 under the Storyville name. It was renamed Sonet in 1955 when it moved to Stockholm, Sweden, and specialized in licensing U.S. jazz releases for the Scandinavian market. In the 1960s, it began representing U.K. pop labels like Island, and in 1968 opened a U.K. office. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, it licensed blues and jazz material from small U.S. labels like Rounder and Flying Fish, and also formed the Kicking Mule label in partnership with blues guitarist Stefan Grossman. It also continued to record European jazz and folk artists, and native Scandinanvian pop and folk acts. In 1990 Sonet’s Scandinavian label was sold to PolyGram, while its U.K. division was spun off and renamed Habana Music (no longer active).
