Windham Hill Records - Associated Labels

Associated Labels

• Dancing Cat Records, a music label founded by artist George Winston which began with Winston's albums and migrated to being a Hawaiian Music label (preserving Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar heritage), received distribution through Windham Hill. Dancing Cat remains an independent label under Sony's RCA Victor banner.
• High Street Records was a Windham Hill subsidiary that mostly recorded singer-songwriters.
• Hip Pocket was a jazz-oriented label (started by Andy Narell) which was folded into the Windham Hill Jazz label (along with Magenta) in 1987.
• Magenta was a jazz oriented label (started by Steve Backer in 1985) which was folded into the Windham Hill Jazz label (along with Hip Pocket) in 1987.
• Living Music was a new-age label (started by Paul Winter in 1980), was distributed by Windham Hill from 1986 to 1988.
• Lost Lake Arts reissued out-of-print albums. A total of 13 albums were released on the label between 1981 and 1988.
• Open Air was a vocal label, which released seven albums between 1985 and 1989.
• Rabbit Ears was a children's music and audiobook imprint actively distributed through Windham Hill from 1984 to 1990.