Editing Cryptogramophone Records (section)

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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Cryptogramophone Records
| image       = <!-- logo, such as "LABEL-LOGO.jpg" -->
| image_size  = <!-- size -->
| parent      = <!-- parent company, such as "[[Warner Music Group]]" -->
| founded     = {{start date|1998}}
| founder     = Jeff Gauthier
| distributor = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| genre       = [[Jazz]]
| country     = U.S.
| location    = [[Los Angeles]]
| url         = {{URL|www.cryptogramophone.org}}
}}

'''Cryptogramophone Records''' is a [[jazz]] record label  formed in 1998 by violinist Jeff Gauthier to document the music of his friend, [[Eric von Essen]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Layman |first=Will |date=2007-04-12 |title=The Little Label That Could: An Interview With Cryptogramophone’s Jeff Gauthier, PopMatters |url=https://www.popmatters.com/the-little-label-that-could-an-interview-with-cryptogramophones-jeff-gauthi-2496182994.html |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=[[PopMatters]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

Cryptogramophone has released albums by such West Coast musicians as guitarist [[Nels Cline]], drummer [[Alex Cline]], bassists [[Darek Oleszkiewicz|Darek Oles]] and Steuart Liebig, drummer [[Scott Amendola]], guitarist [[G. E. Stinson]], trombonist Scot Ray, pianist [[Don Preston]] and Gauthier himself. In addition, Cryptogramophone has recorded New York City musicians [[Mark Dresser]] and [[Erik Friedlander]].