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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]].

== Discography ==
{| align="center" | class="wikitable sortable" | bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
|-
!  style="vertical-align:bottom; text-align:center; width:8px;"|Cat. #
! valign="bottom" style="text-align:center; width:200px;"|Artist
!  style="vertical-align:bottom; text-align:center; width:200px;"|Title
!  style="vertical-align:bottom; text-align:center; width:85px;"|Year of Release
!  style="vertical-align:bottom; text-align:center; width:170px;"|Comments
|-
|CG101 
|Jeanette Wrate & the Northern Lights Ensemble
|''Echoes of a Northern Sky''
|1999
|
|-
|CG102
|[[Alex Cline]] Ensemble
|''Sparks Fly Upward''
|1999
|
|-
|CG103
|Various Artists
|''The Music of Eric von Essen I''
|2000
|
|-
|CG104
|[[Mark Dresser]] & [[Frances-Marie Uitti]]
|''Sonomondo'' 
|2000
|
|-
|CG105
|[[Nels Cline]]
|''[[The Inkling]]''
|2000
|
|-
|CG106
|Alex Cline, Jeff Gauthier & [[G. E. Stinson]]
|''The Other Shore''
|2000
|
|-
|CG107
|[[Don Preston]]
|''[[Transformation (Don Preston album)|Transformation]]''
|2001
|
|-
|CG108
|Various Artists
|''The Music of Eric von Essen II''
|2001
|
|-
|CG109
|Steuart Liebig
|''Pomegranate''
|2001
|
|-
|CG110
|Alex Cline Ensemble
|''The Constant Flame''
|2001
|
|-
|CG111
|Mark Dresser Trio
|''Aquifer''
|2002
|
|-
|CG112
|[[Jeff Gauthier]] Goatette
|''Mask''
|2002
|
|-
|CG113
|[[The Nels Cline Singers]]
|''[[Instrumentals (Nels Cline Singers album)|Instrumentals]]''
|2002
|
|-
|CG114
|[[Gregg Bendian]], Jeff Gauthier, Steaurt Liebig, G. E. Stinson
|''Bone Structure''
|2003
|
|-
|CG115
|Various Artists
|''The Music of Eric von Essen III''
|2003
|
|-
|CG116
|[[Scott Amendola]] Band
|''Cry''
|2003
|
|-
|CG117
|Scot Ray
|''Active Vapor Recovery''
|2003
|
|-
|CG118
|[[Erik Friedlander]]
|''[[Quake (album)|Quake]]''
|2003
|
|-
|CG119
|[[Darek Oleszkiewicz]]
|''Like a Dream''
|2004
|
|-
|CG120
|The Nels Cline Singers
|''[[The Giant Pin]]''
|2004
|
|-
|CG121
|Alex Cline, [[Kaoru (musician)|Kaoru]], [[Miya Masaoka]] & G. E. Stinson
|''Cloud Plate''
|2005
|
|-
|CG122
|[[Alan Pasqua]]
|''My New Old Friend''
|2005
|
|-
|CG123
|Scott Amendola Band
|''Believe''
|2005
|
|-
|CG124
|Mark Dresser & [[Denman Maroney]]
|''Time Changes''
|2005
|
|-
|CG125
|[[Jenny Scheinman]]
|''12 Songs''
|2005
|
|-
|CG126
|[[Ben Goldberg]]
|''The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact''
|2006
|
|-
|CG127
|Erik Friedlander
|''[[Prowl (album)|Prowl]]''
|2006
|
|-
|CG128
|Jeff Gauthier Goatette
|''One and the Same''
|2006
|
|-
|CG129
|[[Bennie Maupin]] Ensemble
|''[[Penumbra (album)|Penumbra]]''
|2006
|
|-
|CG130
|Nels Cline
|''[[New Monastery]]''
|2006
|
|-
|CG131
|[[Myra Melford]]
|''The Image of Your Body''
|2006
|
|-
|CG132
|David Witham
|''Spinning the Circle''
|2007
|
|-
|CG133
|The Nels Cline Singers
|''[[Draw Breath]]''
|2007
|
|-
|CG134
|Trio M
|''Big Picture''
|2007
|
|-
|CG135
|Alan Pasqua
|''The Antisocial Club''
|2007
|
|-
|CG136
|Various Artists
|''Cryptogramophone Assemblage 1998-2008: A Ten-Year Retrospective''
|2008
|Double CD & DVD
|-
|CG137
|Bennie Maupin Quintet
|''[[Early Reflections]]''
|2008
|
|-
|CG138
|[[Todd Sickafoose]]
|''Tiny Resistors''
|2008
|
|-
|CG139
|Jeff Gauthier Goatette
|''House of Return''
|2008
|
|-
|CG140
|Alex Cline
|''Continuation''
|2009
|
|-
|CG141
|Nels Cline
|''[[Coward (Nels Cline album)|Coward]]''
|2009
|
|-
|CG142
|Nels Cline
|''[[Dirty Baby]]''
|2010
|Double CD
|-
|CG143
|The Nels Cline Singers
|''[[Initiate (Nels Cline Singers album)|Initiate]]''
|2010
|Double CD - Studio and Live Recordings
|-
|CG144
|BB&C ([[Tim Berne]], [[Jim Black]] & Nels Cline)
|''[[The Veil (album)|The Veil]]''
|2011
|Recorded live at [[The Stone (music space)|The Stone]]
|-
|CG145
|Jeff Gauthier Goatette
|''Open Source''
|2011
|
|-
|CG146
|Alex Cline
|''For People In Sorrow''
|2013
|Live CD & DVD
|-
|CG147
|[[Zeena Parkins|The Adorables]]
|''The Adorables''
|2013
|
|-
|CG148
|Alex Cline
|''Oceans of Vows''
|2015
|
|-
|CG149
|Jeff Gauthier and Maggie Parkins
|''The Smudges: Song and Call''
|2022
|
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of record labels]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.cryptogramophone.org/ Official Cryptogramophone site]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030530134231/http://cryptonight.com/ Cryptonight]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20010718173900/http://www.indiejazz.com/ IndieJazz.com]

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