HENEVER people ask me how to start a record label, I always tell them, ‘Go get a bartending job somewhere.’” That’s sage advice from Scottie McNiece, co-founder of the Chicago-based International Anthem Recording Company, which has risen over the last eight years to become probably the most important label around for new jazz and improvisational music. At the beginning of the 2010s, McNiece was mixing ing drinks at
