ICTUS Records

ICTUS Records is an avant-garde jazz record label founded in 1976 by Andrea Centazzo and Carla Lugli.

History
ICTUS in Bologna, Italy
 * Andrea Centazzo and his wife at the time, Carla Lugli, founded ICTUS in Bologna, Italy, in 1976. Centazzo is a drummer, percussionist,, and composer. ICTUS folded in 1984 due to financial duress and the divorce of Centazzo and Lugli.

ICTUS in Long Beach, California
 * Centazzo revived ICTUS in 2006 in Long Beach, California, initially, to raise funds for Bosnian refugees. On January 1, 2006, ICTUS released ICTUS Records' 30th Anniversary Collection, a 12-volume CD retrospective of its work.  In 2010, ICTUS released its Ictus 35th Anniversary Collection on 1 CD.

Selected artists

 * Derek Bailey
 * Kent Carter
 * Andrea Centazzo
 * Lol Coxhill
 * Andrew Cyrille
 * Pierre Favre
 * Robert Gluck
 * Noboru Jones
 * Steve Lacy
 * Guido Mazzon
 * Aran Ortiz
 * Gianluigi Trovesi
 * Roberto Zorzi
 * Rova Saxophone Quartet
 * Confusion Bleue (Chris Kelsey (soprano sax), Nobu Stowe (keyboards), Ross Bonadonna (guitars, alto sax, bass clarinet), Ray Sage (drums), Lee Pemberton (sound))

Other labels and studios by the same name

 * Free jazz artists Ed Summerlin and Don Heckman recorded three albums between 1965 and 1967 on a label of the same name; but that label was not affiliated with that of this article.
 * Producciones Ictus, aka ICTUS Studios, is based in Mexico City and is not affiliated