Run by international renowned jazz bass player Hein Van de Geyn since 1994, Challenge Records is an innovative producing and marketing company from the Netherlands, who's aim is to provide the very best quality products for all lovers of original national and international classical, jazz and pop music. On his 25 years of releasing activity the label has established a superb catalogue with excellent music and a impressionant rooster of veteran and young new artists such as Chet Baker, Jim Hall, Bob Brookmeyer, Jimmy Knepper, Clark Terry, Toots Thielemans, Nat Adderley, Frank Foster, Lee Konitz, Red Mitchell, Philip Catherine, Roger Kellaway, Warren Vaché, Barbara Lea, Gary Bartz, John Abercrombie, Enrico Pieranunzi, Michel Portal, Marc Copland, Paul Bollenback, along with renowned names from the loical Dutch scene as Dick De Graaf, Eric Vloeimans, Jasper Van't Hof, Bert Van den Brink, the Amsterdam Jazz Quintet and the Dutch Swing College Band to name just a few.