Limelight Records

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Limelight Records
Parent company Mercury Records
Founded1962
Country of origin United States

Limelight Records was a jazz record label and subsidiary of Mercury Records started in 1962. The catalogue included music by Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Milt Jackson, Gerry Mulligan, and Oscar Peterson. [1]

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Originally headed by Quincy Jones, its activities were directed by the producer Jack Tracy. Though mainly a jazz label, it also released rock, experimental, electronic, and Indian music.

The label's masters are now controlled by Verve Records and The Island Def Jam Music Group, which has reissued some of the Limelight releases on CD.

The Limelight label was renowned for releasing artistically ambitious gatefold albums with full-colour full-page illustrated inserts, sometimes with die-cut pages, making each album a unique visual as well as audio document.

Discography

Albums

#ArtistAlbum
86001 Blakey, Art 'S Make It
86002Various Artists I/We Had a Ball
86003Baker, Chet Baby Breeze
86004 Mulligan, Gerry Butterfly with Hiccups
86005 Gibbs, Terry El Nutto
86006Jackson, Milt In a New Setting
86007Gillespie, Dizzy Jambo Caribe
86008Kirk, Roland I Talk with the Spirits
86009Adderley, Cannonball & John Coltrane Cannonball and Coltrane
86010Peterson, Oscar Canadiana Suite
86011/12Brown, CliffordThe Immortal Clifford Brown
86013Dolphy, Eric Last Date
86014 Three Sounds, The Three Moods
86015Mingus, Charles Mingus Revisited
86016McCann, Les But Not Really
86017Various Artists Charlie Parker 10th Memorial Concert
86018Blakey, Art Soul Finger
86019Baker, Chet Baker's Holiday
86020 Hines, Earl Grand Reunion 1
86021Mulligan, Gerry If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em!
86022Gillespie, Dizzy The New Continent
86023Peterson, Oscar Eloquence
86024Jackson, Milt Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art
86025McCann, Les Beaux J. Pooboo
86026Three Sounds, The Beautiful Friendship
86027Kirk, Roland Rip Rig and Panic
86028Hines, EarlGrand Reunion 2
86029Peterson, Oscar With Respect to Nat
86030Mulligan, Gerry Feelin' Good
86031McCann, Les Beaux J. Pooboo
86032Adderley, Cannonball & Nat Them Adderleys
86033Kirk, Roland Slightly Latin
86034Blakey, Art Buttercorn Lady
86035Peterson, Oscar With Respect to Nat
86036McCann, Les Live at Shelly's Manne-Hole
86037Three Sounds, The Today's Sounds
86038Blakey, Art Hold On, I'm Coming
86039Peterson, Oscar Blues Etude
86040Mulligan, Gerry Something Borrowed - Something Blue
86041McCann, Les Les McCann Plays the Hits
86042Gillespie, Dizzy The Melody Lingers On
86043McCann, Les Bucket o' Grease
86044Peterson, Oscar Soul Español
86045Jackson, Milt Born Free
86046McCann, Les Live at Bohemian Caverns - Washington, DC
86047Various ArtistsImages Fantastiques
86048Various ArtistsPanorama Electronique
86049 Henry, Pierre Le Voyage
86050 Dissevelt, Tom & Kid Baltan Songs of the Second Moon
86051 The Percussions Of Strasbourg The Percussions of Strasbourg
86052 Hambraeus, Bengt Constellations and Interferences
86053 Bhattacharya, Deben Classical Ragas of India
86054 Mecki Mark Men Mecki Mark Men
86055 Badings & Raaijmakers Evolutions and Contrasts
86056Khan, Lateef AhmedRagas: Streams of Light – Three North Indian Ragas
86057Various ArtistsSantur, Tunbuk, and Tar: Music and Drum Rhythms from Iran
86058 White, Ruth Seven Trumps from the Tarot Card/Pinions
86059Henry, PierreVariations for a Door and a Sigh
86060 Bley, Paul Mr. Joy
86061Various ArtistsResponse/Electronic Music from Norway
86062 Fifty Foot Hose Cauldron [2]
86063Sound of Feeling, TheSpleen
86064Percussions of Strasbourg, TheSignals
86065Henry, PierreMass for Today/The Green Queen
86066White, RuthFlowers of Evil
86067 Robertson, Don Dawn
86068 Mecki Mark Men Running in the Summernight
86069 Beaver & Krause Ragnarok - Electronic Funk
86070Electronic Concept Orchestra, TheMoog Groove
86071Melvin JacksonFunky Skull
86072Electronic Concept Orchestra, TheElectric Love

References

  1. Kernfeld, Barry (2002). Kernfeld, Barry (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 610. ISBN   1-56159-284-6.
  2. "Cauldron - Fifty Foot Hose | Album". AllMusic .