Esquire Records
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Esquire Records is the name of two defunct record label
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Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
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- Esquire Records (UK), jazz record label founded by Carlo KrahmerCarlo KrahmerCarlo Krahmer was a British jazz drummer and record producer....
and Peter NewbrookPeter NewbrookPeter Austin Harley Newbrook BSC was a British born cinematographer, director, producer and writer.Newbrook was born in Chester and educated at the Chester, and Worcester Cathedral schools, and the Ewell Castle School. He began his career as a trainee cameraman and focus puller with Warner...
in 1947. It issued recordings by British musicians, and others, under licence, from the American PrestigePrestige RecordsPrestige Records was a jazz record label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock. The company was located at 203 South Washington Avenue in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under the names of several...
label, the Chicago blues label DelmarkDelmark RecordsDelmark Records is an independent American jazz and blues record label, based in Chicago since 1958. The label originated in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1953 when owner Bob Koester released a recording of the Windy City Six, a traditional jazz group, under the "Delmar" imprint.-History:Born in 1932 in...
, and the Swedish Metronome label. The company lasted until the mid-1970s; after Carlo's death it was run by his widow Greta. In the 1980s Newbrook (d. 2009) reissued much of the Esquire jazz catalogue in an "Esquire Treasure Chest" series of LPs - Esquire Records (Australia) distributed Petula ClarkPetula ClarkPetula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...
's first singles in Australia. The company was also known as Esquire Mercury