Limelight Records was a subsidiary label of Mercury Records

Mercury Records

Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...

. Originally headed by Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...

, its activities were directed by the producer Jack Tracy

Jack Tracy

Jack Tracy was an American jazz producer and journalist.- Early years :...

. Though mainly a jazz label, it also released albums of Rock, Experimental, Electronic and Indian music.

The label's masters are now controlled by Verve Records

Verve Records

Verve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records , and material which had been licensed to Mercury previously.-Jazz and folk origins:The Verve...

, which has reissued some of the Limelight releases on CD.

Albums

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86001
Blakey, Art

Art Blakey

Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....

'S Make It


86002

(Various Artists)

We Had A Ball


86003

Baker, Chet

Baby Breeze


86004

Mulligan, Gerry

Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also...

Butterfly With Hiccups


86005

Gibbs, Terry

Terry Gibbs

Terry Gibbs is an American jazz vibraphonist and band leader.He has performed and/or recorded with Tommy Dorsey, Chubby Jackson, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Louie Bellson, Charlie Shavers, Mel Tormé, Buddy DeFranco, and others...

El Nutto


86006

Jackson, Milt

In A New Setting


86007

Gillespie, Dizzy

Jambo Caribe


86008

Kirk, Roland

I Talk with the Spirits

I Talk with the Spirits

I Talk with the Spirits is a 1964 album by Roland Kirk. On this album, Kirk only plays the flute, and no saxophone or other instruments. It is notable as being the first appearance of the song "Serenade to a Cuckoo", later covered by Jethro Tull...

 


86009

Adderley, Cannonball & John Coltrane

Cannonball And Coltrane

Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago

Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, his final release on the Mercury label, featuring performances by Adderley with John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb...

86010

Peterson, Oscar

Canadiana Suite

Canadiana Suite

The Canadiana Suite is a 1964 album by Oscar Peterson.- Track listing :# "Ballad to the East" – 4:08# "Laurentide Waltz" – 5:20# "Place St...

86011/12

Brown, Clifford

Memorial Album

Memorial Album

Memorial Album is an album by American jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown composed of tracks recorded at two sessions in 1953 and originally released on the Blue Note label in 1956...

86013

Dolphy, Eric

Last Date

Last Date (Eric Dolphy album)

Last Date is the last recorded concert from jazz musician Eric Dolphy. The concert, recorded on June 2, 1964 in Hilversum, Holland, was just 27 days before Dolphy's death of a diabetic coma.-Track listing:Side 1:# "Epistrophy" – 11:15...

86014

Three Sounds, The

Three Moods


86015

Mingus, Charles

Mingus Revisited

Mingus Revisited

Mingus Revisited, originally released as Pre-Bird is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus; it was recorded and released in 1960.-Track listing:#"Take the "A" Train" – 3:40#"Prayer For Passive Resistance" – 3:57...

86016

McCann, Les

But Not Really


86017

(Various Artists)

Charlie Parker 10th Memorial Concert

Charlie Parker 10th Memorial Concert

The Charlie Parker 10th Memorial Concert was recorded 3/27/65, 10 years after the death of Charlie Parker, at Carnegie Hall in New York City. It's A&R director was Bobby Scott and it was released on Limelight Records the same year. It has yet to be reissued on CD.It also marks Dave Lambert's...

 


86018

Blakey, Art

Soulfinger


86019

Baker, Chet

Sings And Plays Billie Holiday


86020

Hines, Earl

Earl Hines

Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, was an American jazz pianist. Hines was one of the most influential figures in the development of modern jazz piano and, according to one source, is "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz".-Early...

Grand Reunion 1


86021

Mulligan, Gerry

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em


86022

Gillespie, Dizzy

New Continent, The


86023

Peterson, Oscar

Eloquence

Eloquence (album)

Eloquence is a 1965 live album by Oscar Peterson. Eloquence was the Oscar Peterson trio's last album with drummer Ed Thigpen.-Track listing:#"Children's Tune" – 1:09...

86024

Jackson, Milt

At The Museum Of Modern Art


86025

McCann, Les

Poo Boo


86026

Three Sounds, The

Beautiful Friendship


86027

Kirk, Roland

Rip Rig And Panic

Rip, Rig and Panic (album)

Rip, Rig and Panic is a 1965 jazz album by saxophonist Roland Kirk. It was recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio by a quartet that sees Kirk accompanied by Elvin Jones , Jaki Byard , and Richard Davis , who have been described as "the most awesome rhythm section he ever recorded with"...

 


86028

Hines, Earl

Grand Reunion 2


86029

Oscar Peterson

With Respect to Nat


86030

Mulligan, Gerry

Feelin' Good


86031

McCann, Les

Beaux J. Pooboo


86032

Adderley, Cannonball & Nat

Them Adderleys

Introducing Nat Adderley

-Track listing:# "Watermelon" - 2:47# "Little Joanie Walks" - 4:06# "Two Brothers" - 3:32# "I Should Care" - 4:28# "Crazy Baby" - 6:03# "New Arrival" - 6:43# "Sun Dance" - 3:53# "Fort Lauderdale" - 3:22...

86033

Kirk, Roland

Slightly Latin

Slightly Latin

Slightly Latin is an album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk. It was originally released on the Limelight label in 1965 and features performances by Kirk with Virgil Jones, Martin Banks, Garnett Brown, Horace Parlan, Eddie Mathias, Sonny Brown, Montego Joe, Manuel Ramos, Coleridge Perkinson...

 


86034

Blakey, Art

Buttercorn Lady


86035

Peterson, Oscar

With Respect to Nat

With Respect to Nat

With Respect to Nat is a 1965 studio album by Oscar Peterson, recorded in tribute to Nat King Cole, who had died earlier that year. Peterson sings on all tracks except "Easy Listening Blues"....

86036

McCann, Les

Live At Shelly's Manne Hole


86037

Three Sounds, The

Today's Sounds


86038

Blakey, Art

Hold On, I'm Coming


86039

Peterson, Oscar

Blues Etude

Blues Etude

Blues Etude is a 1966 album by Oscar Peterson. - Track listing :# "Blues Etude" – 3:53# "Shelley's World" – 5:20# "Let's Fall in Love" – 3:49...

86040

Mulligan, Gerry

Something Borrowed, Something Blue


86041

McCann, Les

Plays The Hits


86042

Gillespie, Dizzy

Melody Lingers On, The


86043

McCann, Les

Bucket O' Grease


86044

Peterson, Oscar

Soul Español

Soul Espanõl

Soul Español is a 1966 album by Oscar Peterson.-Track listing:#"Mas Que Nada" – 2:27#"Manhã de Carnaval" – 3:45#"Call Me" – 5:19...

86045

Jackson, Milt

Born Free


86046

McCann, Les

Live At The Bohemian Caverns, Washington, DC


86047

(Various Artists)

Images Fantastiques


86048

(Various Artists)

Panorama Electronique


86049

Henry, Pierre

Pierre Henry

Pierre Henry is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music.-Biography:...

Le Voyage


86050

Dissevelt, Tom

Tom Dissevelt

Thomas Dissevelt was a Dutch composer and musician. He is known as a pioneer in the merging of electronic music and jazz...

 & Kid Baltan

Dick Raaymakers

Dick Raaymakers is a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist. He is known as a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape music but he has also realized numerous music theater pieces and has published many theoretical essays.-Biography:Raaymakers studied the piano at the Royal...

 

Songs Of The Second Moon


86051

Percussions Of Strasbourg, The

Les Percussions de Strasbourg

Les Percussions de Strasbourg is a contemporary music ensemble made up of six percussionists. Founded in 1962 the ensemble is still performing and commissioning music. The current lineup has played together for 15 years....

 

Percussions Of Strasbourg, The


86052

Hambraeus, Bengt

Bengt Hambraeus

Bengt Hambraeus was a Swedish organist, composer and musicologist.-Life:...

Constellations And Interferences


86053

Bhattacharya, Deben

Deben Bhattacharya

Deben Bhattacharya was a Bengali radio producer, record producer, ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, documentary filmmaker, photographer, translator, poet, writer, broadcaster, lecturer, and folk music consultant...

Classical Ragas Of India


86054

Mecki Mark Men

Mecki Mark Men


86055

Badings

Henk Badings

Henk Badings was a Dutch composer.Born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies, as the son of Herman Louis Johan Badings, an officer in the Dutch East Indies army, Badings became an orphan at an early age...

 & Raaijmakers

Dick Raaymakers

Dick Raaymakers is a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist. He is known as a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape music but he has also realized numerous music theater pieces and has published many theoretical essays.-Biography:Raaymakers studied the piano at the Royal...

 

Evolutions And Contrasts


86056

Khan, Lateef Ahmed et al.

Ragas: Streams Of Light - Three North Indian Ragas


86057

(Various Artists)

Santur, Tunbuk, And Tar: Music And Drum Rhythms From Iran


86058

White, Ruth

Ruth White (composer)

Ruth White is an American composer known for electronic music compositions. While most of her career was dedicated to educational recordings she is perhaps most famous for being an electronic music pioneer, most notably for her early explorations of sound using the moog synthesizer...

Seven Trumps From The Tarot Card/Pinions


86059

Henry, Pierre

Variations For A Door And A Sigh


86060

Bley, Paul

Paul Bley

Paul Bley, CM is a pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing.-Biography:...

Mr. Joy


86061

(Various Artists)

Response/Electronic Music From Norway


86062

Fifty Foot Hose

Fifty Foot Hose

Fifty Foot Hose is a psychedelic rock band that formed in San Francisco in the late 1960s, and reformed in the 1990s. They were one of the first bands to fuse rock and experimental music...

Cauldron


86063

Sound Of Feeling, The

Spleen


86064
Percussions Of Strasbourg, The
Signals


86065

Henry, Pierre

Mass For Today/The Green Queen


86066

White, Ruth

Flowers Of Evil


86067

Robertson, Don

Don Robertson (composer)

Don Robertson is an American composer.Don Robertson was born in 1942 in Denver, Colorado, and began studying music with conductor and pianist Antonia Brico at age 3...

 

Dawn


86068

Mecki Mark Men

Running In The Summernight


86069

Beaver & Krause

Beaver & Krause

Beaver & Krause were a musical duo made up of Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause. Their 1966 album The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music was a pioneering work in the electronic music genre....

Ragnarok - Electronic Funk


86070

Electronic Concept Orchestra, The
Moog Groove


86071

Jackson, Melvin

Melvin Jackson

Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson was an American blues guitarist. He was a contemporary of Lightnin' Hopkins.-Biography:...

Funky Skull


86072

Electronic Concept Orchestra, The

Electric Love