Candid Records
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| Parent company | Candid Records |
| Founded | 1960 |
| Founder | Archie Bleyer |
| Distributing label | Proper Music Distribution (In the U.K.) City Hall Records (In the U.S.) |
| Genre | jazz |
| Country of origin | U.K. |
| Official Website | Official website of Candid Records |
Candid Records was founded as a subsidiary of Archie Bleyer's Cadence label in New York City in 1960. The jazz writer and civil rights activist, Nat Hentoff, worked as the label's A&R director, aiming to create a representative catalog of the jazz of the day. Hentoff worked with designer and photographer Frank Gauna to create many memorable album covers.[1]
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[edit] History
Although there are classic dates led by Clark Terry and Coleman Hawkins with Pee Wee Russell, it is mainly recordings of the emergent avant-garde and recordings celebrating the Civil Rights movement that stand out amongst the classic Candid catalog. Recordings by Cecil Taylor and Steve Lacy belong to the first group, and those by Charles Mingus and Max Roach belong to the second, but there is not a strict differentiation. In particular, Roach's We Insist! Freedom Now suite is a classic political statement.
The label lasted only briefly in its New York incarnation, however, and recording ceased during 1961. The catalog passed into the hands of the popular singer Andy Williams, who reissued some of the catalog on his Barnaby label. In 1988, the British record producer, Alan Bates, purchased the catalog outright, and reissued it all, as well as items which had previously not been released. Candid’s jazz catalogue is now an impressive collection of over 300 titles including those by David Liebman, Toots Thielemans, Bob Dorough and others. Bates also launched a new recording program, which continues to the present time. Stacey Kent, the American expatriate singer based in London, was among those who recorded for the revitalised label -- which led to furthering her recording career with Blue Note/EMI; as are Clare Teal, who had since moved to Sony with the biggest ever recording-deal by a British jazz singer; and singer-pianist Jamie Cullum – whose debut album (funded by a student loan) was taken on by the label – and eventually saw him land a million pound record deal with Verve Records. Candid’s current artist roster includes Mina Agossi, Kyle Eastwood, Cormac Kenevey, Geoff Gascoyne, Robin McKelle, The Blessing, Paul Jayasinha, and latest signing, the singer/pianist Joe Stilgoe. Bates' wife, Nieves Pascua-Bates, is further expanding the operations of Candid Records, particularly in the Asia-Pacific, by setting up a subsidiary in the Philippines. The most notable recording artists of the fledgling Asian jazz label, Candid Records Philippines, are the Filipino-British singer-songwriter, Mishka Adams, who had since been migrated to the mainstream Candid U.K. label; the guitarist-composer, Johnny Alegre with his jazz supergroup, AFFINITY (whose album was launched in London's famed PizzaExpress Jazz Club in 2005); and Mon David, who won the prestigious London International Jazz (Singers') Competition in 2006.
[edit] Early Discography
| # | Leader | Album |
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9000 |
Various Artists |
Candid Jazz |
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9001 |
Otis Spann Is The Blues |
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9002 |
Roach, Max |
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9003 |
New Horn In Town |
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9004 |
How Time Passes |
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9005 |
Mingus, Charles |
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9006 |
Taylor, Cecil |
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9007 |
Lacy, Steve |
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9008 |
Wild Women Don't Have The Blues |
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9009 |
Color Changes |
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9010 |
In New York |
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9011 |
Big Brass |
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9012 |
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9013 |
Taylor, Cecil |
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9014 |
That's It |
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9015 |
Straight Ahead |
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9016 |
Rights Of Swing |
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9017 |
Taylor, Cecil & Buell Neidlinger |
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9018 |
Blues For Smoke |
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9019 |
Various Artists |
Jazz Life, The |
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9020 |
Jazz Reunion |
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9021 |
Mingus, Charles |
Mingus |
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9022 |
Various Artists |
Newport Rebels |
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9023 |
Tribute to Broonzy, Carr, Davenport, etc |
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9024 |
Memphis Slim |
USA |
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9025 |
Spann, Otis |
Walking The Blues |
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9026 * |
Mingus, Charles |
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9027 |
Out Front |
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9028 |
Crawford, Ray |
Smooth Groove |
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9029 |
Blues To Coltrane |
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9030 |
Chamber Jazz Sextet |
Plays Pal Joey |
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9031 |
Picasso Of Big Band Jazz, The |
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9032 |
Ellis, Don |
Out Of Nowhere |
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9033 |
Candid Dolphy |
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9034 |
Taylor, Cecil |
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9035 |
Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know? |
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9036 |
Manhattan Blues |
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9037 |
Pagin' Mr. Jelly |
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9038 |
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9039 |
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9040 |
Dreamer |
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9041 |
Blue Head |
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9042 |
Mingus, Charles |
Mysterious Blues |
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9043 |
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9044 |
Barron, Kenny & John Hicks |
Rhythm-a-ning |
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9045 |
Crawl, The |
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9046 |
Taylor, Cecil |
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9047 |
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9048 |
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9049 |
West 42nd Street 3/31/90 |
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9050 |
Swing Summit |
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9051 |
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9052 |
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9053 |
Ford, Ricky |
Ebony Rhapsody |
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9054 |
Morganelli, Mark |
Speak Low |
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9501 |
For Art's Sake |
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9502 |
Tonooka, Sumi |
Taking Time |
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9503 |
Message From Monk, A |
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9504 |
Two Of Swords |
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9505 |
Strange Omen |
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9506 |
Bartz, Gary |
There Goes The Neighborhood |
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9507 |
Pasos Gigantes |
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9508 |
Lemuria-Seascape |
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9509 |
Woodard, Rickey |
California Cooking! |
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9510 |
Shank, Bue and Rogers, Shorty |
America The Beautiful! |
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9511 |
Soldier's Hymn |
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9512 |
Classic Ballads |
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9513 |
Bop City |
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9514 |
Harrison, Donald |
Indian Blues |
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9515 |
Roditi, Claudio |
Milestones |
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9516 |
Tonooka, Sumi |
Here Comes Kai |
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9517 |
Phantom Of The City |
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9518 |
Ford, Ricky |
Hot Brass |
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9519 |
Barron, Kenny & Barry Harris |
Confirmation |
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9520 |
Doctor Is In, The |
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9521 |
Shank, Bud and Rogers, Shorty |
Eight Brothers |
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9522 |
Jerolamon, Jeff |
Introducing |
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9523 |
Who's Smoking?! |
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9524 |
I Wished On The Moon |
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9525 |
Blues Everywhere |
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9526 |
Shake Down The Stars |
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9527 |
Woodard, Rickey |
Tokyo Express, The |
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9528 |
Ford, Ricky |
American-African Blues |
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9529 |
Cain, Mike |
What Means This? |
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9530 |
Abate, Greg |
Straight Ahead |
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9531 |
Liebman, David |
Joy: The Music Of John Coltrane |
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9532 |
Live At Birdland |
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9533 |
Shank, Bud |
I Told You So! |
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9534 |
Answer, The |
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9535 |
Lewis, Vic |
West Coast All-Stars Play Bill Holman |
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9536 |
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9537 |
Hodes, Art |
Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now! |
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9538 |
Jerolamon, Jeff |
Swing Thing! |
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9540 |
Lullaby Of Birdland |
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9702 |
Time To Let Go |
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9703 |
Brazilian Sunset |
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9704 |
Hobbs, Steve |
On The Lower East Side |
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9705 |
Scott, Shirley |
Skylark |
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9706 |
El Minotauro |
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9707 |
Shank, Bud |
New Gold |
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9708 |
DiNovi, Gene |
Renaissance Of A Jazz Master |
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9711/12 |
Lewis, Vic |
Celebration Of Contemporary West Coast Jazz (2-CD) |
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9713 |
Bennett, Don |
Chicago Calling |
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9714 |
In Good Company |
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9715 |
Abate, Greg |
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
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9716 |
Ignatzek, Klaus |
Return Voyage (To The Golden Age Of Hard Bop) |
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9717 |
Hodes, Art |
Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now! |
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9718 |
Stafford, Terell |
Centripetal Force |
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9719 |
Scott, Shirley |
Walkin' Thing, A |
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9720 |
Great British Jazz Band, The |
Jubilee |
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9721 |
Williams, Jessica |
Gratitude |
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9722 |
West Coast Quintet |
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9723 |
Bennett, Don |
Solar |
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9724 |
Basie Alumni |
Swinging For The Count |
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9725 |
Bailey, Craig |
New Journey |
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9726 |
DiNovi, Gene |
Live At The Montreal Bistro, Toronto |
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9727 |
Martignon, Hector |
Portrait In White & Black |
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9728 |
Newton, David |
Twelfth Of The Twelfth |
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9729 |
Ignatzek, Klaus |
Silent Horns |
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9731 |
Trainor, Brian |
Portraits |
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9733 |
Bennett, Don |
Simplexity |
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9734 |
Konitz, Lee & Harold Danko |
Wild As Springtime |
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9735 |
Childers, Buddy |
Artistry In Jazz |
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9736 |
Higher Standards |
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9737 |
Close Your Eyes |
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9740 |
Great British Jazz Band, The |
British Jazz Odyssey, A |
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9741 |
As Time Goes By… |
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9744 |
Jean-Baptiste, David |
Feeling Tones |
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9745 |
Who Is It? |
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9746 |
Martignon, Hector |
Foreign Affair, The |
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9750 |
Williams, Jessica |
Jazz In The Afternoon |
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9764 |
Kent, Stacey |
Let Yourself Go! |
