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Parent company
  
Warner Music Group

Status
  
Inactive

Country of origin
  
U.S.

Parent organization
  
Warner Music Group

Defunct
  
1991

Founder
  
Albert Marx

Genre
  
Jazz

Location
  
Hollywood, California

Date founded
  
1948

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Artists
  
Art Pepper, Clare Fischer, Morcheeba, Gerald Wilson, Tommy Tedesco

Albums
  
Guitar Interludes, 1995, African Marketplace, Who Can You Trust?, Strange Cargo Hinterland

Discovery Records was a United States-based record company and label known for its recordings of jazz music.

Discovery was founded in 1948 by jazz fan and promoter Albert Marx. Marx recorded jazz notables such as Dizzy Gillespie, Red Norvo, Art Pepper and Charles Mingus for issue on his Discovery label headquartered in Hollywood, California.

Marx acquired the back-catalogues of Musicraft Records and Trend Records and reissued them on Discovery through the 1980s. His estate sold the Discovery, Trend and Musicraft jazz labels in 1991 to Jac Holzman, which he refashioned into a contemporary label. In 1993, Discovery Records was acquired by Warner Music Group and was absorbed by Sire Records in 1996.

References

Discovery Records Wikipedia