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EmArcy Records

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Genre
  
Jazz, world

Official website
  
www.emarcy.com

Founded
  
1954

Country of origin
  
U.S.

Founder
  
Mercury Records

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Parent company
  
The Island Def Jam Music Group

Distributor(s)
  
Universal Music Group International The Island Def Jam Music Group U.S.

Artists
  
Max Roach, Dinah Washington, Helen Merrill, John Scofield, Roy Haynes

Albums
  
Sarah Vaughan with Cliffo, Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Study in Brown, Clifford Brown with Strings, Dinah Jams

EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records, and today a European jazz label owned by Universal Music Group. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company.

During the 1950s and 1960s, musicians such as Max Roach, Clifford Brown, Cannonball Adderley, Dinah Washington, and Sarah Vaughan recorded for EmArcy.

The EmArcy catalogue is currently managed by The Island Def Jam Music Group.

Discography

Mono 12" LP series (1954–c. 1958)

References

EmArcy Records Wikipedia