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Esquire Records (UK)

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Genre
  
Jazz, blues

Founder
  
Carlo Krahmer

Country of origin
  
UK

Date founded
  
1947

Esquire Records was a UK jazz record company and label founded by Carlo Krahmer and Peter Newbrook in 1947. It issued recordings by British musicians and others, under licence, from the American Prestige label, the Chicago blues label Delmark, and the Swedish Metronome label. The company lasted until the mid-1970s; after Krahmer's death it was run by his widow, Greta Krahmer. In the 1980s, Newbrook (died 2009) reissued much of the Esquire jazz catalogue in an "Esquire Treasure Chest" series of LPs.

The company had a subsidiary, Starlite Records, for non-jazz recordings, including skiffle.

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Esquire Records (UK) Wikipedia