Candid Records

Candid Records
Parent company	Candid Records
Founded	1960
Founder	Archie Bleyer
Genre	Jazz
Country of origin	USA
Official website	candidrecords.com

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.

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 original 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 Freedom Now suite is a classic political statement.

The label had a brief existence 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 all of it, as well as previously unissued material.

Since the revival of the label, its jazz releases have grown to over 300 titles as Bates launched a new recording program, which continues to the present time, including albums by David Liebman, Toots Thielemans, Bob Dorough and others. Stacey Kent, the American expatriate singer based in London, was among those who have recorded for the revitalised label—which led to furthering her recording career with Blue Note/EMI; as are Clare Teal, who has 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 [[{{{1}}}]], Kyle Eastwood, Cormac Kenevey, Geoff Gascoyne, [[{{{1}}}]], The Blessing, Paul Jayasinha, and latest signing, the singer/pianist Joe Stilgoe.

Bates' wife, Nieves Pascua-Bates, further expanded the operations of Candid Records 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 group, AFFINITY (whose album was launched in London's PizzaExpress Jazz Club in 2005); and Mon David, who won the London International Jazz (Singers') Competition in 2006.

Discography

#	Leader	Album
9000	Various Artists	Candid Jazz
9001	Spann, Otis	Otis Spann Is the Blues
9002	Roach, Max	We Insist!
9003	Williams, Richard	New Horn in Town
9004	Ellis, Don	How Time Passes
9005	Mingus, Charles	Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
9006	Taylor, Cecil	The World of Cecil Taylor
9007	Lacy, Steve	The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy
9008	Harrow, Nancy	Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
9009	Terry, Clark	Color Changes
9010	Lightnin' Hopkins	Lightnin' Hopkins in New York
9011	Bailey, Benny	Big Brass
9012	Akiyoshi, Toshiko	The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet
9013	Taylor, Cecil	Jumpin' Punkins
9014	Ervin, Booker	That's It!
9015	Lincoln, Abbey	Straight Ahead
9016	Woods, Phil	Rights of Swing
9017	Taylor, Cecil & Buell Neidlinger	New York City R&B
9018	Byard, Jaki	Blues for Smoke
9019	Various Artists	Thee Jazz Life
9020	Russell, Pee Wee & Coleman Hawkins	Jazz Reunion
9021	Mingus, Charles	Mingus
9022	Jazz Artists Guild	Newport Rebels
9023	Memphis Slim	Tribute to Broonzy, Carr, Davenport
9024	Memphis Slim	USA
9025	Spann, Otis	Walking the Blues
9026 *	Mingus, Charles	Reincarnation of a Lovebird
9027	Little, Booker	Out Front
9028	Crawford, Ray	Smooth Groove
9029	Massey, Cal	Blues to Coltrane
9030	Chamber Jazz Sextet	Plays Pal Joey
9031	Paich, Marty	The Picasso of Big Band Jazz
9032	Ellis, Don	Out of Nowhere
9033	Dolphy, Eric	Candid Dolphy
9034	Taylor, Cecil	Cell Walk for Celeste
9035	Thompson, Lucky	Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know?
9036	Ford, Ricky	Manhattan Blues
9037	Hodes, Art	Pagin' Mr. Jelly
9038
9039
9040	Lindsay, Erica	Dreamer
9041	Newman, David	Blue Head
9042	Mingus, Charles	Mysterious Blues
9043
9044	Barron, Kenny & John Hicks	Rhythm-a-ning
9045	Hayes, Louis	Crawl, The
9046	Taylor, Cecil	Air
9047
9048
9049	Bartz, Gary	West 42nd Street 3/31/90
9050	Edison, Sweets & Buddy Tate	Swing Summit
9051
9052
9053	Ford, Ricky	Ebony Rhapsody
9054	Morganelli, Mark	Speak Low
9501	Harrison, Donald	For Art's Sake
9502	Tonooka, Sumi	Taking Time
9503	Gales, Larry	A Message from Monk
9504	Roditi, Claudio	Two of Swords
9505	Cain, Mike	Strange Omen
9506	Bartz, Gary	There Goes the Neighborhood
9507	Bonilla, Luis	Pasos Gigantes
9508	Barron, Kenny	Lemuria-Seascape
9509	Woodard, Rickey	California Cooking!
9510	Shank, Bue and Rogers, Shorty	America the Beautiful!
9511	Reed, Eric	Soldier's Hymn
9512	Liebman, David	Classic Ballads
9513	Abate, Greg	Bop City
9514	Harrison, Donald	Indian Blues
9515	Roditi, Claudio	Milestones
9516	Tonooka, Sumi	Here Comes Kai
9517	Chambers, Joe	Phantom of the City
9518	Ford, Ricky	Hot Brass
9519	Barron, Kenny & Barry Harris	Confirmation
9520	Shank, Bud	The Doctor Is In
9521	Shank, Bud and Rogers, Shorty	Eight Brothers
9522	Jerolamon, Jeff	Introducing Jeff Jerolamon
9523	D'Rivera, Paquito	Who's Smoking?!
9524	Perkins, Bill	I Wished on the Moon
9525	Scott, Shirley	Blues Everywhere
9526	Lewis, Vic	Shake Down the Stars
9527	Woodard, Rickey	The Tokyo Express
9528	Ford, Ricky	American-African Blues
9529	Cain, Mike	What Means This?
9530	Abate, Greg	Straight Ahead
9531	Liebman, David	Joy: The Music Of John Coltrane
9532	Ruiz, Hilton	Live At Birdland
9533	Shank, Bud	I Told You So!
9534	Ignatzek, Klaus	Answer, The
9535	Lewis, Vic	West Coast All-Stars Play Bill Holman
9536
9537	Hodes, Art	Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now!
9538	Jerolamon, Jeff	Swing Thing!
9540	Konitz, Lee	Lullaby Of Birdland
9702	Stafford, Terell	Time To Let Go
9703	Santamaria, Mongo	Brazilian Sunset
9704	Hobbs, Steve	On The Lower East Side
9705	Scott, Shirley	Skylark
9706	Klein, Guillermo	El Minotauro
9707	Shank, Bud	New Gold
9708	DiNovi, Gene	Renaissance Of A Jazz Master
9711/12	Lewis, Vic	Celebration Of Contemporary West Coast Jazz (2-CD)
9713	Bennett, Don	Chicago Calling
9714	Newton, David	In Good Company
9715	Abate, Greg	Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
9716	Ignatzek, Klaus	Return Voyage (To The Golden Age Of Hard Bop)
9717	Hodes, Art	Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now!
9718	Stafford, Terell	Centripetal Force
9719	Scott, Shirley	A Walkin' Thing
9720	Great British Jazz Band, The	Jubilee
9721	Williams, Jessica	Gratitude
9722	Childers, Buddy	West Coast Quintet
9723	Bennett, Don	Solar
9724	Basie Alumni	Swinging For The Count
9725	Bailey, Craig	New Journey
9726	DiNovi, Gene	Live At The Montreal Bistro, Toronto
9727	Martignon, Hector	Portrait In White & Black
9728	Newton, David	Twelfth Of The Twelfth
9729	Ignatzek, Klaus	Silent Horns
9731	Trainor, Brian	Portraits
9733	Bennett, Don	Simplexity
9734	Konitz, Lee & Harold Danko	Wild As Springtime
9735	Childers, Buddy	Artistry In Jazz
9736	Williams, Jessica	Higher Standards
9737	Kent, Stacey	Close Your Eyes
9740	Great British Jazz Band, The	British Jazz Odyssey, A
9741	Braff, Ruby	As Time Goes By…
9744	Jean-Baptiste, David	Feeling Tones
9745	Laubrock, Ingrid	Who Is It?
9746	Martignon, Hector	Foreign Affair, The
9750	Williams, Jessica	Jazz In The Afternoon
9764	Kent, Stacey	Let Yourself Go!

External links

• The Candid Records official website
• Candid Records Philippines
• The Candid Records Catalog and Artist Roster