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US soul jazz label founded by [a=Creed Taylor] in July 1971, as a subsidiary label of [l=CTI Records]. Label Code: LC 2522 / LC 02522 The label was formed in order to showcase more 'commercial' artists than CTI, with a focus on R&B jazz and blues-oriented jazz music. [b]Please use Kudu (4) for bootlegs[/b] The label became inactive around 1979, was revived again in 1983 with [r=1477465] from [a236212], again in 1993 with the soundtrack [m=810347], and finally with the acid-jazz project [r=7353215] in 1996. Many of the label's titles remained in print in Japan with the [l629306] series.