# Limelight Records

Limelight Records was a jazz record label and subsidiary of Mercury Records started in 1962. The catalogue included music by Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Milt Jackson, Gerry Mulligan, and Oscar Peterson.
Originally headed by Quincy Jones, its activities were directed by the producer Jack Tracy. Though mainly a jazz label, it also released rock, experimental, electronic, and Indian music.
The label's masters are now controlled by Verve Records and The Island Def Jam Music Group, which has reissued some of the Limelight releases on CD.
The Limelight label was renowned for releasing artistically ambitious gatefold albums with full-colour full-page illustrated inserts, sometimes with die-cut pages, making each album a unique visual as well as audio document.

## Discography
### Albums

| # | Artist | Album |
| 86001 | Blakey, Art | 'S Make It |
| 86002 | Various Artists | I/We Had a Ball |
| 86003 | Baker, Chet | Baby Breeze |
| 86004 | Mulligan, Gerry | Butterfly with Hiccups |
| 86005 | Gibbs, Terry | El Nutto |
| 86006 | Jackson, Milt | In a New Setting |
| 86007 | Gillespie, Dizzy | Jambo Caribe |
| 86008 | Kirk, Roland | I Talk with the Spirits |
| 86009 | Adderley, Cannonball & John Coltrane | Cannonball and Coltrane |
| 86010 | Peterson, Oscar | Canadiana Suite |
| 86011/12 | Brown, Clifford | The Immortal Clifford Brown |
| 86013 | Dolphy, Eric | Last Date |
| 86014 | Three Sounds, The | Three Moods |
| 86015 | Mingus, Charles | Mingus Revisited |
| 86016 | McCann, Les | But Not Really |
| 86017 | Various Artists | Charlie Parker 10th Memorial Concert |
| 86018 | Blakey, Art | Soul Finger |
| 86019 | Baker, Chet | Baker's Holiday |
| 86020 | Hines, Earl | Grand Reunion 1 |
| 86021 | Mulligan, Gerry | If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em! |
| 86022 | Gillespie, Dizzy | The New Continent |
| 86023 | Peterson, Oscar | Eloquence |
| 86024 | Jackson, Milt | Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art |
| 86025 | McCann, Les | Beaux J. Pooboo |
| 86026 | Three Sounds, The | Beautiful Friendship |
| 86027 | Kirk, Roland | Rip Rig and Panic |
| 86028 | Hines, Earl | Grand Reunion 2 |
| 86029 | Peterson, Oscar | With Respect to Nat |
| 86030 | Mulligan, Gerry | Feelin' Good |
| 86031 | McCann, Les | Beaux J. Pooboo |
| 86032 | Adderley, Cannonball & Nat | Them Adderleys |
| 86033 | Kirk, Roland | Slightly Latin |
| 86034 | Blakey, Art | Buttercorn Lady |
| 86035 | Peterson, Oscar | With Respect to Nat |
| 86036 | McCann, Les | Live at Shelly's Manne-Hole |
| 86037 | Three Sounds, The | Today's Sounds |
| 86038 | Blakey, Art | Hold On, I'm Coming |
| 86039 | Peterson, Oscar | Blues Etude |
| 86040 | Mulligan, Gerry | Something Borrowed - Something Blue |
| 86041 | McCann, Les | Les McCann Plays the Hits |
| 86042 | Gillespie, Dizzy | The Melody Lingers On |
| 86043 | McCann, Les | Bucket o' Grease |
| 86044 | Peterson, Oscar | Soul Español |
| 86045 | Jackson, Milt | Born Free |
| 86046 | McCann, Les | Live at Bohemian Caverns - Washington, DC |
| 86047 | Various Artists | Images Fantastiques |
| 86048 | Various Artists | Panorama Electronique |
| 86049 | Henry, Pierre | Le Voyage |
| 86050 | Dissevelt, Tom & Kid Baltan | Songs of the Second Moon |
| 86051 | The Percussions Of Strasbourg | The Percussions of Strasbourg |
| 86052 | Hambraeus, Bengt | Constellations and Interferences |
| 86053 | Bhattacharya, Deben | Classical Ragas of India |
| 86054 | Mecki Mark Men | Mecki Mark Men |
| 86055 | Badings & Raaijmakers | Evolutions and Contrasts |
| 86056 | Khan, Lateef Ahmed | Ragas: Streams of Light – Three North Indian Ragas |
| 86057 | Various Artists | Santur, Tunbuk, and Tar: Music and Drum Rhythms from Iran |
| 86058 | White, Ruth | Seven Trumps from the Tarot Card/Pinions |
| 86059 | Henry, Pierre | Variations for a Door and a Sigh |
| 86060 | Bley, Paul | Mr. Joy |
| 86061 | Various Artists | Response/Electronic Music from Norway |
| 86062 | Fifty Foot Hose | Cauldron |
| 86063 | Sound of Feeling, The | Spleen |
| 86064 | Percussions of Strasbourg, The | Signals |
| 86065 | Henry, Pierre | Mass for Today/The Green Queen |
| 86066 | White, Ruth | Flowers of Evil |
| 86067 | Robertson, Don | Dawn |
| 86068 | Mecki Mark Men | Running in the Summernight |
| 86069 | Beaver & Krause | Ragnarok - Electronic Funk |
| 86070 | Electronic Concept Orchestra, The | Moog Groove |
| 86071 | Melvin Jackson | Funky Skull |
| 86072 | Electronic Concept Orchestra, The | Electric Love |