Limelight Records
Limelight Records was a sub-label of Mercury Records mostly for jazz .
The sub-label was initiated in 1963 by Quincy Jones and headed by Jack Tracy . Initially, they released well-known jazz musicians such as Art Blakey , Dizzy Gillespie , Milt Jackson , Oscar Peterson , Les McCann , Roland Kirk , Earl Hines , Chet Baker , Eric Dolphy , Benny Carter and Gerry Mulligan . In the late 1960s, they switched their focus to electronic and experimental music, Indian music and psychedelic rock.
The catalog is today at Verve , who re-released some of the albums on CD .