Tempo Records (UK)
Tempo Records was a British jazz record label founded in 1946.
The record label Tempo Records , with the recently founded Esquire label, was one of the most important record companies in English post-war jazz. After it was founded in 1946 and initially with recordings of traditional jazz a . a. was represented on the market by Humphrey Lyttelton , the hitherto independent label came into the possession of the British Decca and released a number of albums of modern British jazz in the second half of the 1950s - beginning with the 25 cm album Meet Don Rendell in 1955 . Decca operated the label until 1960; During this time around 40 long-playing records were made , 10 of them in 25 cm format and a number of hundred EPs . At Tempo , recordings and a. by Dave Carey , Jimmy Deuchar , Victor Feldman , Tubby Hayes , Betty Smith , Alexis Korner , Dizzy Reece , Ronnie Scott and Eddie Thompson .