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Discovery Records is a United States based Record Label known for its recordings of Jazz music.

Discovery was founded in 1948 by jazz fan and promoter Albert Marx . Marx recorded such jazz notables as Dizzy Gillespie , Red Norvo , and Charlie Mingus for issue on his Discovery label, headquartered in Hollywood, California .

Marx acquired the back-catalogues of Musicraft Records and Trend Records and reissued them on Discovery through the 1980s . His estate sold the Discovery, Trend and Musicraft jazz labels in 1991 to Jac Holzman which he refashioned into a fully contemporary label. In 1993 , Discovery Records was acquired by Warner Music Group .


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