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| | Jazz Labels A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21) |
 | | Affiliated with Island Records, Antilles by the early '90s (under the direction of its president Brian Bacchus) had releases by James Clay, Johnny Griffin, Frank Morgan, J.J. Johnson, Peter Apfelbaum, Randy Weston, Steve Turre, Teddy Edwards and Kenny Drew, Jr., among others. |
 | | Atlantic Records was founded in 1947 by Herb Abramson and Ahmet Ertegun. |
 | | From the start it recorded a lot of jazz although Atlantic soon became well-known as one of the top RandB labels; major successes through the years in the latter area include Big Joe Turner, Charles and Aretha Franklin. |
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