{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{EngvarB|date=October 2013}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2011}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Esquire Records | image = <!-- logo, such as "LABEL-LOGO.jpg" --> | image_size = <!-- size --> | parent = <!-- parent company, such as "Warner Music Group" --> | founded = {{start date|1947}} | founder = Carlo Krahmer<br />Peter Newbrook | fate = <!-- explain the reason of the closing--> | defunct = <!-- year the label dissolved, such as {{end date|1990}} --> | status = <!-- leave blank unless "Inactive" --> | distributor = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> --> | genre = Jazz, blues | country = UK | location = <!-- headquarters city and state --> | url = <!-- such as "{{URL|www.atlanticrecords.com}}" --> }}
'''Esquire Records''' was a UK jazz record company and label founded by Carlo Krahmer and Peter Newbrook in 1947. It issued recordings by British musicians and others, under licence, from the American Prestige label,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.islandrecords.co.uk/history.php |title=History – Island Records |accessdate=2009-07-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415174212/http://www.islandrecords.co.uk/history.php |archivedate=15 April 2009 }}</ref> the Chicago blues label Delmark, and the Swedish Metronome label. The company lasted until the mid-1970s; after Krahmer's death it was run by his widow, Greta Krahmer. In the 1980s, Newbrook (died 2009) reissued much of the Esquire jazz catalogue in an "Esquire Treasure Chest" series of LPs. Newbrook sold the catalogue in the early 1990s to Marathon Media International, who subsequently sold it on.
The company had a subsidiary, '''Starlite Records''', for non-jazz recordings, including skiffle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://45cat.com/about/starlite |title=Starlite – Biography |website=45cat.com |accessdate=2016-10-04}}</ref>
==See also== * Lists of record labels
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Category:Defunct record labels of the United Kingdom Category:British jazz record labels