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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Discovery Records
| image       = DiscoveryRecordNorvo.jpg
| image_size  = 180px
| image_alt   = Discovery record by Red Norvo
| caption     = Discovery record by Red Norvo
| parent      =  [[Warner Music Group]]
| founded     = {{start date|1948}}
| founder     = Albert Marx
| defunct     = {{end date|1991}}
| status      = Inactive
| distributor = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| genre       = [[Jazz]]
| country     = U.S.
| location    = [[Hollywood, California]]
| url         = <!-- such as "{{URL|www.atlanticrecords.com}}" -->
}}
'''Discovery Records''' was a [[United States]]–based record company and [[record label|label]] known for its recordings of [[jazz]] music.<ref name = "MARX">[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-03-mn-1035-story.html Folkart, Burt. "Albert Marx; Founded Jazz Record Company."  Los Angeles Times.  May 03, 1991]</ref>

Discovery was founded in [[1948 in music|1948]] by jazz fan and promoter Albert Marx; it was headquartered in [[Hollywood, California]].<ref name = "BILLBOARD">[https://books.google.com/books?id=9x0EAAAAMBAJ&dq=history+of+discovery+records%2C+albert+marx%2C+Billboard&pg=PA17 "Marx New Diskery Boss." Billboard Magazine. September 4 1948]</ref> The record label would eventually record jazz notables such as [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[Georgie Auld]], [[Red Norvo]], [[Art Pepper]], [[Joe Pass]] and [[Charles Mingus]]. Discovery later recorded such performers as singers [[Lorez Alexandria]] and [[Ernie Andrews]], and Grammy winning composer-band leader [[Gerald Wilson]].<ref name = MARX/>

Marx had first become artistic for later [[Musicraft Records]] in 1944 before starting his own label. In the 1970s, [[Musicraft Records]] was revived through Discovery/Trend by Albert Marx in Los Angeles.<ref name = MARX/><ref name = "MUSICRAFT">[http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/ijs/musicraftf.html Gorder, Erika. Guide to the Musicraft Records, Inc., Records 1937-1960. Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University Libraries. 1998]</ref> He also started the Trend AM-PM label in the 1980s to document and promote talented educational, college level jazz ensembles to include the Los Angeles Jazz Workshop, [[Nashville, Tennessee#Entertainment and performing arts|Nashville Jazz Machine]] and the [[Time Tripping|Fullerton College Jazz Ensemble]].<ref>[https://www.discogs.com/label/12892-Discovery-Records?page=3 Discography for Discovery/Trend/AM-PM records, Discogs]</ref>   His estate sold the Discovery, Trend and Musicraft jazz labels in 1991 to [[Jac Holzman]], which he refashioned into a contemporary label. In [[1993 in music|1993]], Discovery Records was acquired by [[Warner Music Group]] and was absorbed by [[Sire Records]] in 1996.

==See also==
* [[List of record labels]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{AllMusic}}
* {{Discogs label}}
* {{MusicBrainz label}}
* [https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?and%5B%5D=publisher:discovery Discovery Records] on the Internet Archive's [http://great78.archive.org/ Great 78 Project]

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