Esquire Records was a UK jazz record company and label founded by

Carlo Krahmer Carlo Krahmer (born William Max Geserick, 11 March 1914, Shoreditch, London – 20 April 1976, London) was a British jazz drummer and record producer. Biography Born in Shoreditch, London, Krahmer was partially sighted. He made has first re ...

and

Peter Newbrook Peter Austin Harley Newbrook BSC (29 June 1920 – 19 June 2009) was an English cinematographer, director, producer and writer. Newbrook was born in Chester and educated at the Chester, and Worcester Cathedral schools, and the Ewell Castle School ...

in 1947. It issued recordings by British musicians and others, under licence, from the American

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label, the

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label Delmark, and the Swedish

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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. The company had a subsidiary, Starlite Records, for non-jazz recordings, including

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{{Authority control Defunct record labels of the United Kingdom Jazz record labels British jazz record labels

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