Help Candid Celebrate Their 50th Anniversary!

Candid Records is an independent, award winning, jazz record label that specializes in modern and mainstream Jazz, Blues, Latin, and World Music. Candid Records was founded in 1960 and is currently run by jazz enthusiast Alan Bates.

Currently, Candid Records’ prestigious catalogue boasts over 300 titles featuring both legendary classic jazz by Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, Eric Dolphy and more current artists such as renowned Jamie Cullum, Stacey Kent and Clare Teal.

Please check back for new releases, special limited deals from our catalogue, and once in a lifetime events to celebrate 50 successful years and 50 more to come!

In 2009, jazz label Candid Records will be adding new items to their catalogue in the form of 30 year old recordings by some of the great cutting edge jazz men of the 1970s. These unrecognised classics remain as fresh, challenging and vibrant as they were when they were first released under the Why Not label which was acquired by award winning (BBC Jazz Award 2008, Services To Jazz) Candid CEO Alan Bates in the 1990s.

Why Not was the venture of Japanese business-man Masahiko Yuh. Mr Yuh travelled all over America convincing the most cutting-edge Jazz musicians of the day to record for him. The result is a collection of records which have a superior amount of foresight. The musicians Masahiko chose went on to make names for themselves as highly skilled craftsmen in the jazz world.

The complete Candid catalogue comprises over 200 titles, including the modern British Jazz greats such as Jamie Cullum, Clare Teal and Tom Richards who were nurtured by Alan Bates himself. The original Candid Catalogue (the vision of producer Nat Hentoff who in the span eight months encapsulated the microcosm of the New York Jazz scene at the time recording the likes of Max Roach, Booker Ervin and Charles Mingus) along with the recordings such as these make up possibly the most formidable jazz back catalogues in Jazz outside of Blue Note.

Rarely are we offered an opportunity such as this to rediscover such pieces of art. These records will be treasured by jazz fans all over the world and offer an insight into the thriving jazz world which existed during this period in the United States.

Irish Jazz singer, Cormac Kenevey has been voted into the annual DownBeat Magazine Reader's Poll, putting him in such distinguished company as Tony Bennett, Bobby McFerrin and Kurt Elling.

DownBeat, the long running American jazz magazine (established in 1934), is the most respected industry magazine in the jazz world and is famous for it's album reviews and annual Polls.

Cormac had been asking fans at his live gigs, his website and MySpace pages to vote for him in order to raise his profile in the US ahead of some planned trips there later in the year. "I'm delighted to be listed as one of the major international jazz singers! Maybe I'll make the cover one day, that's the big goal for me!"

www.kenevey.com