EmArcy Records
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| Parent company | Universal Music Group |
| Founded | 1954 |
| Distributing label | Verve Records |
| Genre(s) | Jazz |
| Country of Origin | UK |
| Website | Official site of EmArcy Records |
EmArcy Records is a jazz record label, formed in 1954 as a subsidiary of Mercury Records. The name is a phoenetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company.
During its 50s & 1960s heyday, legends such as Max Roach, Clifford Brown, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Dinah Washington & Sarah Vaughan recorded with EmArcy.
The label name became dormant in 1962, when the parent company was bought by Philips and was replaced by Limelight for jazz releases, but it was revived in the 1980s when the catalog was under PolyGram's control, and has been intermittently used since. Now part of Universal Music's jazz holdings, The Verve Music Group, the imprint's currently inactive in the United States, but is still in operation in the UK.
