Tempo Records (UK)

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Tempo Records was a British record label. This label was a jazz subsidiary of British Decca. This label had two periods of activity. In the late 'forties and early 'fifties musicians working in the revivalist idiom recorded for the marque. Recordings of this kind of jazz largely dried up after 1953. From about 1955, modernists such as Jimmy Deuchar, Tubby Hayes and Dizzy Reece were recorded. The last recording session took place in late 1960, and the label was subsequently wound up. The majority of the recordings by modern jazz musicians have been reissued on CD by Jasmine Records.