Legendary Jazz label founded in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Alumni have included the great and good of the jazz world, including Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd, Grant Green, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and many more More ...