Formed in 1960 as a subsidiary of Archie Bleyer's Cadence Records, the Candid label was headed by Nat Hentoff, who was given complete control of who and what he wanted to record. By then, Nat was well established as one of the country's leading jazz writers and civil rights activists. Nat would record 34 albums, among them important LPs by a range of ja…
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