Sackville Records

{{Short description|Canadian record company and label}}

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| name = Sackville Records

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| founded = {{Start date|1968}}

| founder = John Norris
Bill Smith

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| genre = Jazz

| country = Canada

| location = Toronto, Ontario

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Sackville Records was a Canadian record company and label that specialized in jazz.{{cite book|last1=Gardner|first1=Mark|last2=Kernfeld|first2=Barney|editor1-last=Kernfeld|editor1-first=Barry|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz|date=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1-56159-284-6|page=486|volume=3|edition=2nd}}Gardner/Kernfeld, "Sackville". Grove Jazz online. In 2011, with Sackville defunct, Delmark Records acquired its catalogue.{{cite web |last=Attarian |first=Hrayr |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/two-sackville-gems-abdullah-ibraihims-iancient-africa-i-and-oliver-lake-and-joseph-bowies-ilive-at-a-space-1976-i-by-hrayr-attarian.php |title=Two Sackville Gems: Abdullah Ibraihim's 'Ancient Africa' and Oliver Lake and Joseph Bowie's 'Live at A Space 1976' |publisher=All About Jazz |date=2 June 2017 |accessdate=3 January 2018}}

Sackville was founded in 1968 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by John Norris and Bill Smith of the jazz magazine CODA. The bulk of the label's new releases were from sessions recorded in Canada. It has also done reissues. In the 1990s it became the distributor for American Music, Chiaroscuro, Nagel-Heyer, Classics, Storyville, and Timeless.

Its catalogue included Doc Cheatham, Don Ewell, Art Hodes, Keith Ingham, Geoffrey Keezer, Humphrey Lyttelton, Harold Mabern, Junior Mance, Jay McShann, Don Menza, Sammy Price, Don Pullen, Frank Rosolino, Archie Shepp, Ralph Sutton, and Buddy Tate.

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