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Verve Records was originally the product of the vision of jazz impresario Norman Granz (1918-2001). He formed the label in 1956 and moved all of the recordings released on his earlier Norgran Records and Clef Records labels to create the new Verve catalog. The first releases were in February of that year. In December 1960, Granz sold the label to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., becoming a subsidiary of MGM Records in the process. With the 1999 merger of PolyGram with Vivendi Universal creating the Universal Music Group, Verve Records became the hub of the The Verve Music Group, which also encompasses the influential GRP, Impulse! and Blue Thumb Records labels as well as overseeing the jazz catalog holdings of a number of UMG-owned labels, including Commodore, Chess, Brunswick (pre-1958), Argo, Cadet Records, Dot Records, Coral, Decca, ABC-Paramount, A&M Records, Mercury, Philips and Polydor.

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