These are the 20 releases issued by the Skye Recordings record label during its brief two-year life. A product of popular jazz musicians Gary McFarland (primarily), Gabor Szabo and Cal Tjader, Skye reflected its principals' musical sensibilities at the time and their deeply-felt intentions to make jazz more of a mainstream commodity. Honing all they'd learned during tenures at the Verve and Impulse labels, two of jazz's best (and most popular) houses of talent during the 1960s, the Skye principals recorded, packaged and presented their music with a keen eye toward mass acceptance. Artists of like sensibilities - drummer-turned-vocalist Grady Tate, percussionist Armando Peraza, bassist Chuck Rainey and others - were also signed to the label as part of the "Discovery Series" (the first two of these records are signified with a "D" at the end of the catalog number and the next three break outside of the Skye numbering pattern by adding a "100" to the catalog number which followed the previous release in the Discovery Series). Unfortunately, only Gabor Szabo's Skye recordings found much of an audience and, ultimately contributed to the sales which funded ongoing operations. By 1970, Gabor Szabo left for Bob Krasnow's newly-formed Blue Thumb record label and Cal Tjader returned to San Francisco's Fantasy Records, home to many of his famed recordings of the 1950s.