Following Gary McFarland's sudden and tragic death in 1971, Norman Schwartz unaccountably claimed rights to the entire Skye catalog. Schwartz, who managed Skye's three principals (Gary McFarland, Cal Tjader and Gabor Szabo) during the 1960s, was never effectively challenged and managed to keep a lot of Skye's catalog in circulation himself.

In 1972, quite a number of the Skye titles were reissued by Joe Fields's short-lived Cobblestone label. Cobblestone also issued a Gary McFarland compilation of Skye recordings at this time. Some of the Skye titles were reissued in the late 1970s on Schwartz's own Gryphon label, featuring artwork more in line with the look of other Gryphon releases by Phil Woods, Michel Legrand and others.

By the dawn of the CD age in the late 1980s, Schwartz made an arrangement with the American label, DCC Jazz, to reissue many of the Skye titles on CD. Schwartz even issued a never-before released and oddly-named Cal Tjader session and an equally odd-named Gabor Szabo compilation. None of these titles allude much to their Skye lineage and all thrust Norman Schwartz's name into more prominence than it probably deserved. When Schwartz died in 1995, control of the Skye catalog reverted to his estate (his widow). While it is clear that Mrs. Schwartz probably possesses many of the Skye masters, to this day it is unclear who really retains ownership rights of the material.

In the mean time, the cheaply made DCC Jazz titles have since gone out of print, but the Japanese Muzak label did a particularly fine job reissuing eight of Skye's recordings on CD in 2004, four in 2005 and one in 2006 while issuing two lengthy compilations celebrating the Skye and Gryphon legacies.

Other Skye CD releases have come from the Japanese label, Air Mail Recordings, in 2004, Britain's iconoclastic El Records in 2004 and 2005 and Spain's Absolute Distribution has introduced a classy Skye reissue program in 2007 with two Gabor Szabo titles on Skye.