Twinight Records

CTL-E-1197 · Institution · label · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Founded in Chicago in 1967 by Howard Bedno and Peter Wright, who later added E. Rodney Jones as a partner; briefly called Twilight Records until a name conflict was discovered.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BMI-002; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BMI-002:twinight-records; source research type(s): label. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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evidence: artist/label history
evidence: catalog summary

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