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Now established as a record company, Grusin and Rosen were pushing forward and thinking of the future and how to make the label stand out with the evolving technology of the times. Grusin and Rosen figured that the compact disc<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Basis/compact_disc.html|title=Compact Disc - Complete History of the Compact Disc (CD)|website=history-computer.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://obsoletemedia.org/compact-disc/|title=Compact Disc (1983 – )|date=April 16, 2014|website=Museum of Obsolete Media}}</ref> with its optical and audiophile capabilities would be a very important part of what they were trying to do to make the label successful, which was to produce high-quality recordings with the best sound and production available to them including recording venues, musicians and orchestras.
To accomplish this, they decided on a specific album that not only would introduce the best of what they were producing, but also an album that catered to those people who could afford the first CD players available for their homes, which cost $1,000 per unit at the time in 1982 and wouldn't be completely available onto the market until Christmas 1983. After much research, the [[Glenn Miller Band]] was chosen to be the first album recorded for their company in January 1983. Members of the original band, as well as special guests like singer [[Mel Tormé]], also participated in the ambitious project recorded in New York NY. The album ''[[In the Digital Mood]]'' not only became a popular album after its release selling more than 100,000 units, but also one of the label's greatest selling albums to this day, and was recognized as such in 1992 with a "Gold Edition"
They followed up this best selling album with Gerry Mulligan's ''Little Big Horn'' and Grusin's ''[[Dave Grusin and the NY-LA Dream Band]]'', which was a live concert from 1982 that was recorded in Japan and seen throughout the country. The label during this period would be known mainly for its fusion work, but two of the first three releases were the straight-ahead jazz albums by Glenn Miller Band and Mulligan. Another vital addition was recording the great Dizzy Gillespie, which helped the label even more as Grusin and Rosen teamed him up with the best of the young jazz musicians performing at the time, including saxophonist [[Branford Marsalis]] and pianist [[Kenny Kirkland]] for the album ''New Faces''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/new-faces-mw0000188207|title=New Faces - Dizzy Gillespie | Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic}}</ref>
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