[1] The company was a division of Music Minus One and also owned the label Classic Jazz.
It started with reissues, then moved on to new recordings covering various types of jazz.
[2] Many Inner City albums were also issued on the Japanese East Wind Records, including Sam Morrison's Dune, The Three (Joe Sample, Ray Brown, Shelly Manne), and albums from Japanese musicians Sadao Watanabe and Terumasa Hino.
Additional international labels licensed for release in the US include SteepleChase Records, Black & Blue, Vogue, and Enja.
Original Inner City Records productions included releases by Eddie Jefferson, Jeff Lorber, Dan Siegel, Listen featuring Mel Martin, Dry Jack, Sun Ra, Michel Urbaniak, Urzula Dudziak, and Susannah McCorkle.