[1] From 1943, the label released recordings in the jazz idiom produced by Harry Lim.
[1][3] The Keynote jazz sessions were comprehensively reissued in 1986 when Nippon Phonogram/PolyGram released a 21 LP set with 115 previously unissued takes.
[4][5] Robert Palmer in The New York Times in October 1986 described it as "a much more substantial addition to the treasury of absolutely essential classic jazz performances than one could have expected or hoped for this late in the game.
"[6] In 2013, a 11-CD set of Keynote jazz recordings was issued by the Spanish Fresh Sound label.
[7][8][9] Donald Clarke, writing about Lim's for Keynote, described him as knowing what he was doing and getting "good sound, with no gimmicks.