CTI was a record label owned and overseen by legendary jazz producer Creed Taylor (CTI stood for Creed Taylor Inc.).

He began the CTI label in 1967 as an imprint of Herb Alpert's A & M Records (US). Three years later Taylor took CTI out from under the A&M umbrella and relaunched CTI as an independent label. Most titles from 1970 through 1977 were distributed my Motown.

In 1978, the label was forced to file for bankruptcy protection. Taylor pulled through and formed a new distribution deal with Columbia Records, but this deal was shortlived, and ended in 1981 with Columbia retaining the rights to CTI's master tape library.

In 1990, Taylor reintroduced the CTI label, with distribution initally being handled by Polygram, then Bluemoon, and finially Koch Records. This era of the label lasted until 1998.

Most recently, CTI has been issuing mail-order only releases via CTIRecords.com. The site also sells Creed Taylor productions from the Bethlehem, ABC, Impulse, Verve and CTI catalogs.

Labelcode: LC 1969