Charlie Lourie; Longtime Music Industry Executive

Charlie Lourie, 60, longtime music industry executive who was one of the co-founders of the jazz reissue label Mosaic Records. Born in Boston, Lourie graduated from the New England Conservatory and found work with the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony as a clarinetist. He also played with a number of local jazz bands. In the late 1960s, Lourie moved to New York and started a career in the record business, holding a number of positions with Columbia records. Lourie relocated to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s to become head of marketing for Blue Note Records. He later joined Warner Bros. records and eventually became director of jazz and progressive music. Lourie and Michael Cuscuna founded Mosaic Records in 1983 in Santa Monica but moved the operation two years later to Stamford, Conn. The mail-order label offers limited edition sets, accompanied by lengthy essays from jazz critics and historians, which are prized by serious fans of the genre. On Sunday at his home in Stamford of what his family said was heart disease.