High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sabre Records was a Chicago-based label founded in 1953 by Art Sheridan. It specialized in blues, jazz, and doo-wop. Sabre closed down at the end of 1954, when its former owner became one of the financial backers of Vee-Jay, which was growing into a powerhouse of the independent record business. Sabre was a subsidiary of Chance Records, a successful independent record label that Art Sheridan, who previously operated a record distributor and a pressing plant, opened in September 1950.