http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/ Voices Feed en-us Jazz - Johnny Mercer's contribution to the American Songbook is written in chapters, not pages. A genuinely American songwriter, and one of Georgia's favorite artistic sons, Mercer would have celeb 2009-11-18 11:56:04 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/788/ J Jazz - The principals on Sonny Rollins' Moving Out, newly polished in the RVG Remaster series, couldn't have known this at the time, but they couldn't have assembled a set more representative 2009-11-04 09:00:30 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/758/ J Jazz - I love when my assignments includes a musician's name that I recognize but whose music I've barely heard. Although a good friend of mine has praised alto saxophonist Art Pepper long and loud 2009-10-30 10:40:08 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/748/ J Jazz - No other trumpet player -- except for possibly Miles Davis -- could get lost in a ballad, and magnetically pull you in to get lost with him, like Chet Baker. Even better, Baker was double trouble, a t 2009-10-28 13:30:32 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/744/ J Jazz - A new compilation to help celebrate Prestige Records' 60th anniversary, the five-CD Side Steps pulls together almost all of the Prestige sessions on which Coltrane played as a supporting (or side 2009-10-21 12:43:03 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/709/ J Jazz - Young alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon was signed to Concord after winning the prestigious Thelonius Monk Jazz Competition in October of last year. This October marks the release of his Concord Jazz debu 2009-10-20 10:21:41 By Anne Farnsworth http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/686/ J Jazz - Art Tatum was jazz's first piano master, and played with such awesome vision and technique that he is still revered by every pianist who has played it since. A musicians' musician if not a p 2009-10-09 11:17:16 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/683/ J Jazz - Whether you're a Peanuts fan, a Vince Guaraldi fan or both, you're definitely going to want a copy of Fantasy's new collection, The Definitive Vince Guaraldi, which comes out Oct. 6 and 2009-09-25 14:52:09 By Anne Farnsworth http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/643/ J Jazz - Drawn from two separate quintet dates and now part of the RVG Remaster series, Monk features everything that makes just about every Thelonious Monk album so uniquely enjoyable: Strong original composi 2009-09-23 09:00:16 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/638/ J Jazz - Four tunes drawn from three sessions featuring two established leaders and one emerging soloist equals almost zero chance that you won't enjoy Dig It! (Prestige) by the Red Garland Quintet with J 2009-09-16 14:40:09 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/618/ J Jazz - The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by Terry Teachout called "Can Jazz Be Saved?" The piece explores results from the National Endowment for the Arts' latest survey of 2009-09-11 13:15:42 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/604/ J Jazz - The words "sophomore album" are usually pretty loaded, especially for an artist whose debut album was as satisfying and promising as saxophonist Benny Reid's Findings, released in 2007. 2009-09-09 17:42:00 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/595/ J Jazz - You could say George Benson invented contemporary jazz. Breezin', considered a classic of the genre, topped the Pop and R&B charts in 1976 because there wasn't yet a contemporary jazz ca 2009-09-04 12:57:40 By Anne Farnsworth http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/587/ J Jazz - There's something intriguing in the story of a 4-year-old Swedish-American boy who launches his show-biz career as a tap dancer raised by two vaudevillian parents, and later becomes one of the wo 2009-08-31 12:04:06 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/584/ J Jazz - A most heroic yet tragic instrumentalist, tenor saxman Lester Young presented an alternative to Coleman Hawkins' heavy sound. While Hawkins seemed to dig deeply into the rhythm, Young seemed to d 2009-08-26 10:58:14 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/582/ J Jazz - One way that the Monterey Jazz Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007 was to form its own MJF Record label and to release its first titles from archived recordings of MJF performances. That 2009-08-20 16:39:18 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/578/ J Jazz - Herb Alpert, the chart-topping trumpeter and powerful record executive, could sit back and manage the fruits of his prodigious career. Instead, he continues to explore the boundaries between Latin, po 2009-08-18 12:08:36 By Anne Farnsworth http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/574/ J Jazz - Admittedly, you can already find much of the music on The Classic Prestige Sessions 1951-1956 on other classic if not legendary Prestige titles. But seeing all the great music that Miles Davis and Son 2009-08-13 17:01:34 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/573/ J Jazz - Gentle Jaws provides the exception in the prolific Prestige catalog of tenor saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. He was best known for his uptown, up-tempo swinging, but Gentle Jaws, original 2009-07-30 14:11:34 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/567/ J Jazz - Part of Concord's Digital Only series, Groovin' With Tate spotlights the talents of Buddy Tate, a saxophonist who filled two of music's most cherished tenor chairs -- in the Count Basie 2009-07-22 12:33:43 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/562/ J Jazz - Listen to Arnett Cobb weave through "Sweet Georgia Brown" and it's easy to hear how his tenor saxophone stylistically and chronically bridged the generation gap between traditional big 2009-07-15 12:59:20 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/558/ J Jazz - History suggests that The Prestige Jazz Quartet came together to replace the label's more famous Modern Jazz Quartet when the MJQ jumped to another label. They both employed the same instrumentat 2009-07-10 12:16:21 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/556/ J Jazz - Legends Of Acid Jazz: The Best Of Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers has always been my favorite title in Prestige's Legends series. Percussionist and bandleader Pucho Brown was (and remains 2009-07-03 15:14:35 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/550/ J Jazz - Even the most historic journey begins with a single step. Recorded on a single May 1957 date, the simply titled Coltrane (Prestige) marks John Coltrane's debut as a leader. In both its ballads an 2009-06-30 11:40:37 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/548/ J Jazz - Recorded on a hot July 1961 night with Booker Little, pianist Mal Waldron, and his incendiary rhythm section, Eric Dolphy At The Five Spot, Volume 2 (Prestige, RVG Edition) plays like a primer on Eric 2009-06-25 11:10:03 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/545/ J Jazz - Recorded and released in the summer of 1982, Reel Life (originally on Milestone) is one of Sonny Rollins' brightest and cheeriest sets. The album sounds more of its time than most releases. It sp 2009-06-17 12:30:29 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/538/ J Jazz - Memorial Day weekend reflections often turn to thoughts of musicians whose passing, like the soldiers' we remember, came far too soon. One name among too many, tenor saxman King Curtis thankfully 2009-05-28 15:07:12 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//Jazz/521/ J