All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
All About Jazz readers are invited to join the Monterey Jazz Festival Records Live-at- Monterey giveaway starting today. The new series features the following six releases, available now on CD and digitally. We'll select two lucky winners at the conclusion of the contest on September 29th. Each winner will receive all six titles...
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Asterix Le Gaulois Festival Records
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Live at the 1977 Monterey Jazz Festival Tito Puente and His Orchestra Monterey Jazz Festival Records Listeners often consider an artists recorded catalog to be the defining factor of their career, but in many ways, it presents a limited viewpoint of the artist. Most influential musicians performed thousands of times throughout their careers, and a recorded catalog generally represents a small slice...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
In its second full slate of archival releases, Monterey Jazz Festival Records, an imprint of Concord Music Group, has released a new series of never-before-heard concert performances by jazz icons: Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Shirley Horn, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader and classic blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Monterey Jazz Festival Records, in collaboration with the Concord Music Group, will issue the second wave of six never-before-released, archival live recordings taped on the Arena stage of the world-famous Monterey Jazz Festival. The releases are slated for August 5, 2008, seven weeks prior to MJF's celebration of its 51st annual presentation of world-class jazz, September 19-21, 2008...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
On August 5th, in its second full slate of archival releases, Monterey Jazz Festival Records (MJFR) will release a new series of never-before-heard concert performances by six jazz greats - Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Shirley Horn, Tito Puente and Cal Tjader - and classic blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon. The MJFR label was founded in 2007 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Monterey Jazz Festival....
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
“God Called Me Sing” by a guy named London. On Festival Records. (Thanks to LP cover lover, Jeff)
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The Festival Network LLC (FN), a leader in developing and producing festivals in distinctive locations around the world for discerning partners, artists and audiences, announced today that Jason Olaine has joined the team as vice president of programming and Jay Sweet has been named associate producer for the Newport Folk Festival, Whistler Music Festival and a soon...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
Music Reviews: Having celebrated its 50th anniversary in September, the Monterey Jazz Festival is determined to keep the party going. The festival started its own record label, Monterey Jazz Festival Records, releasing first a series of historic performances, and just last week, a set from the 2007 festival by a carefully chosen band of all-stars. These same all-stars have been sent on a strenuous...
Julian Cope presents Head Heritage (Free subscription) | 12/14/2007
The first album by the French group Catherine Ribeiro+Alpes was the oddly named, No...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/09/2007
In August 2007, Monterey Jazz Festival Records (in collaboration with the Concord Records Group) released five new CDs from its vast archives of live dates from the 50-year history of the Monterey Jazz Festival. The magical, natural setting of this coastal city south of San Francisco is a favorite of musicians, fans and critics alike. That scene of wonder served as the milieu for countless classic...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/08/2007
Is Monterey, California a perfect location to hold a jazz festival? The answer for the past 50 years has been a resounding "yes." Conceived by Ralph Gleason and Jimmy Lyons, the notion that jazz should and could be presented on a large scale to West Coast audiences was a challenging one. The American government had just about burned out on the concept of supporting jazz (abroad) as a cultural ambassador...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 10/02/2007
Has it really been nearly two weeks since the last installment of "Notes from the Net"? I guess so, because there are a lot of news items piled up in the ol' inbox: * Let's start things off with our traditional roundup of Miles Davis -related news, specifically Ben Ratliff 's New York Times review of a newly issued Davis CD, Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival , one of a series of live recordings...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/17/2007
Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) is the most famous musician in jazz history, so it's not surprising that he has a lot of CDs out. Most of the dozens released in the past several years, however, are either of the barrel-scraping variety - endless repackagings of the same classics - or obscure dates released on even more obscure foreign labels...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/15/2007
Record Release Launch Party for Monterey Jazz Festival's Historic Series of Archival Recordings, August 25, 2007 at Sand City Borders on Monterey Peninsula Six CDs from Monterey Jazz Festival Records Include Unreleased Sets from Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughn and More...
