Carl Jefferson

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Carl Jefferson

Carl Jefferson (1920 – 29 March 1995) was an American jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
record producer

Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
, and was the founder of the Concord Records

Concord Records

Concord Records is a United States record label now based in Beverly Hills, California. Originally known as Concord Jazz, it was established in 1972 in music as an off-shoot of the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California by festival founder Carl Jefferson, a local automobile dealer and jazz fan who sold his Lincoln Mercury dealers...
label.

Prior to entering the music business, Jefferson sold used cars. In 1969, he organized a jazz festival in Concord, California

Concord, California

Concord is the largest city in Contra Costa County, California, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 121,780....
, the Concord Summer Festival; several years later it was renamed the Concord Jazz Festival. He founded Concord Records in 1972 to offer many of his favorite musicians an outlet for recording; the label initially specialized in guitarists (Herb Ellis

Herb Ellis

Mitchell Herbert Ellis is an United States jazz guitarist....
, Charlie Byrd

Charlie Byrd

Charlie Lee Byrd was a famous American jazz and classical guitarist born in Suffolk, Virginia. Byrd collaborated on the famous 1962 album Jazz Samba with Stan Getz, a recording which pushed bossa nova into the mainstream of American music....
, Barney Kessel

Barney Kessel

Barney Kessel was an United States jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. He was a member of many prominent jazz groups as well as a "first call" guitarist for studio, film, and television recording sessions....
) but soon branched out into swing (Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton (musician)

Scott Hamilton is a jazz tenor saxophone, born in 1954 and associated with swing and mainstream jazz....
, Warren Vache

Warren Vache

Warren Vach? is a jazz trumpeter, cornetist and flugelhornist born in Rahway, New Jersey. He came from a musical family as his father was a bassist....
, Dan Barrett, Howard Alden

Howard Alden

Howard Alden is an United States jazz guitarist born in Newport Beach, California. He has recorded a long series of albums for Concord Records....
, Ken Peplowski

Ken Peplowski

Ken Peplowski is a jazz clarinetist born in Cleveland, Ohio, known primarily for playing in the swing music idiom. He is sometimes compared to Benny Goodman in terms of tone and virtuoso....
), Great American Songbook

Great American Songbook

Great American Songbook is a term referring to the interrelated music of Broadway theatre musical theater, the Hollywood musical, and Tin Pan Alley, in a period that begins roughly in the 1920s and tapers off around 1960 with the emerging dominance of rock and roll....
(Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
, Mel Torme

Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Torm? , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known as one of the great jazz singers. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books....
, Marty Paich

Marty Paich

Martin Louis Paich, a/k/a "Marty" Paich was a pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director and conducting.In a career which spanned half a century, he worked in these capacities for such artists as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Kenton, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torm?, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Linda Ro...
), and latin jazz

Latin jazz

Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz and classical harmonies from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States....
(Cal Tjader

Cal Tjader

Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his death....
, Tito Puente

Tito Puente

Tito Puente, Sr., , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., was an influential Latin jazz and Mambo musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey" of the timbales and "The King of Latin Music"....
, Mongo Santamaria

Mongo Santamaría

Ram?n "Mongo" Santamar?a was an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussion instrument. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue," recorded by John Coltrane among others....
, Poncho Sanchez

Poncho Sanchez

Poncho Sanchez is a conguero , Latin jazz band leader, and salsa music singer. In 2000, Sanchez and his ensemble won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for their work on the Concord Records album Latin Soul....
).

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