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Concord Music Group is a record company formed in 2004
2004 in music

See also:* 2004 in music * :Category:Record labels established in 2004...
 by the merger of 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...
 and Fantasy Records
Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is a United States based record label, which was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label....
. In 2005, the company acquired the classics and jazz label Telarc International. On December 18, 2006, Concord announced the re-launch of the soul label Stax
Stax Records

Stax Records is an USA record label founded in 1957, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing Gospel music, funk, jazz, and blues recordings....
; rights to the name were formerly held by Fantasy.






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Concord Music Group is a record company formed in 2004
2004 in music

See also:* 2004 in music * :Category:Record labels established in 2004...
 by the merger of 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...
 and Fantasy Records
Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is a United States based record label, which was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label....
. In 2005, the company acquired the classics and jazz label Telarc International. On December 18, 2006, Concord announced the re-launch of the soul label Stax
Stax Records

Stax Records is an USA record label founded in 1957, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing Gospel music, funk, jazz, and blues recordings....
; rights to the name were formerly held by Fantasy. New signings include Angie Stone
Angie Stone

Angie Stone...
 and Nikka Costa
Nikka Costa

Domenica "Nikka" Costa is an United States singer whose music combines elements of funk, soul music, and blues. She also had a career as a child singer....
.

On March 12, 2007, Concord Music Group and Starbucks
Starbucks

Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and List of coffeehouse chains based in Seattle, Washington, United States. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 16,120 stores in 44 countries....
 jointly founded the Hear Music
Hear Music

Hear Music is the brand name of Starbucks' retail music concept and record label. Hear Music began as a catalog company in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1990 before being purchased by Starbucks in 1999....
 label, which has released albums by artists that include Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
, Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
, James Taylor
James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
, John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp

John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names John Cougar and John Cougar Mellencamp, is a Grammy-winning United States rock music singer-songwriter, musician, artist and occasional actor....
 and more.

Physical distribution for most countries is handled by Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the Record industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Music industry....
. In smaller markets such as those in Africa and Eastern Europe, local independent labels that represent Universal license the catalogue.

Labels

  • Concord Jazz
  • Concord Picante
  • 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...
  • Contemporary Records
    Contemporary Records

    Contemporary Records was a jazz record label founded by Lester Koenig in 1951 in music in Los Angeles. Contemporary concentrated on the West Coast jazz, recording such artists as Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, the Curtis Counce Group , Ben Webster, Art Pepper, Shelly Manne, Hampton Hawes, Barney Kessel and Leroy Vinnegar....
  • Debut Records
    Debut Records

    Debut Records was a United States jazz record label, which was founded in 1952 in music by bassist Charles Mingus, his then-wife Celia and drummer Max Roach....
  • Fantasy Records
    Fantasy Records

    Fantasy Records is a United States based record label, which was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label....
  • Feinery Records
  • Galaxy Records
    Galaxy Records

    Galaxy Records was a subsidiary of Fantasy Records. It was established in 1951 in music and has been reactived several times. Its first incarnation was as a 1950s jazz record label....
  • Heads Up International
    Heads Up International

    Heads Up International is an independent jazz and contemporary instrumental label located in Cleveland, Ohio.Founded in 1990 by Dave Love, Heads Up International has gained international recognition for its contribution to the world of contemporary instrumental music....
  • Hear Music
    Hear Music

    Hear Music is the brand name of Starbucks' retail music concept and record label. Hear Music began as a catalog company in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1990 before being purchased by Starbucks in 1999....
  • Kicking Mule Records
    Kicking Mule Records

    Kicking Mule Records was a record label founded in 1972 in music by Stefan Grossman and ED Denson, who had previously been a co-founder of Takoma Records....
  • Milestone Records
    Milestone Records

    Milestone Records is a United States based jazz record label, founded in 1966 in music by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City. The company was incorporated into Fantasy Records in 1972, since then it has been used as a reissue as well as for new recordings....
  • Original Blues Classics
  • Original Jazz Classics
    Original Jazz Classics

    Original Jazz Classics was started in 1983 in music as an imprint of Fantasy Records. Under this name facsimiles of original editions of jazz LP have been reissued on CD and formerly on LP and cassette also....
  • Pablo Records
    Pablo Records

    Pablo Records was a record label founded by Norman Granz in 1973 in music, some ten years after he had sold his jazz labels to MGM Records.Pablo initially featured recordings by acts that he managed: Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass....
  • Peak Records
    Peak Records

    Peak Records is a record label that was co-founded by The Rippingtons leader and guitarist Russ Freeman & Andi Howard in 1994 in music.The early years, Peak founded as a production for Russ' group The Rippingtons in GRP Records....
  • Playboy Jazz Records
    Playboy Records

    Playboy Records was a record label in Los Angeles, California. Artists recording for the label included Barbi Benton, Blue Ash, Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, Jeanne French , Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, Ivory, and Mickey Gilley, and Joey Stec....
  • Prestige Records
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
  • Reality Records
  • Riverside Records
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
  • Rockingale Records
  • Specialty Records
    Specialty Records

    Specialty Records was an United States record label based in Los Angeles. It was originally launched as Juke Box Records in 1946 in music, but later renamed by its owner Art Rupe when he parted company with a couple of his original partners....
  • Stax Records
    Stax Records

    Stax Records is an USA record label founded in 1957, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing Gospel music, funk, jazz, and blues recordings....
  • Stretch Records
    Stretch Records

    Stretch Records was established in 1997 by pianist/composer/producer Chick Corea and music industry veteran Ron Moss.The label claims to promote "music with no boundaries" though it has mostly released jazz music....
  • Takoma Records
    Takoma Records

    Takoma Records was a small but influential record label founded by John Fahey in the late 1950s. It was named after Fahey's hometown, the Washington, D.C....
  • Telarc Records
    Telarc International Corporation

    Telarc International Corporation is an independent record label, based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and founded in 1977 in music by two classically trained musicians and former teachers, Jack Renner and Robert Woods ....
  • The Jazz Alliance records
  • Volt Records


Note


  • Telarc Records was acquired by Concord Music Group in 2005.


See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...


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