concord music group Archive
28 Mar 2013
Album Review: Albert King – Born Under a Bad Sign
Here’s one often reliable method for discerning whether an album is an important one: when you first hear it, do you recognize several of the songs via popular cover versions? […]
25 Feb 2013
Album Review: Otis Redding – Lonely & Blue
Released in 1966, Lonely & Blue was perhaps Otis Redding‘s finest collection of songs centering on the heartfelt, pained end of the soul balladeering spectrum. With its trademark packaging design […]
19 Feb 2013
Album Review: Tony Bennett – As Time Goes By
In 2005, Concord Music Group brought together all of the music Tony Bennett cut for his own label and issued a sprawling, four-plus-hour box set called The Complete Improv Recordings. […]
06 Dec 2012
Album Review: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Ultimate CCR
Few rock acts have seen their catalog subjected to as much incessant compilation-izing as Creedence Clearwater Revival. Not counting live albums and the Golliwogs juvenilia, the group released seven albums […]
07 Jul 2011
Album Review: Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans – Know What I Mean?
As I’ve confessed elsewhere on this blog, by most reasonable standards I’m a jazz newbie. Yes, I did buy Weather Report’s Heavy Weather LP when I was in high school. […]
12 Nov 2010
CD Review: Bill Evans Trio – Waltz for Debby
I’m not a jazz aficionado, but I know what I like. And the 2010 Concord reissue of Bill Evans Trio’s Waltz For Debby, this I like. Recorded live at the […]
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