Concord digital reissues

[Bluesnik]

after Verve and some other case i saw the other day but which i can’t remember now, Concord is going the easy manufatureless route and offering a bunch of digital only reissues for download.

admittedly, there’s nothing too exciting there but there are some nice bits in between. there’s one Prestige among them i've been eyeing and on the verge of getting from Japan for a long time now: the Jon Eardley Seven. I’m surprised to see it pop up here.

and there’s a Coleman Hawkins, an Elvin Jones, an Osie Johnson, Dexter Gordon’s complete Prestiges and Herbie Harper - Jazz In Hollywood, of which I’m unsure if it is a Nocturne. I seem to recall there was some Nocturne material released under OJC.

overall it's an odd mix of recent releases and historic reissues though, some of which are still available (Tania Maria/Viva Brasil, Barclay) and it’s far from the collector’s wet dream it could have turned out to be.

plus I’m not so keen on the digital format. at least not for jazz. maybe for some more contemporary consumer music, like my dubstep, clubjazz or broken beat. but for jazz and for anything I won’t discard after a year (Brazil and soul too!!) I prefer to have the covers, liner notes and graphic material, to have a feel of the original release, a sense of product. I’m a bit old fashioned here. so I might end up getting the Jon Eardley as a Japanese pressing after all.

the (first?) titles in this new download series are:

Ahmed Abdul Malik - Jazz Sahara

Al Cohn - Broadway (Reissue)

Avishai Cohen - Adama

Avishai Cohen - Colors

Avishai Cohen, The International Vamp Band - Unity

Barbara Lea - Barbara Lea (Reissue)

Bill Evans - Blue In Green (Reissue)

Bob Berg - Another Standard

Charlie Byrd - The Charlie Byrd Christmas Album

Charlie Byrd - The Washington Guitar Quintet

Charlie Byrd, Laurindo Almeida - Brazilian Soul

Charlie Mariano - Boston All-Stars

Charlie Rouse Quintet - Takin' Care Of Business (Reissue)

Chris Potter - Unspoken

Chris Potter Quartet - Vertigo

Claire Austin - Claire Austin Sings "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Reissue)

Coleman Hawkins - Bean And The Boys (Reissue)

Count Basie - Live In Japan '78

Dexter Gordon - The Complete Prestige Recordings

Doris Day - The Love Album

Elvin Jones - Elvin! (Reissue)

Ernestine Anderson - Never Make Your Move Too Soon

Ernestine Anderson - When The Sun Goes Down

Gary Burton - Astor Piazzolla Reunion: A Tango Excursion

Gary Burton - Libertango

Gary Burton & Friends - Departure

George Shearing - Duets

George Shearing - Grand Piano

George Shearing - Piano

George Shearing, Mel Tormé - An Evening With George Shearing and Mel Tormé

George Shearing, Mel Tormé - An Elegant Evening

Herbie Harper - Jazz In Hollywood (Reissue)

Honi Gordon - Honi Gordon Sings (Reissue)

John Coltrane - Blue Trane: John Coltrane Plays The Blues (Reissue)

Jon Eardley - The Jon Eardley Seven (Reissue)

Kenny Burrell - Lotus Blossom

Kenny Burrell - Lucky So and So

Marian McPartland - From This Moment On

Marian McPartland - Live At Maybeck Recital Hall (Vol. 9)

Marian McPartland - Plays The Benny Carter Songbook

Marian McPartland - Silent Pool

Marian McPartland Trio - Live At Yoshi's Nitespot

Matthew Gee - All-Stars Jazz By Gee! (Reissue)

Mel Tormé - A&E Presents An Evening With Mel Tormé - Live From The Disney Institute

Mel Tormé - My Night To Dream

Mel Tormé, Cleo Laine - Nothing Without You (Live At The Loa)

Monica Mancini - The Dreams Of Johnny Mercer

Nnenna Freelon - Maiden Voyage

Oscar Peterson - Oscar Peterson Live!

Osie Johnson - Osie's Oasis (Reissue)

Poncho Sanchez - Out Of Sight!

Ray Brown - Trio Summer Wind (Live At The Loa)

Ray Brown Trio, Ralph Moore - Moore Makes 4 (Live At The Loa)

Scott Hamilton, Harry Allen - Heavy Juice

Sonny Rollins - Silver City (A Celebration Of 25 Years Of Milestone) (Reissue)

Tania Maria - Viva Brazil

Tania Maria, Viva Brazil Quartet - Live At The Blue Note

Ted Curson - Plays Fire Down Below

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Concord On A Summer Night (Remastered)

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Paper Moon

The Ray Brown All Stars - Don't Forget The Blues

The Ultimate Mancini Orchestra - Ultimate Mancini

Tito Puente - Master Timbalero

Tito Puente & His Latin Ensemble - Mambo Diablo

Tito Puente, Maynard Ferguson - Special Delivery

Tito Puente, Phil Woods - Salsa Meets Jazz

oh and by the way, is the Mariano from his Boston days or something from his later years? it sounds like the former, but…

[sjarrell]

I hope that Concord doesn't plan to yank the Fantasy catalog from Emusic. But seeing as how the new Tift Merritt showed up there a day after its release, I reckon it's still a healthy relationship.

[GA Russell]

Monica Mancini - The Dreams Of Johnny Mercer

Highly recommended. One of my favorite vocal albums.

[Claude]

This is a duplicate thread

Please post here:

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=41767

[WorldB3]

I hope that Concord doesn't plan to yank the Fantasy catalog from Emusic. But seeing as how the new Tift Merritt showed up there a day after its release, I reckon it's still a healthy relationship.

If that happened I would be tempted to cancel my e-music subscription. Not that there wouldn't be enough of other things to keep me going for a couple months but I really like having the opportunity to download the Fantasy and Prestige releases if I choose to. As much as I like Tift Merritt I would say her latest while it has a few good tunes isn't worth more than the download.

I did read somewhere because of the Fantasy and Prestige collection on Emusic that Jazz is #3 in downloads by genre on the site.