Concord Records has recently announced its schedule for summer releases. Over the next three months, look for the following:
6/25: Colors of Latin Jazz: Samba (Concord Special Products)
Ernestine Anderson: I Love Being Here With You (Concord Jazz)
Kenny Burrell: Stolen Moments (Concord Jazz)
Jim Hall: Storyteller (Concord Jazz) (pictured)
7/9: Susannah McCorkle: Ballad Essentials (Concord Jazz)
Joey DeFrancesco: Ballads and Blues (Concord Jazz)
Gene Harris: Big Band Soul (Concord Jazz)
7/23: Marian McPartland: Live at Shanghai Jazz (Concord Jazz)
8/13: Russ Freeman: Drive (Peak)
Tito Puente: Hot Timbales! (Concord Picante)
Rosemary Clooney: Sings Arlen and Berlin (Concord)
Karrin Allyson: In Blue (Concord)
8/27: Carmen McRae: Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz (Jazz Alliance)
Bill Evans: Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz (Jazz Alliance)
Oscar Peterson: Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz (Jazz Alliance)
9/10: Mel Torme: Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival (Playboy)
Poncho Sanchez: Greatest Hits (Picante)
Dave Weckl Band: Perpetual Motion (Stretch)
For more information go to www.concordrecords.com.
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