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Baked! That’s the best way to describe the sound of Stark Reality’s Now (Stones Throw), an obscure collection of Hoagy Carmichael children’s songs recontextualized as … Read More “Stark Reality: Now is Starkers!”

Back in the 1960s, Carl Jefferson owned a thriving Lincoln Mercury car dealership in Concord, Calif.; the eighth largest in the country at the time. … Read More “Concord Records Celebrates 30 Years”

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra trombonist Andre Hayward handily won the $20,000 scholarship prize in the 2003 Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Competition held at the Smithsonian … Read More “Andre Hayward Wins 2003 Monk Competition”

On September 19, 1953 Bob Koester became a “record man.” Koester was a 19-year-old trad-jazz devotee and college student at St.Louis University when he pressed … Read More “Delmark Turns 50”