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The Best Of The Concord Years

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disc One: Serengeti; Linda Chicana; Aleluia; Evil Ways; Close Enough for Love; Roger's Samba; Quietly There; Besame Mucho; Mambo Mindoro; Don't Look Back; Bye Bye Blues;
Disc Two: Speak Low; Will You Still Be Mine?; Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing; Cuban Fantasy; Gauchi Guaro (Soul Sauce); Naima; Shoshana; The Continental; Santo Domingo; Mindano

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Cal Tjader: The Best of the Concord Years

Read "The Best of the Concord Years" reviewed by Russell Moon

by Russell Moon
April 15, 2004

From 1979 to his death in 1982, Cal Tjader recorded six albums for Concord. The record label created a new imprint, Concord Picante, for his Latin recordings. Concord has now released The Best Of The Concord Years, which is made up of two 55 minute CDs, comprising more than a third of Tjader's output for the ...

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Cal Tjader: The Best of the Concord Years

Read "The Best of the Concord Years" reviewed by Charlie B. Dahan

by Charlie B. Dahan
April 10, 2004

The Best of the Concord Years celebrates the acclaimed composer, bandleader and vibraphonist Cal Tjader’s last four years, 1979 through 1982. Tjader combined Latin, be bop and cool West Coast themes into an inspiring and influential blend of some of the best modern recordings of jazz. This double disc package opens with two ...

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Cal Tjader: The Best of the Concord Years

Read "The Best of the Concord Years" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
April 8, 2004

Vibraphonist/percussionist/bandleader Cal Tjader said it right when he claimed “I am not an innovator. I am not a pathfinder. I am a participator.” While he never pushed the envelope of Afro-Cuban music, he did go a long way in popularizing it. With albums like La Onda Va Bien winning a Grammy award, the humble Tjader managed ...

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The Best Of The Concord Years

By Ray Brown

Label: Abracadabra Music
Released: 2002

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The Best of the Concord Years

By Charlie Byrd

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2000
Track listing: Disc One: 1. It Don

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Charlie Byrd: The Best of the Concord Years

by David Adler
December 1, 2000

The late Charlie Byrd was one of those jazz figures whose choice of instrument alone made him stand out. His nylon-string guitar was ideally suited to the bossa nova idiom, in which he made his most famous historical contributions. This two-disc package captures Byrd a bit later in his career — specifically, the period from 1979 ...

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The Best Of The Concord Years

By Mel Torme

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1999
Track listing: Hi-Fly; Born to be Blue; Lullaby of Birdland; Stardust; Love is Just Around the Corner; This Time the Dream

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Mel Torme: The Best Of The Concord Years

by Jim Santella
December 1, 1999

Mel Tormé sang “You’re Driving Me Crazy" at the Blackhawk Club in Chicago when he was only four years old. Many years later, as a Musicraft 78-rpm single, it marked the beginning of his solo ballad career. This 2-CD compilation includes a stirring performance of the same song made in August 1990 at the Concord Pavilion. ...