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Carl E. Jefferson

Carl E. Jefferson is credited on 681 releases across 569 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1974–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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American jazz record producer, founder of Concord Records
Born 10 December 1919 in Alameda, California
Died 29 March 1995
Carl Jefferson was a businessman who owned a successful automotive dealership, and he was also a great fan of mainstream jazz and swing music. He created the Concord Summer Festival in 1969 in Concord, California, a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area, to showcase the jazz artists he loved. (The festival was later renamed the Concord Jazz Festival.) Jefferson founded the Concord Jazz record label in 1972 to record the kind of swing musicians featured at his festival who were not otherwise being recorded by record labels. In 1980, he launched Concord Jazz Picante to record Cal Tjader and other Latin jazz artists. He ran the Concord Jazz labels from 1972 until 1994, when he sold Concord to Alliance Entertainment. Jefferson produced over 500 albums for Concord.
Carl Jefferson died in March 1995.

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