Monterey Jazz Festival Records

Hi Everybody,
Thanks for contributing to the fast growth of Monterey Jazz Festival Records online! We are excited about the new releases coming out on August 21st on our new record label and it’s a true honor to share this incredible event with all of you. These forthcoming gems are the direct result of the delicate process of transferring the original tapes into digital format for all the Monterey Jazz Festival live performances. We’ll go into more detail of that process later, but suffice to say we had the best folks in the business at Fantasy Studios on our team.

It has been an intense period of archiving and listening, followed by heartbreaking selections of the best performances and moments of the Festival to choose to release. Goose-bumps and burst of laughters are not-so-rare around here anymore. These recordings captured the true essence of the Monterey Jazz Festival in every album that you will listen to: you’ll recognize friendly voices, hear the audience interacting and appreciating the music, listen in on side comments and anecdotes and each time learn something different about these jazz legends who made history.

As we continue to grow and release new records, we will add our own stories and behind-the-scenes insights and invite you to do the same. We will have a section here where you can share your memories of Monterey -your favorite shows, favorite artists.

We feel privileged as a record label to be able to share these unforgettable moments with music fans of all ages and at the same time open a door into the room of a new generation of musicians, producers and DJs who will grow by listening to Miles, Thelonious, Satchmo, Dizzy, Sarah, and all of their friends. We’d like to uncover some secrets about how all this was possible by publishing ‘Gimme 5′: five questions answered monthly by key figures of Monterey Jazz Festival Records.

Enjoy!
Jason Olaine & Simone ‘4MuLA’ Giuliani