Carl E. Jefferson

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.