Concord Music Group offering 10% discount for online orders this spring

The Concord Music Group, which owns the back catalogs of many well-known independent jazz labels from the 1940s through the 1980s, is offering another discount for online orders this spring. You can get 10% off the total of any order placed on their Web site, www.concordcatalog.com, by entering the promotional code CATALOG2006 in the designated spot on the order form.

The discount is good on new releases as well as reissues like the new Miles Davis four-CD box set, The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions, issued in honor of what would have been Davis' 80th birthday, and featuring the trumpeter in fine, hard-bopping mid-1950s form.

UPDATE - 5:00 p.m., 5/15/06: A press release issued by Concord Music Group over the weekend offers more details on the new Miles box set. Three of the CDs in the set contain the material previously issued on the LPs titled Cookin', Workin', Relaxin', and Steamin', while the fourth CD contains eight previously unreleased radio and television audio performances. The box's cover features one of Davis' paintings, and the set includes "five complete musical transcriptions of Miles's solos (suitable for framing) and a 40-page booklet with insightful annotations by Bob Blumenthal."

(Edited 5/17/06 to fix a typo.)