“The concept album is one of the only remaining things keeping jazz labels afloat. Who'd have thought in the mid-80s, when John Zorn's discography was defined by discrete projects, genre collisions and tributes to lesser-known past jazzmen, that this would become the model for all "major" jazz labels by the end of the 90s: If a record doesn't have a concept-- be it "the calypso album" or "remember ”
