Below is a list of all Jazz titles released in the last 120 days.
Cliff Jordan
Cliff Craft (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jul/2024 ] Saxophonist Clifford Jordan blew in from Chicago in 1957 with a series of excellent Blue Note dates including Cliff Craft featuring Art Farmer on trumpet, Sonny Clark on piano, George Tucker on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums. The set included Jordan... |
Thad Jones
The Magnificent Thad Jones (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jul/2024 ] The Magnificent Thad Jones is widely regarded as the greatest small group recording of the trumpeter's career. The 1956 date featured Billy Mitchell on tenor saxophone, Barry Harris on piano, Percy Heath on bass, and Max Roach on drums and is... |
Giovanni Guidi, James Brandon Lewis, Thomas Morgan, Joao Lobo
A New Day [ ECM / CD - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Rekindling the familiarly flowing interplay with fellow travellers Thomas Morgan and João Lobo - the trio's musical partnership goes back over a decade at this point -, on A New Day Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi moreover expands the group's... |
Giovanni Guidi, James Brandon Lewis, Thomas Morgan, Joao Lobo
A New Day [ ECM / LP - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Rekindling the familiarly flowing interplay with fellow travellers Thomas Morgan and João Lobo - the trio's musical partnership goes back over a decade at this point -, on A New Day Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi moreover expands the group's... |
Barry Guy / Jordina Millà
Live in Munich [ Ecm / CD - released 5/Jul/2024 ] This concert recording from Munich's Schwere Reiter performance space features improvisation with an expanded palette of possibilities. "To work with these colours is a great challenge and joy!" says bassist Barry Guy of the glowing and ever-changing... |
Norma Winstone, Kit Downes
Outpost Of Dreams [ ECM / CD - released 5/Jul/2024 ] Outpost of Dreams introduces a new duo. Norma Winstone, as always quietly innovative as jazz singer and lyricist, brings her vocal subtlety and poetic sensibility to new pieces by Kit Downes, and to compositions by Carla Bley, Ralph Towner, and John... |
Hiatus Kaiyote
Love Heart Cheat Code [ Brainfeeder / CD - released 28/Jun/2024 ] Love Heart Cheat Code is a snapshot of four musicians dancing together on the edge, 11 playful, exuberant tracks that shine light. Yet, for a band that made a name for itself with its complexity and received critical praise and multiple Grammy... |
Hiatus Kaiyote
Love Heart Cheat Code (Blue LP) [ Brainfeeder / LP - released 28/Jun/2024 ] Love Heart Cheat Code is a snapshot of four musicians dancing together on the edge, 11 playful, exuberant tracks that shine light. Yet, for a band that made a name for itself with its complexity and received critical praise and multiple Grammy... |
Hiatus Kaiyote
Love Heart Cheat Code (Blue and White Marbled LP) [ Brainfeeder / LP - released 28/Jun/2024 ] Love Heart Cheat Code is a snapshot of four musicians dancing together on the edge, 11 playful, exuberant tracks that shine light. Yet, for a band that made a name for itself with its complexity and received critical praise and multiple Grammy... |
Alice Coltrane
A Monastic Trio Vinyl [ Verve Us / LP - released 21/Jun/2024 ] A Monastic Trio, created in the year following her husband's passing, is Alice Coltrane's first recording as a band leader and features six original compositions. |
SCHUMANN / REIMANN, BYRD / PIERINI, PURCELL
Im wachen Traume Delian Quartett [ ECM New Series / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] On their second ECM duo album Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri find fresh inspiration as they follow the trail of Béla Bartók, revisiting the folk music that spurred the imagination of the great Hungarian composer who, in the... |
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
September Night [ ECM / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] Recorded at Munich's Muffathalle twenty years ago, in September 2004, this previously-unreleased concert recording of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet is a fascinating document, capturing a developmental chapter in the music between the song forms of the... |
Badbadnotgood
IV (White Vinyl LP) [ Round Hill Records / 2 LP - released 14/Jun/2024 ] BBNG took the music world by storm with their 2014 LP, III, a brash yet refined record of angular jazz improvisations, lush ballads, kraut rock, & futuristic hip-hop tinged rhythms which led to a couple years of touring the world & collaborating with... |
Billie Holiday
Body And Soul (Limited Edition LP) [ Verve / LP - released 14/Jun/2024 ] Small jazz groups brought out the best in Billie Holiday - especially groups as good as the one heard on this classic 1957 recording. Ben Webster, Barney Kessel and the other members of this stellar ensemble were not just gifted soloists but... |
New Regency Orchestra
New Regency Orchestra (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 14/Jun/2024 ] Announcing the debut album from one of London's most electrifying acts, New Regency Orchestra. An 18-piece Afro-Cuban jazz big band, inspired by the musical melting pot of NYC in the 1950s, but with the punch and power of a whole host of London's... |
Lonnie Smith
Afro-Desia (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 17/May/2024 ] The second in our Mr Bongo series opening the vault on classic recordings from the fabled Groove Merchant Records catalogue. This time the spotlight turns to the Hammond B3 organ maestro Lonnie Smith, as we proudly present a reissue of his cosmic... |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (LP) [ Decca / LP - released 3/May/2024 ] With Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960, Roger Vadim stirred up a scandal. Based on the famous epistolary novel by Laclos, the director presented audiences in the early 1960s with a film in which libertinism, scheming and the upper middle classes... |
Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement [ Young / 2 CD - released 3/May/2024 ] On his first solo record in six years, Washington turns his attention to dance - a natural progression of the Los Angeles born artist's ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His 2015 album The Epic, as well as 2018's Heaven and Earth were... |
Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement (Black Vinyl LP) [ Young / 2 LP - released 3/May/2024 ] On his first solo record in six years, Washington turns his attention to dance - a natural progression of the Los Angeles born artist's ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His 2015 album The Epic, as well as 2018's Heaven and Earth were... |
Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement (Indies Exclusive Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Young / 2 LP - released 3/May/2024 ] On his first solo record in six years, Washington turns his attention to dance - a natural progression of the Los Angeles born artist's ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His 2015 album The Epic, as well as 2018's Heaven and Earth were... |