Below is a list of all Jazz titles released in the last 120 days.
Annette Peacock
An Acrobats Heart (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 8/Nov/2024 ] "Incomparable" is what the German weekly paper Die Zeit called this album on its release in the year 2000, before going on to describe the music as follows: "A high, warm voice sings fragile songs, Annette Peacock accompanies herself on the grand... |
Charles Lloyd
The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow [ Blue Note / 2 CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Unsettled by the state of the world in 2020, Charles Lloyd began conceiving of a musical offering in the form of a new studio recording featuring a new band, a quartet that would be a first-time convening of four distinctive voices with the legendary... |
Grant Green
Idle Moments (Blue Note 85 Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Time and troubles seem to melt away during the 15 enrapturing minutes of Idle Moments, the opening track of Grant Green's sublime 1963 album of the same name. As the piece unhurriedly unfurls all the unique colors of the ensemble present themselves... |
Herbie Hancock
Maiden Voyage (Blue Note 85 Classic LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Even by the high-water marks set by Herbie Hancock's tremendous 1960s output for Blue Note, 1965's Maiden Voyage remains one of the pinnacle artistic achievements of the great pianist's career. Hancock is joined by his Miles David Quintet bandmates,... |
Keith Jarrett, Paul Motian, Gary Peacock
The Old Country [ ECM / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] "This particular evening was a warm, humid, rainy autumn night in the Pocono Mountains. The room was full of people and outside on the porch more people listened through the screen doors." Keith Jarrett Keith Jarrett's recordings from the Deer... |
Miles Davis
Miles In France 1963 & 1964 - Miles Davis Quintet: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 Box Set [ Legacy / 6 CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] MILES IN FRANCE is the eighth installment in the celebrated Miles Davis Bootleg Series and this edition focuses on the birth of the Second Great Quintet in 1963 and 1964. The music heard here represents the sound of an end and a beginning coming... |
Cameron Pearce
Progression [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] Featuring Ingrid Jensen and Symposium Brass, composer/trumpet player Cameron Pearce says this about his excellent Rattle debut: "I started this project by considering how I might compose for a brass ensemble and soloist by drawing inspiration from... |
Aaron Parks
Little Big III (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Oct/2024 ] Pianist and composer Aaron Parks returns to Blue Note Records - where he released his influential 2008 album, Invisible Cinema - with Little Big III, the third studio album from his acclaimed band Little Big, featuring guitarist Greg Tuohey, bassist... |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
A Night In Tunisia Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Oct/2024 ] One of the greatest line-ups of drummer Art Blakey's hard bop finishing school The Jazz Messengers coalesced in 1960 when tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter joined trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt for the recording... |
Donald Byrd
Royal Flush Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Oct/2024 ] Donald Byrd was off to the races after joining the Blue Note roster in 1958 and had fully hit his hard bop stride by 1961 when he laid down his excellent album Royal Flush. Joining the trumpeter was a state-of-the-art rhythm section featuring a young... |
Avishai Cohen Quartet
Ashes To Gold [ ECM / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] In blazing form, the trumpeter from Tel Aviv responds to the turbulent spirit of a troubled time, leading his dedicated band through a five-part suite that runs the gamut of emotions, by turns hopeful, despairing, outraged and profoundly melancholic.... |
Harry Beckett
The Modern Sound of Harry Beckett (LP) [ On-U Sound Records / LP - released 11/Oct/2024 ] First time vinyl edition of the 2008 album by the much-missed Harry Beckett, a Barbados-born trumpet player who became a key figure in the UK and European jazz scene. |
Samara Joy
Portrait (LP) [ Verve USA / LP - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Born out of her time on the road, Samara Joy took her touring band into legendary Van Gelder Studios in February of 2024. This record, appropriately entitled Portrait, is a collection of standards (as well as one original) and features her singular... |
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Out (LP) [ Legacy / LP - released 4/Oct/2024 ] The Dave Brubeck Quartet's definitive 1959 jazz album Time Out, available on 180g Black Vinyl. Time Out includes distinctive classics such as "Take Five," "Blue Rondo A La Turk," "Strange Meadow Lark," and is a must have in any record... |
Dr Tree
Dr Tree (Limited Edition LP) [ WallenBink / 2 LP - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Originally released in 1976, this highly sought-after local album has been reissued as a limited edition double LP by WallenBink, a UK-based independent record label dedicated to issuing the finest in jazz and beyond. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Seeing [ ECM / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] With Seeing, Tord Gustavsen begins an intricate new chapter in his series of acclaimed trio recordings, initiated in 2003 with Changing Places - an album that is today considered a classic. The new recording with its compact, concentrated song forms... |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Seeing (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 4/Oct/2024 ] With Seeing, Tord Gustavsen begins an intricate new chapter in his series of acclaimed trio recordings, initiated in 2003 with Changing Places - an album that is today considered a classic. The new recording with its compact, concentrated song forms... |
Alice Coltrane
Eternity (LP) [ Antarctica Starts Here / LP - released 27/Sep/2024 ] Released in 1976, Eternity was Alice Coltrane's first album for Warner Bros. after eight wondrous records on Impulse! Combining the drones and textures of India, the gospel and R&B of her Detroit youth and the dissonance of modern classical... |
Alice Zawadzki Fred Thomas Misha Mullov-Abbado
Za Gorami [ Ecm / CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] Vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadzki, pianist Fred Thomas (who also plays the vielle and drums here) and bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado present a rare alchemy on their trio debut, fusing folk idioms from a multitude of sources with free flowing... |
Chris Bangs
Dream World (LP) [ Acid Jazz / LP - released 20/Sep/2024 ] Acid jazz pioneer Chris Bangs returns with a brand new album for 2024, following his early-2023 release 'Firebird', and 2022's collaboration with Mick Talbot, 'Back To Business'. His latest long-player 'Dream World' is set for release on the Acid... |