Jazz New Releases
Jazz New Releases
Below is a list of all Jazz titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 1 to 20 of 49
Elvin Jones
Poly-Currents (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Jan/2024 ] After his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, the master drummer Elvin Jones signed with Blue Note in 1968 and began building his own career as a bandleader. His first two albums for the label were spare trio outings-Puttin' It Together... |
Bud Powell
Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1, 1949-51 (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] The amazing bebop piano genius Bud Powell made his most enduring recordings as a leader for Blue Note. Powell's 1949 and 1951 quintet and trio sessions were compiled on the 12" LP The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (BLP 1503) in 1955 featuring the... |
Clifford Brown
Memorial Album (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown recorded two leader sessions for Blue Note in 1953-a co-led quintet date with Lou Donaldson and his own sextet date-that were compiled on the 12" LP Memorial Album (BLP 1526) shortly after his tragic death in... |
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GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Themes From the Songbook Vida Mikneviciute (soprano), Magdalena Ceple (cello), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 19/Jan/2024 ] "Gidon Kremer has perhaps never before revealed himself as intimately and as existentially focused as on this recording", observes Wolfgang Sandner in his liner note accompanying the Latvian violinist's album Songs of Fate. Together with his... |
Bill Evans Trio
Moon Beams (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Bill Evans was left reeling by the accidental death of his brilliant bassist Scott LaFaro in mid-1961 and didn't feel ready to record with his new bassist until nearly a year later. When he did go into the studio in May and June of 1962 with Chuck... |
John Coltrane
Afro Blue Impressions (LP) [ Concord / 2 LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] The recordings that make up Afro Blue Impressions were acquired by jazz impresario/auteur Norman Granz during the tours he produced for many jazz artists during the 1960s, though they weren't issued until 1973. Recorded at shows in Berlin and... |
John Coltrane
Soultrane (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Soultrane is the fourth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1958 on Prestige Records. It features Coltrane's renditions of Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby" and "You Say You Care" from the Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer... |
Sun Ra
The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Engineered by Paul Cady, the sessions featured nine players, including Ra on piano, Bernard McKinney (later known as Kiane Zawadi, on trombone and euphonium), Marshall Allen (alto sax, flute, among other reed instruments), John Gilmore (tenor sax,... |
Joe Lovano
Trio Fascination: Edition One (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 2/Feb/2024 ] The acclaimed Cleveland-born saxophonist Joe Lovano came to Blue Note Records in 1990 and over the next 25 years became one of the most recorded artists in the label's history, building a formidable and far-ranging catalog that explored the full... |
Miles Davis
Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud (LP) [ Classics & Jazz / LP - released 9/Feb/2024 ] The contradictory accounts of Miles Davis' creation of the soundtrack to Louis Malle's film noir Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud have all become part of its legend. Rarely has a soundtrack been so decisive. Close to seven decades on, beyond the myth, this... |
Joe Henderson
Mode For Joe (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson capped off his run of five sublime 1960s Blue Note leader dates with his 1966 classic Mode for Joe, an album bursting with vigor and vitality that found Henderson expanding his palette with a septet of colorful figures... |
Lee Morgan
Search For The New Land (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Two months after recording what would become his hit record The Sidewinder, trumpeter Lee Morgan returned to Van Gelder Studio in February 1964 to create his masterful album Search for the New Land. For the session Morgan assembled a sextet... |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Caravan (Original Jazz Classics Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Originally released in 1963, "Caravan" was Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' first album for Riverside Records. Featured in addition to Blakey are Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Wayne Shorter (sax), Cedar Walton (piano) and... |
Art Pepper
Smack Up (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of Art Pepper's 1960 album "Smack Up". Recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann, the album also features Jack Sheldon (trumpet), Pete Jolly (piano), Jimmy Bond (bass), and Frank... |
Chet Baker
She Was Too Good To Me (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] She Was Too Good To Me was released in 1974 on Creed Taylor's CTI label after a 4 year absence from the scene. And what a comeback: excellent vocal Cool Jazz tunes are interlude with instrumental goodness from the undisputed master of the trumpet. |
Miles Davis
On The Corner (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Released on 180g Heavyweight LP. Scorned by critics at the time of its release, Miles Davis' 1972 album On The Corner is now seen as a forerunner of Post Punk, Hip Hop, Drum and Bass and Electronic music, thanks to its revolutionary recording... |
Nina Simone
Here Comes The Sun (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] On 1971's 'Here Comes the Sun' impossible-to-pigeon-hole Nina Simone covers contemporary hits from George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Jerry Jeff Walker and many more. Reproduced by Music On Vinyl on 180g Audiophile quality vinyl. |
Stan Getz & Bill Evans
Previously Unreleased Recordings (Verve Acoustic Sound Series LP) [ Verve Us / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Bill Evans and Stan Getz are about as close as musicians can get in terms of artistry, musical philosophy and technique. These sessions, recorded in 1963 with drummer Elvin Jones and bassists Ron Carter (Side A) and Richard Davis (Side B), perfectly... |
Tomorrow Comes The Harvest (Prabhu Edouard, Jean-Philippe Dary, Jeff Mills)
Evolution (Double 12") [ Axis / 2 12in - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Tomorrow Comes The Harvest is the accumulative efforts of talented musicians and their visions about what makes the art form of music so special. A theory initiated and put into action by late Afro Beat creator and Nigerian Drummer Tony Allen and... |
The Yussef Dayes Experience
Live From Malibu (LP) [ Brownswood Recordings / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Celebrated multi-instrumentalist and visionary artist Yussef Dayes shares a radiant live EP recorded in 2023 in the Malibu mountains, backed by a hazy, golden-hour sunset. Dayes, accompanied by long-standing collaborators Rocco Palladino, Venna,... |
