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Gabriele Poso
Batik (LP) [ Soundway / LP - due 18/Oct/2019 ] Future Afro-Latin jazz house from Italian master percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Gabriele Poso. The entirely self-produced album features guest vocalists Nailah Porter, Nina Rodriguez, Quetzal Guerrero & Sofia Rollo. On 'Batik',... |
Akira Ishikawa
Back To Rhythm (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 29/Mar/2019 ] Ultra-rare jazz-funk/fusion album by Japanese drummer Akira Ishikawa. 'Back To Rhythm' was the final recording in Ishikawa's African-influenced period. He cut this record with his band 'Count Buffalos', featuring Kiyoshi Sugimoto, Takeru Muraoka,... |
Al Di Meola
Elegant Gypsy (180g LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 21/Feb/2013 ] Al DiMeola's second album Elegant Gypsy (1977) proved to become one of the defining albums in Fusion. Featuring Jazz Rock giants Steve Gadd, Jan Hammer and Anthony Jackson, and Flamenco superstar Paco De Lucia. |
Antonio Carlos Jobim
The Composer Of Desafinado Plays (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 15/Mar/2019 ] This Claus Ogerman-arranged masterpiece was the debut album from the legendary Brazilian composer/pianist, featuring landmark performances of 'The Girl From Ipanema', 'Once I Loved' and 'Corcovado'. |
Avishai Cohen &Yonathan Avishai
Playing The Room (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai. They began to explore jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years, with Yonathan making important... |
Azymuth
Águia Não Come Mosca [ Mr Bongo / CD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] A splendid Brazilian jazz-funk-fusion album from the legendary Azymuth, originally issued in 1977, is now available again! The music moves from mellow soulful moods, into screaming disco-jazz fusion, samba funk and synth boogie, and ends with a tough... |
Badbadnotgood
III (LP) [ Innovative Leisure / LP - released 2/Dec/2016 ] Badbadnotgood is a trio of musicians made up of Matthew Tavares on keys, Chester Hansen on bass, and Alex Sowinski on drums. Since their inception at Humber College's Music Performance program in 2011, the three have challenged the rule book on... |
Badbadnotgood
IV (LP) [ Innovative Leisure / LP - released 15/Jul/2016 ] BADBADBADNOTGOOD is the talented young quartet of Matthew Tavares on keys, Chester Hansen on bass, Alex Sowinski on drums & Leland Whitty on saxophone. They formed and became inseparable friends at Humber College's Music Performance program in... |
Barney Kessell / Shelly Manne / Ray Brown
Poll Winners (180g LP) [ Jazz Wax / LP - released 9/Aug/2009 ] If the picture of three grown men hanging onto giant, colored swirl sticks looks a bit odd, or if the title The Poll Winners seems a bit conceited, the music, nonetheless -- recorded in 1957 -- still sounds great in 2002. Besides, guitarist Barney... |
Bill Evans
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (180g LP) [ Jazz Wax / LP - released 8/Sep/2009 ] Everybody Digs Bill Evans was a landmark recording for the young pianist and sported a unique album cover, featuring written-out endorsements from Miles Davis, George Shearing, Ahmad Jamal, and Cannonball Adderley. At a time approximate to when Evans... |
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Epistrophy (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Like their acclaimed ECM release Small Town of 2017 - which The Guardian called "wistful and mesmerizing… tonally ingenious and haunting" - Epistrophy by guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan was recorded at New York City's Village... |
Charles Mingus
Mingus Ah Um (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 25/Feb/2010 ] When driving a band with his upright bass, Charles Mingus looked - and was - gigantic, in more ways than one. He had huge creative appetites (as well as being hot tempered), creating his own combination of hard bop, blues, and avant-garde jazz. There... |
Circle (Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, David Holland, Barry Altschul)
Paris Concert (2LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Circle was a band on fire with creativity. Chick Corea and Dave Holland had just left Miles Davis's band, keen to explore all parameters of new music in an improvised context. Anthony Braxton, equally inspired by Stockhausen and Coltrane, brought in... |
Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 15/Mar/2019 ] Two titans of the tenor collaborate on this landmark 1957 album, perfectly distilling their differing styles to produce a bona fide jazz classic. |
Diana Krall
The Girl In The Other Room (2LP) [ Verve Records / 2 LP - released 22/Jul/2016 ] Undoubtedly one of THE albums of 2004, 'The Girl In The Other Room' features fantastic covers of Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Mose Alison songs, plus originals co-written with her husband, Elvis Costello. WOW! Diana could have simply delivered... |
Ella Fitzgerald
Sings The Cole Porter Songbook (LP) [ Verve Records / 2 LP - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Nothing less than one of the great vocal jazz albums, this Grammy-winning 1956 collection showcased a large orchestra arranged by Buddy Bregman and famous versions of "Miss Otis Regrets," "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "Every Time We Say Goodbye,"... |
George Benson
Walking To New Orleans (LP) [ ADA / Warner / LP - released 26/Apr/2019 ] George Benson gets back to Americana basics on Walking to New Orleans, the jazz guitar legend's tribute to both piano-pounding hit machine Fats Domino and the original rock guitar hero and poet, Chuck Berry. Walking to New Orleans is Benson's... |
Jakob Bro
Bay Of Rainbows (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Oct/2018 ] "There is no hurry to this music, but there is great depth," observed London Jazz News about Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's trio with two kindred-spirit Americans: bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron. This poetically attuned group follows its... |
Jan Garbarek
In Praise Of Dreams (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Jun/2019 ] "In Praise of Dreams" - Jan Garbarek's first new album in six years - features two musicians with whom the great Norwegian saxophonist shares some history - American-Armenian violist Kim Kashkashian and African-French drummer Manu Katché. Garbarek,... |
John Coltrane
Coltrane Plays The Blues (180g LP) [ Atlantic / LP - released 21/Jun/2010 ] Coltrane's sessions for Atlantic in late October 1960 were prolific, yielding the material for My Favorite Things, Coltrane Plays the Blues, and Coltrane's Sound. My Favorite Things was destined to be the most remembered and influential of these, and |
