George Benson
Breezin' Limited (LP) [ Rhino / Warner / LP - due 5/Feb/2021 ] Produced by Tommy LiPuma and orchestrated by Claus Ogerman, George Benson and a handful of soulful musicians single-handedly created the very first platinum album in jazz music. Featuring 'This Masquerade' and 'Breezin'', this classic album is... |
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,... |
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... |
Bill Evans Trio
Sunday At The Village Vanguard / Waltz For Debby (LP) [ Vinyl Passion / 2 LP - released 1/Jan/2014 ] |
Dexter Gordon
The Squirrel (RSD 2020 LP) [ Rhino / Parlophone / 2 LP - released 24/Oct/2020 ] The Squirrel (subtitled Live in Montmatre, Copenhagen 1967) is a live album by American saxophonist Dexter Gordon recorded at the famous Jazz house Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1967 by Danmarks Radio and released in 1997. Dexter's band... |
Diana Krall
This Dream Of You (Double Gatefold LP) [ Verve / 2 LP - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Diana Krall returns with a new album, years in the making. This Dream Of You is music for right now but it is also a "long playing record," one that feels like a movie that you might share with someone because you know they'll stay with it until... |
Duke Ellington
Blues In Orbit (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 16/Oct/2017 ] |
Gabriele Poso
Batik (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 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',... |
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... |
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
Blue Train (180g LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 4/Apr/2014 ] Although never formally signed, an oral agreement between John Coltrane and Blue Note Records founder Alfred Lion was indeed honored on Blue Train -- Coltrane's only collection of sides as a principal artist for the venerable label. The disc is... |
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 |
John Coltrane
Giant Steps (LP) [ Atlantic Records / LP - released 29/Aug/2014 ] History will undoubtedly enshrine this disc as a watershed the likes of which may never truly be appreciated. Giant Steps bore the double-edged sword of furthering the cause of the music as well as delivering it to an increasingly mainstream... |
John Coltrane
Giant Steps (Mono Remaster LP) [ Atlantic / Rhino Records / LP - released 31/Jul/2017 ] This mono album covers the time when Coltrane - after playing on Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue - was moving away from the life of a sideman and embracing the role of bandleader. The music he recorded at Atlantic features some of his finest work,... |
John Coltrane
My Favorite Things (180g LP) [ Rhino Records / LP - released 26/Jul/2010 ] Although seemingly impossible to comprehend, this landmark jazz date made in 1960 was recorded in less than three days. All the more remarkable is that the same sessions which yielded My Favorite Things would also inform a majority of the albums... |
Joshua Redman Quartet
Come What May (LP) [ Nonesuch / LP - released 29/Mar/2019 ] This is the first recording in almost two decades for this group of musicians: the recently Grammy-nominated saxophonist and his longtime friends and colleagues pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. Previous... |
Kamasi Washington
Becoming (LP) [ Young Turks / LP - released 11/Dec/2020 ] Kamasi Washington composed and produced the original score for Becoming, the four-time Emmy-nominated film that provided an intimate glimpse into the life of Michelle Obama. Produced by Netflix Originals, Becoming documented a moment of profound... |
Kamasi Washington
Harmony Of Difference (12") [ Young Turks / 12in - released 29/Sep/2017 ] Harmony of Difference originally premiered as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art 2017 Biennial alongside a film by A.G. Rojas and also featuring artwork by Kamasi Washington's sister, Amani Washington. The new music is an original six-part... |
Keith Jarrett
Arbour Zena (180g LP) [ ECM / LP - released 22/Jan/2009 ] |