Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (LP) [ Decca / LP - due 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... |
Laufey
Bewitched: The Goddess Edition (LP) [ AWAL / 2 LP - due 26/Apr/2024 ] Coloured vinyl version, expanded with three additional tracks, new cover art & board game. Composer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Laufey continues her story by writing and recording Bewitched, her second album. Inspired by jazz... |
Abbey Lincoln
Who Used To Dance (LP) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] The late Abbey Lincoln was one of the greats in jazz singing and composition. 65 at the time of this recording, the singer performs a fiery musical statement and maintains her own distinctive manner of delivering a lyric. This 1998 Verve release... |
Al Di Meola
Elegant Gypsy (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. |
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily
Love In Exile (Double Gatefold LP) [ Verve / 2 LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Vocalist Arooj Aftab, the first Pakistani to win a Grammy, wows audiences worldwide with her mesmerizing live shows; MacArthur genius and Grammy nominee Vijay Iyer is one of today's most influential pianists; multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily's... |
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk (Deluxe Edition LP) [ Rhino / Warner / 2 LP - released 27/May/2022 ] In May of 1957, Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers went into the studio with Thelonious Monk to record a one-off album for Atlantic. The Jazz Messengers were a loose collective of young jazz musicians, with a constantly rotating roster to keep the... |
Art Farmer
Portrait Of Art Farmer (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of iconic jazz trumpet player Art Farmer's 1958 Contemporary Records debut, "Portrait of Art Farmer". Featuring Hank Jones (piano), Addison Farmer (bass) and Roy Haynes (drums) with... |
Wolfgang Muthspiel with Scott Colley, Brian Blade
Angular Blues (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel, whom The New Yorker has called "a shining light" among today's jazz guitarists, returns to the trio format with Angular Blues, the Austrian's fourth ECM album as a leader, following two acclaimed quintet releases and his trio... |
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... |
Bill Evans & Jim Hall
Undercurrent (LP) [ Dol / LP - released 11/Nov/2017 ] Deluxe gatefold edition, 180g vinyl. |
Bill Evans Trio
How My Heart Sings! (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Bill Evans' 1962 studio sessions with bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Paul Motian produced two of the jazz legend's most popular sets with both Moon Beams and How My Heart Sings! Displaying more of a mid and even tempo flair than the all ballads... |
Charlie Hunter
Bing Bing Bing (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Charlie Hunter's 1995 Blue Note debut Bing Bing Bing! was a groove-heavy tour-de-force that marked the arrival of a virtuosic guitarist whose unique concept on his 8-string guitar produced music that was both impressive and irrepressible. Hunter's... |
Chet Baker
In New York (LP) [ Jazz Images / LP - released 1/Jan/2018 ] |
Chet Baker & Art Pepper
Picture Of Heath (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Having teamed up on two prior Pacific Jazz recordings, trumpeter Chet Baker & alto saxophonist Art Pepper continued their fruitful collaboration with the supremely swinging 1956 album Picture of Heath (which was originally released as Playboys until... |
Yussef Dayes
Black Classical Music (LP) [ Brownswood / 2 LP - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Dayes introduces Black Classical Music in his own words: "What is jazz? Where did the word derive from? Birthed in New Orleans, born in the belly of the Mississippi River, rooted in the gumbo pot of the Caribbean, South American culture & African... |
Dexter Gordon
Doin' Allright (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
Dexter Gordon
A Swingin' Affair (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Just 2 days after saxophonist Dexter Gordon recorded his classic album GO! in August 1962 he brought the same quartet with pianist Sonny Clark, bassist Butch Warren, and drummer Billy Higgins back into Rudy Van Gelder's studio to record the equally... |
Diana Krall
Live In Paris (180g Double LP) [ Verve Records / 2 LP - released 22/Jul/2016 ] Recorded live at the Paris Olympia to a sell out audience, the captivating voice of Diana Krall delivers a sensual collection of romantic ballads and bossa novas. |
Donald Byrd
At The Half Note Cafe (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Feb/2023 ] In November 1960, trumpeter Donald Byrd brought his quintet into the Half Note Café in New York City to record this soulful, swinging, and highly enjoyable live set of hard bop featuring Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone, Duke Pearson on piano,... |
Donald Byrd
Ethiopian Nights (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] For two days in August 1971, Donald Byrd took a powerhouse band to A&M studios in Los Angeles to record the jazz-funk exploration Ethiopian Knights, continuing his evolution from high-flying hard bop trumpeter to R&B/funk fusion pioneer. . Consisting... |
Donald Byrd
A New Perspective (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Donald Byrd presented A New Perspective with his magnificent 1963 album for band and voices which wove the essence of spirituals into modern jazz with arrangements by Duke Pearson and contributions from Hank Mobley, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Burrell, and... |
Donald Byrd
Places And Spaces (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 30/Jun/2023 ] Donald Byrd's 1975 fusion classic Places and Spaces was the culmination of the legendary trumpeter's vibrant latter Blue Note years. Byrd had begun recording for Blue Note in 1958, and over two decades evolved from a top-notch hard bop trumpeter into... |
Donald Byrd
Slow Drag (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Donald Byrd's 1967 album Slow Drag was one of the last pure hard bop records the trumpeter would make before his music began evolving towards fusion. Byrd flies high on this gratifying set featuring alto saxophonist Sonny Red, pianist Cedar Walton,... |
Eartha Kitt
Bad But Beautiful (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Kitt is in excellent form on this never-before-reissued 1962 album, swinging her way through Billy May arrangements on classics like "Love For Sale" and "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend". Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl, pressed... |
Ella Fitzgerald
Live At Montreux 1969 (LP) [ Mercury / Universal / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] |
Enrico Rava / Fred Hersch
The Song is You (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Their collaboration has been hailed as a summit meeting of two jazz masters. Enrico Rava, trumpeter from Trieste, and Fred Hersch, pianist from Cincinatti, share a deep affection for the tradition and a profound sense for melodic invention. In this... |
Gary Burton & Chick Corea
Crystal Silence (LP) [ ECM Records / LP ] "For Crystal Silence, the first of several partnerships between Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton in the 1970s, the two musicians selected an interesting array of material. The compositions on this record are all modern ones, either by Steve... |
Gary Peacock, Jan Garbarek, Tomasz Stanko, Jack DeJohnette
Voice From The Past - Paradigm (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Gary Peacock's Voice from the Past - Paradigm (recorded 1981) draws inspiration from the energy music that Peacock played in New York in the early 1960s when he was a member of visionary saxophonist Albert Ayler's groups. Jan Garbarek, in some of his... |
Harold Land Quintet
The Peace-Maker (Verve By Request Series LP) [ Verve / LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Released on the Cadet label in 1968, The Peace-Maker was the first of ten collaborations between the great tenor saxophonist Harold Land and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson. With a group including pianist Joe Sample, the session results in a lively,... |
High Pulp
Pursuit Of Ends (LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Drawing on bebop, punk rock, shoegaze, hip-hop, and electronic music, experimental jazz act High Pulp present Pursuit of Ends, their first full-length album with Los Angeles's ANTI- Records. High Pulp's music is both vintage and futuristic all at... |
Idris Muhammad
Black Rhythm Revolution! (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 14/Jul/2023 ] Black Rhythm Revolution! Is the first solo album from the jazz-funk legend Idris Muhammad, a New Orleans-bred rhythm king who successfully made the leap from the finest soulful jazz records of the '60s to the nastiest fusion funk of the '70s. |
Jack Dejohnette
Sorcery (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Sorcery finds DeJohnette teamed up with a tight crew of virtuosic bandmates, including veterans of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew sessions (bassist Dave Holland) and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters band (Bennie Maupin). |
Jack Wilson
Easterly Winds (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] The Chicago-born pianist and composer Jack Wilson enjoyed a wide-range of musical associations including work with the likes of Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Lou Rawls, Gerald Wilson, Roy Ayers, and recording leader dates for Atlantic before he... |
Jackie Mclean
Destination Out (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] When Jackie McLean began recording for Blue Note in 1959, the alto saxophonist had already been a mainstay of the New York jazz scene for nearly a decade, having spent the entire 1950s cutting his teeth alongside bebop legends. like Miles Davis and... |
Jackie McLean
A Fickle Sonance (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
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,... |
Jan Garbarek Quartet
Afric Pepperbird (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Recorded in Oslo in September 1970, Afric Pepperbird was released on New Year's Day in 1971. Half a century later, it still conveys the freshness and excitement of discoveries being made. The album signalled the arrival of four Norwegian improvisers... |
The Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey
Ugetsu (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] The place was a Broadway cellar that, with characteristic and not very exaggerated swagger, proclaimed itself "The Jazz Corner of the World." The date was mid-June 1963, when the New York post-bop era was still very much in progress. The bandleader... |
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme (LP) 180 gram [ Impulse! Records / LP - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Vinyl reissue. Re-mastered and pressed on 180 gram vinyl, Originally released in 1965, A Love Supreme changed music history, cementing the saxophonist's reputation as one... |
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... |