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... |
The Toreadors
Thembi / Gwinyitshe (7") [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 11/Jun/2021 ] This deep soul-jazz double-sider, recorded on October 3rd, 1972, was released as a seven-inch single on Motella, one of the many labels of the Mavuthela Music division of Gallo Africa (now Gallo Record Company). Mavuthela was founded by the talent... |
Kamaal Williams
New Heights / Snitches Brew (12") [ Black Focus Records / 12in - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Following a stellar 2018 for Black Focus, Henry Wu's new imprint that set the levels with acclaimed debut LPs from Kamaal Williams and Mansur Brown, worldwide tours and international collaborations, Kamaal Williams returns. |
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... |
Miles Davis
Paradise (7") [ Rhino / Warner / 7in - released 9/Aug/2019 ] Miles Davis shocked the music world in 1985 when he left Columbia Records after 30 years to join Warner Bros. Records. In October of that year, he began recording the album Rubberband in Los Angeles at Ameraycan Studios with producers Randy Hall and... |
Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd
Motor City Scene (LP) [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 1/Dec/2017 ] |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Caravan (180g LP) [ Concord / LP - released 1/Aug/2014 ] Caravan is the legendary jazz album originally released by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in February 1963. It was Blakey's first album for Riverside Records and was produced by Orrin Keepnews. The album is described as "a slick, fluid,... |
Cecil Taylor
Unit Structures (180g LP) [ EMI Bluenote US Jazz / LP - released 30/Jan/2015 ] •180g heavyweight vinyl •MP3 download voucher •Limited edition Originally released by Blue Note Records in 1966, and featuring two bassists, "Unit Structures" by free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, is reissued as part of the Blue Note 75th anniversary. |
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Jazz At The College Of The Pacific (180g LP) [ Concord LP / LP - released 16/Jan/2015 ] One of the many stellar sessions from the Dave Brubeck Quartet, famed jazz scribe Nat Hentoff wrote in DownBeat magazine of Jazz At The College Of The Pacific that it "ranks with the Oberlin and Storyville sets as the best of Brubeck on record."... |
David Virelles
Antenna (10") [ ECM / 10in - released 2/Dec/2016 ] The music of Cuban-born, Brooklyn-based pianist David Virelles conjures a hallucinatory world in which ancient Afro-Cuban rhythms and ritual reverberate in the here and now. His latest ECM offering is Antenna, music attuned to a timeless... |
Don Cherry
Complete Communion (180 LP) [ EMI Bluenote US Jazz / LP - released 27/Feb/2015 ] A Blue Note essential - this 1966 album is part of the Blue Note 75 anniversary vinyl reissue campaign. •180g heavyweight vinyl •MP3 download voucher •Limited edition |
John Coltrane
Trane The Atlantic Collection (LP) [ Atlantic / LP - released 31/Jul/2017 ] A nine track compilation of the legendary jazz giant's greatest tracks from the Atlantic Records vaults. |
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... |
Miles Davis & Michael Legrand
Dingo: Selections From The Motion Picture Soundtrack (Limited LP) [ Rhino / Warner / LP - released 7/Jan/2022 ] Dingo: Selections from the Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1992 movie of the same name. Late jazz great Miles Davis made his only acting appearance in Dingo, a film about a jazz trumpeter who dares to realize his musical dreams... |
Miles Davis & Sonny Rollins
Dig (LP) [ Concord / LP ] Featuring material recorded in 1951 and originally issued as a Prestige 10" in 1956, Dig is a very good representation of early Miles Davis at his best, forging ahead with his own cool bop style. The album was later reissued under the title Diggin'... |
Mongo Santamaria
Feelin' Alright (LP) [ Atlantic / LP ] While it fits in with the glut of Top 40 boogaloo efforts that record companies pressured jazz artists to record in the late '60s and early '70s, Mongo Santamaria's Feelin' Alright does offer a more than decent program of covers... |
Oscar Peterson
Pastel Moods (LP) [ Pan Am Records / LP - released 2/Feb/2014 ] |
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. |
Bill Evans
Interplay (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 11/Nov/2014 ] For the first , the great jazz pianist is heard in a new context - as a leader of a group larger than his customary trio. Evans' interplay with his four colleagues here - each of them one of Bill's personal favourites on his instrument - creates a... |
Count Basie
The Atomic Mr Basie (180g LP) [ Jazz Wax / LP - released 20/Sep/2010 ] The release of this album in late 1957 marked the beginning of a glorious new phase in Count Basie's career. Signed to Roulette Records, the newly formed label owned by Morris Levy, the New York recording entrepreneur, jukebox mogul, club owner, and... |