Search Results: tone poet
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McCoy Tyner
Time For Tyner (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Cut directly from the analog tapes, 180g vinyl. |
Hank Mobley
Curtain Call (LP) [ Universal / LP - released 27/May/2022 ] It's a sign of the sheer volume of top-notch hard bop that Blue Note was recording in the 1950s-60s that a supremely swinging date like Hank Mobley's 1957 album Curtain Call would sit in the vaults unreleased until 1984. Mobley himself was in the... |
Sonny Clark Trio
Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The supremely swinging pianist Sonny Clark hit the Blue Note scene in 1957 with a burst of creativity recording three albums in three months including the sublime Sonny Clark Trio, a 6-song set of bebop themes and standards featuring bassist Paul... |
Andrew Hill
Dance With Death (Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] The brilliant pianist and composer Andrew Hill debuted on Blue Note in 1963 with a flurry of creativity and maintained a prolific recording output through the end of the decade that left several stunning sessions unreleased in the vaults. Recorded... |
Anthony Williams
Life Time (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] Tone Poet Vinyl Edition reissue produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket. The... |
Baby Face Willette
Face To Face (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Hammond organ soul jazz fans know and love the music of Jimmy Smith, but lesser known is the tragically short life and career of Roosevelt "Baby Face" Willette who produced some of the deepest grooves ever recorded on just two Blue Note albums... |
The Blue Mitchell Quintet
Down With It! (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 9/Feb/2024 ] 180g reissue LP, gatefold. |
Booker Evin
Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Booker Ervin cut 2 stellar Blue Note records in the late-60s including Tex Book Tenor which had to wait until 2005 for its first release. With a quintet featuring Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, Jan Arnet & Billy Higgins the Texas-born saxophonist slices... |
Carmell Jones
The Remarkable Carmell Jones Tone Poet Series (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Kansas City born trumpeter Carmell Jones signed to Pacific Jazz soon after his arrival in Los Angeles in 1960 and began what seemed sure to be a promising recording career with his accurately titled 1961 debut The Remarkable Carmell Jones featuring... |
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,... |
