Art Pepper
Plus Eleven (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 14/Sep/2012 ] |
Pharoah Sanders
Black Unity (Verve By Request Series) (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 14/Jul/2023 ] For 1971's Black Unity, Pharaoh Sanders added groove to foundation of spiritual and free jazz he had explored on his previous Impulse! albums. The result is a piercing and emotive 37-minute title track exploration of African, Latin, aborigine and... |
Pharoah Sanders
Great Moments With Pharoah Sanders (Limited Edition Blue Vinyl LP) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 24/Feb/2023 ] This 2LP Great Moments With documents the music of Pharoah Sanders from 1983 to 1990, showcasing both the raw energy and tender nature of his music. It contains 12 of his recordings, including "Africa", "Naima", "You've Got To Have Freedom" and also... |
Phineas Newborn Jr.
A World Of Piano! (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 15/Dec/2023 ] Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of Phineas Newborn Jr's 1962 Contemporary Record debut "A World of Piano!". Recorded by legendary engineers Howard Holzer and Roy DuNann the album also features Paul Chambers... |
Quincy Jones
Soul Bossa Nova (LP) [ Wagram Music / LP - released 11/Nov/2017 ] |
The Quintet
Jazz At Massey Hall (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] This modern jazz summit meeting in Toronto has been called "the greatest jazz concert ever." We owe the survival of the music to Charles Mingus, who, along with Max Roach, taped the concert and subsequently issued it on his own new Debut... |
Rachael & Vilray
I Love a Love Song (LP) [ Nonesuch Records / LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Combining Rachael Price's singular voice with Vilray's knack for songwriting, I Love a Love Song! showcases Rachael & Vilray's evolution, pushing them to a new level as they jump ahead in vision and drive. The duo has keenly absorbed the work from... |
Ralph Towner
Solstice (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Solstice, recorded 1974, belongs to the great early production projects of ECM, with a new band formed in the studio. It's the first of Towner's recorded encounters with the European players, and this US-Norwegian-German quartet has a character all... |
Ray Charles
At Newport (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 5/Jun/2017 ] For his appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 5, 1958, Charles pulled out all the stops, performing raucous versions of "The Right Time", his massive hit "I Got A Woman" and "Talkin' 'Bout You". Featuring (a.o.) Bennie Crawford on baritone... |
Sam Rivers
Contrasts (180g LP) [ ECM / LP - released 7/Feb/2014 ] A reissue of the 1979 album by American jazz saxophonist Sam Riversreleased on the ECM label. Contrasts has been unavailable for many years and is now reissued on 180g vinyl together with its first ever release on CD. |
Sam Rivers
Fuchsia Swing Song (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Mar/2023 ] A saxophonist of striking originality, Sam Rivers was born in Oklahoma and exposed to music from an early age by his pianist mother and gospel singer father. Rivers moved to Boston to study at the Boston Conservatory and eventually met, and began... |
Scolohofo (John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Dave Holland, Al Foster)
Oh! (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 6/Jan/2023 ] ScoLoHoFo-the supergroup made up of guitarist John Scofield, saxophonist Joe Lovano, bassist Dave Holland, and drummer Al Foster-first played together as a band in 1999, but the musicians' associations stretched back decades and this masterful 2002... |
Shai Maestro
Human (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 29/Jan/2021 ] In its review of pianist Shai Maestro's ECM leader debut The Dream Thief, All About Jazz spoke of "a searching lyrical atmosphere, emotional eloquence and communal virtuosity that serves the music." All of which also applies to Human, where Maestro's... |
Shankar / Caroline
The Epidemics (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
Sonny Clark
Dial "S" For Sonny (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Aug/2022 ] One of the finest pianists and composers of the hard bop era, Sonny Clark seemed to arrive fully formed on his supremely swinging debut album Dial "S" for Sonny recorded for Blue Note in 1957. Clark assembled a top-flight sextet for the occasion with... |
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... |
Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus (Blue Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 10/Dec/2012 ] |
Spaceark
Spaceark Is (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 1/Mar/2019 ] The second album from SpaceArk. More brilliant self-released, private-press jazz/soul from 1976 Los Angeles. 'SpaceArk Is' came out on Color World records in 1976, on a limited run of about 5,000 copies. It followed their self-titled debut (also... |
Spaceark
Spaceark (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 2/Nov/2018 ] Brilliant self-released, private-press jazz/soul LP from 1975, recorded at Sunset Sound studios in LA. This is the super-rare debut album from SpaceArk, a band of brothers on an interstellar voyage to discover "electrifying new sounds". It's... |
Stan Getz & Bill Evans
Stan Getz & Bill Evans (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 15/Mar/2019 ] Recorded in 1964 but not released until 1973, this classic double- header also features an all-star rhythm section of Ron Carter on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. |