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 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). |
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
My Favorite Things (60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition LP) [ Rhino / Warner / 2 LP - released 20/May/2022 ] Released in March 1961, My Favorite Things was the first album to feature John Coltrane playing soprano saxophone in addition to his regular tenor. His soprano takes the lead on two of the album's four songs, including his unforgettable rendition of... |
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... |
John Scofield
John Scofield (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] John Scofield's first guitar-solo-recording ever gives a résumé of all the influences and idioms he has cultivated over his career in performances on guitar, accompanied by his own rhythmic pulse and chordal backing using a loop machine. Besides... |
John Surman, John Warren
Tales Of The Algonquin (2022 Remastered LP) [ Deram / Decca / LP - released 6/Jan/2023 ] Reissued on vinyl as a limited print run with thick card 'flip-back' laminated sleeve plus a 12x12 insert with new in-depth liner notes by Tony Higgins with interviews by Surman, Warren and the album producer Peter Eden. The audio has been lovingly... |
Johnny Griffin
Introducing Johnny Griffin (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |