Clear Path Ensemble
Solar Eclipse (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 9/Sep/2022 ] As pockets of new jazz scenes emerge around the world, it's apparent that New Zealand's bubbling microcosm in Wellington interprets the genre through a unique lens. Clear Path Ensemble bottles the energy of that burgeoning movement and distils it... |
Colosseum
Valentyne Suite (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 13/Oct/2016 ] Colosseum was one of England's prime rock-jazz outfits. Valentyne Suite takes the band out of their bluesy comfort zone into something closer to prog rock. The album is generally seen as their best album and still extremely enjoyable. |
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... |
Dave Brubeck
The Essential Dave Brubeck (Double LP) [ Sony / 2 LP - released 4/Mar/2016 ] The Essential Dave Brubeck features 17 tracks selected by Dave Brubeck, and provides an excellent overview of his long career. Featuring tracks from 24 albums recorded between 1949 and 2002, including "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo A La Turk", as well... |
Dave Brubeck
The Very Best Of (LP) [ Not Now Music / 2 LP ] Keyboardist, bandleader and composer Dave Brubeck is the man the New York Times credited with 'helping make jazz popular again in the Fifties and Sixties.' His recording of 'Take Five' remains one of the few jazz records instantly recognised by... |
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Out (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 21/Jan/2010 ] Time Out is the 1959 album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, based upon the use of time signatures that were unusual for jazz (mainly waltz or double-waltz time, but also 9/8, and most famously 5/4). Although the album was intended as an experiment and... |
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Jazz At Oberlin (Original Jazz Classics Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Recorded at Oberlin College, Ohio in 1953, the Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Jazz at Oberlin" album is one of the earliest works in the cool jazz genre. As well as Dave Brubeck (piano) the album also features Paul Desmond (alto sax), Lloyd Davis (drums)... |
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... |
Miles Davis
Big Fun (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 1/Sep/2016 ] Originally released in 1974, Big Fun presents music from three different phases of Miles Davis's early-seventies "electric" period. Sides one and four ("Great Expectations" and "Lonely Fire") were recorded three months after the Bitches Brew... |
Davis, Miles
Kind Of Blue (Mono LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 29/Nov/2013 ] Listed as one of the four most influential Jazz albums that happened to be released in 1959 (Dave Brubeck -Time Out[MOVLP038] & Charles Mingus -Ah Um[MOVLP065] among them), so much has been said and written about Miles Davis'Kind Of Blue, it's... |
Miles Davis
Miles & Monk At Newport (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 29/Nov/2013 ] Black Friday 2013 release. Classic '58 and '63 live recordings of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. |
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
I Told You So (LP) [ Colemine / LP - released 29/Jan/2021 ] |
Diana Krall
From This Moment On (Double LP) [ Verve Records / 2 LP - released 22/Jul/2016 ] This album is an eleven-song collection that captures the Canadian-born sensation in full swing, in great company, and at the top of her game. Cole Porter's romantic ode to great expectations (with its hip, heartening couplet, "No more blue songs... |
Diana Krall
Love Scenes (Double LP) [ Verve Records / 2 LP - released 22/Jul/2016 ] Vocalist / pianist Diana Krall was a very hot property by the time of this Impulse release. Teamed in a trio with her regular guitarist Russell Malone and bassist Christian McBride, Krall here mostly emphasizes ballads having something to do with... |
Diana Krall
This Dream Of You (Double Gatefold LP) [ Verve / 2 LP - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Diana Krall returns with a new album, years in the making. This Dream Of You is music for right now but it is also a "long playing record," one that feels like a movie that you might share with someone because you know they'll stay with it until... |
Diana Krall
Turn Up The Quiet (Double LP) [ Verve Records / 2 LP - released 5/May/2017 ] Diana Krall's new album celebrates a return to jazz and the Great American Songbook and reunites her with Grammy Award-winning producer Tommy LiPuma. "I have thought about these songs for a long time. Being in the company of some of my greatest... |
Dominic Miller
Silent Light (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Born in Argentina to an American father and Irish mother, guitarist Dominic Miller was raised in the U.S. from age 10 and then educated there and in England. Now he lives in France, though he has toured the globe for the past three decades. Aptly,... |
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 |
Christy Doran / Fredy Studer / Bobby Burri / Olivier Magnenat
Musik Fuer 2 Kontrabaesse (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |