Dr. Lonnie Smith
Turning Point (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Jul/2023 ] One of the funkiest and most creative organists of all time, Dr. Lonnie Smith was first brought into the Blue Note fold by alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson who featured the B3 virtuoso on late-1960s soul jazz classics including Alligator Bogaloo, Mr.... |
Duke Ellington
Plays With The Original Motion Picture Score Mary Poppins (LP) [ Rhino / LP - released 23/Nov/2018 ] |
Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus, Max Roach
Money Jungle (LP) (Coloured Vinyl) [ Wax Time / LP - released 13/Sep/2019 ] |
Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges
Side By Side (LP) [ LP - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Topping off a wealth of full-band recordings, the various stars of Ellington's great outfit recorded many combo sides under their own names. And while not on the same sophisticated level of classic Ellingtonia, the late-'30s material cut by Johnny... |
Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong
Ella & Louis Again (LP) [ Verve / 2 LP - released 16/Sep/2022 ] The duo that critics have called "a match made in heaven" are in peak form on the sequel to their 1956 debut. Ella's voice-warm and sweet as honey-and Louis' gravelly croon formed a sound built for commercial success. Ella & Louis Again is a key... |
Ella Fitzgerald / Nelson Riddle
Ella Swings Brightly (LP) [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 17/Oct/2017 ] |
Elmore James
The Definitive (Double LP) [ Not Now Music / 2 LP - released 3/Sep/2014 ] Born in Richland, Mississippi, in 1918, Elmore James didn't record until 1951 and died 11 short years later - yet his influence was enormous. James' distinctive silde-guitar style proved even more popular than his records, influencing... |
Elvin Jones
Poly-Currents (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Jan/2024 ] After his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, the master drummer Elvin Jones signed with Blue Note in 1968 and began building his own career as a bandleader. His first two albums for the label were spare trio outings-Puttin' It Together... |
Elvin Jones
Revival: Live At Pookie's Pub (Triple LP) [ Blue Note / 3 LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub is a thrilling previously unissued live recording of Elvin Jones' quartet that captures the legendary drummer's emergence as a bandleader at a little-known club in New York City where he had a weekly residency after... |
Emma-Jean Thackray
Yellow (Indies Exclusive Clear Vinyl LP) [ Movement / 2 LP - released 15/Oct/2021 ] In the ever bright constellation of UK jazz players, Yorkshire-born Emma-Jean Thackray is a supernova. She's not only a trumpeter but a beat maker, composer, multi-instrumentalist, radio host and now a label head, with her own imprint Movementt -... |
Enrico Rava
New York Days (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 9/Mar/2009 ] A new transatlantic quintet headed by Italian trumpeter Rava, recorded in New York in 2008 and a first ECM appearance for US tenorist Mark Turner, whose distilled, lean sound references Coltrane, Warne Marsh, Wayne Shorter and others. Turner's... |
Eric Dolphy
In Europe (Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 9/Mar/2018 ] |
Fats Navarro
The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1 (Blue Note Classic LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/May/2023 ] The prodigiously talented trumpeter Theodore "Fats" Navarro was a bebop innovator whose career was cut tragically short when he died in 1950 at the age of 26. Navarro played with Charlie Parker and forged a distinctive style on his horn that would... |
First House
Cantilena (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
Fred Hersch
Silent, Listening (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Silent, Listening is a major addition to ECM's distinguished line of solo piano recordings, featuring one of the outstanding improvising pianists and jazz masters of our time: Fred Hersch. The album features seven original creations and a handful of... |
Gabriele Poso
Batik (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 18/Oct/2019 ] Future Afro-Latin jazz house from Italian master percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Gabriele Poso. The entirely self-produced album features guest vocalists Nailah Porter, Nina Rodriguez, Quetzal Guerrero & Sofia Rollo. On 'Batik',... |
George Benson
Walking To New Orleans (LP) [ ADA / Warner / LP - released 26/Apr/2019 ] George Benson gets back to Americana basics on Walking to New Orleans, the jazz guitar legend's tribute to both piano-pounding hit machine Fats Domino and the original rock guitar hero and poet, Chuck Berry. Walking to New Orleans is Benson's... |
Gil Evans
Great Jazz Standards (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/May/2023 ] The brilliant arranger, composer, and pianist Gil Evans had already collaborated with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead and made his own debut album Gil Evans & Ten for Prestige when he signed with World Pacific Records in 1958 and... |
Grant Green
Green Street (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Dec/2023 ] Grant Green began his lengthy and prolific Blue Note career with the 1961 release of his debut album Grant's First Stand, a stellar soul jazz outing that featured the guitarist in an organ trio with Baby Face Willette on Hammond B3 and Ben Dixon on... |
Guru
Jazzmatazz Vol. 1 (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 12/Aug/2022 ] Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1, originally released in 1993, is one of the first albums to combine a live jazz band with hip hop production and rapping. Featuring Lonnie Liston Smith, Branford Marsalis, Ronny Jordan, Donald Byrd and Roy Ayers and... |