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... |
Hank Mobley
No Room For Squares (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Oct/2023 ] In addition to boasting one of Reid Miles' greatest album cover designs, Hank Mobley's 1963 album No Room for Squares is also a marvel for the music alone. The tenor saxophonist had already notched several hard bop masterpieces in his Blue Note belt... |
Harry Beckett
Flare Up (2022 Remastered Vinyl LP) [ Classics & Jazz Uk / LP - released 6/Jan/2023 ] Harry Beckett's Flare Up (1970) is a much talked about and sought-after album from an artist and composer who had a six-decade career in jazz. The album contains the funk driven track Third Road, which was featured on the critically acclaimed 2020... |
Herbie Hancock
Empyrean Isles (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Mar/2023 ] Herbie Hancock debuted on Blue Note in 1962 and quickly established himself as both a remarkable pianist and a brilliant composer with three excellent albums-Takin' Off, My Point Of View, and Inventions & Dimensions-before making what is widely... |
Herbie Hancock
Maiden Voyage (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/May/2014 ] Remastered and Reissued As Part of the Blue Note 75th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue Campaign |
Herbie Hancock
My Point Of View (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] My Point of View is pianist & composer Herbie Hancock's remarkably assured second album for Blue Note. Featuring a program of Hancock compositions, this session from 1963 has a wondrous all-star cast: Donald Byrd on trumpet, Hank Mobley on tenor... |
Herbie Hancock
The New Standard (Verve By Request Series) (LP) [ Verve / 2 LP - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Originally released in 1996 - and for the first time here on vinyl - The New Standard features songs by Stevie Wonder, Prince, Sade, Nirvana and more getting creative, inspired and swinging jazz takes from Herbie and a world class band; Michael... |
Herbie Hancock
Speak Like a Child (180g LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 30/Sep/2014 ] Between 1965's Maiden Voyage and 1968's Speak Like a Child, Herbie Hancock was consumed with his duties as part of the Miles Davis Quintet, who happened to be at their creative and popular peak during those three years. When Hancock did return to a... |
Herbie Nichols Trio
Herbie Nichols Trio (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Herbie Nichols was one of the most original pianists and composers in Jazz history. Blue Note founder Alfred Lion considered him to be as unique and important a voice as Thelonious Monk, another singular talent who Lion was the first to record a few... |
Horace Silver
Silver's Serenade (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... |
Idrees Sulieman, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan
The Cats (Original Jazz Classics Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] The Cats was released in December 1959 and features John Coltrane (tenor sax), Tommy Flanagan (piano), Louis Hayes (drums), Doug Watkins (bass) and Kenny Burrell (guitar), and Idrees Sulieman (trumpet) playing what are mainly Flanagan-penned... |
Ike Quebec
Heavy Soul (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Jul/2023 ] There may not be a more apropos album title in all of recorded music than tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec's 1961 classic Heavy Soul. The session marked a comeback for a crucial player in Blue Note history. |
Jackie Mclean
Demon's Dance (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Jackie McLean's music weaved in and out of the avant-garde throughout the 1960s with the brilliant 1963 inside-out dates One Step Beyond and Destination… Out! eventually leading to full-throated free jazz of the 1967 dates New and Old Gospel... |
Jaco Pastorius
Invitation (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/Feb/2018 ] Invitation was the third album by Jaco Pastorius, originally released in 1983 while the bassist was a member of Weather Report. This is a live album recorded at various venues during a tour of Japan, featuring his "Word of Mouth" big band. While his... |
Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan, Joey Baron
Streams (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2016 ] On his second leader album for ECM - following on from the prizewinning Gefion - Danish guitarist Jakob Bro continues to refine his trio project, with its emphases on melody, sound, space, layered textures and interaction. The rapport between Bro and... |
Jeff Goldblum
The Capitol Studio Sessions (Double Gatefold LP) [ Univerfsal Music / 2 LP - released 16/Nov/2018 ] Hollywood icon Jeff Goldblum and his long-time band The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, release the highly anticipated debut from the jazz pianist entitled 'The Capitol Studios Sessions'. Goldblum, who has been playing the piano since he was a child, has... |
Jimmy Smith
Bashin' (LP) [ Spiral Records / LP - released 4/Oct/2019 ] |
John Coltrane
Afro Blue Impressions (LP) [ Concord / 2 LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] The recordings that make up Afro Blue Impressions were acquired by jazz impresario/auteur Norman Granz during the tours he produced for many jazz artists during the 1960s, though they weren't issued until 1973. Recorded at shows in Berlin and... |
John Coltrane
Blue Train (180g LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 4/Apr/2014 ] Although never formally signed, an oral agreement between John Coltrane and Blue Note Records founder Alfred Lion was indeed honored on Blue Train -- Coltrane's only collection of sides as a principal artist for the venerable label. The disc is... |
John Coltrane
Blue Train (Remastered Mono Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Sep/2022 ] On September 15, 1957, John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder's living room studio in Hackensack, New Jersey and recorded his first great masterpiece: Blue Train. It would be the legendary saxophonist's sole album as a leader for Blue Note, a... |