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Joey Defrancesco
More Music (LP) [ Mack Avenue / 2 LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] On More Music, master organist Joey DeFrancesco, who has long supplemented his keyboard virtuoso with his skilled trumpet playing, here brings out his full arsenal: organ, keyboard, piano, trumpet and, for the first time on record, tenor saxophone.... |
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Dr Tree
Dr Tree (Limited Edition LP) [ WallenBink / 2 LP - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Originally released in 1976, this highly sought-after local album has been reissued as a limited edition double LP by WallenBink, a UK-based independent record label dedicated to issuing the finest in jazz and beyond. |
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Hank Mobley
Curtain Call (LP) [ Universal / LP - released 27/May/2022 ] It's a sign of the sheer volume of top-notch hard bop that Blue Note was recording in the 1950s-60s that a supremely swinging date like Hank Mobley's 1957 album Curtain Call would sit in the vaults unreleased until 1984. Mobley himself was in the... |
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Joe Lovano / Marilyn Crispell / Carmen Castaldi
Trio Tapestry (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Jan/2019 ] The great saxophonist Joe Lovano has appeared on a number of ECM recordings over the last four decades, including much-loved albums with Paul Motian, Steve Kuhn and John Abercrombie. Trio Tapestry is his first as a leader for the label, introducing a... |
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John Scofield Trio
Uncle John's Band [ ECM / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2023 ] Named for the Grateful Dead song that concludes this inspired double album, Uncle John's Band features masterful guitarist John Scofield at his most freewheeling. Wide ranging repertoire finds his trio with Vicente Archer and Bill Stewart tackling... |
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Johnny Griffin
Introducing Johnny Griffin (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian
At The Deer Head Inn - The Complete Recordings (LP) [ ECM / 4 LP - released 22/Aug/2025 ] "The music has the dash and the unabashed lyricism of Keith Jarrett's best work" wrote Stereophile in a rave-review of the first selection from the intimate Deer Head Inn live recording, capturing Jarrett's spontaneous and in retrospect historic... |
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Keith Jarrett (piano)
Budapest Concert (Double Gatefold LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 19/Feb/2021 ] The second complete show to be issued from Keith Jarrett's 2016 European tour - following on from the widely-acclaimed concert released as Munich 2016 - this double album documents the pianist's solo performance at the Béla Bartók National Concert... |
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Kenny Wheeler
Deer Wan (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Nov/2016 ] The notoriously self-critical trumpeter Kenny Wheeler maintained that Deer Wan (recorded 1976) was his favourite among his own albums ("I like the overall form of this one best"). A tremendous band plays Wheeler's tunes here. Kenny and Jan Garbarek... |
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Melvin Sparks
Texas Twister (LP) [ Eastbound Records / LP - released 28/Jul/2023 ] A masterful funky jazz album by one of the godfather's of acid jazz. Produced by Bob Porter, Texas Twister is a continuation of Sparks sought-after work at Prestige. The Texan born guitarist had joined Bob Weinstock's label at Porter's request in... |
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Myele Manzanza
A Love Requited (LP) [ First Word Records / LP - released 9/Aug/2019 ] Produced with award winning Australian bassist & long time musical collaborator Ross McHenryand featuring a plethora of New Zealand and Australia's finest young instrumentalists, 'A Love Requited' is as much a musical journey as it is an attempt to... |
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Art Pepper
Plus Eleven (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 14/Sep/2012 ] |
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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... |
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Pharoah Sanders
Moon Child (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 13/May/2022 ] To celebrate the 45th anniversary of iconic Dutch jazz label Timeless Records, Music On Vinyl is releasing a series that features albums that are part of the Timeless Records legacy and will be released mainly throughout 2022. Part of this series... |
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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... |
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Thomas Strønen
Relations (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 20/Jun/2025 ] Musical messages from Oslo, New York, Basel and Lugano - recorded between 2018 and 2022 - are juxtaposed and recombined on an absorbing recording that features Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen solo and in a series of duets . With such partners as... |
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Tord Gustavsen Trio
Opening (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] On the album Opening, Tord Gustavsen reveals a fresh angle to his particularly unique trio investigations into Scandinavian folk hymns, gospel, chorale and jazz, as he introduces a different voice on bass. With a new fellow-traveller on board and... |
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Vijay Iyer Sextet
Far From Over (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Keyboardist-composer Vijay Iyer's energized sequence of ECM releases has garnered copious international praise. Yet his fifth for the label since 2014 - Far From Over, featuring his dynamically commanding sextet - finds Iyer reaching a new peak,... |
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Vijay Iyer Trio
Break Stuff (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 13/Mar/2015 ] "Break Stuff" is what happens after formal elements have been addressed. Vijay Iyer calls the break "a span of time in which to act. It's the basis for breakdowns, breakbeats, and break dancing... it can be the moment when everything comes to life."... |
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Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith
Defiant Life (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Anchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, Defiant Life - Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith second duo recording for ECM - proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the... |