Jazz - CD

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With Convergence, his second solo album, Swedish-born bassist Bjorn Meyer further develops music on the blueprint established with his critically praised recording Provenance (2017), making use of the technical potential of the bass guitar to establish striking sonorities and rich-grained textures while also being...

Astrakan Cafe returns to a more traditional Middle-Eastern style of music with the trio that has been his first priority for several years now. Track listing includes "Ashkabad," "Halfouine," "Dar Es Salam," plus more.

One of Rolling Stone’s Top 100 Guitarists of All Time, John McLaughlin returns in peak form with Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2022, a stunning performance captured at one of the world’s most iconic musical stages.A trailblazer who reshaped jazz fusion through his work...

Roscoe Mitchell / Matthew Shipp - "Accelerated Projection" - Roscoe Mitchell (alto & soprano saxophones, flute), Matthew Shipp (piano)

BAND OF OTHER BROTHERS is excited to announce their new and second collection of music, “Look Up!”. A veritable cross-genre “supergroup,” the group consists of Jeff Coffin on saxophones/woodwinds (Dave Matthews Band, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones), Jeff Babko on keyboards (James Taylor, Toto),...

This highly anticipated final volume of Geri Allen's Motéma trilogy features her signature solo piano arrangements of hit songs that have connections to her beloved hometown and the label named after it. Detroit music titans Marcus Belgrave and David MacMurray guest on several tracks,...

Keyboardist Herbie Hancock's remarkable career took a surprising turn with this funk album--one of the first jazz albums to be certified gold. Hancock's already-storied career had included an extended tenure with Miles Davis as a member of both the classic quintet of the '60s...

MCCOY TYNER - ATLANTIS - CD

Every once in a great while, the stars align and the music visit a recording studio to smile beneficently on the musicians assembled there. How else to account for the ineffable chemistry that infuses the best jazz albums? Well, the muses were working between...

Miles Davis

Lettuce presents "Elevate" - the band's first studio album in 3 years, containing 11 brand new tracks of pure awesomeness. Digitally released on June 14, 2019. Standard LP. All together now. Let us Elevate.

In honor of the Peanuts' 60th anniversary, here are Guaraldi's warm, winsome character themes from those classic TV specials. Linus and Lucy joins Sally's Blues; Blue Charlie Brown; Joe Cool; Peppermint Patty; Frieda with the Naturally Curly Hair ; an unissued alternate take of...

Bloom," the highly anticipated second release from Anat Cohen’s endlessly colorful Quartetinho. This international ensemble, based in New York City, comprises multi-instrumentalist virtuosos who provide Cohen the freedom to explore, experiment, and express a full spectrum of emotions. The result is a mesmerizing blend...

GRAMMY-nominated multireedist and composer Anat Cohen shifts her focus to an intimate group sound on her newest release, the endlessly colorful Quartetinho (pronounced “quar-te-CHIN-yo,” i.e., little quartet). The group of New York-based international multi instrumentalist-virtuosos are all drawn from the ranks of her GRAMMY-nominated...

In this extraordinary concert project by the WDR Big Band, two musical genres are "married" which, despite their many similarities, have so far been an isolated existence: Bluegrass and large orchestral jazz.

National recording artist and saxophonist Dee Lucas has released his highly anticipated 9th CD 'The Time Is Now' on ODL Music. Key producers and special guests include Adam Hawley, Blake Aaron, Darryl Williams, & David P. Stevens. Hit songs include Billboard-charting 'Full Tilt', 'Love...

For years, fans of Polands Marcin Wasilewski Trio have been asking for a live album. Here it is. Recorded at the Jazz Middelheim Festival in Antwerp, Belgium, in August 2016, it captures the trio in energetic, extroverted mode, fanning the flames of their Spark...

Vinyl LP pressing. Hard rock juggernaut Saint Asonia (featuring former Three Days Grace frontman Adam Gontier and Staind guitarist/founding member Mike Mushok) are back with an album combining their Introvert and Extrovert EPs with two bonus tracks. The quartet - rounded out by Cale...

Over her 20-year career, JUDY WEXLER has earned the reputation as one of the most compelling jazz vocalists on the West Coast. Known for her warm voice and affective interpretation of lyrics, her repertoire has been replete with songs that are off-the-beaten path. As...

Chet Baker's trumpet and vocal approach is immediately recognizable and striking, especially in his prime. He was known for his clear tone, reflective and subdued style, soft volume and careful, restrained approach in his choices of notes for melodic sequences. He played in an...

Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire makes his Nonesuch Records debut with Owl Song on December 15, 2023. The album features a trio with two musicians Akinmusire has long admired, guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Herlin Riley.“This is my reaction to being assaulted by information,”...

If there is a recording that is required listening for every blues fan, it's this one. Robert Johnson wasn't just King of the Delta blues; he was one of its founding fathers, and these re-mastered tunes are as timeless and important today as they...

ZAPPA 88: LAST U.S. SHOW - CD - The first posthumous archival release from the 1988 touring band focuses on the historical last show Frank Zappa ever played in the U.S. The live concert material is taken from Uniondale, NY; Providence, RI and Towson,...

Ringer, Catherine

Sophisticated musicianship, imaginative lyrics, and a flair for melody are signatures of the sound of Monkey House, a sound that has earned the group serious critical acclaim, peer respect, and a steadily expanding international following. Those characteristics are again evident on 'Friday', on ALMA...

Dance, No One's Watching is an ode to the sacred, yet joyous act of dancing, an album that musically guides you through a night out in the city, from the opening of possibilities as a new evening spans out ahead, to dawn's final hours...

Alan & Marilyn Bergman, winners of two Academy Awards and members of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, were husband and wife, and their professional collaboration produced memorable lyrics cherished by superstars from Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett and Johnny Mathis, to Sting, Barbra Streisand, and...