Jazz - CD

Andando el Tiempo features new music of wide emotional compass by NEA Jazz Master Carla Bley, and underlines her originality and resourcefulness as a jazz composer. This trio with Sheppard and Swallow has been an ideal vehicle for Carla's writing for more than 20...

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Johnathan Blake - "Passage" / Johnathan Blake's new album Passage is a stirring follow-up to acclaimed 2021 label debut Homeward Bound. The drummer and composer reconvened his band Pentad featuring alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, vibraphonist Joel Ross, pianist David Virelles, and bassist Dezron Douglas....

Bill Evans Trio - On A Friday Evening - Craft Recordings - Newly discovered live performance by the Bill Evans Trio, featuring Eddie Gomez - bass and Eliot Zigmund - drums. The previously unreleased concert took place on June 20, 1975, at Oil Can...

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, purveyors of American big band, jumpin jazz and blues have a special holiday gift for naughty and nice fans alike. The multiplatinum selling, Grammy nominated band is back with a holiday album entitled It Feels Like Christmas Time, an all...

Tony Bennett

The exquisite piano passages of Bill Evans brought out the absolute best in Bennett when they met in the studio for the first time in '75. Here's the complete classic plus five unissued alternate takes!; they do But Beautiful; Young and Foolish; My Foolish...

Jaymz Bee and his Royal Jelly Orchestra mark their 10th anniversary by getting Seriously Happy. The thirteen songs on this album are playful interpretations of jazz standards along with a brand new composition, "Who Wouldn't Care For You", written and sung by Alex Pangman...

Baritone Madness was formed by Pat Belliveau, Keith O'Rourke, and Gareth Bane to bring the magic of the baritone saxophone to audiences across North America. Baritone Madness is a highly unique configuration; a quintet comprised of three baritone saxophonists as leads, supported by a...

Limited two CD set includes a booklet with photos, liner notes, essays and interviews. Blue Room: The 1979 VARA Studio Sessions in Holland features 2 recordings of Chet Baker at the VARA Studio 2 in Hilversum, the Netherlands for the KRO Radio program Nine...

2023 release. Artemis returns with their second Blue Note album In Real Time, a marvelous follow-up that highlights the improvisational strength of it's members as well as their respective gifts as composers. A dynamic new line-up of the collective features founding members Renee Rosnes...

Vinyl LP pressing. Love In Exile asks you to step inside it's sense of time, to stretch out alongside these delightful & unhurriedly unfolding songs. Profound impact is achieved with minimal instrumentation: Iyer on pianos & electronics, Ismaily on bass & Moog synth &...

aron!'s debut EP `cozy you (and other nice songs)' is a collection of timeless pop jazz songs touching on romance, heartbreak, and life's complexities - all with an inviting warmth and charm. His memorable voice and clever songwriting bring a decidedly modern perspective to...

SOPHISTICATED LADIES', with Canada's greatest female jazz singers paying tribute to the living legend, recording standards like "Smile," "Georgia," and "If You Could See Me Now." Featuring Jill Barber, Sophie Milman, Carol McCartney, Carol Welsman, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Lilly Frost, Molly Johnson, Diana Panton, Barbra...

Echoes Of The Inner Prophet

From 5 After 4 comes six. This highly-acclaimed veteran Toronto contemporary jazz combo makes a welcome return to recording with a sixth album that showcases the sound of four guys playing at the top of their game. The happy outcome is Rome in a...

Over the course of three decades as a professional performer, Kaeshammer has developed a style that weaves threads of classical, jazz, blues, boogie-woogie, stride, and piano pop into a signature sound. Kaeshammer has been nominated for seven Juno Awards, has received the West Coast...

On April 12, nine-time GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter Norah Jones is releasing Begin Again, a collection of singles that gathers seven eclectic songs that Jones has recorded over the past year with collaborators including Jeff Tweedy and Thomas Bartlett. Begin Again will be released on 12”...

Includes romantic ballads by the stars of the Savoy and Muse catalogs! Featuring tracks by: Sonny Stitt, Kenny Burrell, Sadao Watanbe, Pat Martino, Toots Thieleman's, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis among others.

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John Scofield's first guitar solo recording gives a resume of all the influences and idioms he has cultivated over his career in performances on guitar, accompanied by his own rhythmic pulse and chordal backing using a loop machine. Between elegant and personal readings of...

The Austrian guitarist is paired here with long time collaborator Brian Blade on drums and Scott Colley, whose especially earthy sound helps give this trio its own dynamic. Muthspiel alternates between acoustic and electric guitar and, along with his characteristically melodic originals, plays some...

The Ellington Suites is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington which collects three suites recorded in 1959, 1971 and 1972. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band. Interesting fact: Ellington wrote the Queens...

Guitar legend Duke Robillard returns with a's stripped down albums all guitar album that his fans have been requesting for years. GUITAR GROOVE-A-RAMA is an album that showcases all the sounds and influenes that make up Duke's styles. Blues is the root of nearly...

The Comet is Coming returns with their 2nd full length album on Impulse! Records. King Shabaka, Danalogue, and Betamax's newest effort finds the trio creating a musical landscape that is equally cerebral as it is physically enthralling. While containing elements of jazz throughout, this...

Rare is the bassist who steps forward to lead his own ensemble. Rarer still is the bandleader who successfully bridges the worlds of jazz and classical music. Roberto Occhipinti clearly belongs to that rare breed, with Yemaya Occhipinti has given full flight to his...

Trombonist/composer Steve Davis offers a master class on his new release, Think Ahead, in art of reacting to the unpredictable with an elite group of jazz all-stars whose ability to create spontaneously borders on the clairvoyant. For this album, Davis focuses on his original...

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A foreshadowing of the area between rock and jazz that he would further explore with 1970's hypnotic Bitches Brew, this was Miles' first album to feature a full-blown electric approach. Incorporating elements of classical sonata form, both of the lengthy cuts featured here defy...

Wil Blades and Scott Amendola conjure various sonic deities though only a duo. For the past 10 years, their live shows have been generating a buzz around the San Francisco Bay Area. The two got their start as a group when Scott had the...

Laufey's third album, A Matter of Time, is a beautiful masterpiece of introspection about the anguish that comes with life and love.

Three CD set. That's What Happened 1982-1985: Bootleg Volume 7 is the next installment in the celebrated, award-winning archival series that began in 2011, shining an in-depth light onto different eras of the legendary career of Miles Davis. In the 1980s, popular music had...

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