Jazz - Vinyl

Ethiopian Knights (Vinyl)

Trumpeter Donald Byrd and baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams had a formidable partnership throughout the early 1960s, making a series of highly regarded hard bop albums. Yet somehow this masterful quintet session from April 1961 (which also features Herbie Hancock, sounding exceptionally fine on his...

A New Perspective (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Guitarist Kenny Burrell debuted on Blue Note Records in 1956 and over the following 7 years made a series of excellent albums for the label that culminated with his masterwork Midnight Blue. Recorded in 1963, the album waded deep...

This eponymous album by Kenny Burrell was originally released on Prestige in 1957. It was his fourth album on the label as leader, his sixth album as leader in total, and features, alongside Burrell (guitar), Cecil Payne (sax), Tommy Flanagan (piano), Doug Watkins (bass),...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket. Recorded in 1957, Kenny Burrell's 3rd session as a leader for Blue Note presented the guitarist's signature stylings with a crack team of hard boppers featuring Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins,...

Introducing Kenny Burrell put the jazz world on notice in 1956 that an extraordinary new guitarist was on the scene who combined bebop and the blues with smoky aplomb. Burrell is accompanied on this stellar set of original and standard compositions by Tommy Flanagan...

Kenny Burrell/John Coltrane - Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (Original Jazz Classics Series) [LP] / Craft Recordings

Vinyl LP pressing. Vista is an album by American jazz saxophonist Marion Brown recorded in 1975 and released on the Impulse! Label.

In the liner notes to this grooving 1969 album (featuring a big band led by drummer Louis Bellson and arranged by Impulse! star Oliver Nelson), the Godfather of Soul explains that he is a "jazz man at heart." Brown's soul consigliere, saxophonist Maceo Parker,...

The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown recorded two leader sessions for Blue Note in 1953 (a co-led quintet date with Lou Donaldson and his own sextet date) that were compiled on the Memorial Album shortly after his tragic death in 1956. Brownie's star burns bright...

The only one of tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks' albums as a leader to be released during his too-brief lifetime, 1960's True Blue is a hard bop masterpiece featuring Brooks' distinctive compositions performed by an exceptional quintet with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Duke Jordan on...

VICE (Original Motion Picture Score / 2023 Reissue / Colour / 2LP)

Sphere (Vinyl)

Caravan (Original Jazz Classics Series / Remastered 2024 / Vinyl)

The line up of drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers shifted in 1961 with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard replacing Lee Morgan, pianist Cedar Walton replacing Bobby Timmons, and the addition of Curtis Fuller on trombone who joined existing members Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone and Jymie...

BILLIE is the companion thirteen song soundtrack to the James Erskine-directed documentary on the breathtaking talent of Billie Holiday. It features her band, The Sonhouse All Stars performing her classic works including "I Only Have Eyes For You," "God Bless The Child," "Strange Fruit"...

A perfect companion piece to Songs For Distingué Lovers featuring classic versions of ‘They Can’t Take That Away From Me’ and ‘Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off’.

For this amazing 1965 album (released by the Verve label in February of 1966), Bill Evans and his trio (featuring bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Larry Bunker) meet a 48-piece symphony orchestra conducted and arranged by Claus Ogerman. The Symphony Orchestra album includes compositions...

Originally released in 1962, Moon Beams is the first Bill Evans Trio album with Chuck Israel on bass, following the death of Scott LaFaro. Featuring the tracks "Re: Person I Knew" and "Very Early," the trio of Evans (piano) and Israel (bass) is completed...

Bill Evans Trio

Interplay is a 1963 album from legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans, originally released on the Riverside label. Joining Evans are Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Jim Hall (guitar), Percy Heath (bass), and Philly Joe Jones (drums). This new edition of the album is released as part...

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Nuyorican conga drummer and band leader Ray Barretto was a force in Latin and jazz music, playing with icons from Gene Ammons to Tito Puente. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of its release, this reissue features ALL-ANALOG mastering from the original tapes by Kevin Gray...

Chet Baker & Art Pepper continued their fruitful collaboration with the 1956 Pacific Jazz album, Picture of Health (originally released as Playboys). The sextet for the session was loaded with top talent from the West Coast jazz scene including Phil Urso, Carl Perkins, Curtis...

Few musicians have embodied the romantic, and ultimately tragic, jazz figure as totally as Chesney "Chet" Baker (1929-88). Chet Baker Plays The Best of Lerner and Loewe is Chet Baker's 1959 concept album recorded for Riverside Records. Jazz legends reimagine timeless Broadway show tunes....

Chet Baker Sings & Plays (Blue Note Tone Poet Series / Vinyl)

Vinyl LP pressing. Blues For a Reason (1984) was legendary trumpeter Chet Baker's only recorded collaboration with saxophonist Warne Marsh. Includes an alternate take of 'Looking Good tonight ' appearing for the first time ever on vinyl.

Recorded in 1965 and showcasing a number of songs he'd never recorded before; Baker's Holiday is Chet's tribute to Billie Holiday and features his instantly identifiable trumpet along with four trademark vocals. Backed by a full sax section and a four-piece rhythm section that...

Smack Up (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series / Remastered 2024 / Vinyl)

The 1961 album Mosaic marked a pivotal moment in the story of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. With Freddie Hubbard, Cedar Walton and Curtis Fuller joining existing members Wayne Shorter and Jymie Merritt, the newly expanded sextet proved to be powerful on this...

Free For All was perhaps Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' most potent album. Recorded in February 1964, the music bristled with the charged energy of the civil rights movement with a powerful sextet line-up featuring the great drummer with Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard,...

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...

`The Composer of Desafinado, Plays,' released in 1963 on Verve Records, marked the U.S. debut of Brazilian songwriter and pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim as a bandleader and documents the beginning of what would become a long-term creative relationship between Jobim and arranger Claus Ogerman...

EMOTIONS(ORANGE LP)

Vinyl LP pressing. Tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana's third Blue Note album, Filin, is an exquisite ballads album that presents stunning new versions of songs drawn from the Filin music tradition of Cuba, a style of popular song from the 1940s-60s that was deeply influenced...