Jazz

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)

Crystal Silence

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

At 91 years old, Dave recorded peerless takes on best-known children's songs, beloved standards, and originals as a gift to his grandchildren and as his last studio recording. His playing, ingenuity and integrity, all hallmarks of great Brubeck recordings, are abundantly apparent on this...

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...

Strands

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

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Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, one of the foremost jazz artists of our time and a pacesetting creative force in music for more than four decades, makes his Blue Note debut with Belonging, a full album reinterpretation of Keith Jarrett's 1974 ECM album of the same...

Eight years after Blue Maqams, Anouar Brahem returns with a poignant project, titled after a line of verse by poet Mahmoud Darwish, which asks "Where should the birds fly, after the last sky?" Graceful chamber pieces for oud, cello, piano and bass subtly address...

Jeff Bradshaw 20

Boros, Zsofia

Sphere (Vinyl)

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...

Refract

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

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

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...

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....

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’.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...