Jazz

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.

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

`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...

Echoes Of The Inner Prophet

With the tenor saxophone of John Coltrane joining Cannonball Adderley's alto on two tracks, this exciting 1959 session boasts the same band featured on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, sans Miles and Bill Evans, as they through a lively set of blues and ballads....

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"...

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”...

Soulville is quintessential Ben Webster: intimate, tender, endlessly expressive. Webster was internationally recognized as one of jazz's elder statesman when he recorded this album in 1957. Leading a stellar combo through a program consisting mostly of vintage pop tunes, the great tenor saxophonist is...

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...

Duke Pearson's opening title track of superb album, The Phantom, sets a stage for one of Blue Note's underrecognized gems. The pianist/composer/arranger gathered a superb cast: Bobby Hutcherson, Jerry Dodgion (flute), Sam Brown/Al Gafa (guitars), Bob Cranshaw (bass), Mickey Roker/Victor Pantojo/Potato Valdes (drums). With...

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...

3 giants of West Coast jazz came together in this swinging session recorded in 1953. Alto saxophone master Lee Konitz joins Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone and legendary trumpeter Chet Baker on a half-live/half-studio recording. They are supported by bassists Carson Smith and Joe...

Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden broaden the scope of their duo project to showcase jazz classics like Thelonious Monk s Round Midnight and Bud Powell s spritely Dance Of The Infidels. Love songs, however, are to the fore in this selection, with tender versions...

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...