Jazz

Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin

The long awaited follow-up to the highly acclaimed DREAMLAND, Peyroux weaves strands of acoustic blues, country ballads, classic jazz, torch songs and pop into vibrant fabric that is both timeless and throughly up to date. When Madeleine Peyroux's debut, Dreamland, was released in 1996,...

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Vinyl LP repressing of this album from the Jazz legend. The Los Angeles sessions dating from 1954 offer a fresher-sounding Billie, but that in no way diminishes the quality of the songs recorded in New York City. When it was originally released on Clef...

In 1960, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley - with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey - laid down what would become his masterpiece, Soul Station. The 6-song set was a showcase for his lyrical flow from the opening take on Irving...

12 songs, 2007 AMAZON.COM With Trav'lin' Light, singer/actress/rapper/Cover Girl Queen Latifah (née Dana Owens) continues her chameleonic pan-stardom. The latest musical chapter in Latifah's success-studded career began with 2004's The Dana Owens Album, on which she emerged as a nuanced crooner of jazz and...

12 songs, 2007 AMAZON.COM With Trav'lin' Light, singer/actress/rapper/Cover Girl Queen Latifah (née Dana Owens) continues her chameleonic pan-stardom. The latest musical chapter in Latifah's success-studded career began with 2004's The Dana Owens Album, on which she emerged as a nuanced crooner of jazz and...

Since her death, the music of Billie Holiday has been championed by many high-profile artists who freely acknowledge her influence. Though Holiday s career was relatively short, she created a musical legacy that has endured to the current century. Billie Holiday was an original,...

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We all know that Gershwin was a brilliant composer, but these rare 1924 piano rolls reveal a dazzling pianist as well! He plays Rhapsody in Blue; Swanee, and Walkin' the Dog, while other performers do Let's Call the Whole Thing Off; An American in...

Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul proved that Ray Charles didn’t so much ignore genres, but, by the ’60s, had become a genre unto himself. An academic might want to separate this stack of songs into neat little buckets—country, jazz, standards, blues, pop—but those...

Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul proved that Ray Charles didn’t so much ignore genres, but, by the ’60s, had become a genre unto himself. An academic might want to separate this stack of songs into neat little buckets—country, jazz, standards, blues, pop—but those...

2024 release, the 10th album from the acclaimed singer-songwriter. Let's Walk is her most assured, courageous work to date. Powered by the distinctive, honeyed croon that delivered her from the Paris streets to concert halls, these ten unabashedly personal songs, all co-written by the...

Brahem, Anouar

One Art Blakey's greatest albums with the Jazz Messengers, Roots & Herbs, is little known. In 1961, the group featured Lee Morgan (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Bobby Timmons (piano) and Jymie Merrit (bass). Recorded in Rudy Van Gelder's New Jersey studio, it's a...

Originally recorded for the Clef label in 1956, Swing's The Thing features the tenor great in a stellar sextet with Roy Eldridge (trumpet), Jimmy Jones (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar), Ray Brown (bass) and Jo Jones (drums). While Jacquet's sessions as a leader may have...

A swinging Christmas and a jazzy new year-that's what this joyous 1960 Ella LP will bring you. She sings (and swings) Jingle Bells; Sleigh Ride; Winter Wonderland , and more! Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in...

Long-sought-after pop, blues and soul sides from Nina Simone, including To Be Young, Gifted and Black - the song that made her a Civil Rights leader. Also here are the hits Ain't Got No/I Got Life; To Love Somebody; I Shall Be Released ,...

Aaron Davis

In 1957 Timex sponsored a series of TV Variety Show Specials starring Frank Sinatra broadcast on The ABC Television Network. The last in the series taped on 12th May 1960 in Miami, was perhaps the best of all, featuring Elvis Presley, upon completion of

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1978 classic from the guitarist on ECM label with Jack DeJohnette & Eddie Gomez, reissued in a tasteful slim card sleeve

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Digitally remastered edition of this 1953 live album by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus Bud Powell and Max Roach. Jazz at Massey Hall has been called 'the greatest Jazz concert ever'. Features original and new linter notes and fully restored original artwork.

In a recording career of over three decades, master guitarist Earl Klugh has been lauded as a prodigy and a groundbreaker of contemporary jazz. Klughs highly-anticipated Concord debut, HAND PICKED, is a self-produced solo album with guest guitarists Bill Frisell, Vince Gill, Jake Shimabukuro,...

Wes recorded this 1963 Riverside LP with the backing of B-3 master Melvin Rhyne and always-inspiring drummer Jimmy Cobb. The brilliant fretwork of the Trick Bag ; the funky Fried Pies ; the swinging the Breeze and I, and the gorgeous Days of Wine...

Fantasy Records salutes the famed pianist, who, despite gold records and global acclaim as a renowned jazz artist, will always be best known for his cheerful, uplifting work with Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang. Although he passed away at the young age of...

Tracks include "If That Ain't a Reason," "I'm Living Off the Love You Give Me," "That's What Love Will Make You Do," "Let Me Down Easy," "Before the Honeymoon," and more.

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Vinyl LP repressing. Frank Zappa's highest-charting album, APOSTROPHE(!), gets renewed treatment for it's vinyl reissue. The eleven song package, which includes Zappa classics such as 'Don't Eat the Yellow Snow' (his first charted single) and 'Cosmic Debris,' featured an all-star recording band interpreting the...

Milestone takes an urban turn as Chrisette Michele releases her first Rich Hipster delivery. With gifts from hip-hop icon Rick Ross, & urban consciousness, Mali Music, Milestone proves to be Chrisette's greatest mainstream contribution. Singing of the love she's found with her new engagement...

Jane Bunnett & Maqueque are a force of nature. What started out five years ago as a project to record and mentor young brilliant Cuban female musicians, has become one of the top groups on the North American jazz scene. In the last year,...

Purists in the reggae community will be up in arms against producer Lee Ritenour for this 13-track star-studded effort, while the smooth-jazz world will rejoice over one of the year's best albums. While the former group cringes, the latter will marvel at how the...

DIANA PANTON

Thomas Carbou

Recorded in 1958, Minor Move was Tina Brooks' very first recording, though it wasn't released until 1980, 6 years after his tragic death at the age of 42. In fact, Brooks' 1960 classic True Blue was the saxophonist's only album released during his all-too-short...

Black Fire (Vinyl)

The Gleaners (Vinyl)

2019 release. The great saxophonist Joe Lovano has appeared on a number of ECM recordings over the last four decades, including much-loved albums with Paul Motian, Steve Kuhn and John Abercrombie. Trio Tapestry is his first as a leader for the label, introducing a...

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