Jazz

Capping several successful years traveling the world performing to audiences big and small, Hailu Mergia’s Lala Belu has been a long time coming. It builds on Mergia’s remarkable career resurgence over the past few years. Beginning in 2013 with the reissue of his dreamy...

Playing Gershwin

Rubberband (Vinyl)

Limited colored vinyl LP pressing. Classic Grammy winning album that contains 2 sought after classics: 'This Masquerad'e and 'Breezin'. Classic Grammy winning album that contains 2 sought after classics: This Masquerade and Breezin'. On blue/badge vinyl. George Benson is simply one of the greatest...

Double vinyl LP pressing. By 1991, the world's most celebrated trumpeter could look back on five decades of musical evolution - his own, and that of the world around him. Miles Davis had found ways of marrying jazz with classical ideas, then later R&B,...

The greatest bassist leader jazz has ever known, Charles Mingus, with his spirited playing and spontaneity, always kept his ears and fingers on the pulse. “Mingus was something else, man,” Miles Davis wrote in his own book. “A pure genius, I loved him.”This year...

This title was recorded live at the historic Village Vanguard in NYC in the Fall of 2018 during Jon Batiste's residency and incorporates original material and covers. The music on this release is primarily instrumental music aside from "The Very Thought of You" featuring...

Former Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson heads his own quartet in a program of standards and blues, recorded live at Manhattan's famed Village Vanguard. Tom Harrell whom Iverson extols for his quality of poetic "vulnerability" provides the prime melodic voice but the album courses...

The tenor firebrand and avant-garde hero's second Impulse! album, released in 1965, was an ensemble masterpiece featuring an original tune dedicated to Malcolm X ("Malcom, Malcolm Semper Malcolm") plus unique takes on Antonio Carlos Jobim ("The Girl From Ipanema") and Duke Ellington ("Prelude To...

Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai who explored jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years. Their first duo album begins with music composed by the trumpeter...

Guitarist Miller whose "ability to express emotion through a guitar is amazing to hear" has created an album colored by a distinct atmosphere. Absinthe finds the guitarist fronting a quintet that brings his ever-lyrical compositions to textured life. Miller has a key harmonic-melodic foil...

In celebration of its 60th anniversary, a vinyl reissue of a of classic 2LP set, in its original mono mix. Sarah Vaughan’s impeccable pop-jazz vocals soar over Hal Mooney’s arrangements, which bring new life to Gershwin standards “Someone To Watch Over Me,” “I’ve Got...