Jazz

Vinyl LP pressing. Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell came together to celebrate the work of mentor Ornette Coleman, but the repertoire of their Old and New Dreams quartet soon blossomed into a project of much wider scope, addressing also the...

The members of Les Vents Français, which has been described as “the wind-quintet equivalent of a supergroup” join the Munich Chamber Orchestra and conductor Daniel Giglberger in five examples of the sinfonia concertante. The form flourished in the decades around 1800, particularly in Paris...

Byrd’s Eye View (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (Vinyl)

A first-ever official release of Donald Byrd's Live: Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux on what would have been the legendary trumpeter's 90th birthday: December 9, 2022. In July 1973, Blue Note Records headed to Switzerland to showcase several of the label's stars at...

A first-ever official release of Donald Byrd's Live: Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux on what would have been the legendary trumpeter's 90th birthday: December 9, 2022. In July 1973, Blue Note Records headed to Switzerland to showcase several of the label's stars at...

A New Perspective (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)

AVID Jazz presents the latest release in our Four Classic Album series with a second re-mastered 2CD release from Donald Byrd, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. "Off To The Races"; "Byrd In Hand"; "The Cat Walk" and "Royal Flush". We...

Donald Byrd's 1975 album, Places and Spaces, featuring the hits "Wind Parade" and "Dominoes," was the culmination of his fusion period. It was his 5th consecutive album produced by the visionary Larry Mizell, and the second to last session Byrd would cut for Blue...

Donald Byrd - "The Cat Walk (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition)" [180g Heavy Vinyl] Donald Byrd was deep in a groove in 1960 as the trumpeter turned out one hard bop classic after another, including The Cat Walk, featuring Byrd's quintet with Pepper Adams...

The leader of 'David Bowie's Last Band' releases an album inspired by and dedicated to the legendary alt-pop innovator.Deeply influenced by his extraordinary experience collaborating with David Bowie on his final release, 'Blackstar', Donny McCaslin steps forward with BEYOND NOW, a heartfelt dedication to...

Afro-Harping is the first of a rarefied and outstanding trilogy of soul-jazz albums by Dorothy Ashby. Remastered from the original tapes, Afro-Harping is filled front-to-back with sumptuous and hypnotic grooves. Its African percussion, soulful orchestrations, in-the-pocket rhythms and Dorothy's virtuosity take it beyond jazzy...

Vinyl LP pressing. Recorded in 1956 for producer Tom Wilson's short-lived Boston-based label Transition Records, Watkins At Large was the first of only two albums that the great bassist Doug Watkins would make as a leader. The Detroit native had moved to New York...

With millions of records sold worldwide the purveyors of sides steeped in funk and groove, DTTB, the brainchild of producer Stuart Wade swings for the fences once again with this assemblage of fresh new cuts that accentuate the fat and funky, with grooves so...

All in My Mind, was recorded by Hammond B-3 organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith during his 75th birthday celebration at the Jazz Standard in New York City, with guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg and drummer Jonathan Blake. It features spirited interpretations of songs by Wayne Shorter,...

BSX Records presents a reissue of the classic 1998 electro-jazz album by celebrated composer and keyboardist Dr. Patrick Gleeson and acclaimed wind instrumentalist Bernie Maupin. Take a hypnotic musical ride along the rhythm highway, your nighttime journey sparkled by street lights, traffic lights, rainfall...

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Duke Ellington’s class big band classic on Bethlehem. Recorded in Chicago, February 1956. Remastered 96 kHz/24 bit audio. Pressed on 180 gram black vinyl in Canada.

When Norman Granz signed Johnny Hodges to a recording contract in 1951, it was a prelude to Hodges' leaving the Duke Ellington orchestra to lead his own small band. Four years later Hodges was back in the Ellington fold, but he continued to record...

1962 jazz albuM features a historic collaboration between two titans of the genre. The album showcases a respectful and musically generous meeting between the older, more established jazz pianist Duke Ellington and the younger, innovative saxophonist John Coltrane.

Duke Jordan was on the front lines of the bebop revolution as the pianist in Charlie Parker's quintet and later recorded his sole Blue Note album, Flight To Jordan, in 1960 - an exemplar hard bop date featuring Dizzy Reece (trumpet), Stanley Turrentine (sax),...

Dusk, Matt

An expressive instrumentalist, Cherry has a hip, melodic approach that is a refreshing contrast to guitarists who frequently resort to playing 'finger music', the execution of rapid streams of notes that serve no musical purpose other than to fill space This recording is a...

CLEANHEAD & CANNONBALL

Four CD set. Clamshell case with book. Released to celebrate tenor jazz saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis' centennial, Cookin' with Jaws and the Queen showcases the influential soul-jazz partnership of Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and organist Shirley Scott. Bringing together the Prestige albums Smokin' and Cookbook,...

Trumpeter Eddie Henderson came to prominence as a member of Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi in the early `70s, after which he recorded a pair of seminal jazz/funk fusion classics for Blue Note - Sunburst (1975) & Heritage (1976) - the latter, featuring a forward-looking crew...

KNOWN AS ONE OF THE FINEST PIANISTS OF THE PAST 60 YEARS, EDDIE PALMIERI WAS A BANDLEADER, ARRANGER AND COMPOSER OF SALSA AND LATIN JAZZ.DEC. 15, 1936 - AUG. 6, 2025Known as one of the finest pianists of the past 60 years, Eddie Palmieri...

Edith Piaf

A Time To Remember is a continuation of the special synergy that inhabited Elina Duni's acclaimed Lost Ships and finds her regrouping with that album's quartet of guitarist Rob Luft, Matthieu Michel on flugelhorn and Fred Thomas on percussion and piano. The notion of...

Breakaway is an album by Elizabeth Mis, released in 2012. The album is a jazz CD.

Ella Fitzgerald recorded eight Gershwin songs in 1950 backed only by pianist Ellis Larkins, and six years later made her celebrated Rodgers & Hart and Cole Porter Songbooks. The best of these, and more, are presented here.

Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) (Vinyl)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. After appearing together at an all-star concert the night before, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong went into an L.A. studio to record this gem of an album. Despite having little to no time for rehearsals, the...

The duo that critics have called "a match made in heaven" are in peak form on the sequel to their 1956 debut. Ella's voice - warm and sweet as honey - and Louis' gravelly croon formed a sound built for commercial success. Ella &...