Jazz

Blue Night is the expanded edition of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recording released in 1985. Art Blakey led the Jazz Messengers for 35 years, mentoring countless musicians and encouraging their growth into influential bandleaders. By 1984-85, his band included five prodigious talents:...

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...

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,...

This is truly one of the great classics of hard bop, with drummer Art Blakey leading arguably his greatest Jazz Messengers line-up through a driving programme that never lets up. Tenor saxophonist Benny Golson (whose composition "Along Came Betty" is heard here, subsequently becoming...

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

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in tip-on jacket. Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of iconic jazz trumpet player Art Farmer's 1958 Contemporary Records debut, "Portrait of Art Farmer". Featuring Hank Jones (piano), Addison Farmer (bass) and Roy Haynes (drums)...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in tip-on jacket. Released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series celebrating 70 years of Contemporary Records, saxophonist Art Pepper's classic big band album, + Eleven, features modern jazz classics by Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and...

An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert is a previously unreleased recording of alto saxophone icon Art Pepper, captured live at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in Norway in 1980, featuring pianist Milcho Leviev, bassist Tony Dumas and drummer Carl Burnett. Digipak 2 CD set...

An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert is a previously unreleased recording of alto saxophone icon Art Pepper, captured live at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in Norway in 1980, featuring pianist Milcho Leviev, bassist Tony Dumas and drummer Carl Burnett. 2 LP set on...

Vinyl LP pressing. Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, originally released in 1957, features Pepper's legendary sessions with the East Coast rhythm section for Miles Davis's quintet. Produced by Lester Koenig and engineered by Roy DuNann, this stereo edition features all-analog mastering from the...

The release of Art Pepper’s Everything Happens To Me: 1959 – Live At The Cellar is the stuff music archivists can only dream of finding. Recordings by an historic and important jazz artist, at a storied venue, at a time when the artist was...

• Over two hours of previously unissued live Art Pepper • Mastered from the original tapes by Grammy® winning engineer Michael Graves • Packaging contains liner notes from set co-Producer, Laurie Pepper In 1980, Art was 54; his health was poor, but his creativity...

Recorded in Hollywood, California between two sessions in December 1956 and January 1957, Art Pepper's Modern Art for the Intro label featured his melodic alto saxophone flights atop cool jazz, bebop, and blues in the company of a quartet with Russ Freeman on piano,...

Smack Up (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series / Remastered 2024 / Vinyl)

CD edition includes six bonus tracks. Producer John Snyder had always wanted to record Pepper and booked him into a week at the Village Vanguard in New York. At the time, Pepper was under contract to Contemporary Records and label head, Les Koenig, decided...

Including sessions recorded by Art Pepper for Savoy from 1952-54, Surf Ride was originally released in 1956. Featuring three groups of players, the album collects twelve, mostly Pepper composed, cuts including "Holiday Flight" - with Pepper's playing throughout on superior form. This new edition...

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...

Compact Disc

Astrud Gilberto - After making her professional debut as the cool, breathy voice behind the historic 1964 crossover smash "The Girl from Ipanema," Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto became a major force in popularizing the bossa nova sound. Her understated yet magnetic delivery is spotlighted...

Astrud Gilberto - After making her professional debut as the cool, breathy voice behind the historic 1964 crossover smash "The Girl from Ipanema," Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto became a major force in popularizing the bossa nova sound. Her understated yet magnetic delivery is spotlighted...

Look To The Rainbow (Verve By Request / Vinyl)

Released on Verve in 1965, The Shadow of Your Smile captures Astrud Gilberto in the early ascent of her solo career, placing her understated, conversational vocal style at the center of lush yet subtle arrangements by Don Sebesky and Klaus Ogerman that emphasize clarity,...

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...

Eternal Child, Avishai Cohen's new album, will be released in May and showcases the full depth of his artistry as a bassist and composer. Years later, he reunites with drummer Jeff Ballard on selected tracks, recalling their strong musical connection forged alongside Chick Corea....

Eternal Child, Avishai Cohen's new album, will be released in May and showcases the full depth of his artistry as a bassist and composer. Years later, he reunites with drummer Jeff Ballard on selected tracks, recalling their strong musical connection forged alongside Chick Corea....

Azimuth (Vinyl)

Hammond B3 organist Baby Face Willette debuted his swinging sound on 3 consecutive Blue Note sessions in January 1961: Lou Donaldson's Here `Tis, Grant Green's Grant's First Stand, and his own debut Face To Face. For his 2nd leader date, Stop And Listen, the...

FIRST ENCOUNTER IS THE FIRST PROJECT OF A GERMAN-AMERICAN JAZZ/FUNK FRIENDSHIP WHICH, WITH ITS VISION, SHOULD BE A MODEL FOR TRANSATLANTIC TEAMWORK.Craig Handy (born in 1962), who is one of the best saxophonists of his generation (countless recordings with Betty Carter, the Mingus Big...