Jazz New Releases
Jazz New Releases
Below is a list of all Jazz titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 1 to 40 of 42
Enrico Rava, Fearless Five with Joe Lovano
Corners [ ECM / CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] For Corners, Italian trumpeter and long-time label-companion Enrico Rava has once again surrounded himself with a new generation of Italian players eager to defy the paradigm. As a collective they call themselves the Fearless Five - an... |
Jackie Mclean
Swing, Swang, Swingin' (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Oct/2026 ] Recorded in 1959, Jackie McLean's second Blue Note album 'Swing, Swang, Swingin'' fully delivered on the album title's emphatic promise with the alto saxophonist blowing with gusto through a joyful set of standards in a quartet featuring Walter... |
Jan Garbarek
Rites (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series / 2 LP - released 16/Oct/2026 ] "This is the best work for some time from one of the most individual and innovative of all contemporary jazz musicians. Garbarek is one of the few performers to have a completely distinctive sound and style and, regardless of trends, has steadfastly... |
Joe Kaptein
Live at The Upside Down Lounge Vol.1 (LP) [ Holiday Records / LP - released 16/Oct/2026 ] Music First and Jandal Records are delighted to present "Live at The Upside Down Lounge Vol.1" by Joe Kaptein, one of the hottest talents in the NZ Jazz scene. Recorded live at Goblin in the heart of Ponsonby on 26 May, the album features Hank... |
Lou Donaldson
Sunny Side Up (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Oct/2026 ] A quintessential Blue Note hard bop outing, Lou Donaldson's 1960 album 'Sunny Side Up' presented a winsome program of swinging standards and bluesy originals given deeply felt performances by a quintet with trumpeter Bill Hardman, pianist Horace... |
Nina Simone
Verve Remixed // Nina Simone (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 16/Oct/2026 ] After a run of impactful singles that have introduced Nina Simone's timeless catalog to new audiences, 'Verve Remixed // Nina Simone' arrives as the complete collection of the groundbreaking series. Bringing together every remix from the campaign,... |
Charles Mingus
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Verve Essentials LP) [ Verve / LP - released 9/Oct/2026 ] Say it as many times as you'd like: one of Charles Mingus' last great works as a bandleader is a must-hear, no matter how familiar you are with his extraordinary songbook. 1964's 'Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus', released on the Impulse! label,... |
John Coltrane
Ballads (Verve Essentials LP) [ Verve / LP - released 9/Oct/2026 ] John Coltrane's time with Impulse! Records was highlighted by the conscious-altering original work of albums like 'A Love Supreme' and 'Ascension'. But Ballads, released in 1963, proved Trane could make any repertoire his own - even time-worn... |
Stan Getz, João Gilberto
Getz / Gilberto (Verve Essentials LP) [ Verve / LP - released 9/Oct/2026 ] From the shores of Rio de Janiero, the sound of bossa nova changed the way the world heard jazz in the 1960s. Arguably the finest record of its kind, 1964's 'Getz/Gilberto' marked a meeting of the minds between Stan Getz, one of America's top jazz... |
John Coltrane
Coltrane 100 - Selections From 1951-1967 (6LP Box Set) [ Rhino / 6 LP - released 2/Oct/2026 ] A cross-label career spanning compilation to celebrate the 100th birthday of jazz legend John Coltrane. This is the first truly comprehensive career overview on the accomplished musician and bandleader to date, including early compositions from 1951... |
John Coltrane
John Coltrane 100 - Highlights From 1957-1964 [ Rhino / CD - released 2/Oct/2026 ] Drawing from the larger career spanning 6LP box, comes a shorter/sweeter collection featuring just the highlights! These are the quintessential compositions and timeless classics that shaped Coltrane's career and influence. |
John Coltrane
John Coltrane 100 - Highlights From 1957-1964 (LP) [ Rhino / 2 LP - released 2/Oct/2026 ] Drawing from the larger career spanning 6LP box, comes a shorter/sweeter collection featuring just the highlights! These are the quintessential compositions and timeless classics that shaped Coltrane's career and influence. |
Meshell Ndegeocello
Synonym [ Blue Note / CD - released 2/Oct/2026 ] With her 3rd Blue Note album Synonym, Meshell Ndegeocello presents a remarkable album of duets on classic songs that are known, loved, and diverse in tone, "genre", intent, and BPM. This is an album about joy, love, selfhood, individual... |
Eric Dolphy
Out To Lunch (Blue Note Essentials LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 25/Sep/2026 ] In February 1964, Eric Dolphy assembled a formidable quintet of modern jazz visionaries with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, Richard Davis on bass, and Tony Williams on drums, and headed into Rudy Van Gelder's studio to... |
Grant Green
Idle Moments (Blue Note Essentials LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 25/Sep/2026 ] Time and troubles seem to melt away during the 15 enrapturing minutes of "Idle Moments," the opening track of Grant Green's sublime 1963 album Idle Moments. As the piece unhurriedly unfurls all the unique colors of the ensemble present themselves... |
John Coltrane
Blue Train (Blue Note Essentials Limited Edition LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 25/Sep/2026 ] On September 15, 1957, John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder's living room studio in Hackensack, New Jersey and recorded his first great masterpiece: Blue Train. It would be the legendary saxophonist's sole album as a leader for Blue Note, a... |
Kenny Burrell
Midnight Blue (Blue Note Essentials LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 25/Sep/2026 ] Guitarist Kenny Burrell debuted on Blue Note Records in 1956 and over the following 7 years made a series of excellent albums for the label that culminated with his masterwork Midnight Blue. Recorded in 1963, the album waded deep into the blues,... |
Wayne Shorter
Speak No Evil (Blue Note Essentials LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 25/Sep/2026 ] 1964 was one of the most momentous years in the musical life of Wayne Shorter. Early in the year the saxophonist was still a member of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, appearing on classic Blue Note albums like Free for All and Indestructible.... |
Eddie Gale
Black Rhythm Happening (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Sep/2026 ] Following his striking debut 'Ghetto Music', the radical trumpeter Eddie Gale presented an extension of that vision on 1969's 'Black Rhythm Happening'. Joining the Noble Gale Musicians & Singers are guests including saxophonist Jimmy Lyons, and... |
DANIELE DI BONAVENTURA / ENZO FAVATA / MARCELLO PEGHIN
Ritornare Enzo Favata, Quintetto Atlantico [ ECM / CD - released 18/Sep/2026 ] Enzo Favata's Atlantico quintet explores the musical space where jazz, chamber music dynamics and improvisation meet - never predictable, but with a strong sense of direction grounded in vast musical backgrounds, including the multitude of... |
Stanley Cowell Trio
Illusion Suite (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series / LP - released 18/Sep/2026 ] On Illusion Suite, "the charms are quiet", as Down Beat put it, reviewing the album in 1974. "It creeps up on you and hits you in the ear in subtle ways. Things you hadn't noticed keep jumping out. This album most directly and accurately pictures... |
The Three Sounds
Soul Symphony (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Sep/2026 ] The Three Sounds' return to Blue Note in the late-60s found the trio evolving and expanding their trademark sound. On 'Soul Symphony', pianist Gene Harris, bassist Henry Franklin, and drummer Carl Burnett perform music composed, arranged and... |
Andy Sheppard Trio
Salt Catchers [ ECM / CD - released 11/Sep/2026 ] After a critically lauded release with his Trio Libero, successful quartet recordings (Surrounded By Sea, 2015, Romaria, 2018) and an internationally acclaimed trilogy of albums in a trio with Carla Bley and Steve Swallow, on Saltcatchers English... |
John Coltrane
John Coltrane: 1960-1964 (Mono 6CD Box Set) [ Rhino / 6 CD - released 4/Sep/2026 ] As part of John Coltrane's Centennial celebration, Rhino release John Coltrane: 1960-1964, a 6CD box set featuring audio from the original Mono master tapes. Previously released as a D2C 6LP Vinyl box, the 6CD box set is now available for general... |
Miles Davis
Tutu (Limited Edition Picture Disc LP) [ Rhino / LP - released 4/Sep/2026 ] Celebrating 30 years of Miles' first album for Warner Records and the first of many collaborations with bassist & producer Marcus Miller, named in honour of civil rights activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Releasing as part of the Miles Davis... |
Ayumi Tanaka / Thomas Morgen / Thomas Strønen
Windflower [ ECM / CD - released 21/Aug/2026 ] "Sparse, subtle and determined as much by silence as by sound, hers is a music created using deft, fleeting strokes" wrote the BBC Music Magazine of Ayumi Tanaka's Subaqueous Silence. And Windflower reconfirms the potency of a musical approach in... |
Grant Green
Street Of Dreams (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Aug/2026 ] |
Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer & Dafnis Prieto
Fifteen [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 21/Aug/2026 ] A landmark meeting of three visionary forces in contemporary jazz. Fifteen marks the long‑awaited debut recording of the collective trio formed by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and multi‑reed master Henry Threadgill, acclaimed pianist Vijay Iyer,... |
Jon Batiste
Black Mozart [ Verve / CD - released 14/Aug/2026 ] The second installment of the Batiste Piano Series sees multi-Grammy and Oscar winner Jon Batiste reinterpret Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most beloved melodies as Black American classical music, infused with influences from jazz, rags, stride, blues... |
Jon Batiste
Black Mozart (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 14/Aug/2026 ] The second installment of the Batiste Piano Series sees multi-Grammy and Oscar winner Jon Batiste reinterpret Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most beloved melodies as Black American classical music, infused with influences from jazz, rags, stride, blues... |
Mick Goodrick
In Pas(S)Ing (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 24/Jul/2026 ] Mick Goodrick (1945-2022), hailed as "technically among the finest players around" by Downbeat magazine in their review of this album, was a subtle master on the guitar and an equally understated composer - both qualities to the fore on this, his... |
Ralph Alessi
A Sun That Never Sets [ ECM / CD - released 24/Jul/2026 ] For A Sun That Never Sets, Ralph Alessi expands the quartet configuration with a fifth player for a set of eleven new compositions that elaborate on Alessi's intricate writing with deep thought and a fresh sense of adventure. The last time Alessi... |
Steve Swallow
Winter Songs [ ECM / CD - released 24/Jul/2026 ] For Winter Songs, Steve Swallow's first true leader date in over a decade (Into The Woodworks, 2013) and his first recorded appearance on the label after John Scofield's Swallow Tales and Carla Bley's Life Goes On in 2020, the master-bassist has... |
Miles Davis & Marcus Miller
Music From Siesta [ Rhino / CD - released 17/Jul/2026 ] The soundtrack to the film of the same name releasing in 1987, Miles collaborated with his trusted producer/writer of the time Marcus Miller. The soundtrack began in early 1987 in Los Angeles, Miller and Jason Miles working in North Hollywood, and... |
Miles Davis & Marcus Miller
Music From Siesta (LP) [ Rhino / LP - released 17/Jul/2026 ] The soundtrack to the film of the same name releasing in 1987, Miles collaborated with his trusted producer/writer of the time Marcus Miller. The soundtrack began in early 1987 in Los Angeles, Miller and Jason Miles working in North Hollywood, and... |
Miles Davis
Amandla [ Rhino / CD - released 10/Jul/2026 ] A particularly strong set by late-period Miles Davis, this LP is highlighted by a surprisingly straight-ahead performance titled "Mr. Pastorius". In addition to Davis and his new altoist Kenny Garrett, various guests - including Marcus Miller,... |
Miles Davis
Tutu [ Rhino / CD - released 10/Jul/2026 ] Recorded in early 1986 and released in October, Tutu was an album that had time on its side. It benefited from catchy, funk beats that sounded up-to-date yet avoided cliché. The various tracks could be upbeat and playful, yet Miles Davis' trumpet... |
Miles Davis
Tutu (LP) [ Rhino / LP - released 10/Jul/2026 ] Recorded in early 1986 and released in October, Tutu was an album that had time on its side. It benefited from catchy, funk beats that sounded up-to-date yet avoided cliché. The various tracks could be upbeat and playful, yet Miles Davis' trumpet... |
Hank Mobley
Hank Mobley (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jun/2026 ] Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was still establishing his unique identity on his early Blue Note sides, including the 1957 sextet album Hank Mobley (BLP 1568) featuring saxophonist Curtis Porter, trumpeter Bill Hardman, pianist Sonny Clark, bassist... |
Kenny Burrell
Blue Lights, Volume 1 (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jun/2026 ] In 1958, guitarist Kenny Burrell assembled an impressive line-up with Louis Smith, Junior Cook, Tina Brooks, Duke Jordan, Bobby Timmons, Sam Jones, and Art Blakey to record 'Blue Lights': a high-quality blowing session of blues, ballads, and... |
