Jazz New Releases
Jazz New Releases
Below is a list of all Jazz titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 1 to 20 of 42
Donald Byrd
A New Perspective (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Donald Byrd presented A New Perspective with his magnificent 1963 album for band and voices which wove the essence of spirituals into modern jazz with arrangements by Duke Pearson and contributions from Hank Mobley, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Burrell, and... |
Jan Garbarek Quartet
Afric Pepperbird (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Recorded in Oslo in September 1970, Afric Pepperbird was released on New Year's Day in 1971. Half a century later, it still conveys the freshness and excitement of discoveries being made. The album signalled the arrival of four Norwegian improvisers... |
John Coltrane
Soultrane (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Soultrane is the fourth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1958 on Prestige Records. It features Coltrane's renditions of Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby" and "You Say You Care" from the Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer... |
John Surman
Words Unspoken [ ECM / CD - released 28/Mar/2024 ] Hypnotic and many of its antonyms-stimulating, arousing, reviving-are old school hyperbole which very often separates the hack from the veteran of critical science. But sometimes those everyday words are exactly what need to be said to tell of music... |
Keith Jarrett / Jan Garbarek
Luminessence (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Mysterious, dramatic and alluring, Luminessence comes from a peak period in the creative association between Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek, recorded in 1974, immediately after their vibrant Belonging album. Here, Jarrett creates shimmering... |
Miles Davis
Volume 2 (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still near the start of his storied career when he cut the three sessions that comprise his Blue Note recordings in 1952, 1953, and 1954. Blue Note later compiled the tracks into two 12" LPs as part of the 1500... |
Nina Simone
Nina's Back (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Recorded in 1985 after a break from recording and time spent living in Barbados and Liberia, Nina's Back features a rejuvenated Nina Simone reaching out to a wider musical audience. Featuring a number of memorable original Simone compositions, the... |
Norah Jones
Visions [ Blue Note / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Nine-time GRAMMY® winning singer, songwriter, and pianist Norah Jones releases ninth studio album, Visions, in collaboration with producer and multi-instrumentalist Leon Michels. Visions is a vibrant and joyous 12-song set that finds Jones... |
Sun Ra
The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Engineered by Paul Cady, the sessions featured nine players, including Ra on piano, Bernard McKinney (later known as Kiane Zawadi, on trombone and euphonium), Marshall Allen (alto sax, flute, among other reed instruments), John Gilmore (tenor sax,... |
Tomorrow Comes The Harvest (Prabhu Edouard, Jean-Philippe Dary, Jeff Mills)
Evolution (Double 12") [ Axis / 2 12in - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Tomorrow Comes The Harvest is the accumulative efforts of talented musicians and their visions about what makes the art form of music so special. A theory initiated and put into action by late Afro Beat creator and Nigerian Drummer Tony Allen and... |
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GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Themes From the Songbook Vida Mikneviciute (soprano), Magdalena Ceple (cello), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 19/Jan/2024 ] "Gidon Kremer has perhaps never before revealed himself as intimately and as existentially focused as on this recording", observes Wolfgang Sandner in his liner note accompanying the Latvian violinist's album Songs of Fate. Together with his... |
Bud Powell
Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1, 1949-51 (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] The amazing bebop piano genius Bud Powell made his most enduring recordings as a leader for Blue Note. Powell's 1949 and 1951 quintet and trio sessions were compiled on the 12" LP The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (BLP 1503) in 1955 featuring the... |
Carmen McRae
Great Women Of Song: Carmen McRae [ Verve / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Like her idol Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae could own a ballad and make it all her own. She could also swing every bit as hard as her other main influence, Ella Fitzgerald. Coming up during the bebop era and under the musical sway of Thelonious Monk,... |
Cassie Kinoshi's seed.
gratitude (LP) [ International Anthem / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] In March of 2023 Mercury Prize nominated composer & alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi premiered a commissioned suite of music in front of a sold out crowd at London's Southbank Centre. She wrote the piece - gratitude - for her flagship large ensemble... |
Chet Baker
She Was Too Good To Me (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] She Was Too Good To Me was released in 1974 on Creed Taylor's CTI label after a 4 year absence from the scene. And what a comeback: excellent vocal Cool Jazz tunes are interlude with instrumental goodness from the undisputed master of the trumpet. |
Clifford Brown
Memorial Album (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown recorded two leader sessions for Blue Note in 1953-a co-led quintet date with Lou Donaldson and his own sextet date-that were compiled on the 12" LP Memorial Album (BLP 1526) shortly after his tragic death in... |
Joe Henderson
Mode For Joe (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson capped off his run of five sublime 1960s Blue Note leader dates with his 1966 classic Mode for Joe, an album bursting with vigor and vitality that found Henderson expanding his palette with a septet of colorful figures... |
Joe Lovano
Trio Fascination: Edition One (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 2/Feb/2024 ] The acclaimed Cleveland-born saxophonist Joe Lovano came to Blue Note Records in 1990 and over the next 25 years became one of the most recorded artists in the label's history, building a formidable and far-ranging catalog that explored the full... |
Miles Davis
On The Corner (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Released on 180g Heavyweight LP. Scorned by critics at the time of its release, Miles Davis' 1972 album On The Corner is now seen as a forerunner of Post Punk, Hip Hop, Drum and Bass and Electronic music, thanks to its revolutionary recording... |
Moor Mother
The Great Bailout (LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Fueled by controlled fury and unfathomable sorrow, Camae Ayewa's latest album of Afrofuturist collage traces the traumatic legacy of European colonialism. - Pitchfork |
