Abbey Lincoln
Who Used To Dance (LP) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] The late Abbey Lincoln was one of the greats in jazz singing and composition. 65 at the time of this recording, the singer performs a fiery musical statement and maintains her own distinctive manner of delivering a lyric. This 1998 Verve release... |
Al Di Meola
Elegant Gypsy (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 21/Feb/2013 ] Al DiMeola's second album Elegant Gypsy (1977) proved to become one of the defining albums in Fusion. Featuring Jazz Rock giants Steve Gadd, Jan Hammer and Anthony Jackson, and Flamenco superstar Paco De Lucia. |
Art Farmer
Portrait Of Art Farmer (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] 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) with... |
Blue Mitchell
Bring It Home To Me (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Trumpeter Blue Mitchell had been a sideman on Blue Note sessions led by Lou Donaldson, Jimmy Smith, Jackie McLean, and appeared on numerous classics as a member of the Horace Silver Quintet before he began recording his own leader albums for the... |
Chet Baker & Art Pepper
Picture Of Heath (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Having teamed up on two prior Pacific Jazz recordings, trumpeter Chet Baker & alto saxophonist Art Pepper continued their fruitful collaboration with the supremely swinging 1956 album Picture of Heath (which was originally released as Playboys until... |
Yussef Dayes
Black Classical Music (Double Gatefold LP) [ Brownswood / 2 LP - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Dayes introduces Black Classical Music in his own words: "What is jazz? Where did the word derive from? Birthed in New Orleans, born in the belly of the Mississippi River, rooted in the gumbo pot of the Caribbean, South American culture & African... |
Eartha Kitt
Bad But Beautiful (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Kitt is in excellent form on this never-before-reissued 1962 album, swinging her way through Billy May arrangements on classics like "Love For Sale" and "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend". Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl, pressed... |
Gil Evans
Great Jazz Standards (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/May/2023 ] The brilliant arranger, composer, and pianist Gil Evans had already collaborated with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead and made his own debut album Gil Evans & Ten for Prestige when he signed with World Pacific Records in 1958 and... |
High Pulp
Pursuit Of Ends (LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Drawing on bebop, punk rock, shoegaze, hip-hop, and electronic music, experimental jazz act High Pulp present Pursuit of Ends, their first full-length album with Los Angeles's ANTI- Records. High Pulp's music is both vintage and futuristic all at... |
Jackie Mclean
Destination Out (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] When Jackie McLean began recording for Blue Note in 1959, the alto saxophonist had already been a mainstay of the New York jazz scene for nearly a decade, having spent the entire 1950s cutting his teeth alongside bebop legends. like Miles Davis and... |