The Quintet
Jazz At Massey Hall (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] This modern jazz summit meeting in Toronto has been called "the greatest jazz concert ever." We owe the survival of the music to Charles Mingus, who, along with Max Roach, taped the concert and subsequently issued it on his own new Debut... |
Return To Forever
Romantic Warrior (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 3/Nov/2011 ] Return To Forever is often cited as one of the core groups of the jazz-fusion movement of the 1970s. The final album by the longest-lasting "classic" lineup of the group (which consisted of Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White and Al DiMeola)... |
Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 26/May/2023 ] All analogue mastering from the original tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI. Recorded in NYC 1957-58. |
Thelonious Monk Trio
Thelonious Monk Trio (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Monk came to Prestige from Blue Note where he recorded with several groups of varying sizes including some trios. At Prestige his first two dates (October and December 1952) were strictly in a trio context with Art Blakey on the first and Max Roach... |
Anu Komsi (soprano), Marzi Nyman (organ)
Duke Ellington: Sacred Concert (LP) [ Alba / LP - released 14/May/2020 ] Duke Ellington wrote the Sacred Concert in the mid-1960's and performed the work with his orchestra and various soloists between 1966 and 1974 at Churches around the USA and Europe. Ellington never wrote a score of Sacred Concerts, and it wasn't... |
Charlie Hunter
Bing Bing Bing (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Charlie Hunter's 1995 Blue Note debut Bing Bing Bing! was a groove-heavy tour-de-force that marked the arrival of a virtuosic guitarist whose unique concept on his 8-string guitar produced music that was both impressive and irrepressible. Hunter's... |
Dexter Gordon
Doin' Allright (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
Idris Muhammad
Black Rhythm Revolution! (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 14/Jul/2023 ] Black Rhythm Revolution! Is the first solo album from the jazz-funk legend Idris Muhammad, a New Orleans-bred rhythm king who successfully made the leap from the finest soulful jazz records of the '60s to the nastiest fusion funk of the '70s. |
Jack Wilson
Easterly Winds (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] The Chicago-born pianist and composer Jack Wilson enjoyed a wide-range of musical associations including work with the likes of Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Lou Rawls, Gerald Wilson, Roy Ayers, and recording leader dates for Atlantic before he... |
Joe Henderson
Inner Urge (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] The presence of John Coltrane's pianist and drummer, McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones respectively, give this quartet album weight and passion. Henderson's playing is incandescent throughout. The first three selections are exciting, probing Henderson... |
Joe Henderson
State Of The Tenor: Live at the Village Vanguard Volume 1 (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Ron Carter on bass, and Al Foster on drums captured live in 1985 playing at the peak of their respective powers at NYC's historic jazz shrine, The Village Vanguard. Blue Note Tone Poet Series The Blue Note Tone... |
Madeleine Peyroux
Careless Love (Deluxe Triple LP) [ Craft Recordings / 3 LP - released 1/Jan/2021 ] Weaving strands of acoustic blues, country ballads, classic jazz, torch songs and pop into a vibrant, timeless fabric, with Peyroux's arresting vocals always front and center. |
McCoy Tyner
Time For Tyner (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Cut directly from the analog tapes, 180g vinyl. |
Mel Brown
Chicken Fat (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 13/Jan/2023 ] Guitarist Mel Brown's 1967 Impulse! debut is possibly the funkiest and most unique album ever released on the label. Brown's clean blues picking style-honed while playing in John Lee Hooker's and T-Bone Walker's bands-marinates funkily with the... |
Melvin Sparks
'75 (LP) [ Westbound / LP - released 28/Jul/2023 ] Texas born guitarist Melvin Sparks is one of the godfather's of Acid Jazz. He first came to prominence in the bands of Jack McDuff and Lou Donaldson, providing an essential element in their funky groove based classics of the late 60s. He then became... |
Melvin Sparks
Texas Twister (LP) [ Eastbound Records / LP - released 28/Jul/2023 ] A masterful funky jazz album by one of the godfather's of acid jazz. Produced by Bob Porter, Texas Twister is a continuation of Sparks sought-after work at Prestige. The Texan born guitarist had joined Bob Weinstock's label at Porter's request in... |
Miles Davis
Bags' Groove (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Bags' Groove was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder and originally released by Prestige Records. It compiles material from two 10" LPs recorded in 1954, plus two alternative takes. It is described in Allmusic as "…a cornerstone of the post-bop genre." It... |
Miles Davis
Volume 1 (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/May/2023 ] The legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still near the beginning of his storied career when he cut the three sessions that comprise his Blue Note recordings in 1952, 1953, and 1954. In the late 1940s, Miles had been a member of Charlie Parker's... |
Milt Jackson & Ray Charles
Soul Brothers (LP) [ Rhino / Warner / LP - released 18/Jun/2021 ] A stunning collaboration, this is Ray Charles's second "true" studio album for Atlantic (after The Great Ray Charles). While he released R&B singles for the pop market during his time with the label, he used his LPs to explore modern jazz. Here he... |
Spaceark
Spaceark Is (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 1/Mar/2019 ] The second album from SpaceArk. More brilliant self-released, private-press jazz/soul from 1976 Los Angeles. 'SpaceArk Is' came out on Color World records in 1976, on a limited run of about 5,000 copies. It followed their self-titled debut (also... |