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... |
Donald Byrd
Live: Cookin' With Blue Note At Montreux [ Blue Note / CD - released 9/Dec/2022 ] In July 1973, Blue Note Records headed to Montreux, Switzerland to showcase several of the label's stars at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Produced by Blue Note President George Butler, live albums all titled Live: Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Jackie McLean
A Fickle Sonance (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
Johnny Griffin
Introducing Johnny Griffin (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
Lee Morgan
The Sidewinder (Ltd LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Lee Morgan's magnum opus The Sidewinder-recorded in 1963 and release in 1964-was both a comeback and a coronation. The prodigious trumpeter had debuted on Blue Note in 1956 at the age of 18, but personal problems in the early-60s forced him off the... |
McCoy Tyner
Expansions (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Pianist McCoy Tyner was an acknowledged force of nature. On the aptly-named Expansions, Tyner fronts a remarkable band consisting of Woody Shaw on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Gary Bartz on alto saxophone, Ron Carter on cello, Herbie... |