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Donald Byrd
Slow Drag (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Donald Byrd's 1967 album Slow Drag was one of the last pure hard bop records the trumpeter would make before his music began evolving towards fusion. Byrd flies high on this gratifying set featuring alto saxophonist Sonny Red, pianist Cedar Walton,... |
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... |
Dr. Lonnie Smith
All In My Mind (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] After his 2016 return to Blue Note where he first made a name for himself with a run of classic soul jazz albums between 1968-70, Hammond organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith recorded All In My Mind during his 75th birthday celebration in July 2017 at the... |
Freddie Hubbard
Breaking Point (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Despite having performed on several of the most revolutionary avant-garde jazz records of the 1960s, including Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz and John Coltrane's Ascension, Freddie Hubbard's own albums tended to hew closer to the mainstream. Perhaps no... |
Hank Mobley
A Caddy For Daddy (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had been recording for Blue Note for a decade when he made his excellent 1965 album A Caddy for Daddy featuring a first-class sextet with Lee Morgan on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, McCoy Tyner on piano, Bob... |
Horace Silver
Further Explorations (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Further Explorations documents hard-bop pioneer Horace Silver's quintet featuring Art Farmer on trumpet, Clifford Jordan on tenor saxophone, Teddy Kotick on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums. One can always expect a Horace Silver date to groove, but... |
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... |
Joe Henderson
The State of the Tenor: Live at the Village Vanguard Volume Two (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... |
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... |
Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz Plays With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 22/Oct/2021 ] Three giants of West Coast Jazz came together in this deeply swinging session recorded for the Pacific Jazz/World Pacific label in 1953. Alto saxophone master Lee Konitz joins with the great Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone and legendary... |
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... |
Sonny Clark
My Conception (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] The soulful and elegant pianist Sonny Clark brings his A-game to My Conception, a program of all-Clark originals recorded in 1959 but not released until 1979. Joining the pianist are a cast of hard bop masters including Hank Mobley on tenor... |
Sonny Clark Trio
Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The supremely swinging pianist Sonny Clark hit the Blue Note scene in 1957 with a burst of creativity recording three albums in three months including the sublime Sonny Clark Trio, a 6-song set of bebop themes and standards featuring bassist Paul... |
Stanley Turrentine
Comin' Your Way (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Stanley Turrentine is at his blues-drenched best on Comin' Your Way. This session from 1961 features the magnificent rhythm section of Horace Parlan on piano, George Trucker on bass and Al Harewood on drums, better known as the Horace Parlan Trio.... |
Stanley Turrentine
Rough & Tumble (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 15/Apr/2022 ] Stanley Turrentine's 1966 soul jazz classic Rough 'N Tumble finds a deep and bluesy groove that doesn't let up from start to finish. Joining Turrentine are the crème de la crème: Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone, James... |
Andrew Hill
Dance With Death (Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] The brilliant pianist and composer Andrew Hill debuted on Blue Note in 1963 with a flurry of creativity and maintained a prolific recording output through the end of the decade that left several stunning sessions unreleased in the vaults. Recorded... |
Anthony Williams
Life Time (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] Tone Poet Vinyl Edition reissue produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket. The... |
Baby Face Willette
Face To Face (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Hammond organ soul jazz fans know and love the music of Jimmy Smith, but lesser known is the tragically short life and career of Roosevelt "Baby Face" Willette who produced some of the deepest grooves ever recorded on just two Blue Note albums... |
Big John Patton
Let 'Em Roll (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Blue Note's roster of Hammond B3 organists was a vibrant and varied bunch that ran the stylistic gamut from Jimmy Smith's virtuosic innovations to Larry Young's horizon-expanding explorations. Kansas City born dynamo Big John Patton operated in a... |
Booker Evin
Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Booker Ervin cut 2 stellar Blue Note records in the late-60s including Tex Book Tenor which had to wait until 2005 for its first release. With a quintet featuring Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, Jan Arnet & Billy Higgins the Texas-born saxophonist slices... |
Carmell Jones
The Remarkable Carmell Jones Tone Poet Series (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Kansas City born trumpeter Carmell Jones signed to Pacific Jazz soon after his arrival in Los Angeles in 1960 and began what seemed sure to be a promising recording career with his accurately titled 1961 debut The Remarkable Carmell Jones featuring... |
Chet Baker
Chet Baker Sings And Plays (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 7/Apr/2023 ] Following the success of his vocal debut Chet Baker Sings in 1954, Pacific Jazz brought the rising star trumpeter back into the studio the next year for the sequel Chet Baker Sings and Plays which showcased both sides of Baker's artistry on a set of... |
Elvin Jones
Poly-Currents (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Jan/2024 ] After his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, the master drummer Elvin Jones signed with Blue Note in 1968 and began building his own career as a bandleader. His first two albums for the label were spare trio outings-Puttin' It Together... |
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... |
Herbie Hancock
My Point Of View (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] My Point of View is pianist & composer Herbie Hancock's remarkably assured second album for Blue Note. Featuring a program of Hancock compositions, this session from 1963 has a wondrous all-star cast: Donald Byrd on trumpet, Hank Mobley on tenor... |
Herbie Nichols Trio
Herbie Nichols Trio (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Herbie Nichols was one of the most original pianists and composers in Jazz history. Blue Note founder Alfred Lion considered him to be as unique and important a voice as Thelonious Monk, another singular talent who Lion was the first to record a few... |
Horace Silver
Silver's Serenade (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] Tone Poet Vinyl Edition reissue produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on... |
Jackie Mclean
Demon's Dance (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Jackie McLean's music weaved in and out of the avant-garde throughout the 1960s with the brilliant 1963 inside-out dates One Step Beyond and Destination… Out! eventually leading to full-throated free jazz of the 1967 dates New and Old Gospel... |
John Scofield & Pat Metheny
I Can See Your House From Here (Double Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / 2 LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Scofield and Metheny. What more needs to be said? A masterpiece meeting of musical minds, these two guitar virtuosos entered the studio in December 1993 with Steve Swallow on bass guitar and Bill Stewart on drums to create one of the greatest jazz... |
Kenny Burrell
K.B. Blues (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Kenny Burrell had been recording for Blue Note less than a year when he entered Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack, New Jersey studio in February 1957 for his 3rd session as a leader for the label. The date presented the guitarist's signature stylings with... |
McCoy Tyner
Tender Moments (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] On his second Blue Note album Tender Moments, pianist and composer McCoy Tyner explored the colors and textures available in a nonet setting with some of the finest musicians of the time: Lee Morgan on trumpet, Julian Priester on trombone, Bennie... |
Stanley Turrentine
Mr. Natural (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 7/Apr/2023 ] Stanley Turrentine's 1964 recording Mr. Natural featured the soulful tenor saxophonist and Blue Note stalwart at the helm of a cutting-edge modern jazz group with Lee Morgan on trumpet, McCoy Tyner on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass, Elvin Jones on... |
Wayne Shorter
The All Seeing Eye (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 15/Oct/2021 ] On October 15, 1965, tenor saxophone master and composer Wayne Shorter recorded The All Seeing Eye, a brilliant and ambitiously multi-layered album for Blue Note. Shorter's goal for the album was to use "a wider range of colors and textures" while... |
Wayne Shorter
Schizophrenia (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Between 1964-1967 the legendary saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter created a treasured and deeply influential body of work within the acoustic jazz tradition with classic albums such as Night Dreamer, JuJu, Speak No Evil, and Adam's Apple that... |
