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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... |
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... |
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,... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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
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.... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
