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Sam Rivers
Fuchsia Swing Song (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Mar/2023 ] A saxophonist of striking originality, Sam Rivers was born in Oklahoma and exposed to music from an early age by his pianist mother and gospel singer father. Rivers moved to Boston to study at the Boston Conservatory and eventually met, and began... |
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Samara Joy
Linger Awhile (LP) [ Verve US / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Simply put, Samara Joy is next. At just 22 years old, her Verve debut `Linger Awhile' shows that with a voice, tone, and phrasing that harkens back to the most legendary jazz vocalists, Samara belongs in the company of iconic labelmates from Ella... |
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Sonny Clark
Dial "S" For Sonny (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Aug/2022 ] One of the finest pianists and composers of the hard bop era, Sonny Clark seemed to arrive fully formed on his supremely swinging debut album Dial "S" for Sonny recorded for Blue Note in 1957. Clark assembled a top-flight sextet for the occasion with... |
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Sonny Rollins
Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums (LP) [ Concord / 3 LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums combines legendary Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins' two studio albums for Lester Koenig's Contemporary Records, Way Out West and And The Contemporary Leaders, with a third disc, Contemporary Alternate... |
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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... |
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Spaceark
Spaceark (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 2/Nov/2018 ] Brilliant self-released, private-press jazz/soul LP from 1975, recorded at Sunset Sound studios in LA. This is the super-rare debut album from SpaceArk, a band of brothers on an interstellar voyage to discover "electrifying new sounds". It's... |
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Stan Getz & Bill Evans
Previously Unreleased Recordings (Verve Acoustic Sound Series LP) [ Verve Us / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Bill Evans and Stan Getz are about as close as musicians can get in terms of artistry, musical philosophy and technique. These sessions, recorded in 1963 with drummer Elvin Jones and bassists Ron Carter (Side A) and Richard Davis (Side B), perfectly... |
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Stanley Turrentine
Look Out Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/May/2025 ] After making a strong impression in a sideman roll on Jimmy Smith's twin soul jazz classics Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack in April 1960, Blue Note boss Alfred Lion brought Stanley Turrentine back into Van Gelder Studio in June to... |
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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... |
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Sun Ra
The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Engineered by Paul Cady, the sessions featured nine players, including Ra on piano, Bernard McKinney (later known as Kiane Zawadi, on trombone and euphonium), Marshall Allen (alto sax, flute, among other reed instruments), John Gilmore (tenor sax,... |
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Sun Ra
Space Is The Place (Verve By Request Series) (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Space Is The Place - highlighted by the rousing 21-minute title track - is both an essential album and a great onramp for new listeners to travel the spaceways of Sun Ra's other-worldly blend of avant-garde jazz, experimental rock, and... |
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Sun Ra And His Arkestra
Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold (Limited Green Vinyl LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 14/Jun/2024 ] Limited edition translucent green vinyl. "To understand the significance of the word 'featuring' on Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold, consider how infrequently Sun Ra used it and the exact way it had been used. "The October Revolution... |
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Thad Jones
The Magnificent Thad Jones (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jul/2024 ] The Magnificent Thad Jones is widely regarded as the greatest small group recording of the trumpeter's career. The 1956 date featured Billy Mitchell on tenor saxophone, Barry Harris on piano, Percy Heath on bass, and Max Roach on drums and is... |
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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. |
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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... |
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Tito Puente
Mambo Diablo (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 26/May/2023 ] All-analogue reissue. |
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Tito Puente
Para Los Rumberos (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 7/Apr/2023 ] Consisting of ten diverse tracks, Para los Rumberos was recorded at Pat Jacques Broadway Recording Studios in New York City in 1972. This new edition was cut all-analog from the original tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio. |
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Tony Bennett & Bill Evans
The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album (Original Jazz Classics Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 8/Dec/2023 ] The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album (1975) brings together two legends of modern music. Featuring just vocal and piano, without any additional musicians, the two artists selected the songs and worked out the arrangements for what was to become the... |
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The Toreadors
Thembi / Gwinyitshe (7") [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 11/Jun/2021 ] This deep soul-jazz double-sider, recorded on October 3rd, 1972, was released as a seven-inch single on Motella, one of the many labels of the Mavuthela Music division of Gallo Africa (now Gallo Record Company). Mavuthela was founded by the talent... |
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Trio Mocoto
Trio Mocotó (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 1/Mar/2019 ] Essential and sought-after Brazilian samba-jazz classic. |