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Miles Davis
Music From And Inspired By Birth Of The Cool, A Film By Stanley Nelson (Double Gatefold LP) [ Columbia / LP - released 6/Mar/2020 ] The definitive audio companion to the critically-acclaimed new documentary directed and produced by Stanley Nelson, the soundtrack is an essential Miles Davis playlist for seasoned fans and new listeners alike, lovingly curated by the director and... |
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Miles Davis
That's What Happened 1982 - 1985: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 (White Vinyl LP) [ Columbia Records / 2 LP - released 16/Sep/2022 ] That's What Happened 1982-1985: Bootleg Volume 7 is the next instalment in the celebrated, award-winning archival series that began in 2011, shining an in-depth light onto different eras of the legendary career of Miles Davis. In the 1980s, popular... |
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Miles Davis
What It Is: Montreal 7/7/83 (RSD 2022 Double Gatefold LP [ Columbia / Legacy / 2 LP - released 18/Jun/2022 ] This double LP release features one of Miles Davis' final great bands: John Scofield on guitar, Bill "The Other Bill Evans" Evans on saxophones, flute and electric piano, Darryl Jones on bass, Al Foster on drums, and percussionist Mino Cinelu. Miles... |
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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... |
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Nik Bärtsch's Ronin
Awase (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 4/May/2018 ] "Awase", a term from martial arts, means "moving together" in the sense of matching energies, a fitting metaphor for the dynamic precision, tessellated grooves and balletic minimalism of Nik Bärtsch's Ronin. Six years have passed since the last... |
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Oded Tzur
My Prophet (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Jul/2024 ] On My Prophet, Oded Tzur together with his quartet of pianist Nitai Hershkovits, bassist Petros Klampanis and the new group member Cyrano Almeida on drums, continues on the idiosyncratic musical path he has carved out for himself - a flowing jazz... |
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O'Donel Levy
Simba (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Baltimore-born, Levy was already well regarded as one of the best up-and-coming jazz guitarists at the time of Simba's release. Having toured with George Benson and Jimmy McGriff, as well as featuring on McGriff's Black Pearl album on Blue Note, he... |
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Outside
The Rough & The Smooth (LP) [ Dorado Records / 2 LP - released 27/Jun/2025 ] "The Rough And The Smooth" was the highly anticipated 2nd album from Outside. Written, produced, mixed and engineered by a 22-year-old Matt Cooper, who journeyed through dub, jungle, hip hop and latin rhythms and vibrant, modal jazz. Playing much of... |
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Rafiq Bhatia
Environments (LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 12/Sep/2025 ] Oscar-nominated composer Rafiq Bhatia has only deepened his status as "one of the most intriguing figures in music today...who refuses to be pinned to one genre, culture or instrument" (New York Times). On his new album Environments, Bhatia makes... |
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles (Limited LP) [ Rhino / Warner / LP - released 3/Feb/2023 ] Ray Charles' Atlantic debut in mono is a must-have. Also known as Hallelujah, I Love Her So, Ray Charles is a compilation of Charles' early singles that helped forge this his original fusion of blues, R&B, jazz and pop. Limited clear vinyl. |
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Terje Rypdal
Conspiracy (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 12/Feb/2021 ] A new ECM studio album and a programme of new music from Terje Rypdal is cause for celebration. On Conspiracy the great Norwegian guitarist seems to reconnect with the wild inspiration that fuelled such early masterpieces as Whenever I Seem To Be Far... |
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Tom Waits
Small Change (LP) [ Epitaph / ADA / LP - released 8/Jun/2018 ] Small Change is a masterpiece that contains some of Waits' best early work. Classic jazz, Tin Pan Alley, and Stephen Foster filtered through Tom's unique worldview and lyrical genius. Heartbreaking, hilarious and always vivid, songs like 'Step... |
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Tord Gustavsen Trio
What Was Said (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 12/Feb/2016 ] What Was Said brings new colours to Tord Gustavsen's musical palette. His new project introduces the entrancing German-Afghan vocalist Simin Tander, and builds upon the subtle understanding of his long musical association with drummer Jarle... |
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Weather Report
Tale Spinnin' (Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Weather Report was one of the most influential jazz-fusion groups of their era and outlasted many of its contemporaries such as Herbie Hancock's Headhunters and The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Despite many personnel changes over its 16-year lifespan, they... |
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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... |
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Avishai Cohen Quartet
Ashes To Gold (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 11/Oct/2024 ] In blazing form, the trumpeter from Tel Aviv responds to the turbulent spirit of a troubled time, leading his dedicated band through a five-part suite that runs the gamut of emotions, by turns hopeful, despairing, outraged and profoundly melancholic.... |
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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... |
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Chick Corea
Return to Forever (180g LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 18/Oct/2010 ] The legendary first lineup of Chick Corea's fusion band Return to Forever debuted on this classic album (titled after the group but credited to Corea), featuring Joe Farrell on soprano sax and flute, the Brazilian team of vocalist Flora Purim and... |
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Clifford Brown
Memorial Album (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown recorded two leader sessions for Blue Note in 1953-a co-led quintet date with Lou Donaldson and his own sextet date-that were compiled on the 12" LP Memorial Album (BLP 1526) shortly after his tragic death in... |
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Mark De Clive Lowe / Shigeto / Melanie Charles
Hotel San Claudio (LP) [ Soul Bank / LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Revered composer, pianist, DJ and acknowledged bridge between jazz, dance and hip-hop, Mark de Clive-Lowe links up with jazz vocalist/flautist Melanie Charles and Detroit drummer/producer & DJ, Shigeto on Hotel San Claudio, a collaborative LP of... |