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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Joe Henderson
State Of The Tenor: Live at the Village Vanguard Volume 1 (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] German imported title 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. |
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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... |
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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... |
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Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] The first thing that strikes you about Kenny Burrell's second Blue Note album, simply titled Kenny Burrell (BLP 1543) and released as part of Blue Note's fabled 1500 series, is the cover, which features an illustration by Andy Warhol, the first of... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |