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