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Weather Report
Weather Report (Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] The great jazz-fusion band Weather Report releases their self-titled debut album in 1971. Featuring Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter amongst others, the young musicians created an original and fluid record, which would define the state of the jazz rock... |
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Wes Montgomery
California Dreaming (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 15/Mar/2019 ] A career highlight for the guitarist, recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio during September 1966, this Creed Taylor-produced album was an artistic and commercial smash, reaching #1 on the US Billboard Jazz chart. |
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Wes Montgomery
The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of (180gm LP) (G/F) [ Jazz Images / LP - released 27/Jan/2017 ] |
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Wes Montgomery
The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery (LP) [ Pan Am Records / LP - released 28/May/2021 ] |
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Wes Montgomery
The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The incredible Wes Montgomery of 1960 was more discernible and distinctive than the guitarist who would emerge a few years later as a pop stylist and precursor to George Benson in the '70s... |
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The Yussef Dayes Experience
Live From Malibu (LP) [ Brownswood Recordings / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Celebrated multi-instrumentalist and visionary artist Yussef Dayes shares a radiant live EP recorded in 2023 in the Malibu mountains, backed by a hazy, golden-hour sunset. Dayes, accompanied by long-standing collaborators Rocco Palladino, Venna,... |
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Yussef Kamaal
Black Focus (LP) [ Brownswood / LP - released 25/Nov/2016 ] The borders between London's musical tribes have always been porous. For Yussef Kamaal, the sound of the capital - with its hum of jungle, grime and broken beat - has shaped a self-taught, UK-tipped approach to playing jazz. In the states, the... |
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Albert Ayler
Love Cry (Verve By Request Series LP) [ Verve / LP - released 8/Sep/2023 ] 1968's Love Cry mixes Albert Ayler's free jazz with a catchy combination of nursery rhythms and brass band marches, resulting in a peak example of experimental jazz of the period. This was Ayler's last recording with his brother, Donald, who keeps... |
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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... |
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Archie Shepp
Kwanza (Verve By Request Series) (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 12/May/2023 ] These 1969 recordings (released 5 years later) combine Shepp's free jazz bonafides and a blend of blues and funk through an African lens, all in a big band setting. The all-star brass section, featuring James Spaulding and Charles Davis on sax along... |
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Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily
Love In Exile (Double Gatefold LP) [ Verve / 2 LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Vocalist Arooj Aftab, the first Pakistani to win a Grammy, wows audiences worldwide with her mesmerizing live shows; MacArthur genius and Grammy nominee Vijay Iyer is one of today's most influential pianists; multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily's... |
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Art Blakey
Art Blakey Big Band (LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 12/May/2023 ] Recorded for the Bethelehem label December 1957 in New York City, drummer Art Blakey leads a 15-piece orchestra featuring John Coltrane and Donald Byrd, plus a quintet made up of Byrd, Coltrane, Walter Bishop Jr., Wendell Marshall and Blakey on... |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Caravan (Original Jazz Classics Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Originally released in 1963, "Caravan" was Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' first album for Riverside Records. Featured in addition to Blakey are Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Wayne Shorter (sax), Cedar Walton (piano) and... |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (LP) [ Decca / LP - released 3/May/2024 ] With Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960, Roger Vadim stirred up a scandal. Based on the famous epistolary novel by Laclos, the director presented audiences in the early 1960s with a film in which libertinism, scheming and the upper middle classes... |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Mosaic (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Oct/2023 ] The 1961 album Mosaic marked a pivotal moment in the story of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers with the arrival of Freddie Hubbard and Cedar Walton and the band's expansion to a sextet with the addition of Curtis Fuller joining existing members Wayne... |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
A Night In Tunisia Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Oct/2024 ] One of the greatest line-ups of drummer Art Blakey's hard bop finishing school The Jazz Messengers coalesced in 1960 when tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter joined trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt for the recording... |
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Art Pepper
Smack Up (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of Art Pepper's 1960 album "Smack Up". Recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann, the album also features Jack Sheldon (trumpet), Pete Jolly (piano), Jimmy Bond (bass), and Frank... |
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Art Pepper
Stardust (LP) [ ADA / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Producer John Snyder had always wanted to record Pepper and booked him into a week at the Village Vanguard in New York. At the time, Pepper was under contract to Contemporary Records and label head, Les Koenig, decided he would record the gigs,... |
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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... |
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Big John Patton
Oh Baby! (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Following the success of Jimmy Smith, Blue Note expanded its stable of Hammond B3 organ whizzes in the 1960s with several master practitioners of the instrument including the soulful Kansas City born dynamo Big John Patton who first appeared as a... |