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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Like Someone In Love (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Jan/2025 ] One of the greatest line-ups of drummer Art Blakey's hard bop finishing school The Jazz Messengers locked into place in 1960 when tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorterjoined trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt for the... |
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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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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... |
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Bill Charlap Trio
And Then Again: Live From The Village Vanguard (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Aug/2024 ] After 27 years and nearly 20 albums, it still bears repeating that Bill Charlap is one of the great jazz piano players, and that his trio with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington is one of the great working jazz groups of our day.... |
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Bill Evans Trio
Moon Beams (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Bill Evans was left reeling by the accidental death of his brilliant bassist Scott LaFaro in mid-1961 and didn't feel ready to record with his new bassist until nearly a year later. When he did go into the studio in May and June of 1962 with Chuck... |
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Bill Frisell
Four [ Blue Note / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Bill Frisell convenes a new line-up of musical friends on his third Blue Note album Four, which features the acclaimed guitarist with Greg Tardy on saxophone and clarinet, Gerald Clayton on piano, and Johnathan Blake on drums. |
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Bill Frisell
Orchestras (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Guitarist Bill Frisell's new double LP Orchestras documents two inspired concert-hall engagements arranged by Michael Gibbs for Frisell's long-standing trio with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston: one featuring the nearly 60-piece... |
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Blue Mitchell
Bring It Home To Me (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Trumpeter Blue Mitchell had been a sideman on Blue Note sessions led by Lou Donaldson, Jimmy Smith, Jackie McLean, and appeared on numerous classics as a member of the Horace Silver Quintet before he began recording his own leader albums for the... |
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The Blue Mitchell Quintet
Down With It! (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 9/Feb/2024 ] 180g reissue LP, gatefold. |
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Bobby Hutcherson
Stick-Up! (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 4/Nov/2022 ] Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson's 1966 album Stick-Up! found him in the company of a new band line-up with Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Lewis, and Billy Higgins. The quintet covers a vast expanse of post-bop territory on 5 Hutcherson originals... |
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Booker Evin
Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Booker Ervin cut 2 stellar Blue Note records in the late-60s including Tex Book Tenor which had to wait until 2005 for its first release. With a quintet featuring Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, Jan Arnet & Billy Higgins the Texas-born saxophonist slices... |
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Brandon Woody
For The Love Of It All (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/May/2025 ] For The Love Of It All is more than trumpeter and composer Brandon Woody's recording debut; it is a manifesto, a ritual, a hymn to the enduring power of love. Joined by his band Upendo - Troy Long (piano, organ, Rhodes, keyboards), Quincy Phillips... |
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Branford Marsalis Quartet
Belonging (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, one of the foremost jazz artists of our time and a pacesetting creative force in the music for more than four decades, makes his Blue Note debut with Belonging, a full album reinterpretation of Keith Jarrett's 1974 ECM... |
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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... |
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Cautious Clay
Karpeh [ Blue Note / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] New York based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Cautious Clay takes a giant artistic leap forward with an ambitious yet introspective album about growth, conceptions of intimacy, and lineage that reveals a new side of his... |
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Cautious Clay
Karpeh (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Aug/2023 ] New York based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Cautious Clay takes a giant artistic leap forward with an ambitious yet introspective album about growth, conceptions of intimacy, and lineage that reveals a new side of his... |
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Charles Lloyd
The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Unsettled by the state of the world in 2020, Charles Lloyd began conceiving of a musical offering in the form of a new studio recording featuring a new band, a quartet that would be a first-time convening of four distinctive voices with the legendary... |
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Charles Lloyd
Trio Of Trios (Triple LP Box Set) [ Blue Note (USA) / 3 LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Charles Lloyd has long been a free spirit, master musician, and visionary. For more than 6 decades the legendary saxophonist and composer has loomed large over the music world, and at 84 years old he remains at the height of his powers and as... |