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Charles Lloyd / Bill Frisell / Thomas Morgan
Trios: Chapel [ Blue Note / Verve Records / CD - released 24/Jun/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... |
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... |
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... |
Dexter Gordon
Doin' Allright (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
Dexter Gordon
Go! (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] By the time he recorded GO! in 1962, Dexter Gordon had already lived several lifetimes in jazz. He was among the first to adapt the language of bebop to the tenor saxophone in the 1940s, but after a decade in which personal troubles limited his... |
Donald Byrd
Places & Spaces [ Blue Note / CD - released 25/Jul/2018 ] BNLA Revivals Japanese CD reissue series of selected Blue Note releases. |
Dr. Lonnie Smith
All In My Mind (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] After his 2016 return to Blue Note where he first made a name for himself with a run of classic soul jazz albums between 1968-70, Hammond organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith recorded All In My Mind during his 75th birthday celebration in July 2017 at the... |
Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach
Money Jungle [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 5/Aug/2002 ] Duke Ellington surprised the jazz world in 1962 with his historic trio session featuring Charles Mingus and Max Roach. Not in a mood to simply rework older compositions, the bulk of the album focused on music he wrote specifically for the session.... |
Elvin Jones
Revival: Live At Pookie's Pub [ Blue Note / 2 CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub is a thrilling previously unissued live recording of Elvin Jones' quartet that captures the legendary drummer's emergence as a bandleader at a little-known club in New York City where he had a weekly residency after... |
Freddie Hubbard
Breaking Point (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Despite having performed on several of the most revolutionary avant-garde jazz records of the 1960s, including Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz and John Coltrane's Ascension, Freddie Hubbard's own albums tended to hew closer to the mainstream. Perhaps no... |
Freddie Hubbard
Hub-Tones (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Recorded in 1962, Hub-Tones stands as one of the most significant artistic statements of Freddie Hubbard's formidable career, and also features one of Reid Miles' most iconic album cover designs. Presenting the trumpeter at the helm of an... |
Grachan Moncur III
Evolution (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Though he first appeared on Herbie Hancock's 1963 album My Point of View, trombonist Grachan Moncur III's first true Blue Note introduction would come on two albums by saxophonist Jackie McLean that were recorded later that year: One Step Beyond and... |
Grant Green
Grant's First Stand (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Grant Green's debut album, Grant's First Stand, still ranks as one of his greatest pure soul-jazz outings, a set of killer grooves laid down by a hard-swinging organ trio. For having such a small lineup, just organist Baby Face Willette and... |
Grant Green
Green Is Beautiful (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Guitarist Grant Green was prolific on Blue Note through the early-60s recording more than 20 hard bop and soul jazz sessions as a leader forthe label between1961-1965. By the time Green returned to the label in 1969 his musical style had evolved... |
Grant Green
Green Street (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Dec/2023 ] Grant Green began his lengthy and prolific Blue Note career with the 1961 release of his debut album Grant's First Stand, a stellar soul jazz outing that featured the guitarist in an organ trio with Baby Face Willette on Hammond B3 and Ben Dixon on... |
Grant Green
Idle Moments (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] 180G Audiophile Vinyl Reissue, Remastered From The Original Tapes By Kevin Gray. Time and troubles seem to melt away during the 15 enrapturing minutes of Idle Moments, the opening track of Grant Green's sublime 1963 album of the same name. As the... |
Gregory Porter
Liquid Spirit (Double LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 30/Aug/2013 ] '​Liquid Spirit' marks Gregory Porter's Blue Note Records debut, which arrives on the heels of two critically acclaimed indie label albums that quickly propelled Porter to the upper echelon of contemporary male jazz singers and earned him two Grammy... |
Hank Mobley
A Caddy For Daddy (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had been recording for Blue Note for a decade when he made his excellent 1965 album A Caddy for Daddy featuring a first-class sextet with Lee Morgan on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, McCoy Tyner on piano, Bob... |
Hank Mobley
Soul Station (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had already led nine dates for Blue Note Records by the time he arrived at Rudy Van Gelder's studio on February 7, 1960 with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey, but on that day the... |
Herbie Hancock
Empyrean Isles [ Blue Note / CD - released 3/May/1999 ] My Point of View and Inventions and Dimensions found Herbie Hancock exploring the fringes of hard bop, working with a big band and a Latin-flavored percussion section, respectively. On Empyrean Isles, he returns to hard bop, but the results are... |
