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James Brown
Soul On Top (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 13/Jan/2023 ] In the liner notes to this grooving 1969 album, featuring a big band led by drummer Louis Bellson and arranged by Impulse! star Oliver Nelson, the Godfather of Soul explains that he is a "jazz man at heart". Brown's soul consigliere, saxophonist... |
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Jay Jay Johnson
The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 1 (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] Trombonist J. J. Johnson took the language of bebop and adapted it to his instrument winning the admiration of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. After playing on Miles Davis' first Blue Note session, Johnson led several dates in 1953-54 that were... |
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The Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey
Ugetsu (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] The place was a Broadway cellar that, with characteristic and not very exaggerated swagger, proclaimed itself "The Jazz Corner of the World." The date was mid-June 1963, when the New York post-bop era was still very much in progress. The bandleader... |
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John Coltrane
Ascension (Edition I & II) (Verve Vault Edition LP) [ Verve / 2 LP - released 12/Jun/2026 ] 'Ascension', released in 1966 on Impulse! Records, stands as one of John Coltrane's most radical and influential works. Subtitled 'Edition I & II' to reflect the two complete takes recorded at the session-and presented together on LP for the first... |
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John Coltrane
Ballads (Verve Essentials LP) [ Verve / LP - released 9/Oct/2026 ] John Coltrane's time with Impulse! Records was highlighted by the conscious-altering original work of albums like 'A Love Supreme' and 'Ascension'. But Ballads, released in 1963, proved Trane could make any repertoire his own - even time-worn... |
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John Coltrane
Blue Train - The Complete Masters (Double LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 16/Sep/2022 ] On September 15, 1957, John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder's living room studio in Hackensack, New Jersey and recorded his first great masterpiece: Blue Train. It would be the legendary saxophonist's sole album as a leader for Blue Note, a... |
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John Coltrane
Coltrane [ Original Jazz Classics / LP - released 29/Jul/2011 ] Released in 1957 on Prestige Records, this album was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on May 31, 1957. It documents Coltrane's first session as a leader, and has been reissued at times under the title The First Trane!. |
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John Coltrane
Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 14/Jul/2023 ] In August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Eighty minutes of never-before-heard music from this group were recently discovered at the New York Public Library. In... |
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John Coltrane
In The Winners Circle (2012 - Remaster) (LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 27/Jan/2023 ] All-star jazz session recorded in New York, 1957. Featuring Donald Byrd, Kenny Burrell, Art Farmer, Philly Joe Jones, Oscar Pettiford and more. Remastered 96 kHz/24 bit audio H Pressed on 180 gram black vinyl at GZ Media in Czech Republic. |
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John Coltrane
The Last Trane (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 8/Dec/2023 ] The Last Trane represents the final studio session for Prestige in the productive recording relationship between John Coltrane and Red Garland. Often with trumpeter Donald Byrd on board, the two made a succession of dates in 1957 and '58 in which... |
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John Coltrane
A Love Supreme (Gatefold LP) [ Impulse! Records / LP - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Vinyl reissue. Re-mastered and pressed on 180 gram vinyl, Originally released in 1965, A Love Supreme changed music history, cementing the saxophonist's reputation as one... |
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John Coltrane
Lush Life (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 20/Oct/2023 ] Here is one of the musical giants of the 20th century, poised on the precipice of greatness. Between the spring of 1957 and the winter of 1958, during which time Lush Life was recorded, the music of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane (1926-1967) was... |
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John Coltrane
Soultrane (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Soultrane is the fourth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1958 on Prestige Records. It features Coltrane's renditions of Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby" and "You Say You Care" from the Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer... |
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John Coltrane Quartet
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays Acoustic Sounds (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 29/Aug/2025 ] Recorded in two sessions just a few months after working on 'A Love Supreme', this album makes for a perfect introduction to Coltrane's final period as a leader. Though Art Davis plays second bass on 'Nature Boy', the classic quartet of Coltrane with... |
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Johnny Alf
Johnny Alf (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 1/Oct/2012 ] This wonderful self-titled album by pianist, singer and composer, Johnny Alf, was first released on vinyl in 1966 by Rozenblit. Here the bossa nova pioneer sings beautiful songs, accompanied by the legendary musicians Hermeto Paschoal (flute) and... |
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Joshua Redman
Where Are We (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Acclaimed saxophonist Joshua Redman makes his Blue Note debut with where are we, his first-ever vocal project which features vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa, pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Joe Sanders, and drummer Brian Blade plus special guests Nicholas... |
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Julian Lage
The Layers (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Mar/2023 ] The Layers is a stunning companion piece to guitarist Julian Lage's acclaimed 2022 album View With A Room. The collection features six original pieces recorded during the same sessions which found Lage discovering new orchestrational possibilities... |
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Kenny Burrell
Blue Lights, Volume 1 (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jun/2026 ] In 1958, guitarist Kenny Burrell assembled an impressive line-up with Louis Smith, Junior Cook, Tina Brooks, Duke Jordan, Bobby Timmons, Sam Jones, and Art Blakey to record 'Blue Lights': a high-quality blowing session of blues, ballads, and... |
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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... |
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Kenny Burrell
Midnight Blue (Blue Note Essentials LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 25/Sep/2026 ] Guitarist Kenny Burrell debuted on Blue Note Records in 1956 and over the following 7 years made a series of excellent albums for the label that culminated with his masterwork Midnight Blue. Recorded in 1963, the album waded deep into the blues,... |