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Donald Byrd
Byrd In Hand (LP) [ Vinyl Passon / LP - released 23/Aug/2019 ] |
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Pharoah Sanders
Great Moments With Pharoah Sanders (Limited Edition Blue Vinyl LP) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 24/Feb/2023 ] This 2LP Great Moments With documents the music of Pharoah Sanders from 1983 to 1990, showcasing both the raw energy and tender nature of his music. It contains 12 of his recordings, including "Africa", "Naima", "You've Got To Have Freedom" and also... |
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
That's It (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 28/Jun/2019 ] Preservation Hall Jazz Band's That's It! (2013) is an eclectic album that draws on the collective experience of players nurtured in the New Orleans tradition but determined to build something fresh and exciting on that foundation. It marks an... |
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Quincy Jones
Soul Bossa Nova (LP) [ Wagram Music / LP - released 11/Nov/2017 ] |
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Ramsey Lewis
Sun Goddess (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Ramsey Lewis is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist and composer born 1935, Chicago. He has recorded over 80 albums and played with artists like Max Roach, jazz-singer Nancy Wilson and performs with his own trio. The album Sun Goddess is a soul... |
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Ray Charles
At Newport (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 5/Jun/2017 ] For his appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 5, 1958, Charles pulled out all the stops, performing raucous versions of "The Right Time", his massive hit "I Got A Woman" and "Talkin' 'Bout You". Featuring (a.o.) Bennie Crawford on baritone... |
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Ray Charles
The Genius Sings the Blues (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 6/Jul/2012 ] The innovation of Ray Charles is presented on this wonderful compilation from his Atlantic Records catalogue. Featuring songs recorded between 1952 and 1960, prior to his departure from the label, these recordings show the palpable soul that had been... |
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Ray Charles
Genius + Soul = Jazz (LP) [ Jazz Images / LP - released 11/Apr/2017 ] |
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Robert Glasper Experiment
Artscience (Double LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP ] For ArtScience, the Experiment keeps things in-house, handling all the vocal work themselves. Glasper himself sings lead on "Thinkin Bout You" and Benjamin-the group's de facto lead vocalist-is front and center on "Day to Day," "Tell Me a Bedtime... |
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Roy Ayers, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Roy Ayers (LP) [ Jazz Is Dead / LP - released 1/Oct/2021 ] In February 2018, Roy Ayers performed four sold out shows in Los Angeles as part of the Jazz Is Dead Black History Month series. It wasn't until 2020 that fans of Ayers discovered that in addition to those shows, the legendary vibraphone player had... |
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Ruby Rushton
Trudi's Songbook: Volume 2 (LP) [ 22A / LP - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Tenderlonious led jazz outfit Ruby Rushton drop their second album of 2017. Following on from the success of 'Trudi's Songbook: Volume One' the band are back with their highly anticipated 'Volume Two'. Comprised of a further six cuts the listener is... |
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Pharoah Sanders
Africa (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Pharoah Sanders possesses one of the most distinctive tenor saxophone sounds in jazz, which has earned him royal status amongst free jazz players, critics and collectors. Harmonically rich and heavy with overtones, his sound can be as raw and... |
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Sarah Vaughan
Swingin' Easy (LP) [ Vinyl Passion / LP ] |
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Scolohofo (John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Dave Holland, Al Foster)
Oh! (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 6/Jan/2023 ] ScoLoHoFo-the supergroup made up of guitarist John Scofield, saxophonist Joe Lovano, bassist Dave Holland, and drummer Al Foster-first played together as a band in 1999, but the musicians' associations stretched back decades and this masterful 2002... |
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Nina Simone
It Is Finished (180gm LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 14/Jul/2016 ] It Is Finished is a live album from Nina Simone with sitar, Madagascar harp, Spanish guitar and lots of interesting-sounding African percussion instruments. This live album includes the epic heavy-afro version of "Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter"... |
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Nina Simone
To Love Somebody (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 15/Jan/2015 ] No slouch as a songwriter herself, Nina Simone ably picked a variety of compositional classics from the new Rock era for her 1969 LP To Love Somebody. Opening with a beautiful, introspective version of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne," Simone shows an... |
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Sonny Clark
Cool Struttin' (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Jul/2021 ] Conrad Yeatis Clark, otherwise known as Sonny Clark, was in many ways the quintessential hard bop pianist. Possessed of an enviable lyrical flow and a wealth of inventive melodic ideas that unfurled with clarity and without fuss, Clark had a deeply... |
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Sonny Clark
My Conception (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] The soulful and elegant pianist Sonny Clark brings his A-game to My Conception, a program of all-Clark originals recorded in 1959 but not released until 1979. Joining the pianist are a cast of hard bop masters including Hank Mobley on tenor... |
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Sonny Rollins
Newk's Time (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Dec/2023 ] Sonny Rollins first appeared on a Blue Note recording session in 1949 as part of Bud Powell's Modernists during a period when the saxophonist was coming up on the scene and cutting his teeth alongside bebop innovators including Thelonious Monk,... |
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Sonny Rollins
On Impulse! (LP) [ Impulse Records / Verve / LP - released 23/Aug/2019 ] The tenor sax master attacks five standards and in the process produces some of his most intense performances on record. Taped at the Van Gelder Studio in one marathon session on July 8th 1965, this electrifying Impulse! Records debut... |