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Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith
Defiant Life (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Anchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, Defiant Life - Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith second duo recording for ECM - proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the... |
Tomorrow Comes The Harvest (Prabhu Edouard, Jean-Philippe Dary, Jeff Mills)
Evolution (Double 12") [ Axis / 2 12in - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Tomorrow Comes The Harvest is the accumulative efforts of talented musicians and their visions about what makes the art form of music so special. A theory initiated and put into action by late Afro Beat creator and Nigerian Drummer Tony Allen and... |
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
Afro Futuristic Dreams (LP) [ Strut / 2 LP - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Recorded between San Francisco and London and brought together by the genius of Malcolm Catto at his analogue Quatermass Studio, the new recording represents another bold step in Ackamoor's ever-evolving journey in jazz, adding full, intricate scores... |
Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Jazz Is Dead 021 (LP) [ Jazz Is Dead / LP - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Jazz Is Dead announces another offering of top-shelf recordings taking listeners on a journey through the funky sounds of Ghana all the way to down to the psychedelic soul and samba of Brazil. Produced by label founders Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed... |
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... |
Alice Coltrane
Journey In Satchidananda (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 14/Apr/2023 ] One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Alice Coltrane's 4th Impulse! album finds her on piano and harp in the company of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. "Almost 50 years after [it] was released, the album remains a vision of... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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,... |
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... |
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... |
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.... |
