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Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley Quintet In Chicago (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 28/Jul/2023 ] With the tenor saxophone of John Coltrane joining Cannonball Adderley's alto on two tracks, this exciting 1959 session boasts the same band featured on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, sans Miles and Bill Evans, as they play through a lively set of blues... |
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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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Carmen McRae
Great Women Of Song: Carmen McRae (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Like her idol Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae could own a ballad and make it all her own. She could also swing every bit as hard as her other main influence, Ella Fitzgerald. Coming up during the bebop era and under the musical sway of Thelonious Monk,... |
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Cassie Kinoshi's seed.
gratitude (LP) [ International Anthem / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] In March of 2023 Mercury Prize nominated composer & alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi premiered a commissioned suite of music in front of a sold out crowd at London's Southbank Centre. She wrote the piece - gratitude - for her flagship large ensemble... |
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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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Cecil Taylor
Unit Structures (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Aug/2023 ] |
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Cesar Mariano & Cia
Sao Paulo Brasil (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 14/Dec/2018 ] One of the finest Brazilian jazz funk fusion albums ever recorded; thoroughly deserving of its cult status. First official reissue outside of Brazil. Cesar Camargo Mariano is a celebrated Brazilian jazz pianist, composer and producer, born in Sao... |
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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... |
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Charlie Gabriel
89 (Limited LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 15/Jul/2022 ] "I've been playing since I was 11 years old," says Charlie Gabriel, the most senior member of the legendary Preservation Hall Band, "I never did anything in my life but play music. I've been blessed with that gift that God gave me, and I've tried to... |
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Chick Corea
Chick Corea: The Montreux Years (Double Gatefold LP) [ BMG / ADA / 2 LP - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Chick Corea: The Montreux Years showcases some of the legendary pianist's remarkable Montreux Jazz Festival live performances. The set includes brand-new liner notes, as well as rare photos from his Montreux shows. Combos featured include Chick... |
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The Chick Correa Elektric Band
The Future Is Now (Triple LP) [ Candid / 3 LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Led by the legendary pianist and composer Chick Corea - the venerated 27-time Grammy winner and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master - The Elektric Band stormed onto the jazz scene in the mid-1980s, making an immediate and lasting impact on... |
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Chico
The Master (RSD 2023 Purple Vinyl LP) [ Concord / Stax Records / LP - released 24/Nov/2023 ] 50th Anniversary Edition of Chico Hamilton's soul jazz classic The Master, recorded for Stax Records with backing from Lowell George and Little Feat. Remastered by Jeff Powell with lacquers cut from the original tapes at Take Out Vinyl. Pressed on... |
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The Circling Sun
Spirits (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] New Zealand's jazz luminaries have assembled to form an all-star cluster: The Circling Sun. Channeling spiritual/modal jazz and Latin rhythms, they simultaneously reference the greats such as Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane, while... |
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Cliff Jordan
Cliff Craft (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jul/2024 ] Saxophonist Clifford Jordan blew in from Chicago in 1957 with a series of excellent Blue Note dates including Cliff Craft featuring Art Farmer on trumpet, Sonny Clark on piano, George Tucker on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums. The set included Jordan... |
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Alice Coltrane
The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (LP) [ Luaka Bop / 2 LP - released 5/May/2017 ] Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda's devotion to spirituality was the central purpose of the final four decades of her life, an often-overlooked awakening that largely took shape during her four year marriage to John Coltrane and after his 1967 death.... |
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Corea, Chick Akoustic Band with John Patitucci & Dave Weckl
Live (Triple Gatefold LP) [ Concord Jazz / 3 LP - released 4/Feb/2022 ] The Akoustic Band made its debut with 1987's Summer Night Live, documenting a concert in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The trio was an outgrowth of Corea's revered Elektric Band, for which Patitucci and Weckl formed the rhythmic core. The trio remained... |
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Jazz At Oberlin (Original Jazz Classics Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Recorded at Oberlin College, Ohio in 1953, the Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Jazz at Oberlin" album is one of the earliest works in the cool jazz genre. As well as Dave Brubeck (piano) the album also features Paul Desmond (alto sax), Lloyd Davis (drums)... |
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Dexter Gordon
Daddy Plays The Horn (LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 7/Jan/2022 ] Reissue of the 1955 classic featuring "Confirmation," "Autumn In New York" & "You Can Depend On Me". Dexter Gordon wasn't quite THE Dexter Gordon when he made Daddy Plays The Horn, but his unique, obtuse way of playing the saxophone and hitting... |
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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... |