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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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Diana Krall
Only Trust Your Heart (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Only Trust Your Heart, Diana Krall's second album and major label debut, is available for the first time on vinyl. Featuring tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and bassists Ray Brown and Christian McBride, along with drummer Lewis Nash, it... |
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Dinah Washington
What A Diff'rence A Day Makes! (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 9/Jan/2026 ] What A Diff'rence A Day Makes, released in 1959 on Mercury Records, marked a turning point in the career of vocalist Dinah Washington - earning her a GRAMMY Award and bringing her rich, blues-informed style into the world of lush orchestral... |
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Donald Byrd
At The Half Note Cafe (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Feb/2023 ] In November 1960, trumpeter Donald Byrd brought his quintet into the Half Note Café in New York City to record this soulful, swinging, and highly enjoyable live set of hard bop featuring Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone, Duke Pearson on piano,... |
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Donald Byrd
Royal Flush Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Oct/2024 ] Donald Byrd was off to the races after joining the Blue Note roster in 1958 and had fully hit his hard bop stride by 1961 when he laid down his excellent album Royal Flush. Joining the trumpeter was a state-of-the-art rhythm section featuring a young... |
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Donald Byrd
Slow Drag (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Donald Byrd's 1967 album Slow Drag was one of the last pure hard bop records the trumpeter would make before his music began evolving towards fusion. Byrd flies high on this gratifying set featuring alto saxophonist Sonny Red, pianist Cedar Walton,... |
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Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams
Motor City Scene (LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Motor City Scene, also released as Stardust, by American saxophonist Pepper Adams and trumpeter Donald Byrd was recorded in 1960 and released on the Bethlehem label. Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams - and their ace band, including Kenny Burrell, Tommy... |
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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... |
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Dr. Lonnie Smith
Turning Point (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Jul/2023 ] One of the funkiest and most creative organists of all time, Dr. Lonnie Smith was first brought into the Blue Note fold by alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson who featured the B3 virtuoso on late-1960s soul jazz classics including Alligator Bogaloo, Mr.... |
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Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington Presents (2022 Remaster) (LP) [ ADA / BMG / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Duke Ellington's big band classic was recorded in Chicago in February 1956 and originally released on the Bethlehem label. Pressed on 180 gram black vinyl at Precision Record Pressing in Canada. |
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Duke Ellington
Historically Speaking - The Duke (LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 12/May/2023 ] This 1956 album features updated arrangements of Duke Ellington's early compositions. Recorded for Bethlehem at Universal Recording Corp., Chicago on February 7 and 8, 1956. Remastered on 180g black vinyl. |
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Eartha Kitt
Bad But Beautiful (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Kitt is in excellent form on this never-before-reissued 1962 album, swinging her way through Billy May arrangements on classics like "Love For Sale" and "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend". Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl, pressed... |
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Elvin Jones
Poly-Currents (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Jan/2024 ] After his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, the master drummer Elvin Jones signed with Blue Note in 1968 and began building his own career as a bandleader. His first two albums for the label were spare trio outings-Puttin' It Together... |