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Elvin Jones
Puttin' It Together (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Oct/2025 ] Elvin Jones' 1968 Blue Note debut Puttin' It Together marked the start of a new chapter in the master drummer's career. Following his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, and Coltrane's death in 1967, Jones signed with Blue Note and... |
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Elvin Jones
Revival: Live At Pookie's Pub (Triple LP) [ Blue Note / 3 LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub is a thrilling previously unissued live recording of Elvin Jones' quartet that captures the legendary drummer's emergence as a bandleader at a little-known club in New York City where he had a weekly residency after... |
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Esther Marrow
Newport News, Virginia (LP) [ Flying Dutchman Records / LP - released 2/Sep/2022 ] Esther Marrow began singing professionally in the early 60s and her big break came in 1965 when she was asked by Duke Ellington to take part in his ground breaking Concert of Sacred Music at the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Marrow toured with... |
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Etta James
Etta James: The Montreux Years (LP) [ BMG / ADA / 2 LP - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Etta James: The Montreux Years is a treasure trove of timeless classics, powerful and electrifying performances and raw, soaring vocals by one of the greatest ever female vocalists. The collection, featuring recordings from James' Montreux Jazz... |
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Fats Navarro
The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1 (Blue Note Classic LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/May/2023 ] The prodigiously talented trumpeter Theodore "Fats" Navarro was a bebop innovator whose career was cut tragically short when he died in 1950 at the age of 26. Navarro played with Charlie Parker and forged a distinctive style on his horn that would... |
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Freddie Hubbard
Hub-Tones (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Recorded in 1962, Hub-Tones stands as one of the most significant artistic statements of Freddie Hubbard's formidable career, and also features one of Reid Miles' most iconic album cover designs. Presenting the trumpeter at the helm of an... |
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Freddie Roach
Down To Earth Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jun/2025 ] |
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Kenny Garrett
Sketches Of MD - Live At The Iridium (RSD 2022 LP) [ Mack Avenue / 2 LP - released 23/Apr/2022 ] Throughout his illustrious career, saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist/composer Kenny Garrett has accumulated multiple Grammy® nominations, countless collaborations, and a long list of accolades from his peers. With Sketches of MD, Garrett adds.. |
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George Benson
Walking To New Orleans (Limited Edition Yellow Coloured LP) [ ADA / Warner / LP - released 26/Apr/2019 ] George Benson gets back to Americana basics on Walking to New Orleans, the jazz guitar legend's tribute to both piano-pounding hit machine Fats Domino and the original rock guitar hero and poet, Chuck Berry. Walking to New Orleans is Benson's... |
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Gil Evans
Great Jazz Standards (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/May/2023 ] The brilliant arranger, composer, and pianist Gil Evans had already collaborated with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead and made his own debut album Gil Evans & Ten for Prestige when he signed with World Pacific Records in 1958 and... |
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Grachan Moncur III
Evolution (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Though he first appeared on Herbie Hancock's 1963 album My Point of View, trombonist Grachan Moncur III's first true Blue Note introduction would come on two albums by saxophonist Jackie McLean that were recorded later that year: One Step Beyond and... |
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Grant Green
Grant's First Stand (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Grant Green's debut album, Grant's First Stand, still ranks as one of his greatest pure soul-jazz outings, a set of killer grooves laid down by a hard-swinging organ trio. For having such a small lineup, just organist Baby Face Willette and... |
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Grant Green
Solid (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Oct/2025 ] In Spring 1964, guitarist Grant Green recorded two blazing post-bop albums-Matador and Solid-both of which would go unreleased for more than a decade as Blue Note instead decided to release the guitarist's organ-based soul jazz outings of the time.... |
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Hank Mobley
A Caddy For Daddy (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had been recording for Blue Note for a decade when he made his excellent 1965 album A Caddy for Daddy featuring a first-class sextet with Lee Morgan on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, McCoy Tyner on piano, Bob... |
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Harold Land Quintet
The Peace-Maker (Verve By Request Series LP) [ Verve / LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Released on the Cadet label in 1968, The Peace-Maker was the first of ten collaborations between the great tenor saxophonist Harold Land and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson. With a group including pianist Joe Sample, the session results in a lively,... |
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Harry Beckett
Flare Up (2022 Remastered Vinyl LP) [ Classics & Jazz Uk / LP - released 6/Jan/2023 ] Harry Beckett's Flare Up (1970) is a much talked about and sought-after album from an artist and composer who had a six-decade career in jazz. The album contains the funk driven track Third Road, which was featured on the critically acclaimed 2020... |
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Herbie Hancock
Inventions & Dimensions (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] For his third Blue Note album Inventions & Dimensions (1963), pianist Herbie Hancock began moving away from the modernist hard bop sound that defined his first two albums Takin' Off and My Point Of View. Inspired by explorers like Eric Dolphy and... |
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Herbie Hancock
Maiden Voyage (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Even by the high-water marks set by Herbie Hancock's tremendous 1960s Blue Note output, 1965's Maiden Voyage remains one of the pinnacle artistic achievements of the great pianist's career. Hancock is joined here by his Miles Davis Quintet bandmates... |
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Herbie Hancock
The New Standard (Verve By Request Series) (LP) [ Verve / 2 LP - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Originally released in 1996 - and for the first time here on vinyl - The New Standard features songs by Stevie Wonder, Prince, Sade, Nirvana and more getting creative, inspired and swinging jazz takes from Herbie and a world class band; Michael... |
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Horace Silver
6 Pieces Of Silver (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] At 27 years, Horace Silver's tenure as a Blue Note recording artist was the longest of any artist in the history of the label. The legendary pianist and composer cut his first Blue Note session Horace Silver Trio in 1952 and his session for Silver 'N... |