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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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Hank Mobley
Roll Call Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/May/2025 ] Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was on a serious roll in 1960 when he recorded Roll Call, the middle album in a trilogy of hard bop masterpieces that includes the tenor saxophonist's equally essential albums Soul Station and Workout. For Roll Call,... |
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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 (Blue Note 85 Classic LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Even by the high-water marks set by Herbie Hancock's tremendous 1960s output for Blue Note, 1965's Maiden Voyage remains one of the pinnacle artistic achievements of the great pianist's career. Hancock is joined by his Miles David 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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Herbie Hancock
Takin' Off (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
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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... |
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Horace Silver
Silver's Serenade (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... |
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Idrees Sulieman, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan
The Cats (Original Jazz Classics Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] The Cats was released in December 1959 and features John Coltrane (tenor sax), Tommy Flanagan (piano), Louis Hayes (drums), Doug Watkins (bass) and Kenny Burrell (guitar), and Idrees Sulieman (trumpet) playing what are mainly Flanagan-penned... |
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Idris Muhammad
Black Rhythm Revolution! (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 14/Jul/2023 ] Black Rhythm Revolution! Is the first solo album from the jazz-funk legend Idris Muhammad, a New Orleans-bred rhythm king who successfully made the leap from the finest soulful jazz records of the '60s to the nastiest fusion funk of the '70s. |
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Ike Quebec
Heavy Soul (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Jul/2023 ] There may not be a more apropos album title in all of recorded music than tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec's 1961 classic Heavy Soul. The session marked a comeback for a crucial player in Blue Note history. |
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Jack Dejohnette
Sorcery (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Sorcery finds DeJohnette teamed up with a tight crew of virtuosic bandmates, including veterans of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew sessions (bassist Dave Holland) and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters band (Bennie Maupin). |
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Jack Wilson
Easterly Winds (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] The Chicago-born pianist and composer Jack Wilson enjoyed a wide-range of musical associations including work with the likes of Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Lou Rawls, Gerald Wilson, Roy Ayers, and recording leader dates for Atlantic before he... |
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Jackie Mclean
Demon's Dance (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Jackie McLean's music weaved in and out of the avant-garde throughout the 1960s with the brilliant 1963 inside-out dates One Step Beyond and Destination… Out! eventually leading to full-throated free jazz of the 1967 dates New and Old Gospel... |
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James Brown
Soul On Top (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 13/Jan/2023 ] In the liner notes to this grooving 1969 album, featuring a big band led by drummer Louis Bellson and arranged by Impulse! star Oliver Nelson, the Godfather of Soul explains that he is a "jazz man at heart". Brown's soul consigliere, saxophonist... |
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Jay Jay Johnson
The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 1 (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] Trombonist J. J. Johnson took the language of bebop and adapted it to his instrument winning the admiration of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. After playing on Miles Davis' first Blue Note session, Johnson led several dates in 1953-54 that were... |
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The Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey
Ugetsu (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] The place was a Broadway cellar that, with characteristic and not very exaggerated swagger, proclaimed itself "The Jazz Corner of the World." The date was mid-June 1963, when the New York post-bop era was still very much in progress. The bandleader... |