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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... |
Hank Mobley
Curtain Call (LP) [ Universal / LP - released 27/May/2022 ] It's a sign of the sheer volume of top-notch hard bop that Blue Note was recording in the 1950s-60s that a supremely swinging date like Hank Mobley's 1957 album Curtain Call would sit in the vaults unreleased until 1984. Mobley himself was in the... |
Hank Mobley
Soul Station (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had already led nine dates for Blue Note Records by the time he arrived at Rudy Van Gelder's studio on February 7, 1960 with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey, but on that day the... |
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... |
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... |
Herbie Hancock
Takin' Off (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
Horace Parlan
Speakin' My Piece (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 24/Feb/2023 ] Pianist Horace Parlan is perhaps best known for his work with Charles Mingus on the bassist's seminal 1959 albums Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots. That same year Parlan made his first Blue Note appearance with Lou Donaldson and in 1960 he began... |
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... |
Horace Silver
Further Explorations (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Further Explorations documents hard-bop pioneer Horace Silver's quintet featuring Art Farmer on trumpet, Clifford Jordan on tenor saxophone, Teddy Kotick on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums. One can always expect a Horace Silver date to groove, but... |
Horace Silver
Song For My Father (180g LP) [ Universal Music / LP - released 15/Jan/2021 ] One of Blue Note's greatest mainstream hard bop dates, Song for My Father is Horace Silver's signature LP and the peak of a discography already studded with classics. Silver was always a master at balancing jumping rhythms with complex harmonies for... |
Idris Muhummad
Power of Soul (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 12/Jan/2018 ] Idris Muhammad was an American jazz drummer who recorded extensively with many musicians, including Bob James, Ahmad Jamal, Lou Donaldson, Pharoah Sanders, John Scofield, George Benson, Lonnie Smith and Tete Montoliu. Idris Muhammad was an... |
Brother Jack McDuff
Moon Rappin' (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 27/May/2022 ] Brother Jack McDuff was already a well-established and prolific organist who led his own soul jazz bands throughout the 1960s when he came to Blue Note Records in 1969. Following his label debut Down Home Style, McDuff made one of the most creatively... |
Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/Sep/2010 ] Jaco Pastorius was widely acknowledged for his skills as an electric bass player. He died in 1987 at age 35 following a violent incident at a Fort Lauderdale drinking establishment. This self-titled album was Pastorius' solo debut and was... |
Jakob Bro
Bay Of Rainbows (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Oct/2018 ] "There is no hurry to this music, but there is great depth," observed London Jazz News about Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's trio with two kindred-spirit Americans: bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron. This poetically attuned group follows its... |
Jakob Bro
Uma Elmo (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 26/Mar/2021 ] With Uma Elmo, his fifth album as a leader for ECM, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro presents a new trio featuring Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Spanish drummer Jorge Rossy. Astonishingly, given the trio's musical synergy, the first time these... |
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... |
Jan Garbarek
I Took Up the Runes (180g LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 24/May/2010 ] One of the Norwegian saxophonists most popular titles, "Runes" also marked the first appearance of Manu Katché with the Garbarek group. The centerpiece of the album is the five-part "Molde Canticle". Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor... |
Jan Garbarek
Places (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Recorded in 1977 in Oslo, Places was an important album for Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, and - with its stellar line-up including Americans Jack DeJohnette and Bill Connors - one that also drew significant attention in the US. "How does... |
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... |
Jimmy Smith
Back At The Chicken Shack (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Jul/2021 ] Jimmy Smith was a self-taught pianist who abandoned the instrument in 1954 in favour of the Hammond B3 organ, renting a Philadelphia warehouse and woodshedding for a year until he emerged with a revolutionary style that immediately caught the ear of... |
