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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... |
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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... |
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John Carter / Bobby Bardford
Self Determination Music (LP) [ Flying Dutchman Records / - released 29/Sep/2023 ] The John Carter and Bobby Bradford Quartet/Quintet were critical to the progressive jazz movement around Los Angeles in the late 60s alongside the likes of Horace Tapscott. Both hailed from the Watts area and trumpeter, Bradford played with a... |
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John Coltrane
Ascension (Edition I & II) (Verve Vault Edition LP) [ Verve / 2 LP - released 12/Jun/2026 ] 'Ascension', released in 1966 on Impulse! Records, stands as one of John Coltrane's most radical and influential works. Subtitled 'Edition I & II' to reflect the two complete takes recorded at the session-and presented together on LP for the first... |
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John Coltrane
Ballads (Verve Essentials LP) [ Verve / LP - released 9/Oct/2026 ] John Coltrane's time with Impulse! Records was highlighted by the conscious-altering original work of albums like 'A Love Supreme' and 'Ascension'. But Ballads, released in 1963, proved Trane could make any repertoire his own - even time-worn... |
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John Coltrane
Blue Train - The Complete Masters (Double LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 16/Sep/2022 ] On September 15, 1957, John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder's living room studio in Hackensack, New Jersey and recorded his first great masterpiece: Blue Train. It would be the legendary saxophonist's sole album as a leader for Blue Note, a... |
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John Coltrane
Coltrane [ Original Jazz Classics / LP - released 29/Jul/2011 ] Released in 1957 on Prestige Records, this album was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on May 31, 1957. It documents Coltrane's first session as a leader, and has been reissued at times under the title The First Trane!. |
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John Coltrane
Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 14/Jul/2023 ] In August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Eighty minutes of never-before-heard music from this group were recently discovered at the New York Public Library. In... |
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John Coltrane
In The Winners Circle (2012 - Remaster) (LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 27/Jan/2023 ] All-star jazz session recorded in New York, 1957. Featuring Donald Byrd, Kenny Burrell, Art Farmer, Philly Joe Jones, Oscar Pettiford and more. Remastered 96 kHz/24 bit audio H Pressed on 180 gram black vinyl at GZ Media in Czech Republic. |