Bill Frisell
Orchestras (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Guitarist Bill Frisell's new double LP Orchestras documents two inspired concert-hall engagements arranged by Michael Gibbs for Frisell's long-standing trio with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston: one featuring the nearly 60-piece... |
Fred Hersch
Silent, Listening (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Silent, Listening is a major addition to ECM's distinguished line of solo piano recordings, featuring one of the outstanding improvising pianists and jazz masters of our time: Fred Hersch. The album features seven original creations and a handful of... |
Herbie Hancock
Speak Like A Child (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Following the release of his 1965 masterpiece Maiden Voyage, the brilliant pianist Herbie Hancock wouldn't record his Blue Note follow-up until 1968 with the innovative classic Speak Like A Child. The album was a showcase of several aspects of... |
Laufey
Bewitched: The Goddess Edition (LP) [ AWAL / 2 LP - due 26/Apr/2024 ] Coloured vinyl version, expanded with three additional tracks, new cover art & board game. Composer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Laufey continues her story by writing and recording Bewitched, her second album. Inspired by jazz... |
Abbey Lincoln
Who Used To Dance (LP) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] The late Abbey Lincoln was one of the greats in jazz singing and composition. 65 at the time of this recording, the singer performs a fiery musical statement and maintains her own distinctive manner of delivering a lyric. This 1998 Verve release... |
Al Di Meola
Elegant Gypsy (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 21/Feb/2013 ] Al DiMeola's second album Elegant Gypsy (1977) proved to become one of the defining albums in Fusion. Featuring Jazz Rock giants Steve Gadd, Jan Hammer and Anthony Jackson, and Flamenco superstar Paco De Lucia. |
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily
Love In Exile (Double Gatefold LP) [ Verve / 2 LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Vocalist Arooj Aftab, the first Pakistani to win a Grammy, wows audiences worldwide with her mesmerizing live shows; MacArthur genius and Grammy nominee Vijay Iyer is one of today's most influential pianists; multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily's... |
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk (Deluxe Edition LP) [ Rhino / Warner / 2 LP - released 27/May/2022 ] In May of 1957, Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers went into the studio with Thelonious Monk to record a one-off album for Atlantic. The Jazz Messengers were a loose collective of young jazz musicians, with a constantly rotating roster to keep the... |
Art Farmer
Portrait Of Art Farmer (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of iconic jazz trumpet player Art Farmer's 1958 Contemporary Records debut, "Portrait of Art Farmer". Featuring Hank Jones (piano), Addison Farmer (bass) and Roy Haynes (drums) with... |
Wolfgang Muthspiel with Scott Colley, Brian Blade
Angular Blues (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel, whom The New Yorker has called "a shining light" among today's jazz guitarists, returns to the trio format with Angular Blues, the Austrian's fourth ECM album as a leader, following two acclaimed quintet releases and his trio... |
Avishai Cohen & Yonathan Avishai
Playing The Room (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai. They began to explore jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years, with Yonathan making important... |
Bill Evans & Jim Hall
Undercurrent (LP) [ Dol / LP - released 11/Nov/2017 ] Deluxe gatefold edition, 180g vinyl. |
Bill Evans Trio
How My Heart Sings! (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Bill Evans' 1962 studio sessions with bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Paul Motian produced two of the jazz legend's most popular sets with both Moon Beams and How My Heart Sings! Displaying more of a mid and even tempo flair than the all ballads... |
Charlie Hunter
Bing Bing Bing (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Charlie Hunter's 1995 Blue Note debut Bing Bing Bing! was a groove-heavy tour-de-force that marked the arrival of a virtuosic guitarist whose unique concept on his 8-string guitar produced music that was both impressive and irrepressible. Hunter's... |
Chet Baker
In New York (LP) [ Jazz Images / LP - released 1/Jan/2018 ] |
Chet Baker & Art Pepper
Picture Of Heath (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Having teamed up on two prior Pacific Jazz recordings, trumpeter Chet Baker & alto saxophonist Art Pepper continued their fruitful collaboration with the supremely swinging 1956 album Picture of Heath (which was originally released as Playboys until... |
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... |
Yussef Dayes
Black Classical Music (LP) [ Brownswood / 2 LP - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Dayes introduces Black Classical Music in his own words: "What is jazz? Where did the word derive from? Birthed in New Orleans, born in the belly of the Mississippi River, rooted in the gumbo pot of the Caribbean, South American culture & African... |
Dexter Gordon
Doin' Allright (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
Dexter Gordon
A Swingin' Affair (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Just 2 days after saxophonist Dexter Gordon recorded his classic album GO! in August 1962 he brought the same quartet with pianist Sonny Clark, bassist Butch Warren, and drummer Billy Higgins back into Rudy Van Gelder's studio to record the equally... |