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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... |
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... |
McCoy Tyner
Expansions (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Pianist McCoy Tyner was an acknowledged force of nature. On the aptly-named Expansions, Tyner fronts a remarkable band consisting of Woody Shaw on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Gary Bartz on alto saxophone, Ron Carter on cello, Herbie... |
Dr. Lonnie Smith
All In My Mind (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] After his 2016 return to Blue Note where he first made a name for himself with a run of classic soul jazz albums between 1968-70, Hammond organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith recorded All In My Mind during his 75th birthday celebration in July 2017 at the... |
Freddie Hubbard
Breaking Point (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Despite having performed on several of the most revolutionary avant-garde jazz records of the 1960s, including Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz and John Coltrane's Ascension, Freddie Hubbard's own albums tended to hew closer to the mainstream. Perhaps no... |
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... |
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... |
Joe Henderson
State Of The Tenor: Live at the Village Vanguard Volume 1 (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Ron Carter on bass, and Al Foster on drums captured live in 1985 playing at the peak of their respective powers at NYC's historic jazz shrine, The Village Vanguard. Blue Note Tone Poet Series The Blue Note Tone... |
Joe Henderson
The State of the Tenor: Live at the Village Vanguard Volume Two (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Ron Carter on bass, and Al Foster on drums captured live in 1985 playing at the peak of their respective powers at NYC's historic jazz shrine, The Village Vanguard. Blue Note Tone Poet Series The Blue Note Tone... |
Joe Lovano
Trio Fascination: Edition One (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 2/Feb/2024 ] The acclaimed Cleveland-born saxophonist Joe Lovano came to Blue Note Records in 1990 and over the next 25 years became one of the most recorded artists in the label's history, building a formidable and far-ranging catalog that explored the full... |
Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz Plays With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 22/Oct/2021 ] Three giants of West Coast Jazz came together in this deeply swinging session recorded for the Pacific Jazz/World Pacific label in 1953. Alto saxophone master Lee Konitz joins with the great Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone and legendary... |
McCoy Tyner
Time For Tyner (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Cut directly from the analog tapes, 180g vinyl. |
Sonny Clark
My Conception (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] The soulful and elegant pianist Sonny Clark brings his A-game to My Conception, a program of all-Clark originals recorded in 1959 but not released until 1979. Joining the pianist are a cast of hard bop masters including Hank Mobley on tenor... |
Sonny Clark Trio
Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The supremely swinging pianist Sonny Clark hit the Blue Note scene in 1957 with a burst of creativity recording three albums in three months including the sublime Sonny Clark Trio, a 6-song set of bebop themes and standards featuring bassist Paul... |
Stanley Turrentine
Comin' Your Way (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Stanley Turrentine is at his blues-drenched best on Comin' Your Way. This session from 1961 features the magnificent rhythm section of Horace Parlan on piano, George Trucker on bass and Al Harewood on drums, better known as the Horace Parlan Trio.... |
Andrew Hill
Dance With Death (Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] The brilliant pianist and composer Andrew Hill debuted on Blue Note in 1963 with a flurry of creativity and maintained a prolific recording output through the end of the decade that left several stunning sessions unreleased in the vaults. Recorded... |
Anthony Williams
Life Time (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 jacket. The... |
Baby Face Willette
Face To Face (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Hammond organ soul jazz fans know and love the music of Jimmy Smith, but lesser known is the tragically short life and career of Roosevelt "Baby Face" Willette who produced some of the deepest grooves ever recorded on just two Blue Note albums... |
Booker Evin
Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Booker Ervin cut 2 stellar Blue Note records in the late-60s including Tex Book Tenor which had to wait until 2005 for its first release. With a quintet featuring Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, Jan Arnet & Billy Higgins the Texas-born saxophonist slices... |
