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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Led by cornetist Nick La Rocca, the ODJB released what is acknowledged as the very first jazz record in 1917, both sides of which open this double CD. The band caused a sensation and went on to define the Roaring 20s and set in motion the beginning... |
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
So It Is [ Sony / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] Preservation Hall Jazz Band their new album, So It Is, the septet's second release featuring all-new original music. So It Is finds the classic PHJB sound invigorated by a number of fresh influences, not least among them the band's 2015 life-changing... |
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TV Jazz All Stars, Edwin Astley / Parliament Brass and Orchestra, Buddy Kaye
Edwin Astley from the ABC-TV Series 'International Dectetive' [ Cherry Red Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2000 ] T.V. Action Jazz from the ABC-TV Series INTERNATIONAL DETECTIVE & MAN FROM INTERPOL |
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Allan Vache's Florida Jazz Allstars, featuring Johnny varro and Bob Haggart
Allan Vache's Florida Jazz Allstars [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] Recorded March 27 & 28, 1996 at Parc Studios, Orlando, Florida |
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Clark Terry, with Jeff Lindberg and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra
Clark Terry - George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess [ Americana Music / CD - released 19/Mar/1999 ] Gil Evans' historic arrangement of excerpts from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess folk opera became one of the most important records ever released by trumpeter Miles Davis. But no one else revisited this score until it was transcribed by Jeff... |
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John Key's Jazz Monsters
Dune Dancing [ Odd Music Productions / CD - released 19/Mar/2021 ] This is John Key's fifth album of jazz style tunes. A variety of genres have been explored and perhaps written with a bit of unconscious astral travelling, while marooned in lockdown, flying from Mexico (Party Piece), to the deserts of North Africa... |
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Julie Mason and the Jazz Divas
Charmed Life [ Vox Records New Zealand / CD - released 17/Dec/2007 ] Julie and the Jazz Divas (Susan De Jong, Trudy Lile, and Jenine Bailey) are joined on this wonderful album by well known New Zealand jazz performers, Brian Smith (saxophone), Lance Su'a (guitar), and Phil Broadhurst (piano). |
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Kenny Davern and his Jazz Band
East Side, West Side [ Arbors / CD - released 27/Jul/2009 ] Born Kenneth Davern in Huntington, New York, he began his professional career as a teenager, quickly immersing himself in the vibrant New York jazz scene and playing alongside legends like Jack Teagarden and Pee Wee Russell. |
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Kid Ory & His Creole Jazz Band
Live At The Beverly Cavern - The 1949 Radio Transcription Series (4CD) [ Avid / 4 CD - released 16/Mar/2009 ] Presenting a hot 4CD Box Set release from the legendary trombonist Kid Ory covering virtually everything 504 Records made available from the Live At The Beverly Cavern 1949 radio broadcasts PLUS some aspects 504 omitted. Edward 'Kid' Ory was born... |
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The Modern Jazz Quartet
Complete Last Concert [ Atlantic Records / CD - released 25/Oct/1990 ] American imported double disc set. |
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Modern Jazz Quartet
For Ellington [ East / West Records / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] The Modern Jazz Quartet's For Ellington album is generally well-received as a charming, cool tribute that captures Duke Ellington's spirit through the MJQ's signature blend of jazz, blues, and classical styles (A.I.) |
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Modern Jazz Quartet
Modern Jazz Quartet: The Montreux Years [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] A showcase of some of The Modern Jazz Quartet's most iconic Montreux Jazz Festival live performances, recorded between 1985 and 1993! |
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Nat King Cole & Orchestra, Johnny Hartman & Erroll Garner, Modern Jazz Quartet, Helen Forrest & Billy May, Dinah Washington, Four Freshman, etc
Harry Warren Songbook - September in the Rain [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Over a career spanning six decades, Warren wrote more than 800 songs. Well known Warren hits included, "Lullaby of Broadway", and, "I Only Have Eyes for You". Warren was one of America's most prolific film composers. |
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The Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars
The Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars [ Concord Jazz / CD - released 1/Jan/1985 ] |
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Swingle Singers & The Modern Jazz Quartet
Place Vendome [ Philips / CD - released 1/Feb/1986 ] The Swingle Singers were formed in Paris in 1962 and directed originally by Ward Swingle (who once belonged to Mimi Perrin's French vocal group Les Double Six). They began as session singers, mainly doing backing vocals for singers such as Charles... |
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WYNTON MARSALIS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sweet Release & Ghost Story - two more ballets by Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis (trumpet/conductor) / Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra [ Sony Music / CD - released 2/Sep/1999 ] The fifth in Wynton Marsalis's avalanche of eight releases in 1999 was another pairing of ballets, again issued on Sony Classical rather than Columbia. Sweet Release is easily the more ingratiating of the two - obviously, even slavishly, modeled on... |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Caravan (Original Jazz Classics Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Originally released in 1963, "Caravan" was Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' first album for Riverside Records. Featured in addition to Blakey are Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Wayne Shorter (sax), Cedar Walton (piano) and... |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Indestructable (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] Drummer Art Blakey recorded Indestructible - his last album for Blue Note - in 1964 with a powerful sextet of The Jazz Messengers consisting of Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Cedar Walton (piano ) and... |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (LP) [ Decca / LP - released 3/May/2024 ] With Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960, Roger Vadim stirred up a scandal. Based on the famous epistolary novel by Laclos, the director presented audiences in the early 1960s with a film in which libertinism, scheming and the upper middle classes... |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Like Someone In Love (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Jan/2025 ] One of the greatest line-ups of drummer Art Blakey's hard bop finishing school The Jazz Messengers locked into place in 1960 when tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorterjoined trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt for the... |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Mosaic (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Oct/2023 ] The 1961 album Mosaic marked a pivotal moment in the story of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers with the arrival of Freddie Hubbard and Cedar Walton and the band's expansion to a sextet with the addition of Curtis Fuller joining existing members Wayne... |
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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk (Deluxe Edition) [ Rhino / Warner / 2 CD - released 20/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... |
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Hidden Jazz Quartet
Raw And Cooked [ Agogo Records / CD - released 5/Feb/2016 ] The debut album by the Hidden Jazz Quartett is bringing on something special. "Coming with a strong flow, and continue to grow," Gang Starr said in Jazz Thing, and that's exactly what Raw & Cooked is about. Here we have it: A group of fantastic... |
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Hidden Jazz Quartet
Raw And Cooked (LP) [ Agogo Records / 2 LP - released 5/Feb/2016 ] The debut album by the Hidden Jazz Quartett is bringing on something special. "Coming with a strong flow, and continue to grow," Gang Starr said in Jazz Thing, and that's exactly what Raw & Cooked is about. Here we have it: A group of fantastic... |
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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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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
So It Is (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 28/Jun/2019 ] So It Is (2017) finds the classic Preservation Hall Jazz Band sound invigorated by a number of fresh influences, not least among them the band's 2015 life-changing trip to Cuba. A visit to the island, so integral to the evolution of jazz and New... |
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
A Tuba To Cuba (Original Soundtrack LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 29/Nov/2019 ] The legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band present the soundtrack to A Tuba to Cuba, the critically acclaimed documentary directed by T.G. Herrington and Danny Clinch. The film follows Ben Jaffe of New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band as he... |
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Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
Free For All [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 13/Sep/2004 ] Originally recorded on February 10, 1964 at the Van Gelder Studio, New Jersey, this Rudy Van Gelder re-master of 'Free For All' is 24-bit digitally re-mastered. |
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Moanin' [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 3/May/1999 ] Recorded in 1958, 'Moanin'' is an essential chapter in the history of jazz rhythm, and jazz itself. This Rudy Van Gelder re-mastered edition features a previously unissued bonus track. |
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Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers
Jazz Messengers [ Columbia / CD ] |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Free For All (180g LP + MP3) [ Blue Note LP / LP - released 4/Apr/2014 ] From the Blue Note 75th Anniversary reissue series. |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Mosaic (LP) [ EMI Bluenote US Jazz LP / LP - released 30/Jan/2015 ] •180g heavyweight vinyl •MP3 download voucher •Limited edition Originally released by Blue Note Records in 1961, "Mosaic" by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, will be reissued as part of the Blue Note 75th anniversary. Performing with Blakey,... |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messsengers
Kyoto [ Fantasy / LP ] Reissued on Fantasy's OJC series, this album finds Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers paying tribute to Japan (where they had toured to great acclaim) on two selections, featuring Art Blakey's cousin as a vocalist on "Wellington's Blues" (a real rarity in... |
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Lenny Pickett / UMO Jazz Orchesta
The Prescription [ Random Act / CD ] |
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Manhattan School of Jazz
Que Viva Harlem [ Jazzheads / CD - released 15/Jul/2014 ] |
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Modern Jazz Quartet
Blues on Bach [ Atlantic Records / CD - released 26/Jun/1987 ] Blues on Bach is an absolute jazz classic! |
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Modern Jazz Quartet
Bluesology: The Modern Jazz Quartet Anthology [ Warner Jazz / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] |
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Smooth Jazz All Stars
Jay-Z - Smooth Jazz Tribute [ CD ] |
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Smooth Jazz All Stars
Maxwell - Smooth Jazz Tribute [ CD ] |