Acoustic Sound Series. Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. After appearing together at an all-star concert the night before, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong went into an L.A. studio to record this gem of an album.
Double vinyl LP pressing. 2019 release. Hailing from New Orleans, Tank and the Bangas formed in 2013 and bubbled into national consciousness after appearing on and winning NPR's wildly popular Tiny Desk Concert contest in 2017.
Pastel Blues features "Be My Husband", written by Simone's husband, Andrew Stroud. She sings a cappella, with handclapping and hi-hat as her only accompaniment.
Recorded in two sessions just a few months after working on A Love Supreme, this album makes for a perfect introduction to Coltrane's final period as a leader.
"Lateral" [BioVinyl LP] Collaborative album from Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe. Lateral sounds more like the familiar. But better. Lateral is Ambient-Landscape-Space-Music. Single LP pressed on eco-friendly black biovinyl OR Softpak CD with art cards.
"All Or Nothing At All (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series)" [180g LP]Recorded in five sessions over 1956/1957 and released in 1958, this 12-track affair is loaded with the classic standards from Berlin, Ellington, Gershwin and more.
Lightnin' Strikes may not have the notoriety as some of Hopkins' other albums, but this set backed by Jimmy Bond (bass), Earl Palmer (drums) and Don Crawford (harmonica) is classic Lightnin'
Everything but the Girl - At Maida Vale EP: four intimate BBC Maida Vale sessions (April 2023), pressed as a 12" EP at 45 RPM on 180g black vinyl with an 8-page photobook, featuring live takes of 'Run a Red Light' and 'Nothing Left to Lose'.
Ramsey Lewis Trio The In Crowd (Verve By Request Series) One of the first soul jazz icons of the mid-'60s, Ramsey Lewis recorded The In Crowd over three days during a 1965 club date at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington, D.C.
Back To Moon Beach is an EP by no one's definition but Kurt Vile's. For Kurt, this collection is an expression of just how deep his well of non-album material runs.
When Charlie Byrd toured South America in 1961, bossa nova - a melding of Brazilian samba rhythms with the harmonic structures and the cool sound of West Coast jazz - was booming.
