This masterwork from jazz piano’s most uncommon voice find Monk and his quartet exploring every texture, tone and melodic turn of seven expansive tracks.
Released in 1957, Thelonious Himself is a solo album by Thelonious Monk. The only exception to this is the final track "Monk's Mood," where he is joined by John Coltrane and Wilbur Ware.
Monk, considered one of the greatest Jazz pianists of all time, recorded Underground in '67-'68. It's the last recording with the Thelonious Monk Quartet and one of the last albums he made for Columbia.
This never-before heard jazz classic documents one of the most historically important working bands in all of Jazz history, a band that was both short-lived and, until now, thought to be frustratingly under-recorded. The concert, which took place at the f
Originally released in 1963, Boss Guitar is the 8th album from influential and prolific jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. It also features Melvine Rhyne (organ) and Jimmy Cobb (drums) across a selection of standards and Montgomery originals.
Unreleased recordings from jazz guitar giant Wes Montgomery and the Wynton Kelly Trio at the Half Note jazz club in New York with drummer Jimmy Cobb and bassists Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Herman Wright and Larry Ridley.
Recorded in 1957 when Lee Morgan was only 19, and released on Blue Note in 1958, “Candy” sees the young trumpet genius as leader of a marvelous quartet.
Two months after recording what would become his hit record The Sidewinder, trumpeter Lee Morgan returned to Van Gelder Studio in February 1964 to create his masterful album Search for the New Land.
180gm vinyl LP pressing. The prodigious trumpeter Lee Morgan debuted on Blue Note in 1956 at the age of 18 but personal problems forced him off the scene temporarily. His rebound recording, The Sidewinder, was a coronation.
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster was just one of many "meets" albums that Gerry Mulligan appeared on during the period when this classic was recorded - Nov. 3 and Dec. 2, 1959, in Los Angeles.
On his 1963 debut release for the Phillips label, baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan is joined by familiar friends, including Art Farmer, Bob Brookmeyer and Jim Hall for a relaxed and refined set of cool jazz ballads.
The 1959 record Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges, a collaboration between the two great jazz saxophonists, has been reissued as the latest release from Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series.
We’ve gone back to the original tapes to present an all-analog release of The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing/In Eternity with Brother Frederic on black vinyl.
Their follow-up album expands their sonic world into a meditative and boundary-pushing space, blurring the lines between composition and improvisation, melody and abstraction.
Two notable sidemen collaborate on an elusive instrumental album inspired by funk, West African, and Cuban music. The melodies are fleeting and the arrangements ever-shifting.
In addition to two unreleased 78s with the McShann band, this set offers two sets of private recordings made with local musicians and a very relaxed-sounding Parker.
This 1957 release, the third in a series of albums expanding on Bird's 10-inch Clef releases from the early 1950's, 'Now's The Time' boasts some of Parker's purest recordings and strongest playing, featuring two different quartets.
Jeff Parker's 2016 album The New Breed was a turning point for both Parker and International Anthem, changing the trajectory of his solo career as well as drawing an abundance of attention to our fresh imprint despite our then very limited catalog.
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