With his first studio recording as a leader, Bright Size Life was the album that decisively put him on the map as a bright new force with something fresh to say in the context of contemporary jazz.
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Rooted firmly in gospel, blues and the old time Dixieland jazz of New Orleans, this essential jazz album drops just in time to kick off Black History Month 2026.
INCARNATIONS is a new masterpiece thoughtfully assembled from rare and unreleased material from the landmark 1960 sessions for Candid Records that stands proudly in the Mingus canon of masterworks.
At the time of this recording, Mingus had been working regularly with the piano-less quartet of Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond. The same group featured on the 1960 Candid release, Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus.
The tenor saxophonist had already notched several hard bop masterpieces in his belt, but No Room for Squares was an even more ambitious effort that found Mobley elevating his game as a bandleader, improviser, and a composer.
Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was on a serious roll when he recorded his 1960 album Roll Call, the follow-up to his classic Soul Station, which reconvened the same rhythm section of pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Art Blakey
On February 7, 1960, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey, laid down what would become his masterpiece: Soul Station.
Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners is a landmark title in the pianist's celebrated catalog. The 1957 album not only introduces several Monk originals, but also features an all-star lineup, including Sonny Rollins, Max Roach and Paul Chambers.
This LP helped to reinvent Monk's reputation, showing listeners that Monk was not just a "mad genius" but a structured and well-rounded musician with the ability to lucidly interpret and reinvent the works of another composer.
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.
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.
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