"For the first time ever, Roy Hargrove's legendary 2000 performance at the Bern Jazz Festival is officially released-restored from the original tapes and remastered for audiophile fidelity.
This is Hargrove at the height of his powers: bold, lyrical, e
The second of three albums Johnny Hartman recorded for Impulse! (and following the classic Coltrane/Hartman masterpiece), Hartman's voice is again on display at his best. 180g vinyl.
A meeting of like-minded musicians with innumerable reference points coming together at an epoch-making juncture to produce an ambient work brimming with creativity and understanding.
Recorded in 1962, Cole Hawkins Quartet featuring Tommy Flanagan (piano), Major Holley (bass) and Eddie Locke (drums) puts forth an easily palatable selection of repertoire.
Strut proudly presents Nuclear War, a powerful collaboration between UK collective The Heliocentrics, Sun Ra Arkestra legends Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott, and vocalist Bilal.
Trumpeter Eddie Henderson came to prominence as a member of Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi in the early '70s, after which he recorded a pair of seminal jazz/funk fusion classics for Blue Note
Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase is the first ever release of saxophone titan Joe Henderson and his quartet featuring pianist Joanne Brackeen, bassist Steve Rodby and drummer Danny Spencer captured live at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase in Chicago, IL in
Blending a socially conscious spirit with hard bop, jazz-funk, and electronic elements, Power to the People finds Joe Henderson saxophonist entering a new creative dimension.
We’re reissuing this fantastic post-bop find for the first time ever, complete with the aforementioned liner notes, the correct song titles, and a new remastering job by Kevin Chubirka that sounds about a hundred times better than the original.
This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.
"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.
Captured at the peak of her powers, this historic collection features the definitive recordings Billie Holiday made for the independent Commodore label between 1939 and 1944.
In his last release for the Impulse! Label, Hubbard's ambitious 1963 recording, The Body & The Soul, includes both an all-star septet and an orchestra with strings.
The quartet brings together Hariprasad Chaurasia on flute, John McLaughlin on acoustic guitar and Jan Garbarek on saxophones, weaving Indian classical sensibilities with jazz and world textures.
Bobby Hutcherson’s Components, issued in the Tone Poet series on 180g vinyl, pairs lyrical post‑bop with adventurous pieces from a sextet including Freddie Hubbard and Herbie Hancock; features the classic 'Little B's Poem.'
BOBBY HUTCHERSON / SAN FRANCISCO (BLUE NOTE CLASSIC VINYL SERIES) Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The musical partnership between vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and tenor saxophonist Harold Land fully blossomed on the 1970 album San Francisco.
Released in 1972, 'Uganda (Dawn of Rock)' is a fusion of progressive and psych rock with African percussion workouts, dergy-wah wah blues-funk, and jazzy sensibilities; with different genres morphing and uniting as they progress
An early masterpiece under the name of Count Buffalo – this is Akira Ishikawa’s 1st record! Genuine jazz, rock and African groovy sound. A rare groove album with a soulful arrangement throughout, with Kozaburo Yamaki and Hiroshi Takami as arrangers.
