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Each Roxy Music album has been Re-Issued with a fresh Half-Speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios London To reflect the audio, all eight of the Roxy Music studio albums have had their artwork revised and with a gloss laminated finish so that each album is not just a record it’s a piece of... -
Based upon the artistic and commercial success of “Louis Armstrong Plays WC Handy”, George Avakian gathered the All Stars into the studio again for a second session to record tunes by Fats Waller This is also a stunning album: the All Stars, at the top of their form, play great material by a single composer All Stars vocalist... -
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Recorded between trumpeter Freddie Hubbard’s better-known classics Red Clay and First Light, Straight Life is actually arguably Hubbard’s greatest recording Hubbard, joined by an all-star group that includes tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, keyboardist Herbie Hancock, guitarist George Benson, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer... -
Kenny Burrell's guitar artistry is well-documented in his years with Oscar Peterson and on his first dates as a leader on the Blue Note label, but "God Bless The Child", his only date for CTI in 1971, is an under-heard masterpiece in his catalogue Burrell's band for the set includes bassist Ron Carter, percussionist Ray Barretto,... -
Although he'd been a fixture on the East Coast folk circuit for several years, Arlo Guthrie did not release his debut album until mid-1967 A majority of the attention directed at Alice's Restaurant focuses on the epic 18-plus-minute title track, which sprawled over the entire A-side of the long-player However, it is the other... -
"It's incredible to witness this resurgence of Strata-East's recordings over the last few years - an appreciation for the label's groundbreaking approach to music-making, backed by a phenomenal catalogue, continues to attract listeners both new as well as its devoted faithful, once again giving rise to its revered and cult-like... -
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180-gram gatefold double LP Remastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London "Fifth part of the Strata-East Dolphy Series, Glass Bead Games is arguably the crown jewel of the Strata East movement, an amorphous genre that treads an unusual path between post-bop, 1970s avant-garde and spiritual jazz, with a... -
Amazing Grace is the third live album by American singer Aretha Franklin Released on June 1, 1972 by Atlantic Records, It ultimately sold over two million copies in the United States alone, earning a Double Platinum certification As of 2013, it stands as the biggest selling disc of Aretha's entire fifty-plus year recording career... -
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Siren released in 1975 produced the singles “Love Is the Drug” and “Both Ends Burning”, which peaked at numbers two and 25 respectively on the UK Singles Chart “Love Is the Drug” became Roxy Music’s highest-charting single in the US, reaching number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 Siren a captivating offering from Roxy... -
In 1979 Roxy Music released Manifesto, almost four years since the last album and with it brought one of the bands biggest hits the second single and disco tinged ‘Dance Away’ and was a Top 10 selling single of 1979 The album also peaked in the UK chart at No’7 and was positively received by critics Each Roxy Music album has... -
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes and Limited to 10,000 Numbered Copies Eric Clapton's Unplugged is far more than an album It remains a majestic picture of a moment in time; an unvarnished glimpse into the soul of one of music's most legendary artists; a visionary journey into the inspirations that helped shape Clapton's... -
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Limited Edition 200 Gram LP! Pressed at Quality Record Pressings! Mastered by Kevin Gray & Cut from the Original Mono 100% Analog Master Tapes! Part of the ultimate audiophile Prestige mono reissues from Analogue Productions 25 of the most collectible, rarest, most audiophile-sounding Rudy Van Gelder recordings ever made... -
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Limited Edition 180g Vinyl LP! Pressed at Quality Record Pressings! Mastered by Kevin Gray & Cut from the Original Mono 100% Analog Master Tapes! One of the pivotal recordings in bringing about the widespread acceptance of Sonny Rollins as a major figure, Saxophone Colossus inspired critics to write scholarly analyses and... -
Despite having performed on several of the most revolutionary avant-garde jazz records of the 1960s, including Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz and John Coltrane’s Ascension, Freddie Hubbard’s own albums tended to hew closer to the mainstream Perhaps no other single album captures the trumpeter’s awe-inspiring breadth of... -
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Born in Mississippi, Gerald Wilson spent formative years in Detroit before launching a celebrated career as a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader After moving to Los Angeles, Wilson signed with Pacific Jazz and in 1961 began a decade-long run of spectacular recordings including 1962’s Moment of Truth The action-packed... -
1974 Prog-Rock Landmark Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes and Pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl Electric Light Orchestra leader Jeff Lynne did more than figuratively reach for the sky on Eldorado Daring to be bold, and creating imaginative worlds that invite the listener to escape the mundane, the visionary composer-musician... -
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First-time ever, 180-gram gatefold double LP Numbered, limited edition reissue By 1967, Thelonious Monk was being criticized by the jazz press for getting a bit stale, using the same personnel and performing the same songs as he had for the past few years In reality, Monk was still able to bring vitality to his performances... -
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Arriving seemingly perfectly formed from nowhere, Roxy Music’s self-titled debut instantly propelled the band into the affections of both the music-buying public and the serious music press – no mean feat in 1972 Frontman Bryan Ferry’s lyrical evocations of romance and glamour, pop-art references and allusions to both old... -
Critically ”Country Life” is deemed to be Roxy Music’s most consistent and sophisticated album, the albums artwork is still to this day considered controversial in certain countries but is non the less iconic around the World Musically and lyrically “Country Life” has been considered more cynical and hard rocking than... -
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"One of the great Ellington albums, one of the great Hawkins albums and one of the great albums of the 1960s" — The New York Times Even though Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins had both been well-known jazzmen since the early 1920s and continued to be successful until their deaths, their only recorded encounter was the LP Duke... -
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Donald Byrd’s residency in Paris in 1958 to study with composer Nadia Boulanger gave rise to one of the greatest bands of his career with Bobby Jaspar on tenor sax and flute, Walter Davis, Jr on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Art Taylor on drums Sam Records is proud to present this previously unreleased concert by the Donald... -
Two classic albums by The Who, My Generation and A Quick One, are to be released as the first in a series of high quality, half-speed mastered editions The limited edition black vinyl versions have been mastered by longtime Who engineer Jon Astley They’ve been cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, in the mastering... -
Two classic albums by The Who, My Generation and A Quick One, are to be released as the first in a series of high quality, half-speed mastered editions The limited edition black vinyl versions have been mastered by longtime Who engineer Jon Astley They’ve been cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, in the mastering... -
It’s a sign of the sheer volume of top-notch hard bop that Blue Note was recording in the 1950s-60s that a supremely swinging date like Hank Mobley’s 1957 album Curtain Call would sit in the vaults unreleased until 1984 Mobley himself was in the middle of a particularly prolific streak that year with the tenor saxophonist... -
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A match made in heaven! This 1963 Impulse! LP is a career highlight for Johnny Hartman's beautiful baritone voice and John Coltrane's exploratory yet empathetic tenor sax John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman is one of the three all-ballad albums that John Coltrane recorded in late 1962 and early 1963 Hartman was apparently... -
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The second studio album from Albert King, Born Under A Bad Sign was released in 1967 King's first album for Stax Records would change the face of American music with the modernization of the... -
Many of Santana’s rock-addict fans could well have understood the inviting word "Welcome" on the white LP cover as an attempt to break away from the spiritual aura of his previous album "Love Devotion Surrender" And the musicians certainly managed to produce a rich Latin feeling, with such titles as "Samba De Sausalito" and... -
The term 'free jazz' was already in existence – but it had a quite different meaning, namely jazz without paying for an entrance ticket The album "Free Jazz", however, was intended to lend its name to a quite different style of jazz 'Free' playing – now this meant that no one was bound to conventions, you could let your... -
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When someone such as Ry Cooder, who delved deeply into traditional sources, just names his LP "Jazz", it is unlikely that one will hear avant-garde music Actually, in the numbers gathered together here the investigative guitar man dedicated himself more or less to almost forgotten music Historically informed, yet not adhering to... -
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Immortal samba, and its rhythmic relatives, is on the one hand so undemanding that it manages to take off with the simplest of instruments, yet on the other hand it is so concentrated that it can conjure up all manner of fantastic sound coloring With regard to these sessions that were recorded in the Sixties, when bossa nova... -
Limited edition 180-gram French reissue Remastered from the original master tapes Pressed by Optimal in Germany; artwork using the original photos In the tradition of labels wholly devoted to vinyl re-pressing, Sam Records puts out a product of top-notch musical and visual quality Sam Records uses only master tapes and... -
Limited edition 180-gram vinyl Remastered from the original master tapes Pressed at Optimal in Germany Faithfully recreated original artwork/photos In answer to an offer from Nicole Barclay, Chet Baker arrived in Paris early in September 1955 On the 22nd — or maybe the 23rd — he signed a contract to make seven records (The... -
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Rare French jazz session recorded in 1965! 180-gram LP limited to just 1,000 copies! This self-titled album is a testimony of the short lived-band led by New-York drummer Ron Jefferson during his stay in Paris in the mid-'60s After a first album under his name on Pacific Jazz in 1962, the founding member of The Jazz Modes... -
Jackie McLean’s 1960s Blue Note output is a fascinating body of work, especially viewed with the benefit of hindsight In between recording 2 venturous modernist sessions—Let Freedom Ring and One Step Beyond—that would set the tone for the alto saxophonist’s future explorations, came the seemingly more conventional and... -
"The Analogue Productions sound is visceral and crisp in the best sense, and the quiet pressings ensure that no musical detail is even mildly obscuredwith these 45rpm LPs, if your system is up to the task, you'll hear boundless high-frequency reach and lavish dynamic nuance and harmonic delicacy" - Marc Mickelson, The Audio Beat,... -
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Arriving seemingly perfectly formed from nowhere, Roxy Music’s self-titled debut instantly propelled the band into the affections of both the music-buying public and the serious music press – no mean feat in 1972 Frontman Bryan Ferry’s lyrical evocations of romance and glamour, pop-art references and allusions to both old... -
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Roxy Music's second album For Your Pleasure is arguably the greatest Art Rock release of all-time The questing Bogus Man nestles alongside the breathless Do The Strand and the truly epic In Every Dream Home A Heartache 2022 re-Issue with a fresh half-speed master by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios London The gatefold... -
The Detroit born alto saxophonist Sonny Red made only one album as a leader for Blue Note, but Out of the Blue remains a gem of the catalog deserving of much wider recognition Red’s lightly swinging style shines on this 8-song set of bluesy originals and obscure standards, which was drawn from two different quartet sessions... -
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Muddy Waters' Folk Singer remains rightly revered as the greatest-sounding blues album ever released—and, to date, one of the only bonafide audiophile records in the genre Originally issued in 1964 by Chess Records, the all-acoustic work has made the rounds as a demonstration disc and benefitted from myriad reissues, all of... -
Drummer Billy Cobham was fresh from his success with the Mahavishnu Orchestra when he recorded his debut album, which is still his best Most of the selections showcase Cobham in a quartet with keyboardist Jan Hammer, guitarist Tommy Bolin, and electric bassist Lee Sklar Two other numbers include Joe Farrell on flute and soprano... -
During the early 1960s, Duke Ellington made many collaborative recordings with jazz greats He paired up with Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus, but his album with John Coltrane was among his most successful This was in due in no small part to the brilliance of Coltrane’s playing But... -
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For some, "Love Devotion Surrender" is an album where, exceptionally, John McLaughlin plays the piano and organist Jan Hammer plays the drums For others, it is the most spiritual album ever by Carlos Santana And though both disciples were shown the way and inspired by the same guru (Sri Chinmoy) at one and the same time, this... -
Master of the strings, Al Di Meola, who turn his back on over-ambitious manual dexterity as in "Elegant Gypsy" to concentrate more on musical substance, demonstrates his intensive work with the material in the follow-up album "Casino" For example in "Egyptian Danza", an amalgamation of melodies which circle around one another and... -
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Thanks to their first-class training in funk and soul while playing in James Brown’s Band, Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker were the obvious choice when it came to participating in George Clinton’s P-Funk empire – the Godfather of Soul had had an enormous influence on Clinton anyway In 1977, Clinton and Bootsy Collins produced... -
After some hot live performances and subversive jaunts made in the aftershock of Woodstock, Santana and his band entered the calm atmosphere of the recording studio to make their sixth album Taking a look at the blue butterfly on the LP cover, it wasn’t surprising that purist Santana fans scented that the music in this... -
Grant Green had already recorded a prolific 10 sessions of classic hard bop and soul jazz for Blue Note over a 2-year span by the time he arrived at Van Gelder Studio in 1962 to record his album The Latin Bit The concept of the album was a departure for Green with the guitarist exploring Latin and Brazilian influences with a band... -
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In its October ‘58 issue, the title carried by Jazz Hot magazine was: "Revelation at the Chat Qui Pêche The spirit of jazz (which some thought was dying) is sparkling with life in the Donald Byrd Quintet" And indeed, on its first appearance at the Cannes Festival in July (the Jazz Festival, not the other one), the Donald Byrd... -
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Style is not a given Not many musicians reach the level of artistic personality where you can unmistakably recognize them It takes character, roots, honesty, soulfulness Nathan Davis had style His tone on tenor was unique So was his soprano sound and his distinctive approach to flute His musical world was equally original and knew...
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