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“Space Is The Place” is the perfect entry point into Sun Ra’s vast catalogue, and a firm favourite for committed fans too Its centrepiece is the 21-minute title track: with its chugging sax riff and repeated vocal refrain, it’s both Ra’s signature tune and a manifesto of his space-age escapist philosophy Across the... -
Released on the Impulse! Records label in early 1966, this was part of the short-lived Impulse folk music division, with the slogan adapted from their jazz promotion: “The new wave of folk is on Impulse!” Signed to Impulse’s parent label ABC Records, it is the only album Hooker made for the jazz label Producer Bob Thiele...
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Impulse! Records proudly announces the signing of free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements with their label debut Protect Your Light Fusing elements of jazz, hip-hop, global music traditions and spoken word, the new album sees the quintet (vocalist/poet Camae Ayewa, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, bassist Luke Stewart,...
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A long-lost live recording featuring one of John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy's 1961 sets at New York's Village Gate has been unearthed for release this summer Evenings at the Village Gate was recorded in the summer before Coltrane's legendary slate of November 1961 dates at the Village Vanguard, with a similar quintet lineup: the...
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"Out Of The Cool is nearly as striking an album now as it must have been when it hit the bins in 1961 Not only is it Gil Evans' masterpiece and his best album that didn't front Miles Davis as a soloist; it's a peculiar masterpiece, stretching modal jazz to minimalist extremes yet soaking with swing This Acoustic Sounds QRP...
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Originally released 1967; exact reissue, 180 Gram, Gatefold sleeve Part of the Back To Black series Including digital download code "During 1967-69 avant-garde innovator Albert Ayler recorded a series of albums for Impulse that started on a high level and gradually declined in quality This LP, Ayler's first Impulse set, was...
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Recorded for the Impulse label by Archie Shepp in 1965, four of the five tracks on Four for Trane are reworkings of pieces originally recorded in 1959 & 1960 by John Coltrane, and released on his Giant Steps (1960) and Coltrane Plays the Blues (1962) albums They are rearranged here by Shepp and trombonist Roswell Rudd The...
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0ne of Yusef Lateef's best albums from one of the finest periods of his esteemed career, the 1964 LP Live at Pep's showcases the reedman backed by trumpeter Richard Williams, pianist Mike Nock, bassist Ernie Farrow, and drummer James Black Taped at a live performance at Pep's Lounge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the album was...
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Shabaka Hutchings debut release under his own name, Afrikan Culture, was released on Impulse! Records in May 2022 Known for his globally-acclaimed, groundbreaking groups (Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming, Shabaka and The Ancestors), this release finds Shabaka at a quieter, more meditative space than the pulsing, driving...
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This 1967 set, recorded live at Boston’s Jazz Workshop, showcases virtuoso guitarist Szabó—a veteran of Chico Hamilton’s and Charles Lloyd’s bands—at the top of his game on a diverse program featuring standards (“What Is This Thing Called Love”) and pop hits (“The Beat Goes On”) as well as the original and...
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Brandee Younger will release her second album on Impulse! Records, ‘Brand New Life’ Younger is quite often noted for standing on the shoulders of the very women who ushered in the harp as a clear and distinct voice in jazz: Dorothy Ashby This record is an amalgamation of original pieces from Brandee and select...
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Verve and Universal Music Enterprises are continuing their analogue-only reissue series this year The 2022 calendar for Acoustic Sounds includes refreshed releases from a lineup of jazz greats This year's forthcoming releases include: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong's Ella & Louis, Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins'...
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The London based trio is set to release their fourth studio album, Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam With two singles already unveiled, this latest project synthesises their afrofuturistic endeavours “There’s gonna be a shift because everyone would have had this period of reflection about what it’s all about I think it’s...
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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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This is Pino Palladino’s first record of original music Co-written and produced by Blake Mills, this album has no single sound It showcases various styles of playing with an emphasis on ambitious composition and you can trace homages to J Dilla, Fela Kuti, and Roy Hargrove throughout Other musicians include Chris Dave, Larry...
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During 1964 John Coltrane spent the least amount of time in the recording studio of his entire solo career It wasn’t until April 27 that ‘Trane, along with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones went to the familiar surroundings of Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliff’s studio to begin work on the album that came to be...
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Acoustic Sounds Series reissues from Verve/Universal Music Enterprises! Mastered by Ryan K Smith at Sterling Sound from the original analog tapes 180-gram LPs pressed at Quality Record Pressings! Stoughton Printing gatefold old-style tip-on jackets Series supervised by Chad Kassem CEO of Acoustic...
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As a Verve Remixed project, with Y’all Don’t (Really) Care About Black Women, Melanie Charles set out to take this group of songs and breathe new energy into them Melanie was immediately drawn to the rapturous voices of Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn who inspired her to record arrangements of “God Bless the Child” and...
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Jazz legend Pharoah Sanders’ one-of-a-kind, mosaical free jazz classic Thembi – not pressed on vinyl since 1987 – is now available once again via Impulse!/UMe Originally released in 1971, the Ed Michel and Bill Szymczyk-produced album is pressed on black vinyl and housed in a high-quality wrapped jacket Thembi, named...
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Complete rendition of the saxophonist’s famed divinely inspired suite was recorded at Seattle’s Penthouse in 1965 Despite being John Coltrane’s most celebrated album, and one of the most beloved jazz albums of all time, A Love Supreme wasn’t a record that the saxophonist touched on much in the live setting Up until now,...
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Somewhere Different is Brandee Younger’s major label debut album, out August 13th on impulse! Brandee composed and recorded the album in New York City and at the legendary Van Gelder Studios in New Jersey from November 2020 to February 2021 Somewhere Different evokes nostalgic Black soul, informed by pioneering harpists Alice...
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First official reissue of Alice Coltrane’s gorgeous and hard to find 1982 meditation tape in its previously unheard original, unadorned organ and vocal mix, issued according to the wishes of her son, Ravi Coltrane If you're into anything from Alice's uber-classique 'Journey in Satchidananda' to Kara-Lis Coverdale's Minimalist...
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This year marks the 60th anniversary of the legendary jazz label, Impulse! Records – home to such pioneering jazz artists as John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Pharoah Sanders, Quincy Jones, and more On May 14, as a centerpiece to its year-long celebrations, the imprint taking a look back at its first decade with the release of...
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“Palo Alto” is a previously unknown + unreleased live Thelonious Monk recording After the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr in 1968, racial tensions across the country rose Palo Alto, a largely white college town in California, was not immune to the events of the day Danny Scher, a rising junior at Palo Alto High...
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Known for his pioneering and multi-instrumental blend of jazz and Afro-Eastern musical traditions, Yusef Lateef was never content to just use his music to merely entertain, but long strived to encourage his audiences to engage their minds as well as their ears That constitution is more than evident on his excellent 1965 effort...
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Your Queen Is a Reptile is the third album by British jazz group Sons of Kemet, released in March 2018 on Impulse! Records Band leader Shabaka Hutchings wrote and plays saxophone on all tracks, Theon Cross plays tuba, and Seb Rochford and Tom Skinner play drums It also features toaster Congo Natty and performance poet Josh...
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