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The BGP release schedule over the last few months has been dominated by compilations focusing on Bob Thiele’s Flying Dutchman label Our Gil Scott-Heron box-set has gained rave reviews and our Leon Thomas and Lonnie Liston Smith collections have been welcomed by fans and DJs alike However, Flying Dutchman was most definitely a...
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Double vinyl LP pressing Recorded in May 1970, this smoldering set of funky soul jazz by the great organist Lonnie Smith went unreleased until 1995 Captured live at Club Mozambique in Detroit just 5 months after Smith recorded his excellent Blue Note album Drives, this live date featured a similar line-up with tenor...
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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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In the late fifties, Nina Simone made such a profound debut in the jazz field that the label “jazz singer” threatened to bind in her infinite and many-faceted talent Now, this album sets the record straight with a varied repertoire ranging from blues and ballads to Broadway melodies Still dramatic, still outspoken and...
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Given her extensive and varied recording catalog, if you're looking for a place to explore the talents of the late Nina Simone, then 1965's I Put a Spell On You is a great place to dip your toes - particular if you want to start with her more pop oriented sides As was the case with many mid-1960s releases, Simone's record label...
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In 1964, saxophonist Wayne Shorter had just left Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, where he had been probably the most significant composer in the band’s history and a superb musical director He was about to join the second great Miles Davis Quintet ‘Juju’ is indicative of the journey Shorter’s music was making at this...
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According to Horace Silver, “Dad played the violin, guitar, and mandolin, strictly by ear He loved the folk music of Cape Verde…Occasionally, they would give a dance party in our kitchen on a Saturday night They pushed the kitchen table into the corner of the room to make way for dancing, and Dad and his friends provided the...
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For all kinds of reasons, Cape Verdean Blues is a much more modernist offering than Horace Silver’s previous release, Song For My Father, and slightly less well-regarded, but it should not be Given the addition of 20-year-old trumpeter Woody Shaw – playing on his first Blue Note date – and JJ Johnson on side two, there is a...
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By the time drummer Pete La Roca recorded his debut album Basra in 1965 he had already appeared on 9 Blue Note sessions as a sideman and spent time in bands led by Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane But it was another tenor titan, Joe Henderson, that La Roca brought in as the sole horn voice to front a dynamic quartet that was...
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Athens of the north is not just here to release great music but to support our artist development and experimentation, to this end we always try to bring good people together to work on new music This LP fuses two massive talents, for the first time to AOTN we introduce House and Techno legend Linkwood, joining him is one of the...
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“We’d like for you all to help us get in the groove, let your hair down, and come on and get in the music with us,” says Horace Silver in the spoken introduction to Doin’ The Thing, the only live album the great pianist made during his remarkable 3-decade tenure on Blue Note Records Recorded in May 1961 at the Village Gate...
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Californian composer Terry Riley’s In C, first issued on vinyl in 1968, is widely acknowledged as a Minimalist landmark that altered the course of twentieth-century music His influential album A Rainbow In Curved Air, which appeared the following year, is a vivid fusion of rock and raga, jazz and psychedelia realised through...
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Simply put, Drumming is, along with some of Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach, one of the most fascinating pieces of first-generation minimalism The version recorded for Elektra/Nonesuch in 1987 ranks among Reich’s masterpieces The 60-minute continuous work features one basic rhythm...
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The Tenderlonious led jazz quartet Ruby Rushton and their 22a imprint have been at the forefront of the UK jazz scene since the release of their debut album Two For Joy in 2015 The band transport you back to the 70s Headhunters era, whilst still adopting the spiritual concepts of John Coltrane and Yusef Lateef Audiences can expect...
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Riding the ripples of their debut single “Escalator” (which BBC’s Gilles Peterson called “a winner,” and Supreme Standards’ Tina Edwards likened to “Radiohead on a Jazz trip”), Chicago collective Resavoir return with their first full length effort The self-titled album presents a juicy suite of...
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Now-Again reissue of Oneness Of Juju's deep spiritual jazz masterpiece 'Chapter Two: Nia', which was originally released on Strata-East Records in...
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“I’m always looking for ways to be surprised,” says composer and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Parker as he explains the process, and the thinking, behind his new album, Suite for Max Brown, released via a new partnership between the Chicago–based label International Anthem and Nonesuch Records “If I sit down at the piano...
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Drummer/producer Makaya McCraven traveled to London in October of 2017 to record material for a new album (which has since been titled Universal Beings & will come out on International Anthem in Fall of 2018) Over the course of 3 days in London, Makaya connected with first time collaborators (Theon Cross, Nubya Garcia, Joe...
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"One of the most important recordings to date in the modern jazz world" – Turntable Lab Makaya McCraven's early 2015 offering In The Moment was pared from nearly 48 hours of live, improvised performance recorded at 1 venue over 12 months and 28 shows Working with instrumental contributions from an array of Chicago jazz...
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Paris-born, New England-raised, long-time Chicago-residing Makaya McCraven has been at the forefront of genre-redefining movements in jazz since 2015, when he introduced the world to his unique brand of ‘organic beat music’ on the breakout album In The Moment Culled, cut, post-produced & re-composed by Makaya using...
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A cymbal riff from Clarence Becton introduces this respectable outing from Mal Waldron and company as bassist Isla Eckinger and the bandleader jump in for some enjoyable interplay Yet what begins as an energetic ride turns somber through Eckinger’s rumination Such solos lend deeper insight into the goings on, underscored by...
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Taped live in 1970 amidst the growing Black Nationalist movement and borrowing its title/opening refrain from poet/writer Amiri Baraka, Joe McPhee's Nation Time combines strains of funk and free jazz in a way that feels like Pharaoh Sanders sitting in with James Brown's backing band A legendary figure of the contemporary free...
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"Now-Again Records presents limited edition deluxe reissues of the lauded black fire catalog in 2020 First up in the series, this previously unreleased live session recorded at the legendary Brooklyn venue The East in 1973 Magical, mystical, Afrocentric, progressive -- words that could be used to describe any number of musical...
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Stanley Turrentine’s 1960s Blue Note output was reliably excellent, but this 1964 session featuring his thick, blues-drenched tenor saxophone backed by organist Shirley Scott, guitarist Kenny Burrell, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Otis Finch, surely ranks with his very best From the relentless groove of “Trouble (No 2)”...
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Leon Thomas debut as a leader was this classic of spiritual jazz recorded for Bob Thiel’s Flying Dutchman label Originally pressed in 1969 it features an all-star band including Pharoah Sanders (under the name Little Rock), Lonnie Liston Smith (piano), James Spaulding (alto sax), Cecil McBee (bass), Roy Haynes (drums)...
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The Return is a natural evolution from the Yussef Kamaal project, mining the influence of visionary jazz but blended with all kinds of texture, sounds and signals from the over-saturated London streets Notable tracks for old and new listeners are ‘Salaam', 'Situations', 'Medina', 'LDN Shuffle' which features Mansur Brown (of...
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Recorded in April 1964, In ‘N Out falls square in the middle of the formidable run of five classic Blue Note albums that launched tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson’s legendary career The line-up featured the transcendent frontline of Henderson and trumpeter Kenny Dorham along with a powerful rhythm section with pianist McCoy...
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Flutist Bobbi Humphrey found wide success with Blacks and Blues (1973), her breakout third album for Blue Note, working with the Mizell Brothers (who had recently hooked up with Donald Byrd to produce the trumpeter’s landmark album Black Byrd) to create a jazz-funk classic for the ages featuring the standout track “Harlem...
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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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Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus was Charles Mingus' last major studio recording of the 1960s (the solo Mingus Plays Piano would also be released in 1964) and it's a real treasure in the great jazz bassist's discography Two of the tracks ("Celia" and "I X Love") were recorded at the sessions for The Black Saint And The...
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Prior to 1959, Jackie McLean was an important young Turk whose sharp tone and intense style on alto grew out of Charlie Parker yet were very much his own Growing up in New York, his neighbors included such friends as Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins By 1951 he was recording with Miles Davis and other associations in...
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The Blue Note 75th Anniversary Reissue Series is mastered from 24-bit hi-resolution digital audio files, transferred from the original master tapes, and pressed on 140g vinyl at United Record...
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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 (Larry Gales on bass, Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, and Ben Riley on drums) and one of the last album he made for Columbia What makes Underground special is that unlike his other...
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A few years after recording Straight, No Chaser, Thelonious Monk disappeared from the public eye But as the years passed, more people became aware of the seminal role he played in the development in jazz as both pianist and composer, creating a standard of excellence that many musicians after him aspire to Produced by Teo...
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The typography for this EP uses Decima Mono, just like for the previous album Syro, which was likewise designed by The Designers Republic On these minimalist covers the typeface stands out a lot While Syro references the look of receipts, the negative monospaced text for this record resembles a computer...
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This 12”, released as part of Warp’s thirtieth birthday series, presents one of Aphex Twin’s sessions for the John Peel show Taped in 1995, a point where Richard D James’ stock was arguably at its highest, these are four masterful pieces of prime-time Aphex fare Across the EP James moves between slow-motion IDM (‘Slo...
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Aphex Twin aka "The Duke Of Rave and The God of Electronic Music" (depending which time of night it is) returns once again with the Collapse EP, a five tracker hailing from the underground Its five tunes chew up notions of exhilaration with life-affirming abundance, high hats and sauntering arrangements, brain-scrambling noise and...
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Tri Repetae, the third album from Autechre finally made available again on vinyl, having been out of print on vinyl since 2001 On reflection, Tri Repeate stands tall as one of the most out-there (and if you know what that means) and boundary-pushing releases from Ae ever Going back to the group's roots as b-boy's, Tri features ten...
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Incunabula is the debut release for Autechre When this album was released back in 1992, it gave the impression of being an inscrutable object built through a cryptic logic seemingly without any reference beyond itself As the duo progressed through their increasingly complex array of electronic sequencing throughout the '90s...
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It's a sign of creative maturity and marks a welcome move away from the Fennesz-style layered glitchscapes that have dominated his back-catalogue It's hard to tell exactly how these drone tapestries are woven together; the granular laptop trickery of old is virtually undetectable and the source instruments detuned and dissolved...
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Composed, according to FlyLo, as 'a collage of mystical states, dreams, sleep and lullabies', Until the Quiet Comes has the distinct feel of this nocturnal trip From the twitching descent into a subconscious state and the out-of-focus time-ether of the journey that follows, the sound is an unhinged, yet elegant evolution of the...
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Los Angeles is the second studio album by American music producer Flying Lotus It was released through Warp Records and has received widespread critical acclaim The cover was designed by British graphic design agency Build featuring photography by Timothy Saccenti The album title refers to Flying Lotus's place of birth, Los...
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"Canadian composer Scott Morgan's 12th long-player as loscil takes its title from an influential series of early 20th century photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, abstracting clouds into miasmic, painterly canvases of smoke and shadowplay It's a deeply fitting analog for Morgan's own musical process across the past two decades,...
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