Jazz
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Anyone who ever heard Count Basie launch his band into a blues with several choruses of effortless piano has lamented that there is far too little of Basie the soloist among his recorded legacy. This shortage was rectified to a certain extent by the trio albums Basie made with Ray...
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It could be argued that no two pianists could be more unalike than Count Basie, the master of understatement, and Oscar Peterson, the avatar of speed, power, and embellishment. The contrast in their approaches is part of what made their collaborations riveting. But the fact is that Basie, who held...
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"On a dozen standards, Marshall's playing serves as interludes between the percussion displays of Manne; the liners give a full description of every device he hits. ... the sound is excellent for the period." — Scott Yanow, AllMusic Revel in the sonic brilliance of Sounds Unheard Of! by Shelly Manne...
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"I would give the new Analogue Productions the edge and believe me for $40 bucks plus the shipping, whatever it is, you're not going to be able to find a super-clean copy of the original Audio Fidelity 1960 record you know unless you want to spend who knows double the...
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Count Basie occasionally cautioned young sidemen who were feeling their oats not to play bebop in his band, which was rooted in the rhythmic and harmonic soil of the swing era. How, then, could Basie be expected to make an album with Dizzy Gillespie, one of the progenitors of bop?...
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Pithecanthropus Erectus established Charles Mingus as a composer of boundless imagination and a fresh new voice in jazz that, despite his ambitiously modern concepts, was firmly grounded in jazz tradition. Mingus truly discovered himself after mastering the vocabularies of bop and swing, and with Pithecanthropus Erectus he began seeking new...
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"Eddie Higgins is a quiet musician. His playing is never flamboyant and never exceeds the boundaries of good taste. The music coming out of his piano is reflective, exuding a feeling of relaxation, contemplation, and intimate beauty. This is not to say that his playing is so spare as to...
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A truly super trio of Kenny Barron on piano, Jay Leonhart on bass and Al Foster on drums, performing jazz standards.
Limited edition/Venus Masterpiece LP Collection/180-gram/Mixed and mastered by Tetsuo Hara/Venus Hyper Magnum Sound Direct Mix Stereo/Obi strip/Japanese pressing
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Bop pianist Eddie Higgins has led sessions for Replica (1958), Vee-Jay (1960), Atlantic and Sunnyside; back in 1960, he recorded as a sideman for Vee-Jay with Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter. Eddie Higgins's delicate tone and conception were often compared to those of Bill Evans, one of the most influential...
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Intelligent, articulate and controversial tenor sax player, composer, and singer Archie Shepp was a strong advocate of "free jazz" in the 1960s and 1970s. He surprised Japanese jazz fans in the 1990s when he released a series of ballad albums from Venus Records, beginning with Blue Ballads in 1995. In...
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Harry Allen has recorded more than 70 albums as a leader and many more as a sideman. Three of Harry's albums have won Gold Disc Awards from Japan's Swing Journal Magazine, and his album Tenors Anyone? won both the Gold Disc Award and the New Star Award. His recordings have...
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Dream away with jazz piano virtuoso, Roland Hanna, as he joins bassist Paul West and drummer Eddie Locke to perform "This Time the Dream's On Me," "A Sleepin' Bee" and more.
Limited edition/Venus Masterpiece LP Collection/180-gram/Mixed and mastered by Tetsuo Hara/Venus Hyper Magnum Sound Direct Mix Stereo/Obi strip/Japanese pressing
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Venus Masterpiece Collection Limited Edition 180-gram 2LP! Since his stunning debut in 1974 with the now world-famous audiophile recordings for the Three Blind Mice label, Japanese pianist Tsuyoshi Yamamoto has built a career that now spans four decades. This live set by the Yamamato Trio, recorded at Jazz Is in...
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When it comes to making jazz records, Jacob Wendt is a jack-of-all-trades. Not only did he assemble the band for Silver Street and play the drums, he also did all the composing and arranging for the eight songs on the record. He made key recording and mixing decisions alongside engineer...
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The L.A. Network project was born as collaboration between two veteran recording engineer/ producers — 2xHD's president André Perry and Resonance Records' president George Klabin — with the idea of creating a high-end rendition of Dave Brubeck's most memorable compositions. Perry and Klabin have collaborated on many projects over the...
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Sourced from the Original Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition 180g 33RPM SuperVinyl LP Plays with Reference-Setting Sound, Features Stunning Transparency 1/4” / 15 IPS / Dolby SR analog remix master to DSD 256 to analog console to latheThe clarity afforded by history proves Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet vying for...
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Trees Speak return with TimeFold, their sixth release on Soul Jazz Records, further expanding their ever-evolving sonic universe. This new album builds on their signature blend of hypnotic krautrock rhythms, post-punk angularity, and experimental soundscapes while venturing into new terrain, blending influences from avant-garde electronics to ceremonial sound forms. On...
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Audiopile Review: London collective Ill Considered offer up their newest LP after a quiet few years, though, to be fair, most of the current lineup have been busy with other projects, including shop faves Unknown To Known and Wildflower. While Ill Considered are based in one of the major centres...
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"A graduate of Brownswood’s ‘Bubblers’ academy and a key member of Levitation Orchestra, Marysia's entirely homemade album is inspired by stoic philosophy. Featuring collaberations with Emma Barnaby (cello), YUIS (flute), and Plumm (clarinet)."...
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Featuring a handful of brand new, never-before-heard tracks (alongside a number of expansions of previous releases), ‘Recurring’ sees Alfa drawing inspiration from classic live Jazz recordings, capturing a unique moment in time that can never be replicated or replayed. Creating an authentic, unpolished and electric feel, feeding his long-running mission...
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180 gram Vinyl Edition. Gatefold Cover. The fourth album as a leader by spiritual jazz saxophone titan Pharoah Sanders, Jewels of Thought was released in 1969. It Consist of two extended tracks, one of which had to be divided into two parts in order to fit onto the LP. Sanders...
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The debut album by American trumpeter Eddie Gale, recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label. A member of the Sun Ra Arkestra before and after taping these sides, Gale also played on Cecil Taylor's Blue Note debut, Unit Sfructures. "The aesthetic and cultural merits of Ghetto Music...
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Recorded live at The Renaissance in Hollywood, CA on Oct 14 1960, Ben Webster “At the Renaissance” was released on Contemporary Records. Featuring with Saxophonist Webster are Jim Hall (guitar), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Red Mitchell (bass), and Frank Butler (drums). This new edition, released as part of the Acoustic Sounds...
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MILES IN FRANCE is the eighth installment in the celebrated Miles Davis Bootleg Series and this editionfocuses on the birth of the Second Great Quintet in 1963 and 1964. The music heard here represents thesound of an end and a beginning coming through at once. The set contains 5 separate...
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Audiopile Review: Double shot from the Finnish spiritual/free jazz imprint Ultraääni, who continue to shine a light on their home country’s vibrant and ever-expanding scene, this time issuing a pair of up-and-coming outfits who are both making their debuts here. First up is the newest ensemble from Lauritz Lyster Skeidsvoll,...
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Audiopile Review: Double shot from the Finnish spiritual/free jazz imprint Ultraääni, who continue to shine a light on their home country’s vibrant and ever-expanding scene, this time issuing a pair of up-and-coming outfits who are both making their debuts here. First up is the newest ensemble from Lauritz Lyster Skeidsvoll,...
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Audiopile Review: Surya Botofasina returns to Spiritmuse for his newest album, which feels like a bit of a victory lap after his triumphant work on Andre 3000’s spiritual jazz opus New Blue Sun, as well as this year’s Subtle Movements LP on Leaving, his three-way collab with longtime cohorts Nate...
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UK supergroup Flock return with their anticipated sophomore album ‘Flock II’. Comprising an exceptional line-up featuring Bex Burch (fresh from her debut solo album on International Anthem), Sarathy Korwar, Tamar Osborn (Collocutor, Dele Sosimi, Unknown To Known), Danalogue (The Comet Is Coming / Soccer96) and Al MacSween (Kefaya), the new...
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Oscar Peterson, bassist Georg Mraz, and drummer Ray Price are perfectly attuned to one another, while the pianist has sought out an original repertoire, framed by two Cole Porter Classics....
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Audiopile Review: Stop the press! We did not see this one coming. You may have noticed that we’re very enthusiastic about ECM’s Luminescence reissue series. And yet, it somehow escaped our notice that said series was set to include a first-time-on-vinyl edition of Annette Peacock’s astonishing ‘An Acrobat’s Heart’. Peacock...
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Charlie Parker had a complicated relationship with his hometown of Kansas City, MO owing both to its history of racial segregation and to his strong ties to his family and friends there. This new set of rare recordings dating from 1941–1951, entitled Bird in Kansas City chronicle Bird’s evolution from...
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Baker's Holiday is an album of songs associated with Billie Holiday by trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker which was recorded in 1965 and released on the Limelight label. Baker pays tribute to Holiday with mellow trumpet solos and occasional vocals. Baker's backed by a full sax section and a four-piece rhythm section...
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The arresting 1965 session Dialogue was the debut album to be released by vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson who had already proven himself a versatile sideman on classic Blue Note albums from Grant Green’s Idle Moments to Jackie McLean’s Destination Out to Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch. In fact, Blue Note boss...
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The under-recognized tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan blew in from Chicago in 1957 and recorded a trio of excellent Blue Note sessions over a prolific 8-month span including the self-titled album Cliff Jordan. Jordan’s 2nd date for the label was a generous serving of smoldering bop featuring a robust septet with...
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Audiopile Review: There’s a tendency for the Basic Channel/Rhythm & Sound duo to be portrayed as a legacy act. It’s true that Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus pretty much invented dub techno in the 90s and early-2000s. But they’ve also continued to produce excellent, innovative work ever since. Notably,...
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Once again it's quite difficult to pin down exactly what's going on through Herandu's debut album, Ocher Red, but its a little bit like Metalheadz meets Weather Report out on the Siberian steppes... Herandu are brothers Evgeny and Mikhail Gavrilov from Novosibirsk in Siberia. Mikhail and his brother have played...
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In the Summer of 2023, we recorded our first studio album onboard a Lightship in the docklands of East London. Sculpted through long form improvisations, this music reflects our personal transformations as well as the rapidly evolving world in which we live. With its gradually unveiling intricacies and soundscapes rich...
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Pianist and composer Aaron Parks returns to Blue Note Records—where he released his influential 2008 album Invisible Cinema—with Little Big III, the third studio album from his acclaimed band Little Big featuring guitarist Greg Tuohey, bassist David Ginyard Jr., and drummer Jongkuk Kim. Co-produced by Parks and Don Was, the...
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Saxophonist/composer Immanuel Wilkins' third studio album, Blues Blood, is a meditative offering partially inspired by his childhood, a multimedia performance about the legacies of our ancestors and the bloodlines connecting us. Co-produced by Meshell Ndegeocello and feat. Micah Thomas (piano), Rick Rosato (bass), Kweku Sumbry (drums), and vocalists Ganavya, June...
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In early 1998, fresh off their GRAMMY win for Best Latin Jazz Performance for their debut album Habana, Roy Hargrove and his incandescent group of musicians headed back into the studio to capture lightning in a bottle. Until now that recording, Grande-Terre, has never been heard. Showcasing Hargrove’s red-hot playing,...
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First time vinyl edition of the 2008 album by the much-missed Harry Beckett, a Barbados-born trumpet player who became a key figure in the UK and European jazz scene. “Beckett's genius is that he is always true to himself, whoever he performs with. His effervescent, tumbling, improvised melodies never fail...
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Audiopile Review: The legend of producer Manfred Eicher’s ECM label was established early on, with a diverse run of avant-garde jazz releases in the 70s. As ECM moved into the 80s, it became increasingly associated with an atmospheric ambient jazz sound, which has never been more relevant. The label’s...
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Remastered from the original ¼ inch tapes by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios, Afro-Harping is filled front-to-back with sumptuous and hypnotic grooves. Its African percussion, soulful orchestrations, in-the-pocket rhythms and Dorothy’s virtuosity take it far beyond jazzy mood music and made it a favorite of beat heads and producers....
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The Voice of Love is a collection of British sophisti-pop and jazz-funk from the 1980s - ten songs ranging from unreleased demos to scarcely pressed 12”s attempt to define the scope of the British underground scene during that era. The music presented on this release juxtaposes polished aesthetics with a...
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Japan & Funky-Disco in the most explosive blend. Maestro Jiro Inagaki, in a particularly inspired year in which he also released the album “Funky Stuff” also on Nippon Columbia, flawlessly manipulates the rare-groove by covering songs of Quincy Jones, Commodores, Graham Central Station, B.T. Express, Kool & The Gang, Stevie...
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Katsumi Horii PROJECT's debut album, "HOT IS COOL," which first hit the shelves in 1987, is now making a comeback in a stunning reissue on clear blue vinyl! Katsumi Horii, renowned as a composer, arranger, and professor at Tokyo College of Music, has left an indelible mark with his...
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Beautiful, insurgent, fabulously danceable jazz music from South Africa, flowing out of the penny-whistle kwela bands of the 1950s. (Kwela means "get moving," in Xhosa.) Bra Gwigwi played alto and clarinet alongside Hugh Masekela and Kippie Moeketsi in The Jazz Dazzlers, The Jazz Maniacs, and The Harlem Swingsters. He came...
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Remastered edition of Janko Nilovic's album Pop Impressions, originally released in 1972. Janko Nilovic was one of the greatest European studio talents in the '70s. He is a musician who devotes himself to music, which resulted in a great number of published works, but most of them are on library...
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