Early Blue Note release from Donald Byrd, originally released in 1961, with a very young Herbie Hancock (only 21 years old) on piano and the superlative Billy Higgins on drums.
SEMINAL MONSTER LP!!The definitive jazz funk album produced by the Mizell brothers. A classic all the way featuring the essential rare groove cuts 'Change',...
In November 1960, trumpeter Donald Byrd brought his quintet in to the Half Note Café in New York City to record this soulful, swinging, and highly enjoyable...
A high-water mark of Bobby Hutcherson’s 1970s Blue Note output, an amazing intoxicating hybrid of Latin jazz and fusion grooves from the percolating...
First issued in 1980 as part of Blue Note's LT Series, Landslide compiles three previously unreleased sessions from 1961-62, capturing saxophonist Dexter...
Hammond B3 organist Freddie Roach began a run of Blue Note leader dates with his excellent 1962 debut Down To Earth. The deeply soulful set was a showcase...
Beautiful, a different Hammond B3 sound than Smith, fabulous ballads, great swing, this man should have been huge but disappeared back to Cook County in...
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...
Pianist Andrew Hill burst onto the scene in 1963–64 with a torrent of creativity that produced five remarkable albums including Andrew!!! featuring saxophonist...
Joining pianist John Cameron in the "good and the great of British Jazz" line-up is bass player Danny Thompson, percussionist Tony Carr, and flute and...
Following his excellent 1963 debut Evolution, trombonist Grachan Moncur III ventured even deeper into experimental waters on 1964’s Some Other Stuff,...
Duke Pearson’s great 1964 album Wahoo! was a perfect encapsulation of his talents as a pianist, composer and bandleader. Writing for a sextet featuring...
Trumpeter Booker Little made only a few albums during his tragically short life including his astounding debut Booker Little 4 & Max Roach recorded in...
The Three Sounds were one of the most prolific groups on the Blue Note roster from the late-1950s into the early 1970s. Led by pianist Gene Harris the...
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard burst out of the gates in 1960 with a torrent of creativity that produced six classic albums in two years including Here To Stay...
Booker Ervin cut two stellar Blue Note records in the late-60s including Tex Book Tenor which had to wait until 2005 for its first standalone release....
Saxophonist Joe Henderson expanded his palette on his vigorous 1966 album Mode for Joe with a dynamic septet featuring Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Bobby...
One of jazz’s most tragically overlooked geniuses, Herbie Nichols was a highly original piano stylist and a composer of tremendous imagination and eclecticism....
Super killer dance jazz classic Blue Note. 'Chilli Peppers' is one of the toughest tunes ever, a mainstay of Gilles Peterson/jazz dance back in the days...
Wayne Shorter's debut for Blue Note, with six original compositions. A transitional record but a classic one with Shorter joined by Lee Morgan, McCoy...
The only one of tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks’ albums as a leader to be released during his too-brief lifetime, 1960’s True Blue is a hard bop masterpiece...
SEMINAL MONSTER LP!!The definitive jazz funk album produced by the Mizell brothers. A classic all the way featuring the essential rare groove cuts 'Change',...
Saxophonist and composer Walter Smith III enters a new era of his band leading career with his remarkable Blue Note debut return to casual, the long-anticipated...
Horace Parlan struck out in style as a bandleader in 1960 with a swathe of albums for Blue Note, amongst which was this dazzling display with his quintet....
All the best music has a community underneath it. The extended family around London’s Total Refreshment Centre (TRC) connects continents and generations,...
Another Blue Note killer coming!
Grant Green killer 1970 super funky soul jazz LP from Liberty-era Blue Note Records. This is one of the best Blue Note...
100% STONE COLD CLASSIC BLUE NOTE LP!The musical partnership between vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and tenor saxophonist Harold Land fully blossomed on...
In November 1960, trumpeter Donald Byrd brought his quintet in to the Half Note Café in New York City to record this soulful, swinging, and highly enjoyable...
1976 album featuring the spiritual soul classic 'Mystery Of Ages'.
Released at the height of his cosmic creative powers, Cosmos Nucleus finds Panamanian...
Originally released in 1973 on Muse Records, Sunset to Dawn marked Kenny Barron's stunning debut as a bandleader. Already a well-respected sideman with...
Originally released in 1972 on the iconic Muse label, The Free Slave captures Roy Brooks at the peak of his powers – a drummer of deep conviction and...
Yazmin Lacey returns with Teal Dreams - her soulful, fearless second album, rich with real-life storytelling and sonic flair.
Following the breakout success...
Classic Moodymann!
Detroit's Kenny Dixon Jr aka Moodymann has reached legendary status with super-deep, jazz and soul-infused afro-house jams. Includes...
Soul Jazz Records’ new Soul Jamaica brings together a wicked selection of reggae funk and soul tracks from the legendary Studio One stable, featuring...
A high-water mark of Bobby Hutcherson’s 1970s Blue Note output, an amazing intoxicating hybrid of Latin jazz and fusion grooves from the percolating...
On his sixth studio release Roulette, the prolific producer, songwriter, pianist and MC Alfa Mist has created his own sci-fi universe - a vast dystopia...
**RIYL David Axelrod, BADBADNOTGOOD etc!**
Daybreak is Sven Wunder’s fifth full-length album, seamlessly continuing the progression of his musical oeuvre....
Includes "The Boogie Back", "Fikisha' and Roy's own take on "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing". An essential rare groove funky jazz album from the man, originally...
Twenty heavyweight cumbia, salsa and afro-funk bomb tunes!Soul Jazz Records delve into the vast vaults of Discos Fuentes, one of the oldest and largest...
Looking back more than four years later at Haram, it is easier to see the forest for the trees. At the time, much of the attention fell on how this outsider...
Armand Hammer and The Alchemist build worlds. Their first was Haram and it remains locked in orbit, equal parts lush and foreboding.
Their new one is...
Seminal German electronic music. Includes the amazing 'Sunrain'.
After an initial European release in 1976 on the Isadora label Age Of Earth was reissued...
"Psychedelic Cumbia Party" brings together for the first time the best recordings of Los Zheros, a pioneering band of Amazonian cumbia from Peru. Their...
"This cassette is a promo mix that we originally sold in high school to promote the parties my friends and I did back then (The Witch Is Back); M.O.A....
Wicked early 90s style breakbeat/Balearic vibes from Studio Batsumi with evocative use of field recordings from the locations of Thailand, Vietnam, and...
Welcome return of one of Brixton's premier labels Brixton Heights with their latest release featuring producer Gaudi's wicked falsetto reading of "Am I...
Original unplayed stock from the mid 70s.. U.S. band The Black Eagles featuring Denroy Morgan, father of Morgan Heritage...Check the funky B-side "60 Minutes...
Heavyweight U.K. roots 12" from Leicester's Higher Meditation plus producer Chazbo's "bless and sanctify" on the flip, both tracks with their dub counterparts.
Original unplayed stock from the mid 70s..Great roots vocal cut from 1976 featuring Frankie J. with superb stripped down dub version on the flip. Produced...
Surfacing just as alternative rock went mainstream, Beck’s 1994 official album debut, Mellow Gold, quickly confounded expectations when “Loser” metamorphosed...
In his excellent book England's Dreaming, Jon Savage refers to Pick a Dub as "the greatest dub album ever, twelve cuts, all fantastic." It's easy to concur...
Play is the eighth studio album.It is the first of Sheeran's planned five symbol-themed albums with titles based on electronic media buttons, with Pause,...
An American jazz musician from St. Augustine, Florida, Doug Carn's second album for Black Jazz captures a transformative moment in jazz, blending spiritual...
Rough Signal Records’ 22nd release features Mighty Prophet, their first collaboration in five years. A stepper tune by the guys who continue to faithfully...
Soul singer supreme, Jalen Ngonda and producer/veteran keyboardist, Victor Axelrod join forces to deliver the collaboration we all needed- the impossibly...
A stunning re-envisaging of Sade ‘Cherish The Day’ in a upfront reggae style from singer Sailor Jane. It is produced by the great Michael Goldwasser....