Horace Silver’s 1962 tour of Japan had a deep impact on the pianist who dedicated his album The Tokyo Blues to his Japanese fans. With his quintet of...
Horace Silver had been delivering hard bop classics for over a decade when he moved into more groovy territory in the late-’60s on albums including Serenade...
Alfred Lion considered pianist-composer Andrew Hill as unique as Thelonious Monk and documented Hill’s music with a fervor. Recorded in 1964 with a quartet...
Stanley Turrentine’s stellar 1964 album, In Memory Of, traversed swinging hard bop, beautiful balladry and African rhythms with the saxophonist fronting...
Stanley Turrentine’s 1966 soul jazz classic Rough ‘N Tumble finds a deep and bluesy groove that doesn’t let up from start to finish. Joining Turrentine...
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...
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',...
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,...
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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...
Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson’s 1966 album Stick-Up! found him in the company of a new band line-up with Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Lewis, and...
Glenn Underground is the founding member of the Strictly Jaz Unit. He was raised on disco classics and freeform jazz in Chicago's Southside, the place...
Glenn Underground is the founding member of the Strictly Jaz Unit. He was raised on disco classics and freeform jazz in Chicago's Southside, the place...
Born and raised in the birthplace of House Music, Paul Johnson was known for his raw, soulful, and infectious sound, that helped shape Chicago's house...
Born and raised in the birthplace of House Music, Paul Johnson was known for his raw, soulful, and infectious sound, that helped shape Chicago's house...
Riding a hefty drop down bass riff courtesy of the track’s producer, acclaimed DJ/artist, Sub Focus, the Belfast / Derry trio, KNEECAP, have focused...
Soul Jazz Records new Junglist! is a heavyweight selection of classic and rare original Jungle and features Krome & Time, Cutty Ranks, M-Beat, Bizzy B,...
Stones Throw Records debuts new imprint Listening Position with the long-awaited reissue of Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy’s spiritual jazz masterpiece African...
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Basic Reshape features Basic Channel's very free takes of two of Carl Craig's projects that were originally released separately from each other on his...
Isao Suzuki's New Family ensemble resurfaces on Jazz Room with a fresh edition of Mongolian Chant, a five track fusion LP long prized by collectors for...
As is often the case with vintage b-movies, it's the poster for the 1967 Amicus production of They Came From Beyond Space that draws you in. The curvaceous...
Ska-tastic 45 Originally released as The Soul Brothers on the Ska Beat label in the UK in 1965, led by the mighty Jackie Mittoo. Original copies in good...
Warrior Voices finally completes the vision first sketched on Ambient Warrior's mid-90s cult classic Dub Journey. Recorded between 1993-95, these newly...
This enchanting album from Welsh jazz harpist Amanda Whiting is a heartwarming celebration of the festive season. Combining her deep love for Welsh culture,...
Drawn from the Audio Productions catalogue of early 80s Nairobi, this is a compilation that captures a luminous period in Kenya's urban music, when rumba...
Outsider specialist Beau Wanzer returns with one of his grottiest and most unfiltered transmissions yet as he delivers seven slabs of mutant rhythm that...
Patrick Keel started his career as a drummer with various unsuccessful bands, before buying a synthesizer in 1980 and forming "one-man-band" The Pool....
The ever-reliable Rick Wade returns to Phonogramme following their release of his excellent label debut, Dusk Runner, earlier in 2025. This time round,...
Tel Aviv producer and multi-instrumentalist Kutiman joins Batov's Middle Eastern Grooves series with two blistering psych-funk workouts that blur the line...
Rahaan Young plays dirty with the archetypal gospel edit, bringing decades' worth of Chicago coalfire to a new six-track vinyl deuces' high, serving up...
Chicago in the mid-50s was the launchpad for Sun Ra's first steps beyond the straight-ahead jazz idiom. Working with his early Arkestra, he assembled a...
There are certain albums which shake the world immediately upon release, and others which come from far underground and whose shocks and aftershocks...
After a three-year hiatus, Star Creature once more joins forces with Windy City crate diggers Boogie Munsters to deliver a fourth collection of impossible-to-find...
Since Volcov's Neroli label was named in honour of a fine ambient album by Brian Eno, it made sense to mark the imprint's 20th birthday with a compilation...
Kaidi Tatham maintains one of the most prolific artists from the UK, he's been releasing music for 30+ years and has reached some form of cult status amongst...
Originally released on Dynamic records J.A. in 1977, wicked DJ toasting album by Everard Metcalf aka Jah Ruby produced by Barry Biggs at Dynamic & Channel...
Heavyweight Rubadub scorcher from Audrey Hall! Full up of synths and killer vibes, these are previously unreleased mixes, including for the first time...
“Girls Talk” by cousins Dessie & Freddie is a long-lost treasure from the early eighties Recorded at the legendary Aquarius Studio in 1982 and arranged...
Deadly soundsystem music from Hitman & Fiza! Featuring the crucial deejay lyrics from Tony Reid! This is the counterpart for the Pad Anthony 'Rebel' cut....