Essential Horace Silver 1972 on Blue Note. Very, very deep but still with Silver's characteristic soul jazz style. All Silvers late 60s/early 70s blue note releases are super deep, spiritual (often with voices).
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...
In addition to appearing as a sideman with Blue Note organists Baby Face Willette and Big John Patton, the brawny tenor saxophonist Fred Jackson also cut...
The final Blue Note album by organist Larry Young, 1969’s Mother Ship bristled with unbridled kinetic energy while delivering soulful grooves. First...
Following his melancholy masterpiece In The Wee Small Hours, the legendary vocalist Frank Sinatra brightened the mood considerably with his exuberant album...
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...
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...
Classic jazz funk album written and produced by the magnificent Mizell brothers! Includes 'Lansana's Priestess'.
Personnel playing on the album include...
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...
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...
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',...
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...
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...
**Late 50s hard bop! Coltrane's second on Blue Note.**
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, bandleaderPaul Chambers – double bassKenny Drew – pianoCurtis...
Recorded in 1968, Introducing Kenny Cox and The Contemporary Jazz Quintet was the debut album by this under-recognized Detroit band led by pianist Kenny...
Amazing, super-funky album supervised by Charles Stepney with the classic trio line-up of bassist Cleveland Eaton and EWF's Maurice White on drums! Includes...
Blue Note take a leaf out of their rivals at Prestige for an all-star soul jazz line-up. Blue Mitchell, Idris Muhammad, Melvin Sparks, Charles Earland,...
Hard to find on vinyl. Classic CTI stuff from 74. Heavyweight fusion with Airto Moreira, Ron Carter and George Benson in the line-up plus full orchestral...
Essential Gil Scott-Heron album from '75 that brings together the struggle against apartheid, the campaign against nuclear power and the promise of black...
Definitive deep funky album from harpist Dorothy Ashby. Excellent late 60's soulful jazz harp recorded for Chess with arrangements by Richard Evans and...
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Stone-cold CLASSIC two-step funky soul bomb!
Soul Jazz Records/Sounds...
Reissue of the classic ‘Music Of Many Colours’, the joint album between Roy Ayers and Fela Kuti, recorded after a three week tour of Nigeria’s major...
Jonwayne’s rap album featuring Jon on the raps and on the beats, with Scoop DeVille, Zeroh, D-Styles, Mndsgn. The record cover is a cracker. Includes...
Superb early 70's deep jazz produced by Cannonball Adderley and David Axelrod! Will appeal to fans of Harry Whitaker's Black Renaissance! Check 'Space...
Wicked funky jazz from the Black Jazz label's keyboard great, featuring strident vocals from Doug's wife Jean Carn, predating her Philly disco era! A timeless...
HEAVY, HEAVY, HEAVY break-heavy deep, deep funk - check out the incredible vocal cut Ghetto Misfortunes Wealth and the moody left-field instrumental cut...
Oh man - one of the funkiest New Orleans sets ever from Lee Dorsey 1970 with on-fire tough, tough tunes throughout from The Meters who supply the backing....