Jackie McLean Let Freedom Ring

Jackie McLean’s evocative 1965 album Jacknife captured the saxophonist in a post-bop mode with trumpeters Lee Morgan and Charles Tolliver, pianist Larry...

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...

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...

KILLER Blue Note album - 100% essential.

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...

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',...

Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, James Spaulding, Larry Ridley, Harold Mabern, Big Black. Classic Blue Note session.

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...

Classic jazz funk album produced by the awesome Mizell Brothers which includes the ESSENTIAL track 'Uno Esta'!

"I’ve been waiting over 30 years for this to come out officially" Gilles Peterson "Donald Byrd in a super rare 1973 public appearance of the Mizell...

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...

Thurston Moore, Neneh Cherry, Mats Gustafsson and Joe Mcphee have put together this illustrated collector’s guide to Free Jazz records — 277-pages...

When Chuck D proclaimed "Bass, how low can you go?" on Public Enemy's anthemic 'Bring the Noise,' maybe he was pre-empting or inciting the 10,000 fathoms-deep,...

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...

Tyler's eighth studio album is a twisted complex beauty of an album from the Creator who gives us a clear, damning portrait of his humanity—set...

OUT FRIDAY!! BUY NOW TO GET EXCLUSIVE SIGNED COPY (AND £5 OFF!). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gilles...

Now, following great acclaim for Volume 1, CTR is proud to unveil another equally eclectic Post Punk Era Selection Compiled by Jason Boardman (Before I...

We mark a decade since we first released COIL's landmark album 'Backwards', with a special 10 year anniversary vinyl reissue. After the ground-breaking...

Stones Throw Records celebrates 20 years of J Dilla's Donuts with a brand new Anniversary Audiophile Edition.Donuts began simply enough as an idea...

Superb mid 70s roots rocker from Freddie McKay produced by Neville Hinds for Dynamic Sounds label Melrose. Great stripped down dub on B-side.

One of the Hidden Gems out of the Rockers International label released in 1995 this double LP features so many classic Far East melodies from Pablo mixing...

Originally released in 1973 on Grape in the U.K. & Jaguar in J.A. a wicked vocal cut over a deceptively heavy roots track, check the dub!

Great early roots dancehall Frankie Paul album originally released in 1983 on Techniques produced by Winston Riley and featuring the cream of the crop...

Lily Allen returns with West End Girl, her long-awaited fifth studio album. Written and recorded over an intense 10-day period, blending raw honesty with...

Fate in a Pleasant Mood was recorded in Chicago in 1960, but not released until 1965. It was the last album featuring Sunny's band from Chicago. After...

Africa 45, number 6, an Orchestra Baobab double A-side: Orchestra Baobab formed in Dakar in the early 1970’s. They fused Latin and African influences...

Los Angeles-based Ethiopian composer and keyboardist Kibrom Birhane breaks new ground with original release Lisane Bahir - a full-length exploration of...

Ever-reliable Detroit veteran Rick Wade sees this 1997 gem, which first surfaced on Dan Bell's Elevate label, reissued via the equally on-point Rawax with...

On 26 August 1975, Nude per l’assassino (also known as Strip Nude for Your Killer) landed in Italian cinemas. It was the sexiest, sleaziest, and most...

Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s most expansive and ambitious release to date, the album features a rare guest appearance from former Life Without...

Brand new Axis praxis, as Jeff Mills revives the Tony Allen project Tomorrow Comes The Harvest, wangling a nifty new 12" out of a live appearance at Nuits...

When this was released back in 1975, it was more than a movie - it was a cultural earthquake. There wasn't anything quite like it then or now and for its...

Kai Alce's NDATL is one of house's most authentic outlets, and now its sub-label NUTRIA is fast becoming just as essential. Its third outing marks the...

Roger Eno’s third solo album for Deutsche Grammophon is a poetic meditation on the fragility of life, memory, and nature. Spanning 12 tracks for piano...

Previously unreleased Hi-NRG, synth-pop, wonky rock n' roll from a queer Manchester underground icon of the 80s and 90s. This release also features radio...

Yazmin Lacey returns with Teal Dreams - her soulful, fearless second album, rich with real-life storytelling and sonic flair. Following the breakout success...

Terry Hunter and James Poyser remix a previously unreleased track by Chicago producer/composer legend Charles Stepney (who worked on hits for EWF, Minnie...

Deep roots message from Ronnie Davis which sadly still holds true..recorded & voiced at Channel One in 1976 with tuff dub version. For fans of The Abyssinians...

• 31-track 2CD collection of classic extended 12-inch dub mixes from the Joe Gibbs’ stable. • Almost all tracks new to CD. • Dub mixes of numerous...

Wicked remodelling of Junior Byles's roots classic "Fade Away" from Kabaka Pyramid & Buju Banton, new from Ghetto Youths International with limited picture...

While working in Berlin Wedding at andereBaustelle studio on their upcoming album – scheduled for release in May 2026 on Bureau B – Kreidler found...