After the runaway success of The Sidewinder in 1964, trumpeter Lee Morgan continued his musical hot streak in 1965 on albums including The Gigolo featuring...
Lee Morgan’s 1968 album Taru found the trumpeter at a crossroads exploring a variety of styles from modal jazz and post-bop to beautiful balladry and...
RARE & KILLER. Wicked tunes. Seminal Blue Note 1968. Lee Morgan, Jackie McClean, Frank Mitchell, Cedar Walton, Victor Sproles and Billy Higgins. Recorded...
Classic soul jazz session from trumpeter Morgan with quality Blue Note line-up (as always) - Joe Henderson, Ronnie Mathews, Victor Sproles and Billy Higgins.
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...
Meshell Ndegeocello’s 2nd Blue Note album No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a striking homage to the eminent writer and activist James Baldwin...
Odyssey of Iska is the fourteenth album by American jazz composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, released on Blue Note Records in 1971. Musicians include...
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....
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...
Pianist and composer Sonny Clark only lived for 32 years but more than left his mark on the jazz world in that time, with countless seminal albums such...
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...
Classic jazz funk album written and produced by the magnificent Mizell brothers! Includes 'Lansana's Priestess'.
Personnel playing on the album include...
Widely regarded as one of Jackie McLean's finest, not to mention most accessible albums, Bluesnik gets the reissue treatment on Blue Note to bring it to...
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...
In 1963, tenor saxophonist Harold Vick made his sole album as a leader for Blue Note, the underrated soul jazz gem Steppin’ Out. The record finds its...
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...
**Late 50s hard bop! Coltrane's second on Blue Note.**
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, bandleaderPaul Chambers – double bassKenny Drew – pianoCurtis...
Vinyl debut of 1964 Blue Note recordings — Donald Byrd, Elvin Jones and co in amongst resplendent Nigerian drumming. Around thirteen minutes of classic...
Deep 1968 album from drummer Roach featuring future Strata-East founders Cowell and Tolliver as well as spiritual vocalist Andy Bey.
Max Roach - Drums
Charles...
A never-before-heard live recording from a private collection! Coltrane’s classic quartet inc. Pharoah Sanders. One of only three known concert performances...
''Complete'' was Lateef's first album on the Atlantic label. Released in 1968, it features him backed by Hugh Lawson on piano, Cecil McBee on bass and...
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Universal Beings is jazz drummer / producer Makaya McCraven's most ambitious, elegant and refined work yet. Recorded at two intimate live...
Saxophonist Henderson's 1964 debut album featuring all star line up of heavyweights - Kenny Dorham, Joe Henderson, Pete La Roca, McCoy Tyner and Butch...
Brilliant, less-well-known Herbie Hancock album featuring a larger group than usual with guitar and trombone! Check the superb "King Cobra"! Recommended!
This is THE definitive funk-jazz fusion album - truly jaw-droppingly good stuff that instantly set the standard against which other fusion musicians measured...
Brand new release from Polish Jazz label Lanquidity Records, the label that introduced us to Speakers Corners Quintet!
Drawing inspiration from an array...
Reissue of this seminal album! This is perhaps the pinnacle of the classic Mizell brothers albums (alongside perhaps Donald Byrd's "Places and Spaces",...
Life On Mars is the 1976 debut album by the American R&B/jazz fusion singer, arranger, musician, composer and conductor Dexter Wansel. The album is considered...
''Can You Dig It?' is as definitive as it gets, and treats its subject seriously, lovingly and with an attention to detail that makes it a necessary purchase....