Miles Davis Enigma

The Best Of Miles Davis is a new compilation released to celebrate the legendary jazz trumpeter’s centennial in 2026. Designed as an introduction to...

Killer w/ Reggie Lucas, Carols Garnet, Al Foster ... heavy fusion!

Back in 1949/50, Miles Davis and eight friends recorded 3 sessions. The results were released as singles, then collected together and released in 1957...

Jazz CLASSIC from '84, originally recorded in '83.Robert Irving III on Keyboard, John Scofield on Guitar and Al Foster on Drums.

Late 60s deep electric jazz. Recommended. With Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul and Tony Williams.

Star People is a 1983 album recorded by Miles Davis and issued by Columbia Records. It is the second studio recording released after the trumpeter's six-year...

LIMITED EDITION OF 2500 INDIVIDUALLYNUMBERED COPIES ON TRANSLUCENTGREEN COLOURED VINYL Brilliant modal jazz album from the vintage year of 1967! 1967...

This album was the follow on from Tutu. Recorded very late in his life this album shows once again how Miles never stopped moving forward. Produced...

Recorded between 1969 and 1972, with four different ensembles that include the cream of the crop in Jazz and fusion: Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Chick...

Miles performs with Chick Corea on electric piano, Dave Holland on acoustic bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums; musicians who  went on to become...

The first of two albums taken from the same concert in 1975, the other being 'Pangaea.' They represent a full stop at the end of Miles'70s experiments...

Stunning music created by Miles Davis for the 1957 French film Lift to the Scaffold. Performed by a Miles Davis-fronted European band for a movie by...

Black Beauty the legendary live album recorded in 1970 at Fillmore West, San Francisco when Davis performed the opening act for The Grateful Dead....

70's Miles Davis at his most spontaneous, the electric follow up to Bitches Brew. A combination of live and studio tracks produced by Teo Macero.

The classic first collaboration with arranger Gil Evans sees Miles' first experiment with a big band 

Heavyweight fusion from 74 with Airto, Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Pete Cosey, Keith Jarrett and Carlos Garnett - an allstar lineup if ever.

There's a good reason that this is the world's most loved jazz album - because it really is an amazingly beautiful record and a perfect exemplar of its...

The first steps in Miles electric phase - fantastic.

Miles, George Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Victor Feldman, Ron Carter, Tony WIlliams. Produced by Teo Macero. Miles is in the ZONE! Modal grooviness. Definitely...

This live album from 1982 puts him together with a young Marcus Miller. It is as good as it gets.

Back in 1949/50, Miles Davis and eight friends recorded 3 sessions. The results were released as singles, then collected together and released in 1957...

Recorded in 1954 but released in 57. Oleo is the first tune on which Miles muted the trumpet - and this was to become his signature style.

Absolute classic album from Miles Davis' 'second classic quintet' with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams...superb! By 1967...

Seminal and controversial album recorded under the direction of Gil Evans in 1958. 

Seminal modal jazz LP from the late 'fifties featuring John Coltrane!

Miles began his 30 year run at Columbia records with this album, a bop masterpiece. The individual strengths of each player that made this group so good...

This excellent album marks the transition point between Miles Davis' mid-sixties acoustic modal work with his second classic quintet and his early seventies...

Classic Miles album, produced and arranged by Gil Evans, with a beautiful take on Rodrigo's 'Concierto De Aranjuez'.

Essential classic jazz fusion album! This seminal album set the trend for all those wigged-out, heavy, psychedelic, free-form jazz rock fusion albums...

Classic modal jazz album and the first studio recording by the group that has justifiably come to be known as the 'second' of Miles Davis' two 'classic'...

Heavyweight jazz electric fusion soundtrack to film featuring Miles alongside Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Steve Grossman.

McCoy Tyner had been increasingly looking to Africa for inspiration on his Blue Note records of the late-60s. With 1970’s Asante he brought those influences...

Donald Byrd was deep in a groove in 1960 as the trumpeter turned out one hard bop classicafter another including The Cat Walk featuring Byrd’s quintet...

After having recorded early classics like Afro-Cuban for Blue Note in the mid-1950s, trumpeter Kenny Dorham made an invigorating return to the label in...

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...

Killer late 60s funky jazz on Blue Note, including the much sampled version of 'Ode To Billy Joe'.

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...

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...

An expanded 3xLP edition of Sonny Rollins’ essential and legendary live trio album A Night At The Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters is added to...

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.

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...

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',...

Madlib invades Blue Note! Hip hop producer extroardinaire and world class jazz fiend Madlib gets let loose in the Blue Note vaults with his sampler!

Wicked 1967 album. Recommended.

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

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