Odyssey of Iska is the fourteenth album by American jazz composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, released on Blue Note Records in 1971. Musicians include...
Jackie McLean’s 60s output ran the gamut from hard bop to avant-garde with his 1964 album Action splitting the difference from the searing title track...
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...
Recorded in 1957, Kenny Burrell’s 3rd session as a leader for Blue Note presented the guitarist’s signature stylings with a crack team of hard boppers...
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...
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',...
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...
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,...
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...
**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...
Classic Grant Green album featuring Willie Bobo and Patato Valdes on percussion.
Tone Poet Edition all-analog, mastered-from-the-original-master-tape...
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...
On the title track Fela and the backup singers ridicule the mindset of men in uniform over an urgent, quick-march accompaniment from Afrika 70. The album...
Fresh new roots from Italian label Dig This Way comes Abeng with his second single after his killer "Crying Time" this time backed with Med Ton Allstars...
Private-label gem originally released in 1976, Manfredo Fest's 'Brazilian Dorian Dream' drew upon the influences of Brazilian rhythms,+ USA jazz and funk...
Third single from Italian label Dig This Way featuring Nigerian singer Peter Abdul on a strong riddim from Abeng's Musical Box with dub from Russ Disciple...
It's hard to go wrong with Fela Kuti's work from the 1970s, and LIVE!, which features the Afrobeat innovator backed by his powerhouse band Africa '70 and...
Gilles Peterson launches his label Arc Records with a reissue of cult record “Musica Infinita” by Mexican drummer and composer Tino Contreras. A stunning,...
Far Out Recordings issue some never-before-released demos from legendary Brazilian band, Azymuth. Since their debut album in 1975, Azymuth have risen to...
'Expensive Shit' is one of Fela's most notorious albums! This killer afro-beat LP was originally release in 1975 and now gets a reissue on Brooklyn-based...
Max Graef and Julius Conrad are Ratgrave and make their album debut for Henry Wu's Black Focus label! ‘Rock’ is their second album - ongoing transmissions...
Ana Mazzotti's second and final album, another Brazilian cult classic, given the much overdue reissue treatment from Far Out Recordings. Featuring tracks...
A mixture of live recording and studio post-production, 'On Jupiter' sounds unique to any other album Sun Ra made. The arkestra reflects a disco pulse...
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...
Essential cut from one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time, the peerless 1994 album 'Illmatic' by Nas. The Ahmad Jamal-sampling, boom-bap classic...
Never released before on 7" taken from his wicked 1985 album "Watermelon Man" with version on the flip. Don't leave..One of 5 new Mister Tipsy reissues.
When David Bowie and Iggy Pop escaped LA to go Interrailing in the mid-70s, they heard a new European music that was largely devoid of Anglo-American rock...
Melt Yourself Down includes members of Polar Bear, Hello Skinny, The Heliocentrics and more. Bringing together the bizaare, disparate sounds of Cairo ‘57,...