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Arriving from various points in Mexico, Panama, Cuba and Puerto Rico, this nine-man group led by Benny Velarde found each other... 

The coupling of star trombonist Kai Winding with some of the best country & western songs, old and new is a great combination; Winding... 

This 1970 album see master saxophonist Stan Getz cover hits of the day, with Beatles producer George Martin at... 

Jackie McLean’s music weaved in and out of the avant-garde throughout the 1960s with the brilliant 1963 inside-out dates One Step Beyond... 

Herbie Nichols was one of the most original pianists and composers in Jazz history. Blue Note founder Alfred Lion considered him... 

For this 1961 release, Mingus chose music composed before he heard the... 

Journeying through an awakening and reimagining of the young black British experience. Sequentially moving through a rich breadth of soundscapes, 'Renaissance' signifies... 

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The timeless artistry of BILLIE HOLIDAY is something that every generation gets to discover for themselves. The iconic songs on... 

The unforgettable sound of SARAH VAUGHAN is captured in this collection of essential recordings. From the swinging hits, "Lullaby Of... 

As Duke Ellington would have said, DINAH WASHINGTON was "beyond category". Subtle and inventive enough to hold an honored place... 

After making her professional debut as the cool, breathy voice behind the historic 1964 crossover smash "The Girl from Ipanema", Brazilian... 

• The Cats was released in December 1959 on New Jazz, a subsidiary of Prestige Records. While... 

• Jazz at Oberlin was recorded in the Finney Chapel at Oberlin College in March 1953. It is known... 

• The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album (1975) brings together two legends of... 

Miles Davis is regarded to be one of the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Quiet Nights... 

It’s a testament to Jimmy Smith’s volcanic creativity that the Hammond B3 organ firebrand recorded not one but two soul jazz classics—Midnight... 

The Horace Silver Quintet of 1959 was a hard bop juggernaut featuring the great pianist and composer with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, saxophonist... 

Between 1964-1967 the legendary saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter created a treasured and... 

Blue Note’s roster of Hammond B3 organists was a vibrant and varied bunch that ran the... 

In August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in... 

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As well as being the great vibraphone innovator of his era, Gary Burton has been a most astute talent scout. In 1973, The New Quartet introduced... 

Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell came together to celebrate the work of mentor Ornette Coleman, but... 

Acclaimed saxophonist Joshua Redman makes his Blue Note debut with where are we, his first-ever vocal project which features vocalist Gabrielle... 

Drummer Roy Haynes swings as the leader of this 1962 Impulse! session, featuring A-list jazzmen Roland... 

1968’s Love Cry mixes Albert Ayler’s free jazz with a catchy combination of nursery rhythms and brass band marches, resulting... 

Space Is The Place – highlighted by the rousing 21-minute title track – is both an essential album and a great onramp... 

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The borders between London’s musical tribes have always been porous. For Yussef Kamaal, the sound of the capital – with its hum of... 

The intrepid free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor produced some of his best work for Blue Note Records, including his explosive 1966 label... 

The precocious and prodigious drummer and composer Tony Williams had already participated in numerous landmark Blue Note recordings including... 

Trumpeter, bandleader and composer Matthew Halsall announces landmark new album An Ever Changing View, an expansive, immaculately... 

Considered one of Nathan Davis' best albums, and long a collector's item, The Hip Walk was recorded in 1965, a time when the... 

Indonesia and jazz? Not so far-fetched! Improvisation is a part of traditional gamelan, and... 

Monty Alexander has been one of the most popular pianists in jazz for over 50 years. Early on, his prodigious technique and... 

On Inside: Missing Link Kriegel assembled a band of some of the leading musical visionaries on the European jazz scene for... 

Following the April 2022 reissue of the album Shrimp Boats, We Are Busy Bodies presents companion... 

The Brazilian Singer Ed Mottais one of the greats in Jazz / Funk, not only in the South American Music-Scene, but... 

Legendary drummer Kenny Clarke compared Jean-Luc Ponty to Dizzy Gillespie. Fellow violinist Stuff Smith marveled, "He plays violin... 

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Wild Is The Wind, Nina Simone's sixth album for Philips, has all the variety her work for the label was known for—from... 

Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series presents this 180-gram LP edition of... 

Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series presents this 180-gram LP edition of... 

Just two months after recording his exceptional sextet date Cornbread, the prolific trumpeter Lee Morgan was back in Van Gelder Studio in November... 

Perhaps the perfect starting point for a reappraisal of Duke Pearson’s underrated career is his fantastic and aptly titled 1967 album... 

Acclaimed saxophonist, philosopher, bandleader, and musician Shabaka Hutchings, now professionally known as Shabaka across all solo musical efforts, announces... 

In order to record the compositions in his critically-acclaimed 2022 release GOLD, Alabaster DePlume instilled a culture of... 

Strut continue their in-depth work with Oneness Of Juju’s Plunky Branch with the first ever reissue of Juju’s powerful 1973 album... 

Miles Davis is regarded to be one of the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. At the request of... 

Grupo Medusa was one of the best instrumental bands out of Brazil during the 70s and 80s, blending... 

“Spirale”, initially released in 1976, is one of the essential recordings of Eastern European modal Jazz. The masterpiece recorded... 

Jazz Funk Masterpiece reissued for the first time Worldwide.
For every celebrated... 

Originally released in 1996 — and for the first time here on... 

This live album — released on vinyl for the first time — is made up of three European... 

With the tenor saxophone of John Coltrane joining Cannonball Adderley's alto on two tracks, this exciting 1959... 

Previously unreleased live album recorded at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival The Newport Jazz Festival had always brought the best... 

Previously unreleased live album recorded at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival The Newport Jazz Festival had always... 

Strut presents an exclusive new collaboration between UK jazz keyboardist Greg Foat and Venetian ambient / electronic maestro Gigi... 

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There may not be a more apropos album title in all of recorded music than tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec’s 1961 classic Heavy Soul. The session... 

One of the funkiest and most creative organists of all time, Dr. Lonnie Smith was first brought into the Blue Note fold by alto saxophonist Lou... 

Sorcery finds DeJohnette teamed up with a tight crew of virtuosic bandmates, including veterans of Miles Davis’s Bitches... 

The very definition of ‘70s soulful jazz, Where I’m Coming From has all the hallmarks of Prestige Records... 

This is the first-ever commercial releases of New Orleans’ legend Alvin Batiste’s Spiritual Jazz... 

First ever commercial releases of New Orleans’ legend Alvin Batiste’s Spiritual... 

The supremely swinging pianist Sonny Clark hit the Blue Note scene in 1957 with a burst of creativity recording three albums in... 

Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had been recording for Blue Note for a decade when he made his excellent 1965 album A Caddy for Daddy... 

This excellent 1965 album from the always versatile Yusef Lateef runs the gamut musically, from... 

For 1971's Black Unity, Pharaoh Sanders added groove to foundation of... 

Acoustic Sounds celebrates Contemporary Records with this new... 

Released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series celebrating 70 years of Contemporary Records, Shelly... 

The jazziest James Bond album ever! Ingfried Hoffmann was one of Europe’s best Hammond B-3 organists and member of Klaus Doldinger’s famed... 

Saxophonist Marion Brown ended his '70s stint at Impulse! Records with this serene and colorful album. It features musicians such as drummer Ed... 

Violinist and composer Michael White was among the first to play the violin in avant-garde jazz, and became one of the first jazz violinists to... 

Club sounds meet jazz trumpet. Originally released in 2013 and now an expensive rarity on vinyl, this acclaimed cooperation... 

Originally released in 1957, Mal Waldron’s Mal/2 album features... 

The first of two albums recorded at... 

Originally released in 1962, jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef... 

More than a dozen albums into his Blue Note tenure, Donald Byrd’s 1967 date Slow Drag would be one of the last pure hard bop sessions that... 

The great pianist McCoy Tyner made his Blue Note debut with The Real McCoy in 1967 soon after departing John Coltrane’s quartet and... 

It is undeniable that Billie Holiday's singing changed in... 

Although he was never inactive, the 1980s found Tito Puente in a bit of a renaissance. His... 

“London Brew” is a group of 12 London based artists: Benji B, Raven Bush, Theon Cross, Nubya Garcia, Tom Herbert, Shabaka Hutchings, Nikolaj... 

On his second release for ECM New York-based saxophonist Oded Tzur introduces a heightened sense of urgency and a conceptually augmented approach to... 

John Carroll Kirby is a producer, composer and keyboardist from Los Angeles. His new album Blowout was inspired by the local people, music... 

A celestial journey is just what Sun Ra and his Arkestra have created with Space is the Place. Sun Ra’s opus is at its simplest, a... 

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Brad Mehldau’s acclaimed 2002 Jon Brion–produced album Largo, which turned 20 last year, will receive its first-ever vinyl... 

Stanley Turrentine is at his blues-drenched best on Comin’ Your Way. This session from 1961 features the magnificent rhythm section... 

Recorded in 1963, The Kicker was actually vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson’s first session as a leader for Blue Note, but for reasons lost... 

Grant Green’s Nigeria is an under-recognized gem in the guitarist’s remarkable Blue Note catalog. Recorded in 1962, but not first released until... 

The release of pianist Robert Glasper’s acclaimed Blue Note debut Canvas in 2005 signaled the arrival of a singular new voice in... 

The sound of Blue Note Records has been embedded in hip-hop since the music’s early days with artists like A Tribe Called Quest, De La...