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SKYLLUMINA represents a new evolution of London-based, Italian-born composer, bassist, and vocalist Ruth Goller. Goller is known for... 

Celebrating 50 years of Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic... 

Acclaimed vibraphonist Joel Ross returns with his remarkable fourth Blue Note release nublues, an album of blues and ballads as refracted through... 

Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer follows his 2021 ECM disc Uneasy - the first to showcase his trio featuring bassist Linda... 

'Precipice' takes Ill Considered back to their improvisational roots. Idris Rahman, Emre Ramazanoglu & Liran Donin operate as one to create... 

Tzadik is proud to present Asterisms, a beautiful and exploratory instrumental project by Sean Ono Lennon, one of the most creative and... 

2024 kicks off with the reissue of Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans' Know What I Mean? dropping on March 1. Adderley... 

Also releasing on March 1 is the long-awaited rerelease of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' Caravan. "Slick, fluid, professional... 

Following on March 29 is a reissue of Ron Carter's Where?, recorded in 1961. Carter's discography is a sprawling one: The three-time GRAMMY® winner... 

Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean’s 1960s output ran the gamut from hard bop to the avant-garde with his 1964 post-bop dates It’s Time! and... 

Following sideman appearances with pianist Horace Parlan in the early 1960s, Booker Ervin cut two stellar Blue Note records as a... 

On March 8, nine-time GRAMMY winning singer, songwriter, and pianist Norah Jones will release her ninth solo studio album Visions, a collaboration with... 

Chris Potter announces the upcoming release of his new album, 'Eagle's Point'. Featuring a modern day supergroup of supergroups including... 

After the release of the first three albums "In Memoriam", "Nights Of Lust" and "Miserere" Jason Köhnen (Mansur / The... 

After the release of the first three albums "In Memoriam", "Nights Of Lust" and "Miserere" Jason... 

MASKxSOUL is the new international project, featuring the baritone Alexander Korenkov (of Mariinsky Theatre, Theatre du Chatelet, and JFK... 

MASKxSOUL is the new international project, featuring the baritone Alexander Korenkov (of Mariinsky Theatre, Theatre du... 

After their highly praised debut record "I" - called "a sparkling electro-jazz and cinematographic hybridization... 

After their highly praised debut record "I" - called "a sparkling electro-jazz and... 

Lisa Björänge and her band meet up with stars from the Swedish jazz elite and re-invent some of their favorite jazz tunes. 

Sun Ra is better known to most as a musician than a poet, but he identified equally... 

The music Charles Mingus and his group recorded during his landmark 1960 sessions for Candid Records produced three of the most revered... 

Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of Art Pepper’s 1960 album “Smack Up”. Recorded by legendary engineer... 

Recorded live at the Black Hawk, San Francisco in September 1959, “At The Blackhawk, Vol 1” is the first of... 

Hampton Hawes, “For Real!” was recorded in 1958 but not released on the Contemporary Records label until 1961. Featuring Hawes (piano) alongside... 

Recorded in 1961 and released by Contemporary Records the same year, “Maggie's Back in Town!!” Is the second album released... 

Bringing together trumpeter Howard McGhee and saxophonist Teddy Edwards, “Together Again!!!!” was originally released... 

Released in 1963 on the Contemporary Records label, “The Cry!” Is a free jazz album by saxophonists Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons. Also... 

Recorded live at The Renaissance in Hollywood, CA on Oct 14 1960, Ben Webster “At the Renaissance” was released on Contemporary Records. Featuring... 

Art Pepper’s third album on the Contemporary Records label, “Gettin’ Together” was released in 1960. Featuring a selection of... 

Recorded in 1960, Art Pepper’s 5th album release on Contemporary Records, “Intensity”, was released in 1963. A collection of 7 jazz standards... 

Jazz vocalist Helen Humes’ second album on Contemporary Records, “Songs I Like to Sing!” was released in 1961 and is conducted... 

A classic of the genre, “Way Out West” was tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins’ first album for west coast label Contemporary Records when... 

Available on vinyl for the first time since its original release 50 years ago, the downtempo-funk extravaganza People & Love is a crate-digger's... 

Blending a socially conscious spirit with hard bop, jazz-funk, and electronic elements, Power to the People finds Joe Henderson saxophonist... 

Bill Evans and Stan Getz are about as close as musicians can get in terms... 

Unsettled by the state of the world in 2020, Charles Lloyd began conceiving of a musical offering in the form... 

Two months after recording what would become his hit record The Sidewinder, trumpeter Lee Morgan returned to Van Gelder Studio in... 

Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson capped off his run of five sublime 1960s Blue Note leader dates with his 1966 classic Mode for Joe, an... 

This 1960 album's inventive Richard Weiss arrangements combine with Carter's uniquely masterful – and modern - vocals... 

1966's Look To The Rainbow is one of the jewels of Astrud Gilberto's catalog and of the bossa nova canon. Teaming... 

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The album features eight compositions by Halvorson, performed with her sextet Amaryllis, the improvisatory band that performed on her critically... 

Miami-born trumpeter Blue Mitchell had a soulful, swinging style that was equally at home in jazz, R&B, and funk settings. Mitchell been... 

The acclaimed Cleveland-born saxophonist Joe Lovano came to Blue Note Records in 1990 and over the next 25 years became... 

- Limited edition 180gm pressing of Miles Davis' original soundtrack to Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud ('Lift to the Scaffold') - Presented... 

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The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown’s star was just starting to ascend when he recorded two sessions as a leader for Blue Note... 

The amazing bebop piano genius Bud Powell made his most enduring recordings as a leader for Blue Note and was a catalyst for moving... 

Originally reissued as part of the Promise Kept: The Complete Artist House Recordings boxed set, now available separately.
Producer John... 

Toy Machine skateboard's seminal 1996 video “Welcome To Hell” features a unique and progressive patchwork of skateboarders, most... 

Tyner’s third Impulse! album, originally released in 1964, resulted from two sessions— one featuring a sextet made up of three... 

One of the first soul jazz icons of the mid-'60s, Ramsey Lewis recorded The In Crowd over three days during a 1965 club date at... 

After his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, the master drummer Elvin Jones signed with Blue Note in 1968 and began building... 

Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson hadn’t recorded for Blue Note since 1963 when he returned to the label in 1967 and began a new chapter... 

Soulville is quintessential Ben Webster: intimate, tender, endlessly expressive. Webster was internationally recognized... 

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Monk, released in 1964, is the fourth studio album Thelonious Monk released on Columbia Records, and his seventh album overall for that label. It... 

Forgotten Man was recorded on July 2, 1981, at Barigozzi Studio, Milano, Italy and released in 1982 on Timeless Records. Alto-saxophonist Lou... 

The late percussionist Milford Graves was one of the most unique artists the world has ever seen. Born in Jamaica, Queens in... 

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Devotion, Grossmann's debut for Jack White's U.S.-based Third Man Records label, continues her musical evolution, arriving at... 

Devotion, Grossmann's debut for Jack White's U.S.-based Third Man Records label, continues her musical evolution, arriving... 

Grant Green began his lengthy and prolific Blue Note career with the 1961 release of his debut album Grant’s First Stand, a stellar soul... 

Sonny Rollins first appeared on a Blue Note recording session in 1949 as part of Bud Powell’s Modernists during a period when the saxophonist... 

This 1957 date, produced by Norman Granz, finds the two tenors matching wits with accompaniment from Oscar... 

Getz/Gilberto #2 was recorded live at Carnegie Hall in October 1964 and released in 1966. The album follows the duo's initial... 

Laufey is a Los Angeles-based singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist whose transportative jazz songs about young love and... 

Hailing from Cape Town, tenor saxophonist Winston Mankunku Ngozi (1943-2009) is a venerated figure in the pantheon... 

Composer/Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire’s Nonesuch Debut Album, ‘Owl Song,’ Due December 15; Features Bill Frisell, Herlin Riley... 

Hailing from Alexandra and nicknamed "Ratau" (meaning "lion"), saxophonist Mike Makhalemele (1938-2000) was a force of nature with... 

Bringing together Johannesburg’s two saxophone titans for a supergroup recording project was a... 

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Roach's solid group featuring Ray Bryant, Julian Priester, and Stanley and Tommy Turrentine are joined by... 

On his sole album as a leader, bassist Melvin Jackson - a veteran of the Eddie Harris band (this album includes two... 

Pianist Junior Mance, a veteran of albums and dates with Dinah Washington and Cannonball Adderley, was offered his own recording... 

This 1957 release, the third in a series of albums expanding on Bird's 10" Clef releases... 

The trio of guitarist Grant Green, organist Larry Young, and drummer Elvin Jones had a unique alchemy from the first time they... 

McCoy Tyner looked towards Africa on his stunning 1970 album Extensions, a far-reaching exploration of Black identity that marked the masterful... 

In addition to appearing as a sideman on dates led by Kenny Burrell, Freddie Hubbard, and Jackie McLean, tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks recorded... 

1964 was a pivotal year in the musical life of Wayne Shorter. Early in the year the saxophonist was still a member of Art Blakey & The...