Jazz

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Kamasi Washington - Becoming (Music From The Or...

Released 11th December 2020.

Released 11th December 2020.

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Keith Jarrett - Budapest Concert

Released 19th March 2021. The second complete show to be issued from Keith Jarrett's 2016 Europea...

Released 19th March 2021. The second complete show to be issued from Keith Jarrett's 2016 European tour - following on from the widely-acclaimed concert released as Munich 2016 - this double album documents the pianist's solo performance at the Bela Bartok National Concert Hall in Budapest. This version is on two LPs. Jarrett, whose family roots reach back to Hungary, viewed the Budapest concert as akin to a homecoming, and the context inspired much creative improvisation. Where Jarrett's ear...

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Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (2021 Reissue)

Released 20th August 2021. Guitarist Kenny Burrell debuted on Blue Note Records in 1956 and over ...

Released 20th August 2021. Guitarist Kenny Burrell debuted on Blue Note Records in 1956 and over the following seven years made a series of excellent albums for the label that culminated with his masterwork Midnight Blue. Recorded in 1963, the album waded deep into the blues, conjuring an alluring late-night vibe with a profoundly soulful cast including tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, bassist Major Holley, Jr., drummer Bill English, and Ray Barretto on congas. Burrell originals includin...

£21.00

Grant Green - Idle Moments (2021 Reissue)

Released 20th August 2021. Time and troubles seem to melt away during the fifteen enrapturing min...

Released 20th August 2021. Time and troubles seem to melt away during the fifteen enrapturing minutes of “Idle Moments,” the opening track of Grant Green’s sublime 1963 album of the same name. As the piece unhurriedly unfurls all the unique colours of the ensemble present themselves with Green’s soulful guitar joined by Duke Pearson’s elegant piano, Bobby Hutcherson’s crystalline vibraphone, Bob Cranshaw’s reassuring upright bass, Al Harewood’s subtle drums, and Joe Henderson’s magnificent te...

£21.00

Bill Evans - On A Friday Evening

Released 25th June 2021. Craft Recordings presents On a Friday Evening, a newly-discovered live p...

Released 25th June 2021. Craft Recordings presents On a Friday Evening, a newly-discovered live performance by the Bill Evans Trio, featuring Eddie Gómez on bass and Eliot Zigmund on drums. The previously unreleased concert took place on June 20, 1975, at Oil Can Harry's, Vancouver, BC. Captured for radio host Gary Barclay, it was aired on his popular CHQM jazz show. For nearly half a century, the tapes lay forgotten – until now! Thanks to audio restoration by Plangent Processes and meticulou...

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Bill Evans - Trio 65 (2021 Reissue)

Released 27th August 2021. This 1965 Verve date from jazz luminary Bill Evans may feature eight n...

Released 27th August 2021. This 1965 Verve date from jazz luminary Bill Evans may feature eight numbers that were all previously recorded at one time or another, but this time around he's accompanied by bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Larry Bunker, who were members of his regular working trio at the time, and it makes a world of difference. Together they offer up definitive takes on half of the set including "Israel," "How My Heart Sings," "Who Can I Turn To," and "If You Could See Me Now,"...

£36.99

Bill Evans - Trio 64 (2021 Reissue)

Released 27th August 2021. This is Bill Evans' first trio date under his own name for Verve, and ...

Released 27th August 2021. This is Bill Evans' first trio date under his own name for Verve, and the deep communication he maintains throughout with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, two brilliant rhythm players, is sublime. All of the songs are standards of one for or another, but Evans and Co. find a depth to them that's astonishing. Bill uses the spaces between phrases in a way that broadens and deepens the emotional content. Two outstanding examples of Bill's interpretive magic here are the n...

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Vijay Iyer - Uneasy

Released 28th May 2021. Vijay Iyer presents a powerful new trio, in which he is joined by two key...

Released 28th May 2021. Vijay Iyer presents a powerful new trio, in which he is joined by two key figures in creative music, Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh. "We have an energy together that is very distinct. It has a different kind of propulsion, a different impulse and a different spectrum of colours". Repertoire on 'Uneasy', recorded at Oktaven Audio Studio in Mount Vernon, New York in December 2019, includes Iyer originals written over a span of 20 years, plus Gerri Allen's "Drummer's ...

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Sonny Rollins - On Impulse! (2021 Reissue)

Released 2nd July 2021. "If anything, Sonny Rollins on Impulse! feels as if it were a recording R...

Released 2nd July 2021. "If anything, Sonny Rollins on Impulse! feels as if it were a recording Rollins had to get out of his system. But thank goodness for us because it's a winner through and through." — AllMusic Seeking to offer definitive audiophile grade versions of some of the most historic and best jazz records ever recorded, Verve Label Group and Universal Music Enterprises' new audiophile Acoustic Sounds vinyl reissue series utilizes the skills of top mastering engineers and the unsu...

£36.99

Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Trut...

Released 2nd July 2021. "The Blues and the Abstract Truth is one of my favorite jazz recordings. ...

Released 2nd July 2021. "The Blues and the Abstract Truth is one of my favorite jazz recordings. What a group of heavy-weight performers! Besides Oliver Nelson on tenor sax, you've got the incomparable Bill Evans on piano, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Paul Chambers on bass, Roy Haynes on drums, and Eric Dolphy on flute and alto sax. This is the jazz equivalent of a super-group." — Jim Hannon, AVguide.com Here we go with another round from the Acoustic Sounds Series. Seeking to offer definitive...

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Alice Coltrane - Kirtan: Turiya Sings

Released 16th July 2021. Alice Coltrane is the undeniable godmother of spiritual jazz and an ackn...

Released 16th July 2021. Alice Coltrane is the undeniable godmother of spiritual jazz and an acknowledged influence on everyone from Flying Lotus and Kamasi Washington to Solange and Radiohead. Kirtan: Turiya Sings features Alice Coltrane at peak spirituality and is presented in this arrangement for the first time in any format. Turyia Sings was originally released in 1982 on cassette as a collection of devotional songs including vocals, organ, strings, and synthesizers available only at Alic...

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John McLaughlin - Liberation Time

Released 16th July 2021. Vinyl release delayed. For more than five decades, John McLaughlin has ...

Released 16th July 2021. Vinyl release delayed. For more than five decades, John McLaughlin has deployed his peerless guitar technique, compositional gifts, and imagination in service of a deeply personal higher calling, forging a vast legacy unmatched in improvised music. Now as the world reels from the toll of the ongoing viral-induced global lockdown, McLaughlin reflects on both the perils and potential of this challenging moment with 'Liberation Time'. Characterised by both joy and refle...

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