Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 1964 was momentous for saxophonist Wayne Shorter, starting the year in Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers before making his own debut (Night Dreamer/JuJu). He joined the Miles Davis Quintet that summer, cementing a seminal lineup in jazz history. On Christmas Eve, the transcendent Speak No Evil was created by Shorter/Freddie Hubbard/Herbie Hancock/Ron Carter/Elvin Jones. Features the sublime ballad "Infant Eyes". The Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series is 180g all-analog, mastered from original tapes.
Tracklist:
Witch Hunt
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum
Dance Cadaverous
Speak No Evil
Infant Eyes
Wild Flower
UPC: 602507440428Label: Blue Note RecordsRelease Date: 1.15.21Format: Vinyl
Amazing jazz interpretations of songs of Nirvana, Klaus Doldinger, Grace Jones, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Talking Heads, Grandbrothers, Dave Pike, Empire Of The Sun, Joe Jackson, Eurythmics, Kruder & Dorfmeister. WEB WEB is starting a new chapter with Kover Kover. For the first time in the band's ten-year history, the focus is not on original compositions, but exclusively on cover versions - a radical change of perspective that seems entirely consistent. The musicians' stylistic openness inevitably led to an intriguing question: what would songs by Talking Heads, Kruder & Dorfmeister or Joe Jackson sound like if they had originally been penned by WEB WEB? The answer was obvious - you just had to put these pieces through the distinctive WEB WEB cosmos. The idea: to interpret favorite songs from completely different musical worlds in such a way that they fit organically into one's own musical language. The amazing thing is that it wasn't particularly difficult. Because a really good song can be reduced to two essential components - a melody that you can sing along to and a harmonic structure that remains instantly recognisable even in it's simplest form.
Tracklist:
Song Of Dying
Slave To The Rhythm
Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
Bloodflow
We Are The People
High Noon
Ataraxia
Come As You Are
Steppin' Out
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Big Schlepp
Planet Caravan
Once In A Lifetime
Free
UPC: 0673794267715Label: Compost RecordsRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: Vinyl
For Wynton Kelly, Kelly Blue marked a career highlight. A blueprint for blues-infused hard bop, Kelly Blue is Kelly's definitive statement as a bandleader - a swinging, blues-soaked masterclass in touch, taste, and timing. This is the sound of a pianist playing with both finesse and fire. The Pitch (and it swings hard) If you're assembling a jazz collection and Kelly Blue isn't on your shelf, you're basically hosting a dinner party without food. Kelly was the pianist Miles Davis trusted enough to bring into his band and replace Red Garland. Kelly was the ultimate sideman turned understated hero - blending gospel fire, blues grit, and bebop elegance into a buttery-smooth flow that made his touch unmistakable. On Kelly Blue, he steps out of the shadow and into the spotlight, where he glows like a well-polished Steinway under stage lights. And Kelly brought friends on this auspicious date. Paul Chambers (bass) - So solid, they used him to calibrate metronomes. Jimmy Cobb (drums) - Subtle as a whisper, sharp as a whip. And Nat Adderley (cornet), Benny Golson (tenor sax), and Bobby Jaspar (flute) - Because sometimes, you need a horn section that sounds like they're reciting poetry in perfect harmony. These cats don't just support Kelly - they elevate him. Bottom line, Kell (more...) UPC: 753088021077Label: Analogue Prod.Release Date: 6.12.26Format: Vinyl
You are in a Kitchen Filled with Plants as the Sun Streams Inwards is the debut record from Los Angeles-based experimental jazz collective You, Me, + the Whales Sextet. The group is co-led by brothers Zac Burgenbauch (guitar) and Devin Burgenbauch (bass), and features David Otis (saxophones), Elif Dinçer (harp/electronics), M A Harms (vibraphone/percussion), and Lucas Lenny (drumset). Bringing together American primitive guitar textures with spiritual jazz, open improvisations, field recordings, microtonal drones, and a lot of bells, the ensemble weaves through Alice Coltrane-esque delicacy and frenetic improvisation a la the Cecil Taylor Unit. Otis sweetly floats amidst Lenny's running beats and Devin's rapidity, while Harms and Dinçer move with drips of sound around Zac's yearning John Fahey-inspired folk melodies. The result transports listeners to a textured dream-scape of kinetic energy and beauty.
Tracklist:
You Are in a Kitchen Filled with Plants As the Sun Streams Inwards
Today!
Rainy Day Encino
Tintinnabulation #2
Simply
UPC: 628425431478Label: Birdwatcher RecordsRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: Vinyl
Gary Bartz and new London ensemble Your Brother's Keeper collaborate on Where Rivers Meet, a deeply intuitive new studio album capturing a rare meeting between generations of jazz musicians. Released via Brownswood Recordings, as the label celebrates it's 20th anniversary, the record brings together Bartz's jazz lineage and a new collective emerging from London's vibrant jazz scene. The result is music that unfolds with openness and intensity, guided by deep listening and collective improvisation.At the centre of the project is Bartz, one of the most influential voices in modern jazz. A saxophonist whose career spans more than five decades, Bartz emerged performing with Charles Mingus, Max Roach and Art Blakey before joining Miles Davis during the trumpeter's electrifying early-1970s period. He soon became a defining figure of the spiritual jazz movement through his celebrated NTU Troop recordings, creating a body of work that continues to resonate across generations of musicians and listeners alike. His playing - lyrical, searching and unmistakably soulful - remains one of the most distinctive voices in jazz.The album also marks the arrival of Your Brother's Keeper, a new collective assembled by drummer and producer Jake Long (Maisha) and rooted and shared in musical dialogue and improvisation. Featuring Ali MacSween (piano, synthesizers and modular FX), Axel Kaner-Lidstrom (trumpet), Twm Dylan (double bass), Tim Doyle (percussion) and Chelsea Carmichael (tenor saxophone), alongside Long on drums, the group reflects a scene that has reshaped the sound of contemporary jazz over the past decade.FFO - Floating Points & Pharoah Saunders - Promises, Shabaka, Yussef Dayes, Nubya Garcia
Tracklist:
Cauldron
Ground Loop
Eclipse
Solar Flare
Locris
Petrichor
Mantra
UPC: 5060180327736Label: BrownswoodRelease Date: 7.3.26Format: Vinyl
Spread across 2LP, the collection showcases Lateef's expressive mastery of saxophone, flute, oboe and global instruments, capturing the unmistakable atmosphere and depth of his musical language. A remarkable RSD release for collectors and fans of boundary-pushing jazz.
Tracklist:
Outside Blues
Soul Blues
Blue Rocky
Dexterity
Trudy's Delight
Introlude
Train Stop
Big Foot
*** Indie Exclusive ***UPC: 0741869415139Label: Charlie Parker RecsRelease Date: 6.19.26Format: Vinyl
Alex Zhang Hungtai's new double album Orion/Mother, a brave, gigantic burst of life, creativity, and abstract balladry, alchemizes the past and the present, sampling home recordings he made with some of New York's finest improvisers while spontaneously composing on top of them with trumpet and other instruments. Zhang's trumpet is the "grounding force" and conceptual narrator of Orion/Mother, allowing Zhang to decontextualize, process, and reconcile with the past through abstract lyricism in the present. It's the sound of an artist addressing unresolved fragments from his past, integrating them into the present, and building a new path.
Tracklist:
Sidewinder
Nataraja
Shadow Integration
Orion
Tannhäuser Gate
Kali
Mother
Earth Orbit
American Burial
Tugçe
UPC: 727431750464Label: American Dreams RecsRelease Date: 5.29.26Format: Vinyl
Here is an album of Duke Ellington compositions arranged and conducted by Benny Carter, with Zoot Sims as principal soloist. Add those names to the list of musicians in the adjoining display and you get a total greater than the sum of it's parts. Among the many albums Sims made for Pablo, the Ellington project was particularly close to his heart. The Ellington band of 1940 and '41 was a formative influence on the young tenor man setting out on his career.The great tenor saxophonist Ben Webster's solos profoundly affected him. It is true that his tone was closer to Lester Young's, but Webster's conception was always a major component of Sims's style, and toward the end of his life Zoot's sound took on more of Webster's heft and darkness. Fittingly, he and Webster's favorite pianist, Jimmy Rowles, do Bojangles to a rare turn, and Sims gives an achingly beautiful reading of Duke's 'Your Love Has Faded.'Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab from the original analog master tape, and pressed at Quality Record Pressings for optimal sound quality, this Analogue Productions 180-gram reissue is an exceptional audiophile disc. Housed in a gatefold Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket.180-gram vinylMastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab from the original analog master tapePressed at Quality Record PressingsHoused in a Stoughton Printing tip-on jacketTracklist:Side 11. It Don't Mean A Thing2. In A Mellow Tone3. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good4. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart5. Black ButterflySide 21. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me2. Your Love Has Faded3. Bojangles4. Passion Flower UPC: 753088019418Label: Analogue Prod.Release Date: 4.24.26Format: Vinyl