Commenting on this album in 1962, Billboard magazine wrote: He seems to be everywhere, everywhere that is but on his usual instrument®. Charles Mingus, one of the most impressive musicians in the history of jazz, doesn't play a single note on the bass for a change, but leads the band from his (blues-)piano - the instrument that he always used for composing. He hits the keys, he sings the blues, he shouts and he encourages - apparently Mingus really found the need to express himself loudly in this album. (Doug Watkins stood in for him on the contrabass. ) ""Oh Yeah"" is definitely Mingus's most powerful and passionate album. He calls on two hot, intensive saxophonists - Roland Kirk and Booker Ervin - as well as Jimmy Knepper on the trombone. Kirk is the main soloist, but all three wind-players deliver expressive improvisations, carrying out a non-stop dialogue with one another, and pushing one other to achieve maximum energy. The music is wild and ecstatic, but it's not free jazz, remaining - as it does - grounded in blues and gospel. ""Hog Callin' Blues"" is an enthralling shuffle with a wealth of riffs, ""Devil Woman"" a clever slow blues with inventive wind figures. ""Ecclusiastics"", with it's constant change of rhythm and expression alternating between gospel and blues has the most complex form. Blues has always been a part of a black church service, said Mingus. ""Eat That Chicken"" (a homage to Fats Waller and his favourite food) even plays around with an old-time, Dixie feeling. Humour is never far away. Even in the atomic bomb song (this too, a sort of churchy blues) one hears the words: -Don't let 'em drop it! Stop it! Be-bop it!This Speakers Corner reissue LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. More information under http://www. Pure-analogue. #com. All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid. Recording: November 1961 at Atlantic Studios, New York City, by Tom Dowd and Phil IehleProduction: Nesuhi ErtegunRelease date: 2/9/2022Original label: Atlantic
Tracklist:
Side A
Hog Callin' Blues
Devil Woman
Wham Bam, Thank You Ma'am
Side B
Ecclusiastics
Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me
Eat That Chicken
Passions of a Man
UPC: 4260019716149Label: Speakers CornerRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
Out of print for over 40 years, this LP Originally released on Mingus' own Jazz Work Shop Records. Carefully Remastered by five-time Grammy Award Winning Engineer Michael Graves with Vinyl Mastering by Jeff Powell. This RSD Exclusive version will be Pressed on 180 Gram vinyl on an exclusive color available only to RSD enthusiasts.Original artwork meticulously restored and reproduced is produced in conjunction with Jazz Workshop Inc., the Charles Mingus Estate. This legendary recording features a powerhouse sextet featuring Eric Dolphy, Johnny Coles, and Jaki Byard. Blending blues, explosive swing, and avant-garde bursts, this high-wire performance captures Mingus at his boldest - uncompromising, urgent, and alive with possibility.
Tracklist:
"So Long Eric" (Charles Mingus) (Jazz Workshop, Bmi, 18:00)
"Praying with Eric" (Charles Mingus) (Jazz Workshop, Bmi, 4:55)
"Praying with Eric" Continued. (Charles Mingus) (Jazz Workshop, Bmi, 22:07)
*** Indie Exclusive ***UPC: 708857336210Label: CandidRelease Date: 4.18.26Format: Vinyl
Who hasn't got an ancient, worn-out copy of ""The Clown"" on his shelf, with a tatty cover and torn inner sleeve? Or maybe one of the rare re-releases made of cheap, thin vinyl with dreadful graphic art? And if you haven't heard this gem for a long time, despite the flood of Mingus LPs, CDs and downloads on the market, then you really should seize this opportunity to do so. ""The Clown"" was, and still is, an absolute must-have for every jazz collector. The small ensemble, only five musicians, came into the New York Atlantic Records studio in March 1957 to record music exclusively composed by the double bassist.
Tracklist:
Haitian Fight Song
Blue Cee
Reincarnation of a Lovebird
The Clown
UPC: 4260019715197Label: Speakers CornerRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
The debut album from trumpeter and Strata-East co-founder Charles Tolliver. Charles assembles a who's who of jazz royalty - Gary Bartz, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Joe Chambers - backing the 26-year-old composer, showcasing his unmatched creativity and control of his instrument. Remixed by Charles to enhance the original intent of the recording, this edition features audio cut directly from the original analog tapes. Featured in a tip on gatefold jacket and pressed on 180gm vinyl
Tracklist:
Earl's World
Peace with Myself
Right Now
Household of Saud
Lil's Paradise
Paper Man
UPC: 708857768158Label: Strata-east RecordsRelease Date: 7.10.26Format: Vinyl
Picture this: it's 1960, and the world is still reeling from the Eisenhower era, poodle skirts, and the faint hum of early rock 'n' roll trying to steal jazz's thunder. Charlie Byrd's album The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd drops like a perfectly timed rimshot, ready to remind everyone that jazz can be sophisticated, soulful, and swing like nobody's business. It was at Edgewood Studios in Washington, D.C. where Byrd, the Virgina-born guitar wizard, with his trusty unamplified Spanish guitar, plied his magic. Recorded in 1960 and released in 1963 on Riverside Records (after a limited run as Charlie's Choice: Jazz at the Showboat, Vol. 4 on Washington Records' Offbeat imprint), this album is Byrd at his peak, blending jazz's improvisational fire with the refined finesse of classical technique. The tracklist reads like a love letter to versatility: from the peppy 'Taking a Chance on Love' to the dreamy 'Moonlight in Vermont,' and a nod to his idol Django Reinhardt with 'Nuages.' Oh, and let's not forget 'Django,' a solo guitar performance that's so intimate, you'll swear Byrd's playing it just for you in your living room. The album's vibe is like a martini - smooth, sophisticated, but with a kick that sneaks up on you. AllMusic gave it a glowing 4? stars, calling it (more...) UPC: 753088209079Label: Analogue Prod.Release Date: 6.12.26Format: Vinyl
I've been playing since I was 11 years old," says Charlie Gabriel, the most senior member of the legendary Preservation Hall Band, "I never did anything in my life but play music. I've been blessed with that gift that God gave me, and I've tried to nurse it the best way I knew how." While he's faced plenty of challenges nursing that gift for more than 78 years, none likely rank with last winter's passing of his brother and last living sibling, Leonard, lost to COVID-19. For the first time ever, Gabriel put down his horn, filling his days and weeks instead with dark reflection, a stubborn despondency broken now and then by regular chess matches in the studio kitchen of Hall leader Ben Jaffe, working overtime to bring his friend some light. One such afternoon also included Joshua Starkman, sitting off in a corner playing his guitar and half-watching the chess from a distance. When Charlie returned the next day, he brought his saxophone. "I was just inspired to try it, to play again. It had been a long time, and a guitar makes me feel free. I do love the sound of a piano, but it takes up a lot of a space, keeps me kind of boxed in." That day was to be the first session for Eighty Nine, almost entirely the work of Gabriel, Jaffe and Starkman, recorded mostly right there, in the kitchen, by Matt Aguiluz. Charlie Gabriel's first professional gig dates to 1943, sitting in for his father in New Orleans' Eureka Brass Band. As a teenager living in Detroit, Charlie played with Lionel Hampton, whose band then included a young Charles Mingus, later spending nine years with a group led by Cab Calloway drummer J.C. Heard. While he's also fronted a bebop quintet, played and/or toured with Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennet, Aretha Franklin and many more, this is the first time his name appears on the front of a record, as a bandleader. Since 2006, Gabriel has been a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, featuring prominently on That's It, So It Is, and Tuba to Cuba. Eighty Nine was different, and not simply due to a smaller ensemble. "We had no particular plan, or any particular insight on what we were gonna do. But we were enjoying what we were doing, jamming, having a musical conversation," Charlie says, further musing, "Musical conversations cancel out complications." Eighty Nine includes six standards and three newer pieces on which Gabriel is a writer: "Yellow Moon," "The Darker It Gets" and "I Get Jealous." The record also marks Charlie's return to his first instrument, clarinet, on many of the tracks. "The clarinet is the mother of the saxophone," he says. "I started playing clarinet early in life, and this [taught me] the saxophone." Finally, Eighty Nine includes three tracks of Charlie singing. "I always sung, but it wasn't my forte to become a singer," he says. "The truth is, people often develop a real relationship with a song once they hear the words. Sometimes I enjoy singing them.
Tracklist:
Memories of You
Chelsea Bridge
I'm Confessin'
The Darker It Gets
Stardust
Three Little Words
Yellow Moon
I Get Jealous
UPC: 098787149005Label: Sub PopRelease Date: 7.29.22Format: Vinyl
Hi-Tide presents Charlie Halloran & The Tropicales’ debut album, Shake the Rum, featuring 11 scorching ’50snumbers from Trinidad, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Venezuela given the New Orleans treatment. These classiccalypsos, biguines, and waltzes are guaranteed to melt the ice in your Mai Tai and set the vibe at your next poolparty. Indie Exclusive Pink LP. Limited Edition. *** Indie Exclusive ***UPC: 709388054963Label: Hi-tideRelease Date: 8.26.22Format: Vinyl
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Mingus at Antibes was originally issued by BYG Records under the title Charles Mingus Live With Eric Dolphy in Japan in 1974. It was recorded at a live 1960 performance at the Jazz à Juan festival at Juan-les-Pins by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus; and was re-released by Atlantic Records in more complete form as a double album with the title Mingus In Antibes in the United States in 1976. The album captures a performance at Jazz à Juan, and features some of Mingus's then regular musicians in a generally piano-less quintet, though the band is joined by Bud Powell on "I'll Remember April", and Mingus himself plays some piano on "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" and "Better Git Hit in Your Soul".
Tracklist:
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
Prayer For Passive Resistance
What Love?
I'll Remember April
Folk Forms I
Better Git Hit In Your Soul
UPC: 4260019715838Label: Speakers CornerRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
The Suite "Pithecanthropus Erectus" is - among other things - programme music. Having learned to walk upright, having achieved alleged superiority over animals, and having caused devastation, the destruction of mankind's natural resources follows. The composer Mingus gives his fellow mankind/musicians the widest possible freedom, which all exploit to the full both in interplay and in the solos. Bedded down in noise and sound collages, the piece is the result of an experimental workshop. The Gershwin classic "A Foggy Day" takes on the role of intermediary between the jazz styles of the 1930s and free jazz. And in "Profile Of Jackie" and "Love Chant" the arranger calls for his soloists to go to the very limits of their artistic improvisation. Speakers Corner all maintained an unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records.
Tracklist:
Pithecanthropus Erectus
A Foggy Day
Profile of Jackie
Love Chant
UPC: 4260019715517Label: Speakers CornerRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
When this LP was released in 1962, it was honoured with the maximum number of stars that Downbeat, the most famous of all jazz magazines, could award. Is there any better proof that the composer and arranger Charlie Mingus was ahead of his time? As a double bassist he was rather less virtuosic than his fellow musicians - and not just on these recordings. However, these five numbers earned every single star of the five they were awarded. They illustrate his masterly handling of Mexican folk music and his skill in integrating it into his jazz. The small ensemble of Clarence Shaw, whom Mingus described as a super-improviser on the trumpet, Jimmy Knepper, a technical ace on the trombone, the legendary tenor saxophone player Shafi Hadi, and his longstanding friend Dannie Richmond on the drums all earn the very highest recognition, even though the sextet of 1963/64 once more enhanced their creativity in later years.
Tracklist:
Dizzy Moods
Ysabel's Table Dance
Tijuana Gift Shop
Los Mariachis (The Street Musicians)
Flamingo
UPC: 4260019714480Label: Speakers CornerRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
Tracklist:
Tonight at Noon
Invisible Lady
""Old"" Blues for Walt's Torin
Peggy's Blue Skylight
Passions of a Woman Loved
UPC: 4260019716231Label: Speakers CornerRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
Tracklist:
Timeless Place
You Send Me
Shipbuilding
Still Crazy After All These Years
Love Can't Love Alone
Stardust [Album Edit]
Love Is a Losing Game
Home
Willow, Weep for Me
Love
UPC: 663993250915Label: Stunt RecordsRelease Date: 4.3.26Format: Vinyl
American trumpeter Chet Baker was a major innovator in cool jazz, leading him to be nicknamed 'the prince of cool'. He earned much attention and praise through the Fifties, particularly for albums featuring his vocals. This included his 1954 album Chet Baker Sings and it's follow-up Chet Baker Sings Again in 1985. The latter he released on the Dutch jazz label Timeless Records. He recorded the album with bassist Ricardo Del Fra, drummer John Engels and pianist Michel Graillier. Chet Baker Sings Again is available as a limited edition on gold colored vinyl and affixed on the protective sleeve is the 50th Anniversary Timeless Jazz sticker.
Tracklist:
Side A
All of You
Body and Soul
Look for the Silver Lining
I Can't Get Started
Side B
My Funny Valentine
Alone Together
Someone to Watch Over Me
How Deep Is the Ocean
UPC: 8719262044029Label: Music On VinylRelease Date: 7.24.26Format: Vinyl
Few musicians have embodied the romantic, and ultimately tragic, jazz figure as totally as Chesney "Chet" Baker (1929-88). Unschooled yet eloquent in his music, the Baker mystique has only reinforced one of the most haunting trumpet styles and ingenuous approaches to jazz singing. Chet is Chet Baker's classic 1959 Riverside album featuring jazz legends Bill Evans, Kenny Burrell, Herbie Mann and Pepper Adams. Cut from the original analog master tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. 180-gram LP.
Tracklist:
Alone Together
How High the Moon
It Never Entered My Mind
'Tis Autumn
If You Could See Me Now
September Song
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to
Time on My Hands
You and the Night and the Music
UPC: 888072197664Label: Craft RecordingsRelease Date: 3.5.21Format: Vinyl
There are several Chet Baker albums with the title Chet Baker Sings"", but this one recorded for Pacific Jazz in 1954 and 1956 is the original"", and arguably"", the best. The album features Chet's indelible vocals and sterling trumpet playing with two different quartet line-ups both featuring pianist Russ Freeman on a set of classic standards that he made his own including ""My Funny Valentine"","" ""That Old Feeling"","" and ""I Fall In Love Too Easily."" For the first time in more than 60 years"", this definitive edition was cut from the original master tapes in the correct order with pristine fidelity. The gatefold packaging includes additional session photography by William Claxton. Blue Note Essential Series is mastered from hi-resolution digital masters on 140g vinyl.
Tracklist:
That Old Feeling
It's Always You
Like Someone In Love
My Ideal
I've Never Been In Love Before
My Buddy
But Not For Me
Time After Time
I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
My Funny Valentine
There Will Never Be Another You
Thrill Is Gone
I Fall In Love Too Easily
Look For The Silver Lining
UPC: 199957593069Label: Blue Note RecordsRelease Date: 7.17.26Format: Vinyl
Forty-two years ago, Chet Baker - one of the most tragic figures of jazz who lived on the fast lane and ruined himself with drugs and alcohol - was constantly on the road from one European jazz club to another. Local rhythm groups were not always top notch so it was only logical to pick the very best from several countries for a film-music production in Italy. And it was equally logical that RCA's Italian subsidiary brought the musicians into the studio in January 1962.With one exception, the eight titles on this disc are all so-called standards. The two winds demand total concentration from the rhythm section while maintaining relaxed and laid-back harmonic patterns. And this is something the Italian Tommasi, the Belgian Thomas, the Frenchman Quersin and the Swiss Humair carry off with an air of nonchalance.
Tracklist:
Well, You Needn't
These Foolish Things
Barbados
Star Eyes
Over the Rainbow
Pent Up House
Ballata in Forma Di Blues
Blues in the Closet
UPC: 4260019712363Label: Speakers CornerRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
On Chet Baker - In New York, Chet plays like an angel with a muted trumpet. In New York captures the moody prince of cool stepping into the East Coast hard bop ring - and holding his own with charm, tone, and those impossibly lyrical lines that seem to float above the beat like cigarette smoke in a club basement.Chet Baker didn't play the trumpet. He seduced it. His tone? So velvety, you might try spreading it on toast. His solos? Like a conversation with someone who never raises their voice - but always gets the last word. On In New York, Chet proves that his famously fragile persona belied a rock-solid sense of melody, timing, and understated swagger.Chet may be the name on the cover, but he came to town with some serious firepower. Johnny Griffin (tenor sax), known as the 'Little Giant' brings a big sound and a bebop bite, pushing Chet into edgier territory - and yes, it works. Al Haig (piano), is bebop royalty. Cool, crisp, and a perfect harmonic foil for Baker's phrasing. Paul Chambers (bass), is from Miles' first-call list. He doesn't just walk the bass - he struts. Lastly, Philly Joe Jones (drums) swings so hard, it's a wonder the studio walls didn't cave in. This lineup turns In New York from a moody trumpet feature into a full-on jazz heavyweight bout, where elegance and energy shake hands for 42 glorious minutes.Among the tracks, 'Fair Weather' opens like a sigh and builds to a gorgeous melodic statement. Chet's tone is so pure, you'll swear it's whispering secrets. 'Solar' is the Miles Davis tune. Chet steps into the master's world and makes it his own. Confident, cool, and swinging. 'Polka Dots and Moonbeams' is a ballad done Baker-style: Romantic, vulnerable, and smoother than a vintage Cadillac. These are just a taste of the treasures that await on In New York.This vinyl reissue is par excellence: Mastering by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman at Acoustech Mastering, double LP cut at 45 RPM and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings! Plus it's housed in a Stoughton Printing Old Style Tip-On gatefold jacket with scuff-resistant matte finish.This is an album that deserves space in every jazz fan's collection. It captures a unique moment in Chet's career - between the breezy West Coast cool and the rawer later years. It's a must-have for any jazz collector who values tone, taste, and a little touch of trumpet romance. Add to cart. Drop the needle. Cue the cool.Mastering by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman at Acoustech MasteringDouble LP cut at 45 RPM and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings!Stoughton Printing Old Style Tip-On gatefold jacket with scuff-resistant matte finishTracklist:LP 1 Side A1. Fair Weather2. Polka Dots And MoonbeamsLP 1 Side B1. Hotel 49LP 2 Side A1. Solar2. Blue ThoughtsLP 2 Side B1. When Lights Are Low UPC: 753088206078Label: Analogue Prod.Release Date: 4.3.26Format: Vinyl
Mr. B is the album recorded in 1983 by Chet Baker and is considered one of the best from that period. Baker plays compositions by Herbie Hancock "Dolphin Dance", Horace Silver'"Strollin" and Dave Brubeck's "In Your Own Sweet Way". The sadness of the songs is felt throughout, in a lazy sometimes slow and sluggish tempo. The album includes two bonus tracks "White Blues" and "Father X-mas" and band members include Michel Graillier (piano) and Ricardo Del Fra (bass). Mr. B is available as a limited edition on silver colored vinyl, the album sleeve contains liner notes by Wim van Eyle and affixed on the protective sleeve is the 50th Anniversary Timeless Jazz sticker. LISTEN: https://www. Youtube. com/watch?v=fpXGeyopW2U*180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL*SLEEVE WITH LINER NOTES BY WIM VAN EYLE*CHET BAKER PLAYS COMPOSITIONS FROM HERBIE HANCOCK "DOLPHIN DANCE", HORACE SILVER "STROLLIN", DAVE BRUBECK "IN YOUR OWN SWEET WAY" PLUS TWO BONUS TRACKS "WHITE BLUES" AND "FATHER X-MAS"*50th ANNIVERSARY TIMELESS JAZZ STICKER AFFIXED ON PLASTIC SLEEVE*LIMITED EDITION ON SILVER COLORED VINYL
Tracklist:
Side A
Dolphin Dance
Ellen And David
Strollin'
In Your Own Sweet Way
Side B
Mister B
Beatrice
White Blues
Father X-mas
UPC: 8719262044043Label: Music On VinylRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: Vinyl
Limited double hand-numbered 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Chet Baker showed with his music that little bit of dark substance that exists in the human being - the shadow side - just as very few other jazz musicians have been able to do. However, such a reading that looks for traces of anguish and self-destruction in every note - and which has also been translated into a couple of films - has ended up overshadowing something very important: namely, that Chet Baker was a top-notch jazz musician, the creator of a unique and personal poetics, an interpreter who did not wallow in his own torments but who also knew how to take less introspective paths, including a superfine and very lively swing. In this final phase of his career, Baker often liked to have groups without drums with him because, in addition to allowing him to maintain a muffled volume in his singing and trumpet playing, the drumless situation guaranteed him greater freedom. Only the double bass player was left to keep time, a role here entrusted to a solid Knauer. In Ferrara, a sensitive French pianist, Michel Graillier, took the stage; in those years he was looking for a synthesis between the energy of McCoy Tyner and the harmonic language of Bill Evans. Finally, the presence of a piano allowed Stilo to limit the use of the other harmonic instrument, the guitar, in favor of the flute.
Tracklist:
Night Bird
Conception
Almost Blue
I'm a Fool to Want You
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to
But Not for Me
In a Sentimental Mood
Just Friends
UPC: 8054154650729Label: Red RecordsRelease Date: 4.3.26Format: Vinyl
Chet Baker is an icon and needs no introduction! He is currently one of the best known and best selling Jazz artist in the world.Chet Baker performs & sings SWIMMING by MOONLIGHT is a new Chet Baker album that draws from previously unreleasedmaterial recorded near the end of his life. From 1986-1987, Chet traveled and worked with the photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber on a project that would become their Oscar-nominated documentary “Let’s Get Lost”[1988]. During this period, Chet performed in Cannes, France and recorded sessions at Studio Davout in Paris and Sage and Sound Studio in Hollywood.Long rumored to exist, this will likely be the last new, unreleased Chet Baker music to ever be released. It has been in Bruce Weber's archive for nearly 40 years.Inspired for release by the film - which celebrated its 35th anniversary last year - SWIMMING byMOONLIGHT is a two-record soundtrack album curated by Bruce Weber and produced by Chet collaborator John Leftwich that compiles music, dialogue and live concert recordings.Slow Down Sounds is thrilled and honored to officially license this music from Little Bear, Inc and release it to the world!
Tracklist:
Make Me Rainbows
Remember
Relaxin'
Deep in a Dream of You (Poem)
I Can Dream, Can't I?
C'est Si Bon
Quiet Nights (feat. Hubert Laws)
Haunted Heart
I'll Be Around
Arbor Way
Just Friends
Beatrice
Milestones
So Hard To Know
Kind Of Quiet
Almost Blue
UPC: 769165090621Label: Slow Down SoundsRelease Date: 11.14.25Format: Vinyl
Light as a Feather was the second studio album by Chick Corea's band Return to Forever, following Corea's 1972 LP that introduced the group. The album features Corea on electric piano, Joe Farrell on flute and soprano and tenor saxophones, Stanley Clarke on double bass, Airto Moreira on drums and percussion, and vocals by Flora Purim. Light as a Feather was named 1972 Playboy Jazz Album of the Year and has been regarded by numerous magazines and polls as one of the greatest jazz LPs ever made.
Tracklist:
You're Everything
Light As a Feather
Captain Marvel
500 Miles High
Children's Song
Spain
UPC: 8435395505328Label: Elemental Music Rec.Release Date: 3.20.26Format: Vinyl
After several successful album releases in a mainstream setting, Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, known then as Christian Scott, chose to continue his path towards full control of his artistic identity. His 2015 release was titled Stretch Music, and it marked the creation of his own label of the same name. A bold move, both musically and professionally; one that nurtured his creative spirit and opened the way for a steady stream of albums that refined his sound and mission. Stretch Music was well received in the press, and from that point his listeners had a direct way to support his choices and sounds. Just as a climber can only see the clarity of the path when he reaches the summit, we can now look back at the direct line that brought the artist to this point. To commemorate this journey, Chief Adjuah presents to the world The Stretch Music 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition with three new tracks. The deluxe edition reaffirms Stretch Music's dynamic legacy and mission to create new sonic landscapes and musical languages that embrace possibility and innovation while still honoring tradition. The Stretch Music 10th anniversary offering features three new compositions from Chief Adjuah's upcoming releases. "Back 2 Back" - featuring Elena Pinderhughes, "Shared Stories of Rivals II" - featuring Logan Richardson and Weedie Braimah and "Take Off Your Cool" - featuring Robert Glasper. Each composition was written to address critical socio-political issues shaping our time. The Stretch Music 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition continues to exemplify the necessity of innovation in today's music. It does so by demonstrating the potential for adaptability and socio-cultural engagement while still pushing boundaries and incorporating a wide array of influences and cultures.
Tracklist:
Sunrise in Beijing
Twin
Perspectives
West of the West
Liberation over Gangsterism
The Corner
Of a New Cool
Runnin in 7's [For Big Chief Donald Harrison, Sr.]
Tantric
The Last Chieftain
The Horizon
Take Off Your Cool
Shared Stories of Rivals II
Back 2 Back
UPC: 199502774820Label: RopeadopeRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: Vinyl
Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Chris Botti gets back to the jazz essence of his artistry on his upcoming album, Vol. 1. The album features beautiful new ballad renditions of standards including “My Funny Valentine,” and “Someday My Prince Will Come,” as well as a cover of Coldplay’s “Fix You” and the vocal feature “Paris” with John Splithoff. Produced by David Foster, Vol. 1 features performances by violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Taylor Eigsti, guitarist Gilad Hekselman and others.
Tracklist:
Danny Boy
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Two For The Road
Paris – feat. John Splithoff
Blue In Green
Someday My Prince Will Come
Time On My Hands
My Funny Valentine – feat. Joshua Bell
Fix You
Old Folks
UPC: 602455165879Label: Blue Note RecordsRelease Date: 10.20.23Format: Vinyl
Double vinyl LP pressing. Alive With Ghosts Today is Chris Potter's new suite inspired by the story of the abolitionist John Brown. Potter, widely regarded as one of the most influential improvisers and composers of his generation, traces Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry - a moment that exposed the contradictions, violence and ideals at the heart of America. He uses the narrative as a lens to explore belief, sacrifice and the unresolved tension that still sits in American life. The music pushes into a raw, American- rooted soundworld shaped by blues, folk, Copland-esque harmony, and the rhythmic drive that runs through the country's history. The ensemble was built to sound like a small- town band with limited resources but deep character - guitar, bass, drums, violin, clarinet and trombone. Bill Frisell's guitar forms the emotional centre, carrying the grain and warmth Potter imagined while writing. Nate Smith and Burniss Travis lock the pulse with weight and feel. Sarah Caswell's violin moves between classical clarity and fiddle grit. Clarinetist Rane Moore and trombonist Zekkereya El-magharbel shape the edges of the music with distinct colours, turning written material into something lived-in and human. Their collective sound gives the suite it's shape and force.
Tracklist:
Alive with Ghosts Today, Pt. 1
Osawatomie Brown
The Heavens in Scarlet
Sister Annie
This Earth Would Have No Charms for Me
Into Africa
Mine Eyes
Alive with Ghosts Today, Pt. 2
Song of the Underground Railroad
Going Home
UPC: 5060509793228Label: Edition RecordsRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: Vinyl
Grammy Award-winning bassist Christian Dillingham presents 'As It Relates To Now, ' out May 15, 2026 on CD and vinyl. With Greg Ward on alto saxophone and Jeremy Cunningham on drums, the trio delivers a groove-driven, emotionally charged modern jazz record shaped by the tensions of our time-powerful, searching and deeply human.
Tracklist:
As It Relates To Now
Obsoletion
Special Relativity
Behind The Horizon
Wooden Lawns
If They Knew
Delusional Grandeur
The Divine Current
UPC: 199891504220Label: Shifting ParadigmRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: Vinyl
The final album recorded by the late double-Grammy-winning Chuck Mangione, Everything for Love, was the flugelhorn maestro's second outing for Chesky Records, a New York label renowned for it's audiophile-quality recordings and for cutting it's artists live in what producer David Chesky described as "reverberant spaces" using a single microphone. Recorded in St. Peter's Church, Chelsea, New York, in 2000, Everything for Love reunited Mangione with some of the musicians who had played with him in the '70s - saxophonist/flutist Gerry Niewood, guitarist Grant Geissman, and bassist Charles Meeks - and featured mostly original material. Highlights include 'Peggy Hill,' which Mangione composed for the animated sitcom King Of The Hill; 'Slo Ro,' a portrait of Mangione's wife Rosie; and the album's only cover, a soulful, gospel-tinged rendition of the hymn 'Amazing Grace,' where Mangione takes the listener to church. Everything for Love is a fitting musical epitaph for Mangione, who died in 2025. The album will be reissued in 2026 on SACD Hybrid Stereo and 180g One-step Pressing Vinyl LP as part of the Chesky Original Masters series.
Tracklist:
LP Side One
Peggy Hill
Slo Ro
Amazing Grace
LP Side Two
Seoul Sister
Viola
I Do Everything for Love
UPC: 4895241451317Label: Chesky RecordsRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: Vinyl
Through the ages, several people from moustachioed party boat troubadours to jazz elite like Jimmy Smith/McGriff and Shirley Scott have wielded the power of the electric organ to hypnotize listeners. Now, taking all the possible cues from these musical heavyweights, and breaking through the musical sound barrier to organ-ize your mind comes Mr. Sophisticated Fingers.Together with the ever-faithful Cold Diamond & Mink this mystical key stroker rephrases ten of the greatest hits from Emilia Sisco's debut album "Introducing" in a unique lyrical style. In Organ-ized's Slow Dance & Soul album these songs continue for further greatness.
Tracklist:
Walk With Me
I Wish I Was Yours
Dreaming Of Love So Divine
I Can't Go On
When I Fall In Love
It's Too Late
Light It Up With Your Smile
Let My Soul Catch Fire
Is It True Baby
I Dream That You Stay
UPC: 617308054118Label: Timmion RecordsRelease Date: 8.28.26Format: Vinyl
Originally released in 1961 this newly remastered edition of tenor sax player Coleman Hawkins’ The Hawk Relaxes is released as part of the new Moodsville Series. Featuring Ronnell Bright (piano), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Ron Carter (bass), and Andrew Cyrille (drums) the album is regarded as one of the best albums from Hawkins’ latter period. This new edition is presented on 180-gram vinyl pressed at QRP with all-analog mastering from the original tapes and housed in a Tip-On Jacket.
Tracklist:
I'll Never Be The Same
When Day Is Done
Under A Blanket Of Blue
More Than You Know
Moonglow
Just A Gigolo
Speak Low
UPC: 888072754652Label: Craft RecordingsRelease Date: 9.18.26Format: Vinyl
Tracklist:
Predetermination
In the Name of Beauty
Spontaneity (Beckerlee)
Action
Collusion
UPC: 769791989498Label: FormaliberaRelease Date: 7.31.26Format: Vinyl
Ninja Tune are proud to be releasing the third album from corto.alto, the artist name of Scottish wunderkind Liam Shortall who established himself as the leading name of the UK nu-jazz/jazz fusion world to become a singular and genre-defying talent. SOME SMALL FORTUNE follows his Mercury Prize nominated Bad With Names LP and features names as disparate as Mick Jenkins, Jacob Alon, anaiis and Oscar Jerome. corto recently finished a sold out debut headline run of US shows including hot sets at SXSW and Treefort plus recorded a KEXP session and will be headed back to North America in Summer 2026 playing Montreal Jazz Festival and Festival d'Été de Québec whilst an extensive run is planned for 2027. The LP format has been designed by Liam himself and comes in a snazzy PVC outer sleeve. Don't sleep on this one! UPC: 5054429213270Label: Ninja TuneRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
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