Below is a list of all Jazz titles released in the last 120 days.
Jan Garbarek Quartet
Afric Pepperbird (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Recorded in Oslo in September 1970, Afric Pepperbird was released on New Year's Day in 1971. Half a century later, it still conveys the freshness and excitement of discoveries being made. The album signalled the arrival of four Norwegian improvisers... |
John Coltrane
Afro Blue Impressions (LP) [ Concord / 2 LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] The recordings that make up Afro Blue Impressions were acquired by jazz impresario/auteur Norman Granz during the tours he produced for many jazz artists during the 1960s, though they weren't issued until 1973. Recorded at shows in Berlin and... |
Bud Powell
Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1, 1949-51 (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] The amazing bebop piano genius Bud Powell made his most enduring recordings as a leader for Blue Note. Powell's 1949 and 1951 quintet and trio sessions were compiled on the 12" LP The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (BLP 1503) in 1955 featuring the... |
Thundercat
Apocalypse (10th Anniversary Translucent Red LP) [ Brainfeeder / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] |
Miles Davis
Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud (LP) [ Classics & Jazz / LP - released 9/Feb/2024 ] The contradictory accounts of Miles Davis' creation of the soundtrack to Louis Malle's film noir Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud have all become part of its legend. Rarely has a soundtrack been so decisive. Close to seven decades on, beyond the myth, this... |
Beverly Kenney
Beverly Kenney: Five Classic Albums (Sings For Johnny Smith / Come Swing With Me / Sings With Jimmy Jones & The Basie-Ites / Sings For Playboys / Like [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] AVID Jazz presents the latest release in our Five Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Beverly Kenney, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details |
Laufey
Bewitched: The Goddess Edition [ AWAL / CD - released 26/Apr/2024 ] Composer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Laufey continues her story by writing and recording Bewitched, her second album. Inspired by jazz greats and classical masters while possessing a point of view that could only be conveyed by a... |
Laufey
Bewitched: The Goddess Edition (LP) [ AWAL / 2 LP - released 26/Apr/2024 ] Coloured vinyl version, expanded with three additional tracks, new cover art & board game. Composer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Laufey continues her story by writing and recording Bewitched, her second album. Inspired by jazz... |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Caravan (Original Jazz Classics Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Originally released in 1963, "Caravan" was Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' first album for Riverside Records. Featured in addition to Blakey are Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Wayne Shorter (sax), Cedar Walton (piano) and... |
Melissa Aldana
Echoes Of The Inner Prophet [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] Co-produced by Aldana and Lage Lund, the album features the tenor saxophonist with Lund on guitar, Fabian Almazan on piano, Pablo Menares on bass, and Kush Abadey on drums.The 8-track set of original compositions includes six new pieces by Aldana... |
Tomorrow Comes The Harvest (Prabhu Edouard, Jean-Philippe Dary, Jeff Mills)
Evolution (Double 12") [ Axis / 2 12in - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Tomorrow Comes The Harvest is the accumulative efforts of talented musicians and their visions about what makes the art form of music so special. A theory initiated and put into action by late Afro Beat creator and Nigerian Drummer Tony Allen and... |
Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement [ Young / 2 CD - released 3/May/2024 ] On his first solo record in six years, Washington turns his attention to dance - a natural progression of the Los Angeles born artist's ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His 2015 album The Epic, as well as 2018's Heaven and Earth were... |
Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement (Black Vinyl LP) [ Young / 2 LP - released 3/May/2024 ] On his first solo record in six years, Washington turns his attention to dance - a natural progression of the Los Angeles born artist's ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His 2015 album The Epic, as well as 2018's Heaven and Earth were... |
Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement (Indies Exclusive Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Young / 2 LP - released 3/May/2024 ] On his first solo record in six years, Washington turns his attention to dance - a natural progression of the Los Angeles born artist's ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His 2015 album The Epic, as well as 2018's Heaven and Earth were... |
Sun Ra
The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Engineered by Paul Cady, the sessions featured nine players, including Ra on piano, Bernard McKinney (later known as Kiane Zawadi, on trombone and euphonium), Marshall Allen (alto sax, flute, among other reed instruments), John Gilmore (tenor sax,... |
Cassie Kinoshi's seed.
gratitude (LP) [ International Anthem / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] In March of 2023 Mercury Prize nominated composer & alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi premiered a commissioned suite of music in front of a sold out crowd at London's Southbank Centre. She wrote the piece - gratitude - for her flagship large ensemble... |
Moor Mother
The Great Bailout (LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Fueled by controlled fury and unfathomable sorrow, Camae Ayewa's latest album of Afrofuturist collage traces the traumatic legacy of European colonialism. - Pitchfork |
Carmen McRae
Great Women Of Song: Carmen McRae [ Verve / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Like her idol Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae could own a ballad and make it all her own. She could also swing every bit as hard as her other main influence, Ella Fitzgerald. Coming up during the bebop era and under the musical sway of Thelonious Monk,... |
Carmen McRae
Great Women Of Song: Carmen McRae (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Like her idol Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae could own a ballad and make it all her own. She could also swing every bit as hard as her other main influence, Ella Fitzgerald. Coming up during the bebop era and under the musical sway of Thelonious Monk,... |
Nina Simone
Here Comes The Sun (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] On 1971's 'Here Comes the Sun' impossible-to-pigeon-hole Nina Simone covers contemporary hits from George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Jerry Jeff Walker and many more. Reproduced by Music On Vinyl on 180g Audiophile quality vinyl. |