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Wayne Shorter
Speak No Evil (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] On his third date for Blue Note within a year, Wayne Shorter changed the bands that played on both Night Dreamer and Juju and came up with not only another winner, but also managed to give critics and jazz fans a different look at him as a... |
Andrew Hill
Dance With Death (Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] The brilliant pianist and composer Andrew Hill debuted on Blue Note in 1963 with a flurry of creativity and maintained a prolific recording output through the end of the decade that left several stunning sessions unreleased in the vaults. Recorded... |
Anthony Williams
Life Time (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] Tone Poet Vinyl Edition reissue produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket. The... |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Mosaic (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Oct/2023 ] The 1961 album Mosaic marked a pivotal moment in the story of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers with the arrival of Freddie Hubbard and Cedar Walton and the band's expansion to a sextet with the addition of Curtis Fuller joining existing members Wayne... |
Bill Evans Trio
Moon Beams (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Bill Evans was left reeling by the accidental death of his brilliant bassist Scott LaFaro in mid-1961 and didn't feel ready to record with his new bassist until nearly a year later. When he did go into the studio in May and June of 1962 with Chuck... |
Bill Frisell
Orchestras (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Guitarist Bill Frisell's new double LP Orchestras documents two inspired concert-hall engagements arranged by Michael Gibbs for Frisell's long-standing trio with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston: one featuring the nearly 60-piece... |
Booker Evin
Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Booker Ervin cut 2 stellar Blue Note records in the late-60s including Tex Book Tenor which had to wait until 2005 for its first release. With a quintet featuring Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, Jan Arnet & Billy Higgins the Texas-born saxophonist slices... |
Cautious Clay
Karpeh (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Aug/2023 ] New York based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Cautious Clay takes a giant artistic leap forward with an ambitious yet introspective album about growth, conceptions of intimacy, and lineage that reveals a new side of his... |
Chet Baker
Chet Baker Sings And Plays (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 7/Apr/2023 ] Following the success of his vocal debut Chet Baker Sings in 1954, Pacific Jazz brought the rising star trumpeter back into the studio the next year for the sequel Chet Baker Sings and Plays which showcased both sides of Baker's artistry on a set of... |
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Turning Point (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Jul/2023 ] One of the funkiest and most creative organists of all time, Dr. Lonnie Smith was first brought into the Blue Note fold by alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson who featured the B3 virtuoso on late-1960s soul jazz classics including Alligator Bogaloo, Mr.... |
Elvin Jones
Poly-Currents (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Jan/2024 ] After his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, the master drummer Elvin Jones signed with Blue Note in 1968 and began building his own career as a bandleader. His first two albums for the label were spare trio outings-Puttin' It Together... |
Fats Navarro
The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1 (Blue Note Classic LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/May/2023 ] The prodigiously talented trumpeter Theodore "Fats" Navarro was a bebop innovator whose career was cut tragically short when he died in 1950 at the age of 26. Navarro played with Charlie Parker and forged a distinctive style on his horn that would... |
Grant Green
Feelin' The Spirit (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Grant Green was Feelin' The Spirit on this deeply soulful 1962 date that is a sibling of sorts to the great guitarist's sanctified 1961 album Sunday Mornin'. Feelin' The Spirit, which was the 13th album the remarkably prolific artist recorded... |
Hank Mobley
No Room For Squares (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Oct/2023 ] In addition to boasting one of Reid Miles' greatest album cover designs, Hank Mobley's 1963 album No Room for Squares is also a marvel for the music alone. The tenor saxophonist had already notched several hard bop masterpieces in his Blue Note belt... |
Horace Silver
Silver's Serenade (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] Tone Poet Vinyl Edition reissue produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on... |
Ike Quebec
Heavy Soul (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Jul/2023 ] There may not be a more apropos album title in all of recorded music than tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec's 1961 classic Heavy Soul. The session marked a comeback for a crucial player in Blue Note history. |
John Coltrane
Blue Train - The Complete Masters (Double LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 16/Sep/2022 ] On September 15, 1957, John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder's living room studio in Hackensack, New Jersey and recorded his first great masterpiece: Blue Train. It would be the legendary saxophonist's sole album as a leader for Blue Note, a... |
Johnathan Blake
Passage [ Blue Note (Usa) / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Drummer, composer, and bandleader Johnathan Blake follows up his acclaimed 2021 Blue Note debut Homeward Bound with Passage, an uplifting sequel that once again features his band Pentad with Immanuel Wilkins on alto saxophone, Joel Ross on... |
Kenny Burrell
K.B. Blues (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Kenny Burrell had been recording for Blue Note less than a year when he entered Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack, New Jersey studio in February 1957 for his 3rd session as a leader for the label. The date presented the guitarist's signature stylings with... |
Kenny Dorham
Trompeta Toccata (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Kenny Dorham's 1964 album Trompeta Toccata would be the final album that the great underrated trumpeter and composer would record as a leader, and it stands as a fitting testament to his prodigious talent. The album featured a stellar quintet with... |
