Jazz

This recently unearthed recording captures Alan Braufman with his five-piece band in an early 1975 live radio session soon after recording his debut album Valley of Search for the India Navigation label. This was the first meeting for William Parker and...

This rare and underappreciated 1973 Impulse! Title features a host of influential L.A. musicians and was an important element in the label's 'West Coast contingent' of the early 1970s. The album's distinct L.A. sound and energy continue to resonate in...

This quintessential LP edition includes Dion's magnificent first solo album, Alone with Dion, originally released on the Laurie label in March 1961, and long unavailable on vinyl. This debut LP veers between portraying Dion as a sensitive heart throb in...

This previously unreleased album by the Horace Tapscott Quintet was unearthed from master tapes in the Flying Dutchman archives. Recorded in 1969 and was intended to be a follow-up album to the classic 'The Giant Is Awakened' which was released that year...

This noteworthy live performance, recorded on Record Store Day in 2018 at Plaid Room Records, features songs tracked directly to tape and engineered/mixed by Colemine Records label owner Terry Cole. This show was the first time that the label crew had...

This new Schema release from Italian multi-reedist Gaetano Partipilois dedicated to the music of the '60s rearranged in a modern way. The result is a warm music, refined and full of pathos. American jazz standards and Brazilian numbers dominate the...

This never-heard- before recording of the legendary tenor sax "Little Giant" Johnny Griffin playing at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and backed by members of Ronnie's House Band (Stan Tracey, Malcolm Cecil and Jackie Dougan) sees a AAA vinyl release. The...

This music is inspired by the history of the American continent: not only before European colonization, but also by what's happened since-cause and effect, says Miguel Zen?n of his latest album of all original works, M·sica de Las Am?ricas. The music...

This music counts among Ellington's most well-realized "concept projects," all inspired by Shakespeare's work and filled with memorable melodies and ample opportunities for solos by Cat Anderson, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, and Quentin Jackson. The...

This Max Roach Riverside quintet date is notable features the young trumpeter Booker Little, with Ray Draper's tuba as a melody instrument; tenor saxophonist George Coleman and bassist Art Davis complete the group. Highlights include It's You or No One,...

'This Love is for You' - the debut album by Otooto. Otooto (meaning "soundsound" in Japanese) is the latest name on the Danish indie jazz scene. Formed in 2019 by trumpeter Jonas Due (born 1993) and saxophonist Oilly Wallace (born 1996), who are the...

This limited edition compilation LP was curated from the classic Sun Record Company catalog by participating Record Store Day stores, and marks the seventh installment of the 'Sun Records Curated by Record Store Day' series. Volume 7, Sunrise on the...