Jazz

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. German Jazz pianist Jutta Hipp remains one of the most intriguing yet little known figures in Blue Note history. A unique and shortlived presence on the NYC Jazz scene in the mid-1950s, Hipp moved to the U.S. with the aid...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Further Explorations documents hard-bop pioneer Horace Silver's quintet: Art Farmer, Clifford Jordan, Teddy Kotick, Louis Hayes. The 1958 session is particularly inspired, with Silver penning all but one of the...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Formidable is the title of Pat Martino's first studio recording as a bandleader in 11 years and it is an excellent metaphor for the guitarist's fearless and virtuosic playing. Martino grew up in Philadelphia, PA, a...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. For his third Blue Note album Blue Mode (1969), organist Reuben Wilson kept it right in the pocket and laid down one of the funkiest soul jazz workouts of the late-60s. Produced by Francis Wolff, the date featured Wilson...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Evans and Hall had first recorded together in July of 1959, during the making of John Lewis' LP Odds Against Tomorrow, and the two musicians also participated on Gunther Schuller's Jazz Abstractions (recorded in December...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Erotic Moods is the infamous 'X-Rated' LP by legendary guitarist and 10x Grammy-Winner, George Benson. Recorded in sessions for Paul Winley between 1976-1978, Benson is backed throughout by the Harlem Underground Band...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Drummer Art Blakey recorded Indestructible-his final album for Blue Note-in 1964 with a powerful sextet line-up of The Jazz Messengers featuring Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Curtis Fuller...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Don Cherry first rose to prominence as part of the Ornette Coleman Quartet that turned the jazz world on it's ear in 1959. Then, in 1965 he began his career as a leader with a run of fiery Blue Note albums including Where...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Decca classic New York, N.Y., is a high point of leading jazz composer/arranger George Russell, an early advocate for Modal Jazz & Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Org. Conceptualizer, his all-star orchestra includes...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Blue Note's roster in the 1960s boasted numerous Hammond B3 organ whizzes including the soulful Kansas City-born master, Big John Patton. The dynamic quintet that he assembled for his 1965 album Oh Baby! Packed a punch...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Blue Note founder Alfred Lion considered pianist Herbie Nichols to be as original and important as Thelonious Monk. Little-known in his time, recognition has grown for his unique compositions like "The Third World," and...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Art Blakey's 1960 hard bop classic, The Big Beat, introduced one of the greatest line-ups of the Jazz Messengers with the legendary drummer joined by Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons, and Jymie Merritt. 3 of the 6...