The post-New Thing lineage is a sacred thing. In the fields sown by Ayler and Coltrane and Sanders and Shepp, the music free and flowing without ego but with purpose. It's a judgment call of course, but the proponents are arguably few. Without attaching too many words to it, it's a style of playing that s something spiritual, something other, a ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Bassist/composer/arranger John Patitucci's intensive sessionography is so vast and amplified by just a smattering of the names he has brought to his triple A+ game to— Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Norah Jones, Monty Alexander, Warren Zevon, Lynne Arriale, Connie Han—it is rather easy to forget what a ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Undercover (Live at the Village Vanguard)
“The lights go down, the audience gets quiet, and the stage lights come up. You walk on stage and feel the incredibly focused energy of the room. It’s like going into a dreamworld.” Legendary guitarist and composer Kurt Rosenwinkel put together visionary jazz musicians Aaron Parks ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings (Mono Remastered 2024)
Newly remastered! Released to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of these sessions and the 75th Anniversary of Prestige Records. The collection is a new, 20-track compilation, collecting genre-defining recordings from the music icon’s 1954 output, including music from classic albums Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Cool
Back on the Scene (Remastered Stereo Edition)
A very tasty set that features several good tracks. The arrangements are inventive, and Green‘s trombone sound is nicely showcased with excellent support from this group. Set can appeal to mainstream devotees. Top tracks are I Love You, which is done in Latin tempo and a slow reading of You’re Mine You. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Monk's Music (Mono Remastered 2024)
"Monk’s Music" is a landmark in jazz — easily one of Thelonious Monk’s greatest albums ever, and a magical crossroads of talents that brings together a variety of jazz traditions! The work is performed by an ambitious Monk septet that includes both Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane on tenor sax — and if you’ve ever doubted the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
At The Renaissance (Live At The Renaissance / 1960 / Remastered 2024)
Recorded live at The Renaissance in Hollywood on Oct 14, 1960, this reissue of Ben Webster's At the Renaissance is a "consistently wonderful" album notes AllMusic, that finds the saxophonist "in superior and creative form." The New Yorker, for its part, has anointed Webster one of the "founding emperors of the jazz tenor saxophone." ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Cool
The Creator Has a Masterplan B (A Tribute to Pharoah Sanders)
This band led by German saxophpnist Johannes Enders is inspired by Pharao Sanders' emotional intensity and never derivative. In nine original compositions the musicians build a bridge back to Sanders, formulating their very own interpretation, expanding on it, and making it swing. Johannes Enders has ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Sonny Rollins and The Contemporary Leaders (Remastered Edition)
"Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders" (Contemporary Records S-7564) marked the last of the classic Sonny Rollins albums prior to his unexpected three-year musical hiatus, which would end in 1962 with the recording of The Bridge. The album features the great tenor saxophonist with pianist Hampton Hawes, guitarist Barney Kessel, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Why New York? "To record an album in New York with his heroes was also a lifelong dream for me. It felt so good the first time that I wanted to repeat it." Bernhard Wiesinger had been to New York several times before, but he never lived there for a long time. "The energy is simply different, even as far as such a production is concerned," he can only confirm. That's exactly what he excellently captured with "Enlightened". A brilliant decision. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
With several Origin releases featuring mainstream heavyweights, young up-and-comers, and chordless trio explorations with his Trio East and Triocity groups, drummer Rich Thompson has covered vast musical ground. Here, Thompson teams with his bandmate from trumpeter Byron Stripling's band, pianist/organist Bobby Floyd, guitarist Corey Christiansen ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Beginning in the 60’s, the small chamber group ensemble became increasingly important in the advancement of jazz, enabling horn players including Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, and Ornette Coleman to seek uncharted sonic territories and achieve new levels of freedom without the support of chordal instruments. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
When my Producer and long-time friend Pat Philips Stratta called to tell me that I had received the 2023 Living Masters award from the SmallsLIVE Foundation, I felt so honored! I was particularly pleased because it also gave me the opportunity to play at Mezzrow for two nights and record an album in the afternoon of day three. For the first ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Trad Jazz
With her second album "Entre Las Flores", has Jeanne Michard established herself as the French tenor saxophonist to look out for. Since the release of her first album, Songes Transatlantiques, the saxophonist and composer, whose style has been inherited from American jazz legends such as Sonny Rollins and Gigi Gryce, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Bebop
Jazz From The Pacific Northwest (Live) (Remastered)
Jazz from The Pacific Northwest combines two previously unissued concert recordings from one of the greatest jazz drummers of all-time, Shelly Manne. The first recording features Monty Budwig on bass, Russ Freeman on piano, Stu Williamson on trumpet, and Herb Geller on ...
Composer: Shelly Manne (1920-1984)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
A Night At The Village Vanguard (The Complete Masters - Mono Remastered by Rudy Van Gelder)
Newly remastered! The mid-fifties was an astonishing period for this saxophone genius. And for all his great work in this era, this daring album and "Saxophone Colossus" remain his crowning achievements. With just bass (Wilbur Ware) and drums (Elvin Jones) in support, Rollins creates tenor saxophone improvisations of increible beauty and inexhaustible ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Groovy (Original Jazz Classics Series - Mono Remastered 2024)
Pianist Red Garland, the former boxer out of Texas who many would argue is still underrated (see his work, too, with Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins), is joined here by drummer Art Taylor and bassist Paul Chamber. This is the trio’s third album together, released in 1957. Bouncy and dexterous Groovy, sits firmly in the bebop and hard-bop genre. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
A leading Norwegian bassist for over 30 years, ECM legend Arild Andersen forges promising relationships with two rising stars - Daniel Sommer (drums) and Rob Luft (guitar) in an expansive, playful exploration of song and collective improvisation. ‘As Time Passes’ is set to release on April 26th on April Records. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Silent, Listening is both a highly individual musical offering and an important contribution to ECM’s line of innovative solo piano recordings. It finds US pianist Fred Hersch, one of jazz’s most outstanding soloists, putting a poetic emphasis on alert, open improvisation while also embracing original compositions and a ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The Salerno Concert (Live) (Remastered)
Reel To Real returns with more top notch live archival music from Bob Mover and Walter Davis Jr. Recorded in Salerno, the recording beautifully captures the short-lived duo association between two musical legends deserving greater attention. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Bebop
