Limited 180 Gram 2LP set - 3 Side edition. Deluxe gatefold jacket with photos. "I've never played for such an audience" declared Art Blakey in tears. lt was November 22, 1958, and he'd just come offstage after one of the "Jazz Wednesdays" concerts at the Paris Olympia. This is the sound of a band in full flight, springing through uptempo cuts and softer reveries with irrepressible joy and feeling. Check it out!
LIMITED 10-INCH EP FACSIMILE REISSUE USING THE ORIGINAL COVER ART. For this night tour through Paris, Barney Wilen is surrounded by the musicians who have accompanied him for several weeks at the Club Saint-Germain: Kenny Dorham, Duke Jordan, Paul Rovère, and Kenny Clarke. The result is a very happy marriage, as the music seems to have been created for the image and the image for the music.
A rare and beautiful set from the Japanese scene of the 70s – a record that features tenor and soprano sax from Hideyasu Terekawa, and vibes from Hiroshi Fujii – a wonderful combination, and a pair of players who really open up in the live setting of the record!
128 pages 174 x 250 mm in size and printed on 140g Edixion paper with laminated 300g Invercote covers. All articles presented IN ENGLISH. Stories include Black Jazz Records, As-Shams, Nyege Nyege Festival, Alina Bzhezhinska, Carl Stone, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Travelogue Pharoah / Jazz Composers Orchestra, reviews, plus more.
Analogue Productions, together with Quality Record Pressings, is putting Kind of Blue where it belongs: the Ultra High-Quality Record (UHQR) pressed on clear double 200 gr. vinyl cut at 45RPM on a manual Finebilt press with attention paid to every single detail of every single record. Check it out!
Dot Time Records and Mosaic Records, in partnership for the first time, are thrilled to announce the release of Lennie Tristano Personal Recordings 1946 – 1970. This 6-CD set chronicles over twenty years of stunning creative output from jazz luminary Lennie Tristano offering listeners the most comprehensive portrait of Tristano’s musical genius available.
American jazz group, innovators of sound, structure, and form in free jazz. They embraced a diversity of African and African American styles and sources in their creation of what they preferred to call “Great Black Music.” Grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the late 1960s, the ensemble integrates many jazz styles and plays many instruments, including "little instruments": bells, bicycle horns, birthday party noisemakers, wind chimes, and various forms of percussion. The musicians would wear costumes and face paint while performing.
Not exactly a label, Acoustic Sounds is the world leader in audiophile music. Headquartered in Salina, Kansas, Acoustic Sounds is a global retailer of the largest selection of highest-quality music in a variety of formats. The company owns its own record pressing plant, Quality Record Pressings, and its own vinyl reissue label (Analogue Productions) which is responsible for a significant chunk of the amazing AAA re-issues that have happened over the past few years. Their reissue series in collaboration with Universal and Concord (Verve-Impulse and Contemporary), are already an essential reference for the audiophile sound lover..
Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub is a thrilling previously unissued live recording of Elvin Jones’ quartet that captures the legendary drummer’s emergence as a bandleader at a little-known club in New York City where he had a weekly residency after leaving John Coltrane's band in the late 1960s. Featuring Joe Farrell, Billy Greene, and Wilbur Little, Revival was recorded between July 28-30, 1967, just two weeks after Coltrane died on July 17