Limited edition digitally remastered CD release including seven bonus tracks. Besides achieving a very personal and characteristic sound, John Coltrane opened the way to free Jazz, allowing himself to play long and complex improvisations that increasingly strayed from the tunes in which they were based. However, even though he forced himself to continually move further […]
As the early 1960s progressed, alto saxophonist Jackie McLean’s innovative hard bop began to take on a harder edge and a more adventurous spirit.Inspired by the likes of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, McLean started to seek more freedom of expression in his music and ventured into the realm of the avant-garde, though on his […]
Recorded in November 1957 at Van Gelder Studio, ‘Soul Junction’ is an album by jazz pianist and composer Red Garland.Also featuring the legendary John Coltrane (tenor sax) and Donald Byrd (trumpet) amongst others, the album features five cuts including the Garland penned title track.This new edition of the album is released as part of the […]
A Blowin’ Session is one of the greatest hard bop jam sessions ever recorded; it is filled with infectious passion and camaraderie.It’s also the only time tenor saxophonists Johnny Griffin and John Coltrane would play together on record.Initially Coltrane wasn’t scheduled to be on this date, but Griffin saw him on his way to Rudy […]
Elvin Jones’ 1968 Blue Note debut ‘Puttin’ It Together’ marked the start of a new chapter in the master drummer’s career following his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, and Coltrane’s death in 1967.The spare trio album found Jones engaged in a lively three-way dialogue with bassist Jimmy Garrison and multi-instrumentalist Joe Farrell.
Further distanced in time from John Coltrane’s spiritual new-jazz and the influential second Miles Davis quintet, Doug Carn showed a close affinity with r&b when recording his fourth and final Black Jazz album Adam’s Apple. Tip!Sharing his interest in r&b was a platoon of committed, resourceful jazz musicians including young star-in-the-making Ronnie Laws, who’d worked […]
Having sold his instruments to fund a nomadic 1970s lifestyle, eccentric Irish experimentalist Michael O’Shea was forced to create his own handmade answer to the sitars and zelochords he’d become accustomed to playing on his travels around the globe.Using an old door, 17 strings, chopsticks and combining them with phasers, echo units and amplification, the […]
SOME OTHER BLUES is a major release from Irish guitar giant Louis Stewart and his friend and collaborator, pianist, Noel Kelehan (pronounce keel-a-han) This previously unreleased gem reinforces Louis Stewart’s reputation and reveals Noel Kelehan, whose Bill Evans-like playing wasn’t widely known. SOME OTHER BLUES features 8 standards, including the title track by John Coltrane, […]
Kenny Drew Trio is the 1956 album by jazz pianist Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers (bass), and Philly Joe Jones (drums) – the trio who would go on the following year to be the rhythm section for the legendary John Coltrane album Blue Train.Originally released on the Riverside label this new edition is released as part […]
One of the finest pianists of the hard bop era, Sonny Clark followed up his 1957 Blue Note debut, Dial “S” for Sonny, with the stellar sextet session, Sonny’s Crib, a swinging set of standards and Clark originals – featuring John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Donald Byrd on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Paul Chambers […]
