Finally, a new full-length Candy Dulfer album called ‘We Never Stop, A party platter of stanky jams, silken R&B, jazz, and pop-funk, ‘We Never Stop’ features several guest appearances by Chic guitarist, producer, songwriter, and three-time GRAMMY Award-winner Nile Rodgers. Take a listen to the first single “Jammin’ Tonight (feat. Nile Rodgers),” a bold injection of party pop-funk ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Smooth Jazz
Discover the life and music of jazz luminary Ron Carter, the most recorded bassist in history. The album "Finding The Right Notes" is the soundtrack to the film of the same name, which was filmed over a period of six years and invites viewers to get to know the man behind the bass. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Approaching 80 years of age is occasion enough for anyone to take a moment and look back on a life well lived. For legendary drummer Al Foster, those eight decades have been more memorable than most, filled with exhilarating sounds and encounters with some of the music’s most iconic legends. On REFLECTIONS, Foster revisits the work of several of those peers alongside an inspiring quintet of all-stars: Nicholas Payton, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
If Stefano Bollani were to speculate on being named an honorary citizen of Rio de Janeiro with his album "Carioca", he might just succeed. At least if Brazilian critics and jazz fans have their way. They celebrated the Italian pianist effusively for his masterful recording of Brazilian classics. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
Acclaimed drummer and composer Billy Drummond will release his new album Valse Sinistre on August 5 via Cellar Music Group. A major release for Drummond, this is his first album as a leader since his 1996 cult hit, Dubai (Criss Cross), which was named the top jazz album of the year by critic Peter Watrous in the New York Times, and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The Dreamer features The Gabor Szalay Trio performing six Jazz Classics. Including Alone Together by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, There Will Never Be Another You by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, Body And Soul by Johnny Green, Edward Herman, Robert Sour and Frank Eyton, Waltz New by Jim Hall, St. Thomas by Sonny Rollins and In Walked Bud by Thelonious Monk. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
On Blattwerk's new album, you can hear original arrangements of Ludwig van Beethoven (Ode to joy, Adagio from Pathétique, etc.), Gerog Friedrich Händel (Concerto Grosso No. 6) or Gioachino Rossini (Barber of Seville), among others. And of course saxophonists have a very special relationship with jazz.
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), Gioacchino Rossini (1792–1868), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), Alban Hauser (b. 1986), Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Sonny Rollins (b. 1930), Ivan Jones (b. 1940), Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
+ Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics (Remastered Contemporary Records 70th Anniversary Series)
Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics is a 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper and a group of other musicians performing arrangements by Marty Paich who directed the ensemble. The recording is one of several dates Pepper made with Paich in 1959 and is the only one with Pepper as leader. The recording focuses on Paich's large group arrangements of modern ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Cool
Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section (Mono Remastered)
Among the many gems from Art Pepper’s superlative discography was a January 19, 1957 studio date in which the altoist fronted a quartet featuring the rhythm section from Miles Davis’ first great quintet (1955-1957): pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones. Ten exquisite tracks were recorded in a period of just five hours, nine of which made their way onto the album Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni (Commentary)
Why would one of poetry’s most revered voices want to curate a jazz saxophonist’s album of gospel hymns and spirituals? “These songs are so important,” says Nikki Giovanni, one of Oprah Winfrey’s 25 “Living Legends” and a Maya Angelou Lifetime Achievement Award winner for 2017. “They comforted people through times of slavery, and during recent years we needed them ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
In the 1960s, at one of the pinnacles of jazz music’s international popularity, many American stars of the genre landed in Copenhagen to play at the legendary Jazz House Montmartre – with several of the most prominent instrumentalists settling in the Danish capital and subsequently enriching the local music scene ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
A sultry and sophisticated songbird. The ultra-rare debut and sole output of a wondrous and mysterious vocalist, perfectly accompanied by guitar icon Barney Kessel. An Early Stereo marvel from the original 1959 tapes! Kessel was a jazz pioneer -- as one of the leading lights of the hard-bop movement, his jazz guitar was legendary, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Christian McBride & Inside Straight Live at the Village Vanguard is Christian McBride’s twelfth release with Mack Avenue Music Group. This recording can be thought of as a companion to the GRAMMY® Award-winning Christian McBride Trio Live at the Village Vanguard album released in 2015. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Tricycles (Remastered Deluxe Edition)
A milestone in the discography of Larry Coryell. Remixed and remastered by sound engineer Winnie Leyh exclusively for the Deluxe Edition from the original tapes. Leyh has played a major role in the excellent sound of numerous IN+OUT releases. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
40 years after it’s original release, Tattoo You returns with an all-new 2021 master. Tattoo You is the 16th British and 18th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 24 August 1981 by Rolling Stones Records. The album is mostly composed ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Work Time is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, recorded for the Prestige label, featuring performances by Rollins with Ray Bryant, George Morrow, and Max Roach. "After he was coaxed out of seclusion in Chicago to replace Harold Land in the Clifford Brown/Max Roach ....
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
As the follow-up to his 2019 release "The Golden Rule: For Sonny," Eric Wyatt's "A Song for Hope" is vastly different in both tone and intent. Where the former was a tour de force, a tribute to Sonny Rollins and a straight-ahead blast of straight-ahead bop, Wyatt's new record is more adventurous, colorful, unpredictable, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
he acclaimed trumpeter & composer returns with an album of music written & inspired by jazz legend Wayne Shorter. Featuring Blanchard’s band E-Collective with pianist Fabian Almazan, guitarist Charles Altura, bassist David Ginyard & drummer Oscar Seaton, and the Turtle Island String Quartet. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
"Mancio’s tales of love, family, loss and hope are deceptively simple on paper but touchingly persuasive when she sings them. There’s no particular rhyme scheme or verse form, but all the songs follow the same pattern in performance, with a piano solo in the middle. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
