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Put this at the top of Hank's career full of highlights: his 1960 Blue Note session with Art Blakey, Wynton Kelly and Paul Chambers. Just looking at that personnel, you know this is going to be a... more

Double vinyl LP pressing. Recorded in May 1970, this smoldering set of funky soul jazz by the great organist Lonnie Smith went unreleased until 1995. Captured live at Club Mozambique in Detroit just... more

Double vinyl LP pressing. In December 1996, as Lee Konitz approached his 70th birthday, the great alto saxophonist brought a unique multigenerational trio with pianist Brad Mehldau (then 26) and... more

Birdland was sacred ground for Blakey, who recorded three albums there from 1954–60. The last was this thriller, a 1960 double album featuring the redoubtable lineup of Blakey with Lee Morgan, Wayne... more

Vinyl LP pressing. For his third Blue Note album Inventions & Dimensions (1963), pianist Herbie Hancock began moving away from the modernist hard bop sound that defined his first two albums Takin'... more

Vinyl LP pressing. Recorded in April 1964, In 'n Out falls square in the middle of the formidable run of five classic Blue Note albums that launched tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson's legendary... more

Vinyl LP pressing. Recorded in 1962, Hub-Tones stands as one of the most significant artistic statements of Freddie Hubbard's formidable career, and also features one of Reid Miles' most iconic album... more

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin blew out of Chicago and made his debut album for Blue Note Records in 1956 steering a nimble quartet with pianist Wynton Kelly,... more