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A Jazz Landmark of the Black Diaspora Reborn First released in 1971 as part of BYG Records' groundbreaking Actuel series, Jacques Coursil's Black Suite remains one of the boldest expressions of... more

Vadim is one of the most accomplished pianists of his generation, a musician of astonishing range and passion. His newest work tells a story of compassion, empathy, willpower, resistance, sincerity,... more

XL Recordings head Richard Russell, who produced Scott-Heron's final album, "I'm New Again," became enamored with the work of Chicago musician/beat-maker/producer Makaya McCraven a couple years back.... more

Released a year before he died, Gil Scott-Heron's final album (and first in 16 years) awed listeners as he paired his signature street poetry with surprising covers, hypnotic loops, hip-hop beats and... more

The music presented here was recorded in Oct. 2001 at the St. Peter's Chelsea Episcopal Church in Manhattan during the Chautauqua Jazz Party. As four of the current best players of music associated... more

Brian Melvin is an American jazz drummer and leads Beatlejazz along with Grammy Award winning pianist David Kikoski. Melvin is best known for his collaboration with Hall of Fame bassist and composer... more

Digitally remastered edition. An F-bomb saturated hip-hop call and response club cut... from Sun Ra?! While the most renown track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled repartee... more

Two-time Grammy-winner Alan Broadbent is back with his newest album EVERY TIME I THINK OF YOU which delivers a 10-song collection of standards and originals steeped in emotion and a romanticism... more

Jazz guitarist Bill Banfield's father just turned 100 years old. At a recent celebration, family and friends gathered virtually and in person to celebrate his life and ask his advice. Bill had been... more

TV on the Radio's David Sitek produced this 2017 album, bringing a modern sensibility to the throwback sound of the band. Cuban flavors enter the recipe here, too, as you savor "So It Is,"... more

Recorded in the summer of 1978 in Manhattan's C. I. Recording Studio this rare encounter of jazz's supreme instrumentalists and individualists Walt Dickerson (1928 - 2008) and Sun Ra (1914 - 1993)... more

In September 2023, PMP is proud to release Anthony Braxton's "Four Compositions (Wesleyan) 2013", a limited deluxe 4-CD box set documenting the one-time meeting of an all-star trio featuring the... more

Legendary guitarist Mike Stern has been celebrated for his versatile playing style since he first hit the scene in the 1970s, transcending genre by performing with Blood, Sweat & Tears, Miles Davis,... more

"This is the party music many of us most closely associate with New Orleans and you are invited to crank the shit out of it because the louder you play this one the better it sounds." -Analog... more

Originally released in 1974, Airto's FINGERS is re-released here.

2021 release. Over the course of a distinguished career spanning nearly 30 albums, multi-Grammy-winning pianist/singer/composer Eliane Elias' distinctive musical style has emerged as one of the most... more

2018 release. Kamasi Washington's sophomore album Heaven and Earth not only fulfills it's overarching ambition, but illustrates the dialectic between seen and unseen, real and imagined, citizen and... more

It's been two years since John McLaughlin released the highly acclaimed To The One (ABL 21) - his first studio recording with The 4th Dimension, the veteran guitar innovator's second longest-standing... more

Helen Merrill attributed her childhood musical influence to her mother's singing. Truth is, she didn't wait long herself to make a mark as a teenage jazz ingenue, following-up with the notable... more

1974 release.

BLUE MOSES was pianist Randy Weston's most popular recording, reaching No. 16 on the Billboard Jazz chart in 1972. Weston is stunningly backed here by Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Grover Washington,... more