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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

The definitive version of the iconic artist's final studio album. • CD and double-LP contain 11 bonus tracks (4 previously unissued). • Packaging contains new liner notes from the British Ambassador... more

Forever Yours: The Farewell Performance captures highlights from two transcendent solo-piano concerts given just four months before the jazz icon Chick Corea's passing. Made at Ruth Eckerd Hall in... more

Double vinyl LP pressing. Live albums are often a 'hit or miss' affair but 'Live Oblivion' 1 & 2 buck that trend, Recorded across 2 nights in 1974 at the Hollywood venue The Whisky A Go Go. Released... more

2021 Japanese reissue, part of Universal Japan's 'Brazil's Treasured Masterpieces: 1950s - 2000s.

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

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

Since her death, the music of Billie Holiday has been championed by many high-profile artists who freely acknowledge her influence. Though Holiday's career was relatively short, she created a musical... 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

The Koln Concert 2-LP / gatefold sleeve / booklet / printed signature - the groundbreaking recording of Keith Jarrett's improvised solo concert at the Cologne opera house - has attained legendary... more

2021 Japanese reissue, part of Universal Japan's 'Brazil's Treasured Masterpieces: 1950s - 2000s.

Stevie Holland returns to the recording studio! Her swinging jazz phrasing, sense of humor and sheer vocal beauty shine right on through her sixth release, Talk to Your Tomatoes. |Recorded in April... more

This double live LP features recordings from three nights of shows - May 12 and 13, 2023 at 2220 Arts & Archives in Los Angeles and May 15 at The Chapel in San Francisco. It's a breathtaking 90... 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

Digitally remastered edition. War Orphans is an album by Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson recorded in 1997 and released on the ECM label.

Romantic Warrior (1976) is the sixth studio album of fusion band Return to Forever. Romantic Warrior is the band's bestselling, record reaching eventual sales of 500,000 copies. It was the group's... more

Digitally remastered two-fer from the Jazz greats. Contains the complete original LP the Great Kai & J.J., one of the best conjunct efforts of Jay Jay Johnson and Kai Winding. Featuring such stars as... 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

Acid jazz founding figure Chris Bangs and former Style Council founding member Mick Talbot return with their new album Smokin' Aces, featuring 12 new tracks, with Bangs & Talbot joined by... more

BRIAN SETZER / VAVOOM (Jacket-Caravan Yellow) Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The Brian Setzer Orchestra (sometimes known by it's initials BSO) is a swing and jump blues band formed in 1992 by Stray... more

Etta James' powerful, versatile and emotionally direct voice could enliven the raunchiest blues as well as the subtlest love songs, such as her signature hit, "At Last". She was one of the most... more

Pressed on limited, 180 gram, blue vinyl! Hugely influential 'new jazz' masterpiece from 1960. Trane's quartet (Tommy Flanagan or Wynton Kelly - piano, Paul Chambers - bass, Art Taylor or Jimmy Cobb-... more