Jazz

In between being one of the most recorded studio drummers of all time (this "Purdie Shuffle" graced everything from Aretha Franklin to Steely Dan), Bernard Purdie squeezed in a few sessions of his own.

180g blue coloured vinyl - the complete album + bonus track. On 'The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery', one of the guitarist's most iconic LPs ever.

2xLP set that examines the influence and expression of the underground jazz that evolved in California and surrounding states during the latter part of the 20th century.

2xLP set that examines the influence and expression of the underground jazz that evolved in California and surrounding states during the latter part of the 20th century.

Anyone looking for proof that John Coltrane's exhalted status is so deserved need only to glance at the amount of time this album took to record.

The album features unforgettable songs like Unforgettable, Mona Lisa, and Route 66.

Two months after recording his masterpiece Speak No Evil, saxophonist Wayne Shorter was back in the studio recording The Soothsayer featuring Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams.

Granz and Holiday chose familiar items from the Great American Songbook of classic pop for the album, Holiday singing in the context comfortable for her, that of a small jazz band. The original album consisted of six standards, five of which by songwriters who would be categorically tackled by Ella Fitzgerald on her Songbooks series. The sessions reunited Holiday with trumpeter Harry Edison and saxophonist Ben Webster, both of whom the singer had worked with during the 1930s and 1940s, Edison as a member of the Count Basie Orchestra during her brief stay as the band's girl singer, and Webster from the recordings under her own name for Vocalion Records and Okeh Records.

This is Dorothy Ashby's debut album, originally released in 1957 by the Regent label.

A landmark album by Donald Byrd — the first one where he really started to click with jazz-funk producer Larry Mizell!

Lush Life (1958) is among John Coltrane’s best endeavours on the Prestige (and Music) label.

One of the stellar recordings of the jazz-rock fusion era. 

Wewantsounds is delighted to present the first retrospective of Saravah Records, one of the most influential French labels founded in Paris by singer, songwriter and producer Pierre Barouh in 1966.

This special reissue, marking the centenary of Miles Davis in 2026, of the legendary 1958 album “Legrand Jazz” includes a note by Michel Legrand on the historic sessions not included on the original release, and is presented with fresh new artwork based on session photography of Miles with Legrand.

Legendary composer/producer David Axelrod's album, Heavy Axe, is a jazz-rock opus that encapsulated the sound of the mid-70s. 

Sitting between 67's Straight, No Chaser and 68's Monk's Blues, this is the last Monk recording his Quartet.

The recordings collected here show Coltrane’s meteoric rise to stardom, earning the recognition of all his peers; his ascension forces admiration and leaves every listener wanting to hear more.

1960’s Look Out!—the debut album by Stanley Turrentine—announced the arrival of a deeply soulful saxophonist who imbued every note he played with feeling.

Two years after the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s ground- and time-signature breaking Time Out (1959), this classic quartet (Brubeck, piano, Paul Desmond, alto sax, Eugene Wright, bass, and Joe Morello, drums) would continue its jazz experiments in a series that was often inspired by abstract paintings. Time Further Out: Miró Reflections was the group’s attempt at a “jazz interpretation” of Miró’s 1925, a visually kinetic work featuring a prominent string of numerals descending from the upper edge of the canvas.

This record sees its first official vinyl reissue in over five decades. A stereo edition pressing on limited edition heavyweight color vinyl with an expanded gatefold sleeve. Yusef Lateef needs little introduction: a multi-instrumentalist and jazz visionary who blended global sounds with spirit...

Recording of Giant Steps commenced in early May of 1959 with a pair of sessions that featured Tommy Flanagan on piano and Art Taylor on drums, plus Paul Chambers, who was the only musician other than Coltrane to have performed on every date. 

Hank Mobley was inspired by Birth of the Cool on his 1966 album A Slice of the Top featuring Duke Pearson’s arrangements for an octet that added euphonium and tuba to a group with James Spaulding on alto sax, Lee Morgan on trumpet, McCoy Tyner on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Billy Higgins on ...

Next up in Mr Bongo's Groove Merchant Records reissue series, we present the only solo album saxophonist Ramon Morris recorded as a bandleader.

Killer soul-jazz LP by the great jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby - the complete album + bonus track Laura - 180g vinyl audiophile pressing.

Two years before the legendary trumpeter mysteriously fell from the window of a Dutch hotel, he delivered this high-level live performance on a stage in Bologna, Italy, in 1985.

Alfa Mist is one of the driving forces behind a young and vibrant scene of UK musicians, who've taken on jazz as their musical narrative.

With Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960, Roger Vadim stirred up a scandal.

Invigorating six-song hard bop masterclass.

Recorded and released in 1969, Herbie Hancock’s last Blue Note album The Prisoner is a powerful but overlooked masterpiece.

Yet another album of musical excellence compiled by If Music's Jean-Claude for the excellent and massively collectible 'You Need This' series.

Although "Miles Ahead" marked Miles Davis’ first recording with the Gil Evans Orchestra, it was not their first collaboration.

The Grammy* Award winning collaboration of Miles & Quincy revisiting the classic Gil Evans arrangements that Miles originally recorded decades before with Gil.

Probably the greatest set in Baby Face Willette's all-too-slim discography, Stop and Listen matches the organist with the hugely sympathetic team of guitarist Grant Green and drummer Ben Dixon (the same trio lineup who recorded Green's debut LP, Grant's First Stand).

Two days after his 100th birthday, Marshall Allen started recording New Dawn, his debut solo album.

Volume 3 of The Jazz Sessions is here, bringing the original Acid Jazz star James Taylor into play, on the 40th anniversary of his solo career. ‘The Truth’ sees him working with noted players Theo Carasco on drums and Orlando Flemming on upright bass, to recreate a sound influenced by the records that Les McCann, Hampton Hawes and Lonnie Liston Smith were making in the early 1970s.

Grant Green's greatest moment on record is immediately ingratiating and accessible this is the essential first Green purchase, and some of the finest guitar jazz of the hard bop era.

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

The trio of guitarist Grant Green, organist Larry Young, and drummer Elvin Jones had aspecial alchemy from the first time they got together on 1964’s Talkin’ About. Two months later they returned to the studio with the addition of Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone for the sublime outing Street Of Dreams, a four-song set imbued with atmospheric elegance.

This may be one of the pearls in the history of jazz recordings, the John Coltrane Quartet featuring; McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones with guest Eric Dolphy.

The complete album + 2 bonus track - limited edition pressing on 180g vinyl.

Coltrane's eponymous album has since come to be known as a piece of art as definitive as he ever produced.

Antal, founder of the Amsterdam-based Rush Hour Records & Store and renowned for his global DJ touring and eclectic sets spanning house, techno, rare funk, soul, and jazz, curates a personal selection from the historic label Timeless Records

One of Blue Note's greatest mainstream hard bop dates, Song for My Father is Horace Silver's signature LP and the peak of a discography already studded with classics. Silver was always a master at balancing jumping rhythms with complex harmonies for a unique blend of earthiness and sophistication, and Song for My Father has perhaps the most sophisticated air of all his albums

Legendary Jazz trumpeter Randy Brecker is back with his first album of all-new and original compositions in many years.

Freddie Hubbard's first recording as a leader,

The legendary soundtrack by Miles Davis for the film of the same name by Louis Malle, Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud (Lift to the Scaffold), is a masterpiece of atmosphere and improvisation.

By 1970, McCoy Tyner had begun turning more insistently toward African rhythmic and harmonic ideas, that pull already audible in his late 60s Blue Note work, though here it sits at the centre, the band assembled around him with a kind of purposeful density.

Dexter Gordon’s second Blue Note album Dexter Calling… recorded in 1961 solidified the tenor saxophonist’s career rebirth with a joyous return to form. Dexter holds forth at the helm of a quartet with Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones moving nimbly from hard-charging swing to stunning balladry.

Trumpeter Donald Byrd and baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams worked together on several recordings between 1958 and 1961, and The Cat Walk (released on LP in 1962) is among the best

"Even in 1956 (more than a year before he joined the Miles Davis Sextet), Evans had his own chord voicings and a lyrical yet swinging style. A strong start to a signifcant career

Welcome to the mind-expanding 1968 jazz recording of Bill Plummer and The Cosmic Brotherhood—where Eastern and psychedelic influences meld together to produce one of the trippiest jazz albums on Impulse Records.

A timeless treasure from the legendary trumpeter’s second visit to Japan will be released for RSD 2026 on deep-blue vinyl!! (Vol.2). On June 6, 1987, Chet Baker descended upon Phoenix Plaza in Fukui City, Japan! In this electrifying second volume of live recordings, the legendary trumpeter lead...

Lady Sings the Blues is an album by the American jazz vocalist Billie Holiday, released in December 1956. It was Holiday's last album released on Clef Records; the following year, the label would be absorbed by Verve Records. Lady Sings the Blues was taken from sessions taped during 1954 and 1956. It was released simultaneously with her ghostwritten autobiography of the same name.

The final album recorded by Coltrane under his own supervision for Atlantic Records.

Also released as 'Soul Pioneers' (in the 1960s/70s), 'Milt Jackson Quartet' is one of most important albums of this fantastic vibraphone player and composer.

Santa, take the freeway down! The Chess Records Christmas Album gathers holiday classics and hidden gems from the legendary Chicago label.

This album by Ahmad Jamal, a legendary pianist if ever there was one, is perhaps his greatest record of the decade.

another of the great (and unjustly overlooked compared to his impulse years) atlantic recordings from coltrane. a mixture of trane originals and standards, this is a real beauty. 

Produced by the late Bob Thiele -- an eclectic heavyweight who worked with everyone from Coltrane, Ayler, and Charles Mingus to Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, and Louis Armstrong -- Astral Traveling is among Smith's most essential and rewarding albums.

Now, nearly 50 years later, that recording of the great trumpeter’s dynamic set will be officially released for the first time ever on what would have been Byrd’s 90th birthday: December 9, 2022.

Far East Suite is a 1967 concept album by American jazz musi- cian Duke Ellington, inspired by his group’s tour through Asia. Ellington and longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn wrote the compositions. Strayhorn died in May 1967, making Far East Suite one of the last albums recorded during his life to feature his compositions.

Lonnie Smith’s 1970 album Drives was a showcase of the organist’s sense of adventure and indomitable groove.

This is tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley’s first release on the Prestige label, after one previous Blue Note release. 

It's Monk's Time is probably the most appropriate title for a Thelonious Monk album.

After a first EP released in 2019 with Mother Tongue label, a single on Jazz à Vienne & Heavenly Sweetness's various " Past & Future", as well as numerous concerts in Europe, the French band never stopped reinventing itself. 

Capturing Clifford Jordan at the height of his powers—deep, soulful, and swinging hard. Recorded in Paris, France on March 26, 1975 with his working quartet, the album exemplifies the muscular yet lyrical hard bop sound that defined Jordan’s career in the 1970s

A rare Italian jazz album originally recorded in 1972. It blends sophisticated jazz arrangements with atmospheric, cinematic sounds and a light funk groove.

Jeremy Erwin has described the one-continuous-piece-of-music set they played in Vienna in October 1969 as “supremely weird” starting with “one of the more abstract versions” of Bitches Brew.

Vince Guaraldi Trio’s LP Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus was the first by the formation of Guaraldi with Monty Budwig on bass, and Colin Bailey on drums, as Guaraldi’s two previous LPs as a leader featured a piano/guitar/bass trio.

Gil Evans began recording his own albums during 1958-59 thanks to the success of his first collaboration with Miles Davis, Miles Ahead, in 1957.

Bill Beau was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, but was raised in the western provinces of the country. During his high school years, at the height of the boogie-woogie boom, Beau listened to the music of Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson, and Albert Ammons.

Wayne Shorter had already set a high bar over the course of his first several Blue Note albums, which included all-time jazz classics including Night Dreamer, JuJu, and Speak No Evil, but 1966’s Adam’s Apple featuring Herbie Hancock on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums immediately joined the ranks of the saxophonist’s greatest recordings and remains a pinnacle artistic statement of Blue Note’s fertile post-bop era

To mark what would have been the 95th birthday of Chet Baker, Decca Records France presents high quality reissues on 180gm vinyl

Recorded live at the legendary Lighthouse Jazz Club in Hermosa Beach in 1966, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers' Buttercorn Lady captures the group at a pivotal moment in their evolution.

The set is full of diverse melodies played by a variety of distinctive soloists; many of these songs deserve to be revived. This is one of the finest recordings of Duke Pearson's career.

Southern Nights is the GRAMMY-winning album by acclaimed pianist - composer Sullivan Fortner. Recorded live during a weeklong residency at New York’s Village Vanguard in Summer 2023, the album captures Fortner in peak form alongside bassist Peter Washington and drummer Marcus Gilmore, with no edits or retakes, preserving the raw immediacy and electricity of their performances.

On his first Blue Note date since relinquishing The Jazz Messengers moniker to Art Blakey, Horace Silver struck gold with this sterling set of hard bop that introduced his indelible composition “Señor Blues”. 

In 1962, the master trumpeter Chet Baker recorded his beloved sessions at the RCA Studios in Rome, Italy. Backing him was an impressive roster of up-and-coming European jazz musicians, including the saxophonist Bobby Jaspar

The complete album + 1 bonus track - limited edition pressing on 180g vinyl.

Often overlooked, perhaps because he wasn't a great innovator in jazz but merely a stellar performer, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was at the peak of his powers on Soul Station.