Jazz, Funk & Blues

Internationally acclaimed drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven returns to announce four distinct yet interconnected EPs - Techno ...

North African, LA-based singer-songwriter Ami Taf Ra announces her debut album, The Prophet and The Madman, arriving August 22 via Brainfeeder. A t...

Laufey's third album, A Matter of Time, is a beautiful masterpiece of introspection about the anguish that comes with life and love. Laufey has cap...

"Evans' great innovation was to make the bass player and drummer, in this case, the sublime Paul Motian, equal partners in the music. LaFaro's bass...

Two months after recording his masterpiece, Speak No Evil, saxophonist, Wayne Shorter, was back in the studio recording The Soothsayer, featuring F...

Recorded in 1967 but not released until 1978, Lee Morgan’s The Procrastinator stands in hindsight as one of the monumental achievements of the trum...

On their self-titled second album, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio - featuring Roman Norfleet, Harlan Silverman, and Kennedy Verrett - dives deeper ...

The underrated hard bop pianist and composer Freddie Redd gained prominence as the composer of the score for the stage play The Connection and cont...

One of the finest pianists of the hard bop era, Sonny Clark followed up his 1957 Blue Note debut Dial “S” for Sonny with the stellar sextet session...

Since the 1940s, Library Music has lurked in the shadows, peripherally touching our lives through TV and film. Among the stalwarts of the industry ...

A cosmic fusion of deep funk, interstellar jazz, and avant-garde soundscapes, On Jupiter stands as one of Sun Ra’s most iconic releases. Recorded i...

Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's 1957 studio session in Hackensack, New Jersey produced all the material for the legendary album, Blue Train. The ...

The complete album - limited edition pressing on 180g crystal clear vinyl. The Penguin Guide to Jazz called 'Mingus Ah Um' "an extended tribute to ...

Following their acclaimed debut Spirits, New Zealand’s boundary-pushing jazz collective The Circling Sun return with their sophomore LP Orbits — a ...

The revolution was recorded: in 1969 'Bitches Brew' sent a shiver through a country already quaking. It was a recording whose very sound, productio...

This compilation sees the return of Acid Jazz’s iconic Totally Wired series, which became a huge success in the early ‘90s, following the internati...

Given that 'Round About Midnight was Miles Davis' debut Columbia recording, it was both a beginning and an ending. Certainly the beginning of his r...

The Bridge was the first album Sonny Rollins recorded after he returned to the jazz scene in late 1961, following a two-year layoff to practice and...

This was the first album pairing Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong produced by Norman Granz for his Verve label. After recording a series of duet...

Second only to Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and Jazz Samba by Stan Getz, as the most commercially successful jazz record of all time (it even contai...

Red Snapper is reissuing their Reeled & Skinned compilation on Warp Records. It brings together the trio’s self-released early EPs from ’94 and...

Emma-Jean Thackray, the visionary producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, releases her highly anticipated second album, Weirdo on April 25th...

A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole is the latest album from London-based composer-poet-activist-improviser Alabaster DePlume, his first major work fo...

Letters from the Atlantic displays a seamless blend of jazz, house, indie, funk, R&B, soul, bossa nova, and more. The band elevates to a new le...

Grammy®-winning Arooj Aftab is set to release Night Reign, the follow up to her critically-acclaimed album Vulture Prince, on Verve Records. Aftab ...

1981 album from eclectic jazz music group The Lounge Lizards. French pressing. Year: 1981 - French Polydor pressing Condition: Sleeve has some ring...

Debut album from contemporary jazz group R+R=Now Year: 2018 Condition: Easily a VG+ throughout with very minimal signs of any wear or use. As good ...

Debut album from atmospheric contemporary jazz trio Rymden. Year: 2019 Condition: By many standards, this is in fact NM throughout, but we always u...

Released in Sweden, this unofficial release covers two sides of obscure jazz, Latin and funk!  Year: 2002 Condition: Sleeve has just a little too m...

The 2002 debut album from German electronic DJ and producer Jazzanova. Year: 2002 Condition: Sleeve has just a little too much wear for us to grade...

The 2005 debut album from American soul-jazz  seven-piece The Rebirth. Year: 2005 Condition: By our own strict standards, sleeve is just about a VG...

The Original Complete Motion Picture Soundtrack to the 1970 Italian crime film composed by Piero Piccioni, pressed on double LP.  Year: 1999 Condit...

85 years ago on January 6, 1939, a German-Jewish immigrant and passionate Jazz fan named Alfred Lion produced his first recording session in New Yo...

Washington DC’s Experience Unlimited issued their first album, Free Yourself, on the Black Fire label in 1977. Black Fire is most famous for the re...

Ishmael Ensemble’s third longplayer Rituals marks a significant leap for the Bristolian musicians. With their live-instrumentation-meets-electronic...

Donald Byrd was off to the races after joining Blue Note in 1958 and had fully hit his hard bop stride by 1961 with his excellent album Royal Flush...