Jazz, Funk & Blues

Limited edition 180g vinyl audiophile pressing, original album + 2 bonus tracks. This release presents one of Hooker's most difficult to find album...

Little Girl Blue was Nina Simone's first studio recording and features her in an intimate trio setting with bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Albert "...

Moanin' in the Moonlight was Howlin' Wolf's first collection of sides for the Chess label, packed with great tunes and untouchable performances. On...

Limited edition of 550 copies - 180g virgin vinyl, the complete album + 2 bonus tracks. Released in 1955, Lullabies for Losers marked vocalist Ethe...

Paul Bender is the bassist and co-producer from three-time Grammy nominated band, Hiatus Kaiyote. In 2020, Bender soft-released his debut album, Ma...

Discover rare tracks of funk, soul and jazz made in France with French Connection. 23 avant-garde nuggets from the 60s and 70s in a beautiful doubl...

Long out of print second 70's recording from Beverly Glenn Copeland and widely sought after by collectors classic album - remastered and re-cut for...

Long out of print debut recording from Beverly Glenn Copeland. A modern jazz-folkmasterpiece originally recorded for CBC and released as a private ...

Nonesuch Records releases Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Mélusine. Mélusine features a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as...

Jamie Cullum quickly became a household name with this, his award winning 2002 debut album. With a mischievous and lighthearted approach that has b...

Celebrating 20 years since the release of their incredible soundtrack to the experimental soviet documentary film Man With A Movie Camera, The Cine...

John Carroll Kirby is a GRAMMY Award-nominated producer, composer and keyboardistfrom Los Angeles. His new album Blowout was inspired by the local ...

The band have made sure to carry their DIY-centric identity with them, creating a beautifully- produced record with the band's raw energy still at ...

Somewhere Under The Rainbow features Neil Young with the Santa Monica Flyers, recorded live at the Rainbow Theatre in London on Nov 5th 1973. It is...

Giant Steps was John Coltrane's debut on the Atlantic label and confirmed his importance in the jazz scene. It was also the first time in which all...

Any list of seminal 1960s electric blues albums is incomplete without Albert King’s Born Under a Bad Sign positioned near the top. The Indianola, M...

On Variables, his second release for ANTI-, Alfa achieves his most fully realised, expressive musical work to date, coupling his keen ear for loopi...

2022 marks the 100th birthday of Charles Mingus, renowned American composer and bassist in the jazz genre. After his death in 1979, he was acknowle...

When Charlie Byrd toured South America in 1961, Bossa Nova—a melding of Brazilian samba rhythms with the harmonic structures and cool sound of West...

Ride guitarist and songwriter Andy Bell has taken yet another musical detour, this time collaborating with Essex-based duo Masal on an incredible n...

Max Roach's 1960 masterwork We Insist! is a suite based on the Civil Rights Movement, and involves variations on the theme of the struggle for Afri...

Trumpeter Miles Davis led several sessions for Prestige Records between November 1955 and October 1956 with his legendary "first" quintet, featurin...

Limited edition 180g vinyl audiophile pressing, the complete album + 1 bonus track. In addition to being members of Miles Davis' band, John Coltran...

Following the success of his vocal debut Chet Baker Sings in 1954, Pacific Jazz brought the rising star trumpeter back into the studio the next yea...

Drawing inspiration from the depths of late '70s NYC proto-rap disco instrumentals, Nigerian boogie, Jamaican dub and modern jazzy house - The Laha...

One of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Alice Coltrane’s fourth Impulse! album finds her on piano and harp in the company of saxoph...

Soul Jazz Records release a new 12” of this huge 1981 disco / jazz funk dancefloor bomb that has been out of print for over 40 years. Few records c...

Some people have commented that Tinariwen have always been a country band,albeit a North African take on that most North American of genres. That i...

A revelatory discovery in the Tinariwen archives, Kel Tinariwen is an early cassette tape recorded in the early 90s that never received a wider rel...

"This is a wonderful document from early in Taylor's career, when he was midway between modernist approaches to standard material and his own radic...

The roots of JuJu started in San Francisco after Plunky had met his musical mentor, Zulu musician Ndikho Xaba, helping to form his band Ndikho and ...

Empyrean Isles from 1964 is the best of Hancock's Blue Note albums and an outstanding example of modal jazz. But beyond that, it's simply one of th...

Ali Farka Toure is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard ...

Featuring an all-star quartet that includes Red Garland, Paul Chambers and “Philly” Joe Jones. Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section is a mythic reco...

Nina Simone's style encompassed a broad range of musical genres including jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, pop and classical music Although she ...