Jazz, Funk & Blues

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...

Strut presents an exclusive reissue of Oneness Of Juju’s classic 1976 album Space Jungle Luv, an essential addition to the Black Fire Records reiss...

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

From the first listening to Héritage, the much-awaited fourth album by Songhoy Blues, it is clear that the 4-piece rock band from northern Mali are...

This October Jamiroquai celebrates the 30th anniversary of The Return Of The SpaceCowboy. Their second album, it will be reissued as a double-LP se...

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...

One of the great line-ups of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers coalesced when saxophonist Wayne Shorter joined trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bob...

Empathy can sometimes be a superhuman power; it can connect you so deeply with people, and that bond brings an acute level of trust and love that c...

Released to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of these sessions and the 75th Anniversary of Prestige Records, Miles ’54 brings together 20 tracks reco...

Distance as a measure of time and place informs Kelly Finnigan’s, A Lover Was Born with a grit and grace that turns passion into virtue. The latest...

Strut proudly presents a special edition, deluxe repress of Sun Ra’s classic Lanquidity, for the 25th anniversary of the label. Housed in a tip-on ...

Dark Horse Records is proud to release a very limited pressing of Nina Simone’s debut studio album Little Girl Blue, celebrating the album’s 65th a...

On his third date for Blue Note within a year, Wayne Shorter changed the bands that played on both Night Dreamer and Juju and came up with not only...

This is truly one of the great classics of hard bop, with drummer Art Blakey leading arguably his greatest Jazz Messengers lineup through a driving...

Ornithology: The Best of Bird is a new compilation bringing together 11 cuts from legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. Designed as an introdu...

Acid jazz legend Chris Bangs returns with a brand new album for 2024, following his early-2023 release Firebird, and 2022’s collaboration with Mick...

One of the four immortal albums the Miles Davis Quintet featuring John Coltrane recorded for the Prestige label during the two marathon sessions on...

The Brand New Heavies revisit their seminal 1994 album Brother Sister for its 30 year anniversary. Replete with groove-driven, horn-splashed, hand-...

Standing in the shadow of the unprecedented mainstream success of Getz's bossa period that came before, the Creed Taylor produced Sweet Rain is as ...

Saxophonist Jackie McLean’s 1962 album Let Freedom Ring reflected the change in the air: the musical freedoms of the emergent avant-garde and the s...

Nala Sinephro’s sophomore album, titled Endlessness, expands her scope from the inward journey of Space 1.8 into widescreen orchestral ambient jazz...

Julian Cannonball Adderley's only Blue Note album, Somethin' Else, would likely forever be famous in music lore if just for the presence of Miles D...

Carried by its almost impossibly infectious eponymous opening track, The Sidewinder helped foreshadow the sounds of boogaloo and soul-jazz with its...