Jazz

Gatefold 180-gram vinyl. Getz/Gilberto is an album by American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, featuring pianist and composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, who also composed many of the tracks. It was released in March 1964 by Verve Records.

• 1 The Girl from Ipanema
• 2 Doralice
• 3 P'ra Machucar Meu Coração (To Hurt My Heart)
• 4 Desafinado
• 5 Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) Single Version (Bonus)
• 6 Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
• 7 SÓ Danço Samba (Jazz Samba)
• 8 O Grande Amor
• 9 Vivo Sonhando
• 10 The Girl from Ipanema Single Version (Bonus)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. In addition to boasting one of Reid Miles' greatest album cover designs, Hank Mobley's 1963 album No Room for Squares is also a marvel for the music alone. The tenor saxophonist had already notched several hard bop masterpieces in his Blue Note belt including Soul Station and Workout, but No Room for Squares was an even more ambitious effort that found Mobley elevating his game as a bandleader, improviser, and a composer. The album was drawn from two different sessions each featuring a different quintet line-up. A March 7 date found Mobley with trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Butch Warren, and drummer Philly Joe Jones who deliver thrilling performances of the Mobley originals "Up a Step" and "Old World, New Imports." Mobley returned to Van Gelder Studio on October 2 with Jones once again on drums plus trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Andrew Hill, and bassist John Ore to lay down takes of Mobley's skittering tunes "Three Way Split" and "No Room for Squares" in addition to two remarkable Morgan tunes: the gorgeous ballad "Carolyn" and the grooving "Me 'N You." This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Three Way Split
• 2 Carolyn
• 3 Up a Step
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 No Room for Squares
• 2 Me 'N You
• 3 Old World New Imports

Personnel: Stan Getz (tenor saxophone); Charlie Byrd (acoustic guitar); Gene Byrd (guitar, bass); Keter Betts (bass); Buddy Deppenschmidt, Bill Reichenbach (drums).
Recorded at All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C. on February 13, 1962. Originally released on Verve (V6-8432). Includes original release liner notes by Dom Cerulli.
Personnel: Stan Getz (tenor saxophone); Charlie Byrd (guitar); Gene Byrd (guitar, bass); Keter Betts (bass); Buddy Deppenschmidt, Bill Reichenbach (drums).
Producer: Creed Taylor.
Reissue producer: Michael Lang.
Recorded at Pierce Hall, All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C. on February 13, 1962. Originally released on Verve (8432). Includes liner notes by John Litweiler and Dom Cerulli.
Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Suha Gur (Polygram Studios).
This is part of the Verve Master Edition series.
The album that launched Jobim's now classic "Desafinado" Jazz Samba was released in 1962, in the early days of America's bossa nova craze and before the music lost its charm to cliche. Joined by fellow Latin jazz pioneer Charlie Byrd on classical guitar, and a discreet bass and drums team, tenor saxophonist Getz makes light and elegant music out of a collection of catchy bossas and sambas. His virtuosity, bluesy drive and smooth, soft tone make the music cook like bossa jazz rarely has since. There are still enough surprises to make this record more than just a period piece, and it stands as a fine example of Getz's lyrical genius.

Essential Coltrane is a compilation of some of John Coltrane's best recordings from the late 1950s and early 1960s. The tracks were originally made for labels including Prestige and Atlantic, and feature Coltrane with musicians such as McCoy Tyner, Tommy Flanagan, and Paul Chambers. 180-Gram Red Colored Vinyl - Special Edition with cover and back cover photos by Chuck Stewart

All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Kenny Burrell Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Music Matters' Joe Harley

The first thing that strikes you about Kenny Burrell's second Blue Note album, simply titled Kenny Burrell and released as part of Blue Note's fabled 1500 series, is the cover, which features an illustration by Andy Warhol, the first of three Blue Note covers the soon-to-be famed artist collaborated on with designer Reid Miles. The second is the striking music, which is drawn from four different sessions recorded in 1956 with the great guitarist featured in a variety of different configurations.

The opener, a brisk romp through Harold Arlen's "Get Happy," features Tommy Flanagan on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, Kenny Clarke on drums, and Candido on congas. That leads into a stunning solo guitar rendition of the Gershwin tune "But Not For Me," which is followed by the live track "Mexico City," a piece by Kenny Dorham and recorded with the trumpeter's sextet at the Café Bohemia. Burrell and Flanagan are joined by bassist Oscar Pettiford and drummer Shadow Wilson on the Basie band number "Moten Swing" and Burrell's "Cheeta," and tenor saxophonist Frank Foster makes it a quintet for remainder of Side 2 on Pettiford's "Now See How You Are," Burrell's "Phinupi," and the Burton Lane standard "How About You."

Blue Note Records' acclaimed Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series continues in 2022. Launched in 2019 in honor of the label's 80th Anniversary, the Tone Poet series is produced by Joe Harley (from Music Matters) and features all-analog, 180g audiophile vinyl reissues that are mastered from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio. Tone Poet vinyl is manufactured at RTI in Camarillo, CA, and packaged in deluxe Stoughton Printing "Old Style" gatefold Tip-On jackets. The titles were once again handpicked by Harley and cover the crème de la crème of the Blue Note catalog along with underrated classics, modern era standouts, and albums from other labels under the Blue Note umbrella including Pacific Jazz and United Artists Records. Every aspect of these Blue Note/Tone Poet releases is done to the highest-possible standard. It means that you will never find a superior version.

"The LPs are mastered directly from the original analog master tapes by Kevin at his incredible facility called Cohearent Mastering. We go about it in the exact same way that we did for so many years for the Music Matters Blue Note reissues. We do not roll off the low end, boost the top or do any limiting of any kind. We allow the full glory of the original Blue Note masters to come though unimpeded! Short of having an actual time machine, this is as close as you can get to going back and being a fly on the wall for an original Blue Note recording session."
- Joe Harley

Musicians:
Kenny Burrell, guitar
Bobby Timmons / Tommy Flanagan, piano
Kenny Dorham, trumpet
Frank Foster / J.R. Monterose, tenor saxophone
Oscar Pettiford / Paul Chambers / Sam Jones, bass
Arthur Edgehill / Kenny Clarke / Shadow Wilson, drums
Candido, congas

Features:
• Blue Note Tone Poet Series
• Curated by Music Matters co-founder Joe Harley
• Audiophile-quality 180g vinyl LP
• All-analog mastering (direct from the master tapes) by Kevin Gray
• Manufactured at Record Technology Incorporated
• Deluxe gatefold jacket packaging

1. Get Happy
2. But Not For Me
3. Mexico City
4. Moten Swing
5. Cheeta
6. Now See How You Are
7. Phinupi
8. How About You

Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal in Germany

Blue Note Records has announced the continuation of the Classic Vinyl Reissue Series which presents 180g vinyl LP reissues in standard packaging mastered by Kevin Gray and manufactured at Optimal. The pressings are all-analog whenever an analog source is available, with Gray mastering directly from the original master tapes. While the first 16 titles of the series focused on the best-known Blue Note classics from the 1950s and 60s, the new run of titles curated by Don Was and Cem Kurosman broadens its scope to span the many eras and styles of the legendary label's eight-decade history presented by themes: Bebop, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde, The 70s, The Rebirth, and Hidden Gems.

In the late 1940s, Blue Note founder Alfred Lion became enthralled with the modern sounds of bebop and began recording several of the new music's innovators including the brilliant pianist Bud Powell, who Lion dubbed The Amazing Bud Powell. Powell could be erratic, but as a producer Lion always seemed to draw the best out of the piano master, and cut numerous classic sides including "Un Poco Loco" and "Bouncing with Bud." The fourth volume of The Amazing Bud Powell series, titled Time Waits, was recorded in 1958 and found Powell in particularly fine form on an ebullient set of his original tunes including "Buster Rides Again," "Monopoly," and "John's Abbey." Powell's playing is endlessly inventive as he takes flight in a trio setting with bassist Sam Jones and Philly Joe Jones, who elevates the session with some of his most inspired drumming on record.

Musicians:
Bud Powell, piano
Sam Jones, bass
'Philly' Joe Jones, drums

Features:
• Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series
• All analog 180g vinyl LP
• Mastered by Kevin Gray directly from the original master tapes
• Manufactured at Optimal in Germany
• Standard packaging

1. Buster Rides Again
2. Sub City
3. Time Waits
4. Marmalade
5. Monopoly
6. John's Abbey
7. Dry Soul
8. Sub City (Alternate Take)

It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown/Charlie Brown's All Stars! Original Soundtrack Recordings 50th Extended And 60th Anniversary Editions Forest by Vince Guaraldi

Premiere of the double soundtrack, single 12", BioVinyl LP, celebrating the 50th anniversary of "It's Arbor Day Charlie Brown" and the 60th Anniversary of "Charlie Brown's All Stars." This gatefold edition is a 10-yr bookend of Vince Guaraldi scores of beloved Peanuts® specials.

All Stars, the 2nd Peanuts primetime special following "A Charlie Brown Christmas" aired 6-8-1966. Performed by the Vince Guaraldi Sextet - Guaraldi (piano), Puzzy Firth (bass), Eddie Duran (guitar), John Coppola and Frank Snow (trumpet) and Lee Charlton (drums).

Arbor Day was the 15th and final Peanuts special Guaraldi composed and performed. Guaraldi passed away on February 6, 1976, the day he recorded this wonderful music, at the age of 47. The Trio features Seward McCain (bass), and Jim Zimmerman (drums), who were with Vince when he passed away in Menlo Park Ca. The special aired several weeks later on CBS 3-16-1976.

Both specials were written by Charles Schulz, and produced by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson. "Arbor day" was directed by Phil Roman and Melendez and "All Stars" was directed by Melendez.

Available for the first time ever on forest green BioVinyl. The record was mixed and mastered for audiophiles, jazz lovers, and Peanuts fans everywhere. Clark Germain mixed "Arbor Day" at WonderWorld Studio, Vinson Hudson restored and mastered the record including "All Stars" and Sean & Jason Mendelson produced the record. The gatefold edition includes a 6-page insert with art from the special, liner notes by Sean & Jason Mendelson, and Derrick Bang (author of "Vince Guaraldi at the Piano").

The record is made out of BioVinyl to reduce carbon footprint, with sustainably forested paper and in a compostable PLA bag. In 2026, for every copy of this record sold, LMFP will contribute $1.00 to the Arbor Day Foundation, with a minimum annual donation of $12,000 leading to the planting of one tree is a forest of need. Purchases will not be tax deductible.

• 1 Rerun's Lament [Arbor Day Edition]
• 2 Rerun's Lament (Reprise) [Arbor Day Edition]
• 3 Ships Sail Into Arbor [Arbor Day Edition]
• 4 Laughter in the Library [Arbor Day Edition]
• 5 Flatten Patten [Baseball Theme] [Arbor Day Edition]
• 6 Young Man's Fancy [Arbor Day Edition]
• 7 Jay Sterling Morton Jazz [Arbor Day Edition]
• 8 We're the Visiting Team [Arbor Day Edition]
• 9 Seeds for Thought (Joe Cool) [Arbor Day Edition]
• 10 Don't Forget the Shovel [Arbor Day Edition]
• 11 Sprinkle Your Bird [Arbor Day Edition]
• 12 Snoopy at Bat [Arbor Day Edition]
• 13 Lucy's Home Run [Arbor Day Edition]
• 14 Rain, Rain, Go Away [Rain, Gentle Rain] [Arbor Day Edition]
• 15 Happy Arbor Day, Charlie Brown [Arbor Day Edition]
• 16 Jay Sterling Morton Jazz [Bonus Alternate Take] [Arbor Day Edition]
• 17 Happy Arbor Day, Charlie Brown [Bonus Alternate Take] [Arbor Day Edition]
• 18 Charlie's Run [All Stars Edition]
• 19 Charlie Brown's All Stars! [All Stars Edition]
• 20 Baseball Theme [Medley] [All Stars Edition]
• 21 Oh, Good Grief! [All Stars Edition]
• 22 Surfin' Snoopy [Air Music] [All Stars Edition]
• 23 Pebble Beach [All Stars Edition]
• 24 Rain, Rain, Go Away [All Stars Edition]

1962 jazz albuM features a historic collaboration between two titans of the genre. The album showcases a respectful and musically generous meeting between the older, more established jazz pianist Duke Ellington and the younger, innovative saxophonist John Coltrane.

• 1 In a Sentimental Mood
• 2 Take the Coltrane
• 3 Big Nick
• 4 Stevie
• 5 In a Sentimental Mood
• 6 My Little Brown Book
• 7 Angelica
• 8 The Feeling of Jazz
• 9 Big Nick

Vinyl LP pressing. Merry Christmas! This Christmas classic from the iconic Ray Charles has been unavailable for over a decade. Issued on vinyl for the first time since it's original release in 1985! Ray Charles one and only Christmas album is a must have for all fans of classic holiday music. Charles performs a variety of holiday favorites and originals, including "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and the ballad "That Spirit of Christmas," featured in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. An album that will elevate your soul year after year!

• 1 What Child Is This
• 2 The Little Drummer Boy
• 3 Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
• 4 This Time of the Year
• 5 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• 6 That Spirit of Christmas
• 7 All I Want for Christmas
• 8 Christmas in My Heart
• 9 Wonderland
• 10 Christmas Time

All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Art Blakey's The Witch Doctor Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Music Matters' Joe Harley

Recorded in 1961, but not released until 1967, The Witch Doctor features one of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' greatest line-ups: Wayne Shorter (saxophone), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Bobby Timmons (piano), and Jymie Merritt (bass). Highlights include Morgan's "Afrique," Shorter's "Those Who Sit and Wait," Timmons' "A Little Busy," and Jordan's "Lost and Found" which closes the album.

Blue Note Records' acclaimed Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series continues in 2021. Launched in 2019 in honor of the label's 80th Anniversary, the Tone Poet series is produced by Joe Harley (from Music Matters) and features all-analog, 180g audiophile vinyl reissues that are mastered from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio. Tone Poet vinyl is manufactured at RTI in Camarillo, CA, and packaged in deluxe Stoughton Printing "Old Style" gatefold Tip-On jackets. The titles were once again handpicked by Harley and cover the crème de la crème of the Blue Note catalog along with underrated classics, modern era standouts, and albums from other labels under the Blue Note umbrella including Pacific Jazz and United Artists Records. Every aspect of these Blue Note/Tone Poet releases is done to the highest-possible standard. It means that you will never find a superior version.

"The LPs are mastered directly from the original analog master tapes by Kevin at his incredible facility called Cohearent Mastering. We go about it in the exact same way that we did for so many years for the Music Matters Blue Note reissues. We do not roll off the low end, boost the top or do any limiting of any kind. We allow the full glory of the original Blue Note masters to come though unimpeded! Short of having an actual time machine, this is as close as you can get to going back and being a fly on the wall for an original Blue Note recording session."
- Joe Harley

Musicians:
Art Blakey, drums
Wayne Shorter, saxophone
Lee Morgan, trumpet
Bobby Timmons, piano
Jymie Merritt, bass

Features:
• Blue Note Tone Poet Series
• Curated by Music Matters co-founder Joe Harley
• Audiophile-quality 180g vinyl LP
• All-analog mastering (direct from the master tapes) by Kevin Gray
• Manufactured at Record Technology Incorporated
• Deluxe gatefold jacket packaging

1. The Witch Doctor
2. Afrique
3. Those Who Sit and Wait
4. A Little Busy
5. Joelle
6. Lost and Found

Saxophone Colossus is the sixth studio album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Perhaps Rollins's best-known album, it is often considered his breakthrough record. It was recorded on June 22, 1956, with producers Bob Weinstock and Rudy Van Gelder at the latter's studio in Hackensack, New Jersey.

• 1 Saint Thomas
• 2 You Donaet Know What Love Is
• 3 Strode Road
• 4 Moriat
• 5 Blue 7

Vinyl LP pressing. For his third Blue Note album Inventions & Dimensions (1963), pianist Herbie Hancock began moving away from the modernist hard bop sound that defined his first two albums Takin' Off and My Point Of View. Inspired by explorers like Eric Dolphy and Tony Williams, Hancock went in search of greater musical freedom by composing a set of ingenious originals each with their own unique inner logic that did away with what he considered the established jazz "assumptions" of the time.

• 1 Succotash
• 2 Triangle
• 3 Jack Rabbit
• 4 Mimosa
• 5 Jump Ahead, a
• 6 Mimosa - (Alternate Take, Bonus Track)

Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Lee Morgan (trumpet); Curtis Fuller (trombone); Kenny Drew (piano); Paul Chambers (bass); Philly Joe Jones (drums).Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on September 15, 1957. Originally released on Blue Note (81577). Includes liner notes by Robert Levin and Bob Blumenthal.This Enhanced-CD version of BLUE TRAIN features audio tracks from BLUE TRAIN, interviews with jazz musicians (including Curtis Fuller, who played trombone on BLUE TRAIN), still pictures and video clips from the period, and a multimedia biography of Coltrane.Personnel includes: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Lee Morgan (trumpet); Curtis Fuller (trombone); Kenny Drew (piano); Paul Chambers (bass); "Philly" Joe Jones (drums).Producer: Alfred Lion.Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Hackensack, New Jersey. Includes liner notes by Michael Cuscuna.Digitally remastered by Ron McMaster.Personnel: John Coltrane (alto & tenor saxophones); Gene Ammons, Paul Quinichette (tenor saxophone); Pepper Adams (baritone saxophone); Donald Byrd (trumpet); Jerome Richardson (flute); Tommy Flanagan, Red Garland, Mal Waldron (piano); Kenny Burrell (guitar); Paul Chambers, George Joyner, Earl May (bass); Jimmy Cobb, Arthur Taylor (drums).Producer: Bob Weinstock.Compilation producer: Ed Michel.Recorded at the Ven Gelder Studios, Hackensack, New Jersey between August 16, 1957 and May 23, 1958. Includes liner notes by Stuart Kremsky.Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino (1996, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).Recorded in 1957, BLUE TRAIN is considered by the artist himself to be his finest work. In the mid-50's, Trane played with Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk, and he used the experience to propel himself to new heights of improvisational hard bop. The elements that comprise BLUE TRAIN would come to influence every generation of musicians that followed.The bluesy title track kicks in with an extended Coltrane tenor sax solo.

The formation heard here marks the third incarnation of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, which included trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons and bassist Jymie Merritt. Golson penned four of the songs from Moanin' and added several perennial compositions to the group's repertoire, among them the two bonus tracks on this edition, "Whisper Not" and "I Remember Clifford," the latter written in memory of star trumpeter Clifford Brown. Pianist Bobby Timmons contributed such hits of his own as the title track, "Moanin'". THE COMPLETE ALBUM + 2 BONUS TRACKS - 180- GRAM VIRGIN VINYL - LIMITED EDITION

• 1 Moanin'... 9:32
• 2 Are You Real... 4:48
• 3 Along Came Betty... 6:09
• 4 I Remember Clifford... 5:43 *
• 5 The Drum Thunder Suite First Theme: Drum Thunder Second Theme: Cry a Blue Tear Third Theme: Harlem's Disciples... 7:32
• 6 Blues March... 6:14
• 7 Come Rain or Come Shine... 5:47
• 8 Whisper Not... 7:32 *

Millions love this pianist/composer for his Peanuts music, but his biggest solo triumph, easily, was this 1962 LP. His imaginative interpretations of songs from the film Black Orpheus join Guaraldi originals including his sole pop hit, the beautiful Cast Your Fate to the Wind, which joins Samba de Orfeu: Manha de Carnaval: O Nosso Amor, and more. So sweet to be able to hear this on vinyl! 120-gram. Fantasy.

• 1 Samba de Orpheus
• 2 Manh de Carnaval
• 3 O Nosso Amor
• 4 Felicidade
• 5 Cast Your Fate to the Wind
• 6 Moon River
• 7 Alma-Ville
• 8 Since I Fell for You

A game-changer in jazz and an RIAA-certified Gold classic, Giant Steps marks John Coltrane's legendary Atlantic Records debut, featuring some of his most iconic compositions-including the groundbreaking title track "Giant Steps" and the soulful "Naima." Now pressed locally on 180-gram premium-quality vinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing's new plant in Oxnard, California, as part of Rhino's exclusive Rhino Reserve line.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Giant Steps
• 2 Cousin Mary
• 3 Countdown
• 4 Spiral
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Syeeda's Song Flute
• 2 Naima
• 3 Mr. P.C

Vinyl LP pressing. There's nothing else in jazz quite like this collection recorded - astonishingly - in just one session on 20th January 1963. With liner notes written by Mingus's psychotherapist, the album uses ornate ensemble orchestration to produce a sound somewhere between jazz and folk.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 01. "Track a - Solo Dancer"
• 2 Stop! Look! and Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!
• 3 02. "Track B - Duet Solo Dancers"
• 4 Hearts' Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces
• 5 03. "Track C - Group Dancers"
• 6 (Soul Fusion) Freewoman and Oh, This Freedom's Slave Cries
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 01. "Mode D - Trio and Group Dancers"
• 2 Stop! Look! and Sing Songs of Revolutions!
• 3 02. "Mode E - Single Solos and Group Dance"
• 4 Saint and Sinner Join in Merriment on Battle Front
• 5 03. "Mode F - Group and Solo Dance"
• 6 Of Love, Pain, and Passioned Revolt, Then Farewell, My Beloved, 'Til It's Freedom Day

GREEN IS BEAUTIFUL (BLUE NOTE CLASSIC VNYL SERIES) 180gram Heavy Vinyl - Grant Green's musical style evolved to embrace jazz-funk as the decade turned to 1970. The guitarist's vibrant album Green Is Beautiful is a highlight of the era. With his distinctive tone, he shines on a set that includes covers of James Brown ("Ain't It Funky Now"), The Beatles ("A Day In The Life") and Burt Bacharach ("I'll Never Fall In Love Again"). Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optima.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Ain't It Funky Now
• 2 A Day in the Life
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 The Windjammer
• 2 I'll Never Fall in Love Again
• 3 Dracula