Jazz

Jeff Parker - Forfolks

Released 10th December 2021.  CD released 11th February 2022. Jeff Parker’s Forfolks — a new alb...

Released 10th December 2021.  CD released 11th February 2022. Jeff Parker’s Forfolks — a new album of solo guitar works — was recorded by Graeme Gibson at Sholo Studio in Altadena, California (aka Jeff’s house) over two days in June 2021. It includes interpretations of Thelonious Monk’s “Ugly Beauty” and the standard “My Ideal,” plus six original compositions including "Four Folks," "La Jetée" (a tune he recorded with Tortoise in 1998), and four totally new loop-driven, stratiform works that...

Blue Lab Beats - Motherland Journey

Expected Release 25th February 2022. London based duo Blue Lab Beats announce their new and most ...

Expected Release 25th February 2022. London based duo Blue Lab Beats announce their new and most ambitious album to date :  “Motherland Journey”. The two producers and musicians assemble an all-star lineup ranging from Afrobeat star Ghetto Boy to rising stars such as Tiana Major9, Pip Millet, Ego Ella May, Kofi Stone and much more. They broaden their inspirations from their trademark Jazztronica and masterfully blend afrobeat, New R’n’B and Soul.

Mildlife - Live from South Channel Island

Released 29th April 2022. Since oozing onto the scene, Mildlife’s mellifluous mix of jazz, krautr...

Released 29th April 2022. Since oozing onto the scene, Mildlife’s mellifluous mix of jazz, krautrock and demon grooves has fast become a word of mouth sensation among open-minded DJs and diggers searching for the perfect beat. Their emergence was fortified by European tours, demonstrating a riotously looselimbed performance approach that was every bit as thrilling as their album’s tantalizing promise. By the end of their breakout year, they’d been nominees for Best Album at the Worldwide FM A...

John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard

Released 14th January 2022. ‘Live’ at the Village Vanguard (Impulse! AS-10), was Coltrane’s first...

Released 14th January 2022. ‘Live’ at the Village Vanguard (Impulse! AS-10), was Coltrane’s first official ‘live’ album. Coltrane is joined here on two tunes by Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet, plus McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums, and Reggie Workman and Jimmy Garrison alternating on bass. Garrison’s presence on this album makes this the first recording by what came to be known as Coltrane’s ‘Classic Quartet’. Recorded live at the Village Vanguard, New York, November 2 & 3, 1961. ...

Jamie Cullum - The Pianoman At Christmas: The C...

Released 19th November 2021. EXCLUSIVE DELUXE REPACK OF LAST YEAR’S THE PIANOMAN AT CHRISTMAS FEA...

Released 19th November 2021. EXCLUSIVE DELUXE REPACK OF LAST YEAR’S THE PIANOMAN AT CHRISTMAS FEATURING 13 NEW TRACKS INCLUDING TWO ORIGINAL FESTIVE SONGS & 11 CLASSIC COVERSNEW SINGLE ‘CHRISTMAS DON’T LET ME DOWN’ OUT NOWMulti platinum-selling musician and multi-instrumentalist Jamie Cullum today announces The Pianoman At Christmas - The Complete Edition. Due for release on 19th November via Island Records. The deluxe album completes last year’s critically acclaimed hit album The Pianoma...

Portico Quartet - Monument

Released 12th November 2021. It's rare that a band releases two albums within six months of each ...

Released 12th November 2021. It's rare that a band releases two albums within six months of each other, rarer too that while both are so different, they are both as epochal in terms of the band's output as Terrain and Monument are to Portico Quartet. The irony is that Monument, a stripped-back, intentionally direct album, was the album that the band set out to write in May 2020, before the dream like long-form Terrain came into focus. Briefly they were two halves of the same record, but the b...

Maria Muldaur w/ Tuba Skinny - Let's Get Happy ...

This is a National Album Day 2021 release, available in-store on Saturday 16th October. For Natio...

This is a National Album Day 2021 release, available in-store on Saturday 16th October. For National Album Day, celebrating women in music! Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny's, ‘Let's Get Happy Together’ now available on Teal coloured vinyl.   Just prior to the COVID Pandemic in January 2020, Maria asked Tuba Skinny to collaborate in a showcase performance at the International Folk Alliance Conference in New Orleans. It was so well received that an album was immediately conceived and recorded la...

Billie Holiday - Lady In Satin (National Album ...

This is a National Album Day 2021 release, available on Saturday 16th October. Lady in Satin is t...

This is a National Album Day 2021 release, available on Saturday 16th October. Lady in Satin is the penultimate album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, originally released in 1958 on Columbia Records. The album has left a lasting mark on the musical landscape since its release and is noted as being one of the greatest of all time. This limited-edition NAD release is pressed on solid blue coloured vinyl