More than any other album in the canon of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, 1958’s Moanin’ – featuring the great drummer with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons and bassist Jymie Merritt – was the perfect crystallization of the band’s bluesy, soulful sound, and it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard…
65th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 180g Vinyl 2LP with 2022 Remastered Audio and Bonus Disc of Unreleased Outtakes! In May of 1957, Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers went into the studio with Thelonious Monk to record a one-off album for Atlantic Records. The Jazz Messengers were a loose collective of young jazz musicians, with a constantly rotating lineup to keep the…
Contemporary Records 70th Anniversary Series 180g Vinyl LP Reissue All-Analog Mastered from the Original Tapes by Bernie Grundman! 2021 marked 70 years of Contemporary Records, the Los Angeles-based audiophile jazz label that both defined and radically expanded the sound of West Coast jazz. Throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s, Lester Koenig s artist-friendly company released…
Art Pepper s third album on the Contemporary Records label, Gettin Together was released in 1960. Featuring a selection of both standards and originals the album also includes Conte Candoli (trumpet), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Jimmy Cobb (drums). This new edition, released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series, features (AAA) lacquers…
Art Pepper – Intensity (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series) Recorded in 1960, Art Pepper s 5th album release on Contemporary Records, Intensity , was released in 1963. A collection of 7 jazz standards the album features Dolo Coker (piano) along with Jimmy Bond (bass), and Frank Butler (drums). This new edition, released as part of…
2021 marked 70 years of Contemporary Records, the Los Angeles-based audiophile jazz label that both defined and radically expanded the sound of West Coast jazz. Throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s, Lester Koenig s artist-friendly company released career-defining performances by some of modern jazz s most influential and accomplished improvisers, including Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins,…
FOR FANS OF: IN FLAMES, OCEANS, AVENGED SEVENFOLD. As I May is a four-piece modern melodic metal band from Mikkeli, Finland – formed in 2016. The band combines modern elements, yet keeps focus on the heavier side of the music, and they sound like a modern day US mixture of In Flames and Amorphis, so…
Smoky Clear vinyl. Lungu Boy is the third studio album from global superstar and Nigerian singer songwriter, Asake. The album promises to captivate fans with it s vibrant rhythms, soulful melodies, and poignant lyrics that reflect Asake s unique artistry and cultural roots. Lungo Boy showcases Asake s signature blend of Afrobeats, Amapiano, hip-hop, and…
Asami Kado made her debut on September 5, 1979. She rarely appeared in the media, but her sophisticated music image was highly appreciated in the music scene at that time. In 1987, she released two albums produced by Yukihiro Takahashi. Her delicate voice is quietly fragrant under his production. This is Asami Kado s 10th…
Aseethe, the trio of guitarist Brian Barr, drummer Eric Diercks, and bassist Noah Koester, carve their own path in the world of heavy music. A singular blend of seismic weight, mesmeric drone, and gripping tension is the Midwestern band’s musical signature. Driven by an exploratory ethos, Aseethe warp sounds into emotionally potent songs that are…
MG.ART announce the authorized 50th anniversary edition of Ash Ra Tempel s Schwingungen, originally released in 1972. One of the most important German krautrock albums. Re-cut carefully overseen by Manuel Göttsching himself. Gatefold sleeve with sticker; Includes original release sheet and inlay.Julian Cope s review on Schwingungen in Krautrocksampler (Head Heritage, 1995): Beware of Schwingungen! That should be the large sticker on the…
WILLSON, Ashe s third studio album, is a triumphant follow-up to her debut album Ashlyn and sophomore album Rae. (2 billion career streams, 1 million IG, 1.3 million Tik Tok). The third in the installment, and her surname, WILLSON is a strong return to Ashe s songwriting roots and marks her return to Nashville, where…
Ashford & Simpson, simply put, are one of the best songwriting duos the world has ever seen. Former successful Motown writers this powerhouse duo penned a string of hits for greats like Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross so it s little wonder that they were inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of…
Asie Payton died of a heart attack on May 19, 1997, in Holly Ridge, Mississippi. It occurred in the early afternoon, while he was driving a tractor in the same fields he’d worked most of his sixty years. For all of 1995 and most 1996, Fat Possum tried unsuccessfully to convince Asie that the world…
Bolster your defenses – ASPHYX are finally back! “Necroceros” marks the krushing 10th full studio album of the Dutch Death Doom elite, following-up 2016’s acclaimed “Incomig Death” release. “Necroceros” once again features artwork by Axel Hermann and contains ten massively pulverizing tracks, mixed and mastered by Sebastian Seeb Levermann. Artwork by Axel Hermann.
The debut studio album by singer Astrud Gilberto, featuring Antônio Carlos Jobim on guitar and arrangements by Marty Paich, The Astrud Gilberto Album was released by Verve Records in 1965. It peaked at number 41 on the Billboard 200 chart and, in 2017, National Public Radio placed it at number 73 on the 150 Greatest…