Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Everything Classics Vol. 4: Decca Edition - Green Label Series (Japan Import) A special installment in the acclaimed Everything Classics campaign, this Vol. 4 Decca Edition features iconic recordings from the Decca catalog presented with a distinctive green color label coating, echoing the legacy of classic LP designs. Each title in this collection is pressed in Japan using the UHQCD (Ultimate High Quality CD) format-an advanced, audiophile-grade disc format developed by Memory-Tech. UHQCD offers superior sound reproduction and compatibility with all standard CD players, delivering enhanced clarity, detail, and depth without requiring any special equipment. Experience timeless performances with elevated fidelity in this premium reissue campaign.

Everything Classics Vol. 4: Decca Edition - Green Label Series (Japan Import) A special installment in the acclaimed Everything Classics campaign, this Vol. 4 Decca Edition features iconic recordings from the Decca catalog presented with a distinctive green color label coating, echoing the legacy of classic LP designs. Each title in this collection is pressed in Japan using the UHQCD (Ultimate High Quality CD) format-an advanced, audiophile-grade disc format developed by Memory-Tech. UHQCD offers superior sound reproduction and compatibility with all standard CD players, delivering enhanced clarity, detail, and depth without requiring any special equipment. Experience timeless performances with elevated fidelity in this premium reissue campaign.

Green color label coating. Features the high-fidelity UHQCD format. *UHQCD (Ultimate High Quality CD) is an upgraded version of HQCD, a high fidelity CD format developed by Memory-Tech. Decca. 2025.

Everything Classics Vol. 4: Decca Edition - Green Label Series (Japan Import) A special installment in the acclaimed Everything Classics campaign, this Vol. 4 Decca Edition features iconic recordings from the Decca catalog presented with a distinctive green color label coating, echoing the legacy of classic LP designs. Each title in this collection is pressed in Japan using the UHQCD (Ultimate High Quality CD) format-an advanced, audiophile-grade disc format developed by Memory-Tech. UHQCD offers superior sound reproduction and compatibility with all standard CD players, delivering enhanced clarity, detail, and depth without requiring any special equipment. Experience timeless performances with elevated fidelity in this premium reissue campaign.

Arguably Mingus's greatest recording! Featuring John Handy, Booker Ervin, Jimmy Knepper, Horace Parlan, Dannie Richmond and many others, tracks include "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," "Better Git It in Your Soul," "Fables of Faubus," "Jelly Roll" and other classics. This 20-bit digitally remastered edition boasts 3 bonus tracks, 6 tracks in unedited form for the 1st time, brilliant new liners, and great, rare session shots!

One of the quintessential Charles Mingus recordings regardless of label, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus finds a mini-big-band playing some of Mingus’ best-known compositions –albeit with new titles! Features Mingus favorites Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin, and Jaki Byard among its all-star cast. Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

Vinyl LP pressing. Described by Mingus himself as "ethnic folk-dance music," The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady is a single song cycle rather than a traditional jazz album of separate tracks. The intricate arrangements and raw emotional swings of the piece make it a highlight of Mingus' career, and one of the most compelling listens in jazz.

Saxophonist Charles Lloyd is renowned for fearlessly reinventing himself to explore some recently discovered facet of his personality and art. A few years after his final recording in the band of drummer Chico Hamilton and the same year as the saxophonist’s Forest Flower was released, Lloyd took a star-studded ensemble to the Montreux Jazz Festival. Vividly depicting a band that was functioning at its peak, Montreux Jazz Festival 1967 (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series 46) serves to fill out listeners’ understanding of Lloyd’s work with pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Jack DeJohnette. (Ron McClure’s on bass, though Cecil McBee frequently accompanied the saxophonist at the time.) - DownBeat Magazine

REVIEW:

Vividly depicting a band that was functioning at its peak, Montreux Jazz Festival 1967serves to fill out listeners’ understanding of Lloyd’s work with pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Jack DeJohnette. (Ron McClure’s on bass, though Cecil McBee frequently accompanied the saxophonist at the time.)

The bandleader’s decision to include “Lady Gabor,” which originally appeared on a Hamilton disc Lloyd helped record, is just curious given that he had decades of the genre to pick through for inspiration. Lloyd and guitarist Gabor Szabo, who wrote the tune, got their start performing in the relatively unheralded Hamilton groups of the 1960s. And while Szabo dispatched a handful of pretty memorable Technicolor leader dates, there haven’t been too many folks who’ve interpreted his songbook.

This live 1967 recording—which sports a 27-minute rendition of “Forest Flower,” replete with an intense DeJohnette drum solo—lends an air of relevance to Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo’s work almost 40 years after his death. The rendition here is all entrancing flute moves from the bandleader and block-y chords from Jarrett, adding a contemplative vibe to a set of tunes that also takes a run at the pianist’s “Days And Nights Waiting,” and Lloyd’s “Love Ship” and “Sweet Georgia Bright.”

-- Downbeat (Dave Cantor)

Vinyl LP pressing. Described by Mingus himself as "ethnic folk-dance music," The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady is a single song cycle rather than a traditional jazz album of separate tracks. The intricate arrangements and raw emotional swings of the piece make it a highlight of Mingus' career, and one of the most compelling listens in jazz.

Among the most inspirational and innovative composers and musicians of the 20th Century, Charles Mingus remains perhaps jazz music's most accomplished bass player and amongst it's most formidable pianists. His extensive back catalogue of recordings set a new standard in experimentation, blending as it does hard bop with elements of gospel, blues, classical and avant-garde. With a fearsome reputation as a bandleader too, Mingus' guidance resulted in some of the finest performances from the best musicians ever to grace the jazz genre, and his long-standing influence is as potent today as ever it was. This 4CD Set brings together eight of Charles Mingus' lesser known albums, all released during his glory years, between 1952 and 1964. Each LP featured remains a classic in it's own right despite their commercial scarcity and often underrated status. With full original release details and complete musician lists for each record, this set provides over 5 hours of Charles Mingus' musical genius. Available here once again in perfect remastered sound, this collection will prove a delight for long term fans and Mingus beginners alike, offering as it does the chance of completing collections of this legendary jazz maestro universally.

Two CDs. Deluxe edition. Features around 80 minutes of previously unreleased material! Mingus' complete set at Carnegie Hall - played in it's original order for the first time. Includes previously unseen photos from original photographer Gosta Peterson, as well as new liner notes from jazz historian and producer, Michael Cuscuna.

Bassist Charles Fambrough presents a live album recorded at Zanzibar Blue, a jazz club in Philadelphia. It features original compositions by Fambrough, one vocal standard, and a 4/4-time funk rendering of "All Blue" by Miles Davis. Features pianist Bill O'Connell, trumpeter Sean Jones, saxophonist Joe Ford, drummers Lenny White and Wilby Fletcher, and percussionist Roland Guerrero.

MINGUS AT THE BOHEMIA

Import only 180 gram audiophile vinyl pressing. 2010.

CHARLES MCPHERSON

Japanese UHQCD pressing. Universal. 2022.

AT THE BOHEMIA

CHARLES MINGUS / MINGUS - At the time of this recording, Mingus had been working regularly with the piano-less quartet of Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond. The same group featured on the 1960 Candid release, Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus. The Mingus album, also recorded that year, features one track, "Stormy Weather," recorded with that same quartet, and two tracks recorded with a larger group featuring piano and additional horns. Of note, "MDM (Monk Duke & Me)" consumes the majority of this album. The piece consists of three intertwining themes - Duke Ellington's "Main Stem", Thelonious Monk's "Straight, No Chaser", and Mingus' "Fifty First Street Blues." Released in 1961, and recorded in the fall of 1960 by Candid A&R and Producer Nate Hentoff at the Nola Penthouse Sound Studios. The LP includes extraordinary liner notes written by Hentoff, giving a context and insight that adds to the experience of hearing these magnificent performances.

CD reissue of this 2006 release. Ray Sings, Basie Swings is an album that mixes previously unreleased Ray Charles vocal performances from 1973 with newly recorded instrumental tracks by the contemporary Count Basie Orchestra.

Charles Lloyd - "Trios: Chapel" - For more than 6 decades, saxophonist and composer Charles Lloyd has been a free spirit, master musician, and visionary. At 84, he remains as prolific as ever. Early on, Lloyd saw how placing the improvised solo in interesting contexts could provoke greater freedom and creativity. That vision is evident on his Trio of Trios project, which encompasses 3 albums in different trio settings. The first, Trios: Chapel, features guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan.

Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Reissue of this 2006 release. Ray Sings, Basie Swings is an album that mixes previously unreleased Ray Charles vocal performances from 1973 with newly recorded instrumental tracks by the contemporary Count Basie Orchestra.