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Since her death, the music of Billie Holiday has been championed by many high-profile artists who freely acknowledge her influence. Though Holiday's career was relatively short, she created a musical legacy that has endured to the current day. Billie Holiday was an original, and this compilation brings together the very best of her output. After experiencing these 42 tracks you will have an insight into the art and soul of a vocal artist who, Frank Sinatra insisted, touched every major American singer of their generation with her genius. 3LP White vinyl gatefold sleeve

Limited edition Japanese remastered pressing. Ultra-Vybe. 2021.

Carla Bley and her Remarkable Big Band, as the cover has it, in a resolutely contemporary performance of nostalgia-inflected material, recorded live at Paris's New Morning club. The album showcases rich and robust performances of new Bley material (plus an arrangement of a Ray Noble chestnut) with particularly stellar contributions by saxophone soloists Andy Sheppard and Wolfgang Puschnig, by trumpeter Lew Soloff, and trombonist Gary Valente. Centrepiece of the album is the 25 minute title track Appearing Nightly at the Black Orchid - commissioned for the Monterey Jazz Festival and heard here in a premiere recording.

GREAT MOMENTS

ROAR OF 74

2014 limited edition Japanese pressing 24 bit digital remastering. Warner.

Limited 180gm colored vinyl LP pressing. Includes bonus tracks.

Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums on one CD. From 1968 and 1969, two albums by acclaimed trumpet player, arranger and bandleader Don Ellis. The Big Band sound of Ellis was part of a jazz rock scene which was pioneered by the likes of Chicago and Blood Sweat & Tears. Slipcased with extensive new liner notes.

Limited 180gm colored vinyl LP pressing. Includes bonus tracks.

SATURDAY NIGHT: LIMITED

Japanese pressing. Ultra-Vybe. 2020.

Remastered 180-gram vinyl. Here Comes the Sun (1971) is an album by jazz singer-pianist Nina Simone, consisting of cover versions of songs by Pop and Rock musicians. It features songs recorded in the RCA studios with a full orchestra and backing vocals.

Japanese remastered pressing. Solid Records. 2020.

Digitally remastered two CD set containing a trio of albums by the Jazz trumpeter, his first three for Creed Taylor's CTI label: RED CLAY (1970), STRAIGHT LIFE and FIRST LIGHT (both 1971). The albums feature George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette and Ron Carter amongst others. These recordings were critically acclaimed and rejuvenated Hubbard's career.

Many great singers passed through the hands of late great soul/R&B producer Jerry Wexler, from Aretha Franklin to Dusty Springfield, but Etta James was a singer he willingly waited 20 long years to work with. "Etta is a church in herself," he said in his autobiography, adding: "Her voice is a mighty influence, her musical personality able to express an extraordinary range of moods." He further described her as "A woman used but not spent, abused but never defeated, vulnerable but though sheer strength of will, victorious." Her legend lives on in her music. Press play and share her many emotions... 3LP Gatefold white vinyl

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing featuring bonus CD edition. Includes bonus tracks. Monk's Dream is an album by jazz pianist Thelonious Monk that was released by Columbia Records in March 1963. It was Monk's first album for Columbia following his five-year recording period with Riverside Records.

CITY LIGHTS

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GREAT SUMMIT

AMAZING NINA SIMONE

AT THE BOHEMIA