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With the tenor saxophone of John Coltrane joining Cannonball Adderley's alto on two tracks, this exciting 1959 session boasts the same band featured on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, sans Miles and Bill Evans, as they through a lively set of blues and ballads. Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. It is undeniable that Billie Holiday's singing changed in her later years. Her voice darkened and shifted to a lower range. Her economy of expression distilled her sound to it's essence - a kind of heightened speech. The classic album Songs For Distingue Lovers, her best work of the 1950s, has also deepened and become burnished with time. Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. When Charlie Byrd toured South America in 1961, bossa nova - a melding of Brazilian samba rhythms with the harmonic structures and the cool sound of West Coast jazz - was booming. He brought back records for Stan Getz to hear, and they planned a session. The result was Jazz Samba, the first album of bossa nova by jazz artists and the one that created the bossa nova wave. Verve Acoustic Sounds Series features remastered transfers from analog tapes.

One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Alice Coltrane's 4th Impulse! Album finds her on piano and harp in the company of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. "Almost 50 years after [it] was released, the album remains a vision of universal healing, spiritual self-preservation in times of trouble and the god that appears when you seek her out." (NPR). Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

Archie Shepp - KWANZA (VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES) These 1969 recordings (released 5 years later) combine Shepp's free jazz bonafides and a blend of blues and funk through an African lens, all in a big band setting. The all-star brass section, featuring James Spaulding and Charles Davis on sax along with trombonist Graham Moncur III lead the way on stand outs including "New Africa" and "Spoo Pee Doo." This Verve By Request LP features transfers from analog tapes and remastered on 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Recorded for Berry Gordy's short-lived Workshop Jazz imprint and recorded at the Hitsville USA studio, Roy Brooks (joined by fellow Detroit natives George Bohannon and Hugh Lawson, along with his Horace Silver Quintet bandmates Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, and Eugene Taylor) injects a Motor City soul-jazz groove into the hard bop root of this engaging 1964 album. Verve By Request Series features transfers from analog tapes, remastered on 180-gram vinyl and pressed at Third Man in Detroit.

OZARK SEASON 1-4 / O.S.T. DANNY BENSI Commemorate the series and the sound of the Emmy Award-winning OZARK with the vinyl box set containing the original soundtrack for all four seasons! Composed by Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans, the OZARK vinyl box set will be available for pre-order on April 29, 2022, in conjunction with the release of the final installment of Season 4, Part B on Netflix. LP 1: Ozark Seasons 1 & 2. LP 2: Ozark Seasons 3 & 4.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in deluxe gatefold jacket. Pharoah Sanders' third Impulse! Album, 1969's Karma, is a milestone of the Spiritual Jazz movement and a natural progression in the sonic exploration that Sanders, along with John and Alice Coltrane, had spearheaded over the previous five years. "The Creator Has a Master Plan" is as close as Spiritual Jazz comes to having it's own anthem. Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes.

Live archive release. Ella Fitzgerald's Songbook records - with her peerless renditions of the best songs from iconic composers from Irving Berlin to Rogers & Hart to Cole Porter to George & Ira Gershwin - are the cornerstone of the Verve catalog and the standard for jazz vocal recordings. Ella never released a live version of these Songbooks. This record, discovered in the private collection of Norman Granz, will make the first time a live Songbook has been released from the First Lady of Song.

Vinyl LP pressing. On his 2022 debut, Let Sound Tell All, Julius Rodriguez stirs a cauldron of gospel, jazz, classical, R&B, hip-hop, experimentation, production, and technical wizardry to create a stunning album that eschews classification, but commands attention. When you hear Julius Rodriguez play "the music" (as he calls it) it's a modern sound, as fluent in history as it is aware of it's contemporary context. His music dares to imagine a future of new standards and sonic excitement.

This 2022 album gathers the most iconic songs recorded throughout her career and includes 7 remixes by some of the hottest, in-demand DJs worldwide. The first single from the set is a remix by English DJ/producer Joel Corry (Charli XCX, Ed Sheeran) of the timeless classic "Feeling Good." The album includes seminal songs such as "Mississippi Goddam," "Strange Fruit," "I Loves You Porgy," "I Put A Spell On You," and Nina Simone's timeless version of "Feeling Good."

2021 release. We Are is a career-changing, chart-topping album from musician and activist Jon Batiste. We Are celebrates Black American culture and music while exploring themes of lineage, authenticity, excellence and evolution. This album is about honoring roots and traditions, while looking forward to the future and constantly evolving. Featuring Mavis Staples, Zadie Smith, Kizzo, & many more. This expanded deluxe edition includes new features from Tori Kelly, BJ The Chicago Kid, & a new remix from Big Freedia.

Minions: The Rise Of Gru (Yellow Vinyl)

Double vinyl LP pressing. Original soundtrack to the 2021 motion picture. Cyrano is an upcoming American-British musical drama directed by Joe Wright and written by Erica Schmidt, based on Schmidt's 2018 stage musical of the same name - itself based on the 1897 Edmond Rostand play, Cyrano de Bergerac. The film stars Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Ben Mendelsohn, Kelvin Harrison Jr. And Brian Tyree Henry.