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Rahsaan Roland Kirk and his horns of plenty shines brightly on the previously unissued Live at the Village Gate from 1963. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/r...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk live in New York 1963
Rahsaan Roland Kirk and his horns of plenty shines brightly on the previously unissued Live at the Village Gate from 1963. Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Vibrations in the Village: Live at t…
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November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Rahsaan Roland Kirk and his horns of plenty shines brightly on the previously unissued Live at the Village Gate from 1963. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/r...
Ingrid Laubrock’s 60 pieces for different duos of singers and instrumentalists is one of this year’s most original albums. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/i...
Ingrid Laubrock’s Purposing the Air
Ingrid Laubrock’s 60 pieces for different duos of singers and instrumentalists is one of this year’s most original albums.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Ingrid Laubrock’s 60 pieces for different duos of singers and instrumentalists is one of this year’s most original albums. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/i...
Believe it by Tony Williams is fusion at its best: energetic and elegant. Now the album turns 50 years. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/b...
Believe It by Tony Williams’ Lifetime at 50
Believe it by Tony Williams is fusion at its best: energetic and elegant. Now the album turns 50 years.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Believe it by Tony Williams is fusion at its best: energetic and elegant. Now the album turns 50 years. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/b...
Two tenor saxophone greats go head-to-head on Dizzy Gillespie’s 1957 album Sonny Side Up: Sonny Rollins and Stitt. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/t...
The real tenor madness – Dizzy Gillespie’s Sonny Side Up
Two tenor saxophone greats go head-to-head on Dizzy Gillespie’s 1957 album Sonny Side Up: Sonny Rollins and Stitt.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Two tenor saxophone greats go head-to-head on Dizzy Gillespie’s 1957 album Sonny Side Up: Sonny Rollins and Stitt. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/t...
Aaron Parks returns to acoustic jazz with his new quartet album with Billy Hart, Ben Street and Ben Solomon. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/a...
Aaron Parks’ return to acoustic jazz
Aaron Parks returns to acoustic jazz with his new quartet album with Billy Hart, Ben Street and Ben Solomon.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Aaron Parks returns to acoustic jazz with his new quartet album with Billy Hart, Ben Street and Ben Solomon. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/a...
Changes I & II is Charles Mingus still on top of his game with a vital band which sounds like pure Mingus. The albums were released 50 years ago. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/c...
Charles Mingus Changes at 50 years
Changes I & II is Charles Mingus still on top of his game with a vital band which sounds like pure Mingus. The albums were released 50 years ago.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Changes I & II is Charles Mingus still on top of his game with a vital band which sounds like pure Mingus. The albums were released 50 years ago. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/c...
Chick Corea’s last performances are now issued. Corea alone at the piano plays compositions by himself and others.
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Chick Coreas’s last tones and words
Chick Corea’s last performances are now issued. Corea alone at the piano plays compositions by himself and others.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Chick Corea’s last performances are now issued. Corea alone at the piano plays compositions by himself and others.
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Patricia Brennan’s new album of all original music is a soundscape all of its own. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/p...
Patrica Brennan’s original soundscape
Patricia Brennan’s new album of all original music is a soundscape all of its own.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Patricia Brennan’s new album of all original music is a soundscape all of its own. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/p...
John Coltrane’s complete 1961 Village Vanguard recordings show the saxophonist restlessly exploring new repertoire in different settings. Now it is reissued on vinyl. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/j...
John Coltrane’s complete 1961 Village Vanguard recordings reissued on vinyl
John Coltrane’s complete 1961 Village Vanguard recordings show the saxophonist restlessly exploring new repertoire in different settings. Now it is reissued on vinyl.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
John Coltrane’s complete 1961 Village Vanguard recordings show the saxophonist restlessly exploring new repertoire in different settings. Now it is reissued on vinyl. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/j...
Keith Jarrett’s Death and the Flower is a low-key affair with his American Quartet which was released 50 years ago.
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Keith Jarrett’s Death and the Flower at 50
Keith Jarrett’s Death and the Flower is a low-key affair with his American Quartet which was released 50 years ago.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Keith Jarrett’s Death and the Flower is a low-key affair with his American Quartet which was released 50 years ago.
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One of the greatest jazz musicians from the past 60 years has died. Jack DeJohnette played on seminal albums like Bitches Brew, 80/81, and Song X.
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Master drummer Jack DeJohnette has died
One of the greatest jazz musicians from the past 60 years has died. Jack DeJohnette played on seminal albums like Bitches Brew, 80/81, and Song X.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
One of the greatest jazz musicians from the past 60 years has died. Jack DeJohnette played on seminal albums like Bitches Brew, 80/81, and Song X.
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The previously unissued live album Silver in Seattle shows one of the most talented bands of the mid-1960s: The Horace Silver Quintet with Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/h...
Horace Silver live with Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw
The previously unissued live album Silver in Seattle shows one of the most talented bands of the mid-1960s: The Horace Silver Quintet with Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The previously unissued live album Silver in Seattle shows one of the most talented bands of the mid-1960s: The Horace Silver Quintet with Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/h...
Roy Brooks’ The Free Slave is powerful soul jazz with Woody Shaw which is now reissued. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/r...
Roy Brooks powerful The Free Slave reissued
Roy Brooks’ The Free Slave is powerful soul jazz with Woody Shaw which is now reissued.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Roy Brooks’ The Free Slave is powerful soul jazz with Woody Shaw which is now reissued. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/r...
Dave Holland Trio with saxophonist Jaleel Shaw and drummer Nasheet Waits is a great live band as they show on their current European tour. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/d...
Dave Holland’s Trio live
Dave Holland Trio with saxophonist Jaleel Shaw and drummer Nasheet Waits is a great live band as they show on their current European tour.
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October 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Dave Holland Trio with saxophonist Jaleel Shaw and drummer Nasheet Waits is a great live band as they show on their current European tour. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/d...
American original Henry Threadgill continues to explore musical roads less travelled: now with an unusually orchestrated octet. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/h...
Henry Theadgill’s octet for guitars and pianos
American original Henry Threadgill continues to explore musical roads less travelled: now with an unusually orchestrated octet.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
American original Henry Threadgill continues to explore musical roads less travelled: now with an unusually orchestrated octet. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/h...
McCoy Tyner pays tribute to his piano heroes and contemporaries on the 25 years old solo album Jazz Roots. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/m...
McCoy Tyner’s Jazz Roots at 25
McCoy Tyner pays tribute to his piano heroes and contemporaries on the 25 years old solo album Jazz Roots.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
McCoy Tyner pays tribute to his piano heroes and contemporaries on the 25 years old solo album Jazz Roots. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/m...
Charles Mingus made sure his 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival performance was remembered. You can hear it on the reissued Mingus at Monterey. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/m...
Mingus at Monterey finally reissued
Charles Mingus made sure his 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival performance was remembered. You can hear it on the reissued Mingus at Monterey.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Charles Mingus made sure his 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival performance was remembered. You can hear it on the reissued Mingus at Monterey. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/m...
Wadada Leo Smith and Sylvie Courvoiser search for unusual sounds and forms on their new duo album. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/w...
Wadada Leo Smith with Sylvie Courvoiser – the art of musical dialogue
Wadada Leo Smith and Sylvie Courvoiser search for unusual sounds and forms on their new duo album.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wadada Leo Smith and Sylvie Courvoiser search for unusual sounds and forms on their new duo album. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/w...
New releases and reissues of Miles Davis, Rahsaan Kirk and Lester Young premieres on Record Store Day. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/p...
Pres, Rahsaan and Miles on Record Store Day
Vinyl fiends better start saving for Record Store Day which has become one of the main events for releasing rare jazz recordings. This year is no exception.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New releases and reissues of Miles Davis, Rahsaan Kirk and Lester Young premieres on Record Store Day. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/p...
Clifford Jordan held the acoustic jazz flag high during the fusion era, as the 50 years old Firm Roots illustrates. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/c...
Clifford Jordan’s Firm Roots at 50
Clifford Jordan held the acoustic jazz flag high during the fusion era, as the 50 years old Firm Roots illustrates. Clifford Jordan – Firm Roots (SteepleChase, 1975) The experience of this gr…
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September 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Clifford Jordan held the acoustic jazz flag high during the fusion era, as the 50 years old Firm Roots illustrates. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/c...
Wayne Shorter was already a mature stylist on his mature debut album as a leader in 1959 with Lee Morgan and Miles Davis’ rhythm section. The album is reissued as part of the Original Jazz Classics series for the first time. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/i...
Introducing Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter was already a mature stylist on his debut album as a leader in 1959 with Lee Morgan and Miles Davis’ rhythm section. Introducing Wayne Shorter (Original Jazz classics, 2025) Wayne Sho…
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September 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Wayne Shorter was already a mature stylist on his mature debut album as a leader in 1959 with Lee Morgan and Miles Davis’ rhythm section. The album is reissued as part of the Original Jazz Classics series for the first time. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/i...
Keith Jarrett set the standard for pianists in Charles Lloyd’s band. 25 years ago, Brad Mehldau entered the group. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/c...
Charles Lloyd with Brad Mehldau
Keith Jarrett set the standard for pianists in Charles Lloyd’s band. 25 years ago, Brad Mehldau entered the group. Charles Lloyd – The Water is Wide (ECM, 2000) After leading bands with Europ…
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September 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Keith Jarrett set the standard for pianists in Charles Lloyd’s band. 25 years ago, Brad Mehldau entered the group. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/c...
Don Cherry came well-prepared to his debut album as a leader after long apprenticeship with the major saxophonists of the 1960s. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/d...
Don Cherry’s Complete Communion
Don Cherry came well-prepared to his debut album as a leader after long apprenticeship with the major saxophonists of the 1960s. Don Cherry – Complete Communion (Blue Note, 2025) Tr…
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September 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Don Cherry came well-prepared to his debut album as a leader after long apprenticeship with the major saxophonists of the 1960s. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/d...
The super trio Fieldwork returns with a new album after a 17 year long pause in which they all have established themselves as stars of jazz. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/t...
The return of supergroup Fieldwork
The super trio Fieldwork returns with a new album after a 17 year long pause in which they all have established themselves as stars of jazz. Fieldwork – Thereupon (Pi, 2025) Some bands are fo…
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September 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The super trio Fieldwork returns with a new album after a 17 year long pause in which they all have established themselves as stars of jazz. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/t...
Ravi Coltrane’s From the Round Box was released 25 years ago. It features an all-star quintet. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/r...
Ravi Coltrane with Geri Allen
Ravi Coltrane’s From the Round Box was released 25 years ago. It features an all-star quintet.
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September 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Ravi Coltrane’s From the Round Box was released 25 years ago. It features an all-star quintet. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/r...