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Saxophonist Benny Carter's Jazz Giant album boasts performances by André Previn, Shelly Manne, Barney Kessel and Ben Webster amongst others. First released in 1958 and recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann, this new edition features all-analog masteri

First-ever vinyl reissue of critically acclaimed Saharan Tuareg group Tinariwen's third album, Aman Iman: Water Is Life . Released internationally via Independiente in 2007, reissued here on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl, the album was produced by long-time

Genie Of The Keys: The Best Of Korla Pandit collects sixteen choice cuts featuring Pandit’s inspired blend of Eastern, Latin, and South Pacific musical traditions. Among the artist’s original compositions is his famous “Magnetic Theme,” which opened Korla

Much like Art Pepper, a fellow Angelino, Hampton Hawes would make an excellent subject for a Hollywood biopic (and like Pepper's memoir Straight Life, Hawes' Raise Up Off Me is a classic account of the jazz life that could serve as the screenplay). Even m

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-de

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Newly curated compilation of classic and rare R&B, doo-wop and soul tracks from the catalogs of Fania, Stax, Vee-Jay and more. Pressed on clear and black swirled vinyl.

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Few musicians have embodied the romantic – and ultimately tragic – jazz figure as totally as Chet Baker. Unschooled yet eloquent in his music, and a fast-liver who survived for nearly six decades, the Baker mystique has only reinforced one of the most hau