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Verve Records/UMe and Third Man Records have partnered to resurrect the popular reissue series, Verve By Request, with a vinyl twist. Focusing on rare gems and fan-requested jazz albums from the Verve Label Group's stable of iconic labels, the series will

It's undeniable that Billie Holiday's singing changed in her later years. Her voice darkened and shifted to a lower range. Her economy of means distilled her sound to its expressive essence, a kind of heightened speech. The classic 1957 Verve release Song

Verve Records/UMe and Third Man Records have partnered to resurrect the popular reissue series, Verve By Request, with a vinyl twist. Focusing on rare gems and fan-requested jazz albums from the Verve Label Group's stable of iconic labels, the series will

Lady Sings The Blues was released in 1956 to coincide with her autobiography of the same name. By this point in her career, when she was just in her early 40s, Billie Holiday’s voice had taken on a fragile and worn quality. Hardship, abusive relationships

From Bill Evans' first-ever performance at a concert hall in New York City. Featuring the sensitive accompaniment of Chuck Israelson bass and Arnold Wise on drums. Includes a 13-minute solo suite dedicated to the memory of Bill's father who had only recen

Transferred from Analog Tapes and Remastered on 180g Vinyl LP as Part of the Verve By Request Series. Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane home in 1970, Alice Coltrane's fourth album is a masterpiece of spiritual jazz. The title track is an ode

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 Bohannaon and Hugh Lawson, along with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, and Eugene Taylor) injects a Motor

FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE is inspired by the climate emergency. The ten tracks, most of which feature Brian Eno singing, were recorded at his West London studio. "Like everybody else – except, apparently, most of the governments of the world – I've been thinki

The old adage that opposites attract couldn't be more apt in the case of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, whose album collaborations for Verve Records, in the late 50s, resulted in some of jazz's finest and most memorable duets. Texturally, their voic

This 1965 Verve date from jazz luminary Bill Evans may feature eight numbers that were all previously recorded at one time or another, but this time around he's accompanied by bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Larry Bunker, who were members of his regular

Kurt Vile follows-up 2018's Bottle It In with his first Verve Records album (watch my moves). Across the record's 15 songs – which includes 14 originals as well as a version of Bruce Springsteen's "Wages of Sin" – Vile pulls his talents in unexpected dire

This is Bill Evans' first trio date under his own name for Verve, and the deep communication he maintains throughout with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, two brilliant rhythm players, is sublime. All of the songs are standards of one for or another, but Eva

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One of the very rare chances – quite possibly the only chance - to listen to the genius of Ennio Morricone engaging with the jazz musical language. His soundtrack for the film The Blue-Eyed

Primarily known as a big band leader and arranger, on this landmark 1961 Creed Taylor recorded set Oliver Nelson provides and arranges all of the material while holding down alto and tenor saxophone duties to boot. He also assembled one of jazz's most pot

Originally released in 1961, Ray Charles' Genius + Soul = Jazz is a big band jazz album featuring arrangements by Quincy Jones and Ralph Burns and accompaniment from members of Count Basie's band including Thad Jones (cornet), Freddie Green (guitar), Bill

If one album evokes the style, the ethos, and the vibe of Creed Taylor's Impulse! label it is The Gil Evans Orchestra's 1961 masterpiece Out of the Cool. The 48 year old pianist, arranger and bandleader had done much to establish his reputation working wi

The striking New York, N.Y. was a high point for influential jazz composer and arranger George Russell, an early proponent of "modal jazz," which featured fewer chord changes and encouraged soloists to improvise on the melody not on the harmony. For this

Peggy Lee was 32 years old when she walked into the Decca label's recording studios in midtown New York to lay down the tracks for what became the defining Black Coffee. Remarkably, it was the singer's first album, even though she had a swathe of hit sing

This studio recording from 1954, a self-titled album recorded for EmArcy, was later reissued as Sarah Vaughan With Clifford Brown to denote the involvement of one of the top trumpeters of the day. Vaughan 'played' her voice with a musical creativity, as i

Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson is a brilliant undertaking in which Verve's legendary "house pianist" encountered one of jazz's most revered giants. And this all-analog Verve reissue – mastered from the original analog tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterl