OCTOBER STAFF PICKS
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collection Pre-ordersPre-orders
Our pre-orders collection includes many limited edition exclusives and sought-after titles. Secure yours now!
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collection BLUE NOTE CLASSIC VINYLBLUE NOTE CLASSIC VINYL
High-quality, affordable reissues of Blue Note's classic recordings, mastered by Kevin Gray
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collection Best SellersBest Sellers
Show that you’ve got your finger on the jazz pulse with these best sellers.
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collection Vocal JazzVocal Jazz
Whether you love ballads or high energy soul, bossa nova or protest songs, we’ve got…
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collection ACOUSTIC SOUNDSACOUSTIC SOUNDS
The best of Verve’s classic catalogue for the audiophile jazz fan
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collection EXCLUSIVE COLOUR VINYLEXCLUSIVE COLOUR VINYL
Special edition coloured vinyl, available only on a very limited number of online stores
Stories
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Keith Jarrett’s World of Improvisation: Six Classic Tracks -
Wayne Shorter: Celebrating the Legacy -
Henry Grimes - Lunch With The Disappearing Jazz Legend -
Richard Davis – The "Astral Weeks" bassist's best Blue Note albums -
How Dexter Gordon Created His Masterpiece -
Ethan Iverson - To Standard, or Not to Standard? -
Nubya Garcia's Journey to Self-Belief -
The Bittersweet Life of Chet Baker - In Music -
Immanuel Wilkins Finds Healing In The Blues -
Bright Size Life - Pat Metheny's Slow Burning Masterpiece -
The Composer: Herbie Hancock in five iconic songs -
Samara Joy - Portrait of a Jazz Queen at 24 -
Pharoah Sanders – Thembi -
Freddie Hubbard's Most Adventurous Album -
Art Blakey – A Night In Tunisia -
5 Latin Jazz Must-Have Albums -
Gábor Szabó – The Sorcerer -
Jazz Samba: A Masterpiece Recorded in Three Hours -
Jazz and India -
Art Blakey: First Flight to Tokyo -
Walter Smith III Keeps It Real -
John Coltrane's criminally underrated record -
The Mystery of Jutta Hipp -
Meshell Ndegeocello – No More Water -
Frank Sinatra's Best Collaborations -
How Sun Ra got on Impulse! -
Louis Armstrong - For the Fans -
James Baldwin's Jazz Gospel -
The EJ Staff Picks for this season -
Buying Guide: New Into Jazz -
Five Great Partnerships in Jazz -
Nduduzo Makhathini - The Spirituality of Sound -
The Living Legacy of Jazz Flute -
Oliver Nelson: The Blues and The Abstract Truth -
Louis Armstrong Lives On -
Arooj Aftab: Night Reign -
Stewarding the Catalogue – Jamie Krents & Verve Records -
Continuing the Legacy – Don Was & Blue Note Records -
Rudy Van Gelder - His Best Live Jazz Recordings -
Blue Lab Beats: Blue Eclipse -
How Jazz Went Mod -
Tone: How the guitar found its Jazz Voice -
Sonny Rollins: A Night At The Village Vanguard -
Joe Henderson - Blue Note’s multifaceted tenor master -
5 Jams That Will Make You Love Shabaka Hutchings -
Melissa Aldana: The Solitary Seeker -
The Divine One - Sarah Vaughan at 100 -
Alice Coltrane: The Artist in Ascension -
Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam” at 60 -
Ella Sings The Blues: Let No Man Write My Epitaph -
Jackie McLean - Action -
Jacob Collier – Jazz Messiah? -
Great Women of Song - Carmen McRae -
Joel Ross: nublues and the quest for true improvisation -
Alain Goraguer: A Cult Classic Soundtrack -
Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land -
Nina Simone – Nina's Back -
Joining the Bops 3/3 - Post Bop -
Joining the Bops 2/3 - Hard Bop -
Joining the Bops 1/3 - Bebop -
Charles Lloyd - Sacred Thread -
Elvin Jones – Poly-Currents -
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus -
Oscar Peterson and the Civil Rights Movement -
Bobby Hutcherson's “San Francisco” – bridging bop and fusion -
Coltrane live at Birdland: More than a concert album -
The Hammond B-3 at Blue Note -
Oscar Peterson - Master Pianist, Prolific Composer -
Our Albums Of The Year 2023 (1/3) -
Christmas with Gregory Porter & Samara Joy -
Duke Pearson - The Phantom -
Jamie Cullum: Twenty years after Twentysomething -
Beyond the Backline - Percussionists claim centre stage on these five classic jazz albums. -
Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light 'til Dawn -
Verve by Request - Curating Rarities, Unearthing Treasure -
When they are singing and playing from the same hymn sheet -
Andrew Hill's Point of Departure is still light years ahead -
Ancestral Echoes: Nduduzo Makhathini’s In The Spirit Of Ntu -
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Mosaic -
Art Deco: Don Cherry Returns to His Roots -
Jackie McLean's Demon's Dance -
Karma: Pharoah Sanders’ Spiritual Jazz Classic -
The Heart and Soul of Wayne Shorter’s “Night Dreamer” -
Cautious Clay seeks to redefine what jazz can entail -
True Blue: The legacy of Tina Brooks -
How George Butler took Blue Note Records Sky High -
5 jaw-dropping DOMi & JD BECK moments -
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago -
Chris Botti: Loosening Up -
Joshua Redman: This Land Is Your Land -
A Conversation with Johnathan Blake -
Roy Haynes Quartet - Out of the Afternoon -
Blossom Dearie: The Maverick with the Soft Voice -
Irreversible Entanglements: Creating Statements of Magic -
Harold López-Nussa: Bridging Musical Traditions Through His Piano -
How to Be Free: The Essential Albums to Get Into Free Jazz -
Out to Lunch: Eric Dolphy’s avant-garde masterpiece -
Lakecia Benjamin on Evenings At The Village Gate -
The Soul of Miss Simone -
Sitting in with John Coltrane -
Robert Glasper and Madlib: The Rebirth of Slick -
Meshell Ndegeocello doesn’t play jazz – she writes Black American music -
There’s more to Astrud Gilberto than the Girl From Ipanema -
Ahmad Impresses Me -
When Norah Jones met Danger Mouse