NOVEMBER STAFF PICKS
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Various Artists Verve Remixed
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ELLA FITZGERALD Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG Louis Wishes You A Cool Yule
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FRANK SINATRA In The Wee Small Hours
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HORACE SILVER Silver in Seatlle: Live at the Penthouse
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John Coltrane / The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings 7LP Boxset
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JOHN COLTRANE A Love Supreme (Monophonic Edition)
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MIKE TAYLOR / trio
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MIKE TAYLOR QUARTET Pendulum
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Hot pink vinyl + signed printJon Batiste / Big Money
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SONNY CLARK Sonny's Crib
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Collections
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collection Get Into JazzGet Into Jazz
From soul jazz to hip hop, let us introduce you to jazz
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collection Collector's EssentialsCollector's Essentials
If you’re looking for the best jazz released on the highest quality pressings, we’ve got…
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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 TONE POET SERIESTONE POET SERIES
The Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series presents all-analog, 180g quality vinyl reissues from the…
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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 EXCLUSIVES AND COLOURED VINYLEXCLUSIVES AND COLOURED VINYL
Special edition coloured vinyl, available only on a very limited number of online stores
Stories
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Aaron Parks - By All Means -
Jukebox Ella Vol 2 - Extending Ella Fitzgerald's Catalogue -
Christmas Buying Guide: New Into Jazz -
Buying Guide: Gift Ideas for Collectors -
Buying Guide: Albums Everyone Should Have -
Jack DeJohnette (1942-2025): Six Classic Drum Performances -
In 3 - The Best Jazz Waltzes -
Flore Benguigui & The Sensible Notes: Joyous Jazz -
Cass Tech: The Detroit School That Made Jazz History -
Billie Holiday: Lady Sings The Blues -
The Legacy of Quincy Jones -
Duke Jordan - Flight to Jordan -
The Story of the British Jazz Explosion in the 1960s -
Ike Quebec's Collected Jukebox Sides -
Stella Cole: "The Most Insane Dream Come True" -
The 25 Greatest Jazz Piano Albums -
Jacob Collier - What's Next After "Djesse" -
Frank Sinatra: In The Wee Small Hours -
Ray Charles - "Genius + Soul = Jazz" -
A Timeline of Key Jazz Pianists -
The Latin Vibes of Bobby Hutcherson's Montara -
Charles Lloyd In His Own Words: Figure In Blue -
A Guide to Charles Lloyd on Blue Note -
Oscar Peterson - Generous Teacher, Musical Friend -
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme 60th Anniversary Mono Edition -
Harold López-Nussa: Pushing Latin Jazz Forward -
James Brown: Soul on Top, Jazz at Heart -
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays -
Robert Glasper: Black Radio -
Metheny/Scofield: I Can See Your House From Here -
Sonny’s Crib: The Tragic Life and Death of Pianist Sonny Clark -
What is the Great American Songbook? -
Marion Brown's Vista: Music As Healing Balm -
Don Cherry’s Groundbreaking Debut Gets The Tone Poet Treatment -
Paul Cornish: Truth is Everything -
Samara Joy: A Royal Date For the Queen Of Jazz -
Love In Us All - Pharoah Sanders’ spiritually charged finale for Impulse! -
Blue Note's 2024/25 Winning Streak -
Norman Granz - The Verve Founder Who Fought Racism With Jazz -
Nate Mercereau, Josh Johnson & Carlos Niño's Openness Trio - A New World of Ambient Jazz -
The Troubled Genius of Bill Evans -
Coleman Hawkins encounters Ben Webster -
How Drummer Al Foster Shaped Miles' Electric Sound -
Brandee Younger's "Gadabout Season" -
6 Latin Fusion Albums You Need To Know -
João Donato’s “A Bad Donato” - A Milestone in Brazilian jazz funk and fusion -
Mike Taylor - The British Jazz Pianist's Story of Vision and Tragedy -
Donald Byrd sent jazz-funk into outer orbit -
Destination... Out! – Hard Bop Icons Embracing the New Thing -
Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short -
Twenty One - Geri Allen's Piano Genius -
Dizzy Gillespie: Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac -
Quincy Jones in Four Classic Albums -
Horace Silver: Song For My Father -
Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds -
Roy Ayers: Everybody Loves the Sunshine -
UK Jazz Festivals 2025 - Our Picks -
Shabaka: "I See Myself As a Producer" -
Maya Delilah: The Long Way Round -
Nubya Garcia's Journey to Self-Belief -
Blue Lab Beats: Blue Eclipse -
Jacob Collier – Jazz Messiah? -
Tony Williams' Return to Acoustic Jazz -
David Murray Finds Inspiration Between Earth and Sky -
Betty Carter's Big Breakout Moment -
Chet Baker Re:imagined -
Bennie Maupin - Slow Traffic To The Right -
Anouar Brahem: After The Last Sky -
Jazz in Paris: Stateside to the Leftbank -
Miles & Monk Meet: Bags Groove -
Gerald Clayton: Ones and Twos -
Samara Joy - Portrait of a Jazz Queen at 24 -
"Go To Album" - Blue Note's Biggest Hits and the Records They Come From -
Brandon Woody: For The Love Of It All -
Thelonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music -
Good Vibes – 5 Great Vibraphone Jazz Albums -
"Getz Au Go Go" Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto's Enduring Bossa Nova Collaboration -
Horace Silver: Serenade To A Soul Sister -
Stanley Turrentine: Mr. Natural -
5 Blue Note Classics that Madlib Flipped -
Julian Lage: The Shape-Shifter -
John Lee Hooker and Lightnin' Hopkins - The Blues Roots of Jazz -
Jordan Rakei's "The Loop" – Preparing To Be Free -
Blue Giant Momentum: An Interview with Shinichi Ishizuka -
Julius Rodriguez, Shinichi Ishizuka and NUMBER8 talk Blue Giant Momentum -
Tony Williams: Foreign Intrigue -
Money Jungle: When Duke met Mingus and Max -
Gil Evans – Miles Davis’ Master Arranger -
Arboresque – Renee Rosnes of ARTEMIS on Jazz Steeped in Nature -
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme at 60 -
Hank Mobley: Tenor Middleweight Champion -
Exploring the Mystique of the Harp: A Conversation with Brandee Younger -
Ella Fitzgerald's Moment of Truth -
The Evolution of the Jazz Standard -
Doug Watkins - The Forgotten Detroit Bassist & Original Jazz Messenger -
The Jazz Crusaders - Freedom Sound -
Round Trip: Ornette Coleman In the Late 1960s -
Bobbi Humphrey's Fancy Dancer: A Jazz-Funk Classic -
In Conversation With...Samara Joy -
Our Albums Of The Year 2024 -
How The Piano Trio Democratised Jazz -
Afric Pepperbird – Early Jan Garbarek and the Beginnings of ECM -
Max Roach - The Most Melodious Drummer in Jazz -
The Coolest Jazz Albums to Make Your Christmas Swing with Style -
The Jazz Discovery of the Year? - Tyner & Henderson's "Forces of Nature" -
Blue Note: Tone Poet Releases 2026 -
Melody Gardot: Reflecting On Her Essential Songbook -
Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Charlie Brown Christmas -
Kenny Wheeler – Gnu High -
The building blocks of Bebop: Bird In Kansas City -
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 -
"Go!" - How Dexter Gordon Created His Masterpiece -
Ethan Iverson - To Standard, or Not to Standard? -
Chet Baker's Bittersweet Life in Music -
Immanuel Wilkins Finds Healing In The Blues -
Bright Size Life - Pat Metheny's Slow Burning Masterpiece -
Herbie Hancock in 5 iconic compositions -
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 -
Jutta Hipp: How to Disappear Completely -
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
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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 -
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 - The Story of Sarah Vaughan -
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 -
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's 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