The music Charles Mingus and his group recorded during his landmark 1960 sessions for Candid Records produced three of the most revered jazz albums of the era. INCARNATIONS is a new masterpiece thoughtfully assembled from rare and unreleased material from those sessions that stands proudly in the Mingus canon of masterworks.All but one of the…
The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus – Charles Mingus Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist, band leader and composer. Born on a military base in Nogales, Arizona in 1922 and raised in Watts, California, his earliest musical influences came from the church- choir and group singing- and from hearing Duke Ellington over…
Vinyl LP pressing. Mingus s second Impulse! Album, released in 1963, was another large-ensemble masterpiece featuring two of the bassist bandleader s greatest compositions – Celia and Better Get Hit In Yo Soul – plus a famous version of Duke Ellington s Mood Indigo.
Mingus Takes Manhattan collects together Charles Mingus run of dates at the world famous Birdland, New York from 1961-1962, released here officially for the first time ever in conjunction with the Mingus Estate. The original reel-to-reel tapes used to record the radio broadcasts were tracked down, cleaned and remastered especially for this release. Previously only…
Limited Edition LP. Deluxe 180-Gram Reissue. Including Original Artwork & Credits. Recorded on January 20, 1963 by an eleven-piece band and released in July of that year by Impulse!, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady consists of a single continuous composition-partially written as a ballet-divided into four tracks and six movements. Mingus defined the…
Vinyl LP pressing. There s nothing else in jazz quite like this collection recorded – astonishingly – in just one session on 20th January 1963. With liner notes written by Mingus s psychotherapist, the album uses ornate ensemble orchestration to produce a sound somewhere between jazz and folk.
The album was recorded at Arlyn Studios in Austin, produced by Crockett and his long-time collaborator Billy Horton. It was recorded live to tape, with anywhere from 6-12 musicians and backup singers on each track, giving the songs the feel of a live performance. It s a sound Crockett has been after for years. Reason…
The album was recorded at Arlyn Studios in Austin, produced by Crockett and his long-time collaborator Billy Horton. It was recorded live to tape, with anywhere from 6-12 musicians and backup singers on each track, giving the songs the feel of a live performance. It s a sound Crockett has been after for years. Reason…
2024 release. Charli s sixth studio album Brat is the eagerly awaited follow up to 2022 s Crash, which reached number 1 on the UK s official album chart, and promises to be an exhilarating club record built around high art references and social commentary: a new era both musically and visually.
2024 release. Charli s sixth studio album Brat is the eagerly awaited follow up to 2022 s Crash, which reached number 1 on the UK s official album chart, and promises to be an exhilarating club record built around high art references and social commentary: a new era both musically and visually.
Crash is the fifth studio album by singer and songwriter Charli XCX. Visuals for the album include femme fatale powers and a multitude of dark spells and curses as well as signature nods to both cars and car crashes.
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. In this collection of bass-led duets, Charlie Haden enlists Don Cherry (trumpet flute), Archie Shepp (tenor), Hampton Hawes (piano) and a trumpet playing Ornette Coleman on the four tracks. Hawes playing on the Ornette-penned Turnaround is the clear straight-ahead highlight of this generally exploratory album.
John Fahey’s Takoma label is best known for pushing the envelope when it comes to acoustic guitar playing, but in 1967 it released a record that has become one of the true cult classics of the ‘60s free jazz movement. Charles Martin Simon was an aspiring writer whose artist wife died in 1965. When he…
This 1957 release, the third in a series of albums expanding on Bird’s 10” Clef releases from the early 1950’s, Now’s The Time boasts some of Parker’s purest recordings and strongest playing, featuring two different quartets. His lyrical and fluid improvisations on cuts like “The Song Is You” and “Laird Baird” are on full display, prime examples…
Over the last couple of decades, Charlie Parr has crisscrossed the world on tour more times than one can count. He also has released over a dozen albums of his songs, acclaimed for their poetic simplicity. Little Sun, his most ambitious album to date, was recorded with Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, My Morning…
Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release, the third album from Grammy nominated and multi-platinum singer songwriter producer, Charlie Puth. His first full-length project since his 2018 Grammy-nominated LP Voicenotes, the highly anticipated return promises to be his most personal record to date, with every song authentically representing a piece of himself.