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Vendor: Blue Note Records Type: Music Price: 17.98 - 27.98 (3 variants) Your digital album will be delivered via email upon purchase. Please note, digital downloads are only available in the U.S. In 1967, pianist McCoy Tyner was ready for a new start. He had left the seminal John Coltrane Quartet two years prior and moved on from Coltrane’s label Impulse! Records, as well. With his Blue Note debut…
Vendor: Blue Note Records Type: 1LP Price: 38.98 Pianist and composer Andrew Hill had already built a formidable and beguiling body of work on Blue Note by the time he recorded Grass Roots in 1968, an album that stands as one of the most immediately accessible in his prolific output for the label which spans 1963-2006. Hill’s heady brilliance was indisputably established with fiercely creative…
Vendor: Blue Note Records Type: 1LP Price: 38.98 The late-1960s and early-1970s were a wildly creative period for Bobby Hutcherson with the vibraphonist freely exploring a wide range of stylistic possibilities from post-bop and the avant-garde to fusion and Latin Jazz. The cutting-edge 1969 session Medina —which wouldn’t be first released until 1980 as part of the LT Series—documented one of…
Vendor: Blue Note Records Type: 1LP Price: 38.98 Lee Morgan ’s 1968 album Taru —which wouldn’t be first released until 1980 as part of the LT Series—found the trumpeter at a crossroads exploring a variety of styles. The band on this outstanding date is notable for several reasons including the elevating presence of guitarist George Benson who delivers inspired solos throughout. The session also…
Vendor: Blue Note Records Type: 1LP Price: 38.98 The arresting 1965 session Dialogue was the debut album to be released by vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson who had already proven himself a versatile sideman on classic Blue Note albums from Grant Green’s Idle Moments to Jackie McLean’s Destination Out to Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch . In fact, Blue Note boss Alfred Lion had brought Hutcherson into the…
Vendor: Blue Note Records Type: 1LP Price: 38.98 Jackie McLean ’s 1962 album Let Freedom Ring reflected the change in the air of the early ‘60s: both the musical freedoms being explored by the emergent avant-garde movement and the social freedoms sought by the ascendent civil rights movement. This four-song set featuring the alto saxophonist with Walter Davis Jr. on piano, Herbie Lewis on bass,…
Vendor: Blue Note Records Type: 1LP Price: 38.98 Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson was a defining feature of the sound of Blue Note Records throughout the 1960s, equally at home in hard bop, soul jazz, and avant-garde settings. His 1968 album Total Eclipse was the vibraphonist’s first recording to feature tenor saxophonist and flutist Harold Land who would go on to become a key collaborator in the…
Vendor: Blue Note Records Type: 1LP Price: 27.98 Following the release of his 1965 masterpiece Maiden Voyage , the brilliant pianist Herbie Hancock wouldn’t record his Blue Note follow-up until 1968 with the innovative classic Speak Like A Child . The album was a showcase of several aspects of Hancock ’s artistry: as a pianist, a composer, and an arranger. The session found Hancock expanding his…
Vendor: Blue Note Records Type: 1LP Price: 27.98 The crystalline sound of Bobby Hutcherson ’s vibraphone was an essential element of a broad range of Blue Note albums throughout the 1960s, spanning the stylistic spectrum from the hard bop of Grant Green ’s Idle Moments to the post-bop of Joe Henderson’ s Mode For Joe to the soul jazz of Big John Patton’ s Let ‘Em Roll to the avant-garde of Eric…
Vendor: Blue Note Records Type: 1LP Price: 38.98 Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean ’s 1960s output ran the gamut from hard bop to the avant-garde with his 1964 post-bop dates It’s Time! and Action splitting the difference. Trumpeter Charles Tolliver had appeared alongside McLean in the horn frontline on It’s Time! and returned once again for Action the next month, with McLean opting for Bobby…
