JAZZ

Trumpet legend Freddie Hubbard showed many different sounds to his style in his storied career - much of it on Blue Note - and all having made his name as part of The Jazz Messengers. His Hip Tones album is one of his most revered by those in the know and that's why it gets this Collector's Edition...

Everything from mellow soul numbers, to synth-heavy 80s disco boogie, Cruisin’ has it!Originally released from Wenha in 1981, the debut album from Detroit soul singer William Odell Hughes is funky, soulful, and has all the best characteristics of an 80s album. Album opener and title track...

Transversales Disques proudly presents Ahmad Jamal Trio, Live in Paris 1971. Never heard before ORTF recordings performed live at studio 104, Maison de la Radio, Paris. This is the first official release with the full permission and cooperation of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) coming in...

This self-titled album is a testimony of the short lived-band led by New-York drummer Ron Jefferson during his stay in Paris in the mid-60s. After a first album under his name on Pacific Jazz in 1962, the founding member of The Jazz Modes and the Les McCann trio made the trip overseas.Here, he made...

Recorded in 1965 at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in New Jersey, Roland Kirk’s album Rip, Rig and Panic finds him teamed with the most awesome rhythm section he ever recorded with: pianist Jaki Byard, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Elvin Jones.It received a 5 stars rating on AllMusic, with...

Limited Clear Vinyl edition, 300 copies! Roland Kirk was one of the most creative, extravagant figures in jazz history. A master multi instrumentalist with no boundaries in terms of language, style and technique. Here we find him co-leading a strong studio session with organ specialist Brother Jack...

Recorded Live in Italy in October 1985 and mastered directly from the old dusty cassette, here's a previously unheard Steve Lacy recording from a rare duo appearance with pianist Martin Joseph, a little known yet fascinating British musician who had worked with Harry Beckett, John Surman, Ian Carr,...

Maurice Lecoeur could be considered as France’s best kept secret composer. Although hardly known outside of « digging-nerds » circles, he produced an incredible number of themes for movies, TV programs and commercials. Inspired by his friend and mentor François de Roubaix, he managed to create...

Carefully remastered from the master tapes.Made up of two long improvisations each of over 22mn, “L’Oeil” on side A and “Vision” on side B, this “Workshop” by Jef Gilson, with the gifted young saxophonist Philippe Maté, plunges you into the depths, attempting to drown you in...

Intimate is exactly what its title suggests: a quiet, close-up musical conversation shaped by subtlety, warmth, and emotional honesty. On this album, Andrea Motis reveals her most delicate and refined side, placing her voice at the center while weaving in understated trumpet lines within an...

"Hey, there's this new guy around that plays like Herbie Hancock!!". When Chilean pianist Matías Pizarro arrived in Argentina fleeing Pinochet's dictatorship, word spread like wildfire in the local jazz scene.In the two short years that Pizarro spent in Buenos Aires, he became one third of the...

The Tribe co-founder’s debut, lacquered directly from his master tapes in an all analog transfer by Bernie Grundman.The definitive reissue of this Spiritual Jazz album which set the stage for his Vibes from the Tribe.The Tribe label, one of the brightest lights of America’s 1970s jazz...

The Tribe founders’ collaborative debut, remixed from the original mutli-track master tapes under the direction of its creators and lacquered by Bernie Grundman.Phil Ranelin’s side has been pitch-corrected and restored to a suite, as was originally intended. Wendell Harrison’s side contains...