Steve Cole Nigel Kennedy Norah Jones True The Blue Note Sessions Not Too Late Label : Blue Note Label : Blue Note Label : Blue Note Cat No : 58522 Cat No : 357 0502 Cat No : 382 0352 Released : 04/01/07 Released : 04/01/07 Released : 04/01/07 Feature : One of today’s most celebrated contemporary smooth jazz artists, tenor saxophonist Steve Cole has broken the anodyne aspects of the genre on his fifth album. more >> Feature : Ever since music has been recorded a succession of jazz musicians have been tempted to don a bow tie and try a classical composition or two on for size. more >> Feature : There can’t be many music fans who haven’t heard or at least heard of this now very famous daughter of a famous father. more >> Chet Baker Bill Evans Cannonball Adderley Riverside Profiles Riverside Profiles Riverside Profiles Label : Riverside Label : Riverside Label : Riverside Cat No : 723 0173 Cat No : 723 0171 Cat No : 723 0172 Released : 04/01/07 Released :04/01/07 Released :04/01/07 Feature : Trumpeter / vocalist Chet Baker had already achieved a high degree of success prior to his association with Riverside. more >> Feature : In 1956, when guitarist Mundell Lowe recommended Bill Evans to Riverside, neither had yet made an impact on jazz, but that would soon change. more >> Feature : During his 16-album tenure with Riverside from 1958-63, Cannonball Adderley was given free rein to record whatever he wanted (a far cry from his previous dictatorial recording experience with EmArcy Records). more >> Thelonious Monk Wes Montgomery Sidney Bechet Riverside Profiles Riverside Profiles Masters Of Jazz Label : Riverside Label : Riverside Label : Storyville Cat No : 723 0170 Cat No : 723 0174 Cat No : 101 8509 Released : 04/01/07 Released : 04/01/07 Released : 04/01/07 Feature : During his stint at Riverside Monk recorded the most original and important work of his career before he went on to record with most of the major labels. By the end of the 60s he was among the most famous and best-selling jazz musicians in the world. more >> Feature : A remarkably intuitive, self-taught player who didn't purchase his own first guitar until he was 20 years old, Montgomery exuded an uncanny sense of naturalness and soulfulness in every aspect of his playing that every jazz guitarist since has aspired to. more >> Feature : The incomparable Bechet, possessor of one of the most recognisable sounds in jazz, never made a bad recording, whomever he played with. In this unique set of recordings, made in New York in 1945 and Chicago two years later. more >> Johnny Hodges Earl Hines Teddy Wilson Masters Of Jazz Masters Of Jazz Masters Of Jazz Label : Storyville Label : Storyville Label : Storyville Cat No : 101 8510 Cat No : 101 8512 Cat No : 101 8508 Released : 04/01/07 Released : 04/01/07 Released : 04/01/07 Feature : Hodges’ stay with Duke Ellington totalled some 38 years, on and off, but this album covers a twenty-year period from 1943, during which the great altoist took several sabbaticals with other groups. more >> Feature : The lasting legacy of Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines was the evolution of jazz piano from ragtime and stride to the modern single note idiom. His bravura and consistently innovative playing kept him at the top for six decades. more >> Feature : The consummate piano stylist was a major jazz presence for over four decades and a participant in some of the greatest jazz and swing ensembles, including the Chocolate Dandies. more >> Billie Holiday Johnny Griffin     Masters Of Jazz Masters Of Jazz   Label : Storyville Label : Storyville   Cat No : 101 8511 Cat No : 101 8507   Released : 04/01/07 Released : 04/01/07   Feature : Although her voice was past its prime when these recording were made (effectively covering the middle third of her career) Billie Holiday’s supreme timing, unique interpretive power and emotional resonance were as strong as ever. more >> Feature : The ‘Little Giant’ was the quintessential hard-bop saxophonist and a major fixture on the international jazz scene for over forty years. more >>   Joyce Cooling Ornette Coleman Red Garland Trio Lee Morgan Hank Mobley Ike Quebec Freddie Hubbard Bobby Hutcherson Donalad Byrd Jackie McLean Lee Morgan Horace Silver Blue Note Plays Rodgers & Hart Blue Note Plays Gershwin Blue Note Plays Cole Porter Best Jazz 100 Kenny Garrett Joe Lovano Blue Note Compilation Jason Morgan Grant Green Jimmy McGriff Patricia Barber Dakota Staton Irene Kral Dinah Shore Julie London June Christy June Hendricks Sue Raney Chris Connors Joe Williams Sarah Vaughan Quadricromia Diana Krall Billy Cobham Paulo Porta Sonny Rollins Billy Cobham Serge Chaloff The Jazz Crusaders Stan Kenton Jackie Allen Medeski, Martin & Wood Cannonball Adderly Charles Lloyd Mel Torme Chris Connor Bill Evans Les McCann Modern Jazz Quartet Oliver Nelson Neil Cowley Trio Ray Charles Johnny Griffin Kenny Dorham Donald Byrd * Recent Releases © Jazznotesuk.com * Catalogue Releases