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lconic jazz album viewed in a new light. Reviled by most jazz critics but loved by the public, Chet Baker Sings proved to be not only the Oklahoma-born hornblower's most popular album, but also, for some, his most problematic.
Handsome vinyl reissue of the pair's quintet recordings 1954-55 is beautified with evocative William Claxton photography.
Brian Morton's book is an enjoyable and informative companion to Baker's bestselling album, here with extra tracks.
Art Blakey & Clifford Brown: A Night At Birdland. Double LP on 180g vinyl, with Francis Wolff’s photography, of the group that would become the Jazz Messengers.
The high-velocity changes-and-modal classic is repackaged with two stylistically pertinent contemporaneous tracks.
One of the organist's first albums shows him under the influence of Jimmy Smith, long before Coltrane and then fusion took a hand
The bassist's second Blue Note date, a set above the usual bop-jam standard, is reissued on vinyl, adding two pieces from Whims Of Chambers. The cover of this reissue is an attractive gatefold with six of Francis Wolff’s photos of the musicians.
The latest book in Jazz Images Records series features the iconic photos of Francis Wolff (1907–’71).
Like Jazz Images by Jean-Pierre Leloir and Jazz Images by William Claxton—the first two publications in the series—Jazz Images by Francis Wolff is packaged in an 11.5-inch square hardcover edition.
The book has 164 pages with more than 150 black-and-white images by the master photographer.
The 1956 classic that introduced the semi-standard St Thomas is reissued with seven additional tracks that help illuminate the period.
The warm rapport on the album between the two artists is tangible. With some improvisational doodling reflecting influences from Monk, Ellington’s competence as an accompanist appears even more apparent than with his own band.
A review of a photography book by the Blue Note co-founder.
With this book of Francis Wolff photographs, those waves of sound are all but detectable to the naked eye, the seeing soul.
Although a no-nonsense swinger Stanley Turrentine had a delicate, lyrical touch with a ballad as he demonstrates on Yesterdays and Time After Time.