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Django Reinhardt

Djangology - 2025 Reissue

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350292

Release date
31 Oct '25
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The complete album plus 3 bonus tracks on 180g blue vinyl.

This release presents the complete original LP 'Djangology' (RCA Victor), compiled in 1961 less than a decade after Django Reinhardt's premature death in 1953. Although the original album cover claimed to feature the Quintette du Hot Club de France, it actually presented music from a series of 1949 dates that reunited Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli in Rome with a local rhythm section.

This special edition on blue vinyl includes new cover artwork and specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton.

"The charm, the fire, and the innate swing of Reinhardt shine through the entire collection, making it a very welcome addition to the available Reinhardt discography." - ***** John S. Wilson, DownBeat

"Recorded in Rome during the winter of 1949, this is an excellent collection. Reinhardt's solos always display an excellent sense of arrangement, with his statements building both logically and emotionally to their climax. Djangology captures one of the greatest jazz guitarists in history in some of his greatest performances." - **** 1/2 Daniel Gioffre AllMusic

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Minor Swing
Beyond The Sea (La Mer)
Bricktop
Honeysuckle Rose
Heavy Artillery (Artilerie Lourde)
Djangology
All The Things You Are
After You've Gone
Ou Es-Tu, Mon Amour ? (Where Are You, My Love?)
I Saw Stars
Lover Man
Menilmontant
Swing 42
Liza
/ Daphne

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Thelonious Monk Quartet

Monk's Dream - 2025 Reissue

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350291

Release date
10 Oct '25
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Complete album plus 2 bonus tracks on 180g blue vinyl.

This special edition presents the complete original LP Monk's Dream , which marks Thelonious Monk's first and best- selling LP for Columbia. It features the pianist/ composer performing a combination of his own tunes and favourite standards, in the company of his classic quartet with Charlie Rouse, John Ore and Frankie Dunlop.

"This is a beautiful album in every respect, completely stimulating in each second of its more than 47 minutes." - ***** Pete Welding, DownBeat

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Monk's Dream
Body And Soul
Bright Mississippi
Five Spot Blues/ Monk's Dream [Original 1952 Version]
Blue Bolivar Blues
Just A Gigolo
Bye- Ya
Sweet And Lovely
Just A Gigolo [1954 Solo Piano Version]

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Louis Armstrong

Plays W. C. Handy - 2025 Reissue

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350283

Release date
6 Jun '25
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Blue vinyl

This Louis Armstrong tribute LP to W. C. Handy was recorded in 1954 when the composer and trumpeter was still alive. Most of the songs on the album had not previously been recorded by Louis and were therefore new to his discography at the time. The album is an acknowledged true classic and reissued here as a special edition on blue vinyl.

Trumpeter W. C. Handy (1873-1958) remains among the most influential of American songwriters. Though he was one of many musicians who played the distinctively American form of music known as the blues, he is credited with giving it its contemporary form; he took the genre from a regional music style with a limited audience to one of the dominant national forces in American music.

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1. St. Louis Blues
2. Yellow Dog Blues
3. Loveless Love
4. Aunt Hagar's Blues
5. Long Gone John (From Bowlin' Green)
6. The Memphis Blues (Or Mister Crump)
7. Beale Street Blues
8. Ole Miss Blues
9. Chantez Le Bas (Sing 'em Low)
10. Hesitating Blues
11. Atlanta Blues (Make Me One Pallet On Your Floor)

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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Ella & Louis Again - 2025 Repress

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350282

Release date
9 May '25
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The complete album + bonus track - pressed on limited edition red vinyl.

The sequel to the previous year's wonderful 'Ella & Louis', 'Ella & Louis Again' (1957) again displaying the magic of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong duetting together on songs from the great standards songbook and backed by the legendary Oscar Peterson Quartet.

"On the whole, judged as entertainment, and from the perspective of anyone who has ever had a phonographic romance with either Ella or Louis, this set is more relaxed and more successful than their previous cooperative venture. It can hardly fail to break sales records for them both." - ***** Leonard Feather, DownBeat

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Don't Be That Way
They All Laughed
Autumn In New York
Stompin' At The Savoy
I Won't Dance
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
I'm Puttin' All My Eggs In One Basket
A Fine Romance
Love Is Here To Stay
Learnin' The Blues

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Miles Davis

Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet - 2025 Reissue

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Cat Number

350281

Release date
9 May '25
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The complete album + bonus track - pressed on limited edition blue vinyl,
includes new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer
Brian Morton

Miles Davis' quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones was formed in 1955 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest combos in jazz history. Like its followers Steamin', Workin' and Relaxin', Cookin' is the product of two massively productive recording sessions during May and October of 1956, which ended his obligations with Prestige Records.

"Miles' peculiar blend of pure melody and acidulous accents never has sounded better. This is one of the best LPs of the year."- ***** Ralph J. Gleason, DownBeat

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My Funny Valentine
Blues By Five
When Lights Are Low (Bonus Track - Quartet Version]
Airegin
Tune Up
When Lights Are Low

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Sonny Rollins

The Bridge

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Cat Number

350278

Release date
14 Mar '25
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The complete LP + 2 bonus tracks - limited edition pressing on 180g blue vinyl, includes new specially prepared liner notes by penguin guide to jazz's writer Brian Morton and by Paris' prestigious Jazz Magazine.

The Bridge was the first album Sonny Rollins recorded after he returned to the jazz scene in late 1961, following a two-year layoff to practice and reflect during a time of great stylistic upheaval in the music. If the sabbatical added to his instrumental command and his musical understanding, the triumphal return confirmed that this was the same authoritative player of the classic 'Saxophone Colossus', 'Way Out West' and 'Village Vanguard' albums.

'The Bridge' features Rollins in a piano- less quartet, with Jim Hall on guitar, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Ben Riley on drums.

At the risk of being unable to give Rollins a higher numerical rating when he surpasses this album (and I have every confidence that he will) this set still has to be placed in the superlative class." - ***** Ira Gitler, Down Beat

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Without A Song
Where Are You?
John S.
God Bless The Child [Alternative Version]
The Bridge
God Bless The Child
You Do Something To Me
The Bridge [Alternative Version]

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Miles Davis

Steamin' - 2024 Reissue

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Cat Number

350270

Release date
30 Aug '24
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Red vinyl features complete LP plus bonus track.

One of the four classic albums Miles Davis recorded in 1956 to fulfil his contract with Prestige before signing to Columbia, Steamin' features Davis leading his iconic quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz 's writer Brian Morton.

"This album is a must for anyone seriously interested in jazz." - Down Beat, 4.5 STARS (Don DeMicheal)

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Surrey With The Fringe On Top
Salt Peanuts
Something I Dreamed Last Night
Diane
Well You Needn't
When I Fall In Love
Well You Needn't

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John Coltrane

Plays The Blues - 2024 Reissue

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Cat Number

350269

Release date
30 Aug '24
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180g blue vinyl includes the complete LP plus bonus track.

Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz 's writer Brian Morton.

In 1960, and after recording the music to be issued on The Avant Garde (with Don Cherry), and the all- time classic My Favorite Things , Coltrane embarked on the making of Coltrane Plays the Blues, a thematic LP consisting of six tunes based on the blues.

'Blues for Bechet', one of the two tracks on which Coltrane plays soprano sax, is an obvious dedication to the man who brought the instrument to jazz, the great Sidney Bechet. Pianist McCoy Tyner sits out on 'Blues to Bechet ' and 'Blues to You', reducing the quartet to a trio on these two tracks.

"A powerful session. As for the phrase 'plays the blues' in the title, that's not an indicator that the tunes are conventional blues (they aren't). It's more indicative of a bluesy sensibility." - AllMusic, 4.5 STARS (Richie Unterberger)

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Blues To Elvin
Blues To Bechet
Blues To You
Blues To Elvin
Mr. Day
Mr. Syms
Mr. Knight
Blues To You

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John Coltrane

Lush Life - 2023 Reissue

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Cat Number

350258

Release date
17 Nov '23
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Blue coloured vinyl with 2 bonus tracks.

The seminal recordings that make up Lush Life were taped during a transitional period in John Coltrane's musical career. He had first joined the Miles Davis Quintet in 1955 and would form his own celebrated quartet with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones in 1960. In the intervening years, he overcame his narcotics addiction and began to expand on his own musical ideas while experimenting with both the Thelonious Monk Quartet and the Miles Davis Sextet (featuring Bill Evans and Cannonball Adderley). Lush Life was constructed with material from three different sessions, all of which produced additional material issued in other albums. While Side A is in trio format with no piano, Side B features a quintet showcasing Donald Byrd and Red Garland.

Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton and by Paris' prestigious Jazz Magazine.

"All aspects of Coltrane's conception during this period are well-illustrated on the album: the classic simplicity and haunting loveliness of the Coltrane ballad technique is here. For sheer beauty of approach and execution, his work has rarely been equalled." - ***** Franz Kofsky, DownBeat