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Charles Mingus

Mingus Ah Um - 2025 Reissue

    The Penguin Guide to Jazz called 'Mingus Ah Um' "an extended tribute to ancestors" and awarded it with one of their rarely given Crown accreditations. It is, in fact, one of Mingus' most personal albums, and produced a series of songs that have become standards. 'Better Git It in Your Soul' is inspired by gospel singing and preaching of the sort that Mingus would have heard as a child growing up in Watts, while 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' is a reference to saxophonist Lester Young who had died shortly before the album was recorded.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Better Git It In Your Soul
    2. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
    3. Boogie Stop Shuffle
    4. Self-Portrait In Three Colors
    5. Open Letter To Duke
    6. Bird Calls
    7. Fables Of Faubus
    8. Pussy Cat Dues
    9. Jelly Roll

    Ray Charles

    The Best Of Ray Charles

      This album contains some of the most outstanding hits ever made by the inimitable Ray Charles for Atlantic Records and ABC Paramount. Included in this collection are such perennial classics as 'What'd I Say'. 'Hallelujah', 'I Love Her So', 'Drown In My Own Tears', 'Georgia on My Mind', and 'Hit the Road, Jack'.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. I Can't Stop Loving You
      2. Hit The Road, Jack
      3. Unchain My Heart
      4. But On The Other Hand, Baby
      5. Hide Nor Hair
      6. At The Club
      7. Who You Gonna Love
      8. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'
      9. Night Time Is The Right Time
      10. Hallelujah I Love Her So
      11. Georgia On My Mind
      12. Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
      13. California, Here I Come
      14. Basin Street Blues
      15. Alabamy Bound
      16. Together
      17. I Wonder
      18. Drown In My Own Tears
      19. What'd I Say (Parts 1 & 2)
      20. I've Got A Woman

      Nina Simone

      The Very Best Of

        The great Nina Simone Encompassing a broad range of musical genres including jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, pop, and classical music. This 16- track collection compiles some of her best performances, all of which were resounding hits. Included here is her perennial reading of George & Ira Gershwin's 'I Loves You Porgy', which charted in the UK at #2 in 1959, followed by 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out' at #23 in 1960, and 'Trouble in Mind' at#11 in 1961, plus her all-time perennial classic version and most played hit on radio and tv, "My Baby Just Cares for Me", which peaked at #5 in 1987.

        TRACK LISTING

        My Baby Just Cares For Me
        I Loves You Porgy
        Love Me Or Leave Me
        Little Girl Blue
        He Needs Me
        Children Go Where I Send You
        Willow Weep For Me
        Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
        Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
        Trouble In Mind
        Exactly Like You
        Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
        Work Song
        Fine And Mellow
        Mood Indigo
        The Other Woman

        Dave Brubeck

        Time Out - 2025 Reissue

          Time Out was an unusual album from the start, not only for its surprising time signatures, but also for its huge commercial success at the time (1959), and its enduring popularity even to this day. The album's hit tune, Take Five , composed by Paul Desmond, is the biggest-selling jazz composition of all time and a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.

          "Dave Brubeck's defining masterpiece, Time Out is one of the most rhythmically innovative albums in jazz history, the first to consciously explore time signatures outside of the standard 4/4 beat or 3/4 waltz time. This belongs in even the most rudimentary jazz collection." - Steve Huey, AllMusic

          TRACK LISTING

          Blue Rondo A La Turk
          Strange Meadow Lark
          Take Five
          Three To Get Ready 
          Kathy's Waltz
          Everybody's Jumpin'
          Pick Up Sticks
          Audrey

          Aretha Franklin

          The Queen Of Soul

            Presented on this LP are some of Aretha Franklin's greatest recordings from her early years with Columbia Records, recorded between in 1960 and 1962.

            Featuring her in small jazz combos (with orchestral backing on some tracks), which included pianist Ray Bryant and bassist Will Lee, these recordings sowed the seeds to Aretha's later success with Atlantic Records and her international endorsement as The Queen Of Soul, and one of the greatest singers of the 20th Century.

            Small groups featuring Al Sears or Warren Lucky (tenor sax), Tyree Gleen or Quentin Jackson (trombone), Chauncey "Lord" Westbrook (guitar), Ray Bryant (piano), Bill Lee (bass), Belton "Sticks" Evans or Osie Johnson (drums).

            TRACK LISTING

            Won't Be Long
            Today I Sing The Blues
            Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
            (Blue) By Myself
            Don't Cry, Baby
            Sweet Lover
            Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
            Over The Rainbow
            Without The One You Love
            Operation Heartbreak
            Rough Lover
            All Night Long / I'm Wandering
            Right Now
            It's So Heartbreakin'
            I Surrender, Dear
            That Lucky Old Sun
            Try A Little Tenderness

            Oscar Peterson Trio & Milt Jackson

            Very Tall

              Very Tall marked the first recorded collaboration between Oscar Peterson and Milt Jackson, a masterful stroke by producer Norman Granz in bringing the two together. Both highly regarded and successful jazz figures by 1961, Peterson had recorded innumerable albums with his own trio and backing such stars as Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Ben Webster, and Billie Holiday, to name just a few, and Jackson had played with most of the great names in modern jazz and had been a founder of the Modern Jazz Quartet with John Lewis.

              Very Tall features Milt Jackson as an added member of the legendary Peterson Trio with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen, and Jackson brings to the session two of his own compositions - Heartstrings, and Reunion Blues. The repeated Heartstrings bonus track is from an earlier session of Jackson's own.

              TRACK LISTING

              1. On Green Dolphin Street
              2. Heartstrings
              3. Work Song
              4. John Brown's Body, "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" (Traditional)
              5. A Wonderful Guy
              6. Reunion Blues 
              7. Heartstrings

              Nina Simone

              At Newport 1960 - 2024 Reissue

                When this album was recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960, Nina Simone had just had her first Top 20 hit with "I Loves You, Porgy", but the "Porgy" found here is actually a continuation of Gershwin's original version of the story.

                Other highlights include "Flo Me La", an African work chant, and "Little Liza Jane", an African American folk song. A truly great live performance from one of the most original voices in 20th century music.

                TRACK LISTING

                1. Trouble In Mind
                2. Porgy
                3. Little Liza Jane
                4. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
                5. House Of The Rising Sun
                6. Flo Me La
                7. Nina's Blues
                8. In The Evening By The Moonlight
                9. Brown Baby

                Miles Davis

                Kind Of Blue - The Mono & Stereo Versions

                  The complete 1959 Miles Davis album 'Kind of Blue', one of the most influential Jazz albums of all time, presented here as a 2LP set in its original mono and stereo versions.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  1. So What
                  2. Freddie Freeloader
                  3. Blue In Green
                  4. All Blues
                  5. Flamenco Sketches
                  6. So What
                  7. Freddie Freeloader
                  8. Blue In Green
                  9. All Blues
                  10. Flamenco Sketches

                  Nina Simone

                  Ballads And Blues

                    The great Nina Simone's style encompassed a broad range of musical genres including jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, pop, and classical music. This collection compiles some of her best performances of jazz ballads and blues, the album's A side programmed to feature the ballads, and the B side for the blues.

                    Among the many highlights are her classic readings of the ballads 'I Loves You Porgy', 'Little Girl Blue', and 'Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair', as well as blues such as 'Trouble in Mind', Billie Holiday's 'Fine and Mellow', and 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out'.

                    As a bonus, one of Simone's biggest hits, 'My Baby Just Cares for Me', has been added to this essential collection.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    1. I Loves You Porgy
                    2. Little Girl Blue
                    3. Solitude
                    4. Willow Weep For Me 
                    5. Memphis In June
                    6. For All We Know
                    7. Blue Prelude
                    8. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
                    9. Trouble In Mind
                    10. Gin House Blues
                    11. House Of The Rising Sun
                    12. Fine And Mellow
                    13. Rags And Old Iron
                    14. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out

                    Ike & Tina Turner

                    The Soul Of Ike & Tina Turner - 2023 Reissue

                      This quintessential LP contains Ike & Tina's debut album for Sue Records, The Soul of Ike and Tina Turner(1961). In addition, we have included 4 bonus tracks consisting of hard to find sides from the same period.

                      Long unavailable on vinyl, this release constitutes the definitive edition of this soul treasure and serves as the best introduction for anyone wanting to explore the Turners' early years.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      I'm Jealous
                      I Idolize You
                      If
                      Letter From Tina
                      You Can't Love Two
                      I Had A Notion
                      It's Gonna Work Out Fine
                      Tina's Dilemma
                      A Fool In Love
                      Sleepless
                      Chances Are
                      You Can't Blame Me
                      You're My Baby
                      The Way You Love Me
                      Mind In A Whirl
                      The Argument

                      James Brown

                      Please, Please, Please - 2023 Reissue

                        Originally issued in 1959 to capitalize on the crossover success of his single 'Try Me', James Brown's debut LP Please,Please, Pleaseis a collection of 16 of his A and B-sides recorded for the Federal label between 1956 and 1958. It was also the debut studio album for the Famous Flames, and Originally released as 'James Brown and His Famous Flames'. Evenly split between ballads and up-tempo shouters, the songs here all fall into the same sax-driven, gospel-influenced style that you could hear in any Southern chicken shack or nightclub during the late 1950s. James Brown: lead vocals plus: The Famous Flames: Kenny Burrell, Nafloyd Scott, John Faire, Eddie Freeman (guitar), Clarence Mack, Edwyn Conley, Carl Pruitt (bass), Alvin "Fats" Gonder, Ernie Hayes (piano), Edison Gore, Reginald Hall, "Panama" Francis (drums), Wilbert "Lee Diamond" Smith, Ray Felder, Cleveland Lowe, Clifford Scott (tenor saxophone), George Dorsey, John B. Brown (alto saxophone), Bobby Byrd, Johnny Terry, Sylvester Keels, Nashpendle Knox, Bill Hollings, J.W. Archer, Louis Madison (background vocals). Produced by Ralph Bass, Andy Gibson. Recorded at King Studios, Cincinnati and Beltone Studios, New York City (NY) between 1956 and 1958.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        1. Please, Please, Please
                        2. Chonnie-On-Chon
                        3. Hold My Baby's Hand
                        4. I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On
                        5. Just Won't Do Right
                        6. Baby Cries Over The Ocean
                        7. I Don't Know
                        8. Tell Me What I Did Wrong
                        9. Try Me
                        10. That Dood It
                        11. Begging, Begging
                        12. I Walked Alone
                        13. No, No, No, No
                        14. That's When I Lost My Heart
                        15. Let's Make It
                        16. Love Or A Game
                        17. This Old Heart

                        Nina Simone

                        The Very Best Of Nina Simone

                          Nina Simone's style encompassed a broad range of musical genres including jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, pop and classical music. Although she was initially trained to be a classical pianist, racism forced her to work within the realm of popular music, where she developed a singular style both as a singer and as a piano player. This 180-gram vinyl edition compiles 16 of her best performances ever, all of which were hits. Among them are her perennial reading of George & Ira Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" and her immortal version of "My Baby Just Cares for Me". Nina Simone, vocals & piano on all tracks, plus: Al Schackman, Chris White, Jimmy Bond, Wilbur Ware; Bobby Hamilton, Ben Riley, Albert "Tootie" Heath, among others.

                          TRACK LISTING

                          1.  My Baby Just Cares For Me 
                          2.  I Loves You Porgy 
                          3.  Love Me Or Leave Me 
                          4.  Little Girl Blue 
                          5.  He Needs Me 
                          6.  Children Go Where I Send You 
                          7.  Willow Weep For Me 
                          8.  Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out 
                          9.  Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair 
                          10.  Trouble In Mind 
                          11.  Exactly Like You 
                          12.  Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me 
                          13.  Work Song 
                          14.  Fine And Mellow 
                          15.  Mood Indigo 
                          16.  The Other Woman


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