Jazz
Carmen Sandim – Mini Brazilian Beasts – PS Audio Gold SACD
Original price was: £55.00.£27.50Current price is: £27.50.A marvel of modern jazz
In her first album recorded in Pure DSD, Brazilian pianist Carmen Sandim is a master of storytelling through her thoughtfully-crafted piano melodies and sophisticated harmonic structures.
Accompanied in expert fashion by Gilad Hekselman on electric and acoustic guitar, Greg Garrison on bass and Colin Stranahan drums, Mini Brazilian Beasts is a marvel of modern jazz that’s warm and bright, and one of Octave’s crispest, clearest DSD recordings to date.
Gabriel Mervine – Say Somethin’ PS Audio Gold 180g Vinyl
Original price was: £89.95.£44.98Current price is: £44.98.Just released. A limited-edition, individually numbered, 180-gram collector’s vinyl. These won’t be around long.
Kirsten Edkins – Shapes & Sound – Cohearent Sound 180g Vinyl
Original price was: £55.00.£45.00Current price is: £45.00.Shapes and Sound by jazz composer/saxophonist Kirsten Edkins
Shapes and Sound from jazz saxophonist Kirsten Edkins is the debut LP release from Cohearent Records — the new record label companion to famed mastering engineer Kevin Gray’s latest enterprise, an all-valve (vacuum tube) recording studio (Cohearent Recording) adjoining his home-based mastering facility in California.
“It’s the ‘essence of an era’ we are trying to recapture with today’s musicians, not the sound of specific spaces, engineers or recordings,” Gray told music reviewer Michael Fremer.
Lee Morgan – Taru – Blue Note Records Tone Poet Series 180g Vinyl
Original price was: £49.95.£39.95Current price is: £39.95.Lee Morgan’s 1968 album Taru—which wouldn’t be first released until 1980 as part of the LT Series—found the trumpeter at a crossroads exploring a variety of styles. The band on this outstanding date is notable for several reasons including the elevating presence of guitarist George Benson who delivers inspired solos throughout.
The session also marked Morgan’s first recorded collaboration with tenor saxophonist Bennie Maupin who would play an integral role on future Morgan albums including Caramba! and Live at the Lighthouse. Rounding out the sextet were pianist John Hicks, bassist Reggie Workman, and the ever-inspiriting drummer Billy Higgins.
Scolohofo – Oh! (Tone Poet Series) Blue Note Records 180G 2LP Vinyl
Original price was: £49.95.£39.95Current price is: £39.95.ScoLoHoFo — the supergroup made up of guitarist John Scofield, saxophonist Joe Lovano, bassist Dave Holland, and drummer Al Foster — first played together as a band in 1999, but the musicians’ associations stretched back decades.
Scofield, Holland, and Foster were all alumni of Miles Davis’ groups and they appeared together on Joe Henderson’s 1993 Miles tribute So Near, So Far.
Scofield’s acclaimed early-90s quartet featured Lovano as heard on a series of excellent Blue Note albums including Time On My Hands and Meant To Be.
