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Review: Airto Moreira and Flora Purim are known as the legendary King and Queen of Brazilian Jazz. For the last 60 years they have been serving up rich and vivid albums as well as playing exhilarating live shows all over the world. They have fans all over the world from Japan's concert halls to the UK's jazz funk and jazz dance scenes and their latest album in 2022, If You Will, was nominated for a Grammy, proving that they very much still have it. A Celebration: 60 Years - Sounds, Dreams & Other Stories is a collection of their many best bits from over the years.

Review: Celebrated jazz man Charles Mingus took Manhattan by storm when he played a series of legendary darts at the world famous Birdland venue in New York between 1961 and 196. Now, in conjunction with the Mingus Estate, the complete collection of those sessions make it to vinyl for the first time ever. Mingus Takes Manhattan - The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961 - 1962 is taken from the original reel-to-reel tapes used for the radio broadcasts at the time. These rare recordings comes with a 44-page book with a foreword from Christian McBride.

Review: ***B-STOCK: Sleeve damaged but otherwise in excellent condition***


Made and released way back in 1958, Somethin' Else is a classic jazz album by the American alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, notably his only ever album for the esteemed Blue Note label. It famously hears Adderley enlist the help of trumpeter Miles Davis as one of its sidemen, and this was an ongoing relationship that later paved the way for popular jazz as a whole; without Somethin' Else, we wouldn't have Kind Of Blue, for which Adderley would contribute his sax playing just a year later. Though it is a testament to the unity of two great core musicians, we also hear the piano stylings of Hank Jones, bassist Sam Jones and drummer Art Blakey.

Review: Maiden Voyage was a Japanese-owned jazz club, near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, from 1979 until 1983. In August 1981, alto saxophone legend Art Pepper, pianist George Cables, bassist David Williams, and drummer Carl Burnett played seven sets over three consecutive nights; musician and producer Ed Michel and Art's wife, Laurie Pepper, were there and tape rolled for every note played. Though he would pass away only ten months later, Pepper is known to have listened back to the tapes, taking meticulous notes on each performance and writing the likess of "the best solo I've played on this whole date - wow!!" and "This is worth the whole night!" Though some of the performances would find their way onto posthumous releases including Arthur's Blues, Art Lives, and The Maiden Voyage Sessions, now,all three nights can be heard in full, as they happened, for the first time. Produced for release by Laurie Pepper and Cheryl Pawelski, The Complete Maiden Voyage Recordings features 42 performances (23 previously unissued) plus all of the between song banter and stories from Art's three-night stand at the Los Angeles club on seven CDs. The 44-page booklet features photos, Art's original hand written notes and commentary, ephemera and a new essay from Laurie Pepper telling Art's story.