Blue Note 85
Explore 85 years of music history with Blue Note Records, the legendary jazz label
behind icons like John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Norah Jones.
Celebrate this milestone with a curated selection of vinyl, including the
Tone Poet Reissues, Classic Vinyl Reissue Series, and Indie Exclusive Blue Vinyl Series from today’s Blue Note stars.
Timeless sounds reimagined for your collection.
Kenny Dorham added stellar entries to the catalogs of Blue Note, Riverside, and New Jazz throughout the 1950s as he solidified his reputation as a leading trumpeter and composer on the jazz scene. He began 1961 in the studio for Blue Note recording his excellent album Whistle Stop and later that year cut his first date for Pacific Jazz, Inta Somethin’, a spirited live recording that captured Dorham leading a quintet with alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, pianist Walter Bishop Jr., bassist Leroy Vinnegar, and drummer Art Taylor at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco. The band is firing on all cylinders throughout this set of four standards bookended by the Dorham originals “Us” and “San Francisco Beat.” A buoyant version of “It Could Happen To You” is performed quartet as a Dorham showcase, while the trumpeter lays out on “Let’s Face The Music And Dance” and “Lover Man” to give the spotlight to McLean.
The precocious and prodigious drummer and composer Tony Williams had already joined the Miles Davis Quintet and participated in numerous landmark Blue Note recordings including Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles, Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch, Andrew Hill Point Of Departure, Jackie McLean One Step Beyond, and Grachan Moncur III Evolution by the time he recorded his own adventurous debut album Life Time in August 1964, when he was still just 18 years old. Williams had no intention of playing it safe on his maiden voyage as a leader and set forth to document his uncompromising expression on this program of innovative original compositions.
Side 1 presents the expansive two movement suite "2 Pieces of One" with the drummer joined by tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers and bassists Gary Peacock and Richard Davis. Side 2 opens with the jaunty "Tomorrow Afternoon" featuring Williams, Rivers, and Peacock. Williams plays a variety of percussion on the freely improvised "Memory" which features Herbie Hancock on piano and Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, and lays out entirely on the ruminative piano-bass duet "Barb's Song to the Wizard" performed by Hancock and Ron Carter which closes the album.
![Donald Byrd - Donald Byrd • At The Half Note Café, Vol.1 (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]](https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/71/4158171-2972972.jpg "Donald Byrd - Donald Byrd • At The Half Note Café, Vol.1 (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]")
Donald Byrd • At The Half Note Café, Vol.1 (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]
ON SALE $41.99 Vinyl: $20.99 Buy
![Donald Byrd - Byrd In Flight (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]](https://img.broadtime.com/418464359511:500.webp "Donald Byrd - Byrd In Flight (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]")
Trumpeter Donald Byrd and Hank Mobley (tenor sax) let listeners know that they are in for an exceptional musical experience on "Ghana". For these Byrd In Flight 1960 sessions, he was joined by Jackie Mclean (alto sax), Duke Pearson (piano), Doug Watkins/Reggie Workman (bass) & Lex Humphries (drums). Higlights include the stunning ballad "Little Girl Blue," and swingers "My Girl Shirl" and "Lex". Blue Note Tone Poet Series features all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold package.
![Jimmy Smith - Prayer Meetin [180 Gram]](https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/04/3846804-2805603.jpg "Jimmy Smith - Prayer Meetin [180 Gram]")
![Miles Davis - Volume 1 (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)[LP]](https://img.broadtime.com/Photo/418467244300:500 "Miles Davis - Volume 1 (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)[LP]")
The legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still near the beginning of his storied career when he cut the three sessions that comprise his Blue Note recordings in 1952, 1953, and 1954. In the late 1940s, Miles had been a member of Charlie Parker’s quintet and Dizzy Gillespie’s big band, as well as cutting select sides as a leader including the influential Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records. Miles’ star was still rising at the time he hooked up with Alfred Lion and Blue Note, but he was clearly on his path towards becoming one of the greatest bandleaders in jazz. Initially released across three 10” LPs—Young Man With A Horn, Vol. 2, and Vol. 3—the music captured on these Blue Note sides contains all the hallmarks of his early style from blazing bebop to beautiful ballads. When Blue Note transitioned to the 12” LP in 1955, Lion compiled Miles’ recordings onto two volumes as the inaugural releases of the 1500 series. Volume 1 (Blue Note 1501) presents tracks from the 1952 and 1953 sextet sessions featuring two stellar line-ups with included trombonist J.J. Johnson, saxophonists Jackie McLean and Jimmy Heath, pianist Gi Coggins, bassists Oscar Pettiford and Percy Heath, and drummers Kenny Clarke and Art Blakey.
This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is mono, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Grayfrom the original masters, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.
![Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)[LP]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/315/418467224315/418467224315:500.jpg "Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)[LP]")
![Andrew Hill - Passing Ships [Blue Note Tone Poet Series 2LP]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/491/418460386491/418460386491:500.jpg "Andrew Hill - Passing Ships [Blue Note Tone Poet Series 2LP]")
Andrew Hill is one of the most distinctive pianists/composers in jazz. Recorded in 1969, it sat unreleased until 2003 when it was issued on CD thanks to archivist Michael Cuscuna. Hill penned all compositions for an ensemble featuring Woody Shaw, Dizzy Reece, Julian Priester, Joe Farrell, Howard Johnson, Bob Northern, Ron Carter and Lenny White. This is presented for the first time on vinyl. Blue Note Tone Poet Series features all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.
![Andrew Hill - Dance With Death (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]](https://img.broadtime.com/418453630270:500.webp "Andrew Hill - Dance With Death (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]")
![Andrew Hill - Black Fire [180 Gram]](https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/75/3684775-2459100.jpg "Andrew Hill - Black Fire [180 Gram]")
![Art Blakey - The Witch Doctor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/804/418464886804/418464886804:500.jpg "Art Blakey - The Witch Doctor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]")
Recorded in 1961, but not released until 1967, The Witch Doctor features one of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' greatest line-ups: Wayne Shorter (saxophone), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Bobby Timmons (piano), and Jymie Merritt (bass). Highlights include Morgan's "Afrique," Shorter's "Those Who Sit and Wait," Timmons' "A Little Busy," and Jordan's "Lost and Found" which closes the album. Blue Note Tone Poet Series features all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.
![Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Roots And Herbs (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]](https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/30/3859430-2631873.jpg "Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Roots And Herbs (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]")
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Roots And Herbs (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]
Vinyl: $41.99 Buy
Vinyl LP pressing. Blue Note Tone Poet Series. One Art Blakey's greatest albums with the Jazz Messengers, Roots & Herbs, is little known. In 1961, the group featured Lee Morgan (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Bobby Timmons (piano) and Jymie Merrit (bass). Recorded in Rudy Van Gelder's New Jersey studio, it's a brilliant set of six Shorter compositions, like the playful "Ping Pong" and the clever "United." It's among Blakey's finest.
![Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Big Beat [Blue Note Classic Series LP]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/547/418466430547/418466430547:500.jpg "Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Big Beat [Blue Note Classic Series LP]")
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
The Big Beat [Blue Note Classic Series LP]
![Baby Face Willette - Face To Face [180 Gram]](https://img.broadtime.com/418454141567:500.webp "Baby Face Willette - Face To Face [180 Gram]")
![Big John Patton - Oh Baby! (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)[LP]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/410/418467121410/418467121410:500.jpg "Big John Patton - Oh Baby! (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)[LP]")
![Bobbi Humphrey - Fancy Dancer [180 Gram]](https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/81/4017881-2761336.jpg "Bobbi Humphrey - Fancy Dancer [180 Gram]")
![Bobby Hutcherson - Stick-Up! (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/197/418467223197/418467223197:500.jpg "Bobby Hutcherson - Stick-Up! (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]")
![Bobby Hutcherson - Oblique (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [180 Gram]](https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/10/3859910-3321866.jpg "Bobby Hutcherson - Oblique (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [180 Gram]")
![Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) [LP]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/684/418467228684/418467228684:500.jpg "Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) [LP]")
![Bud Powell - Time Waits: The Amazing Bud Powell Blue Note Classic Series [LP]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/745/418466437745/418466437745:500.jpg "Bud Powell - Time Waits: The Amazing Bud Powell Blue Note Classic Series [LP]")
Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series!
180g Vinyl LP!
Mastered By Kevin Gray From Original Analog Tapes!
Pressed At Optimal!
The fourth volume of The Amazing Bud Powell series, recorded in 1958, found the brilliant bebop piano master in particularly fine form on an ebullient set of his original tunes including "Buster Rides Again," "Monopoly," and "John's Abbey." Powell's inventive solo flights shine in a trio setting with Sam Jones on bass and "Philly" Joe Jones on drums.
This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.
FEATURES:
- Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series
- 180g Vinyl LP
- All-Analog Pressing
- Mastered by Kevin Gray from Original Analog Tapes
- Manufactured at Optimal in Germany
Time Waits: The Amazing Bud Powell
The amazing bebop piano genius Bud Powell made his most enduring recordings as a leader for Blue Note. Powell's 1949 and 1951 sessions were compiled in 1955 on The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1. Featuring the pianist with the likes of Sonny Rollins, Fats Navarro, Roy Haynes and Max Roach on bebop classics including "Un Poco Loco" and "Bouncing with Bud." Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.
FEATURES:
- Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series
- 180g Vinyl LP
- All-Analog Pressing
- Mono
- Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original analog tapes
- Manufactured at Optimal in Germany
MUSICIANS:
Fats Navarro Trumpet
Sonny Rollins Tenor Saxaphone
Bud Powell Piano
Curly Russell Bass
Max Roach DRUMS
Amazing Bud Powell, Vol 1 (Blue note Classic Vinyl Series)
![Carmell Jones - The Remarkable Carmell Jones (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]](https://img.broadtime.com/418460364208:500.webp "Carmell Jones - The Remarkable Carmell Jones (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [LP]")
