Jazz & Improvisation / All styles

First vinyl edition of Showtime, Sei Miguel's 1996 album and his first proper studio record, recorded live in Lisbon in 1994 with Rafael Toral on guitar, now presented as one piece with the cover photo originally planned.

Michael Garrick's first long session, cut in a single day in 1964 with Dave Green and Colin Barnes and privately pressed in 99 copies. Lansdowne reissues it as a 10-inch in a flipback sleeve, 300 copies, transferred from Garrick's own copy.

Double album by Miles Davis combining concert recordings from the Cellar Door, Washington, D.C., December 1970, with Gary Bartz, John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett, Michael Henderson, Jack DeJohnette and Airto Moreira, and 1970 studio pieces by Hermeto P…

Double album by Miles Davis compiling studio recordings made in New York between 1970 and 1974, with Michael Henderson, Al Foster, Mtume, Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas, produced by Teo Macero and first issued by Columbia in 1974.

The 1971 debut of Marc Moulin's Belgian jazz group Placebo, recorded on 23-26 August 1971 and produced by Jean Huysmans, with Richard Rousselet, Nicolas Fissette, Alex Scorier, Johnny Dover, Nick Kletchkovsky and Freddy Rottier.

Studio album by Miles Davis with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, with Chick Corea and Dave Holland on the September session, recorded in New York in 1968 and produced by Teo Macero.

Charles Mingus's first Columbia album, recorded on 5 and 12 May 1959 at the 30th Street Studio, New York, with John Handy, Booker Ervin, Shafi Hadi, Jimmy Knepper, Willie Dennis, Horace Parlan and Dannie Richmond; produced by Teo Macero.

Studio album by Miles Davis recorded in New York in June and July 1972 with Michael Henderson, Jack DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin and Badal Roy, produced by Teo Macero and first issued by Columbia in 1972.

The 1976 Epic debut of bassist Jaco Pastorius, produced by Bobby Colomby and recorded in New York, with Herbie Hancock, Don Alias, Lenny White, Wayne Shorter, Hubert Laws, Sam & Dave and strings conducted by Michael Gibbs.

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers recorded in New York on 2 and 8 April 1957 for Vik, with Bill Hardman, Johnny Griffin, Jackie McLean (as Ferris Bender), Sam Dockery and Spanky DeBrest, produced by Bob Rolontz.

Herbie Hancock's 1971 Warner Bros. album with the Mwandishi sextet (Buster Williams, Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson, Bennie Maupin, Julian Priester), recorded at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, and produced by David Rubinson.

Studio album by the Miles Davis quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, recorded at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York in June and July 1967 and first issued in 1968.

Double album of four side-long pieces by Miles Davis, recorded in New York between November 1969 and June 1972 with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin and Wayne Shorter, assembled by Teo Macero and issued by Columbia in 1974.

Herbie Hancock's 1976 Columbia album, recorded in San Francisco and co-produced with David Rubinson, with Bennie Maupin, Wah Wah Watson, Ray Parker Jr., Paul Jackson, James Levi and Kenneth Nash.

Jackie McLean's first released Blue Note album, recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, on 2 May 1959 with Donald Byrd, Walter Davis Jr., Paul Chambers and Pete La Roca, produced by Alfred Lion.

Freddie Hubbard's first album as a leader, recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, on 19 June 1960 with Tina Brooks, McCoy Tyner, Sam Jones and Clifford Jarvis, produced by Alfred Lion for Blue Note.

Yusef Lateef's 1968 Atlantic album, recorded at RCA Studios, New York, on 23-24 April 1968 with Blue Mitchell, Sonny Red, Kenny Burrell, Buddy Lucas, Hugh Lawson, Cecil McBee, Bob Cranshaw and Roy Brooks, produced by Joel Dorn.

Freddie Hubbard's first CTI album, recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, on 27-29 January 1970 with Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Lenny White, produced by Creed Taylor.

Donald Byrd's 1973 jazz-funk album, recorded at The Sound Factory in Hollywood on 13-15 June 1973, produced and arranged by Larry Mizell, with Fonce Mizell, Freddie Perren, Jerry Peters, Chuck Rainey and Harvey Mason.

Tulei is a project born in Milan out of the friendship and collaboration between saxophonist Andrea “Jimmy” Catagnoli and Davide Domenichini of Al Doum & The Faryds. The album features a distinct spiritual jazz sound in which the saxophone takes cent…

Silver Vinyl version. New York-based Zoh Amba first cultivated her musical passion in the lush forests of the Appalachian mountains, playing to the woods around her home, before she studied at classical conservatories. Her music honors her roots, ful…

Clear Vinyl version. Originally from Kingsport, Tennessee, New York-based Zoh Amba is a notable rising star in the avant-garde music scene. Growing up in the Appalachian mountains, Amba practiced saxophone to the forest that surrounded her home befor…

Translucent Blue Vinyl version. 'The Uproar in Bursts of Sound and Silence is a sort of emergent collage that came together over four years of composition, improvisation, and production. The foundations for this album were initially recorded in 2018 …

Coloured Vinyl version. 'Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) spoke the truth (and the truth under his tongue was sometimes a hammer, sometimes an anvil, sometimes a sickle, sometimes just a breath or a blast). Baraka had no tongue in cheek. Sometimes he drew …

Coloured Vinyl version. SSWAN presents their first outing "Invisibility is an unnatural disaster" a raucous jaunt of free jazz on the premiere fire music label 577 Records. The music is rooted in the Black American art form of jazz, stemming into the…

Translucent Sea Blue Vinyl version. Super groups are always risky—the potential for disappointing fans or warring musical styles is high—but when longtime friends and masterful improvisers come together, they usually work. Evident in their first coll…

180 gram audiophile vinyl pressing. Crossings is the second album in the experimental sextet trilogy Herbie Hancock released early 1970s. His electronic movements are further explored and the whole sound comes alive in the three long tracks this albu…

Coloured Vinyl version. Can music liberate us? Francisco Mela, who worked and partnered with the legendary jazz musician McCoy Tyner, believes so. On this album, the second volume of Music Frees Our Souls, Mela collaborates with pianist Cooper-Moore …

Blue Vinyl version. Before any instrumentation, Francisco Mela addresses his fellow musicians, pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist William Parker, with a sense of anticipation and affirmation, “Okay guys, ready? Rolling!” The sense of camaraderie and h…

Coloured Vinyl version. In the first lockdown, Matthew Putman (on keyboard) and Michael Sarian (on trumpet and flugelhorn) began to meet up (with precautions) for semi-regular sessions in Sarian’s makeshift home studio. The conditions were less-than-…

Coloured Vinyl version. New York United is an experimental group at the musical intersection of a classic New York avant-garde scene and forward-looking electronic production. Comprised of multi-instrumentalist and 577-cofounder Daniel Carter (Saxoph…

Coloured Vinyl version. How do you welcome adventure? Longtime comrades, legendary Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver investigated this in their first album, Welcome Adventure, Vol. 1, resulting in 577 Records’ best-selli…

Cloudy Clear Vinyl version. Are you ready for magic? The master musicians Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver will provide access with this album, the first they have released after playing together for decades. Daniel Car…

Yellow Vinyl version. Dave Tucker says that he brought this disparate group of musicians together for a live performance at London’s Cafe Oto last March on “an educated guess,” predicting that the artists - Mark Sanders (Drums & Percussion), Pat Thom…

Remastered LP edition. Finally back in print! Originally released by EMI's Pathé Marconi imprint in 1969, People in Sorrow — a 40-minute work by the four-piece lineup of Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Lester Bowie, and Malachi Favors — has long been…

On Fire in Orbit, Hill Collective sharpen their Brighton‑born spiritual jazz into its most expansive form yet: loose‑limbed, witty and rough‑edged, but guided by a collective instinct that lets every groove breathe and slowly catch fire.

* LP on black vinyl, pressed at RTI and housed in a heavy-duty tip-on Stoughton jacket, with insert. * In 1968, Don Cherry had already established himself as one of the leading voices of the avant-garde. Having pioneered free jazz as a member of Orne…

* 2xLP on black vinyl, pressed at RTI and housed in a heavy-duty tip-on gatefold Stoughton jacket. * In the late 1960s, the American trumpet player and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry (1936–1995) and the Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry (1…

Last copies...Joseph Jarman (1937 - 2019) was a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of trailblazing avant-garde jazz group Art Ensemble of Chicago. Jarman was responsible for the Art Ensemble’s signature face paint a…

“Hurtling Between” is an apt description of the way Barry Altschul plays drums: effortlessly moving between swing and free playing. It’s also a fitting analogy for the current historical moment, in which there’s often a feeling of catapulting between…