Jazz

9 classics, for the music and the record sleeves

Jazz (we've got)
  • Ambrose Akinmusire – On the tender spot of every calloused moment (2020) bc
  • Ambrose Akinmusire – Origami Harvest ()
  • Archie Shepp, Damu the Fudgemunk, Raw Poetic – Ocean Bridges (2020, discogs, jazz / hiphop) bc
  • Art Blakey – Eight classic albums – Holiday for skins vol.1 & vol.2 / Moanin’ / A night in Tunisia / Roots and herbs / Mosaic / The witch doctor / Art Blakey !!!!! Jazz Messengers !!!!! cd
  • Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Moanin’ (orig. 1958)
  • Avishai Cohen’s Triveni – Dark Nights (2014) bc
  • The Bad Plus Joshua Redman (2015) dl cd
  • Bart Defoort Quartet – The Lizard Game (2003, WERF Records, België) bc cd
  • Ben Sluijs Quartet – Food for free (1997, België) cd
  • Ben Sluijs Quartet meets Erik Vermeulen / The Unplayables – Harmonic Integration (2007) cd
  • Cannonball Adderley – Somethin’ Else (orig. 1959)
  • Chad McCullough – Dark Wood, Dark Water (2009) cd bc
  • Charles Mingus – Original Album Series (2011) – Pithecantropus Erectus (1956) / The Clown (1957) / Blues & Roots (1960) / Oh Yeah (1962) / Tonight At Noon (1964) cd … Charles Mingus – First Class Jazz (compil) cd
  • Charlie Parker
  • Commander Spoon – Spooning (2020) bc cd
  • De Beren Gieren – Less is Endless (2021, BE) bc cd
  • Dexter Gordon – Go (orig. 1962)
  • Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger – Force Majeure (2020) bc
  • Don Cherry – Cherry Jam (2021, orig.1965) bv
  • Emanative – The light years of the darkness (2015) bc
  • Emanative & Liz Elensky – The Volume of the Ligt (2021) bc
  • Erik Friedlander – Oscalypso bc
  • Ezra Collective – Juan Pablo: The Philosopher (2018) bc
  • Ezra Collective – Chapter 7 (2016) bc
  • Gary Bartz, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge – Jazz is dead 6 (2021) bc
  • Gary Bartz and Maisha – Night Dreamer bc
  • Grand Picture Palace (Anneleen Boehme) – Grand Picture Palace (2021) bc
  • Harry Beckett – The modern sound of Harry Beckett (2008) bc
  • Horace Silver Quintet – Live New York Revisited (reissue, label Hat Hut) bc
  • Jack Sels – Minor Works (2018) cd bc
  • Jaimie Branch – FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise (2019) bc
  • Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown (2020) bc
  • Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints – Scandal (2018) bc
  • John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (1965) cd
  • John Coltrane – Blue Train (1958) cd
  • John Coltrane – Giant Steps (1960) cd
  • Joshua Redman Quartet – Redman / Mehldau / McBride / Blade – RoundAgain (2020) bc
  • Kamasi Washington – The Epic (2015) cd
  • Lakecia Benjamin – Pursuance: The Coltranes (2020) cd bc
  • Makaya McCraven – Universal Beings (2018) bc
  • Makaya McCraven – Where we come from (ChicagoxLondon) (2018) bc
  • Makaya McCraven – In the moment (deluxe edition) bc
  • Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O – Umdali (2021) bc
  • Miles Davis
  • Moker – cd
  • Nat Birchall – Live in Larissa (2019) bc
  • Nat Birchall – Akhenaten (2016 reissue) bc
  • Nat Birchall Quartet – The Storyteller – A musical tribute to Yusef Lateef (2019) bc
  • Nérija – Blume (2019) bc
  • Nicole Mitchell & Haki R. Madhubuti – Liberation Narratives (2017) bc
  • Nordmann – In Velvet (2020, Unday Records) bc cd
  • Nubya Garcia – Nubya’s 5ive (2017) bc
  • Nubya Garcia – When we are (2018) bc
  • Nubya Garcia – Source (2020) bc
  • Rêve d’Eléphant Orchestra – Racines du ciel (2001) bc
  • Sarah Vaughan – With Clifford Brown
  • Shabaka and the Ancestors – Wisdom of Elders (2016) bc
  • Sonny Rollins – Milestones of a Legend (18 original albums on 10 cd’s) – Way Out West / Sonny Rollins Plus 4 / / Saxophone Colossus / Sonny Rollins & The Modern Jazz Quartet / Sonny Rollins Quartet with Jim Hall – The Bridge / Freedom Suite / Sonny Rollins Plays for Bird / Our Man in Jazz / A Night at the Village Vanguard / Newk’s Time / Movin’ Out Sonny Rollins Quintet vol. 2 / What’s New / Work Time / Tour de Force / Sonny Rollins & The Contemporary Leaders / Tenor Madness / The Sound of Sonny
  • Sons of Kemet – Lest we forget what we came here to do (2015) bc
  • Sons of Kemet – Your Queen is a Reptile (2018) cd
  • Steve Lacy – Evidence with Don Cherry (Prestige Records, reissue, orig. 1962) bc
  • Timo Lassy – Trio (2021, We Jazz Records, Finland) bc cd
  • Tord Gustavsen Trio – The Other Side (2018) bc
  • Wayne Shorter – Great Sessions (Rudy Van Gelder Editions, Blue Note) – Juju / Speak No Evil / Adam’s Apple
  • Work Money Death – The Space in which the uncontrollable unknown resides, can be the place from which creation arises (2021, ATA Records) bc
  • Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (2017) bc

Compilations

  • Weird Nightmare – Hal Willner presents … meditations on mingus (1992) cd
  • Lefto presents Jazz Cats (2018) bc cd
  • A Warm Blue Note Session – mixed by Buscemi (Blue Note’s Sidetracks vol. 2) (2001) cd
  • Deelder draait door cd
  • Europe Jazz Odyssey – Adventures in European New Jazz and Improvised Music (2003) cd
  • The Best of Blue Note (a selection from 25 best Albums on Blue Note) (1994) cd
  • A fine collection of jazz – The Story of impulse! (4 cd’s, 1997)

* cd / lp / digi / dl / bc
** should link to discogs, bandcamp, wikipedia, review

Jazz (to be checked)
Avishai Cohen Shifting Sands (“Jazz vol exotica” – review) *** Nduduzo Makhatini In the spirit of Ntu (“Zuid-Afrikaanse jazz van topkwaliteit” – review) *** Alfa Mist / Bring backs (“slenterende hiphopbeats, beladen spoken word en betoverende gitaar- en pianomelo­dieën”) *** Mixmonk: On the loose (review) *** Alexander Hawkins Mirror Canon / Break a vase (“avant-gardejazz vol experiment en durf” – review) *** Nathalie Loriers / Le temps retrouvé (“onderhuidse swing” – review) *** Craig Taborn: Shadow plays (“dé solo-pianist van het moment” – review) *** Bram De Looze: Vice versa (“boeiende, erg hedendaagse jazz” – review) *** Jason Moran: The sound will tell you (Bandcamp) *** Wynton Marsalis: The democracy suite *** Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Live (ECM, 2018) *** Archie Shepp: Four For Trane (1964) *** Archie Shepp: Attica Blues (1972) *** Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Mercy, Mercy, Mercy – Live at ‘The Club’ *** Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet: Clifford Brown and Max Roach (1954) *** Ella Fitzgerald: Sings The Cole Porter Songbook (Rec. 1956) *** Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles *** Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage *** John Coltrane: Impressions (rec. 1961-1963) *** Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (orig. 1949-1950) *** Miles Davis: Kind of Blue *** Oliver Nelson – The Blues and The Abstract Truth (1961) *** Pharoah Sanders: Karma (1969) *** Roland Kirk: Rip, Rig & Panic (1965) *** Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan (1954) *** Sonny Rollins: The Bridge (1962) *** Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto (Rec. 1963) *** Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes (From the Underground) (1985) *** Courtney Pine: Journey To The Urge Within (1986) *** Tomasz Stanko: Soul Of Things *** Brad Mehldau: Art Of The Trio Vol.3 (1998)

Jazz (some labels) with a presence on bandcamp *** W.E.R.F. Records (BE) *** We Jazz Records (FI) *** ECM Records (DE) *** International Anthem (USA) *** jazzre:freshed (UK) *** Prestige Records (reissues van het jazzplatenlabel uit de jaren 50 en 60) *** Aspen Edities (BE) independent record label for contemporary music

Jazz (some links) *** All About Jazz music, musicians, bands and albums *** Belgian Jazz / Jazz Flanders & Brussels through the eyes and ears of jazz professionals *** el NEGOCITO Records *** Jazz album of the month in The Guardian *** Jazz in Belgium alles over de Belgische jazzscene *** Jazz Middelheim *** Jazz’Halo because there is never enough jazz *** Jazzflits online jazzperiodiek voor Nederland en Vlaanderen *** JAZZIZ Magazine The voice of a new jazz culture *** Jazzlab concertorganisator, netwerk en platform voor Belgische jazz *** JazzTrail exploring the New York jazz scene and beyond *** Jazzwise *** Jazzwise The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World *** Muziekmozaïek Jazz met tijdschrift Jazz&mo’ *** W.E.R.F. Records The finest in Belgian Jazz since 1993

Jazz (DS reviews) – Jazz recensies in De Standaard tag jazz

  • ART BLAKEY JAZZ MESSENGERS – First flight to Tokio/the lost 1961 recordings (Blue Note) Hardbop op het scherp van de snede (DS 12/01/2022) ****
  • ADAM O’FARRILL – Visions of your other (Biophilia) – De rijzende ster op trompet (5/1/2022) ****
  • CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE & INSIDE STRAIGHT – Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack avenue records) – De contrabas met de meest imposante sound (15/12/2021) ***
  • DAVID LINX – Be my guest – the duos project (Cristal records) – Muzikale dialogen van hoog niveau (8/12/2021) ***
  • BACKBACK – Deuk (BBR) – Wat een lekkere band (1/12/2021) ***
  • ENRICO RAVA – Edizione speciale (ECM) – Van een gelouterde grijze eminentie (17/11/2021) ***