Black Sam Rivers

Paramount among independent modern jazz record labels, Black Saint was founded in Italy back in 1975 and grew to encompass more than 190 albums, while its comparatively mainstream sister enterprise, Soul Note, emerged in 1979 and eventually racked up a phenomenal index of more than 350 releases. After purchasing both gold mines, CAM Jazz began reissuing the cream of these catalogs in affordable box sets, setting the stage for a full-scale reassessment of modern creative music. The Henry Threadgill edition contains no less than seven remastered albums, packaged like little LPs in perfectly reproduced jackets, each with the original print scaled down in miniature but still legible with the aid of a magnifying lens.

Acclaimed saxophonist/composer Jerome Sabbagh reconvenes his longstanding quartet for the first time in more than a decade for the timely "Stand Up!".

Andrew Hill was one of the greatest pianists of the '60s, but he never quite received his due. Hill was a skillful, cerebral musician that consciously positioned his music between hard bop and free. He was at his peak in the mid-'60s, as his playing and composing continued to explore new territory. All of his seminal recordings for Blue Note between 1963 and 1966 are collected on the limited-edition, seven-disc box set The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions (1963-66). During those three years, he recorded with an astonishing array of talents, including Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Sam Rivers, Joe Henderson, Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Richard Davis, Joe Chambers, John Gilmore, and Kenny Dorham. The box features 15 alternate takes, including ten previously unreleased cuts and a composition that has never been released…

Essiet Okon Essiet - Shona (2015) {Space Time Records BG 1439}
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Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Crossover Jazz / Afro Jazz / Bass

The National Release Date Of Shona Is September 1,2015! New York City, July 30th,2015 - Omaha born and N.Y.C. based bassist Essiet Okon Essiet has set the radio add date of August 31 St. 2015 and the commercial release date of September 1st, 2015 for his amazing debut CD release of Shona on Frances' Space Time Records! To understand the musical diversity of Shona one would need to know about Essiet's background. Essiet's parents moved here from Nigeria, West Africa as his father worked for the US, as well as the Nigerian government and through his youth the family moved often including Europe, Africa and various cities in the US.

Jacques Coursil, trumpet player and beacon composer of the New York Free Jazz scene of the 60s, interrupted his career for more than 40 years to devote himself to the philosophy of mathematics and to Creole literature. He returned to the music scene in 2007, with the album Clameurs which blended years of underground work with his pronounced taste for the texts of the major Creole authors on Negritude.

For 75 years the Blue Note label, find an anthology of 50 singles drawn from his extensive catalog, which coincides with the history of jazz. Since the first record in 1939, the label hosted the stars of the most famous jazz including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Jimmy Smith, Grant Green, Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Donald Byrd, Andrew Hill and Ornette Coleman … as well as among the most innovative artists of modern jazz, like Cassandra Wilson, Jason Moran, Lionel Loueke, Norah Jones, José James, Robert Glasper and Gregory Porter. A must for any jazz fan who respects.

2009 eight CD box set. The Blue Note Highlights Collectors Box was compiled by Jazz icon Hans Mantel commemorating the 70th Birthday of Blue Note Records. This box set contains four single CD's, and two double CD's, each with their own specific theme. The emphasis is on Blue Note's golden era between 1955 and 1967 with all material taken from commercially available recordings.