Orbits, the sophomore LP from The Circling Sun, channels the cosmic energy of '70s spiritual jazz, filtered through synths, layered percussion, and ethereal choirs. The Aotearoa collective expand their sonic universe with nods to Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Azymuth, and ambient jazz — offering deep listening for jazz heads and newcomers alike.

Legendary Milanese combo Calibro 35 continue their journey into the world of cinematic jazz-funk with their new album "Exploration." Set for worldwide release on June 6, "Exploration" marks their return to independent label Record Kicks after their last studio album "Nouvelle Aventures" released on Universal Music in 2023. The band picks up from their latest EP, "Jazzploitation," released on Record Kicks last October.

The Miles Davis: The Electric Years box set collects seven albums from one of the most daring eras of Miles Davis’ career — In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, A Tribute To Jack Johnson, Live-Evil, On The Corner, Big Fun and Get Up With It. Starting in 1969 and ending in 1974, this box tells the story of a fertile period in Miles’ career, the third or fourth time he basically blew up the rules of jazz and made it again in his own image. Endlessly influential, these albums impacted basically every genre of music to follow in their wake. The albums have all been mastered AAA from 1-to-1 tape transfers of the master tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound. With GRAMMY Award-winning Steve Berkowitz supervising and consulting, the 11 LPs featured in the box come on 180g black vinyl, pressed at GZ, and will be limited in the first edition to 2,000 units. You can learn the story of these albums via an extensive Listening Notes booklet written by jazz historian and critic Ben Ratliff.

City Life is the third studio album by the American R&B/jazz-funk fusion group the Blackbyrds, released in 1975 on Fantasy Records.

Some of the earliest work we've ever seen from Steven Halpern, and some of the best – a mid 70s set that predates some of his better-known new age records of later years – and which has a sound that's maybe a bit more compressed and focused overall! Steven's still playing plenty of Fender Rhodes throughout – using the keys in those enigmatic ways that always make his records so great – mixed with light touches on bass, trumpet, electric flute, and guitar – but only at a few points, so that most of the record is just Halpern opening up with these beautiful lines on the Rhodes! Side one features the long "Sound Spectrum Suite" – and side two features "Be Muse Ment", "Trans Pan Dance", and "Subtle Body Suite" – the last of which is actually a funky Rhodes tune! © 1996-2025, Dusty Groove, Inc.

Big Shoulders Records announces the return of two-time GRAMMY® winner Kurt Elling and guitarist Charlie Hunter with SuperBlue: Guilty Pleasures Vol. 2, the latest installment in their creative partnership.

Philly prog-funk fusion trio Muscle Tough have been performing shows to celebrate their 10th year making music as a band and have released their latest album, Too Busy 4 Jail. From downright chaotic to delicate & tender, the band's third LP spans the spectrum of emotions and style. One quickly learns that nothing stands in the way of Ross Bellenoit, Joe Baldacci, and Jonathan Colman, pushing boundaries and displaying the compositional prowess & experience under their belts that only tight-knit bands display. Harkening back to their 2016 EP title track, Greasin' Up The Mediocrity Wheel, MT delivers a progressive approach with complex arrangements, while executing engaging and developing music in the 8-track offering.

"Chi È Nicola Felpieri?", l'atteso album d'esordio de Il Mago Del Gelato per Dischi Numero Uno. Prodotto da Marquis e registrato al SudeStudio a Guagnano (LE), il primo disco della band milanese arriva a culmine di un percorso artistico in continua accelerazione, che in soli due anni l'ha portata a essere riconosciuta tra i progetti più eclettici e originali in circolazione. Nicola "Il Felpieri" è l'enigmatico protagonista di questo racconto sonoro, in cui Il Mago Del Gelato lascia esplodere il suo inconfondibile groove, un mix letale di afrobeat, funk e jazz. Dieci tracce dai suoni ampi. naturali e descrittivi in cui si alternano momenti energici e percussivi e atmosfere introspettive e sensuali. Da ogni brano si sprigiona il sound unico de Il Mago Del Gelato: percussioni, sintetizzatori anni 80, chitarre roots e una sezione ritmica di basso e batteria che trascina in una danza sfrenata si affiancano a vocoder e cori che si ritagliano più spazio, con una nuova e maggiore attenzione anche alla vocalità grazie anche alla collaborazione in tre brani di artisti nazionali e internazionali.

"I'm like 'Sweetie Pie' by Stone Alliance / Everybody knows I'm known for dropping science." Beastie Boys, "Root Down," 1994
For over three decades, the Stone Alliance's debut album on Gene Perla's PM Records has been a record collector's commodity. An LP that evolved from the Rare Groove 1990s into a hallowed place in America's deep jazz canon. This definitive reissue of the 1976 release was lacquered in an all-analog transfer by Bernie Grundman, who removed the Dolby noise reduction and freed the space in the record's grooves. Grundman himself said that this is the best that this record has ever sounded. Contains an oversized 8 page booklet that details bass player and PM Records founder Gene Perla's arc in music, the creation and lineage of his PM Records imprint and the story of the Stone Alliance band."

We are delighted to host Yamaha signature artist, and keyboard player, producer and long time co-writer for Jamiroquai - Matt Johnson - with full band at PizzaExpress Jazz Club. For the last 20 years Matt has been the keyboard player for Jamiroquai, co-writing most of the band’s output during that time and co-producing the last album “Automaton”. In-between working with the band he has recorded as a session player with numerous artists in many genres including Duffy, Ashanti, JP Cooper, Jax Jones, SG Lewis, Purple Disco Machine, Newton Falkner, Will Young and many more. Now Matt has released his debut solo record “With The Music” under the Splash Blue label, with a retro Jazz Funk feel.

Contemporary jazz, funk, swing: How much is possible with just 3 musicians? How little? The trio "Bird's Free Funk" plays calm and melody followed by groove and beats in original compositions, so that a new world opens up in a minimal line-up. Intense and gripping, with the search for beauty of sound, in which each musician bears maximum responsibility, the trio plays its way from bebop to Latin jazz to modern compositions. The three young musicians from Hanover and Berlin try to give jazz their own flavour, away from too much and towards the most necessary, the most musical, the most beautiful.

"Dancing Around Fire" is the new album by LA-based drummer and composer Tommaso Cappellato in partnership with Pavimento Fertile, the Italian break dance collective founded by Paolo "Frigo" Montesi. Inspired by the energy of dance and improvisation, this album serves up a dynamic fusion of experimental soul and timeless grooves that command the body to move.

With the release of Grab Bag: 2007-2023, The Greyboy Allstars, once again, redraw the boundaries and redefine the terms of their iconic brand of West Coast boogaloo. The title of this eighth LP from GBA could suggest a random assortment of miscellaneous tracks, yet rest assured there is nothing random, nothing miscellaneous about these nine stellar cuts, previously unreleased over the past decade and a half of the quintet’s illustrious 30-year history. Perhaps stylistic and sonic outcasts resulting in their exclusion from previous albums, here they seamlessly come together to highlight the more experimental side of the quintet’s ever-evolving sound and vision.

This is the 10th anniversary edition of the monumental album that Snarky Puppy recorded in 2013 in a live studio format with an audience. It includes alternate takes of each song as well as the first recorded version of "Gretel," making it a must-have for fans.

Afro-Harping is the first of a rarefied and outstanding trilogy of soul-jazz albums by Dorothy Ashby. Remastered from the original tapes, Afro-Harping is filled front-to-back with sumptuous and hypnotic grooves. Its African percussion, soulful orchestrations, in-the-pocket rhythms and Dorothy's virtuosity take it beyond jazzy mood music and made it a favorite of beat heads and producers. This deluxe edition features eight bonus tracks - alternate takes from the surviving four-track session reels, including an explosive rendition of the single, "Soul Vibrations," extended versions of the title track and "Little Sunflower," plus two fantastic jazzy readings of "Theme from Valley of the Dolls." 2 LP set.