Home » Search Center » Results: Music Matters

Results for "Music Matters"

Album

Soul Station

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Remember; This I Dig Of You; Dig Dis; Split Feelin's; Soul Station; If I Should Lose You.

Article: Album Review

Music Matters continues to release exceptionally high quality, all analog reissues of classic Blue Note Records' albums from the golden mid-century age of small-combo jazz. They've recently upped their game with the introduction of a higher-quality raw material formulation they call SRX Vinyl. Hank Mobley was Blue Note Records' most prolific artist, with over ...

Article: Album Review

Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder

Read "The Sidewinder" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons
February 13, 2020

Legend tells us that 1964's The Sidewinder was the album, and indeed the song, which saved Blue Note Records at a time when the label was struggling financially. Dashed off to fill some tape, at the end of the recording session, it peaked at number 25 on the Billboard charts—almost unheard of for a hard-bop record—stabilizing ...

Album

The Sidewinder

By Lee Morgan

Label: Music Matters
Released: 2019
Track listing: The Sidewinder; Totem Pole; Gary's Notebook; Boy, What A Night; Hocus-Pocus.

Article: Multiple Reviews

Music Matters: SRX Vinyl

by Greg Simmons
January 10, 2019

Music Matters, the vinyl reissue house known for it's long string of high-quality all-analog pressings of classic Blue Note records, has released a dozen additional titles just a year or so after completing what was supposed to have been their final offerings. The new records include some that Music Matters had released in earlier series, as ...

Album

Lee Morgan on Music Matters

By Lee Morgan

Label: Music Matters
Released: 2017
Track listing: Track Name #1; Track Name #2; Track Name #3.

Album

Evolution

By Grachan Moncur III

Label: Music Matters
Released: 2017
Track listing: Air Raid; Evolution; The Coaster; Monk In Wonderland.

Album

Adam's Apple

By Wayne Shorter

Label: Music Matters
Released: 2017
Track listing: Adam's apple; 502 Blues (Drinkin' and Drivin'); El Gaucho; Footprints; Teru; Chief Crazy Horse.

Album

WAHOO!

By Duke Pearson

Label: Music Matters
Released: 2017
Track listing: Amanda; Bedouin; Farewell Machelle; Wahoo; ESP (Extrasensory Perception); Fly Little Bird Fly.

Article: Album Review

Wayne Shorter: Adam's Apple

Read "Adam's Apple" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons
April 26, 2017

In all the perpetual hubbub surrounding Blue Note records from the 1950s--the aggressive opinions and stratospheric prices--it's sometime easy to forget that the label released really high quality music all the way through the 1960s, and some of the recordings from the later years of the decade are every bit as worthy of attention as the ...