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Five From '65: The Quintet Summer Sessions
By Chet Baker
Label: New Land Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Disc: 1 - Groovin;
Disc: 2 - Smokin;
Disc: 3 - Boppin;
Disc: 4 - Cool Burnin;
Disc: 5 - Comin' on.
The Free Slave
By Roy Brooks
Label: Time Traveller Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Free Slave; Understanding; Will Pan's Walk; Five for Max.
Chet Baker's Five from '65 - New Land's Best Box Set Yet
by Patrick Burnette
Five From '65: The Quintet Summer Sessions Chet Baker New Land Records 2025 We are far enough into the vinyl revival that box sets are now becoming commonplace, and the New Land label has been particularly adventurous--almost quixotic--in its offerings. New Land devoted its first jazz box ...
A Muse Renaissance: Reissues from Roy Brooks, Kenny Barron, and Carlos Garnett
by C. Andrew Hovan
The independent jazz label has long served as a bellwether for the music's highest artistry, ever since the advent of the long-playing record. Labels such as Verve Records, Blue Note Records, Prestige Records, Contemporary Records, and Riverside--each a modest operation led by passionate entrepreneurs--were devoted to documenting the sound of their era with fidelity and purpose. ...
Roy Brooks: The Free Slave
by Pierre Giroux
Roy Brooks's The Free Slave, newly reissued on Time Traveler Recordings as a 180-gram vinyl LP, stands as a passionate tribute to the drummer's remarkable artistry and his often overlooked role as one of the most rhythmic thinkers of the post-bop period. Recorded live by Muse Records on April 26, 1970, at Baltimore's renowned Left Bank ...
Return of the Muse
by Patrick Burnette
Some indie labels find a happy home in the afterlife--think Prestige, Contemporary, et al who thrived for years under the Fantasy banner and are now sheltered under the wing of Craft Records. Others aren't so lucky. Super-producer and Record Store Day regular Zev Feldman has now made an enterprise of rescuing records from the long-dormant Muse ...
The "Jazz Detective" Finds A New Muse, Reissues Lost Classics
by Joshua Weiner
Joe Fields (1929-2017) was a jazz producer and record executive who worked for Columbia, MGM, Verve, and, most impactfully, at Prestige in the 1950s and 1960s. Shortly after Prestige was sold to Fantasy in 1971, ending a classic era for the storied label, Fields founded Muse Records to document the next phase in jazz. Muse brought ...
George Coleman, Anne Mette Iverson, Sylvie Courvoisier with Wadada Leo Smith, and Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian
by Hobart Taylor
Regeneration... New and old music featuring George Coleman, a newly released historic Keith Jarrett Trio recording, and astounding new music from Anne Mette Iverson as well as Sylvie Courvoisier with Wadada Leo SmithPlaylist Craig Taborn /Marcus Gilmore/Nels Cline “Queen King" from (Trio of Bloom) (Pyro clastic) 00:00 Anne Mette Iversen “TBQE (To Be Questioned ...
Detroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Celebration of Home
The 2023 Detroit Jazz Festival is almost upon us, taking place in its annual Labor Day weekend slot on the yearly jazz festival calendar. The largest free jazz festival in the world brings the music to the people of Detroit, and the world, on September 1-4 in downtown Detroit and in Hart Plaza along the Detroit ...
