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Celebrating Frank Sinatra!Here is a uDiscover guide to one of Ol' Blue Eye's classics, Capitol's Frank Sinatra Sings fo...
08/09/2025

Celebrating Frank Sinatra!
Here is a uDiscover guide to one of Ol' Blue Eye's classics, Capitol's Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, which was released on this day in 1958.

'Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely' is the epitome of sadness, with arrangements that have an added dollop of despondency.

Exciting new Verve re-issue!A landmark collaborative record from saxophonists Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan is getting a ...
08/09/2025

Exciting new Verve re-issue!

A landmark collaborative record from saxophonists Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan is getting a hi-fi, vinyl reissue via Verve’s Acoustic Sounds series in October 2025.
The album features the great Ray Brown on bass.
Find out more at uDiscover

Verve is reissuing the first-ever collaborative record from saxophonists Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan as part of its Acoustic Sounds series.

Grant Green classic is a Blue Note special!Grant Green finished recording 'The Latin Bit' on 7 September1962. His album ...
07/09/2025

Grant Green classic is a Blue Note special!
Grant Green finished recording 'The Latin Bit' on 7 September1962. His album of Latin American music features tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec and pianist Sonny Clark.
Blue Note Records’ Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series is produced by Joe Harley and features all-analog, mastered-from-the-original-master-tape 180g audiophile vinyl reissues in deluxe gatefold packaging. Mastering is by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio), and vinyl is manufactured at Record Technology Incorporated (RTI).
To find out how to order a copy click on the link below:

Grant Green had already recorded a prolific 10 sessions of classic hard bop and soul jazz for Blue Note over a 2-year span by the time he arrived at Van Gelder Studio in 1962 to record his album The Latin Bit. The concept of the album was a departure for Green with the guitarist exploring Latin and....

Remembering a Bobby Hutcherson hero!The late vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson once said of bass player Richard Davis: “I ho...
06/09/2025

Remembering a Bobby Hutcherson hero!
The late vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson once said of bass player Richard Davis: “I honestly can’t think of any that can do everything as well as Richard. He knows the bass thoroughly.”

RIP Richard Davis, who died on 6 September 2023, after two years in hospice care.
Read this uDiscover tribute by Charles Waring

Richard Davis, the versatile bass player has died at 93. Davis worked with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Bruce Springsteen.

A Stanley Turrentine Blue Note classic with Lee Morgan!Saxophonist Stanley Turrentine’s album 'Mr. Natural', recorded on...
04/09/2025

A Stanley Turrentine Blue Note classic with Lee Morgan!
Saxophonist Stanley Turrentine’s album 'Mr. Natural', recorded on 4 September 1964, featured the soulful tenor saxophonist and Blue Note stalwart at the helm of a cutting-edge modern jazz group with Lee Morgan on trumpet, McCoy Tyner on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass, Elvin Jones on drums, and Ray Barretto on congas for three songs.
The album featured a cover version of the Beatles hit "Can't Buy Me Love".
This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.
Find out how to purchase a copy from the Universal Music store by clicking on the link below:

Stanley Turrentine’s 1964 recording Mr. Natural featured the soulful tenor saxophonist and Blue Note stalwart at the helm of a cutting-edge modern jazz group with Lee Morgan on trumpet, McCoy Tyner on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass, Elvin Jones on drums, and Ray Barretto on congas for three songs. Th...

Celebrating Bennie Maupin!Bennie Maupin’s status as a versatile woodwind player (commandeering tenor and soprano saxopho...
04/09/2025

Celebrating Bennie Maupin!

Bennie Maupin’s status as a versatile woodwind player (commandeering tenor and soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, and flute) was seeded well prior to his 1977 album 'Slow Traffic to the Right', having served as a sideman in groups led by Marion Brown, Horace Silver, and Lee Morgan.'
Find out more about Maupin, who was born in Detroit on 29 August 1940, in this article on the Universal Music website uDiscover

Bennie Maupin's second album, 'Slow Traffic to the Right,' marries the meditative and funky. The result is another gem of an LP.

Anniversary of a jazz classic featuring Barney Kessel!On 3 September 1954, Barney Kessel was at the Capitol Studios for ...
03/09/2025

Anniversary of a jazz classic featuring Barney Kessel!
On 3 September 1954, Barney Kessel was at the Capitol Studios for one of the great recordings of jazz – he was cutting 'Lady Sings the Blues' with Billie Holiday for the Verve Records subsidiary Clef.
You can read all about the album in this uDiscover feature:

'Lady Sings The Blues' is Billie Holiday's 1956 album that was released to coincide with her autobiography of the same name.

Duke Ellington and epic music!"Duke Ellington’s ‘Jazz Symphony’, composed in 1943 for his first Carnegie Hall concert, w...
02/09/2025

Duke Ellington and epic music!
"Duke Ellington’s ‘Jazz Symphony’, composed in 1943 for his first Carnegie Hall concert, was one of his most ambitious works". Find out more about what makes epic music in this special feature from uDiscover

How (and why) did musicians make epic music? There's no one answer, as this run through the history of popular music shows.

'Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner, Coltrane’s pianist, pulled off some brilliant twists and turns for 'Africa/Brass'"John Col...
01/09/2025

'Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner, Coltrane’s pianist, pulled off some brilliant twists and turns for 'Africa/Brass'"

John Coltrane's brilliant album ‘Africa/Brass Sessions’, cut for Impulse Records, was released on 1 September 1961 and also features Freddie Hubbard on trumpet.
Read more in this uDiscover feature

Africa/Brass was the first John Coltrane album to be released by Impulse! It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

RIP Lionel Hampton, who died on 31 August 2002 of heart failure, aged 94.He played with a host of jazz stars, including ...
31/08/2025

RIP Lionel Hampton, who died on 31 August 2002 of heart failure, aged 94.
He played with a host of jazz stars, including Zoot Sims and Teddy Wilson.
Check out Martin Chilton’s pick of Hampton’s best tunes – via the Universal Music website uDiscover

A huge figure in American music, Lionel Hampton's best songs are the embodiment of a flamboyant bandleader and stage entertainer.

A Stanley Turrentine classic!'Common Touch', a Stanley Turrentine album featuring organ star Shirley Scott, was recorded...
30/08/2025

A Stanley Turrentine classic!

'Common Touch', a Stanley Turrentine album featuring organ star Shirley Scott, was recorded for the Blue Note label on 30 August 1968.
This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

Find out how to purchase a copy by clicking on the Universal Music uDiscover store link below:

Tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine imbued every note he played with feeling and soul. His lesser-known 1968 classic Common Touch featured Shirley Scott on organ along with Jimmy Ponder on guitar, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Leo Morris (aka Idris Muhammad) on drums. Highlights include the groovy “B...

Stan Getz and the bossa nova sound!‘Big Band Bossa Nova’ is a Verve album by saxophonist Stan Getz with the Gary McFarla...
28/08/2025

Stan Getz and the bossa nova sound!
‘Big Band Bossa Nova’ is a Verve album by saxophonist Stan Getz with the Gary McFarland Orchestra. It was completed this week in 1962.
Find out more at uDiscover

Bossa Nova was the thing as the 60s got underway, and Stan Getz's 'Big Band Bossa Nova' is a superb example of the style.

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