Ella and Louis [LP] [VINYL]

Donald Byrd's 1967 album Slow Drag was one of the last pure hard bop records the trumpeter would make before his music began evolving towards fusion. Byrd flies high on this gratifying set featuring alto saxophonist Sonny Red, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Walter Booker & drummer Billy Higgins. 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, & packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket. Album Tracks 1. Slow Drag 2. Secret Love 3. Book's Bossa 1. Jelly Roll 2. The Loner 3. My Ideal

Limited edition 180 gram vinyl pressing of the classic Jazz album that brought Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong together for the first as they recorded their version of extraordinary standards. Album Tracks 1. Can't We Be Friends (Swift-James) 3 48 2. Isn't This a Lovely Day? (Irving Berlin) 6 17 3. Moonlight in Vermont (Suessdorf-Blackburn) 3 43 4. They Can't Take That Away from Me (George & Ira Gershwin) 4 40 5. Under a Blanket of Blue (Livingston-Neiburg-Symes) 4 18 6. Tenderly (Lawrence-Gross) 5 08 7. A Foggy Day (George & Ira Gershwin) 4 33 8. Stars Fell on Alabama (Perkins-Parish) 3 34 9. Cheek to Cheek (Irving Berlin) 5 54 10. The Nearness of You (Carmichael-Parish) 5 43 11. April in Paris (Duke-Harburg) 6 32

Vinyl LP pressing. Alfa Mist is one of the driving forces behind a young and vibrant scene of UK musicians, who've taken on jazz as their musical narrative. On his new album Bring Backs the producer, self-taught pianist and rapper takes us on a sonic trip back to his beat-making past on the streets of East London, through the depth and musicality he discovered composing and playing jazz. 2017 saw the of Alfa's breakthrough record, Antiphon and the 2019's album Structuralism were both self-released on his Sekito tag. His latest endeavour, 2021's Bring Backs, sees Alfa taking on new challenges. The record marks his first for the tag Anti and is also the most detailed exploration of his upbringing in musical form. Album Tracks 1. Teki 2. People (Feat. Kaya Thomas-Dyke) 3. Mind the Gap (Feat. Lex Amor) 4. Run Outs 5. Last Card (Bumper Cars) 6. Coasting 7. Attune 8. Once a Year 9. Organic Rust