Tag: Reissue
Listen back to Saturday, December 28, 2024 BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast looks back at just some of my favorite jazz reissues and previously unreleased records from 2024 including tracks by Sun Ra, Webster Lewis, Roland Haynes Jr & Phenix, Roy Hargrove, Copa Salvo, Enzo Randisi, and much more!
As with new music releases in 2024, there where many incredible reissues and previously unreleased recordings that came out throughout the year. I continue to be amazed by some of the recordings that continue to be unearthed each and every year. As I’ve mentioned before, I feel like the quality of the actual reissue releases themselves also continues to improve in time.
With much-anticipation, Verve Records has put out previously unreleased recordings from the late great trumpeter Roy Hargrove and his Latin-focused Crisol project, titled Grande-Terre. This session came together in early 1998, following the group’s GRAMMY win for Best Latin Jazz Performance for their debut album Habana.
Germany’s Tramp Records has put together an expansive 2xLP retrospective release celebrating 80-year old German composer, bandleader and trumpeter Frédéric Rabold, spanning five decades worth of recorded music.
The 1968 spiritual soulful jazz classic Afro-Harping by pioneer jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby has recently been reissued, featuring 8 previously unreleased takes from the original recording sessions.
Co-founded by tenor and soprano saxophonist Søren Skov (also of Debre Damo Dining Orchestra) and keyboardist Peder Vind, Søren Skov Orbit is an experimental Danish quintet that was formed back in 2016. The group has just released their brilliant debut album, Adrift, on the superb New York-based Frederiksberg Records.
Italian-based label Eating Standing follows up their first reissue from Enzo Randisi, with another superb recording from the Palermo (Sicily-Italy) based vibes player, titled Swing Ensemble from 1981.
Following a tip from Gilles Peterson, Paul Murphy’s Jazz Room Records has reissued the now obscure 1983 album Surprise! by vocalist Frank Noviello, which includes a jazz dance rendition of Gary Bartz’ 1973 spiritual jazz classic “I’ve Known Rivers”.
London’s Outernational Sounds, which is superb label run by Harv Nagi, has recently reissued the highly-obscure 1979 album Ozone by the legendary Irish jazz ensemble Noel Kelehan Quintet.
Legendary UK DJ Paul Murphy and his superb Jazz Room Records continue with the onslaught of impressive releases in 2024 with a “must-own” reissue of the holy grail LP, titled Positive Energy, Volume 1, from New York-born saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist Ronnie April.
