Fourplay - Elixir (180g One Step Pressing Trans...

Elixir was the third album from the Grammy-nominated smooth jazz supergroup comprised of pianist ...

Elixir was the third album from the Grammy-nominated smooth jazz supergroup comprised of pianist Bob James, guitarist Lee Ritenour, bassist Nathan East, and drummer Harvey Mason. The follow-up to the band’s gold-certified first two albums - 1991’s Fourplay and 1993’s Between The Sheets - 1995’s star-studded Elixir featured vocal cameos from Phil Collins (‘Why Can’t It Wait Till Morning’) together with Patti Austin and Peabo Bryson, who duetted on a fabulous remake of Roberta Flack and Donny H...

McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, Al Fost...

Recorded in 1991 for the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, New York Reunion is a thrilling m...

Recorded in 1991 for the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, New York Reunion is a thrilling meeting of jazz giants. McCoy Tyner, who rose to fame with the John Coltrane Quartet, is joined by nonpareil tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, the record-breaking double-bass maestro Ron Carter, and jazz drummer extraordinaire, Al Foster. The quartet reveals its extraordinary synergy through a remarkable blend of jazz standards and original compositions. Among the album’s many highlights is Henderso...

Ana Caram - Rio After Dark (180g One Step Press...

Now considered a bossa nova classic, 1989’s Rio After Dark was São Paulo singer/guitarist Caram’s...

Now considered a bossa nova classic, 1989’s Rio After Dark was São Paulo singer/guitarist Caram’s debut release for Chesky Records, a New York label renowned for its high-resolution audiophile recordings. Caram was mentored by the legendary bossa nova pioneer Antônio Carlos Jobim, who joined his protege on two of the album’s fifteen cuts, playing piano and singing background vocals on Caram’s versions of his classic songs ‘Meditation’ and ‘Anos Dourados (It Looks Like December).’ Another star...

Chuck Mangione - The Feeling’s Back (180g One S...

Released in 1999 by the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, The Feeling’s Back showed that flu...

Released in 1999 by the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, The Feeling’s Back showed that flugelhorn maestro Chuck Mangione - renowned for his trademark fedora hat and warm melodic lyricism - was still a force to be reckoned with in the jazz world. The son of an Italian American greengrocer, Rochester-born Mangione played hardbop in a group with his piano-playing brother before going solo in the mid-1960s. In 1978, he joined a small list of chart-busting elite jazz instrumentalists when h...