Music Matters Jazz

04/06/2024

One of my favorite Blue Notes.
As usual, the team hit a home run on this reissue.

31/05/2024

Of all my favorite drummers on the classic Blue Notes, Billy Higgins stands out for seemingly always playing the same volume while tracking as while getting sounds. A lot of my favorite drummers back then would (understandably) get excited by the music and play harder while recording which would result in the drums being distorted. Billy had a great sense of realizing that the levels were set and that’s where the tone would be alive. I’m definitely not knocking any of my other faves. They all had unique qualities which made them great. This was one of Billy’s.

23/04/2024

SRX goodness.

31/03/2024

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31/03/2024

What MMJ titles are you spinning?

19/03/2024

04/03/2024

What’s on my mind? Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers!
Free For All SRX hitting the table!

20/01/2024

What album that MMJ has released do you feel shows the biggest improvement over previous versions?

19/12/2023

To celebrate 5 years of Music Matters SRX, I’m spinning this. How about everyone else? What SRX titles are you spinning?

29/11/2023

This great session is still in stock…

You will fall in love with this record.

Donald Byrd - Byrd In Hand vinyl reissue from legendary Blue Note Records. Music Matters Jazz creates high quality audiophile vinyl Blue Note recordings.

22/11/2023

Redecorating here this week but plenty of spin pics and commentary coming as soon as it’s a wrap!

16/11/2023

Here at the midwest remote office….
Talisker 10, Luxman, VPI, Grado, Cardas, and Harbeth are presenting this lovely pressing quite well.

31/10/2023

This gem is actually still in stock on the website. This is a beautiful session that has lived under the radar for too long.

Cliff with Art Farmer, Sonny Clark, George Tucker and Louis hayes!

Go add it to your collection. You won’t regret it.

https://www.musicmattersjazz.com/Cliff-Jordan-Cliff-Craft-Blue-Note-Vinyl-Reissue-p/mmbst-1582.htm

24/10/2023

A brilliant and underappreciated drummer (not to mention composer and band leader): the Great Joe Chambers!

22/10/2023

Still…. a week of Wayne….

20/10/2023

This session from ‘65 is a great listen and here it sounds beautiful.

19/10/2023

Continuing a week of Wayne….

19/10/2023

It’s been a week of Wayne here….
Who has this 45rpm beauty?

17/10/2023

Music Matters Jazz 33.
This overlooked session reunited Lee with The Messengers and it does not disappoint.

11/10/2023

Today is the birthday of the great Art Blakey. Would love to see pics of your MMJ Jazz Messengers titles or hear anything you’d like to share about this fiery jazz prophet. 

22/09/2023

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24/09/2022

On this day in 1926, John Coltrane was born.

Photo: Jim Marshall

12/11/2021

Wow

George Shearing, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington and Buddy Rich, at the Madison Square Garden Jazz Festival in New York, in 1959.

19/04/2021

Dexter Gordon - Doin' Allright


Dexter Gordon always played with a melancholy smile in his sound. The joy he felt in playing his tenor saxophone was apparent, as was his huge tone and playful conception. At the time that he recorded Doin' All Right, his very first Blue Note album, Dex had a reason to be smiling. Gordon was making a major comeback after spending several years in prison on a narcotics conviction.

After being one of the primary pacesetters among tenors during the bebop era, Dex had been largely forgotten in the 1950s due to several other periods of involuntary incarceration. But after the release of this 1961 album with the young trumpet sensation Freddie Hubbard and the Horace Parlan Trio, Dexter was here to stay. Just listen to him caressing "You've Changed," introducing "Society Red" (which 15 years later would be used in his famous film Round Midnight) and sounding jubilant on "I Was Doing All Right." Dexter Gordon was feeling joyful, feeling healthy and content to let every note tell the story. Doin' All Right is Dexter Gordon creating music for the ages!

Like all Music Matters Jazz releases, this audiophile vinyl reissue is mastered from the original analog tape and pressed on 180g virgin vinyl at RTI in Camarillo, CA. The highest quality gatefold cover features original session photography on the inside. https://www.musicmattersjazz.com/Dexter-Gordon-Doin-Allright-Blue-Note-Vinyl-p/mmbst-84077.htm

Dexter Gordon - Doin' Allright vinyl reissue from legendary Blue Note Records. Music Matters Jazz creates high quality audiophile vinyl Blue Note recordings.