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1994 release (light wear) ** February 1964: the most ferocious Messengers record ever made, and one of the most intense hard bop sessions in the whole Blue Note vault. Wayne Shorter's title track is eleven minutes of controlled fury - Art Blakey play…

1977 Japanese re-issue on Prestige's "Jazz Masterpiece Series" series of the 1958 album featuring Red Garland. With insert and obi.

1972 Japanese re-issue on Atlantic's "Jazz Age" series of the 1961 album featuring Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert.

1973 Japanese re-issue on Prestige's "Jazz Right Now" series of the 1962 album featuring Wilbur Harden. With insert.

First mono pressing in stereo sleeve of the 1962 album featuring Eric Dolphy, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With original innersleeve.

1976 Japanese re-issue on ABC Impulse!'s "Impulse Best Collection" of the 1962 album featuring Eric Dolphy, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert.

First mono pressing in stereo sleeve of the 1962 album by the "John Coltrane Quartette" featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.

1972 US re-issue on Impulse!/ABC of the 1963 album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.

1980 Japanese re-issue on MCA's "Impulse Definitive 1500 Yen Collection" of the 1963 album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.

1980 Japanese edition on MCA of the 1963 live album featuring Eric Dolphy, Reggie Workman, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.

1980 Japanese re-issue on Impulse!/MCA's "Jazztime Now!!" series of the 1964 album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.

1991 Japanese re-issue on Impulse!'s "Gold Of G.D. 100" series of the 1964 album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.

1991 Japanese re-issue on Impulse!/MCA of the 1964 live album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.

1974 re-issue on Impluse! of the Edition I of the 1966 album featuring Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, John Tchicai, Marion Brown, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.

1980 Japanese re-issue on MCA's "Impulse Definitive 1500 Yen Collection" of the 1966 live album featuring Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison and Rashied Ali. With insert.

1997 US re-issue on 180g vinyl on Impulse!'s "The Impulse! Reissue Series" of the 1966 live album featuring Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison and Rashied Ali.

1980 Japanese re-issue on Impulse!/MCA of the 1966 album featuring Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert.

1968 US re-press on Impulse!/ABC of the 1966 album featuring Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, Rashied Ali and McCoy Tyner. With original innersleeve.

1968 US re-press on Impulse!/ABC of the 1966 album featuring Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, Rashied Ali and McCoy Tyner.

Original US edition on Impulse! with misprinted sleeve of the 1967 album featuring Rashied Ali, Alice Coltrane and Jimmy Garrison. With original innersleeve.

Original US edition on Impulse!/ABC of the 1970 album with a recording from 1965 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With original innersleeve.

Nicely assembled compilation with some early Miles plus specific collaboration with Sonny Rollins, Michel Legrand, Gil Evans & Cannonball Adderley

** Deluxe matte laminate gatefold sleeve and polylined paper inner sleeve ** Paris, August 1969. Sunny Murray books a studio for a single afternoon and walks in with thirteen musicians - among them three members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the wo…

One of the great small-group dates in the Impulse! book, and a quietly perfect one. Cut February 5 and 8, 1962, produced by Bob Thiele, with an across-the-generations cast: drummer Manne steering with the lightest touch, the mighty Coleman Hawkins in…

Nat Birchall, saxophonist and composer, one of the most authentic voices in contemporary spiritual jazz, presents Path of Enlightenment, a sonic journey through rarely explored scales and modes, from Ethiopia to Byzantium, from ancient Egypt to South…

Released on Polydor in 1972, this is Roy Ayers hitting his stride. The Ubiquity sound has clicked into place: jazz improvisation, funk underneath, soul harmony, spiritual weight, all of it pulling in the same direction. The vibraphonist leans hard in…

Caught at the exact moment the young trumpeter steps fully into his own. Recorded July 2, 1962, at Rudy Van Gelder's studio, released in 1963 on Impulse!, this is Hubbard with technique to burn but warmth to match - every line sculpted, every phrase …

Origina Japanese edition on BYG's "Jazz Collection 1500" series of the 1972 album with live recordings from 1965 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert.

Original edition of the Italy-only 1973 album on Jazz Galore with a live recording in Germany from 1963 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.

1980 original Japanese edition on Affinity of the 1973 album with recordings from 1963 featuring Eric Dolphy, Reggie Workman, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.

1980 original Japanese edition on Affinity of the 1978 album with recordings from 1963 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.

1980 original Japanese edition on Affinity of the 1978 album with recordings from 1963 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert.

1990 UK-only compilation on Roulette Jazz with 1958/1960 tracks from The Best Of Birdland Volume 1 and A Tuba Jazz LP's plus a previously unreleased track.

Grey area Italian LP on Ingo with live recordings made in Denmark and Austria in 1962 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.

Grey area UK LP on Blue Parrot Records with live recordings made in the USA in 1964 and 1965 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.

Original US edition on Savoy Records' "The Savoy Sessions" series of the 1977 compilation including a previously unreleased track from 1958.

2013 European re-issue on 180g vinyl with bonus track on Waxtime of the 1963 album.

1991 Japanese re-issue on Impulse!'s "Gold Of G.D. 100" series of the 1962 album. With obi and original innersleeve.

1981 Japanese re-issue on Verve's "The Original Verve Jazz Classics" series of the 1957 album. With original innersleeve.

1972 Japanese re-issue on Fontana/Philips's "Phonogram Jazz Collection" of the 1963 album. With obi.