Be-Bop Deluxe

 

Artist:  Be-Bop Deluxe

Origin:  Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England

Genre:  Rock, Glam Rock, Art Rock, Progressive Rock

Original line-up:

Bill Nelson:  Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals, Keyboards

Robert Bryan:  Bass, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals

Ian Parkin:  Guitar

Nicholas Chatterton-Dew:  Drums

Richard Brown:  Keyboards

Be-Bop Deluxe were an English Rock Band fromWakefield, West Yorkshire, formed in 1972 by Bill Nelson (Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals), Ian Parkin (Guitar), Robert Bryan (Bass, Vocals), Nicholas Chatterton-Dew (Drums), and Richard Brown (Keyboards).  Primarily operated within the Art Rock, Glam Rock, and Progressive Rock Genres.  Their later material laid a vital blueprint for the emerging Proto-Punk and New Wave Scenes.

Title:  Axe Victim (2026)

Genre:  Rock, Glam Rock, Art Rock, Progressive Rock

Label:  Esoteric Recordings

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  Axe Victim (5:14)

 2.  Love Is Swift Arrows (4:12)

 3.  Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus (4:10)

 4.  Third Foor Heaven (2:27)

 5.  Night Creatures (3:34)

Side Two:

 6.  Rocket Cathedrals (3:00)

 7.  Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape (3:23)

 8.  Jets At Dawn (7:19)

 9.  No Trains To Heaven (6:39)

10. Darkness (L'Immoraliste) (3:22)

Personnel:

Bill Nelson:  Lead, Electric & 12-String Guitars, Lead Vocals on Tracks:  1/1-5, 2/6-10, Keyboards

Robert Bryan:  Bass, Lead Vocals on Track 2/6

Ian Parkin:  Rhythm & Acoustic Guitars, Organ

Nicholas Chatterton-Dew:  Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals

Axe Victim is the debut studio album by Be-Bop Deluxe, originally released on June 1974 by Harvest, remastered and reissued on June 26, 2026 by Esoteric Recordings.

 

Davie Allan And The Arrows

 

Artist:  Davie Allan And The Arrows

Origin:  Los Angeles, California, USA

Genre: Rock, Surf Rock, Instrumental Rock, Garage Rock, Biker Fuzz, Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock

Original line-up:

Davie Allan:  Lead Guitar

Paul Johnson:  Rhythm Guitar

Steve Pugh:  Bass

Larry Brown:  Drums

Davie Allan And The Arrows are an American Instrumental Rock Band from Los Angeles, Calfornia, formed in 1964 by Davie Allan (Lead Guitar), Paul Johnson (Rhythm Guitar), Steve Pugh (Bass), and Larry Brown (Drums), widely recognized for pioneering the "Heavy Fuzz" Guitar Sound.  They became famous for providing the high-octane soundtracks to numerous biker and teen exploitation movies of the era.

Title:  Apache '65 (2005)

Genre: Rock, Surf Rock, Instrumental Rock, Garage Rock, Biker Fuzz, Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock

Label:  Sundazed Music

Rating:  *****

Format:  CD 

Tracks:

 1.  Apache '65 (2:13)

 2.  Tee Pee (1:53)

 3.  Blue Guitar (1:47)

 4.   Twine Time (2:25)

 5.  Diana's Theme (2:25)

 6.  The Rebel (Without & Cause) (1:41)

7.  C'mon Do The Freddie (1:50)

 8.  Tomahawk (1:57)

 9.  Red Roses For A Blue Lady (2:22)

10. Scratchy (2:01)

11. Indian Giver )1:51)

12. Commanche (1:58)

Bonus Tracks:  Previously Unreleased

13. Sorry 'Bout That (2:25)

14. topsy '65 (1:54)

Personnel:

Davie Allan:  Lead Guitar

Paul Johnson:  Rhythm Guitar

Steve Pugh:  Bass

Larry Brown:  Drums

Mike Curb:  Keyboards

Apache '65 is an album by Davie Allan And The Arrows, originally released on December 1964 by Sidewalk Records, remastered and reissued on April 26, 2005 by Sundazed Music.  For Music Lovers and Music Collectors.

Art Blakey

 

Artist:  Art Blakey
Birth Name:  Arthur Blakey
Born:  October 11, 1919.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died:  October 16, 1990 (Aged 71).  New York City, New York, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop
Occupation:  Musician, Bandleader
Instruments:  Drums, Percussion

Art Blakey was an American Jazz Drummer and Bandleader.  He made a name for himself in the 1940s in the Big Bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine.  He worked with Bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.  In the mid-1950s Horace Silver and Art Blakey formed The Jazz Messengers.  He was inducted into the Down Beat jazz Hall Of Fame in 1981.  The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and he was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall Of Fame in 1991.

Artist:  Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

Title:  Moanin'  (1999)
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop
Label:  Blue Note Records
Rating:  *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One: 

 1.  Moanin'  (9:30)

 2.  Are You Real  (4:45)

 3.  Along Came Betty  (6:09

Side Two:

 1.  The Drum Thunder Suite  (7:15)
 2.  Blues March  (6:53)
 3.  Come Rain Or Come Shine  (5:45)

Personnel:

Art Blakey:  Drums
Lee Morgan:  Trumpet
Benny Golson:  Tenor Saxophone
Bobby Timmons:  Piano
Jymie Merritt:  Bass

Moanin' is one of the Great Classic of Hard Bop of Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers, originally released in 1958by Blue Note Records, remastered and reissued on July 17, 2026 by Blue Note Records.  140 Gram Vinyl.

Horace Silver

 

Artist:  Horace Silver
Born:  September 2, 1928.  Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
Died:  June 18, 2014 (Aged 85).  New Rochelle, New York, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Soul Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Modal Jazz, Post-Bop, Piano Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Straight-Ahead Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer, Arranger
Instruments:  Piano

Horace Silver was an American Jazz Pianist, Composer and Arranger.  He was the one of the pioneer in the Hard Bop Style in the 1950s.  He played with Stan Getz in 1950, with the Jazz Messengers, co-led by Art Blakey.  His most successful album was Song For My Father.

Artist:  Horace Silver Quintet 
Title:  Song For My Father (Blue Note Classic Series Edition) (2026)
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Soul Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Modal Jazz, Post-Bop, Piano Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Straight-Ahead Jazz
Label:  Blue Note Records
Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  Song For My Father  (7:17)
 2.  The Natives Are Restless Tonight  (6:09)
 3.  Calcutta Cutie  (8:31)

Side Two:

 1.  Que Pasa  (7:47)
 2.  The Kicker (feat. Joe Henderson)  (5:26)
 3.  Lonely Woman  (7:02)


Personnel:

Tracks:  1/1, 2, 2/1, 2


Horace Silver:  Piano
Carmell Jones:  Trumpet
Joe Henderson:  Tenor Saxophone
Teddy Smith:  Bass
Roger Humphries:  Drums

Tracks:  1/3, 2/3

Horace Silver:  Piano
Blue Mitchell:  Trumpet
Junior Cook:  Tenor Saxophone
Gene Taylor:  Bass
Roy Brooks:  Drums

Song For My Father is the successful album by Horace Silver Quintet, original released on January 1965 by Blue Note Records, and remastered and reissued on July 17, 2026 by Blue Note Records.  140 Gram Vinyl.

Herbie Hancock

 

Artist:  Herbie Hancock
Birth Name:  Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
Born:  April 2, 1940.  Chicago, Illinois, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Post-Bop, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Funk, Hard Bop, Piano Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Electro, Classical
Occupation:  Musician, Composer, Producer
Instruments:  Piano, Electric Piano, Keyboard, Synthesizers, Organ, Clavinet, Keytar

Herbie Hancock is an American Pianist, Keyboardist and Composer.  He started his career with Donald Byrd, shortly joined the Miles Rhythm Quintet.  He was one of the first Jazz Musicians to embrace Synthesizers and Funk Music.  His music embraces elements from Jazz, , Blues, Modern Classical Music, Funk and Soul.  His best-known Solo works include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians including Mongo Santamaria), "Maiden Voyage", "I Thought It Was You".  In 2008, he won Grammy Award for Album Of The Year from Tribute album River:  The Joni Letters.

Title:  Maiden Voyage (Blue Note Classic Edition) (2026) 

Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Post-Bop, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Funk, Hard Bop, Piano Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Electro, Classical

Label:  Blue Note

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  Maiden Voyage (7:57)

 2.  The Eye Of The Hurricane (6:01)

 3.  Little One (8:47)

Side Two:

 1.  Survival Of The Fittest (10:03)

 2.  Dolphin Dance (9:16)

Personnel:

Herbie Hancock:  Piano

Freddie Hubbard:  Trumpet

George Coleman:  Tenor Saxophone

Ron Carter"  Bass

Tony Williams:  Drums

Maiden Voyage is the fifth album by Herbie Hancock, originally released on May 17, 1965 by Blue Note, remastered and Reissued on July 17, 2026 by Blue Note. Pressed on 140 Gram Vinyl.

Freddie Hubbard

 

Artist:  Freddie Hubbard
Birth Name:  Frederick Dewayne Hubbard
Born:  April 7, 1938.  Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Died:  December 29, 2008 (Aged 70).  Sherman Oaks, California, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Post Bop, Soul Jazz, Jazz Funk, Fusion, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Bandleader

Instruments:  Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet, French Horn, Mellophone

Freddie Hubbard was an American Jazz Trumpeter.  He was known for playing in the Bebop, Hard Bop and Post-Bop Styles from the early 1960s onwards.  He was at the age of 20, he began playing with some of the best Jazz players of the era, including Philly Joe Jones, Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton, Eric Dolphy, J.J. Johnson, and Quincy Jones.

Title:  Goin' Up (Blue Note Classic Edition) (2026)  

Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Post Bop, Soul Jazz, Jazz Funk, Fusion, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz

Label:  Blue Note

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  Asiatic Raes (6:46)

 2.  The Changing Scene (5:49)

 3.  Karioka (6:15)

Side Two:

 1.  A Peck A Sec (5:49)

 2.  I Wished I Knew (7:47)

 3.  Blues For Brenda (7:00)

Personnel:

Freddie Hubbard:  Trumpet

Hank Mobley:  Tenor Saxophone

McCoy Tyner:  Piano

Paul Chambers:  Bass

Philly Joe Jones:  Drums

Goin' Up is an album by Freddie Hubbard, originally released on May 1961 by Blue Note, remastered and reissued on July 17, 2026 by Blue Mote Records.  180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl.