Sounds From The Ancestors

Composer/saxophonist Kenny Garrett emerged as a distinctive voice on the national scene in 1978 with an undisputed aptitude for emotive melodic phrasing that led him to collaborations with Woody Shaw, Freddie Hubbard,...Read More

50 Years of Funk & Soul: Live at the Fox Theater – Oakland, CA – June 2018

Over the course of two memorable evenings in June 2018, legendary soul-funk-R&B outfit Tower of Power returned to Oakland, the city that started it all, to celebrate its landmark 50th anniversary with...Read More

This Bitter Earth (Test Pressing)

Exclusive Test Pressing of Veronica Swift's This Bitter Earth, available in extremely limited quantities while supplies lasts. Whereas Veronica Swift’s 2019 Mack Avenue Records debut, Confessions, contained songs that played out like...Read More

Future Stride

Signed CDs and Signed Vinyl AvailableThe sound of stride piano vividly evokes scenes from the past: the roaring nightclubs of 1920s Harlem, the raucous birth pangs of jazz’s nascent years, the...Read More

For Jimmy, Wes, and Oliver

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm in deluxe gatefold packageChristian McBride solidifies his role as the champion of the past, present and future of jazz with his GRAMMY® Award-winning Big Band’s...Read More

Be Water

Also Available on 2-LP on translucent royal blue vinylChristian Sands’ third recording for Mack Avenue Music Group captures and establishes him as a forceful leader in composition and conceptual vision. With...Read More

Poetry In Motion

Also Available on Single disc Ltd. Ed. yellow/ red splatter vinylEight men pick up shiny brass instruments, lock into an unspoken groove and rotate genres like your favorite playlist shifting from...Read More

Tower of Power Vinyl

Heavy hitters Tower of Power have a career that spans more than 50 years. Celebrate their undeniable influence with their two latest albums, on vinyl.Bring home: Soul Side of Town (2LP) and...Read More

The Cécile McLorin Salvant VINYL Collection

Regarded as the preeminent jazz vocalist of her generation, 3-time GRAMMY® winner Cécile McLorin Salvant has garnered universal critical acclaim across her discography.Bring home, on 180-gram vinyl: Dreams and Daggers (...Read More

Love Hurts

Also Available on Single disc vinylHailed as one of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation, Julian Lage has spent more than a decade searching through the myriad strains of American...Read More

In The Key Of The Universe

Also Available on 2-LP Ltd. Ed. purple splatter vinylAs he’s made abundantly clear over the past 30 years, Joey DeFrancesco has plenty of soul. What most listeners probably haven’t spent...Read More

Take Another Look: A Career Retrospective

5-LP 180gm box setThe first ever career-spanning collection of recordings by legendary jazz vibraphonist and multi-GRAMMY Award winner Gary Burton Gary Burton's legacy is an estimable one, a wealth of riches traversing...Read More

Christian McBride's New Jawn

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm in deluxe gatefold packageJawn [jän]: noun. A slang terminology from Philadelphia. All-purpose term for a person, place or thingIf there’s one thing the acclaimed...Read More

The Window

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm in deluxe gatefold packageThe world first learned of the incredible vocal artistry of Cécile McLorin Salvant when she won the prestigious 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz...Read More

Facing Dragons

Also Available on 2-LP vinylNot yet 30, Christian Sands is currently one of the most in-demand pianists working in jazz. In the last few years he has toured around the world as...Read More

RUBY

Also Available on Single disc vinylRubies hold a special place amongst the world’s rarest natural treasures. The most sought-after of the corundum family, the gemstone’s crimson hue instantly catches...Read More

Nightconcert

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm with booklet in deluxe gatefoldNightconcert (from the Dutch Nachtconcert) is a midnight jazz performance held at The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, one of the premiere concert...Read More

Soul Side Of Town

Also Available on 2-LP vinylTower of Power – the most dynamic and distinctive band of survivors in Soul Music – is roaring into its unprecedented 50th anniversary with a dynamic disc of all...Read More

Oscar, With Love

Songs marked by ** are new, never previously recorded Standard CD package: 3-CD digipak + 24 page bookletDeluxe CD package: 3-CDs in deluxe hardback 100+ page bookVinyl Package: Five 180-gram LPs in two-piece box with 4...Read More

Bringin’ It

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm in deluxe gatefold packageIconic bassist Christian McBride has been doing what the title of his upcoming big band album implores for years: Bringin’ It. This highly...Read More

Dreams and Daggers

Also Available on 3-LP in a trifold gatefold package 180gmShortly following Cécile McLorin Salvant’s emergence on the music scene, New York Times critic Stephen Holden stated, “As Cécile...Read More

Planetary Prince

Also Available on 2-LP in deluxe gatefold package“Cameron Graves’ music is vigorous and refreshing. There is an infectious raw energy on Planetary Prince that is coupled with these terrific melodies...Read More

Project Freedom

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm in deluxe gatefold packageJoey DeFrancesco is adored for his buoyant, moody sense of swing and balladry as a composer and as a player. That's a bluesy,...Read More

Do Your Dance!

Also Available on 2-LP in deluxe gatefold packageMore than any other artist in traditional jazz today, saxophonist/composer/arranger Kenny Garrett and his band are known to entice audiences to want...Read More

Live at the Village Vanguard

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm in deluxe gatefold package2016 Grammy Winner for "Best Improvised Jazz Solo" on Cherokee - This record is the fruit of McBride’s long association with...Read More

For One To Love

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm in deluxe gatefold package2016 Grammy Winner for "Best Jazz Vocal Album" - “I can look at many of these songs, and see that this...Read More

Room

Also Available on single vinylWith ROOM, Cline returns to Mack Avenue, creating a world of melodic beauty but also hard sonic edges and technical brilliance in the company of Julian Lage.Read More

Macroscope

Also Available on single vinylMACROSCOPE, the fifth album and Mack Avenue debut by his adventurous trio The Nels Cline Singers, provides a measure of the long-running group’s staggering range.Read More

WomanChild

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm in deluxe gatefold package“She has poise, elegance, soul, humor, sensuality, power, virtuosity, range, insight, intelligence, depth and grace,” Wynton Marsalis asserts. “I’ve never heard...Read More

Seeds From The Underground

The album highlights Garrett's overall approach to music: wide-ranging, receiving ideas from all musical sources and genres. Garrett states, "I love the challenge of trying to stay open...about music and about...Read More

The Good Feeling

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm in deluxe gatefold packageIn a stellar career that continues to showcase his remarkable talents as a consummate musician, bassist Christian McBride reaches another milestone with the...Read More

Friends

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm vinylIn a career that took flight in 1985 with immediate commercial and critical acclaim, guitar virtuoso Stanley Jordan has consistently displayed a chameleonic musical persona of openness,...Read More

Timeline

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm vinylNearly two generations of fans have enjoyed the lasting influence and jazz tradition of Yellowjackets – 30 years of continuous service to America’s native art form have...Read More

Zen Food

Also Available on 2-LP 180gm vinylFor nearly two decades, the world at large knew precisely where to find the acclaimed guitarist Kevin Eubanks. For five nights a week, Eubanks was cranking...Read More

Kind Of Brown

Also Available on 2-LP 210gm deluxe gatefold packageProduced by McBride, Kind Of Brown is a collection of hard swing-to-bluesy groove tunes that the leader says he put together to give the...Read More