Acceptance

“On my first Mack Avenue recording, Rebirth (Billy Childs’ 2017 album which won a GRAMMY® Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album), I wanted to return to a focus on my jazz piano playing,”...Read More

MONK'estra Plays John Beasley

Over the course of two albums, bandleader/composer/arranger John Beasley has reimagined Thelonious Monk’s iconic compositions through his inventive, versatile MONK’estra­ – a big band able to deftly navigate the...Read More

Gershwin & Kern

The Erroll Garner Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalog. Spanning 12 albums and the last 18 years of Garner’s career, this collection of music is among the...Read More

Magician

The Erroll Garner Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalog. Spanning 12 albums and the last 18 years of Garner’s career, this collection of music is among the...Read More

Gemini

The Erroll Garner Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalog. Spanning 12 albums and the last 18 years of Garner’s career, this collection of music is among the...Read More

Be Water

Christian Sands’ third recording for Mack Avenue Music Group captures and establishes him as a forceful leader in composition and conceptual vision. With Be Water, the music is akin to the element...Read More

Feeling Is Believing

The Erroll Garner Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalog. Spanning 12 albums and the last 18 years of Garner’s career, this collection of music is among the...Read More

Oscar, With Love [Deluxe Edition]

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 40-page bookletFeatured Artists: Monty Alexander, Lance Anderson, Kenny...Read More

Step Up

With Step Up, Tower of Power forges on into the next decade of the 21st century, while keeping to its continuous hardcore tour schedule and ongoing reinvigoration with the continual addition...Read More

Up In Erroll's Room

The Erroll Garner Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalog. Spanning 12 albums and the last 18 years of Garner’s career, this collection of music is among the...Read More

Reincarnation

On his latest album, Warren Wolf reveals an entirely different side to his multi-faceted talents. As the title implies, Reincarnation represents a rebirth of sorts for the Baltimore vibesman. In part, it...Read More

The Vagabond

The best way to describe Aaron Diehl’s new recording, The Vagabond, is that it is a quiet masterpiece. While this is thoroughly a jazz recording rooted in precedents set by Diehl�...Read More

The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons

The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons is culminating documentation of a richly inspired piece – lauding four key figures of the Civil Rights Movement: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,...Read More

That's My Kick

The Erroll Garner Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalog. Spanning 12 albums and last 18 years of Garner’s career, this collection of music is among the most...Read More

Campus Concert

The Erroll Garner Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalog. Spanning 12 albums and the last 18 years of Garner’s career, this collection of music is among the...Read More

A Night At The Movies

The Erroll Garner Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalog. Spanning 12 albums and last 18 years of Garner’s career, this collection of music is among the most...Read More

Yesun

Combining jazz sensibility and deep roots in the Afro-Cuban tradition, Yesun is the Havana-born artist’s ninth solo album. The record delves into the music of Fonseca’s homeland of Cuba while...Read More

A New Kind of Love

The Erroll Garner Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalog. Spanning 12 albums and last 18 years of Garner’s career, this collection of music is among the most...Read More

One World Concert

The Erroll Garner Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalog. Spanning 12 albums and last 18 years of Garner’s career, this collection of music is among the most...Read More

Closeup In Swing

The Erroll Garner Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalog. Spanning 12 albums and last 18 years of Garner’s career, this collection of music is among...Read More

Dreamstreet

The Erroll Garner Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalog. Spanning 12 albums and last 18 years of Garner’s career, this collection of music is among the...Read More

Confessions

Signed Veronica Swift CDs while supplies last!Confessions is Veronica Swift’s first effort for Mack Avenue and her proper breakout debut. On the album, alternately accompanied by Benny Green and...Read More

Yellowjackets Collection

Throughout their storied 43-year history, Yellowjackets have recorded 25 albums, received 17 GRAMMY® nominations (and won 2!), performed countless sold-out tours and enjoyed worldwide critical acclaim and commercial success. Bring home: Raising Our Voice, Cohearence,...Read More

The Heavy Weight Vinyl Collection

Update your LP library with these Mack Avenue favorites on 180- and 210-gram vinyl.Bring home: Joey DeFrancesco’s Project Freedom (2LP 180-gram), Erroll Garner’s Nightconcert (2LP 180-gram), Christian McBride & Inside...Read More

Smooth Jazz Chill Collection

In a world of unknowns, life can be overwhelming. We all need time to chill. Relax with this collection of smooth sounds to soothe your soul.Bring home: Michael Lington’s Stay...Read More

Contemporary Smooth Jazz Collection

Hip, fun and groovin’ sounds from some of smooth jazz’s funkiest players. Add these hits to your collection today!Bring home: Brian Bromberg’s Thicker Than Water, Steve Cole’s Gratitude,...Read More

Jazz Piano

Piano has been a pillar of jazz since the genre originated. This collection spans multiple generations of talented players who blazed their own trails while honoring the influences of those who came...Read More

Jazz Vocal Collection

From classic standards to Broadway favorites to original compositions, these jazz vocal albums offer some of the best arrangements in the genre. Bring home: Cécile McLorin Salvant’s WomanChild, Cyrille Aim�...Read More

Ensemble Sounds

A collection of some of the most exciting large ensemble recordings from the last two decades, these Big Bands are sure to have you swingin’ with every note.Bring home: Count Basie...Read More

Guitar Lessons from Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson's private lessons are 60 minutes long, and they are conducted virtually with Dan via Zoom or Skype. All levels are welcome. Dan Wilson's Masterclass: Comping for the Working Jazz Guitarist ...Read More

The Guitar Collection

Guitarheads unite! This collection represents some of the top guitarists in jazz, all with long and celebrated careers. You can’t go wrong adding these albums to your music library.Bring home:...Read More

Philly State Of Mind

Christian McBride, Joey DeFrancesco, Stanley Clarke, Kevin Eubanks and Eric Reed all hail from the great city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This collection showcases the musical roots that produce such incredible artists in...Read More

The Future of Jazz

This collection features current albums from the young lions who are hailed as the future of jazz – it’s exactly what you need to freshen up your music library!Bring home: Aaron...Read More

Cuban Connection

Cuban jazz has always been at the forefront of reinventing Latin jazz in its many forms. Whether it be Chucho Valdés, Roberto Fonseca, Alfredo Rodríguez or Harold López-Nussa, the...Read More

Bass Masters

Give the bassists some love! Bass, in its many forms – upright, electric, fretless, piccolo, and more! – serves as the foundation of the band, leading the charge in groove and defining the composition...Read More

Past & Present Connection #2

The past always fuels the present. Follow the fascinating connections between these incomparable artists: hailed as one of the brightest young stars in jazz today, Connie Han cites Mulgrew Miller as a...Read More

Past & Present Connection #1

The past always fuels the present. Follow the fascinating connections between these incomparable artists: Christian Sands serves as Creative Ambassador to the Erroll Garner Jazz Project and is a longtime bandmate of...Read More

The JALC Connection

As the world’s leading performing arts center, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) has had a who’s who of artists grace its stages. Enjoy this collection of performers who have continuing...Read More

The Berklee College of Music Educators Collection

Berklee College of Music’s renowned faculty has been on the front lines of performance throughout its history. Mack Avenue is proud to feature many of these esteemed artists in its catalog,...Read More

The Cécile McLorin Salvant Collection

The Cécile McLorin Salvant Collection includes her albums Dreams And Daggers, For One To Love, Womanchild, and The WindowRead More

Bringin' It with McBride - The VINYL Collection

With an acclaimed discography that spans decades, multi-GRAMMY® winner Christian McBride is always “bringin’ it” with every album and band he leads, whether it be his Trio, Inside Straight or his Big...Read More

Bringin' It with McBride

With an acclaimed discography that spans decades, multi-GRAMMY® winner Christian McBride is always “bringin’ it” with every album and band he leads, whether it be his Trio, Inside Straight or his Big...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

Perpetual Optimism

“I want to live in a world where my glass is always half full!” That’s the inspiring maxim of New Orleans master drummer Herlin Riley. On his second Mack Avenue Records...Read More

Love Hurts

Hailed 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 musical history via impeccable technique, free...Read More

In The Key Of The Universe

As he’s made abundantly clear over the past 30 years, Joey DeFrancesco has plenty of soul. What most listeners probably haven’t spent much time pondering is that soul’s place in...Read More

Move On: A Sondheim Adventure

The genius of Stephen Sondheim stems from the revered composer’s ability to plumb universal human emotions even in the form of the most outré characters – be they cannibalistic barbers, presidential assassins,...Read More

Duologue

Grammy®-nominated artists Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martinez first worked together on Alfredo’s 2012 release The Invasion Parade. Since that initial recording session, they have had the rare occasion to perform...Read More

Take Another Look: A Career Retrospective

The 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 the boundaries of...Read More

Jazz Batá 2

Jazz Batá 2, composer, pianist and bandleader Chucho Valdés’ first album for Mack Avenue Records, marks a new peak of creativity for the artist, even as it revisits the small-group concept of...Read More

Christian McBride's New Jawn

Jawn [jän]: noun. A slang terminology from Philadelphia. All-purpose term for a person, place or thingIf there’s one thing the acclaimed bassist knows, it’s that when it comes to...Read More

The Window

The world first learned of the incredible vocal artistry of Cécile McLorin Salvant when she won the prestigious 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. In just under the span of a decade...Read More

Facing Dragons

Not 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 a bandleader and recently appeared...Read More

Raising Our Voice

While the Los Angeles-based Yellowjackets have been a creative force on the jazz scene since 1981 when they recorded their eponymous debut, their fourth Mack Avenue Records album, Raising Our Voice, once again...Read More

Crime Zone

With her debut Mack Avenue Records album CRIME ZONE (available October 12), next generation Los Angeles pianist Connie Han has created an edgy blend of modern and traditional jazz. Han’s parents, both...Read More

Nightconcert

Nightconcert (from the Dutch Nachtconcert) is a midnight jazz performance held at The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, one of the premiere concert halls in the world. Recorded on November 7, 1964, it features Garner...Read More

The Message

45 years after his album debut, four-time Grammy® Award-winning bassist Stanley Clarke shows he is still unapproachable on both the electric and acoustic, wielding a vision of fusion and funk, breakbeats and bass-interpreted...Read More

Cyrille Aimée Live

The end of one chapter means the beginning of another. Like all the best cliffhangers, Cyrille Aimée Liveleaves the audience wanting more…but also eager to discover what comes next....Read More

Thicker Than Water

Thicker Than Water is a record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time,” says the dynamic bass virtuoso Brian Bromberg. “I love the upright bass. It’s where...Read More

Un Día Cualquiera

Un Día Cualquiera is a forceful statement from a Cuban musician leading his tight-knit Cuban band, recorded in the U.S. (at WGBH Studios in Boston, Mass.), and influenced by music...Read More

Diamond Cut

While the phrase “diamond in the rough” often describes burgeoning talents brimming with potential, Fuller has exhibited impending greatness since emerging on the international jazz scene more than a decade ago. Now,...Read More

The Little Dream

“The Little Dream,” the title track of Cuban pianist and composer Alfredo Rodríguez’s fourth studio album (Mack Avenue Records), gently builds into an uplifting statement – one that reflects the hope...Read More

Modern Lore

Modern Lore finds Lage playfully flipping the script he followed on his acclaimed 2016 Mack Avenue debut, Arclight. That album — produced, like Modern Lore, by Lage’s friend and collaborator, the singer-songwriter...Read More

Blood Moon

“I have performed music written by other people for most of my career,” Dave Bennett says. “After 20 years of playing professionally, I am finally walking down my own path. A lot of...Read More

Oscar, With Love [Standard 3-CD]

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

MONK’estra, Vol. 2

If one were to have access to a time machine and could go back to see legendary bandleader Thelonious Monk in concert during the 1950s and ‘60s, you’d likely see him...Read More

Bringin’ It

Iconic bassist Christian McBride has been doing what the title of his upcoming big band album implores for years: Bringin’ It. This highly anticipated release, which follows the Christian McBride Big Band�...Read More

Dreams and Daggers

Shortly following Cécile McLorin Salvant’s emergence on the music scene, New York Times critic Stephen Holden stated, “As Cécile McLorin Salvant spun songs into a brilliant silk tapestry, I...Read More

Live from Jazz at the Bistro

The young jazz veteran trumpeter Sean Jones believes passionately in championing the creative arc of artists who are committed to their life journey. “I think the progression of the art form [jazz]...Read More

Flowers - Beautiful Life, Volume 2

As on his acclaimed Mack Avenue debut, Beautiful Life, a poignant, reflective recording that honored his daughter’s love of singing with a program combining jazz, spirituals, contemporary Christian music and ballads,...Read More

REACH

With his debut Mack Avenue Records recording, REACH, singularly talented pianist and five-time Grammy® Award nominee Christian Sands is stretching into exciting progressive territory as he breaks new ground traversing from the...Read More

Rebirth

On his new album Rebirth, Childs reaches back to the start of his almost astoundingly varied musical experience—leading a small jazz band of state-of-the-art musicians with his piano playing.At...Read More

East West Time Line

Joining Eubanks on this stellar outing are longtime collaborator and former Berklee College of Music schoolmate, drummer Marvin “Smitty” Smith, who fuels the West Coast outfit alongside seasoned session bassist Rene Camacho,...Read More

Planetary Prince

“Cameron Graves’ music is vigorous and refreshing. There is an infectious raw energy on Planetary Prince that is coupled with these terrific melodies and blistering solo work, the whole album is energizing..."...Read More

Project Freedom

Joey DeFrancesco is adored for his buoyant, moody sense of swing and balladry as a composer and as a player. That's a bluesy, blustery sensibility shared with the men in his family:...Read More

El Viaje

“El Viaje (The Journey),” the title track of Cuban pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa’s debut release on Mack Avenue Records, seems to sway gently like a boat in the water...Read More

John Beasley Presents MONK'estra Vol. 1

Thelonious Monk is a Mount Rushmore figure in the creation of modern jazz. As the centennial of his birth rapidly approaches, Beasley—pianist, conductor and arranger—has grappled with the...Read More

Do Your Dance!

More than any other artist in traditional jazz today, saxophonist/composer/arranger Kenny Garrett and his band are known to entice audiences to want to get up and groove. This recording is...Read More

Convergence

For a follow-up to his superb sophomore release Wolfgang, rising star vibraphonist/composer Warren Wolf finds himself alongside some of the biggest names in modern jazz for Convergence, his stellar third outing...Read More

Short Stories

A short glance at the artists he and producer Tommy LiPuma involved speaks for itself: Christian McBride, Steve Gadd, Larry Goldings, Jacob Collier, Jamey Haddad and Gil Goldstein, for starters.Read More

Cohearence

With its pockets of halcyon, buoyance, mystery, tumult and whimsy, Cohearence plays out as a multifaceted documentation of how far the once fusion band has come.While supplies last, Pre-Order purchasers will...Read More

Tocororo

Each recording by Cuban pianist and composer Alfredo Rodríguez tells a story. in Tocororo—his new album for Mack Avenue Records—Rodríguez’s story is represented by the...Read More

Arclight

Arclight, Julian Lage’s Mack Avenue debut, marks his first recorded outing on electric guitar and in a trio format, backed by double bassist Scott Colley and drummer Kenny Wollesen. Like that...Read More

New Direction

For all of the hard rhythmic driving intensity of New Direction, Riley is not one of those drummers who needs to blast away to captivate listeners and to remain engaged. In these...Read More

Mack Avenue Superband Limited Edition Tour Shirt

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Mack Avenue SuperBand - Live From The DJF - 2015

Since its rollicking debut at the 2012 Detroit Jazz Festival, the Mack Avenue SuperBand has become a tradition at the annual event, a gathering of label superstars that the Motor City can look...Read More

Let's Get Lost

In her second Mack Avenue Records recording, the groove-spirited Let’s Get Lost, rising-star vocalist and bandleader Cyrille Aimée wonderfully displays her versatility as a sweet-sounding jazz songbird with a catchy...Read More

Live at the Village Vanguard

2016 Grammy Winner for "Best Improvised Jazz Solo" on Cherokee - This record is the fruit of McBride’s long association with the Vanguard, where his first appearance as a leader for...Read More

Live From The Detroit Jazz Festival - 2014

Live From the Detroit Jazz Festival – 2014 documents the third incarnation of the Mack Avenue SuperBand, an all-star ensemble of bandleaders from the superb roster of the Motor City jazz label. Once again,...Read More

Looking Forward, Looking Back

The Symphonic Jazz Orchestra (SJO) is comprised of Los Angeles’s finest studio musicians and jazz soloists. Over the years, such world-class soloists as Dave Grusin, Christian McBride, Raul Midón, Luciana...Read More

Children of the Light

Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade have been three quarters of the extraordinary Wayne Shorter Quartet for more than a decade. Since, they’ve also continued their individual careers as...Read More

For One To Love

2016 Grammy Winner for "Best Jazz Vocal Album" - “I can look at many of these songs, and see that this is an event that really happened, or a feeling I�...Read More

Space, Time, Continuum

Widely acknowledged as a modern master in the aftermath of his acclaimed 2012 Mack Avenue debut, The Bespoke Man’s Narrative, 29-year-old pianist-composer Aaron Diehl ups the ante with the 2015 release Space, Time,...Read More

Duets

Multifaceted guitar heroes Kevin Eubanks and Stanley Jordan recording a Duets album: an idea that as soon as you hear it, you wonder why nobody, including you, thought of it until now.Read More

Room

With 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

Beautiful Life

Jimmy Greene’s new release, Beautiful Life on Mack Avenue Records, is a celebration of the life of his 6-year-old daughter, Ana Márquez-Greene, whose life was tragically taken, along with 19 other...Read More

It's Christmas on Mack Avenue

Mack Avenue Records has assembled a stellar family of artists over the last 15 years, and what better time is there to gather the family together than the holidays? It’s Christmas on...Read More

UP

Legendary bassist Stanley Clarke considers his upcoming Mack Avenue Records release, The Stanley Clarke Band’s UP, to be the most energetic, rhythmic and upbeat album that he has ever done&mdash...Read More

Live From The Detroit Jazz Festival 2013

It’s the second configuration of the group, which debuted at the 2012 Detroit Jazz Festival, mixing veteran stars with mid-career leaders and up-and-comers. The resulting album, Live From The Detroit Jazz Festival – 2012,...Read More

It's A Good Day

Aimée’s musical outlook is reflected in an emphasis on the guitar, an instrument with an indigenous form in nearly every culture of the world—and it was the sound...Read More

When We Find Ourselves Alone

When We Find Ourselves Alone is Rodney Whitaker’s 8th recording as a leader, showing that the 46-year-old son of Detroit hasn’t neglected to carve out time for creative development since...Read More

im•pro•vise never before seen

Celebrating his 10th anniversary with Mack Avenue Records, internationally acclaimed composer/trumpeter Sean Jones views his 7th album, im•pro•vise (never before seen), as “a reintroduction of who I am.”Read More

Macroscope

MACROSCOPE, 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

The Invasion Parade

On The Invasion Parade, the follow-up to his stunning debut on Mack Avenue, Sounds of Space, Rodríguez explores his memories of Cuba, the people and the culture he left behind&mdash...Read More

Panama 500

Panama 500 is Pérez’ most ambitious project to date, the furthest evolution yet of what the pianist/composer calls “three-dimensional music.”Read More

Don’t Be That Way

In the early days of jazz, the clarinet joined with trumpet and trombone to create the music’s signature sound and it ruled the roost in the swing era, when jazz was...Read More

Pushing The World Away

For his third Mack Avenue Records release, Pushing the World Away, alto/soprano saxophonist, composer/bandleader Kenny Garrett literally had to “push away” a steady flow of distractions to get...Read More

Live From The Detroit Jazz Festival - 2012

Mack Avenue Records is proud to present the scintillating debut release by the Mack Avenue SuperBand, an all-star ensemble comprising many of the label’s most acclaimed artists. Live From The Detroit...Read More

Wolfgang

Wolfgang features two different three-man rhythm sections (pianist Benny Green, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Lewis Nash; and pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Kris Funn and drummer Billy Williams, Jr.), as well as...Read More

Guided Tour

A popular phrase in years past was “Life Begins at 60,” but Gary Burton—as he has done so often throughout his career—is rewriting the book on retirement.Read More

Out Here

With Out Here, premier bassist Christian McBride’s fifth recording on Mack Avenue Records, McBride introduces his latest working group: a trio, fully embracing at age 41 his role as standard-bearer and mentor.Read More

A Rise In The Road

A Rise In The Road, the Yellowjackets’ second Mack Avenue Records offering, is indeed an appropriate title for a time-honored jazz ensemble that has never been fearful of facing newer musical horizons,...Read More

WomanChild

“She has poise, elegance, soul, humor, sensuality, power, virtuosity, range, insight, intelligence, depth and grace,” Wynton Marsalis asserts. “I’ve never heard a singer of her generation who has such a command...Read More

People Music

Any time that McBride steps into the studio or onto a stage he plays what could be called “people music,” but it’s a particularly apt title for the second release by...Read More

The Bespoke Man's Narrative

In fashion circles, the adjective “bespoke” denotes custom-made suits and shirts and signifies the person who designs and constructs them. On The Bespoke Man’s Narrative, his brilliant Mack Avenue Records debut,...Read More

The Messenger

With his second Mack Avenue Records release, The Messenger, acclaimed guitarist Kevin Eubanks continues to explore his own unique musical vision. This vision offers the listener an opportunity to share a musical...Read More

Angelic Warrior

Tia Fuller’s third release on Mack Avenue Records, Angelic Warrior, marks her deep-rooted evolution as an instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. After five years in Beyoncé’s band, the pop diva’s...Read More

Junction

Following up It's About That Time, Nighttown and the eponymous 2006 debut—Hot Club of Detroit expands its sonic and compositional horizons with Junction. Retaining its original lineup of reeds, two guitars,...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

Sounds Of Space

Sounds Of Space, the title of Cuban pianist and composer Alfredo Rodríguez’ debut recording, evokes images of science fiction. In truth, it’s about a far more personal adventure. “It’s...Read More

Conversations With Christian

McBride first considered a proposal to do a duet project during the latter ‘90s. “At the time,” he recalls, “I didn’t feel I was ready, or that it was the project...Read More

The Good Feeling

In a stellar career that continues to showcase his remarkable talents as a consummate musician, bassist Christian McBride reaches another milestone with the release of The Good Feeling, his first big band...Read More

Friends

In 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, imagination, versatility, respect and maverick daring....Read More

Warren Wolf

It’s no exaggeration to state that the release of Warren Wolf, the eponymous debut album for Mack Avenue Records by Warren Wolf, will make it as apparent to jazz fans as...Read More

Legacy

Gerald Wilson, jazz’s reigning composer/orchestrator pays homage to his adopted hometown, Chicago on his fifth Mack Avenue Records release, Legacy. Composers Igor Stravinsky and Giacomo Puccini also receive Wilson’s...Read More

Hi-Fly

Vasandani’s third Mack Avenue release, Hi-Fly, confirms the high praise showered on its two predecessors and proves the singer is one of the freshest, most versatile artists to emerge onto the...Read More

Common Ground

On Gary Burton’s debut release on Mack Avenue Records Common Ground,, the Grammy®-winning pioneer of the four-mallet technique of playing the vibes is not only delivering his first studio album...Read More

No Need For Words

The title of Jones’ sixth CD, No Need For Words, sums up his overall approach. This is music that cuts straight to the emotional heart, whether dealing with passion, sensuality, parental nurturing,...Read More

Timeline

Nearly 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 made them unique in a business...Read More

Zen Food

For 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 up the band and issuing steamy...Read More

Providencia

“This record is based on the idea that whatever we do has an impact in the universe,” Pérez says. “The word ‘providence,’ for me, means standing up for the future of...Read More

It's About That Time

The blistering fretwork on the opening track of the group’s third CD, It’s About That Time, pays explicit homage to one of their six-string heroes – just not the one you...Read More

Decisive Steps

Swing is the musical manifestation of forward motion. To achieve one’s goals, one must take giant steps. Today’s modern musicians at the change of the 21st century are moving miles...Read More

Detroit

Greatest living jazz orchestral composer releases Detroit, a six-part suite commissioned by the Detroit International Jazz Festival, and Wilson’s fourth release on Mack Avenue Records.Read More

We Move

After two years of touring and with a renewed confidence in composing and arranging, Sachal Vasandani decided it was time to begin We Move. "On the road, I would gather my ideas...Read More

Swinging, Singing, Playing

Even while the Count Basie Orchestra was in the studio finishing work on its Tony Bennett album, A Swinging Christmas, the ensemble’s new album was already taking shape: a salute to...Read More

Kind Of Brown

Produced 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 members of his new ensemble “something to sink...Read More

Work To Do

Along with Carl Allen and Rodney Whitaker, Work To Do features a stellar cast of musicians: Vincent Chandler – trombone; George Colligan – piano and Fender Rhodes; Vincent Herring – alto and soprano saxophone; Rodney...Read More

The Search Within

During the course of Sean Jones’ burgeoning career beginning with his Mack Avenue Records debut in 2004, Eternal Journey, the trumpeter/bandleader has embarked on a series of quests, passionately plumbing the depths...Read More

Sketches of MD: Live At The Iridium

Garrett, like all of the other great musicians and artists that came before him, just keeps moving forward in still another of his many creative directions. "I'm always trying to challenge myself....Read More

Night Town

More than seven decades after the innovations of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, featuring guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt, combos called Hot Clubs carry on the gypsy jazz sound around the...Read More

State Of Nature

Celebrated guitar virtuoso and now four time Grammy® nominee Stanley Jordan has consistently shown himself to be a musical visionary. This innovation was apparent the moment he electrified listeners with 1985's gold...Read More

Shayari

Shayari is Ron Blake’s most comprehensive and compelling work to date. It is a recording that unveils all of the musical inventions and dimensions of this evolving artist who has inherited...Read More

Monterey Moods

For the 20th annual festival in 1977, founder Jimmy Lyons asked Wilson to compose an extended work, “Happy Birthday Monterey.” Gerald followed that with “Theme For Monterey” for the 1997 festival (which was nominated...Read More

Kaleidoscope

Trumpeter Sean Jones embodies the 21st century jazz musician, an experimental, supremely talented type whose vision and sensibility encourages inclusion rather than separation. “Jazz embraces everything,” Jones says.Read More

Get Ready

Drummer Carl Allen and bassist Rodney Whitaker make a solid team co-leading this studio date that blends enticing originals with imaginative treatments of two Motown hits. With pianist Cyrus Chestnut, alto saxophonist...Read More

Eyes Wide Open

Sachal Vasandani's Mack Avenue debut release, Eyes Wide Open, showcases this uniquely gifted vocalist and songwriter. The New York Times tags him 'debonair" and critics describe the Thelonious Monk Institute Competition semi-finalist...Read More

Healing Space

Fuller and drummer Kim Thompson are also members of R&B superstar Beyoncé’s all-female touring band, and are featured in Beyoncé’s video, “Irreplaceable.” An uplifting spirit ignites Healing Space from...Read More

Roots

With Roots, Sean Jones continues on his path of exploring distinct and varied grooves, moods, and themes. On his rendition of the Ellington tune "Come Sunday" as well as "Lift Every Voice,"...Read More

Jazz Yule Love II

Jazz Yule Love II - Timeless Holiday Classics - Featuring Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Sean Jones, Bud Shank Quartet, Oscar Castro Neves, Oscar Brown Jr., Hot Club of Detroit and more.Read More

Hot Club Of Detroit

Through these newer songs, the Hot Club of Detroit proves their mastery of Reinhardt's music, since they can not only play his songs so well; they know how to translate it to...Read More

Legends and Lions: Blues

Mack Avenue proudly introduces BLUES: the third CD from the highly popular Legends & Lions series. As with its debut releases, the up-tempo SWINGIN’ and the sensual SWOONIN,’ BLUES pairs Mack Avenue’s...Read More

Legends and Lions: Swingin'

Four generations of jazz deliver a SWINGIN’ mix of vocals and instrumentals on this specially priced collection from Mack Avenue’s Legends & Lions series. Critically acclaimed newcomers line up next to veteran...Read More

Legends and Lions: Swoonin'

“SWOONIN’” is a romantic assortment of ten unforgettable songs to serenade the heart. Beautifully performed by veteran all-stars and critically acclaimed newcomers, this mix of lovely ballads from Mack Avenue’s specially...Read More

All One

Famed jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote of Oscar, "The crystalline beauty of his arrangements is matched by the rare delicacy with which they are interpreted. Castro-Neves is incapable of creating a dull...Read More

In My Time

Six time Grammy nominee Gerald Wilson is truly one of jazz's greatest statesmen. With "In My Time" he has created another musical triumph in his esteemed legacy, and does so with undeniable...Read More

Live The Life

The CD features twelve timeless songs from the pens of such legendary and diverse songwriters as Ivan Lins, Charles Aznavour, Thelonius Monk, Claude Nougaro, Abbey Lincoln, and Thomas A. Dorsey.Read More

Gemini

Trumpeter Sean Jones certainly covers a great deal of musical ground on Gemini. The music ranges from the hard boppish "In Her Honor," a hint of 1960s lyrical Freddie Hubbard on "Rain...Read More

Feelin Good: Live In Studio

It is not surprising that the music on “Feelin’ Good” is swinging, accessible and exciting, for the same is true of much of the music that Terry Gibbs has created during his...Read More

Sonic Tonic

Ron Blake is an excellent modern mainstream tenor saxophonist with a strong tone, a creative improvising style, and versatility. On this well-rounded CD, Blake digs into some of his best originals.Read More

52nd And Broadway: Songs of the Be Bop Era

The music on “52nd & Broadway” comes from the period that had an indelible imprint on countless musicians and other listeners—the bebop era. The originals written by Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious...Read More

Like Fine Wine

George Shearing’s musical legacy reaches back some 70 years, however “Like Fine Wine” resonates with the same quiet intensity that has infused his career since its beginnings.Read More

Eternal Journey

At 25, Jones has a mature style, a warm tone, an ability to caress ballads, a fertile imagination and a forward-looking approach. With the release of "Eternal Journey," Sean Jones is more...Read More

Playful Heart

Playful Heart, from virtuoso guitarist, composer, arranger and producer Oscar Castro-Neves, is a shining example of the perfect union that can come to exist between jazz and Brazilian music.Read More

Lest We Forget

The veteran saxman loosely fashions his label debut as a tribute to three diverse and influential jazz legends, Stanley Turrentine, Grover Washington, Jr., and soul-jazz organist Charles Earland. Blake's more than up...Read More

Close to My Heart

“The hot new trumpeter has musical personality that fits his instrument: intrepid, convincing, resolute. The modern hard bop that crackles…has the kind of vehemence and clarity that make people turn...Read More

New York, New Sound

For "New York, New Sound", the only non-laid back resident of L.A. was in a New York state of mind, and came up with a session that sounds like it was...Read More

Some Kind Of Wonderful

Parisian chanteuse Ilona Knopfler takes on some of the most popular tunes of the 60's and 70's on Some Kind of Wonderful, her debut for Mack Avenue Records.Read More

Jazz Yule Love

Jazz Yule Love - Timeless Holiday Classics - Featuring George Shearing, Pete Jolly, Les McCann, Teddy Edwards, Terry Gibbs, Cedar Walton, Kenny Burrell, and more.Read More

The Fuse Is Lit

A classically trained pianist in his native Russia, Maslov was introduced to jazz through the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson and others. He worked to develop his own style and, before...Read More

The Face Of Love

Face of Love finds Maslov incorporating guests Toots Thielemans on harmonica and Shirley Horn on vocals, and interpreting jazz and pop music from '60s icons, adding an occasional innocuous synth wash...Read More

When I Need To Smile

Maslov is a gifted pianist that has a keen melodic sense and can express it in contemporary terms. Produced by Stix Hooper of the Crusaders and helped by bassist Eddie Gomez and...Read More