Record Store Day November 24 2023
Record Store Day is an annual event inaugurated in 2007 and held on one Saturday (typically the third) every April and every Black Friday in November to "celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store". The day brings together fans, artists, and thousands of independent record stores around the world. A number of records are pressed specifically for Record Store Day, with a list of releases for each country, and are only distributed to shops participating in the event.
We will be ordering over 100 titles in multiple quantities. Our doors will open at 9am (an hour earlier than usual!) and first come first serve.
We will fulfill online orders only after Saturday November 25th and with whatever stock is remaining. You are more than welcome to make an order online and if we have an item left over, we will process your order. If there is no stock left after the day, we will try ordering it from the distributor, but there is no guarantee of fulfillment.
We also welcome wishlists! If there's something you'd like to see us order in, please email us at [email protected].
Listed here will be a small selection of titles as they are added to the system. Check back as we approach the date to see more and more!
A Day In Copenhagen [RSD Black Friday 2023]
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LP
$35.99
Reader Reward Price: $32.39
With his big, warm, round-toned sound, sophisticated phrasing, and hip quotes, Dexter Gordon was one of the major forces on the tenor saxophone from the mid-1940s until his death in 1990. Gordon was cited by both Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane as a major influence on their playing and is acknowledged as a jazz icon.
The popularity of mainstream jazz was on the decline in the States during the 1960s. The Vietnam war and racial turmoil were in high gear, and many of the music’s top-flight musicians, including Gordon, migrated to Europe in order both to escape and to make a living playing jazz. Gordon eventually settled in Copenhagen, Denmark. During this period, he usually played and recorded backed by a piano trio, but this 1969 recording is different. The usual quartet has been expanded with some of those premiere jazz ‘refugees’, each a major voice on his instrument, assembled for the session.
One of the great modern jazz trombonists, Slide Hampton, is also a composer/arranger of note. The album was a collaborative venture between Gordon and Hampton, and three of the compositions and all the arrangements on the album are his. The classy Jamaican trumpeter Dizzy Reese completes the front line. The rhythm section includes two jazz giants who were Gordon’s constant companions at Copenhagen’s famous Club Montmartre, fellow American expatriate pianist Kenny Drew and the great Danish bassist N-H Örsted-Peterson. The Gordon/Drew pairing is one of the classic horn-/piano matchups in jazz, and has often been compared with the Miles Davis/Red Garland and John Coltrane/McCoy Tyner pairings. Art Taylor, who “helped define the sound of modern drumming”, was brought in from Paris to complete the all-star rhythm section.
1. My Blues
2. You Don't Know What Love Is
3. A New Thing
4. What's New
5. The Shadow Of Your Smile
6. A Day In Vienna
Gil Evans & Ten (Mono Edition) [RSD Black Friday 2023]
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LP
$43.99
Reader Reward Price: $39.59
Limited mono edition of Gil Evans’ classic 1957 album for Prestige Records. Remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio with lacquers cut from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI. Available exclusively for RSD Black Friday 2023.
SIDE A:
1. Remember
2. Ella Speed
3. Big Stuff
SIDE B:
4. Nobody's Heart
5. Just One Of Those Things
6. If You Could See Me Now
7. Jambangle
Tales: Live In Copenhagen (1964) [RSD Black Friday 2023]
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LP
$35.99
Reader Reward Price: $32.39
Tales: Live In Copenhagen (1964) is a never-before-released recording of piano great Bill Evans, with bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Larry Bunker, captured at the Radiohuset and TVBYEN studios in August 1964. Featuring Evans’ only known version of “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was,” two different readings of “Sweet And Lovely,” and a live version of “’Round Midnight.” Limited Edition LP on 180g vinyl includes a booklet with rare photos, liner notes and interviews. Available exclusively for RSD Black Friday 2023.
SIDE A:
1. Waltz For Debby
2. My Foolish Heart
3. How My Heart Sings
4. Sweet And Lovely
5. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
6. Five (Theme)
SIDE B:
7. My Foolish Heart #2
8. How My Heart Sings #2
9. Sweet And Lovely #2
10. Five (Theme) #2
11. 'Round Midnight
Live From The Northwest, 1959 [RSD Black Friday 2023]
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LP
$37.99
Reader Reward Price: $34.19
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Live from the Northwest, 1959 is the newest release from Brubeck Editions, the family run label that only puts out music of the highest musical and technical quality. These exciting performances were recorded by the trailblazing and iconic audio engineer, Wally Heider, who pioneered the art of remote recording from his "studio on wheels". The sound he achieved is stellar, and this is perhaps the best live recording you can hear of one of the most popular jazz groups of all time. The tapes were recorded in April 1959 at the Multnomah Jazz Club and Clark College, both in the Portland Oregon area. Four months later, the Dave Brubeck Quartet recorded their legendary LP, Time Out, and changed the course of jazz forever. This new LP showcases the poll-winning quartet at the peak of their improvisational powers, especially demonstrating their unique mastery of improvising counterpoint (a musical device updated from Bach) while swinging through jazz standards and original compositions.
These master musicians, (Dave along with Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright and Joe Morello) transcend time. The new Live from the Northwest - 1959 LP is sure to be a hit with audiophiles, Dave Brubeck fans, jazz aficionadas and lovers of great and timeless music around the world. Listening to this new release, you will feel like you are sitting in the jazz club fully immersed in high fidelity sound, on a night when the incomparable Dave Brubeck Quartet was firing on all cylinders!
Side A:
1. When the Saints Go Marching In (6:38)
2. Basin Street Blues (6:43)
3. Lonesome Road (7:38)
Side B:
1. Two Part Contention (11:45)
2. Gone with the Wind (8:10)
Creative Improvisation Ensemble [RSD Black Friday 2023]
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LP
$40.99
Reader Reward Price: $36.89
Creative Improvisation Ensemble captures the meeting of two avant-garde giants, Marion Brown and Wadada Leo Smith, on May 12, 1970 in Paris, France. The session finds Brown and Smith on their primary instruments, alto saxophone and trumpet respectively, with both musicians performing various percussion instruments as well. The release marks the latest edition of Org Music’s Freedom Records reissues series, mastered for vinyl by Dave Gardner and pressed at Pallas Group on transparent red audiophile-grade vinyl. The album has not been pressed on vinyl since its original release in 1975.
Centering
Njung-Lumumba Malcolm
And Then They Danced
Rhythmus #1
Chet's Choice 2lp
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LP
$62.99
Reader Reward Price: $56.69
Recorded and released in the Netherlands by Gerry Teekens for his Criss Cross label in 1985, Chet’s Choice marked one of the best studio albums from Chet Baker’s final years. It presents Baker singing and playing the trumpet in an intimate trio format with Philip Catherine (guitar) and JeanLouis Rassinfosse (bass). This expanded edition presents all seven tracks from the original album, plus three songs that appear here for the first time on vinyl, and five previously unreleased alternate takes. This 2LP set is pressed on 180g vinyl in a special gatefold jacket with rare photos and updated liner notes for RSD Black Friday 2023.
This is a selection of our current Record Store Day November 24 2023 titles. To find other titles or authors, or just to browse, please use the search box.
