Down With It! (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP BF20 Having established a home base

Having established a home base with his brilliant and deeply attuned trio of bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King—most recently heard on the guitarist’s acclaimed 2021 Blue Note debut Squint—Lage casts his gaze outward to discover new orchestrational possibilities with the addition of six-string icon Bill Frisell

Exactly Like You

an expansive album-length suite comprised of 7 evocative movements

With Stanley Turrentine’s sax infusing each note with an excess of soul and Ray Barretto’s congas giving the blues-oriented music a Latin tinge

“It’s the idea of being a conduit for the music as a higher power that actually influences what we’re playing

Down With It! (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP BF20 Having established a home baseTrumpeter Blue Mitchell had a soulful, swinging style and was equally at home in jazz, R&B, and funk settings. This 1965 date featured his Horace Silver bandmates Junior Cook on tenor sax and Gene Taylor on bass along with a 24 year old Chick Corea on piano and 22 year old Al Foster on drums. This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and