NewLand Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Trumpeter Kenny Dorham has a wealth of albums to his name and many of them are regarded as classics. This one, Jazz Contrasts, was recorded in 1957 and released on the Riverside label. NewLand now has the rights to a full reissue and presents it on nice heavyweight vinyl with an insert. Across just six tracks it strikes an indelible style with all of the music newly remastered. It features Sonny Rollins on tenor sax and Betty Glamann on harp while Hank Jones plays piano and Oscar Pettiford plays bass with the legend Max Roach on sticks.

Review: ***B-STOCK: Slight surface marks ***


Pianist John Wright's Trio featured the man himself with Wendell Marshall and J.C. Heard. Between them, the three musicians very much embodied the more soulful end of the jazz spectrum that their native Chicago was known for across the 1960s. Never better was that captured on record than with Nice 'N' Tasty, which has never been reissued ever since its original release. It has been remastered from the original tapes and was his second album for the Prestige label. It's a sublime collection with his masterful piano at the centre of a suite of four originals and four standards which were all engineered by the great Rudy Van Gelder.

Review: Celebrated jazz man Charles Mingus took Manhattan by storm when he played a series of legendary darts at the world famous Birdland venue in New York between 1961 and 196. Now, in conjunction with the Mingus Estate, the complete collection of those sessions make it to vinyl for the first time ever. Mingus Takes Manhattan - The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961 - 1962 is taken from the original reel-to-reel tapes used for the radio broadcasts at the time. These rare recordings comes with a 44-page book with a foreword from Christian McBride.