These are some of Junes titles. There is also supposedly a new Lana Del Ray set possibly entitled Over due out either April, May or June.
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Wishbone Ash at the BEEB. Funnily enough I had a disagreement with the band on the tour bus before one of the gigs on this set. It is a long story so don’t ask. Never thought the gig would be released. Due late this month.
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Matt burninger second solo album, get sunk due later this year
Atb
Kk
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Room On the Porch by Taj Mahal & Keb Mo -due 23rd May, just after Taj Mahal turns 83.
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Years ago I heard her live in Mendrisio (close to Lugano), accompanied by Ulf Wakenius on guitar. They opened for Al DiMeola with the RSI orchestra… A powerfully intimate act, if I may say so.
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Yup I have my pre-order in.
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Gary Moore
Gary Moore Live – From Baloise Session
Released on May 23, 2025
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Since I Met You Baby
- Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)
- I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know
- Don’t Believe a Word
- Still Got the Blues
- Walking by Myself
- The Blues Is Alright
Hopefully they will also release a HiRes version.
Edward
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Strawberries by Robert Forster out early May.
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A solo album, Kev?
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Yes indeed Steve
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Pre-ordered this last night. Seems Goldfrapp, the band, are no more. Shame.
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Hinterland by Held By Trees out May 9th.
This is a heavily Talk Talk influenced outfit that features session musicians from their later albums and Charlie Hollis (Mark’s son) plays piano on 4 of the tracks.
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This is one for @Bobthebuilder and all the other Chet Baker fans. Out on September 12th, five Chet albums from 1965, all in mono and all done 100% analogue by Mr Kevin Gray.
It’s on the New Land label, whose stuff has thus far been fantastic.
Here’s the blurb for those interested:
LP Box Set featuring five original studio albums from 1965
(AAA) Remastered and cut directly from the original analog mono tapes by Kevin Gray
Manufactured on 180gm vinyl and housed in reverse-board deluxe sleeves
Expansive book with liner notes from James Gavin, interviews with Chet Baker, George Coleman, Kirk Lightsey, Herman Wright, Roy Brooks and previously unseen photographs
Housed inside a secure, heavy lift-off lid box with spot-gloss finish
Five original studio albums, recorded in New York City across one week in August 1965: Boppin’, Smokin’, Groovin’, Comin’ On, Cool Burnin’ are being made available on vinyl for the first time in over 50 years. Representing a critical moment in his career, Chet Baker hooked up with a superlative band for these recordings: George Coleman; Kirk Lightsey; Herman Wright and Roy Brooks play throughout on these thrilling sets, which were originally issued by Prestige Recordings.
New Land has gained full access to the original analogue mono tapes, and Kevin Gray remastered to give them fresh sonic detail.
Chet Baker’s 1965 Prestige recordings mark a transitional period - his return to the U.S. after time in Europe and a brush with the legal system. These sessions show him leaning into a grittier, more expressive tone, yet still laced with his signature lyrical beauty.
Cut at the height of Prestige Records’ hard bop renaissance, this session pairs Baker with saxophone titan George Coleman - fresh from his tour with Miles Davis. The result is a raw, swinging quintet sound that’s immediate, soulful, and unvarnished.
After years of drifting through Europe and seemingly unending personal turmoil, Chet returned to the U.S. and cut these sessions. Stripped of the youthful innocence that defined his early West Coast days, Baker plays with a darker, more introspective edge - his horn still sings, but now it sighs too.
Joined by a tight NYC rhythm section, these recordings bridge cool jazz’s elegance with the raw immediacy of East Coast hard bop. This is Baker at his most human - fragile, lyrical, unfiltered.
When he made these records during three frantic sessions in the summer of 1965, Chet Baker was struggling through what one critic termed “a decade of frustration found at the point of a hypodermic needle.”
Expectations were low when Prestige Records, a bastion of modern jazz at its toughest, released the first of five albums culled from those dates. They had plunged Baker into post-bop, an almost alien land for him. His bandmates in The Chet Baker Quintet, none of whom he had previously played with, were the aforementioned Memphis-born tenor man Coleman; drummer Roy Brooks, a graduate of Horace Silver, and two promising bop-schooled newcomers: pianist Kirk Lightsey and bassist Herman Wright. Baker was the only white member of the group. He rose to his surroundings with empathetic verve and earned his colleagues’ respect.**
These aren’t just “late-era” Chet recordings - they’re a document of reinvention. For collectors, this fills a crucial gap between his iconic 1950s cool jazz era and his darker 1970s European sessions. The interplay with Coleman is especially rare and electric.
“These sessions let one know he could break through his “cool” image by playing heated bop when he wanted to. It also finds him debuting on flugel horn and the softer tone fits his introverted sound well"
“These recordings might not be as famous as Chet’s Pacific Jazz sides, but they’re every bit as vital - raw, searching, and deeply human.”
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Just pre ordered mine and very happy about this release as though or perhaps because these didn’t sell well when released in '66 and ‘67 they are now very rare and from the five I only own one ‘Smokin’’
Despite what the promotional material might say these five records recorded over three days in August 1965 by RVG at Englewood Cliffs, NJ where a slightly desperate commercial stab in the dark by both Prestige and Chet Baker and at the time sold badly. It was the beginning of another end for Chet Baker that would see him within a year recording some truly awful records with The Mariachi Brass, Tijuana Brass imitators on Richard Bock’s World Pacific label.
However there is some excellent music on these five records as always with Chet Baker he rarely faltered when faced with musicians of real class and they mostly brought out the best in him.
P.S
Though I own the three titles from the Riverside Box Set two in both Mono and Stereo I missed out on the box set which I really regret I thought I’d wait for a cheaper used set and not only did I miss out on the fourth LP of extras but they now go for over £400.
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I have all of this Baker Prestige material on 3 CDs - which Fantasy did a good job with in their resissue series and included unissued tracks. Kirk Lightsey signed some of them years ago - I asked him about these sessions, apparently he and the rhythm section drove in to Van Gelders every day from Atlantic City, where they were doing another gig. The sinister figure of Richard Carpenter had a hand in the sessions, although there seem to have been no major issues.
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'+ @Robinho
If you are a Pulp fan, I highly recommend buying a copy of this month’s Mojo magazine. It has a great interview with the band and also this very nice free CD 
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Yes Chet held a life long hatred of Richard Carpenter whose odious doings as you probably know went as far as claiming writing credits and so royalties over some of his clients songs. A particularly nasty individual who liked nothing better than a drug addicted, broke Jazz musician to pray off of even at times giving them a ‘scoring’ allowance to keep them high and working.