Moving Day weaves field recordings from the day André moved home a couple of years ago — as filmed by Dexter Navy, in Venice Beach — together with an impromptu Q&A, Dexter to André, and studio recordings made while watching the film. Tunnels of Egypt is from the New Blue Sun sessions, but not previously released. Three tracks, half an hour.

An afternoon in Osaka, 1975. With an On The Corner kind of gang — Sonny Fortune, Pete Cosey, Reggie Lucas, Michael Henderson, Al Foster and Mtume. ‘The greatest electric funk-rock jazz record ever made’ (Allmusic).
LP from Music On Vinyl.

With Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, John McLaughlin, Airto, Gary Bartz, Wayne Shorter — different lineups around 1970 — running jazz into Sly and JB and way out the other side.
Vinyl from Music On Vinyl.

The soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese film — including twenty-six previously unreleased recordings.

The Duke’s response to Billy Strayhorn’s death from cancer in 1967, this album is one of his masterworks.
Featuring Johnny Hodges, in Strayhorn’s sublime arrangement, Blood Count is utterly devastating, every time. Another masterpiece of despair, cut by wistfulness, After All is stone-cold classic Ellingtonia. The solo-piano version of Lotus Blossom — which closed the original LP — is the Duke at his most emotionally frank.
Ineffably beautiful music, to help you through life.

The 1996 debut of Elgin Lumpkin, brilliantly produced by Timbaland — with Pony.