The Prophetic Herbie Nichols, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Classic Vinyl Series): Vinyl LP BF20 Castle Park

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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

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The Blue Note founder recorded the B3 innovator as often as he could between 1956-1963 in a range of different settings and released a tremendous run of albums that laid the foundation for the Soul Jazz movement

a hidden gem in the Blue Note catalog featuring a first-rate hard bop quintet with Hank Mobley on tenor saxophone

The Prophetic Herbie Nichols, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Classic Vinyl Series): Vinyl LP BF20 Castle ParkHerbie Nichols was one of the most highly original and under recognized pianists and composers in Jazz history. Blue Note founder Alfred Lion consider him to be every bit as unique and important as Thelonious Monk, another singular talent who Lion was the first to record just a few years before he signed Nichols in 1955. Little known during his lifetime, recognition has begun to grow in recent years for Nichols incredibly hip, angular compositions