HBDirect Jazz Music News: HBDirect Jazz Sale Ends Soon!

Only Three Days Left In The May Sale!

The HBDirect May jazz sale will end on Sunday at Midnight! Only three days remain for discounts on six complete labels and select new releases. You can click any logo in this newsletter to browse all of a label's available titles.

Time Out Turns 50!

"It's the bonus discs that warrant the attention here. First there's a second audio CD that contains previously unreleased concert recordings from 1961, 1963, and 1964 with the classic quartet of Brubeck... In sum, this package adds tremendously to the value of the original album." -All Music Guide

New 50th Anniversary Sets On Sale!

Miles Davis: Sketches Of Spain

Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

Melody Gardot's Latest

"My One and Only Thrill is the spellbinding follow up to Gardot's compelling debut, Worrisome Heart, and eloquently confirms her as a supreme songwriting talent possessed of a truly sublime voice... this is already one of the outstanding albums of 2009. Talents like Melody Gardot come along all too infrequently. Now that she's here, she is to be treasured." -BBC Music

New Releases From Verve

Luciana Souza: Tide

Keith Jarrett: Treasure Island - $8.98

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Soul Finger - $8.98

New on SACD!

"Lee-Way boasts a vivid piano that doesn't exhibit the blurry softness [of] some Rudy Van Gelder recordings, and bass that doesn't go particularly deep but is well defined... Original Blue Note mono LPs are commanding increasingly ridiculous prices, and even the prices of Japanese reissues are creeping upwards... Get them now while you can, or regret it later." -Soundstage