The Red Book

The Red BookPenguin Cafe return to The Red Book with an expanded edition of the 2014 album, originally released through Erased Tapes. Alongside the original tracklist, this reissue adds the previously CD and digital only And Yet plus two tracks from the Umbrella EP, offering a fuller picture of the groups richly detailed sound world. Founded by Arthur Jeffes in 2009, Penguin Cafe began as a way of celebrating and continuing the legacy of Simon Jeffes and the much

Paul Chambers (bass) and Philly Joe Jones for the date certainly doesn't hurt matters either

Live At The Apollo is one of those rare albums that lives up to the hype

Over the course of a year—from November 1955 to October 1956—the quintet recorded three marathon sessions at Rudy Van Gelder’s storied Hackensack studio

built around the band’s distinct mix of Middle Eastern psych

it was the first to show an absolute integration of jazz music into a feature film whose story had nothing to do with jazz or even with music itself

Jack Walrath (trumpet)

West describes his music as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds

And that sense of excitement isn’t exclusive to the suite

We do not experiment with the material

who curated the entire album with GREA8GAWD himself

—the debut album by Stanley Turrentine—announced the arrival of a deeply soulful saxophonist who imbued every note he played with feeling

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