Roll Call 2025BF30% was the first bossa nova

was the first bossa nova album recorded by American jazz musicians and - together with Getz’s follow-up collaboration with João Gilberto

and João Donato

Herbie Hancock’s last Blue Note album The Prisoner is a powerful but overlooked masterpiece

D2: A Love Supreme*

Percussion Bitter Sweet

Roll Call 2025BF30% was the first bossa novaTenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was on a serious roll when he recorded his 1960 album Roll Call, the follow up to his classic Soul Station, which reconvened the same rhythm section of pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey with the addition of Freddie Hubbard on trumpet for an invigorating six song hard bop masterclass. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original