Herbie Hancock - Empyrean IslesEmpyrean Isles from 1964 is the best of Hancock's Blue Note albums and an outstanding example of modal jazz. But beyond that, it's simply one of the finest pure jazz albums ever made, right up there with Kind of Blue and Love Supreme. What helps makes it so great is not just the phenomenal musicians and the flawless performance, but a composer arranger (Hancock) who really has no equal in the jazz world.

On ‘Netra Ken’ the writer and endurance cyclist Emily Chappell features

‘Second Time Around’ is reissued via Partisan Records on Transparent Emerald Green vinyl with gatefold jacket

28 in the US album chart

blood red coloured vinyl *

Aleksandar Sanja Ilić

this edition is head and shoulders above the 'Alien Records' edition in terms of sound quality

contains members: Evan Aasen

she went one further and actually recorded the electrical activity in a plant which was then translated into pitch variations

we're putting them out on metallic gold vinyl (cuz dang it

the song articulated the loneliness of the long-distance musician – and it sounded great

New Order release their first album in 10 years when the icons return with their new LP 'Music Complete' on Mute

Hazlewood proved difficult to market without a Sinatra to temper his baritone drawl