Here’s even more great music to please your ears and satisfy your hunger for historically significant recordings. Many of the following are RSD Exclusives, but some are just new vinyl releases that we’ve been digging lately.
The band collects some of their favorite Brazilian tunes.BadBadNotGood/Various Artists
Brazil 45 Boxset Vol. 6
Mr Bongo
An RSD Exclusive, limited to 1,200 copies, Mr Bongo handed the keys of the Brazil 45 Boxset Series to the Canadian trio. The instructions were simple — choose your favorite Brazilian music cuts. The band delivered an eclectic mix of the country’s musical styles across decades of musical history.
us.mrbongo.comrecordstoreday.comThe best of Basie? Can’t go wrong.Count Basie And His Orchestra
Best of the Roulette Years
Rhino
An RSD Limited Run of 1,000 copies, pressed on moss green vinyl, this Basie gem offers up some of the orchestra’s biggest hits from the Roulette catalogue.
rhino.comrecordstoreday.comClassic Corea, live and on fire with his trio.Chick Corea
Trilogy 3
Candid
Candid delivers another round of stunning live music, this time coming from Chick Corea’s final tour with Christian McBride on bass and Brian Blade on drums. It’s a double-album set featuring some of Corea’s most-beloved tunes. The vinyl version comes in a gatefold jacket, produced and recorded by Bernie Kirsh and mastered by Bernie Grundman. The set features liners by McBride and Blade.
candidrecords.comEvans in Finland during the 1960s.Bill Evans
Further Ahead: Live In Finland (1964–1969)
Elemental
An RSD Exclusive, here’s another recently unearthed, well-recorded live set from one of the greatest pianists in jazz history. Here Evans is shown touring in Finland in the 1960s on this two-album set with a pressing of 4,700 copies. Limited and numbered, the set is pressed on 180-gram vinyl with liner notes from Evans scholar Marc Myers and interviews with Evans’ associates bassist Eddie Gomez, drummer Mark Morell and more.
elemental-music.comrecordstoreday.comOne of Europe’s leading trios.Paolo Fresu/Richard Galiano/
Jan LundgrenMare Nostrum IV
ACT
A defining trio on the European jazz scene, Mare Nostrum IV represents the latest recording from Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu, French accordionist Richard Galiano and Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren. Grab the album and catch the group live as it tours across Europe in 2025.
actmusic.comMingus at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival.Charles Mingus
Mingus At Monterey
Candid
And for more Mingus, Candid brings an RSD First with a limited pressing of 2,000 copies. Here we have Mingus live during a classic performance at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival. Out of print for more than 40 years, the original release came out on Mingus’ short-lived mail-order label. With two LPs pressed on 180-gram vinyl, the original artwork has been restored and reproduced.
candidrecords.comrecordstoreday.comThe legendary pianist live at one of the great, lost jazz shrines.Thelonius Monk
Live At The It Club
Legacy
An RSD Exclusive limited to 3,500 copies, this Monk classic has been remastered from analog tapes at 24-bit, Hi-Res Audio. Recorded in 1964 at the famed San Francisco It Club, the album didn’t come out until 1982 after Monk had passed that year.
legacyrecordings.comrecordstoreday.comTwo hall of famers on one record? Must-buy!Gerry Mulligan/Thelonious Monk
Mulligan Meets Monk
Craft
This rare mono mix of Mulligan Meets Monk is an RSD Exclusive with a limit of 3,000 copies. The album was originally released in 1957 on Riverside Records. The set features lacquers cut from the original tapes (AAA) by Kevin Gray and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI.
craftrecordings.comrecordstoreday.comThree masters captured at one of America’s great clubs.David “Fathead” Newman & Ellis Marsalis
& Cornell Dupree
Return To The Wide Open Spaces
SteadyBoy
What happens when this trio of jazz titans get together? An amazing live experience from Caravan of Dreams in Fort Worth, Texas. This 1990 recording date was originally released on Amazing Records and won the N.A.I.R.D. award for best Traditional Jazz Album of the Year. An RSD First, it’s a two-album set limited to 950 copies.
recordstoreday.comA classic, but out-of-print…until now!Gil Scott-Heron
Moving Target
LMLR
An RSD Exclusive with a limit of 3,000 copies, Moving Target is a Gil Scott-Heron classic that’s been out of print. The RSD release features an OBI side strip, cardboard jacket, original artwork, a printed inner sleeve and is pressed on bright red vinyl.
recordstoreday.comUnavailable for more than 50 years. It’s back!Archie Shepp
The Complete Live In Antibes
LMLR
Here’s another LMLR release for Record Store Day that comes in as a two-LP set with a limit of 3,000 copies. Unavailable for more than 50 years, the album has been restored and remastered from the original master tapes. Original artwork, archival photography and new essays on Shepp’s legacy are all part of the package here.
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