By All Means - Vinyl The Doors at the Royal Albert Hall

at the Royal Albert Hall in London

Mansur’s sound rolls out across “Heiwa” like an expansive film score backdrop to the conflict between city and nature and the cycle of life

a holy grail among boogie / funk vinyl collectors (reissued by PPU)

“Existence Schematic” takes flight at night

Daddy's Car is a fun-fun-fun ride to the up-up-and-away and Fine soars heavenward

By All Means - Vinyl The Doors at the Royal Albert HallPianist & composer Aaron Parks expands his trio with bassist Ben Street & drummer Billy Hart into a quartet with the addition of tenor saxophonist Ben Solomon to explore a new color palette on his luminous 3rd Blue Note album By All Means. Although Parks has made his band Little Big the center of his recorded output in recent years, he never stopped writing music that belonged to a different harmonic universe influenced by the likes of Wayne Shorter,