Jazz

Norah Jones Pick Me Up Off the Floor Blue Note Available June 12 13061072 $13.99 Guest Artist: Jeff Tweedy Norah Jones’s new album features lyrics that confront loss and portend hope, and a mood that leans into darkness before ultimately finding the light.

Joel Harrison America at War Sunnyside Guitarist and composer Joel Harrison’s new large ensemble recording is a musical meditation on a lifetime of ruinous armed conflicts conducted by the United States. 13017609 $16.99

Curtis Stigers Gentleman EmArcy Curtis Stigers returns with a new album that offers a wry yet elegant reassessment of the modern male. Along with his own observations, he also commiserates and celebrates with the words of top songwriters like Nick Lowe. 12991416 $13.99

Gogo Penguin Gogo Penguin Blue Note Back with their self-titled album, which signifies GoGo Penguin’s conviction that they’ve struck upon the motherlode, hit the jackpot, stepped up, and generally arrived at a point they’ve always striven for but never quite attained before. Available June 5 12981491 $11.99

Ella 100 Live at the Apollo! Various Artists Concord Jazz Recorded in 2016, this concert pays homage to one of great jazz vocalists with performances and appearances from Patti Austin, David Alan Grier, Lizz Wright, Cassandra Wilson, Ledisi, the Count Basie Orchestra, and more. 12935942 $15.99

Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Four Questions ZOHO Six-time Grammy Award winner Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra create two large-scaled compositions that are inspired by the work of Dr. Cornel West. 12892834 $16.99

Dave Liebman & Martial Solal Masters in Paris Sunnyside Their second Sunnyside album of duets finds Dave Liebman and Martial Solal before a knowledgeable and appreciative audience at Studio 104 de Radio France, a center of uncompromising music in the City of Light. 13018501 $16.99

John Coltrane Giant Steps Atlantic Deluxe CD with the original album plus a bonus disc of alternate takes and versions, only previously included in The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane boxed set. Available June 19 60th Anniversary Edition 13130896 $21.99

Boney James Solid Concord Music Group, Inc. With eleven original songs and featuring R&B star Kenny Lattimore on the single Be Here, Boney James’s new record is an uplifting collection. It is his seventeenth album as a bandleader. Available June 12 12915163 $14.99

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Just Coolin’ Blue Note Available August 7 12935927 $11.99 A never-before-released studio album by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on March 8, 1959. The set includes two previously unissued compositions: Quick Trick and Jimerick.