Our latest round-up of the finest new reissues added to Bandcamp includes crucial releases from the legendary Chet Baker, a few lesser known jazz artists, and some retrowave to boot. Blue Room: The 1979 Vara Studio Sessions in Holland comprises two sessions recorded for Dutch public broadcasting company KRO-NCRV in 1979. With the sets laid down seven months apart, and featuring a different band of side players, this double disc release could pass for two distinct albums: the first, an April 10 session, saw Baker joined by Phil Markowitz (piano), Jean-Louis Rassinfosse (bass), and Charles Rice (drums), while the November 9 recordings were with Frans Elsen, Victor Kaihatu, and Eric Ineke on the same instruments respectively.

Across both collections, the quality of the recording is absolutely pristine: hit play and Chet is blowing his horn in the room with you. More importantly, both sessions find him in top form. Laidback but assured, he performs like he has all the time in the world. The sad play of “Oh You Crazy Moon” is complimented by Baker’s dusk-ish vocals—a brave choice given the standard had been sung by such powerhouses as Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, and Frank Sinatra. Later, his version of “Candy,” made famous by Big Maybelle, includes some relaxed scat. And on “Blue Giles,” Baker blows for almost a minute and a half unaccompanied—you can make out his breath hitting the brass—before the cinematic noir of his band’s piano, bass, and percussion enter, epitomizing the light tone and easy-breezy tempos of this impressive release.​​

Business Casual has celebrated its 10th anniversary by packaging 60 songs from the archives and making them available for a name-your-price fee. This “internet music label” has specialized in retrowave and other online microgenres; that its website operates through the antiquated blogging platform Tumblr feels incredibly apt. Epitomizing the company’s methodology is “high” by vcr-classique, which warps cheesy 1980s electronic sounds, teasing nostalgic notions as all the best retrowave does. Skipping forward, “pipes song” by netbooks.WRLD chops up a vocal sample into a cloud rap beat. The result is a commendable victory lap that’s equally enjoyable whether experienced cover-to-cover or on shuffle.

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