Purveyors of the Finest Jazz, Blues, Soul and World Music since 1991. 

Curated. Edited. Art for your ears.

Birdland opened on Tuesday 8/10/1991 so we are now officially 34!

We stock Audiophile Vinyl LPs and CDs - literally Everything that's Jazz on labels like Blue Note, Verve, Impulse, Columbia, Impex, Mobile Fidelity, Analogue Productions, Three Blind Mice, ECM, Sunnyside, Smoke Sessions, Cellar Live, Intakt, International Anthem, Nonesuch, Edition Records, Pyroclastic Records, ACT, CTI, Kudu, Tzadik, Arbors, Whirlwind, Craft Recordings, ezz-thetics Hat Hut, analog tone factory, Steeplechase, BGO, Prestige, Riverside, Candid, Mack Avenue, Earmusic, Mobile Fidelity, Sam Records, BYG, Savant, Ogun, Red Records, Parlophone, Rogue Art, No Business, Black Saint, Soul Note, Atlantic, Pi Recordings, Cadillac Somethin' Else, DIW, and many more. Not just a few jazz labels but just about EVERYTHING that's Jazz on CD, LP, SACD and DVD.                                                       

   The best jazz selection in Australia - bar none ?  We think it is. Come and visit and decide for yourself

We stock blues and soul albums on Ace Records, Alligator Records, Kent Records, Motown and many more. We also stock classic blues, rock, soul, world music etc on CD, SACD and only the best pressings on Vinyl LP.

We ONLY stock LPs on genuine record labels, not bootleg, or grey market labels. 

We have the largest selection of Super Audio CDs in Australia - we get every SACD that we can from each label regardless of genre - jazz, rock, blues, soul etc. Everything except Classical - which we can order easily enough

 

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New Opening Hours from Monday 3rd November 2025
Monday:         11am to 4pm
Tuesday:        11am to 4pm
Wednesday:   11am to 4pm
Thursday:       11am to 4pm
Friday:            11am to 4pm
Saturday:        10am to 4pm
 
Closed on Sunday.
Closed Every Public Holiday. Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Day
 
*Goggle change our hours about once every six months without asking. They also once moved our store to the Strand Arcade even though we were still in the Dymocks Building! 
Google - changing the laws of science at will.
 

The Top 40 @ Birdland for 2025

#1 Anouar Brahem - After the Last Sky

#2 Jeff Parker + ETA IVtet - The Way Out of Easy

#3 Chris Cheek - Keepers of the Eastern Door

#4 Keith Jarrett - New Vienna: At the Musikverein, 2016

#5 John Scofield / Dave Holland - Memories of Home

#6 Jakob Bro - Taking Turns

#7 Ike Quebec - The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions

#8 Thelonious Monk - Bremen 1965

#9 Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts

#10 Jerome Sabbagh - Heart (feat. Al Foster & Joe Martin)

#11 Bill Evans - Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings

#12 Charles Lloyd - Figure in Blue

#13 Horace Silver - Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse

#14 Kenny Burrell with Art Blakey - On View At The Five Spot Cafe: The Complete Masters

#15 Fred Hersch - The Surrounding Green

#16 Sasha Berliner - Fantôme

#17 Sunsuke Fujieda Group - Fukushima. LP out of print. CD only.

#18 Nils Petter Molvaer - Khmer Live in Bergen

#19 JD Allen - Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions). CD only

#20 Evans Robson Quartet - Zenith. CD only.

#21 Bonnie J Jensen - Rise. CD only.

#22 Paul Weller Presents: That Sweet Sweet Music - Various Artists

#23 The Necks - Disquiet. CD only.

#24 Carl Allen - Tippin’ CD only.

#25 Tedeschi Trucks Band and Leon Russell Present: Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited Live at LOCKN’

#26 Jerome Sabbagh - Stand Up!

#27 James Brandon Lewis Trio - Apple Cores

#28 Boz Scaggs - Detour

#29 Benjamin Lackner - Spindrift

#30 John McLaughlin - Music for Abandoned Heights

#31 Branford Marsalis Quartet - Belonging

#32 Joseph Tawadros - The Forgotten Path To Humanity. CD only

#33 Joshua Redman - Words Fall Short

#34 Nels Cline - Consentrik Quartet

#35 Artemis - Arboresque

#36 Brandee Younger - Gadabout Season

#37 Brad Mehldau - Ride Into The Sun

#38 Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - Defiant Life

#39 Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley & Brian Blade - Tokyo. LP due out soon

#40 Patricia Brennan - Of The Near And Far. CD only

 
 
WEB / MAIL ORDER
 
We process all mail-orders the day we receive them - except on weekends as all Post Offices are closed
Get your orders in before 2pm and we'll post them before 4pm which is now the cut-off time for Express Post.
Orders placed after 2pm will be posted the following day.
 

FREE EXPRESS POST (within Australia) for all Orders over $120.*

* Offer applies to In-stock CDs# and DVDs .

Does not apply to Vinyl LPs or oversize items - CD box sets etc.

See below for information about overseas orders.

If you have any questions please email us - orders@birdland.com.au

 

Thanks for all your support over the years.

 

cheers

the crew

Directions:
 

If you are travelling by train, get off at Town Hall Station and walk one and a half blocks down George Street towards Circular Quay. We are located in the Dymocks Building, 428 George Street, between Market and King Streets. Use any of the 4 lifts to Level 4. Exit the lift, turn left and left again. We are in the corner overlooking George Street right next to the Dymocks sign.

 

Shipping:

All CDs / DVDs are dispatched in overnight Express Post Bags (with tracking #) for next day* delivery to most post codes in Australia. Provided we receive your order before 2pm - Monday to Friday - we'll dispatch your order the same day.  The only exceptions to this are Public Holidays and orders received on days we are closed. The Postage charge within Australia is a flat $12 for CDs regardless of how many items you order. FREE EXPRESS POST for all Orders over $120. Offer applies to In-stock CDs# and DVDs only -   ( #with some exceptions due to size).  For LPs and oversize items it's a flat $20 regardless of how many items you order.

* Australia Post don't always deliver the next day. Once we lodge your parcel at the Post Office it's up to them to deliver it on time.

Overseas orders: please contact us by email and we'll let you know the postage. Once that's all worked out we'll send you an invoice via Paypal.

cheers

 

the crew

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners and pay our respects to the elders past, present and emerging, on whose lands we live, work and play. Sovereignty was never ceded. It always was, always is, always will be Aboriginal land.