Archive for the Jazz Category
Kamaal Williams “New Heights/Snitches Brew” (Black Focus)
Kamaal Williams gives it up to Miles on, ’Snitches Brew’ and the low down ace ‘New Heights (Visions of Aisha Malik)’, for a virulent follow-up to his widely acclaimed album, ‘The Return’.
Mitsuaki Katayama Trio “First Flight” (Studio Mule)
Studio Mule present a reissue of Mitsuaki Katayama Trio’s First Flight, originally issued in 1979 on Johnny’s Disk Record. Johnny’s Disk Record is an independent jazz label run by the owner of jazz cafe Kaiunbashi No Johnny, located in Rikuzentakata City in Iwate prefecture, Japan. The legendary label released a […]
Binker Golding & Elliot Galvin “Ex Nihilo” (Byrd Out)
Binker Golding (the sax in Binker and Moses) is “Coltranesque” according to John Fordham’s review of jazz in 2018 for The Guardian, and this record sees him forging a new partnership with Elliot Galvin, whose “technical brilliance is matched with a very British sense of eccentricity” (The Jazz Mann). “The […]
Moondog “Moondog & His Friends” (Primitiv)
Reissue on 180 gram vinyl of this 1953 album by this groundbreaking avant-garde musician.Moondog “Moondog & His Friends”
Gary Bartz “Music Is My Sanctuary” (Capitol)
A fine, soulful jazz-LP by Gary Bartz, originally dating back to 1977, is now BACK IN PRINT on vinyl. This reissue comes with reproduced artwork.
Horace Silver “Doin’ The Thing At The Village Gate” (Down at Dawn)
Down At Dawn present a reissue of Doin’ The Thing At The Village Gate, originally released in 1961. Doin’ The Thing At The Village Gate consists of a 1961 live recording featuring the great pianist and composer Horace Silver and his most acclaimed quintet with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, tenor saxophonist […]
Tony Branker “For The Child” (Out-Sider)
Out-Sider present the first ever vinyl reissue of Tony Branker’s For The Children, a spiritual/modal jazz private album from 1980, originally released on the US-based RPC custom label. Including top modal tracks like “Do Dat” or “Circles”, the terrific jazz-funk of “Unicorn”, and more. For The Children was written and produced by Anthony “Tony” […]
Various Artists “We Out Here” (Brownswood)
A primer on London’s bright-burning young jazz scene, this new compilation brings together a collection of some of its sharpest talents. A set of nine newly-recorded tracks, We Out Here captures a moment where genre markers matter less than raw, focused energy. Surveying the album’s running order, it could easily […]
Ambiance “Ebun” (High Jazz)
Ambiance’s first album released in 1979 on Da Mon Records, Los Angeles. Amazing private spiritual jazz-funk/fusion LP, now hard to find. Finally available again, fully licensed and remastered, with original artwork. This album is magnificent in its entirety, no fillers. Some of the best fusion on record!
Cloudmaker’s Trio “Traveling Pulse” (Whirlwind)
High quality, 180 gram, 12 2x Gatefold LP (3 sides of music – A, B, C, + etched D side with Whirlwind logo mark) – comes with download code containing the high-res digital album. Limited to 300 copies. Vibraphonist, drummer and composer Jim Harts Cloudmakers Trio – with double bassist […]
Wojtek Mazolewski “Polka” (Whirlwind)
Whirlwind announces the new release from bassist and composer Wojtek Mazolewski and his quintet: Polka Worldwide Deluxe Edition. Since the release of the full-length album Polka in 2014, the dynamic Polish bassist and his band have broken well beyond the jazz genre’s usual boundaries and have gained international recognition, effortlessly […]
Tony Tixier “Life Of Sensitive Creatures” (Whirlwind)
Inspired as much by Maurice Ravel and Art Tatum as Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett or Aydin Esen, pianist Tony Tixier’s debut piano trio release, ‘Life of Sensitive Creatures’, features his original work alongside inspired interpretations in a stimulating program which breathes beauty and ingenuity. Originally from France, Tony moved to […]
Cosmic Eye “Dream Sequence” (Roundtable)
Recorded in 1972 at the legendary Lansdowne Studios in London, Cosmic Eye is an extraordinary piece of recorded music. Led by Indian born guitarist Amancio D’Silva, Cosmic Eye was a highly innovative studio experiment in which ‘Jazz Meets World’. A meld of British modernist jazz and traditional Indian instrumentation cross-pollinating […]
Cesar Mariano & Cia. “São Paulo Brasil” (Mr. Bongo)
Cesar Camargo Mariano is a celebrated Brazilian jazz pianist, composer and producer, born in Sao Paulo in the 1940’s. He has played and worked with the likes of Elis Regina (to whom he was married at one point), Som Tres and Sambalanco Trio and still plays very regularly today. ‘Sao […]
Jah Gumby “Humility: The Vibes of Jah G” (Aloha Got Soul)
What happens when a young kid from Pālolo Valley starts collecting and trading hip hop tapes at age five, discovers Gregory Isaacs at age 12 (then buys every release Isaacs ever made), learns to play almost every instrument, forms a punk band with his friends at 15 (soon morphing into […]
Joe Mcphee “Nation Time” (Superior Viaduct)
“It’s been nearly five decades since Joe McPhee assembled a group of musicians to perform the weekend concerts that would become Nation Time, his debut LP. It was December 1970, thirty-one-year-old McPhee was inspired by Amiri Baraka’s poem ‘It’s Nation Time,’ and the students at Vassar College didn’t know what […]
Gary Chandler “Outlook” (Tidal Waves)
Gary Chandler (born in 1938) started playing professionally in 1960 in the thriving Columbus Ohio club scene with Hank Marr, Don Patterson and Benny Maupin. He worked in the Motown Revue from 1965-67 and led his own group for over a year. Over the following years Chandler joined joined the […]
Pharoah Sanders “Thembi” (Impulse!)
If you have to pick one Pharoah record, this is unquestionably that one, a textbook definition of spiritual jazz perfection, equal parts healing and challenging. I came to this album looking for a Photek sample and stuck around for the transcendental cosmic vibes, frolicking jazz-funk, stirring free jazz freakouts and thorny bass solo madness (Cecil […]
Judith Ravitz “Bolerio” (Be With)
Be With Records presents a reissue of Judith Ravitz’s Bolerio, originally issued in 1983. Galvanized by a passion for soul, jazz, funk, folk, and Brazilian samba, Bolerio brilliantly reimagines the music of the Brazilian legend Jorge Ben. Increasingly sought-after, housing as it does her seminal take on “Dia De Indio” — often re-edited and sampled, […]
The Lightmen Plus One “Energy Control Center” (Now-Again)
Double LP version, tip-on gatefold jacket. “Revolutionary, spiritual jazz from the unlikely city of Houston, Texas: the definitive issue, mastered from the original tapes. Bonus disc contains previously unreleased tracks. Drummer, bandleader and activist Bubbha Thomas had toured America with R&B revues, served as a session musician for Peacock and […]
Stuff Combe “Stuff Combe 5+ Percussion” (We Release Jazz)
180 gram vinyl, mastered at half speed; heavy cardboard old Stoughton tip-on sleeve with obi, sticker, and liner notes. We Release Jazz presents its fourth release, the first ever official reissue of 1974’s Stuff Combe 5 + Percussion, a hard-to-find soul jazz jewel from a cast of illustrious jazzmen led by […]
E.W. Wainwright Jr. “African Roots Of Jazz” (AROJ)
“This record literally came to us right thru our front door; a regular at the store brought us an intriguing looking LP that someone had given him at a flea market with the tag-line ‘One Man’s Struggle to Preserve the Heritage of his Culture.’ We dropped the needle on it […]
Moses Boyd “Displaced Diaspora” (Exodus)
Moses Boyd is at the forefront of the new British jazz scene having worked and recorded with like of Gilles Peterson, Four Tet, Sons Of Kemet, Zara McFarlane and more. Moses has established himself as one of the leaders in bringing the worlds of jazz and electronic music together. This […]
Pierre Favre Trio “Santana” (Be!)
This is a vibrant and exciting album, a lively document of early free music. Drummer Pierre Favre was interested in space and jagged rhythms at the time, with Irene Schweizer adding creative lyricism and Peter Kowald’s fat bass lines pulsing through the complex music. This is the first album in […]