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From his earliest days in territory bands in the Southwest, Count Basie had a secret: How to make a collection of instrumentalists generate rhythmic thrust so irresistible that no listener's foot could remain motionless. Basie's swing was the opposite of tense. Relaxed is what it was, and powerful. Through five...
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One of the pieces on this album is called "The Blues Machine," which could stand as a description of the big band Count Basie operated for half a century. In the 1983 edition, Basie molded the talents of a mixture of veterans and relative youngsters to produce the immediately identifiable...
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Double LP version. Since 2008, Jazzman's Spiritual Jazz series has presented unlimited horizons. Each album celebrates the rich tradition of African-American songs based on the belief in a higher force than oneself and has also focused on geographical areas, such as Europe or Japan, thus recognizing that these territories have...
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This classic 1960 album by Mulligan, the Cool Jazz innovator, and Webster, the legendary Ellingtonian, is one for the ages. The tunes they recorded, from “Chelsea Bridge” to “Go Home”, are smooth, lush and emotional, driven along by a rhythm section of Jimmy Rowles, Leroy Vinnegar and Mel Lewis that...
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Wayne Shorter’s mesmerizing 1970 album Odyssey of Iska was the last release of the saxophonist’s early Blue Note period. The album was a tribute to his daughter Iska which found Shorter continuing his own unique explorations into fusion having just left Miles Davis to form his band Weather Report. This...
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Chicago's Black Diamond debuts on We Jazz Records with their new album Furniture Of the Mind Rearranging. Co-led by Artie Black and Hunter Diamond (composers, saxophones, and other woodwinds), Black Diamond appears in both quartet and duo formations. The first three album sides present the quartet, complete with long standing...
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MoonDial is a captivating album by the renowned jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, released by Modern Recordings. This album showcases Metheny's signature blend of intricate melodies, innovative harmonies, and masterful guitar work. Listeners are taken on a musical journey through ethereal soundscapes and dynamic rhythms that are both soothing and invigorating....
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In 1975, the New York City alto saxophonist Alan Braufman released his debut album, Valley of Search on the India Navigation label. Recorded at the now legendary 501 Canal St. loft, the album was heralded by Village Voice jazz critic Gray Giddins, who wrote, "These are the musicians who are...
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Gatefold packaging. Terumasa Hino is undoubtedly one of the most famous Japanese jazzmen. Learning the trumpet at the age of nine, he began his career as a professional musician by playing in the orchestra of an US Army base, before joining Hideo Shiraki's Quintet and then forming his own band...
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The Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra was created in 1971 by French free jazz pianist legend, François Tusques. "Free Jazz" was also the name of the 1965 recording Tusques made along with Michel Portal, François Jeanneau, Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin, and Charles Saudrais. Six years later, in 1971 Tusques would...
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The Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra was created in 1971 by French free jazz pianist legend, François Tusques. "Free Jazz" was also the name of the 1965 recording Tusques made along with Michel Portal, François Jeanneau, Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin, and Charles Saudrais. Six years later, in 1971 Tusques would...
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We are more than thrilled to share a second collection of deep grooves and unreleased songs from Algeria's Ahmed Malek sound track works with you. Ahmed Malek who has often been compared to Ennio Morricone recorded the majority of these songs in the 1970s and early 1980s. His first releases...
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BBE Music is thrilled to present J Jazz: Free and Modern Jazz From Japan 1954-1988, a remarkable large-format book covering some of the deepest, rarest, and most innovative jazz music released anywhere in the post-war era. Compiled by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden, co-curators of BBE Music's acclaimed J Jazz...
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Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital fuses biography and style history in order to illuminate the music of two jazz icons, while drawing on the discourses of photography and digital architecture to fashion musical insights that may not be available through the traditional...
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Recorded in 1956 for producer Tom Wilson’s Boston-based label Transition Records, Byrd Blows On Beacon Hill presented trumpeter Donald Byrd in a relaxed and intimate quartet setting with Doug Watkins on bass along with Boston area musicians Ray Santisi on piano and Jim Zitano on drums. This mono Tone Poet...
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Saxophonist Clifford Jordan blew in from Chicago in 1957 with a series of excellent Blue Note dates including Cliff Craft featuring Art Farmer on trumpet, Sonny Clark on piano, George Tucker on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums. The set included Jordan originals like the sublime ‘Laconia’ plus tunes by...
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The Magnificent Thad Jones is widely regarded as the greatest small group recording of the trumpeter and composer’s career. Following his Blue Note debut Detroit – New York Junction in March 1956, Jones returned to the studio in July to record this supremely swinging date with Billy Mitchell on tenor...
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180 Proof Records & BBE Music continue to bring new life to the Strata catalogue, this time with the short-lived label's swan song: Larry Nozero’s 1975 passion project, Time. The final album to be released on Strata Inc., Time is a dream- like mix of mood, an album full of...
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Bilal's first live album, featuring fan favorites like "Soul Sista," "Sometimes," and "Reminisce." Supergroup ensemble featuring Questlove, Common, and Robert Glasper. First commercially available recordings from Bilal's famous "Love For Sale" album that was shelved by Interscope: "Something To Hold" and "All For Love." Includes a live version of Common's...
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In a long and distinguished career Archie Shepp has made a number of important political statements, speaking out boldly on racial inequality and oppression in America, and Poem For Malcolm has pride of place in his discography. Recorded at the tailed of the 60s after the saxophonist had relocated to...
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Sonny Stitt led a number of excellent record dates in 1959, especially at the end of the year when he produced three LPs for Verve over a span of three sessions with pianist Lou Levy, bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Mel Lewis. Playing alto sax throughout this album, Stitt hardly...
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The band Dizzy Gillespie assembled for this date — Junior Mance, Les Spann, Sam Jones, and Lex Humphries — was for the most part a working band on the club & concert circuit, offering a mixture of Gillespie’s entertaining songs, established repertoire, & some Latin & African-influenced pieces. With them,...
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Oscar Peterson's Frank Sinatra tribute features his trio with bassist Ray Brown & drummer Ed Thigpen. The renditions are all under four minutes and are highlighted by "Come Dance with Me," "Just in Time," "I Get a Kick Out of You," and "How About You?" This is one of Oscar...
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Give Me The Night is the 1980 album by ten-time Grammy Award-winning American musician and singer-songwriter George Benson. Produced by Quincy Jones and originally released on Jones' start-up label Qwest Records, the album charted number one on both the Top Soul Albums and Jazz Albums Chart as well as number...
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Legendary producer and label owner Harvey Averne continues the Coco Records story with the essential The Sun Of Latin Music by Eddie Palmieri. Palmieri, younger brother of Charlie Palmieri, is an acclaimed pianist, composer and musical conjurer who has worked with the top exponents in Salsa and Cuban music for...
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Audiopile Review: Our Record of the Week is the debut self-titled offering from Finnish spiritual jazz outfit Ville Lähteenmäki Trio, which was initially issued last year on cassette via the Ultraääni Records imprint. For the past half decade, Ultraääni, run by the visual artist Arsi Keva, has been at the...
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Spiritual flute jazz by the mastermind Antti Vauhkonen. Artwork by Arsi Keva. Mastered by Samuli Tanner. Risoprinted cover art. ”Wow where did this come from??!? Raw and essential outsider jazz which will be whispered about for years to come…” -Matti Nives / We Jazz...
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A legendary concert by one of the great unrecorded bands in free jazz history is here at last. WEBO, the third installment in the Black Editions Archive series of previously unreleased recordings from Milford Graves' private tape library, roars into the station June 21, 2024. For the first time, Charles...
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Recorded at Munich’s Muffathalle twenty years ago, in September 2004, this previously-unreleased concert recording of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet is a fascinating document, capturing a developmental chapter in the music between the song forms of the Suspended Night repertoire and the improvised areas that the Polish musicians would explore on...
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On My Prophet, Oded Tzur together with his quartet of pianist Nitai Hershkovits, bassist Petros Klampanis and the new group member Cyrano Almeida on drums, continues on the idiosyncratic musical path he has carved out for himself – a flowing jazz idiom that seamlessly combines multiple forms of expression –,...
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Guitar explorer Nels Cline is best known these days as the lead guitarist in the band Wilco. His recording and performing career -- spanning jazz, rock, punk, and experimental -- is well into its fourth decade, with over 200 recordings, including at least 30 for which he is leader. Beyond...
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The Jazz Experiments Of Charles Mingus is a fairly obscure collaboration between Mingus and John LaPorta that contains both modern classical and cool jazz compositions plus Mingus' piano debut. This six-piece set is highlighted by fresh arrangements of "What Is This Thing Called Love" and "Stormy Weather." Recorded in 1954...
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Gatefold packaging. Le Tres Jazz Club can't really say that Japanese jazzmen benefit (not justify in fact) from a great international fame. However, trumpet player Terumasa Hino is an exception, undoubtedly because since the '70s he has collaborated with numerous American musicians: Gary Burton, Roy Haynes, Herbie Hancock -- on...
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Wewantsounds announces the reissue of Norio Maeda's cult classic Rock Communication Yagibushi, released in Japan in 1970. The album has since become a Japanese jazz funk cornerstone and is now highly sought-after on the international DJ scene. The album reinterprets 14 traditional Japanese folk songs into jaw-dropping jazz funk instrumentals...
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Audiopile Review: Comprised of the same group of musicians behind last year’s Gala!, Misha Panfilov’s Septet regroup for a luxurious sprawl on their new release for Funk Night. While Panfilov’s various other pursuits certainly have elements of jazz, the Septet is where he’s been able to explore this interest further....
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Audiopile Review: Tonal Union continues their incredible streak with this newest album from Ezra Feinberg, the multi-instrumentalist who had a brief run with post-rock outfit Piano Magic before forming the experimental prog-psych group Citay alongside Tim Green (Nation of Ulysses, The Fucking Champs). He went on to record a handful...
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Back in the first decade of this century, Build An Ark were one of the few groups to really carry forward the spiritual jazz legacy of the 70s – part of the same LA underground that rose up on Nimbus Records back in the day, and guided by the unstoppable...
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Trash Can Lamb is a new solo album from Akron, OH-based multi-instrumentalist Keith Freund. For the better part of twenty years, Freund has been producing intimate, shape-shifting music on his own and as part of collaborative projects such as Trouble Books, Lemon Quartet, and Aqueduct Ensemble. Here, he concocts a...
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Reissue of Mai Yamane's debut album in which Makoto Matsushita arranged all songs! Released in 1980, this work is Makoto Matsushita's first produced work. This is a city pop masterpiece of Mai Yamane, a talented female singer who later played a role in recording and live performances by Masaharu Fukuyama...
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The “Greatest Rock and Roll Band You Have Ever Heard”: Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, and Co. Merge Electric Fusion and Defiant Rock on the Funky, Freeing A Tribute to Jack Johnson Sourced from the Original Analog Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity’s Numbered-Edition 180g SuperVinyl 33RPM LP Presents 1971 Landmark in Exuberant,...
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Audiopile Review: Exciting album from the International Anthem camp, a freshly minted group revolving around heavily utilized players from within the always exciting LA jazz and improv scene. SML is made up of two members who played with Jeff Parker’s quartet on his bar-raising live LP, Mondays At The Enfield...
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Audiopile Review: Back to back slam dunks from Astigmatic Records, the debut album from Uniri follows quickly on from the EABS album we highlighted last week. Uniri is helmed by drummer Tim "Chiminyo" Doyle, a mainstay of the UK jazz scene who has been behind the kit for acts like...
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AudioNautes proudly offers this one-step limited edition version of Jazz At The Pawnshop, featuring the program as a 4LP 45 RPM recording. One of the most famous audiophile cult recordings, Jazz at the Pawnshop is widely regarded as a reference recording, one of the most natural-sounding live jazz reproductions of...
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An absolute must-have for every jazz collector! 180-gram mono 45 RPM double LP. Pressed at Quality Record Pressings. Tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jacket by Stoughton Printing. The Clown was Charles Mingus' second masterpiece in a row, featuring Jean Shepard (yes, that Jean Shepard from the holiday movie...
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Johnny Hodges was perhaps the most important soloist and sideman in Duke Ellington's orchestra for nearly 50 years. The self-taught player made many solo forays during his long career, including this 1958 session showcasing the great alto saxophonist backed by an all-star group including Ben Webster & Billy Strayhorn. Verve’s...
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John Wright’s 1960 debut album “South Side Soul” was originally released on the Prestige label and recorded at Van Gelder Studios. Along with Wright (piano), the album features Wendell Robert (bass) and Walter McCants (drums). This new edition of the album is released as part of the OJC Series and...
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Berlin's pre-eminent vocal ensemble A Song For You pioneers a new wave of choral music with their debut album Home. A Song For You are a groundbreaking vocal ensemble, uniting over 50 artists from all over the world, led by the visionary collaboration of Noah Slee and Dhanesh Jayaselan. The...
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For the next reissue in Mr Bongo’s Cuban Classics series, we look to Raúl Gómez’s entrancing 1977 Instrumental album. Presenting a unique blend of orchestral disco and jazz-funk, with Afro-Cuban flavours and soundtrack influences, it’s rich with drum breaks, energy and evolving compositions. A record that forever keeps you guessing,...
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