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Easily one of the most important records ever made, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme was his pinnacle studio outing that at once compiled all of his innovations from his past, spoke of his current deep spirituality, and also gave a glimpse into the next two-and-a-half years Utilizing the skills of the top mastering engineers and the... -
Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music radiates with beauty, compassion, and a belief that change is always possible He’s paved a unique path for himself—beginning his career with a series of jazz-inflected solo albums in the early 1970’s, he spent over 20 years as a beloved children’s television writer and performer (on... -
Multi-instrumentalist Jack Wyllie (Portico Quartet/Szun Waves) presents his project Paradise Cinema This album was recorded in Dakar, Senegal in collaboration with mbalax percussionists Khadim Mbaye (saba drums) and Tons Sambe (tama drums) 'Paradise Cinema' has an atmosphere which is vaporous and enigmatic, but also percussive;... -
Spiritmuse Records proudly presents ‘Kahil El’Zabar’s America the Beautiful’, a tour de force musical testament that speaks directly to the heart, mind and spirit Kahil El’Zabar composed, arranged and conducted ‘America the Beautiful’ to speak musically about the turbulent issues in America (and the world) today, as... -
This 1975 album is one of a kind in lots of ways First, it's keyboardist Roland Haynes' only album But more importantly, Second Wave has a sound'and line-up'unlike pretty much any other jazz fusion album to come out before or since Anchored by a fantastic rhythm section of Carl Burnett (Cal Tjader, Vince Guaraldi and most notably... -
At a time when soul-jazz was the zeitgeist when it came to jazz keyboards, musician/songwriter Larry Young bucked the reigning trends with his Hammond B-3 organ Young's style, which came about during the mid-to-late 1960s, was sharp, technical, and highly influenced by modal scales, standing in contrast to the breezier style that... -
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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 and Yosui Inoue!... -
A release of super entertaining library sounds from Italy, originally dating back to 1977, sees its first ever reissue This awesome collection, here available on 180-GRAM VINYL, comprises genres sa psychedelia, funk, blues, country and... -
“Bishop Norman Williams is an amazing musician He not only has command of his instrument and music, but a great spirit that reflects a knowledge and love of his people and what they give the world—the same spirit shared by Sachmo, Bird, and Trane Reign on, Bishop” — Michael Howell “Bishop Norman Williams is one of... -
This reissue of an LP cut for the Theresa label contains plenty of exciting music Percussionist Babatunde Lea takes stirring solos and constantly inspires the ensembles and soloists during a generally high-powered set The musicians were all based in San Francisco at the time, including guest soloists trumpeter Eddie Henderson... -
In May 2018, Jaimie Branch took up a month-long residency in the shipping container-turned-recording studio at Pioneer Works, an arts center down the street from her home in Red Hook, Brooklyn She called up Jason Nazary, and he rolled by the studio loaded with acoustic drums, electronic triggers, modular FX unit, synths,... -
Tip-on sleeve For every celebrated name in jazz, soul and related music, there are probably another 1000 musicians who had all the talent and potential but for whom widespread recognition remained elusive Roscoe Weathers is one such figure, a jazzman who earned his chops the hard way, a sideman in smoky clubs from Memphis to... -
12" vinyl reissue of the rare and infamous double-7", originally published by FMP in 1973 Recordings from a workshop at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, April 1972, featuring 15 children (aged 8-11) and Peter Brötzmann, Fred van Hove, Han... -
Wewantsounds reissue of Billy Brooks's much sought-after album Windows of the Mind, released in 1974 on Ray Charles's Crossover Records The album was co-produced by Charles and features such heavy players as Herman Riley, Calvin Keys, and Larry Gales There's not a huge amount of information to be found about trumpet player Billy... -
Some friends think that Shihab the man owes the balance of his soul to his beautiful Danish wife They may be right; for Eros is the very essence of what Shihab playsYet Eros is a god with many a face A tale of tender mournings Shihab's flute is telling in MAUVE - a piece that translates its title into delicately changing colors... -
Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation is the third in a trio of records by Andrew Wasylyk which unearth and reshape the landscape of Eastern Scotland as shimmering and inventive instrumental music Where Themes for Buildings and Spaces (2017) toured the architecture and industry of Dundee, evoking a place caught between decay... -
BACK IN PRINT ON DOUBLE-LP! Originally released in 2011, the third full-length by the groundbreaking experimental jazz collective is now available... -
Following on from the acclaimed Modern Jazz Dance Classics Volume One compilation (STAUB 148LP, 2019), Staubgold announce the arrival of Volume Two Again, selected by MJDC's very own Jeff The Fish, here is another collection of contemporary club jazz which will please jazz DJs everywhere The collection is eclectic and includes... -
Bristolian promoters Worm Disco Club have been championing South-Western talent since their inception in 2014 Having collaborated with Glastonbury Festival on their notorious "Wormhole" stage and hosted the likes of The Comet Is Coming, The Heliocentrics, and The Mauskovic Dance Band at their regular club night, the name has... -
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BACK IN PRINT! Seductive but perilous, this 2009 session featuring the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble under the Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation moniker combines drones and jazz, leading to a deep, dark and yet seductive trip This DOUBLE-LP comes with a thick glossy heavy gatefold...
Underdog Records reissues Martial Solal's album 'Locomotion' as an 180 gram coloured vinyl edition This groovy French jazz-funk and avantgarde album was originally released in 1974 on the PSI label RSD 2020...
A sought after 1967 jazz-LP, co-featuring Cream's Jack Bruce and drummer Jon Hisman, gets reissued on vinyl, remastered at 45rpm for maximum aural...
It was France which welcomed Omar Sharif's first feature films outside of Egypt ('Goha', 'La Chatelaine Du Liban') in the 1960s, which inspired numerous artists to start composing and producing a delirious amount of music combining Latin and Middle Eastern influences This style was catchy and tastefully arranged, and the genre's...
Jimmy Smith revolutionized the use of the Hammond B-3 organ in jazz during the mid-1950s Arguably his finest recorded moments came during the sessions he recorded with tenor saxophone giant Stanley Turrentine in the early 1960s which helped define soul jazzRecorded in 1963, Prayer Meetin’ is brimming with the kind of...
My Point of View is pianist & composer Herbie Hancock’s remarkably assured second album for Blue Note Featuring a program of Hancock compositions, this session from 1963 has a wondrous all-star cast: Donald Byrd on trumpet, Hank Mobley on tenor saxophone, Grachan Moncur III on trombone, Grant Green on guitar, Chuck Israels...Out of stock
#KingButch—hashtag proudly attached—is the title of Butcher Brown’s soon-to-be top-trending album, the eighth in the band’s up-from-the-roots legacy, and their first with Concord Records, on the Concord Jazz imprint The 13 tracks collectively represent a bold step forward for the 5-piece group from Richmond, Virginia...
Further Explorations documents hard-bop pioneer Horace Silver’s quintet featuring Art Farmer on trumpet, Clifford Jordan on tenor saxophone, Teddy Kotick on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums One can always expect a Horace Silver date to groove, but this session from January 1958 is particularly inspired, with the pianist penning...
"Tenderlonious returns to his own 22a imprint with a brand new collection of lo-fi beats and soundscapes courtesy of the lockdown studio sessions from his home in South London Lockdown allowed Tender to escape from his busy lifestyle and touring schedule, finally giving him the time to properly explore and experiment with the vast...
Mad About Records present the first official worldwide reissue of Luis Carlos Vinhas's O Som Psicodelico, originally released in 1968 O Som Psicodelico is an all-time classic and a landmark in Brazilian music Psychedelic bossa jazz Pianist from Rio de Janeiro, he started playing at night in the late 1950s, quickly participating in...
Reissue Recorded in 1957 and released on the Prestige label, The Sounds Of Yusef features Yusef Lateef's quintet with Wilbur Harden (flugelhorn), Hugh Lawson (piano), Ernie Farrow (bass), and Oliver Jackson (drums) Lateef's aesthetic was a perfect mixture of hard-driving jazz and a variety of ethnic materials Even though if...Out of stock
On October 14th 1989, Horace Tapscott, founder of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, performed alongside his close friend and musical partner Michael Session at the Théâtre du Chêne Noir in Avignon, France This was during a tour in which they traveled across Europe The duo presented compositions by Leimert Park musicians...Out of stock
Baast returns with a follow-up to their cosmic jazz funk opus “Dimensions”, with another set of esoteric “Kosmiche Musik” on their new offering “Bazaar” Channeling the same energy filtered through a more “worldly” vibe, the heavy focus is on polyrhythmic percussion producing a decidedly Middle Eastern flavor in a...
Ambrose Akinmusire follows his acclaimed, genre-busting best-of-2018 manifesto "Origami Harvest" with another visionary statement on his new album "on the tender spot of every calloused moment," which finds the trumpeter examining blackness on an uncompromising set of modern jazz laced with a heavy feeling of the blues The album...
Bassist, composer, arranger, and film scorer Jorge López Ruiz was the living embodiment of Argentine jazz history This recording, which was done in 1967 with a big band led by López Ruiz, represents a monumental work in Argentine jazz The work is a concept album that takes a critical stance on the chaotic political situation...
Melvin Sparks (1946–2011) was a talented American Soul Jazz, Hard Bop, Blues and Funk guitarist The Texas native picked up a guitar at age 11 and was only 13 when he sat in with BB King As a high school student he first joined Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, and then the Upsetters (a touring band formed by Little Richard,...Out of stock
When Mildlife’s debut album, Phase, was released in 2018 it didn’t so much explode on to the scene as ooze Their mellifluous mix of jazz, krautrock and, perhaps more pertinently, demon grooves, was the word of mouth sensation of that year among open-minded DJs and diggers searching for the perfect beat Their emergence was...
“Palo Alto” is a previously unknown + unreleased live Thelonious Monk recording After the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr in 1968, racial tensions across the country rose Palo Alto, a largely white college town in California, was not immune to the events of the day Danny Scher, a rising junior at Palo Alto High...Out of stock
A legendary show from the Miles Davis Group recorded from SWR in Germany in 1971, and featuring a breath-taking line-up including no less than Keith Jarrett on electric piano and organ Live at Berliner Jazztage in Berlin on November 6,...
Black Editions present a reissue of Kazuo Imai's far and wee, originally released in 2004 Kazuo Imai is one of the few artists to traverse both Japan's early avant-garde and free jazz movements Though he began performing in the 1970s, his 2004 PSF album far and wee was only the second under his name In a series of thrilling...Out of stock
A remastered, deluxe 2 disc set with the original album plus a bonus disc of alternate takes and versions – including rehearsal and incomplete tracks, as well as false starts – only previously included in The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane boxed...
Following their award-winning collaboration with Ethio jazz Godfather Mulatu Astake (Mojo magazine Top 50 of the year 2009, Sunday Time World Album of the Year), pioneering UK collective The Heliocentrics resurfaces alongside another fascinating jazz enigma, ethno-musicologist, jazz maestro and multi-instrumental, Lloyd...
Laurence Pike continues in a rich creative vein with the release of Prophecy, his third solo album in as many years Inspired to write and record in response to the evastating wild fires in his native Australia, the percussionist, composer and producer has created a work for our times Adopting the working formula of ‘one take’...
An addendum to Makaya McCraven's critically-lauded 2018 release, the "Universal Beings E&F Sides" presents fourteen new pieces of organic beat music cut from the original sessions, prepared and produced by Makaya as a soundtrack to the "Universal Beings" documentary...
As purportedly the first Black-owned jazz imprint since the ‘20s, the Black Jazz label had its roots in the Black Power movement of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s But not every album on the label had a social message Kellee Patterson’s Maiden Voyage was simply an extremely tasteful, mellow jazz vocal album, recorded with the...
In late 2018, long-time collaborators Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson flew to Chicago to participate in the album release performance of Makaya McCraven’s Universal Beings The night afterward, International Anthem hosted a performance for the duo at our Chicago HQ At the conclusion of their 44-minute improvised set...Out of stock
As others have noted, this album occupies a unique place in the Bill Evans discography It's the only album to document drummer Jack deJohnette's too-short stay in the trio The trio's performance on this album won them the 1969 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group By the time this set was recorded, live...
Originally released in March 1964, this collaboration between saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist Joao Gilberto came at seemingly the end of the bossa nova craze Getz himself had sparked in 1962 with Jazz Samba, his release with American guitarist Charlie Byrd Jazz Samba remains the only jazz album to reach number one in the pop...
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson is a brilliant undertaking in which Verve's legendary "house pianist" encountered one of jazz's most revered giants Backed by the Oscar Peterson Trio - bassist Ray Brown, guitarist Herb Ellis and frequent fourth member Louis Bellson on drums -...
