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“The Sojourner” was released on Strata-East in 1974 and is well known as one of the label’s rarest recordings Most tracks are focused on a soaring, spiritual groove, and some of them expressed their soulfulness The last track “Peace (Salaam)” could be the most impressive tune on the album, having a very warm and... -
Obscure 1970 deep English funk Very similar to Cymande and... -
John Hicks (1941-2006) gave much to jazz over several decades but never really received the appreciation he so richly deserved As a pianist, he proved himself in the Art Blakey and Betty Carter universities He was also the prototypical musician’s musician, a first-call pianist for many jazz greats and a magnificent accompanist... -
Returning after their Last Transmission collaborative album with Melvin Van Peebles, the Heliocentrics finish off their trawl through the vaults of tracks recorded at their old digs – Quatermass Studios – with psychedelic tinged funk and jazz instrumentals Rolling Stone describes as “sprawling, with percussive patterns... -
"Looking at the world in which we live, I was often haunted by feelings of powerlessness and disillusionment How could it be, that the force of destruction seems to cast a shadow over the beauty and universal creativity of our interconnected race How can a single human turn things around so that we live the dignified life we so... -
A long-awaited reissue for many rare groove fans Billy Wooten And Special Friends, featuring Steve Weakley (FUNK INC), was issued in 1979 P-Vine reissued it as CD & LP in 2007 and the edition is highly recommended by collectors It made sense to repress the album as a limited pressing vinyl with... -
When Cobb’s Corner nightclub owner Henry Normile was murdered, followed by the in-street shooting and death of Eddie Jefferson, the heart of the Detroit jazz scene was ripped apart Through the advent of the Labor Day Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festivals starting in 1980, things picked back up measurably, but the club scene has... -
Olli Ahvenlahti is a Finnish pianist, composer and conductor, born in Helsinki, Finland in 1949 A pianist, composer and conductor, Ahvenlahti has been one of leading Finnish Jazz artists since the 70s He has recorded with several artists and groups including UMO Jazz Orchestra (1977-1982) He went on to become conductor for... -
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The Waiting Game was the unsung tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks' final album, recorded in 1961 and released in '99 Joined here by Johnny Coles (trumpet), Kenny Drew (piano), Wilbur Ware (bass) & Philly Joe Jones (drums) Brooks penned five tracks, showcasing his unique compositional talent Highlights include the opener "Talkin'... -
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The high-spirited soloing of trumpeter Donald Byrd and tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley on “Ghana”—the opening track of Byrd In Flight—lets listeners know that they are in for an exceptional musical experience In addition to Mobley, Byrd is joined by Jackie Mclean on alto saxophone, Duke Pearson on piano, bassists Doug... -
Axioms are essentially postulates from which an abstractly defined structure is based, a statement or proposition which is regarded as self-evidently true…Axioms serve as starting points for further reasoning and arguments It’s difficult to find a more appropriate correlative to Jazz and Expansive Music Stretch Music,... -
Jazz Is Dead falls deeper down the rabbit hole of unsung greats with the fifth release of this on-going series Helmed as always by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, the tragically overlooked hero of Jazz Is Dead 005 is Doug Carn, who first rose to prominence in the 1970s, pioneering fusion and funk as he went Known primarily... -
Drift Up To Space is AMBIANCE’s second album released in 1980 on Da Mon Records, Los Angeles Sublime from the beginning to the end, it has become a sought-after collector’s item Some of the best fusion on record! "Influenced by the modal jazz of John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner and Rahsaan Roland Kirk,... -
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The third album from London-based multi-instrumentalist, Robohands ‘Shapes’ fuses elements of jazz, krautrock, hip hop and ambient music For fans of Khruangbin, Yusef Dayes, CAN, Coltrane and 70s library music moods Shapes is the solo project of London based composer, instrumentalist and producer Andy Baxter His debut LP... -
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Double LP version Gatefold sleeve Welcome to the second instalment of Colin Curtis's Jazz Dance Fusion compilation series for Z Records Curtis looks back into the story and history of the UK jazz dance and jazz music scene; a movement that started, according to Curtis, back in the '70s The sounds of funk and soul mixed with jazz,... -
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Multidisciplinary abstractivist Rob Mazurek has made an indelible impact on creative music over the past 30 years Emerging from the musical nexus of the 1990s Chicago scene, he's written more than 400 compositions and is featured on more than 70 recordings (including International Anthem's very first, IARC0001, Alternate Moon... -
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January 12th, 2020, a Sunday night in Toronto - Matthew Tavares and Leland Whitty (of BADBADNOTGOOD fame) are reunited at Burdock for a live improvised Jazz session The pair are joined on stage by bassist Julian Anderson - Bowes and drummer Matt Chalmers as part of Burdock’s Piano Fest, an annual event at the city's brewery and... -
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"Joshua Abrams' Cloud Script - Cloud Script - Joshua Abrams (double bass), Ari Brown (tenor saxophone), Jeff Parker (guitar), Gerald Cleaver... -
In April 2019, 22a boss and multi-instrumentalist, Tenderlonious embarked on a trip to Pakistan to work with Lahore based instrumental quartet, Jaubi Following on from the highly acclaimed, three track limited edition 10” vinyl release of ‘Tender in Lahore’ earlier this year, 22a presents the full suite of improvised ragas... -
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The jazz world lost a true legend when bassist Cleveland Eaton passed away in the Summer of 2020 This 1975 album, one of the real gems in the hallowed Black Jazz label catalog, takes the full measure of the man Cleve recorded Plenty Good Eaton right after he left Ramsey Lewis' band, with whom he recorded a grand total of 17 (!)... -
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Composer, trumpeter, producer, DJ and founder of Gondwana Records, Matthew Halsall has always worn many hats But at the heart of everything that he does Halsall is first and foremost an artist and a musician A trumpeter whose unflashy, soulful playing radiates a thoughtful beauty and a composer and band-leader who has created his... -
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Given that keyboardist and producer Kamaal Williams' 2018 debut album "The Return" was such a rip-roaring success critically and commercially, hopes are naturally sky-high for this delayed sequel Happily, we can confirm that Williams has arguably excelled himself on "Wu Hen", once again blurring the boundaries between jazz-funk,... -
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Devin Brahja Waldman is a New York saxophonist, drummer, synthesizer player and composer who leads the band BRAHJA, whose sixth album was released by the Estonian label RR GEMS in 2019, and here is a new pressing Waldman has accompanied his aunt, poet Anne Waldman, since the age of ten He has performed with Patti Smith, William... -
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In 2014, Vels Trio entered the UK jazz-fusion echelons with breakout EP Yellow Ochre Conjuring the spirit of old greats and modern innovators like Pat Metheny and Robert Glasper, the trio captured the underground audience whilst inaugurating themselves into the headier jazz foray With a feature from the mighty Shabaka Hutchings... -
Her best work yet A 90-minute minimalist piece featuring cello &... -
Café Türk are an inimitable Turkish-Swiss band formed in the 1980s, whose genre-bending sonic palette draws from Anatolia, the Caucasus, and Western Europe The group's frantic trajectory connects Switzerland and the Turkish city of Kars with a background story as rich and unexpected as their sound After three decades since they... -
Mad About Records present the first worldwide reissue of Guilherme Coutinho E O Grupo Stalo's self-titled album, originally released in 1978 Guilherme Coutinho started playing at the age of five and, at the age of seventeen, he was already part of Os Mocorongos and Os Iguanos, both as an amateur But he soon became a group leader,... -
Soul Note Vinyl present a reissue of Bill Dixon's In Italy - Volume One, originally released in 1980 Bill Dixon one of the great visionary composers and improvisers in modern creative jazz, In Italy - Volume One was recorded in Milan in 1980 and released on Soul Note A wide-open tapestry and a rare example of open interaction... -
Mad About Records presents a reissue of Joe Gallardo & Sol's Sol, originally released in 1975 Sol is a Latin-funk psych fuzz blaster that basically covers all the realms of rare record collecting in one shot There's the funk fuzz blaster "Maranatha" or the Ray Barretto Latin jazz groove cut "El Que Se Fue" with freaky synth... -
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Never released outside South Africa since its original release in 1974, Outernational Sounds presents one of the most sought-after international jazz exclusives ever to appear on South Africa's famous Gallo imprint: the funky, spiritual and outward bound Habiba Limited, fully licensed vinyl reissue of a lost modal classic by... -
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Hot on the heels of ‘Mordechai’, the critically acclaimed third album from US psych-rockers Khruangbin, the Texas trio are set to become the latest act to present their own LateNightTales in the popular, long-running musician-curated album series Having first come to prominence in 2013 when producer and DJ Bonobo included... -
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Lee Morgan’s magnum opus The Sidewinder—recorded in 1963 and release in 1964—was both a comeback and a coronation The prodigious trumpeter had debuted on Blue Note in 1956 at the age of 18, but personal problems in the early-60s forced him off the scene temporarily His rebound recording turned out to be The Sidewinder, an... -
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On his second Blue Note album Tender Moments, pianist and composer McCoy Tyner explored the colors and textures available in a nonet setting with some of the finest musicians of the time: Lee Morgan on trumpet, Julian Priester on trombone, Bennie Maupin on tenor saxophone, James Spaulding on alto saxophone and flute, Bob Northern... -
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We Are Busy Bodies is excited to announce a limited edition Canadian reissue of saxophonist Winston 'Mankunku' Ngozi's 1968 masterpiece Yakhal'inkomo Remastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel from the original 1/4 master tapes, Yakhal'Inkomo is a truly essential jazz recording of the South African apartheid era Mankunku's... -
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In 1967, pianist McCoy Tyner was ready for a new start He had left the seminal John Coltrane Quartet two years prior and moved on from Coltrane’s label Impulse! Records, as well With his Blue Note debut The Real McCoy, he made his masterpiece and firmly established himself as a creative force of his own Featuring a world class... -
Love for Atmosfear was born out of the underground UK dance scene of the early 1980s; from nightclubs, pirate radio shows and soul weekenders A localised scene that went on to have a global influence The band’s most notable track ‘Dancing in Outer Space’ is a certified classic It was a chart hit in the UK and was also... -
A collaborative mini-LP Richard Swift and Lonnie Holley This 5-song collaboration between artist Lonnie Holley and the late visionary producer Richard Swift is a tribute to urgent, raw, American art — from Howlin’ Wolf to Captain Beefheart, from Cecil Taylor to Bo Diddley The songs pulse with anger, hope, energy and a... -
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Kai Alcé’s reinterprets works by modern jazz dons in a breezy, bustling deep house style, backed with an ace Thundercat dub On disc 1, Alcé resets the modal jazz vibes of Kamasi Washington’s ‘Aksim’ to a twinkle-toed deep house hustle, while the flip sees him underline vibes from Gregory Porter’s ‘On My Way To... -
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Tara Clerkin Trio present their self titled debut LP on Laura Lies In Similar to that directorial effect of filming at double speed and then slowing down for playback, the record ambles with assurance, expertly paced Opening with a jovial cacophony before the beatific ‘in the room’ confidently relieves, washing away any... -
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South Africa’s lost jazz history contains many an overlooked classic But even within that hidden tradition, there are few albums that suffered such an unlucky fate as Spring, the monumental 1968 debut album by pianist Ibrahim Khalil Shihab, formerly Chris Schilder Though Shihab was only twenty-two when Spring was recorded, he... -
In 1970, nine years after leaving the United States to study music in Canada, Beverly Glenn-Copeland released two self-titled albums Both were a stunning showcase of classical and jazz accummen, layered with poetry and accompanied by some of the best players of the time Original pressings now fetch thousands of dollars Live At... -
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Nowadays Arica exists only as the ‘Arica Institute’, a school of spiritual development formed and led by Chilean mystic Oscar Ichazo…however, the collective also produced several musical albums in the US (presumably to increase awareness of the school), this resulted in the release of four totally eclectic masterpieces:... -
Death Waltz Originals is proud to be the home for Academy Award-winning composer Michael Giacchino’s debut non-soundtrack album A masterfully constructed concept album titled Travelogue Volume 1 TRAVELOGUE VOL 1 by Michael Giacchino and his Nouvelle Modernica Orchestra takes the listener into a journey of both space and... -
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cEnrique Rodríguez and the Negra Chiway Band group have an instantly powerful and unique sound that is reminiscent of the ensembles of Sun Ra and his Arkestra as well as Horace Tapscott and his Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, one that channels the righteous spirits of Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and... -
The long-awaited reissue of rare Eastern and psychedelic Jazz LP by the famous Hungarian guitarist, originally released in 1968 The first time, extended Edition with 2 bonus tracks: radio version of Fire Dance / Ferris Wheel from single 7” 1969 Deluxe 8-sided Digipak CD and Gatefold Vinyl come with long, exclusively... -
This is the 1973 solo album by Ghanaian percussionist Anthony Kwaku Bah, who was given the nickname “Reebop” by American jazz legend Dizzie Gillespie He passed away early at the age of 39 in Stockholm in 1983, but before made himself a name for his works with UK 70s rock heroes Traffic and German Krautrockers Can, amongst... -
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Born amidst the gathering of enslaved Africans in New Orleans’ Congo Square, and nurtured in nightclubs, and festivals around the world, jazz is by nature a public, social music For Harlem-based harp and bass duo Brandee Younger and Dezron Douglas, Covid-19 and the lockdown of public spaces challenged them to find a way to... -
Record Kicks reissues mythical Calibro 35's third album "Ogni Riferimento A Persone Esistenti O A Fatti Realmente Accaduti È Puramente Casuale" sampled by Dr Dre in "Compton" on limited edition Gatefold LP and Digital Deluxe Edition Completing the trilogy of Calibro 35's reissues, RK presents "Any Resemblance To Real Persons...
