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Soul, Reggae, Latin, Funk, Jazz, Soul & Funk, Reggae/Dub, World
This instalment follows on from our acclaimed ‘Volume One’ – Lauren Laverne’s ‘Compilation Of The Week’, supported by the likes of Disclosure, Horsemeat Disco, Hunee and Laurent Garnier. ‘Volume Two’ picks up where the last one left off — with a touch more soul and disco — records we’ve been...
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Soul, Reggae, Latin, Funk, Jazz, Soul & Funk, Reggae/Dub, World
Volume Three in the Mr Bongo Record club series. Another showcase of recent vinyl finds and favourites from our DJ sets and radio shows. This is an extra special one however, as it lands in 2019, the year that we celebrate 30 years since it all began way...
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At long last, after remaining out of print for decades, the Milan based imprint, Dialogo, dives into the legendary catalog of Cramps, bringing forth the first ever vinyl reissue of Steve Lacy’s LP, "Straws", issued as the sixth instalment of the label’s DIVerso series in 1977. Truly singular in the...
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The rarefied music of Ramuntcho Matta returns to Emotional Rescue with the first ever reissue of his album, 24 hrs. Recorded in 1986 – the same year as his influential Ecoute... – the album finds Matta working in a less playful, more experimental framework but with the same ground breaking...
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Years ago when Jeff and I were in a band together, I always insisted that our records could not have any liner notes. I was enthralled with the idea that imparting any information beyond the music itself was heresy. As if whatever the sound didn't convey needed to be left...
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Bobbi Humphrey was one of the most prominent stars on the Blue Note roster of the 1970s. The flutist debuted on the label in 1971 with Flute In the first in a run of six creative and highly enjoyable albums. On her breakout 1973 album Blacks and Blues, Humphrey hooked...
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Growing up, spending summers in Alabama, one of my favorite chores was feeding the pigs that were on my great Aunt Lola’s land. Sometimes while on the path to the feeding grounds, Aunt Lola and I would stand still and listen together. We would immediately become aware of winds approaching...
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This is the first ever reissue of the lost debut LP by Jamaican tenor saxophone player Fitz Gore and his experimental group The Talismen from 1975. The work was originally released on Gore’s GorBra label and delivers an introspective, sensitive form of Spiritual Jazz. Recorded live in West Germany, the...
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Irreversible Entanglements’ third full-length album OPEN THE GATES is ethereal shards of jagged onyx, a melancholic exploration of the post-colonial debris that surrounds us. Let’s watch and listen, as this platter snakes through the sandy ashes of possible histories, dialogs with a nervous present, and asks to be birthed into...
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Salute to the Sun: Live at Hallé St Peter’s documents a very special concert recorded at the iconic Manchester venue during lockdown.
Released in November 2020, Matthew’s Halsall’s Salute to the Sun was the trumpeter’s first album since 2015’s Into Forever and marked the debut of his new band. A hand-picked...
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First time Officially reissue. Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in a deluxe gatefold cover. Edition of 500 copies** The Milan based imprint, Dialogo, returns with the first ever vinyl reissue of Spirale’s lone, 1974 self-titled LP. Resting at a fascinating juncture between progressive and free jazz, it...
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Ajo Se Po is the third album by alto-saxophonist and percussionist Kevin Haynes, released with his band Grupo Elegua. The album integrates musical elements with references to his deepening spiritual understanding. Haynes has created a modal harmonic language incorporating Afro-Cuban melodies and classical kora playing - his alto-sax, infusing the...
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Foat & Hampshire is a collaboration between Warren Hampshire, multi-instrumentalist from The Bees and jazz pianist Greg Foat. ‘The Upturned Glass’ is their fifth album. The inspiration behind the album is a day in their hometown of Ventnor on the Isle Of Wight. The music includes performances by local musicians...
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Portico Quartet announce Monument, the electronic driven follow-up to their acclaimed ambient-minimalist suite Terrain, presenting the band at their most direct.
It's rare that a band releases two albums within six months of each other, rarer too that while both are so different, they are both as epochal in terms of...
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Following the critical acclaim of the 2020 compilation Pyramid Pieces, The Roundtable return with a second offering of modernist jazz from Australia. Another vital document further examining the nation's jazz scene during the late 1960s and 70s. A fertile period that witnessed the birth of an independent movement and the...
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Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come on 180g 45RPM 2LP from ORG Music
Revolutionary Album Marks Commencement of New Jazz Language
Quartet Includes Don Cherry and Charlie Haden
Remarkable Sonics: Mastered from the Original Master Tapes, This is THE Audiophile Edition of This World-Beater
1959s landscape-shifting The Shape of Jazz to Come...
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2021 restock. Recorded Live in Sweden in September 1961, the Uppsala Concert is an important document from Eric Dolphy's first Swedish tour as leader of an obscure but talented local quartet featuring Rony Johansson (piano), Kurt Lindgren (bass), and Rune Carlsson (drums). Master Dolphy shines, as always, on all his...
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This is the second volume from the historical Uppsala concert in September 1961. An important document from Eric Dolphy's first Swedish tour as leader of a local and yet ultra-dynamic quartet featuring Rony Johansson (piano), Kurt Lindgren (bass), and Rune Carlsson (drums). This second chapter consists of four long tracks...
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A3 artwork glued on reused sleeves, with dl code in sealed bag with hype sticker, individually numbered to 250 copies. First album from this Finnish jazz sextet collective, no limits is their slogan but categorize it as energetic free that branch out in modal/spiritual territory. Featuring two members from Oiro...
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Originally released in 1964 and now reissued on 180-GRAM VINYL, here is a classic album by Eumir Deodato, performing songs written by Antonio Carlos Jobim. This edition is mastered at 45rpm for the best possible sound!...
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Individually numbered to 350 copies. Silk pressed artwork on reused sleeves, comes with insert in sealed bag with hype sticker “Latest album from Oiro Pena, one of the few contemporary bands that are in the forefront of the current Spiritual Jazz wave. Instrumentalist Pentti Oironen at the controls of his...
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HMV record shop Shinjuku Alta 5th Anniversary Item
“Prayer”, “dawn”, “hunting”, “love” drawn with beautiful and exciting sounds. Akira Ishikawa runs through the land of Africa with both jazz and rock.
Akira Ishikawa’s three pillars of musicality, jazz, rock and African music, are fused in the best balance, and it is a...
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Charlie Parker blew into the world of jazz from Kansas City, and rose to fame in New York – but right from the start, he also left an impact on the scene in Los Angeles – where he recorded his famous Dial Records material, and also worked in some Jam...
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First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings is a thrilling previously unreleased live recording of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers captured at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo on January 14, 1961 during the band’s first-ever tour of Japan. The Jazz Messengers were among the first modern jazz groups to tour the...
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Following his 1968 Blue Note debut On Broadway, Hammond B3 organist Reuben Wilson returned to Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in March 1969 to record the follow-up Love Bug. This time out producer and Blue Note co-founder Francis Wolff put Wilson at the helm of a dynamic quintet with Lee Morgan...
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The Incredible Jimmy Smith was a self-taught keyboard virtuoso who gave up the piano in 1954 in favor of the Hammond B3 organ, setting up shop in a warehouse in Philadelphia and woodshedding for a year before emerging with a revolutionary approach to the instrument that immediately caught the ear...
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Recorded in 1968, Introducing Kenny Cox and The Contemporary Jazz Quintet was the debut album by this under-recognized Detroit band led by pianist Kenny Cox which featured trumpeter Charles Moore, tenor saxophonist Leon Henderson, bassist Ron Brooks, and drummer Danny Spencer. The band’s brand of post-bop was certainly influenced by the...
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Blue Note founder Alfred Lion considered pianist Herbie Nichols to be a composer who was as original and important as Thelonious Monk. Little-known in his time, recognition has grown in recent years for Nichols’ unique compositions like “The Third World,” “2300 Skidoo,” and “Step Tempest” which were presented on The...
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We are proud to introduce this new Superfly reissue, produced in collaboration with Universal Music Japan and Production Dessinee. Beautiful modern jazz album with modal and spiritual vibe all the way. This is a state-of-the-art quality repress with vintage Japanese quality touch, with obi and insert, strictly limited to 700 copies....
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Superfly reissue produced in collaboration with Universal Music Japan and Production Dessinee. Japanese modal jazz rarity originally released on Philips Japan in 1970. Dream line-up
(Yoshio Ikeda, Masabumi Kikuchi, George Ohtsuka) playing stunning compositions: this one is a must! Gatefold artwork to die for as well. State-ofthe-art repress with vintage Japanese...
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Omniverse, recorded in New York in 1979 and released that year on Sun Ra's Saturn label (catalog #91379), is a solid, overlooked set in the vast Ra canon. The tracks aren't so much compositions as excursions, with few memorable themes or recurring motifs. It's pure jazz, somewhat "inside" (for Ra),...
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In the years following World War Two, Japan developed one of the most insatiable, dynamic and diverse markets for jazz. For a crucial period of little over a decade – from the late 1960s to the early 1980s – Japanese jazz culture progressed at an astonishing rate, producing an extraordinary...
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A limited marble color edition of Promises.
A body of work that’s been half a decade in the making. A cohesion of three musical visionaries. A combination of elegance, subtlety and sophistication; where jazz, electronics and strings coalesce in a perfect union. ‘Promises: Chapter I’ is a collaborative record by electronic...
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Superb Disco Jazz Funk album Turn this Mutha Out, recorded from the Kudu label in 1977. ‘Could Heaven Ever Be Like This’ – a long-term favourite is like being momentarily transported to Jazz Funk paradise, a magical track that has become a classic. ‘Camby Bolongo’ is a delightful percussion heavy...
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Originally released on Deram in 1967, a great album by the dons of London's '60s experimental jazz scene (and Ronnie Scott's in house band) gets reissued on vinyl. This remastered edition is cut loud at 45rpm....
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Anti-Vietnam war jazz sessions, originally released in 1969, now reissued on vinyl remastered at 45rpm. This is the second of two volumes entitled 'Marching Song'....
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Anti-Vietnam war jazz sessions, originally released in 1969, now reissued on vinyl remastered at 45rpm. This is the first of two volumes entitled 'Marching Song'....
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Highlights of this 1968 LP include Mike Osborne's alto sax solo, linking 'Forever And A Day' and 'Loverman' and contrasted elsewhere by fellow alto soloist Bernie Living. Trombonists Paul Rutherford and Malcolm Griffiths blow mean solos of their own and there is wonderful bass underpinning from Brotherhood Of Breath member...
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2021 repress. If Conversations celebrates the memory, the artistic and spiritual heritage of bassist Fred Hopkins -- a historical member of the revolutionary Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians of Chicago -- who died in January 1999, it also marks the amazing collaboration between the Ritual Trio of Kahil...
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2021 repress. Aguirre Records present a reissue of Infinite Sound's Contemporary African-Amerikan Music. This is conscious free jazz featuring Roland P. Young, originally released in 1975 on the eclectic 1750 Arch records. "'1750 Arch was a beautiful Spanish-style hacienda,'recalls Young. 'It had a recording studio in the basement and the...
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Reaching a near-mythical status amongst fans of free jazz's most worldly intrepid explorer, these seldom heard Paris soundtrack sessions known as Music, Wisdom, Love have evaded collectors' grasps and confused historians for exactly 50 years. Instigated in Paris in 1967 and filmed during Don Cherry's downtime on a visit to...
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Doug Carn made four records for the Black Jazz label, more than any other artist, and each one topped the previous release's lofty standard. Adam's Apple was his last (1974) album for the label, representing the final note in his staggeringly creative crescendo. It was also the first record without...
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Bay Area jazz guitar legend Calvin Keys released his debut solo record, Shawn-Neeq, in 1971, and it remains one of the most beloved albums on the Black Jazz label. But that record was mere prelude for 1974"s Proceed with Caution; this time around, the arrangements were more complex, the instrumentation...
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Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had already led nine dates for Blue Note Records by the time he arrived at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on February 7, 1960 with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey, but on that day the quartet laid down what would become his...
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A chorus work that can be changed in any direction. A thrilling and drastic masterpiece created by the miracle encounter of Singers Three and Freedom Unity.
Singers Three, a chorus group formed in 1967 by Kayoko Ishu, Michiko Fujimura and Mayumi Fukuda. With his overwhelming ability and personality, he played in...
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Dos Santos is a quintet just 5 years working in Chicago but already established as one of the city’s most potent, impactful performers. A band known to be at home in a broad spectrum of venues and contexts – as proficient at nailing epic progressive arrangements for summer street festivals...
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The completely unknown debut album of Issam Hajali (Ferkat Al Ard) fuses jazz and folk with Arabic and Iranian influences into unique beauty. Originally released in a limited run of 75 cassette tape copies.
Issam Hajali might be most known for being the singer and main composer of the Lebanese band...
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Rogér Fakhr is a musician from Lebanon. He recorded these songs in the late 1970s in Beirut (and some during a brief exile in Paris). Some were circulated on hand copied cassettes among friends, others like "Had To Come Back Wet" were never released. His music effortlessly combines folk with...
