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Release: 1960 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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East Broadway Run Down Acoustic Sounds

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Sonny Rollins

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Intensity Limited Contemporary Records

Art Pepper

LP | 1963 | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1963 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At The Renaissance Limitedcontemporary Records

Ben Webster

LP | 1960 | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1960 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cannonball Adderley / Bill Evans

Know What I Mean Original Jazz Classic Series

LP | 1961 | Reissue (Concord)

Release: 1961 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jimmy Smith / Wes Montgomery

Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo

LP | 1966 | US | Reissue (Anagram Music)

38,94 €* 40,99 € -5%

Release: 1966 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Freddie Hubbard

Hub-Tones

37,99 €*

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Kenny Dorham

Una Mas

37,99 €*

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Hampton Hawes

For Real

37,99 €*

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Sorcerer Verve By Request Edition

Gabor Szabo

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This 1967 set, recorded live at Boston’s Jazz Workshop, showcases virtuoso guitarist Szabó—a veteran of Chico Hamilton’s and Charles Lloyd’s bands—at the top of his game on a diverse program featuring standards (“What Is This Thing Called Love”) and pop hits (“The Beat Goes On”) as well as the original and psychedelic-tinged jam, “Space.”

Verve BY Request Series: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, gatefold sleeve.

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LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Impulse!)

Coltrane

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Alegre)

The Alegre All Stars

The Modern Jazz Quartet With Laurindo Almeida

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Taped spines. Writing on cover. US reissue.

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Collaboration

LP | 1964 | JP | Original (Philips)

LP | 1964 | JP | Original (Capitol)

Release: 1964 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Cover and vinyl are close to NM. OBI is missing.

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Sue Raney

All By Myself

Release: 1964 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Promo copy. With OBI and insert. Tiny wear. Japanese reissue.

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"Live" At The Village Vanguard

LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Impulse!)

A Jackson In Your House Orange Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

1971 US stereo reissue.

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Art Ensemble Of Chicago

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Jackson In Your House Colored Vinyl Edition

Art Ensemble Of Chicago

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Spanky Wilson

Spankin' Brand New

LP | 1965 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1969 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The album that started it all! Spanky Wilson’s legendary debut from Mother’s Records saw Philadelphia’s soon to be soul diva teaming up with legendary producer/arranger H.B. Barnum to deliver a killer 11-track LP! From the opening notes of “You’re Gonna Miss Me”, to the final fading chimes of “The Last Day of Summer”, Spanky Wilson’s beautiful voice is always on full display. Despite the fullness of her voice, there’s a surprising tenderness - undercutting soulful funky numbers with an element of emotionality unlike anything her peers would ever put out. As Spanky’s voice soars, her backing band, at times as sparse as a single piano, and at times as full as a big band, is always tight, giving Spanky plenty of room to shine while showing off their own immense talents. Don’t miss the album that started it all for legendary soul diva Spanky Wilson, now available on limited edition vinyl with a special Japanese Obi-strip!

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Eddie Harris

The In Sound

These Are My Roots - Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly

Release: 1965 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London

This is one of Eddie Harris' great records. The playing is inspired! What a band! Cedar Walton (piano) and Billy Higgins (drums), Lee Morgan's favourite rhythm section. The underrated but popular tenor saxophonist introduces his "Freedom Jazz Dance," which would become a jazz standard after featuring on Miles Davis' album Miles Smiles. Plays one of the earlier versions of "The Shadow of Your Smile," romps on "Love for Sale" and "'S Wonderful," and also performs "Born to Be Blue" and his own "Cryin' Blues." Harris is heard in prime form in a quartet/quintet with pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Billy Higgins, and part-time trumpeter Ray Codrington. A gem. - Scott Yanow/AMG

Recorded 1965
Engineer – Tom Dowd

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Clifford Jordan

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Atlantic)

LP | 1965 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London

Clifford Jordan hailed from Chicago, hometown of hard-driving, so-called ‘tough tenorists’ like Gene Ammons and Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis. While Jordan shared their unnerving bravado, his tone is different, an alluring tone, simultaneously rough around the edges and ephemeral. A sought-after sideman, Jordan recorded with stalwarts as Lee Morgan and Max Roach in the late fifties and early sixties, as well as a series of high standard solo albums. Like age matures wine, Jordan’s style ripened in the early seventies, his lines becoming fluent like ripples of lake water. Jordan kept recording and performing steadily until his death in 1993.

Maybe this album, filled with interpretations of such classic tunes as Take This Hammer and Goodnight Irene, is not such a surprise act after all. The preceding year, Jordan had been part of Charles Mingus’ outfit (appearing on the hi-voltage live album Right Now: Live At The Jazz Workshop) Musical gobbler Mingus’ unfazed search for new vistas while retaining an all-embracing sense of the past’s relevance and blend of harmonic finesse with unbridled juke joint tumult surely rubbed off on Jordan.

Da Gray Goose is one of the cases in point. Tasteful harmony over the stop-time theme kicks it into action, strongly plucked bass and fiery drums inspire the soloists, creating an atmosphere of abandon. Lusty shout choruses stoke up the fire as the tune progresses. There are also some, yes, virtuoso banjo parts.

The gloomy folk blues music of Huddie ‘Leadbelly’ Ledbetter, whose life story reads like a combined effort of Shakespeare and James Baldwin, including oppression, hardship, addiction, treachery, murder and prison life, is excellently cast in a jazz frame. But not too jazzy, often the sound of Jordan’s top-notch group is as tough-as-nails as the sound of any one group that enlivened the back alley bars way back when. Jordan’s unpredictable phrasing overcomes the restrictions of the rigid folk blues form.

Craftily uncrafted, These Are My Roots is a spirited album of earnest, raw and ebullient swing.

Recorded on February 1 & 17, 1965 in NYC

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Sarah Vaughan

Sarah +2

Release: 1965 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Clark Terry & Orchestra Feat. Paul Gonsalves

Clark Terry And His Orchestra

LP | 1960 | US | Reissue (Sam)

Release: 1960 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Charles Lloyd Quartet

Love-In

LP | 1967 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

LP | 1964 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1967 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Four-and-a-half decades after the event, saxophonist Charles Lloyd's "Love-In", recorded live at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium in 1967, the counterculture's West Coast music hub, endures as much as an archaeological artifact as a musical document. From sleeve designer Stanislaw Zagorski's treatment of Rolling Stone photographer Jim Marshall's cover shot, through the album title and some of the track titles ("Tribal Dance", "Temple Bells"), and the inclusion of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's "Here There And Everywhere", "Love-In's" semiology reeks of the acid-drenched zeitgeist of the mid 1960s, a time when creative music flourished, and rock fans were prepared to embrace jazz, provided the musicians did not come on like their parents: juicers dressed in sharp suits exuding cynicism.
It is likely that more joints were rolled on "Love-In's" cover than that of any other jazz LP of the era, with the possible exception of saxophonists John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" (Impulse!, 1965) and Pharoah Sanders's "Tauhid" (Impulse!, 1967). Chet Helms, a key mover and shaker in the West Coast counterculture, spoke for many when he hailed the Lloyd quartet as »the first psychedelic jazz group«.
It is to Lloyd's credit that, at least in the early stages of his adoption by the counterculture, he resisted dumbing down his music. The adoption stemmed from Lloyd's espoused attitude to society, his media savvy, his sartorial style and his sheer nerve in playing jazz in the temples of rock culture. He took the quartet into the Fillmore West three years before trumpeter Miles Davis took his into the Fillmore East.
So "Love-In" comes with a load of baggage, some of it less than fragrant. But as 45 minutes of music, it still has legs. Lloyd's vocalized tenor (and flute on two tracks) has Coltrane-derived muscle; the young Jarrett's lyrical and funky solos, particularly on his 07:55 showcase, the gospel-ish "Sunday Morning", his two featured originals ("Sunday Morning" and the soul jazz-ish "Is It Really the Same?"), and his playing the strings of the piano directly with his hands, all remain compelling; McClure and DeJohnette are solid and inventive.

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Modern Jazz Quartet

The Sheriff

Release: 1964 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1966 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Charles Lloyd

Dream Weaver

The Wonderful World Of Jazz

Release: 1966 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The first studio date of the Charles Lloyd Quartet, with Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee, and Jack DeJohnette, was recorded and released just a few days before the band took both the European and American festival circuits by storm. First came Europe, which was just getting the disc as the band was tearing up its stages. While the live dates are now the stuff of legend, it's easy to overlook the recordings, but to do so would be a mistake. "Dream Weaver" is a fully realized project by a band -- a real band -- in which each member has a unique part of the whole to contribute. Jarrett's unusual piano style fits musically with Lloyd's lyricism in a way that it shouldn't. Jarrett was even then an iconoclast, playing harmonic figures from the inside out and relying on counterpoint to create new spaces, not fill them in. (Just listen to "Autumn Sequence", where his solos and his backing harmonics are equally strident and inventive as Lloyd's Eastern explorations of mood and mode.) And then there's the rhythm section of McBee and DeJohnette, whose modal inventions on the intervals make the "Dream Weaver" suite an exercise in open time, allowing all players to wander around inside it and take what they want out. The set closes with a group party jam on "Sombrero Sam", with Lloyd and Jarrett trading eights on a Cuban variation on a fantasia. There were no records like this one by new groups in 1966.

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John Lewis

LP | 1960 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1960 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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There is nothing hurried about this disc. That said, the music is focused and will stretch your mind. Lewis employed masterful melodic improvisers here: Paul Gonsalves, Eric Dolphy, Jim Hall among others. Listen to "Body And Soul" as it builds powerfully and the soloists explore every possible melodic theme, where the quiet power of these master musicians is almost too much to take. Listen to "I Remember Clifford" where the players are essentially the MJQ with Jim Hall replacing Milt Jackson. This set swings, but oh-so-elegantly. Just like Mr. Lewis.
S.C.Berry
Whether you're an old-time jazz afficionado or new to the genre, this album is essential. In my opinion, Lewis' lovely solo on "Body & Soul" makes his version virtually definitive - 15 minutes of bliss. The rest of the album, particularly "Afternoon In Paris", is at the same level. "Wonderful" is the perfect title for this record.
E Barrios

Recording: July and September 1960
Production: Nesuhi Ertegun & Tom Dowd

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2LP | 1965 | WW | Reissue (BYG)

A Love Supreme

Release: 1965 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Space Flight Verve By Request Edition

Sam Lazar

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra, Lennie Tristano Sextet

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Space Flight" was the debut recording by the mysterious organist Sam Lazar, who disappeared from the music scene after just a few recordings in the 1960s. Issued on Argo in 1960, it features guitar wizard Grant Green—on only his second recording—as well as Chicago blues legend Willie Dixon on bass.

Verve BY Request Series: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, Single Sleeve

Tracklisting: Space Flight (1960)

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Jazz Of The Forties / Hot Vs Cool

LP | 1969 | JP | Original (Capitol)

Gloria Coleman Feat. Pola Roberts

Release: 1969 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

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Soul Sisters Verve By Request Edition

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Music For Zen Meditation And Other Joys

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Organist Gloria Coleman discovered drummer Pola Roberts and formed a female band with her. In 1963, the "Soul Sisters", joined by guitarist Grant Green and Leo Wright on saxophone recorded this satisfying and soulful album, unique in the Impulse catalog. Produced by Bob Thiele and recorded by Rudy Van Gelder.

Verve BY Request Series: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, Single Sleeve.

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Tony Scott

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Music For The Small Hours

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mostly improvised by clarinettist Scott, backed by Hozan Yamamoto and Shinichi Yuize — on the Japanese instruments shakuhachi and koto — this 1964 album is a precursor to later movements in ambient and new age music, from in and out of the jazz world.

VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, Single Sleeve.

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Clarke-Boland Sextett

LP | 1967 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Look To The Rainbow Verve By Request Edition

Release: 1967 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Formed by Kenny Clarke and Francy Boland, the Clarke-Boland Sextett, with the participation of numerous musicians from both Europe and the United States, made significant contributions to the development of jazz in Europe. At the core of this ensemble, the powerhouse sextet consisting of Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland, Sahib Shihab, Jimmy Woode, Joe Harris, and Sadi came together to record the album "Music For The Small Hours" in 1967, and it is now set to be reissued with an obi.

This album spans a wide range of styles, from standards like Burt Bacharach's "Wives & Lovers" to Brazilian and Afro-Cuban influences such as Luiz Bonfá's "Ebony Samba" and Dizzy Gillespie's "Tin Tin Deo." Additionally, it features original compositions like Shihab's "Please, Don't Leave," where he takes on vocal duties. The entire recording exudes a sophisticated and relaxed mood, showcasing the utmost skill of this formidable sextet. "Music For The Small Hours" is a masterpiece that deserves a place in the history of European jazz, boasting the ultimate level of refinement.

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Astrud Gilberto

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Love Supreme Cobalt Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Impulse!)

Funky Skull Verve By Request Vinyl Edition

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the most influential albums in all of jazz. Recorded in 1964 with the likes of Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones & McCoy Tyner

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Melvin Jackson

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On his sole album as a leader, bassist Melvin Jackson - a veteran of the Eddie Harris band (this album includes two Harris originals) - plays with a bow, plucks and plugs his upright bass into a Maestro G-2 filter box, a Boomerang, an Echoplex, and an Ampeg amp. The result is soulful, psychedelic, and of course, funky – at once one of the grooviest and most avant-garde albums you’ll ever hear.

Verve BY Request Series: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, gatefold sleeve.

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LP | 1966 | US | Reissue (Atlantic)

My Favorite Things

Love Cry Verve By Request Edition

Release: 1966 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Vinyl with many scuffs and hairlines

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Albert Ayler

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Psychicemotus Verve By Request Edition

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1968’s Love Cry mixes Albert Ayler’s free jazz with a catchy combination of nursery rhythms and brass band marches, resulting in a peak example of experimental jazz of the period. This was Ayler’s last recording with his brother, Donald, who keeps the pace fiery along with the rhythm section of bassist Alan Silva and drummer Milford Graves, and harpsichordist Call Cobbs.

Verve BY Request Series: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, gatefold sleeve.

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Yusef Lateef

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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New York Eye & Ear Control

Albert Ayler

LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Esp Disk Ltd.)

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The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the key 60s free jazz recordings!

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Sun Ra

LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Elvin Jones

Midnight Walk

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Herbie Mann

At The Village Gate

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Comin’ Home Baby" – that’s how the LP begins and that’s what catapulted it right into the charts. Not to one of the top places, but from this time on Herbie Mann was one of the superstars in Atlantic’s collection of jazz musicians. He was known as 'our man with the flute', and the critics in the early Sixties were full of praise for him. He became even more famous, and probably richer, through soundtracks and later on sometimes rather commercialised productions. Well, good for him. 'The Man' serves up jazz pure on this recording, made live at the legendary Village Gate club, which is no wonder considering the rhythm group that includes Ahmad Abdul-Malik and Rudy Collins. The composer of "Comin’ Home Baby", Ben Tucker, also makes an appearance as a guest soloist before the two Gershwin numbers from "Porgy And Bess" offer a wealth of rhythm pure. On the cover text of the LP, Willis Conover, who hosted the Newport Jazz Festival as a sideline (older jazz fans will know his baritone voice from AFN broadcasts), describes in detail the ethnic background of the musicians who come from all over the world – from Romania to Puerto Rico. The three numbers are by no means commonplace. Perhaps a tasty flute cocktail would be a good description. This true rarity from Atlantic’s treasure trove in the early Sixties has long been marked down on the wish list of many fans and at long last it’s available again.

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Paul Desmond

Easy Living

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why should you buy this LP? 1. Because of its super sound? Of course! 2. Because Paul Desmond and Jim Hall are playing? Naturally! 3. For "Easy Living"? Surely one of the best numbers in one of the most multifaceted versions! 4. Because you missed out on the first release in 1966? Well, don’t make the same mistake in 2018!
Not everyone wants to purchase all Victor recordings by Paul Desmond and Jim Hall with umpteen alternate takes in a voluminous CD Box, to listen to it all, and to find it just wonderful to show off on the record shelf. The eight numbers on "Easy Living" constitute the height of Desmond’s career anyway after he had at last managed to take his leave from Dave Brubeck’s group. And the change from purely chordal playing and single notes from Jim Hall is more airy and more inspiring than the meaty piano clusters of his former boss. And don’t forget either that half of the Modern Jazz Quartet, namely the bassist Percy Heath and the drummer Connie Kay, deliver an exquisite skeletal structure over which the musicians can improvise brilliantly.
LPs are, and remain, unbeatable, both as regards sound and feel. And happily they are also a safe investment – maybe not all, but "Easy Living" with Paul Desmond and Jim Hall most definitely!

This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. More information under www.pure-analogue.com.
All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid.

Recording: June 1963, July and September 1964, June 1965 at RCA Studio, New York City
Production: George Avakian

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Miles Davis

Miles In Berlin

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It's 1964 and the first Berlin Jazz Festival is about to reach its absolute peak: the final concert on the night of Friday, 25th September by Miles Davis. And the European subsidiary of Columbia Records, CBS, couldn’t wait to release this legendary event on LP.
The new quintet, for the first time with Wayne Shorter on the tenor sax (and not yet as composer), thrilled and roused the audience in the Philharmonie from the first minute to the very end. The classics "Miles(tones)", "So What" and "Walkin’" were performed at an astonishingly fast pace, the ballads were tender and dreamy. Such a magical atmosphere was rarely evoked at later concerts, which was probably due to the excellent acoustics of the large concert hall. The audience were also seated behind the stage, so Miles couldn't turn his back provokingly on people; sometimes he just squatted on the stage. However, this didn’t prevent him from performing his solos lyrically and tenderly, most of them finely nuanced, soft and gentle, yet audible right into the furthest corner. The rhythmic structure created by the young drummer Anthony Williams provided the necessary excitement.
Miles at the top of his form, an enthusiastic audience, impressive acoustics and, to top it all, excellent recording technology and a fantastic pressing on virgin vinyl - what more does a jazz fan want? Now’s the time to dig out your credit card!

This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid.

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Freddie Hubbard

Backlash

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After his great success as a new discovery through playing on tour and in the studio with Art Blakey’s creative and inspirational group, the Jazz Messengers, Freddie Hubbard made a dozen LPs over 16 years for Blue Note and Impulse under his own direction.
It was no wonder then that a big record company made him a lucrative offer in autumn 1966. All in all, Atlantic Records released six LPs and the very first, entitled "Backlash", is still until today the best of the bunch.
Three numbers by Freddie Hubbard, one by Bob Cunningham, and two by friends, provide the basis for a successful transition between hard bop and soul beat. Hubbard made high demands on his fellow musicians James Spaulding, Albert Dailey and especially the bass player Bob Cunningham and the drummer Ray Appleton because they had to cope with the ever-changing beat. Right from the very first note, it is obvious that Freddie Hubbard had Fats Navarro and Clifford Brown in his heart and fingers. All the titles are excellent. Of special note, however, is "Little Sunflower". The sound colouring of the flute harmonizes particularly well with Hubbard’s brass, and Ray Barretto’s contribution is more than mere decoration. You’re certainly on the right track with this LP, no matter whether it’s the beginning of a Freddie Hubbard collection or a further contribution to a large jazz collection.

This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid.

Recording: 1967 by Tom Dowd, Phil Jehle and Adrian Barber
Production: Arif Mardin

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Charles Lloyd

Forest Flower

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It was a clever move by George Avakian, producer at Atlantic Records, to record live the Charles Lloyd Quartet during their appearance in Monterey, and to release the LP under the title "Forest Flower". Although the hippy flower-power movement tended towards a rather different musical genre at the end of the Sixties, they were blown away by this music. The four artists attracted masses of people and ensured that every seat was taken and all standing room filled at jazz festivals such as Newport, Molde (Norway), Antibes (France) and the Fillmore East and West. The super group also appeared in Monterey, 120 Km south of San Francisco, the centre of the hippy movement, on 18 September 1966.
On the LP we have the almost 18-minute-long title piece and the standard work "East Of The Sun", which were recorded at the festival. The disc is complemented by a Keith Jarrett composition and one by Cecil McBee, both of which were recorded in the studio ten days before the festival.
Of particular note is the rich interplay, the energy that is palpable throughout, the perfect harmony in each and every change of mood, and the intensity. Even 50 years later, it is quite clear that Charles Lloyd managed to break down the barriers between pop and jazz.
Charles Lloyd is committed to this objective to this very day! All four musicians are still active, although they no longer appear together as a group. Such a special treat for the ears is offered by this newly mastered disc only.

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LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Fantasy)

Stardust

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan

Two Of A Mind

LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (RCA)

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Although the beautiful sound, mutual understanding and harmonic balance mostly predominate, the music of alto saxophonist Paul Desmond performing together with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan is far from what one calls 'easy listening'. For many, it is even difficult to identify the melody of evergreens such as "Stardust" and "The Way You Look Tonight". (And what theme is tucked away in "Two Of A Mind"????)
The recording in the RCA Victor Studio took place over several days in 1962, and this is why different bass players and percussionists are heard – Wendell Marshall, Joe Benjamin and John Beal each take their turn on the bass, while Connie Kay and Mel Lewis change places behind the drum set. These musicians form a brilliant team, and that there is no piano is both deliberate and inevitable for Gerry Mulligan recordings of the day. By the way, the second saxophonist in "The Way You Look Tonight" is Paul Desmond – by means of over-dubbing in the middle of the stereo recording!
The present LP could certainly take a rightful place in a 'Best Of' collection alongside the other recordings by Gerry Mulligan with Ben Webster and Stan Getz.

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Paul Desmond

Take ten

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Le Très Jazz Club)

Terumasa Quintet Hino

Hi-Nology

Jazz Portrait Of Frank Sinatra Verve By Request

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Terumasa Hino is undoubtedly one of the most famous Japanese jazzmen. Learning the trumpet at the age of 9, 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 in 1964. On Hi-Nology we find his brother Motohiko Hino on drums, Hiroma Suzuki on electric piano, Kumitsu Inaba on electric bass and Takeru Muraoka ontenor sax. The inspiration from the "electric period" of Miles Davis (notably Miles In The Sky released in 1968) is felt and is even accepted, since the opening piece is entitled "Like Miles". Coincidentally, Hi-Nology was recorded on July 31, 1969, the day after the release of In a Silent Way and has nothing to envy of this great record by Miles Davis.

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Oscar Peterson

LP | 1961 | Reissue (Verve)

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1961 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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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 Peterson's most essential dates—swinging and enjoyable.

VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, Single Sleeve

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Joe Henderson

Power To The People

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dexter Gordon & Slide Hampton

A Day In Copenhagen Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 Sky Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Our Meanings And Our Feelings

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With his big, warm, round-toned sound, sophisticated phrasing, and hip quotes, Dexter Gordon was one of the major forces on the tenor saxophone from the mid-1940s until his death in 1990. Gordon was cited by both Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane as a major influence on their playing and is acknowledged as a jazz icon.

The popularity of mainstream jazz was on the decline in the States during the 1960s. The Vietnam war and racial turmoil were in high gear, and many of the music’s top-flight musicians, including Gordon, migrated to Europe in order both to escape and to make a living playing jazz. Gordon eventually settled in Copenhagen, Denmark. During this period, he usually played and recorded backed by a piano trio, but this 1969 recording is different. The usual quartet has been expanded with some of those premiere jazz ‘refugees’, each a major voice on his instrument, assembled for the session.

One of the great modern jazz trombonists, Slide Hampton, is also a composer/arranger of note. The album was a collaborative venture between Gordon and Hampton, and three of the compositions and all the arrangements on the album are his. The classy Jamaican trumpeter Dizzy Reese completes the front line. The rhythm section includes two jazz giants who were Gordon’s constant companions at Copenhagen’s famous Club Montmartre, fellow American expatriate pianist Kenny Drew and the great Danish bassist N-H Örsted-Peterson. The Gordon/Drew pairing is one of the classic horn-/piano matchups in jazz, and has often been compared with the Miles Davis/Red Garland and John Coltrane/McCoy Tyner pairings. Art Taylor, who “helped define the sound of modern drumming”, was brought in from Paris to complete the all-star rhythm section.

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Michel Portal

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Le Très Jazz Club)

The New Stan Getz Quartet Featuring Astrud Gilberto

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On June 27th, 1969, Michel Portal pushed the door of the Pathé Marconi studios. With him were drummers Jacques Thollot and Aldo Romano, bassist Jean-François Jenny-Clark and pianist Joachim Kühn. They hadn"t rehearsed anything, as if entering the studio to record an album without any plan was something normal. The musicians were obviously very used to playing with each other, as the five tracks on Our Meanings And Our Feelings seem to flow perfectly without any hint of improvisation. The zokra, an oriental clarinet that Michel Portal plays on "Walking through the land" and "Dear old Morocco" brings a singular touch to this album. This singularity is transcended by Joachim Kühn"s ability to easily go from the piano to the saxophone alto, from supporting to soloing, before playing the bells, then the tambourine, opening the soundscape. Our Meanings And Our Feelings may not be the first French free jazz record - as it was preceded by the fantastic Free Jazz by François Tusques, released in 1965 and on which Michel Portal plays as well - but it remains one of the most important. Its incredible outburst of sounds and melodies is completely free yet never turns into cacophony. 44 years after its release, it is still urgent to listen to Our Meanings And Our Feelings and what these five talented musicians had to tell us.

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Getz Au Go Go

LP | 1964 | US | Original (Verve)

LP | 1967 | Reissue (ORG Music)

Release: 1964 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dexter Gordon

Take The A Train

Release: 1967 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Conversations With Myself

Bill Evans

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Elemental Music)

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

Charles Mingus

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Elemental Music)

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Decca)

The New Jazz Orchestra

Le Dejeuner Sur L'herbe

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Jackson In Your House Black Vinyl Edition

Art Ensemble Of Chicago

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Archie Shepp

Four For Trane

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Yusef Lateef

Live At Pep's

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Wayne Shorter

Speak No Evil

32,29 €* 33,99 € -5%

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Sam)

Nathan Davis Sextet

Peace Treaty

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Olé Coltrane Crystal Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

The World Of Cecil Taylor

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissue as a part of the Start Your Year Off Right Kampagne von Warner. The final album recorded by Coltrane under his own supervision for Atlantic Records, Ole Coltrane features several of the players from Africa/Brass, which was recorded two days earlier, and is widely considered one of the premiere statements of Avant Garde jazz as well as the moment that Coltrane moved from an accessible artist to a more daring and complicated one. (Original RD: November 1961)

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Cecil Taylor

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Candid)

LP | 1966 | US | Reissue (We Are Busy Bodies)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The World Of Cecil Taylor is the fifth studio album by radical, free jazz pianist pioneer, Cecil Taylor.Taylor's music is often described as ahead of its time. And it's easy to imagine what the reaction of the average jazz fan was to this 1961 recording. It is arguably a tremendous departure from what jazz was widely considered to be at the time. At once a modern approach to standard material and a genre pushing exploration, it is a document of an artist pushing the boundaries of what jazz meant and where it was capable of going. This brand new reissue is available on CD and LP (180g) and has been remastered from the original Candid Records master tapes by Bernie Grundman.

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Barney Wilen

Zodiac

LP | 1969 | WW | Reissue (Wienerworld)

Release: 1966 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We Are Busy Bodies is proud to announce the first official reissue of 'Zodiac' by brilliant French tenor saxophonist, Barney Wilen. Originally released on the Disques Vogue label in 1966, the album has been restored and remastered from Barney Wilen's personal copy of the album. The album was recorded a few years after performing on albums and European tours with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis. The album is an exploration of free jazz, dedicated to the signs of the zodiac. Wilen and his friend, photographer Jean Larivière worked together to create the photos and artwork for his album, Zodiac. The intention at the time was to also create a film with a storyline and characters developed by Jean. Unfortunately, the concept was never fully realized at the time,. Sketches, photos and further context are included in the accompanying album insert.

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Dizzy Gillespie

Soul & Salvation

Release: 1969 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Don Cherry

Mu. First Part

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jimmy & Wes (The Dynamic Duo)

Jimmy Smith

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

The Oscar Peterson Trio Plays

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The first and best out of just two collaborative albums by organist Jimmy Smith and guitarist Wes Montgomery, Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo was recorded in 1966 and features arrangements by Oliver Nelson. It is frequently listed among Jimmy Smith's best albums. The duo's follow-up record, Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes, was taped during the same sessions and released in 1968. Al/Music critic Richard S. Ginell gave The Dynamic Duo the maximum * * * * * rating, stating that "Creed Taylor matched two of his most famous artists, Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith, on this session (Montgomery's last for Verve), and the results are incendiary- a near-ideal meeting of yin a.nd yang. Smith comes at your throat with his big attacks and blues runs while Montgomery responds with rounder, smoother octaves and single notes that still convey much heat. They are an amazing pair."

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The Oscar Peterson Trio

LP | 1964 | JP | Original (Verve)

Release: 1964 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Doxy)

Nina Simone

At Carnegie Hall

31,34 €* 32,99 € -5%

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Ebalunga!)

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition on clear wax!

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Gabor Szabo

1969

Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler On The Roof

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Gabor Szabo exploded onto the American jazz scene in the early sixties. His unusual approach and unique sound brought something startling and new to jazz. With Chico Hamilton, Charles Lloyd and Gary McFarland, Szabo offered something few in jazz had ever heard before: guitarist as enchanter and conjurer and musician as storyteller and mesmerist. Once Szabo declared his independence in 1966, he also proved how seamlessly jazz can blend the Beatles and Bacharach with Latin and Indian styles. The guitarist released a string of albums on Impulse that challenged many assumptions about jazz and stand out today as some of the most radical, yet appealing music of the period. But the times were woefully a-changing. Szabo biographer Károly Libisch considers the year 1969 a “turning point” for the guitarist. The spell Szabo weaved in the press was beginning to wane. The blizzard of coverage he generated in the previous few years began to trickle off. Perhaps the rise of rock – and rock-guitar heroes – tamped down the guitarist’s exotic allure and faddish charm. Then, too, Szabo’s erratic behavior started attracting poor notices and hastened the demise of his storied quintet, featuring guitarist Jimmy Stewart and percussionist Hal Gordon, in late 1968. Now, both Gabor Szabo, the artist and businessman, needed a hit. 1969 was his response to the call of 1969.

The album was released in August 1969, initial reviews were positive. Cash Box raved that Gabor Szabo 1969 “is magnificent music, and an album that deserves great success” while Record World called it “luscious guitaring” that features “lots of contemporary material, which he makes completely his own.” Gabor Szabo 1969 never did find the success it was seeking. But it remains a lovely listening experience that finds the guitarist at his melodic best at an important crossroads in his recording career. “

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Cannonball Adderley

LP | 1964 | US | Original (Capitol)

A Charlie Brown Christmas Gold Foil Limited Vinyl Edition

Release: 1964 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vince Guaraldi Trio

LP | 1965 | IT | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1965 / IT – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Is Alive And Well At The Whiskey

Hugh Masekela

LP | 1967 | US | Original (UNI)

LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Columbia)

Release: 1967 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Thelonious Monk

It's Monk's Time

LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Columbia)

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 Gram Vinyl

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Michel Magne

Tropical Fantasy

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

Pharoah Sanders

Jewels Of Thought

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jewels of Thought is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. It was recorded at Plaza Sound Studios in New York City on October 20, 1969, and was released on Impulse! Records in the same year.

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LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Impulse!)

A Love Supreme

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wes Montgomery

California Dreaming

LP | 1966 | JP | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Released in 1967, California Dreaming was Wes Montgomery's last album for Verve (other than an exciting collaboration with Jimmy Smith). It’s an extraordinary orchestral date featuring arrangements by Don Sebesky that showcases soloists such as pianist Herbie Hancock and percussionist Ray Barretto. The songs (which include "Sunny" and the title tune "California Dreaming") are in this case mostly pop material of the era, from which the great performer extracts magic sounds. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard jazz album chart and No. 4 on the R&B chart, and was one of the last great works by Montgomery, whose later guitar style influenced jazz fusion and smooth jazz. At the peak of his popularity, the guitarist unexpectedly died of a heart attack on June 15, 1968, at the age of 45.

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Wes Montgomery

California Dreaming

LP | 1969 | RU (Audio Clarity)

Release: 1966 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Motherhood

I Feel So Free

We Insist Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 1969 / RU

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Max Roach

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An avant-garde masterpiece, a vocal-instrumental suite, a work of collective improvisation, directly addressing the racial and political issues of it’s day, We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite is one of the most important artistic statements of Civil Rights Movement and one of the most groundbreaking jazz albums of all time. Max Roach was already almost a decade into his career as one of the most influential jazz drummers and composers when he teamed up with lyricist Oscar Brown Jr. to collaborate on a piece they planned to perform at the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1963. Recorded just months after the February 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, the album stands as an early musical testament to the burgeoning rage, anger and passion that would take the Civil Rights Movement from its early victory in Montgomery in 1955 into a future that would dramatically alter race relations in the United States.

The second release from the newly launched New York City based jazz label Candid Records, and produced by label co-founder, famed music critic and social activist, Nat Hentoff, the album is a bold statement, focused on civil injustices in black history ranging from slavery to contemporary racial prejudices, and featuring some of the finest jazz musicians ever, including Abbey Lincoln, Coleman Hawkins, Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, and Michael Babatunde Olatunji.

The five movements of the work are organized as a historical progression through African-American history, a shape similar to the one in Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige. The Freedom Now Suite moves from slavery to Emancipation Day to the contemporary civil-rights struggle and African independence.

The LP includes extraordinary liner notes written by Hentoff himself, giving a context and insight that adds to the experience of hearing these magnificent performances.

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Max Roach

We Insist (Mono)

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Toshiko Mariano

Toshiko Mariano Quartet

The Straight Horn Of Steve Lacy

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Toshiko Mariano Quartet is the 1961 album from fourteen time Grammy Nominated pianist and composer Toshiko Akiyoshi - then known as Toshiko Mariano. Women have long been denied the credit they deserve in jazz. It must be noted that as a Japanese women in jazz, Akiyoshi had to battle for acceptance on many fronts. Jazz has been a patriarchy community from the beginning, and even critical praise of her playing could not help but take note of her gender. Leonard Feather, for example, writing at the time in the Encyclopedia of Jazz called out Akiyoshi’s playing as “fiery, powerfully articulated and exceptionally fluent,” but added that there was “nothing delicately feminine.” Even today it is still hard for people to see Jazz in any other way. We are pleased to be a part of shifting the narrative and shine a spotlight on this talented artist and this wonderful album. While she was later to compose using themes, harmonies, and instruments connected to her Japanese heritage, this album captures the pianist early in her career playing a straight ahead, harp bop style. This was already her 7th album as a band leader, and it is a shining example of her confidence and mastery of her instrument and as a band leader. Recorded at the Nola Penthouse Studios in New Your City in December of 1960, the LP includes extraordinary liner notes by Candid A&R man and producer Nat Hentoff giving a context and insight that adds to the experience of hearing these extraordinary performances.

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Steve Lacy

LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Candid)

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The “straight horn” referred to in the title of this superb album from 1961 is the soprano saxophone, and Lacy is recognized as one of the greatest to ever play the instrument, ranking alongside John Coltrane and Sidney Bechet. Because of the difficulty involved in mastering it’s pitch challenges, very few jazzmen concentrated on it. Lacy is widely considered the first “modern” musician to specialize on the instrument. Lacy had long and prolific career and a fascinating style trajectory. At sixteen he began playing Dixieland with the likes of Pee Wee Russell. In the mid 1950’s he played free jazz with Cecil Taylor, and appeared with his groundbreaking quartet at the 1957 New Port Jazz Festival. He made a notable appearance on the 1959 Gil Evens, Great Jazz Standards album. Along the way, Lacy became obsessed with the music of Thelonious Monk, working with him several times including the 1963 Big Band and Quartet in Concert album, and devoted much of this life’s work to the interpretation of Monk’s materiel

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Phil Woods

Rights Of Swing

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When he first came on the scene, Phil Woods was often referred to as “The New Bird,” in a nod to the legendary Charlie Parker. A testament to his genius on the saxophone to be sure. But while obviously indebted to Parker - as all modern jazz saxophonists of a certain era were - there is no question that Phil Woods was an original. After earning a degree in music from Juilliard in the early 1950’s, Woods found himself in the orbit of the great Quincy Jones. At Jones’ invitation Woods joined Dizzy Gillespie’s infamous Jazz Ambassadors - a tour sponsored by the US State Department as part of a global cultural diplomacy initiative - and subsequently became a member of Jones’ own touring band. This recording, his 9th album as a band leader, consists entirely of Woods’ five-part Rights of Swing Suite. An ambitious large-scale composition based solidly on jazz traditions. A culmination of the influences the then 30 year artist had absorbed. Arguably considered one of Woods finest recordings, the record features a stellar section made up of Wood’s fellow Quincy Jones band members. (It should be noted that these same musicians, for the most part, are also the section on Benny Bailey’s Candid Records recording, Big Brass, recorded a a few months prior in November of 1960). Recorded at the Nola Penthouse Studios in New Your City on two dates in January and February of 1961, and conducted by Quincy Jones. The LP includes extraordinary liner notes by Candid A&R man and producer Nat Hentoff, and in-depth commentary from Woods himself, giving a context and insight that adds to the experience of hearing these extraordinary performances.

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Charles Mingus

Mingus

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At the time of this recording, Mingus had been working regularly with the piano-less quartet of Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond. The same group featured on the 1960 Candid release, Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus. The Mingus album, also recorded that year, features one track, "Stormy Weather," recorded with that same quartet, and two tracks recorded with a larger group featuring piano and additional horns. Of note, "mdm (Monk Duke & Me)” consumes the majority of this album. The piece consists of three intertwining themes - Duke Ellington's “Main Stem”, Thelonious Monk's “Straight, No Chaser”, and Mingus' “Fifty First Street Blues.” Released in 1961, and recorded in the fall of 1960 by Candid A&R and Producer Nate Hentoff at the Nola Penthouse Sound Studios. The LP includes extraordinary liner notes written by Hentoff, giving a context and insight that adds to the experience of hearing these magnificent performances.

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Wes Montgomery

Bumpin'

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Not Now)

Miles Davis

At Carnegie Hall

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1966 | US | Reissue (Nature Sounds)

Dave Pike

Jazz For The Jet Set

My Funny Valentine - Miles Davis In Concert

Release: 1966 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With his 1966 debut for Atlantic, jazz vibraphonist and marimba player Dave Pike and an all-star lineup produced a perfect blend of Jazz, Latin, Soul and R&B that stands the test of time. Produced by Pike's frequent collaborator Herbie Mann, ''Jazz for the Jet Set'' featured a young Herbie Hancock on organ (an instrument he rarely played again), Clark Terry on trumpet, Billy Butler on guitar, Grady Tate on drums, and many other talented musicians. From an artistic perspective, the album marked a pivotal time in Pike's career, where he began to move away from straight ahead jazz and forge a relationship with soul music, Latin rhythms, pop arrangements and more experimental styles. With this official reissue courtesy of Nature Sounds, ''Jazz For The Jet Set'' is now back on limited-edition vinyl while supplies last. 1. Blind Man Blind Man 2. Jet Set 3. Sunny 4. When I'm Gone 5. You've Got Your Troubles 6. Sweet Tater Pie 7. Just Say Goodbye 8. Devilette

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Miles Davis

LP | 1965 | US | Original (Columbia)

Eero Koivistoinen With Friends

Release: 1965 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jappa: The Complete Jazz At The Polytechnicum Recordings 1967-1968

2LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Svart)