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Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Straight From The Heart Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Enja & Yellowbird)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2020 | Original (Groove Replica)

Sings10 Tracks

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sings! My Funny Valentine

LP | 2023 | UK (Cult Legends)

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sings - Jean-Pierre Leloir Collection

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sings And Plays With Len Mercer And His Orchestra Angel Eyes

LP | 2020 | IT | Original (Cinevox)

Release: 2020 / IT – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The lyricism of Chet Baker cannot be doubted because Chet in his musical expressions remains as singer and musicians essentially romantic. He fits beautifully into a context created around him and for him, a context that finds in the sonority of his trumpet or in the opacity of his voice a leading element, dominator and at the same time attractive and fascinating.

The songs on this record are aimed to everyone: jazz fans and those who are not very familiar with jazz. For music arrangers Ezio Leoni and Giulio Libano the work ground with Chet has been smoothed out: there was no need to build beyond the measure, it was important to expand, enhance, galvanize what Chet wanted to express. They have alternated lyrical songs with more stringent and alive tracks. With the continuous alternation of times, expressions and atmospheres they made sure to avoid any monotony.

The orchestra that recorded the album was consisted of 16 violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, a flute, a bass clarinet, an oboe, a French horn, a harp which matched with Glauco Massetti's alto sax, Fausto Papetti's baritone sax, Mario Pezzotta's trombone, Gianni Basso's tenor sax, Franco Cerri's double bass, Gene Victory's drums. An imposing orchestra that was able to mix perfectly and alternate purely jazzy instruments with strings during the performances.

The repertoire included in the album ranges a lot: from well-known motifs such as 'Angel Eyes', 'When I Fall In Love' or 'I Should Care', to others less known but very pleasant tracks as 'The Song Is You' or
'Forgetful'. Other tracks lend themselves perfectly to a wider orchestration such as 'Autumn In New York', 'Violets for Your Fur' or 'Deep in A Dream'. Another theme was treated with a thrifty intervention of the strings, almost a crown of the whole performance, represented by the recording 'Street of Dreams'. In the last track Good-bye of Side A Chet expresses an exceptional sadness in a very valid and unusual way.

The tracks were recorded on September 28, 1958 and October 5, 1959 at the Guertler Bros. recording
studio.The tracks were recorded on September 28, 1958 and October 5, 1959 at the Guertler Bros. studio

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2LP | 2011 | UK | Reissue (Not Now)

Sings And Plays

Release: 2011 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180gram vinyl

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LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Jazz Wax)

Sings

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g vinyl including two bonus tracks!

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Red)

Signature

47,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (SAAR)

Sextet & Quatet

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Saar Records, through its famous Music subsidiary, re-releases the second Chet Baker's LP, recorded with his sextet and quartet and originally released in March 1960; one of the rare occasions for our musicians to team together with an American trumpet player for a rather long period.

Chet Baker is one of the most important and essential characters of modern jazz and over the years he has not lost his strength and colour, a fact that's clearly demonstrated by this release, indeed showing us a quite different Chet Baker. His style has become less slender, more excited, more precise, more violent, and several tracks of this record prove it.

The musicians here accompanying Chet Baker are the very best the Italian jazz scene of the time could offer: Glauco Masetti on alto sax, Gianni Basso on tenor sax, Renato Sellani on piano, Franco Cerri on double bass, together with the Italian-American Gene Victory on drums. As usual in such situations, arrangements were entrusted to Giulio Libano, who wisely provided the musicians with ample space for their solos. Chet Baker is undoubtedly the protagonist, but a lot of freedom of expression is granted to his fellow adventurers.

The album was recorded on 25 and 26 September and on 6 October 1959 at the Guertler Bros studio.

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Platinum Jazz Silver Vinyl Edition

3LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Not Now)

36,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet Baker & Philip Catherine

There'll Never Be Another You

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Mr. B

Release: 2024 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Intermusic)

Chet Baker & Miles Davis

Complete Recordings

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Live In Rosenheim

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Dom-Ermitage)

Live In Milan

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Late Night Jazz Feat. Philip Catherine

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Elemental)

36,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (WNTS)

Jazz Pearls

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It Could Happen To You Clear / Purple Splatter Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Second)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Not Now)

It Could Happen To You

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In New York Clear Vinyl Edtion

LP | 2024 | EU (Destination Moon)

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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His first for Riverside, In New York saw Chet Baker bring the West Coast cool jazz style to new Manhattan surroundings. With the rhythm section of Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones keeping things up-tempo and propulsive, pianist Al Haig alternating between fill-in chords and intriguing melodies and saxophonist Johnny Giffin trading lead flourishes with Baker himself, the LP is another winner right through. The swinging bop is full of zest and verve on ‘Hotel 49’ and a one-off rendition of Miles’ ‘Solar,’ while some contrasting introspective breaks are provided by ‘Blue Thoughts’ and ‘Polka Dots And Moonbeams.’ Great stuff!

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I Fall In Love Too Easily

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

17,99 €*

2LP | 2010 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Find all the best songs of the iconic american jazzman on a nice vinyl in gatefold sleeve with liner notes in English. Including "My Funny Valentine", "Summertime" ...

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Chet Baker & Crew

49,99 €*

Release: 2010 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Cool Cat

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet - The Lyrical Trumpet Of Chet Baker Transparent Yellow Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Waxtime In Color)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet Clear / White Splatter Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Second)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet Baker Sings Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

43,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet Baker Sings Clear Vinyl Edtion

LP | 2024 | EU (Destination Moon)

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet Baker’s vocal work was as distinctive as his trumpet playing, though on debut vocal set Chet Baker Sings the radicalism comes coached in a delicate and clear-toned wrapping that is innocent and vulnerable. His first vocal recordings, made in February 1954, are featured on the second half of this enticing LP, the first six songs cut in July 1956; outstanding moments include ‘There Will Never Be Another You’ and a rendition of ‘My Funny Valentine’ that Baker makes all his own, the simple drum, bass, and piano combo leaving room for Chet’s voice and trumpet to alternate the spotlight. Another West Coast cool jazz classic.

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Chet Baker Sings 1 Track Limited Edition

LP | 2024 | Original (Number One Essentials)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Not Now)

Chet Baker Sings

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet Baker Quartet Chet Baker In Paris Vol.2

LP | 2024 | Original (Decca)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An American in Paris... On his second French album, recorded in Paris in October 1955, the trumpeter can be heard, in contrast to the predecessor, with well-known standards, presented by a quartet that Baker had formed ad hoc with the French pianist Gérard Gustin, the American bassist Jimmy Bond and the Swedish drummer Bert Dahlander. World-class jazz from an international formation, captured in the then capital of European jazz. Remastered from the original European analog tapes, 180g pressing, original cover and liner notes.

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Chet Baker Quartet Chet Baker In Paris Vol.1

LP | 2024 | Original (Decca)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet Baker and Paris are terms that, when combined, trigger enthusiasm among jazz connoisseurs. The trumpeter with the melancholic tone and the city of love seemed made for each other when Baker recorded the first of three albums considered classics now in a Paris studio as part of his first European tour in October 1955. The first features, as part of his quartet, the highly talented bebop pianist Dick Twardzik, who died of a heroin overdose a week after the session, aged just 24. Remastered from the original European analog tapes, 180g pressing, original cover and liner notes.

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Chet Baker Plays Vladimir Cosma

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet Baker Plays The Best Of Lerner And Loewe

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Craft)

37,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Craft)

Chet Baker In New York

37,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet Baker And His Quintet With Bobby Jaspar (Chet Baker in Paris Vol. 3)

LP | 2024 | Original (Decca)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On his third French album, Chet Baker had clearly warmed up. This time he worked with a Belgian-French quintet that included tenor saxophonist and flautist Bobby Jasper as well as pianist Francy Boland. The repertoire featured a wonderful mix of originals from the pen of Baker and Baker-associated musicians, as well as a handful of catchy standards. Remastered from the original European analog tapes, 180g pressing, original cover and liner notes.

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Craft)

Chet

37,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Chet

1958 And 1969 Milano Sessions

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chesney Henry Baker Jr was more than just a trumpet player. He was so many things to so many people. To some, a Bix Beiderbecke for the post-bebop generation, forever creating lyrical phrases that sometimes jumped for joy, or opting for a melancholy beauty, so sad you could almost hear the tears falling. To others he was a flawed Hollywood hero, a face that set him apart from the usual run of 52nd Street icons; a From Here To Eternity Montgomery Clift or James Dean in headhung frustration in Rebel Without A Cause. Released in 1959 the Chet album proved to be one of the trumpet star s last offerings before heading back to Europe for what would become know as the Milano sessions.

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Chet Baker / Bud Shank

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (SAAR)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU (Survival Research)

Broken Wing

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in Paris in December 1978, Broken Wing is beautiful proof that Baker’s playing remained undiminished in the face of ongoing personal challenges. There is wonderful musical chemistry between Baker and his ensemble members throughout this excellent and rare LP, namely pianist Phil Markowitz, bassist Jean-François Jenny-Clark and drummer Jeff Brillinger, yielding exceptional versions of Richie Beirach’s title track and Wayne Shorter’s ‘Black Eyes,’ as well as Baker’s ‘Blue Gilles’; he’s on top form on the trumpet and tackles the vocal of ‘Oh You Crazy Moon’ with gracefulness. Another great offering from Chet!

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Blues For A Reason Feat. Warne Mash

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elemental)

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alone Together - Jean-Pierre Leloir Collection

Chet Baker & Bill Evans

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

23,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Chet Baker & Bill Evans

Alone Together

24,99 €*

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Baker's Holiday Acoustic Sounds

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Verve)

38,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

As Time Goes By

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Komos)

Cheikh Tidiane Seck

Timbuktu

22,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Komos)

Cheick Tidiane Seck

Kelena Foly

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Tricatel)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cheick Tidiane Seck placed his hands on a keyboard for the first time in the late 60s, on a harmonium of the Catholic convent in Sikasso, where he was a boarding pupil preparing his junior high diploma. From the age of 12 onwards, he would compose pieces by singing them to his mother, a,famous singer. Realizing he had talent, one of the nuns instructed him in music theory during his 3 years at school there. Diploma in hand, he that studied fine art at the Bamako National Arts Institute, tinkled the keys at night, playing with the Rail Band at the Buffet de la Gare hotel, moonlighting like his idol, Jimmy Smith,. He also made the most of his free time by playing on the Art Institute’s piano when the music students had gone home. He was swiftly adopted by the musical community of the Malian capital, and set off on Africa-wide tours with Les Ambassadeurs. He set up shop in Abidjan before arriving in France in the mid-80s. Since then, he has multiplied collaborations with jazz artists (Randy Weston, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ornette Coleman ...), African musicians (Manu Dibango, Salif Keita...) and even pop singers (Daman Albarn, Carlos Santana...) After the international success of Sarala, a record he arranged and co-directed with Hank Jones, Cheick released 5 albums under his own name which saved a lot of room for the science of electric keyboards, from the Hammond to the Moog. Kelena Fôly (‘expressing oneself only in music’ in Bamana) is his first solo record in a career spanning almost fifty years. There is no artifice here, just his deep voice and the Steinway grand piano of the Studio Pigalle. Cheick plays pieces anchored in the Mandinka tradition like Kana Kassi, which recounts an episode in the life of the founder of the Wassoulou empire, Samory Touré. He also takes us on American adventures with 56 Walker Street, a theme written at this Manhattan address, where, in the early 2000s, he held legendary jam-sessions with attendees such as Dr Lonnie Smith, Roy Hargrove and Vernon Reid. Kelena Fôly plays out around a poignant tribute to Aimé Césaire. On the track, Cheick Tidiane Seck narrates an extract from the poem Souffles, penned by another great proponent of négritude, Birago Diop. Here, he remembers an invitation from the Martiniquais poet to play in Fort de France, to celebrate the 120 th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. The only cover on the record is his version of Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child to which he has added a verse in bamana dedicated to his own mother. The album ends with a piece improvised in just one take. Corona contains a Message of Love for humanity by a musician who survived Covid 19. Hospitalised in Bamako in December 2020 and placed on a respirator, Cheick felt himself leave this world before coming gradually back to life. Today, back on track, this ‘warrior’ has embarked on new cross-continental musical endeavours with this record where he has summoned jazz, blues, Mandinka folk sounds and sources of African music to come together, unified by his exceptional playing style and a voice gorged on soul.

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Chassol

Indiamore

Charlie Watts & The Charlie Watts Orchestra

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The album from 2013 now available on vinyl!

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Live At Fulham Town Hall Record Store Day 2024 Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (BMG)

27,19 €* 33,99 € -20%

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Exclusively to Record Store Day 2024 comes The Charlie Watts Orchestra, Live from Fulham Town Hall. Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones’ drummer always had a passion for jazz and in 1986 he financed a world tour of an orchestra he hand selected, which included some household jazz names such as Peter King and Courtney Pine.

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Charlie Watts

Anthology

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charlie Tip & Tinker / Scott

Moanin' N Groanin'

LP | 2024 | Original (Lmlr)

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Night Dreamer)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vinatge soul music - FEATURING GEORGE "TIP" TIPTON, JOSEPH "TINKER" LEWIS and CHARLES "MAL" Scott. VINYL HAS BEEN OUT OF PRINT & UNAVAILABLE UNTIL now.

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Charlie Stacey

The Light Beyond Time

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Keyboard player and pianist Charlie Stacey fuses jazz-piano virtuosity with dark synth textures and grooves on his first solo project - a direct-to-disc, one take recording for Night Dreamer Records

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The Mercury And Clef 10-Inch LPs Limited Edition

5x10" | 2020 | EU | Original (Verve)

150,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (New Continent)

The Hits

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

The Bird

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rediscover some of the main songs of one of the most influential american Jazz musicians of all time.Including such standards as : Ornithology, All things you are, Scrapple from the Apple, Summertime ...

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Ornithology: The Best Of Bird

LP | 2024 | Original (Concord)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Ornithology: The Best of Bird” is a new compilation bringing together 11 cuts from legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. Designed as an introduction to this influential artist, it covers Bird’s prime years between 1945 and 1953, with cuts including “Ko-Ko,” “Billie’s Bounce,” and “Groovin’ High”. Included on the back of the newly designed sleeve is a new essay by GRAMMY® award winning writer Ashley Kahn.

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Magnificent Charlie Parker

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Emarcy)

35,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Verve)

Bird In Kansas City

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Psychedelic Saxophone Of Charlie Nothing/In Eternity With Brother Frederic (reissue)

Charlie Nothing

LP | 2024 | Original (Real Gone Music)

38,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pre-Bird Limited Edition Colored Vinyl

Charlie Mingus

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Now Or Never)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Golden Number Verve By Request

Charlie Haden

LP | 2024 | Original (Verve)

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

Charlie Gabriel

89 Gold Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Acrobat)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited-edition first pressing on translucent gold vinyl. Sub Pop debut by Preservation Hall Jazz Band member and 89-year-old clarinet and saxophone legend Charlie Gabriel from New Orleans, Louisiana. This is Charlie's first album as a bandleader. He has played with Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Cab Calloway drummer J.C. Heard, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennet, Aretha Franklin and many more. "I've been playing since I was 11 years old," says Charlie Gabriel, the most senior member of the legendary Preservation Hall Band, "I never did anything in my life but play music. I've been blessed with that gift that God gave me, and I've tried to nurse it the best way I knew how." While he's faced plenty of challenges nursing that gift for more than 78 years, none likely rank with last winter's passing of his brother and last living sibling, Leonard, lost to Covid-19. For the first time ever, Gabriel put down his horn, filling his days and weeks instead with dark reflection, a stubborn despondency broken now and then by regular chess matches in the studio kitchen of Hall leader Ben Jaffe, working overtime to bring his friend some light. One such afternoon also included Joshua Starkman, sitting off in a corner playing his guitar and half-watching the chess from a distance. When Charlie returned the next day, he brought his saxophone. "I was just inspired to try it, to play again. It had been a long time, and a guitar makes me feel free. I do love the sound of a piano, but it takes up a lot of a space, keeps me kind of boxed in." That day was to be the first session for 89, almost entirely the work of Gabriel, Jaffe and Starkman, recorded mostly right there, in the kitchen, by Matt Aguiluz. Charlie Gabriel's first professional gig dates to 1943, sitting in for his father in New Orleans' Eureka Brass Band. As a teenager living in Detroit, Charlie played with Lionel Hampton, whose band then included a young Charles Mingus, later spending nine years with a group led by Cab Calloway drummer J.C. Heard. While he's also fronted a bebop quintet, played and/or toured with Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennet, Aretha Franklin and many more, this is the first time his name appears on the front of a record, as a bandleader. Since 2006, Gabriel has been a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, featuring prominently on That's It, So It Is, and Tuba to Cuba. 89 was different, and not simply due to a smaller ensemble. "We had no particular plan, or any particular insight on what we were gonna do. But we were enjoying what we were doing, jamming, having a musical conversation," Charlie says, further musing, "Musical conversations cancel out complications." 89 includes six standards and three newer pieces on which Gabriel is a writer: "Yellow Moon," "The Darker It Gets" and "I Get Jealous." The record also marks Charlie's return to his first instrument, clarinet, on many of the tracks. "The clarinet is the mother of the saxophone," he says. "I started playing clarinet early in life, and this [taught me] the saxophone." Finally, 89 includes three tracks of Charlie singing. "I always sung, but it wasn't my forte to become a singer," he says. "The truth is, people often develop a real relationship with a song once they hear the words. Sometimes I enjoy singing them."

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Charlie Christian

Solo Flight

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One Note Samba Limited Edition

Charlie Byrd

LP | 2024 | Original (Jazz Samba)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP+7" | 2016 | EU | Original (Wah Wah)

Charles Wilp

Fotografiert Bunny

Charles Tolliver/Music Inc

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First ever vinyl LP reissue of one of the best easy listening / jazz / groovy albums from Germany. Conceived and recorded in 1965 as (sort of) the soundtrack for advertising-designer, artist and photographer Charles Wilp photo sessions, it was composed by classical trained musician Siegfried Ulbrich, credited here under one of his pseudonym Marvin Martin. The album is a fantastic sequence of jazzy easy listening sounds, sometimes spiced with the actual sound of Wilp and his models speaking through the session, completed with female wordless vocals here and there and some electronic gimmicks - used with maximum care. Peter Thomas spoke favourably of these recordings, noting influences from A.C. Jobim, Frank Sinatra and Claus Ogermann. This LP was never commercialised in shops, but instead produced specifically for 16 organisations for whom Wilp had worked for, and copies of it were given away to employees and customers of those companies.

As a curiousity, Charles Wilp did the earliest photos of Nico when she started modelling in Germany, and also did the fabulous photos of 1960s punk legends The Monks when they were established in Germany.

It is splendid from beginning to end, top class groovy / easy listening sounds for your cocktail parties and night dancing and comes in a gorgeous gatefold sleeve reproducing the original artwork.

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Compassion

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Gearbox)

Charles Tolliver

Connect

21,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Gearbox)

Charles Tolliver

Connect

31,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Pure Pleasure)

Charles Tolliver

All Stars

Step On Step Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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* Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London / This was Charles Tolliver’s first album as a leader. The setting is unique only because his second Freedom-Black Lion album “The Ringer” and all of his subsequent albums on Strata-East featured his quartet Music Inc. with pianist Stanley Cowell. Here he is surrounded in quartet and quintet formats with a truly stellar cast of the leading players on the New York jazz scene.

Charles plays the role of leader, composer and trumpeter. But it is surely that last role that deserves the most attention. The trumpet is a brass instrument that leans toward a hard sound and staccato phrasing. Yet Tolliver is the quintessence of fluidity. While it may be undeniable that he has learned from his musical heritage and past trumpet masters, a trumpeter of such flow, tone, control, lyricism and creativity is, by definition, a major musician.

Charles Tolliver first came to the professional jazz scene in the mid-sixties, when he first met Jackie McLean. Under McLean’s leadership, he played on a number of Blue Note record sessions, some of which have yet to be released. He contributed original tunes to many of those sessions.

Within a couple of years, Tolliver was a well known figure in New York circles, playing and/or recording with Booker Ervin, Archie Shepp, Andrew Hill, Roy Ayers, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Willie Bobo, Gerald Wilson, McCoy Tyner, Hank Mobley, and many others. His compositions were getting recorded by many artists. He gained his greatest recognition during a two year stint with the Max Roach quintet that also included Gary Bartz and Stanley Cowell.

There is also a previously unreleased bonus track of the song, "Repetition", recorded by Charles for this LP which will be included on this new release of the album. This song was originally made famous by Charlie Parker's LP With Strings.

This album is certainly an important and lasting document in light of the musicians involved and in light of its unique context for Charles Tolliver. But basically, it is just a great album to listen to.

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Charles Stepney

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (International Anthem)

Step On Step Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chicago-born composer, producer and arranger Charles Stepney is known to some for his work with Earth, Wind & Fire, Deniece Williams, and Ramsey Lewis, or for his work with Chess Records in the 1960s, where he was an essential creative force behind seminal recordings by Rotary Connection, Minnie Riperton, Marlena Shaw, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Terry Callier, The Dells, The Emotions, and many many more. In the decades since his untimely death in 1976, the presence of his name in liner notes and on vinyl labels has become a seal of quality for record collectors, music historians, and aficionados, while his sound has been used by countless samplers in the hip-hop world including Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest, The Fugees, MF Doom, and Madlib. But in comparison to the post-mortem renown of his sound, or the music he created and the artists he supported while he was alive, Stepney is a greatly under-appreciated figure... a genius relegated to the shadows.

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Charles Stepney

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (International Anthem)

32,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Clown Mono Atlantic 75 Series

2LP | 2023 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions Atlantic 75 Series)

71,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g 2LP 45rpm
Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series)
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Atlantic Records!
An absolute must-have for every jazz collector!
180-gram mono 45 RPM double LP
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
Gatefold old-style "tip-on" jacket by Stoughton Printing

The Clown was Charles Mingus' second masterpiece in a row, featuring Jean Shepard (yes, that Jean Shepard from the holiday movie A Christmas Story) on the title tune narrating a story about a clown attempting to please the world with his performances. The Clown also introduced two of Mingus' finest compositions in the driving, determined "Haitian Fight Song" and the '40s-flavored "Reincarnation of a Lovebird," a peaceful but melancholy tribute to Charlie Parker; Mingus would return to both throughout his career.

With Pithecanthropus, Mingus displayed a gift for airtight, focused arrangements that nonetheless allowed his players great freedom to add to the established mood of each piece. The Clown refines and heightens that gift; instead of just writing heads that provide launch points for solos, Mingus tries to evoke something specific with every piece, and even his most impressionistic forays have a strong storytelling quality.

The Clown tells the story of a clown "who tried to please people like most jazz musicians do, but whom nobody liked until he was dead," Mingus said, in an interview. "My version of the story ended with his blowing his brains out with the people laughing and finally being pleased because they thought it was part of the act. I liked the way Jean changed the ending; leaves it more up to the listener."

The title track is even more interesting for the free improvisations led by trombonist Jimmy Knepper, as the group responds to Shepherd's story and paints an aural backdrop. It's evidence that Mingus' compositional palette was growing more determinedly modern, much like his increasing use of dissonance, sudden tempo changes, and multiple sections.

Musicians:
Charles Mingus, bass
Shafi Hadi, alto and tenor saxophone
Jimmy Knepper, trombone
Wade Legge, piano
Dannie Richmond, drums
Jean Shepherd, narration (Track 4)

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Shadows Clear Vinyl Edtion

LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Destination Moon)

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Cassavetes’ directorial debut Shadows was a largely improvised film set in the bohemian jazz scene of 1950s New York; often referred to as the first truly independent film of American cinema, it featured a brief disjointed soundtrack improvised by Charles Mingus and his saxophonist Shafi Hadi, with various percussionists slotting in, including Phineas Newborn Jr. Gloriously messy, reportedly unfinished and referred to with scorn by Mingus, the Shadows soundtrack sketches ultimately yielded the great ‘Nostalgia In Times Square’ ‘Alice’s Wonderland’ and ‘Self-Portrait In Three Colours,’ all included here – astounding!

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Reincarnations Record Store Day 2024 Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Candid)

30,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Quantity: 3400 Release type: RSD Exclusive Release / Rare Mingus tracks unavailable on vinyl for decades, reassembled as a stand-alone album as a sequel to Incarnations, which came out for RSD Black Friday 2024. 180g vinyl, remastered by Bernie Grundman.

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LP | 2024 | Original (Candid)

Reincarnations

27,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Oh Yeah Atlantic 75 Series

2LP | 2023 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions Atlantic 75 Series)

86,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g 2LP 45rpm

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Mingus Takes Manhattan - The Complete Birdland Dates

4LP | 2023 | EU | Original (New Land)

148,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mingus Ah Um - Jean-Pierre Leloir Collection

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mingus Ah Um Clear / Orange Splatter Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Second)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Mingus Ah Um

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Wax)

Mingus Ah Um

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Candid)

Incarnations

30,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The music Charles Mingus and his group recorded during his landmark 1960 sessions for Candid Records produced three of the most revered jazz albums of the era. Incarnations is a new masterpiece thoughtfully assembled from rare and unreleased material from those sessions that stands proudly in the Mingus canon of masterworks.

All but one of the tracks here are from the November 11th, 1960 sessions Mingus and producer Nate Hentoff put together. The date was split into two halves: one a pure Mingus-led date, featuring a six-piece band that expanded into an octet for two additional tunes, and another, a partial reunion of a collective that had assembled in opposition against George Wein’s Newport Jazz Festival that past July. (That collective, calling themselves The Jazz Artist Guild, would release the album Newport Rebels, on Candid in 1961.)

Of special note here is the one track recorded during the Mingus October 20th 1960 sessions. It is a previously unreleased track titled “All The Things You Are (All.)” Found on a tape that contained material from both of these fall 1960 dates, the piece has its roots in an Art Tatum rendition of “All the Things You Are,” which Mingus had recorded before in various settings.

Featuring Booker Ervin, Eric Dolphy, Charles McPherson, Ted Curson Lonnie Hillyer, Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Knepper, Britt Woodman, Tommy Flanagan, Paul Bley, Dannie Richmond and Jo Jones. With audio restored and remastered by Bernie Grundman, and liner notes by Pitchfork and New York Times contributor Hank Shteamer, this album is a must have for any Mingus fan.

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Essential Works: 1955-1959

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Masters Of Jazz)

33,99 €* 39,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings

Box | 2023 | EU | Original (Rhino)

232,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | DE | Original (Blue Note)

Trios: Chapel

12,99 €*

Release: 2022 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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3LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Trio Of Trios Box Set

62,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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All three albums of saxophonist Charles Lloyd's "Trios" project in one luxurious LP set. Contains „Chapel” (feat. Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan), “Ocean” (feat. Anthony Wilson and Gerald Clayton) and “Sacred Thread” (feat. Julian Lage and Zakir Hussain) in a sturdy slipcase

3 LPs, 3 x 180g, padded inner sleeves, slipcase

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The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

39,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Sacred Thread

12,99 €*

Montreux Jazz Festival 1967

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With the "Trios" album project, saxophonist Charles Lloyd is fulfilling himself an unusual dream: three thematically related albums, each with a different trio line-up, a "Trio of Trios". The first album "Chapel" he recorded with guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan, followed by "Ocean" with guitarist Anthony Wilson and pianist Gerald Clayton. "Sacred Thread" with guitarist Julian Lage and drummer Zakir Hussain is now the crowning glory.

1-lp, 180g, padded inner sleeve.

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Charles Lloyd Quartet

3LP | 2024 | Original (Tcb The Montreux Jazz Label)

66,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charles Lloyd / John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Billy Higgins

Voice In The Night

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For the first time on vinyl, his album from 1999.

Charles Lloyd's sixth ECM album is both a departure and a homecoming for the Memphis-born and California-based tenorist, introducing new music and revisiting archive favourites (including the epic "Forest Flower"), and featuring an all-star line-up. With his "Scandinavian" band currently on hold, this is Lloyd's first all-American album in a long while - Dave Holland qualifies as an honorary American by now - with all the differences of cultural emphasis that this implies. ECM veteran John Abercrombie and legendary drummer Billy Higgins are in great form throughout as they lock in with Lloyd to tackle material ranging from Billy Strayhorn's "A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing" to the Elvis Costello / Burt Bacharach-penned "God Give Me Strength" or dig deep into the roots music of the "Island Blues Suite".

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8: Kindred Spirits - Live From Lobero Super Deluxe Box

3LP+2CD+DVD | 2020 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

174,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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8: Kindred Spirits - Live From Lobero

2LP+DVD | 2020 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

29,99 €*

Charles Gayle / Milford Graves / William Parker

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charles Lloyd has played the 150-year-old adobe theater in downtown Santa Barbara more often than any other venue, and more often than any other performer. Knowing that Marian Anderson sang there on February 14, 1940 makes it a sacred space for him. In the concert film you can see him bobbing with pleasure beneath his pointy, indigo knit cap, curly white hair, and long goatee. He beams at his neighbors, places the palms of his hands together and pulls them against his black sweater and golden tenor saxophone in the traditional Buddhist greeting. “I always get nervous before I go on,” Lloyd confesses, “but once I get on, Dorothy [Darr] has to come and drag me off. It seems that once I’m on stage I get met by the spirits. I enter the now. Sometimes Prez and Bird will stop by and say, ‘Hi, Charles.’”

A birthday is a door between the past and the future, and this concert reflected that truth. Representing the future were 34-year-old pianist Gerald Clayton, who performs regularly with Lloyd, and 31-year-old guitarist Julian Lage, who had performed with him when he was 12-years-old. Representing the past was 74-year-old organist and fellow Memphis native Booker T. Jones, who had never played with Lloyd at all. This was a one-of-a-kind line-up for a one-of-a-kind ritual.

“I’ve known Julian since he was 12,” Lloyd says. “He’s from the Healdsburg area, and Jessica Felix, who runs the jazz festival there, asked if Julian could play with us during the festival in 2000. Billy Higgins and John Abercrombie were in the group. I knew she wouldn’t ask if he didn’t have something special, so we let him play, and he had something; he had big ears. We’re all seekers in life; we all get the rays of the sun, but some get a stronger dose. A lot of young geniuses flame out and no one remembers their names. But so far, Julian’s balanced: grounded but at the same time ecstatic. Even though he’s the future, he knows the past.”

“Gerald was often back stage when I was touring with the New Quartet. In 2013 when Jason’s other duties became overwhelming, I decided to try out Gerald. His father and uncle are great musicians,” Lloyd says, referring to bassist John and saxophonist Jeff of the Clayton Brothers, “so he comes from something deep. You can hear it when he plays.”

Jones was still in junior high when Lloyd was graduating from high school, so they didn’t know each other when they were both growing up in Memphis. But they both shared the city’s rich cultural heritage, and when they ran into each other at the 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival, they promised to play together at some point. This birthday party was the perfect excuse.

“Memphis was such a rich environment,” Lloyd recalls. “It was like New York City, only with biscuits and gravy. There was an intelligentsia that inspired me to always be a learner. New York was 1300 miles away, and Chicago 450 miles away, but we were on the river, so musicians were always coming through. These out-of-town guys would play the Peabody Hotel and then they’d come over to the joints in our neighborhood to play with us, and we’d put a hurt on them. We didn’t tap dance or do anything for the man. We had our own culture and we knew it was inspired. We knew nothing of the lamb tongues and the gold mines, and I’m so thankful; we were doing it for the music.”

Don Was first made his name as co-leader and bassist of the 1980s funk-rock band Was (Not Was) and went on to produce albums for the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Jason Moran and many more. In 2012, he became president of Blue Note Records and immediately set out to bring his hero Lloyd to the label. By 2015, he had succeeded in his quest and a magnificent series of albums has followed: Wild Man Dance, I Long To See You, Passin’ Thru, and Vanished Gardens.

Harland anchors every project that Lloyd pursues these days—Sangam, the Marvels, the New Quartet—and Rogers is present in every group but the bass-less Sangam. “Eric and Reuben put a magic carpet under me,” Lloyd exclaims, “and I can travel wherever I want to go. They want to be there, and they know that to be there they have to spread their wings in any situation. When we take that journey together; that’s communal living at its highest. Music is not for sleepwalking; it’s for wakefulness. Reuben and Eric understand. My music dances on a lot of shores, and they have the ability to be in the now with all of it.”

The Lobero set list docked at many of those shores. The evening began with the title track from Lloyd’s first album for Atlantic Records, 1966’s Dream Weaver. This infectious reverie begins with breathy exhalations and ends the same way 20 minutes later, but in between, Lloyd’s tenor saxophone attacks the theme with an increasingly edgy fearlessness—and Lage and Clayton follow his example.

“‘Dream Weaver’ is sacred ground to me,” Lloyd says. “That record was fresh and crazily beautiful. It has withstood the passage of the ages. I started playing it again and found new ways of expressing the truth. There are some notes on the saxophone I didn’t have as a young man. They aren’t on the horn; they’re in between the cracks. I’m not denying the young Charles, but as my character becomes whole, the music gets better.” If that tune reached back to the beginnings of Lloyd’s career, the next three came from his much-lauded resurgence in the 1990s through the 2010s on ECM. “Requiem,” which first appeared on 1992’s Notes from Big Sur, used patient tempos and pointillist solos by the tenor saxophone, piano, guitar and acoustic bass to create a mood that fits the title.

The Mexican folk song “La Llorona” from 2010’s Mirror (and 2016’s I Long To See You) opens with a piano solo that slowly builds from quiet to majestic and closes with a tenor solo that manages to always reference the melody as it’s sprinting through the octaves. That segues into “Part 5, Ruminations” from 2017’s Passin’ Thru, which begins with a meditative, free-floating consideration of the harmony before cohering into a more definite theme that inspires a stabbing guitar solo, a classically flavored piano solo, a rumbling drum solo and a low-register tenor saxophone solo.

The second set found Clayton sitting out until the encores. Rogers switched from acoustic to electric bass, and Was sat in for two numbers on acoustic bass. Jones contributed two compositions: the premiere of his birthday card “Song for Charles,” and his 1962 hit as leader of Booker T. & the MGs, “Green Onions.” Two Lloyd compositions from the 1960s, “Island Blues” and “Sombrero Sam,” joined the old hymn “Abide with Me” and the American folk tune “Shenandoah.” For the encore, Clayton rejoined the band to play Lloyd’s “Forest Flower” and Billy Preston’s 1974 hit single, “You Are So Beautiful.”

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Webo

3LP | 2024 | US | Original (Black Editions Archives)

99,99 €*