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J Jazz Volume 4: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan - The Nippon Columbia Label 1968 -1981

3LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

46,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Yasuhiro Usui X Katsuaki Komiya

Undulation

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Row Project)

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The Movement Revisited: A Music Portrait of Four Icons

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Yasuhiro Usui and Katsuaki Komiya recorded live in Nagoya Nanya in 2023. The live recording album "undulation" is now available on vinyl!! Yasuhiro Usui is a guitarist/composer/producer living in Nagoya, Japan, and active in the eclectic genre of improvisation in Japan and abroad. He considers improvisation as the origin of music, and performs around 100 gigs a year. Katsuaki Komiya is a drummer with a unique background as the former editor-in-chief of Rhythm & Drum Magazine. With a unique style that makes full use of not only drum sets but also ethnic percussion instruments such as the djembe, he is active in a variety of fields ranging from improvisation to jazz, rock, and singing.

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Christian McBride

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mack Avenue)

Merci, Miles! Live At Vienne

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Christian McBride's 'The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons' is culminating documentation of a richly inspired piece " lauding four key figures of the Civil Rights Movement: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali.

Marshalling his ever-sharpening skills as a composer, arranger, conductor, musician and lyricist, McBride has created a historically and culturally illuminating five-part suite for an 18-piece big band, chorus and narrators that places the motivating forces as well as the goals of the Civil Rights Movement within a powerfully relevant artistic context. It is a one-from-the-heart project McBride was, apparently, destined to undertake.

This recording of The Movement Revisited marks the addition of a fifth movement, Apotheosis, which acknowledges the election of Barack Obama as the first African American President of the United States.

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Miles Davis

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Rhino)

The Best Of Ray Charles: The Atlantic Years Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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By 1991, the world’s most celebrated trumpeter could look back on five decades of musical evolution – his own, and that of the world around him. Miles Davis had found ways of marrying jazz with classical ideas, then later R&B, rock and funk, producing hybrid offspring that shaped the course of popular music and had come to define his legend. In 1985, he’d left Columbia after thirty years to sign to Warner Bros. Records, a label riding high with best-selling artists like Madonna, Van Halen and Prince, with whom he had a mutual admiration and friendship.

Miles Davis’s lifelong love for France is well-documented, and in July 1991, he became a Knight of their Legion of Honour. Davis received the award from French culture minister Jack Lang, who described him as: "The Picasso of jazz." A few days before, he played this electrifying set at the Vienne Jazz Festival with the Miles Davis Group. He passed away two months later in September 1991.

Miles Davis’ performance at Jazz a Vienne on July 1, 1991 became one of his final live performances before he passed away on September 28, 1991, and this previously unreleased set includes two songs written by Prince, “Penetration” and “Jailbait”. The package features liner notes from music historian, journalist, and producer Ashley Kahn, with art designed by Bruno Tilley.

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Ray Charles

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Atlantic)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ashram Sun Deluxe Edition

Surya Botofasina

2LP | 2024 | Original (Spiritmuse)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Avex)

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Katsushika Trio

M.R.I._mirai

Lee Ritenour And Dave Grusin

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Three former early members of Japan's leading fusion band "Casiopea" - Tetsuo Sakurai (bass), Akira Jinbo (drums), and Minoru Mukaiya (keyboard) - have come together to form "Katsushika Trio" and started their activities in 2021. They performed live in five locations: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Yokohama, captivating audiences of all ages, from long-time fans to younger generations. Their highly anticipated debut original full album "M.R.I_ Mirai," released amidst this excitement, has garnered significant acclaim.

This album, with the slogan "Music for Adults Who Won’t Grow Up," features eight meticulously selected tracks from their first album showcasing the trio's fiery ensemble that defines "Katsushika Trio." To provide the superior sound quality unique to vinyl, the album is released as a "heavyweight" edition, which offers greater thickness and stability for high-quality playback.

This must-have record allows fans to experience the unique pleasure of analog sound.

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Brasil

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Pony Canyon)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kicking Dust: The Goa Way, A Full Circle Compilation

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Full Circle)

Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Research Arkestra

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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This one has been in the works for quite some time. A statement compilation showing what Full Circle is about, paying homage to the very roots of psychedelic dance music. A little town in India, which was a haven to a bunch of hippie outcasts, was throwing freeform outdoor parties since the day those freaks put their flag down. What was once a gathering around live music blew up into a rave as electronic music started to appear, paving the way to what would eventually become Goa Trance.

Full Circle, the duo project of Alexis Le-Tan and Joakim, started 10 years ago when Alexis accidentally discovered that some of his old Goa Trance records he was about to sell sounded great when played at the wrong speed : 33rpm instead of 45rpm. He called his long-time friend and collaborator Joakim to work on edits of those tracks that became the sound signature of this DJ duo : a slow, heavy and trippy sound that would eventually infiltrate the fringes of the underground club scene via like-minded DJs such as Vladimir Ivkovic, Jane Fitz, Ivan Smagghe and many more.

10 years later and a bunch of releases and remixes behind them, Full Circle decided to tell the story of how this Goa sound came to life. At a time when Trance has made a major

comeback and infiltrated pretty much all the sub-genres of club music, it felt right to look back at where it all started - going full circle, when Trance was not Trance, Goa was not Goa but the seeds of tripped out dance music were being sown.

After all, there are countless compilations about Balearism, the Italian Cosmic scene,The Loft, The Paradise Garage etc but none about the roots of this Goa sound.

This is a compilation of the best tunes played by the pioneer Goa DJs like Laurent, Goa Gil, Mike Maguire amongst others, between the late 80s and early 90s. Proto House, New Beat, early Techno, Industrial, with a distinct psychedelic tone, a few arpeggios here and there, acid lines, chopped up vocals, all elements of what would later constitute a genre of its own.

This beautifully packaged compilation includes liner notes by Tom Colebrooke and excerpts from Tom and Alexis’ interview of Mike Maguire of Juno Reactor fame, one of the pioneers of Goa Trance.

Check the liner notes for more info about the early Goa history !

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Paradiso Amsterdam 1970

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Nederlands Jazz Archief)

Acrobats Limited Silver Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Space is the place! That classic piece - in a historically early version without lyrics - opens the album Paradiso Amsterdam 1970, which shows how the Netherlands was first introduced to Afrofuturism. A pivotal moment in the Dutch jazz experience.

It was always thought that the recordings of the long-awaited first concert that the Sun Ra Arkestra gave in the Netherlands were useless for an album release. After all, the entire Arkestra, booked by Hans Dulfer, marched among the massive crowd at pop temple Paradiso on 18 November 1970. As was their custom, they were rarely on stage where the microphones were neatly set up.

The Nederlands Jazz Archief traced the complete set of recording tapes and compiled an album on which the atmosphere of 53 years ago is immediately tangible.

Available on vinyl and CD, with many photos, documents and extensive liner notes by Saturnite Rudie Kagie.

Published in association with Sun Ra LLC.

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Jo Lawry

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Second)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Lonnie Liston Smith Transparent Yellow Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Jazz Is Dead)

Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Coursing through the cosmic pulse of Jazz-Funk is the inimitable influence of Lonnie Liston Smith. For over five decades, the legendary keyboardist and bandleader has been a driving force in shaping the genre's sound. Smith made his recording debut as a sideman for heavyweights Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Gato Barbieri and Leon Thomas. He later formed his own ensemble, Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes which delivered an incredible run of classic albums through the 1970s. His music has served as the foundation for immortal hip-hop samples and ecstatic dancefloor revelry. In late February 2020, Smith headlined Jazz Is Dead’s Black History Month series, giving many jazz fans what would be their last taste of live music before the nightmare of Covid-19 that took over in the weeks that followed. Now, he reunites with Jazz Is Dead to deliver Lonnie Liston Smith Jid017 - a full-bloom tribute to the multitude of sonic strains that all lead back to the fingertips of the maestro himself.

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The Miles Davis Quintet

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Yasuhiro Kohno Trio + One

Song Of Island

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (BBE Music)

Introducing Hideyasu Terakawa Quartet Live

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A private press rarity that few know of, ‘Song of Island’ was the third album from pianist Yasuhiro Kohno’s trio, recorded live at the jazz club and live house (gig venue) ‘Again’ in August 1985. Pressed up in small numbers, ‘Song for Island’ was issued on the private Ascap Records, set up by pianist and band leader Yasuhiro Kohno.

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Hideyasu Terkawa Quartet

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Monorails And Satellites Volumes 1-3

Sun Ra

3LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Cosmic Myth)

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Right Tempo)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"I have always thought orchestra. I play that way, even when playing the piano." — Sun Ra

Monorails and Satellites were two volumes of solo piano works recorded by Sun Ra in 1966. Volume 1 was issued on his Saturn label in 1968, volume 2 the following year. They were the first commercial LPs of the artist's solo keyboard excursions. Vol. 1 featured seven idiosyncratic Sun Ra originals and one standard delivered in Sunny's singular manner. Vol. 2 consists entirely of original compositions. A tape of a third, unreleased volume was discovered posthumously by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive. Released here for the first time, it consists of five originals and four standards, and was recorded in stereo.

Despite Sun Ra's obsession with the future, Monorails and Satellites is something of a nostalgia trip. As a youth in Birmingham, Alabama, the man who became Sun Ra—Herman Poole Blount—spent hours at the Forbes Piano Company, amusing himself (as well as staff and customers) at the showroom keyboards. He practiced standards, emulated his piano heroes, played the latest pop songs, and improvised. The idyllic reveries which the teen experienced in those formative years were no doubt recaptured during the Monorails sessions.

The playing here speaks less of a style, and more of a collection of statements. Some of the tunes, with their odd juxtapositions of mood, could be mistaken for silent film scores. Perhaps they were audio notebooks, a way to generate ideas which could be developed with the band ("I think orchestra"). Regardless of any secondary (and admittedly speculative) intent, they serve as compelling standalone works. The fingering reflects Sun Ra's encyclopedic knowledge of piano history as his passages veer from stride to swing, from barrelhouse to post-bop, from march to Cecil Taylor-esque free flights, with a bit of soothing "candelabra" swank thrown in. Sunny's attack is mercurial, his themes unpredictable. His hands can be primitive or playful, then abruptly turn sensitive and elegant. As with the whole of Sun Ra's recorded legacy, you get everything but consistency and predictability.

The listener also experiences something rare in the Sun Ra recorded omniverse: intimacy. His albums, generally populated by the rotating Arkestral cast, are raucous affairs. With the Monorails sessions, we eavesdrop on private moments: the artist, alone with his piano. These are brief audio snapshots of what was surely a substantial part of Sun Ra's life, infinitesimal surviving scraps of 100,000 hours similarly spent, most lost to posterity.

The 2-CD and 3-LP packages of this set include an essay by three-time Down Beat Artist of the Year VIJAY IYER, along with a historical chronicle by jazz authority BEN YOUNG.

– I.C.

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Attilio Zanchi

Mingus Portrait

LP | 2024 | Original (Alternate Side)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charles Mingus's music is, and will remain, in the hearts and ears of all Jazz lovers, serving to inspire generations of musicians. Mingus, besides being a magnificent double bassist, was also a prolific composer, arranger, pianist, and band leader of several historic ensembles. His groups, ranging from trios to big bands, have traversed and influenced various stylistic periods from the 1950s to the 1970s. Undoubtedly, Mingus, alongside Duke Ellington, was one of the most important composers of the 20th century; in his music, one can hear the roots of Blues, echoes of Gospel, Swing, Bebop, Soul Jazz, and even Free and avant-garde music. It is for this reason that his music can almost be considered an encyclopedic portrait of Jazz history and can still be played today without appearing dated, instead providing new insights and inspiration. From these considerations arises my desire to reinterpret Mingus's repertoire, influenced by our individual experiences as musicians. In this recording, in addition to Mingus's compositions, two original compositions inspired by or closely related to Mingus's musical style are performed. The group originates from the musical collaboration of over thirty years between myself, pianist Massimo Colombo, and saxophonist Tino Tracanna, and is complemented by saxophonist Gianni Azzali, drummer Tommy Bradascio, and two new young talents of Italian Jazz: trombonist Andrea Andreoli and trumpeter Daniele Nocella. One day, when he was already very ill, Charles Mingus said to his wife Sue: "You know, I've already had a body. Next time I want to be a star. I want to shine all night." We do not know if his wish was granted, but certainly his music continues to shine and illuminate the world like a star. Attilio Zanchi

All tracks composed by Charles Mingus unless otherwise stated.

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Ryan Keberle

Music Is Connection

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Henrik Gunde, Jesper Bodilsen & Morten Lund

Moods Volume 2

Henrik Gunde, Jesper Bodilsen & Morten Lund

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The sequel to the Scandinavian piano trio work "Moods," featuring leading Scandinavian bassist Jesper Bodilsen, drummer Morten Lund, and pianist Henrik Gunde, is now available on limited edition LP! Two pieces that Yasukuni Terashima had been eagerly awaiting to release on LP are finally being released on LP for the first time in the world. The beauty of the music is like that of a sculpture or a painting. Each note they play, each stroke, is captivating. "Moods" and "Moods Vol. 2" are two simultaneous releases for lovers of Scandinavian jazz and piano trios.

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Moods

Roy Powell / Lorenzo Feliciati / Lucrezio De Seta

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition LP release of Scandinavian piano trio works by leading Scandinavian bassist Jesper Bodilsen, drummer Morten Lund, and pianist Henrik Gunde! Two pieces that Yasukuni Terashima had been eagerly awaiting to release on LP are finally being released on LP for the first time in the world. The beauty of the music is like that of a sculpture or a painting. Each note they play, each stroke, is captivating. "Moods" and "Moods Vol. 2" are two simultaneous releases for lovers of Scandinavian jazz and piano trios.

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The Italian Songbook

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Piano trio led by master singer Roy Powell is releasing a new collection of Italian music on Terashima Record, a sequel to their 2009 release "Napoli"! The masterpiece "Napoli" has appeared twice before on Terashima Records compilations. "The Italian Songbook," which Roy Powell considers a sequel to "Napoli," also includes seven Italian compositions and two original compositions. This piano trio work is full of rich melodies that bring to mind beautiful Italian cityscapes and scenes.

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For Jazz Ballad Fans Only Volume 5

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The LP version of the fifth release in the Terashima Records' "For Jazz Ballad Fans Only" series has been announced! The "For Jazz Ballad Fans Only" series, which began in 2019, is the fifth in the series by popular demand. This series, which is said to be the starting point of Terashima's music selection, focuses on "jazz ballads" that offer the best of the best in terms of performance, tone, and tune. This is a series that will please not only beginner jazz listeners, but also veteran fans.

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Peg Carrothers

Blue Skies

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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PEG Carrothers, with the voice of an angel, released a hidden vocal masterpiece "Blue Skies" in 2001 and it's now going to be reissued on analog LP by Terashima Record! The song "PoorButterfly" from this album was included in the vocal compilation "For Jazz Vocal Fans Only Vol. 6" released in 2023. At that time, Yasukuni Terashima commented on her singing voice, "The high range of her voice is exceptionally beautiful". Peg Carrothers - vocal Bill Carrothers - piano Chris Bates - bass Jay Epstein - drums Jacqueline Ferrier-Ultan - cello

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For Jazz Vocal Fans Only Volume 7

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Birdbox)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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From hidden masterpieces to promising up-and-coming vocalists, we present a lineup that you can only hear at Terashima Record. A compilation of the finest vocalists to find your favorites. Yasukuni Terashima's vocal compilation, in which he chooses good voices, good sounds, and good songs, has released its seventh volume. A luxurious pleasure to relax with a drink or on a road trip. It is also recommended as a piece of information on the current state of contemporary jazz vocals.

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Cristiano Giardini

Odisseya

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Spiritual Healing: Bwa Kayiman Freedom Suite - Blue&Red

Jowee Omicil

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Bash! Village)

Every Kind Of Mood randyrandirandee

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joseph Omicil, Jr, a.k.a. Jowee Omicil, is a Haitian-Canadian jazz musician. He has worked in the past with artists such as Roy Hargrove, Pharoah Sanders, Tony Allen, Kenny Garrett, Jacob Desvarieux, Glen Ballard, Harold Faustin, Michel Martell, etc. He hosted Quincy Jones" 85th birthdaycelebration at Montreux Festival. He also starred in the Netflix series The Eddy, produced by Damien Chazelle, and Le temps d"aimer, directed by Katell Quillévéré (Cannes Festival2023). The Bois-Caïman ceremony was Haiti"sfirst major collective uprising against slavery. On his new album, SpiriTuaL HeaLinG: Bwa KaYimaN FreeDoM SuiTe, Jowee performs his ancestors" revolution in his own way. Joweebrought together all his inner tubes, soprano,alto, tenor, wood, clarinets, piccolo _¼éute, cornet, that blows, that winds, that rumbles. This record is an incantation, a therapy, it cleanses the world by drawing on the fantasized memory of the Haitian revolution. There are Freedom Suites by Sonny Rollins, Max Roach and others. Prayer music, music to break the chains in your head and on your wrists, music of black power and white magic. For Jowee, a kid from Montreal, son of a Haitian pastor, who sang Jesus in all the tones, and then Michael Jackson, and then 2Pac, who learned jazz from Ornette Coleman, the ceremony necessarily has the taste of free. This record is a healing hour- long improvisation.

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Randy Crawford

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Astral Spirits)

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Wood Blues

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Enc)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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an excerpt from Edward George's 10,000+word liner-note 8 page booklet that comes with the double LP: Delay, 1961 (the Story SO Far) "They are, Seymour said, in movement, and in keeping with their claim, their music is, like a Brownian bridge, an A&J Tranean train, a Byrdian plane, or a Blountian space-time myth-machine, a way of playing themselves into the historio-graphical hands, or better yet, the loving arms, or perhaps, to be precise, the metaphysical embrace, of ‘a new creative space’, and playing is a way, the only way, when you think about it, of getting and staying in movement, the only way of staying ahead of themselves. Staying ahead of themselves was always important, and tricky too: they were on the (musical) trail of someone who preceded them, was ahead of himself, or at least ahead of his own epoch, the late 1950s, and theirs, the late 20th and early 21st century, in which he was, before they found him (or he found them, the way music finds you — and finds you out) present as no more than a discographical evanescence. And to complicate things further, the way they talked about what they were doing as they proceeded along that trail, you’d think they were archaeologists (and not anthropologists), or geologists (and not ethnographers), as well as exemplars of whatever discipline it is through which the capacity for inhabiting and transforming the body, the corpus, of another takes place: ‘We excavate and reinhabit documents and fragments of plans and compositions that he left behind to make music that though it originated in the 20th century will speak to the 21st’. They said that, on the back, or the strength, of their first album, and it was enough to make you wonder where in the world it was that they started from, what their point(s) of departure might have been."

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Surreal Estate

First Step Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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'surreal Estate'
Limited Edition Gatefold 180gm Double Vinyl edition of 250
All profits from the release are donated to mind.org.uk
The third Emperors New Clothes album recorded and produced in 1996 by Trevor 'Underdog' Jackson, rejected and ridiculed by the bands original label, the album sat unheard for decades and unreleased in its original intended format anywhere till now.

A gloriously twisted mix of jazz, post-rock, dub, no wave, noise & abstract beats played by a live five piece, the album sounds as strangely relevant today as it was wildly ahead of its time in 96.

In founder member Luke Hannam's own words.

"Just two months before the recording took place at the chapel studios in Lincolnshire ENC went through a major line up change with Leo Taylor recruited on drums and David Bateman added on guitar & additional programming, Ian Girdlestone on decks & tape looping and the two founding members Andy Knight- Sax, electronics, flutes, programming, keys & percussion and Luke Hannam on Bass.

The band had come along way from its earliest days as a three piece in the late 80s based in the northeast . ENC were always an unusual band formed around Andy's deep musicality and knowledge of free jazz and experimental music and Luke's love of intense groove and dark post punk. They were an unlikely pairing in someways but they lived closely and supported each other for years.

The 'Surreal Estate' project began as the third album loomed into view. Trevor Jackson who had contributed some fantastic remixes on previous material was hired as producer with Corrine 'The Sea' Pennington as an engineer. The band headed to their Brixton arch and set about making the most adventurous music of their career. The tracks that's you hear on this album were mostly recorded during extensive sessions at The Chapel residential studios in Lincolnshire followed by various additional session in London and also at Trevor's home studio. Recording sessions are funny things, stuff works, stuff fails, bands implode, and sometimes great albums get made, stability never makes the best music and this album probably proves both are true.

My memories of these sessions are pretty vivid, we worked through the night creating our own private universe playing music as freely and intensely as we could. Andy provided, as he always did a sense of otherworldly concentration, I always found him like a man in the centre of a storm building circles and cycles, spinning patterns of sound rhythm and melody. Leo was a relative newcomer at the time but as afar as I was concerned produced beats so intense, so perfect, they pulled my bass into line … visceral and exact. David Bateman listened and carefully spun delicious guitar parts finding space where others thought there was none to be found … it was beautiful to watch and when I listen I can see him in the shadows immersed in the music. Ian's loops and analogue textures found their perfect embrace with Andy's subsonic samples and electronic depth charging …. The whole thing lurched like an obscure On U sound recording colliding with Sun Ra in Trevor's hip hop universe".

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Rudi Berger

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Second)

An Adventurous Dream - The Music Of Billy Strayhorn And Duke Ellington At Pizzaexpress Live - In London

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP - 180 Gram Vinyl / Handnumbered Edition limited to 200 Units / turqoise marble vinyl.The debut work of Viennese jazz violinist and composer Rudi Berger FIRST STEPFIRST STEP - now on vinyl for the first time since its release in 1985. It is regarded as a historic jazz violin album, affirming Rudi Berger`s pronounced talent as a composer from a young age. Since then he presented his music in jazz clubs, concert halls, and festivals in 29 countries worldwide, has lived in New York and Brazil, collaborated with various famous musicians, contributed to over 200 recordings, including award-winning soundtracks for animation, film, and theater and was named an honorary member of the Chet Baker Foundation. Today he is recognized as one of the most original and influential voices in jazz.

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Ian Shaw & Tony Kofi

2LP | 2024 | WW | Original (PX)

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Moon With Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Midnight Sun

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Somethin'cool)

Where? Original Jazz Classic Series Limited Edition

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Moon haewon, a Korean jazz diva, will release a standard vocal album on LP with the Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio! Lacquer cutting is done by the master Toru Kotetsu, making it a must-listen for audiophiles. The latest work from Moon is a collaboration with Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, a leading Japanese pianist who has captivated audiophiles as well as jazz fans, and is also extremely popular in Asia. The album features a selection of classic songs including "Misty," the swinging "Twisted," and the melodious ballad "In the Middle of a Kiss. The album includes 12 tracks, including Moon's original "Look to the Moon". We cannot take our eyes off the birth of this powerful tag team.

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Carte / Dolphy / Waldron

LP | 2024 | Original (Craft)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Somethin'cool)

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio

Sweet For K

Polyphony 3 Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The legendary TBN tag team, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio and Yoshihiko Kannari, have revived and newly recorded this superb Erroll Garner album. Tsuyoshi Yamamoto and Yoshihiko Kannari, a former engineer for the TBM label, reunited on their last album "Blues for K" (scol-1062). The duo have also produced numerous world-class recordings from Japan, including "Midnight Sugar" and "Misty". Then in 2023, Yoshihiko Kaminari made his return to the Onkio Haus in Tokyo! They will once again be at this iconic studio, where the TBM label used to do recordings. The songs for this album are a collection of ballads, mainly by Erroll Garner, whom Tsuyoshi Yamamoto has always admired and loved. The result is a return to their roots and a challenging work for both of them.

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Jasper Blom Quartet

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Second)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Apollon)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP - 180 Gram Vinyl / Handnumbered, marbled Edition limited to 200 UnitsJasper Blom, a revered figure in the Netherlands' jazz scene, presents `Polyphony 3,' the latest installment in his acclaimed Polyphony cycle. With a versatile quartet featuring guitarist Jesse van Ruller, bassist Frans van der Hoeven, and drummer Martijn Vink, Blom welcomes guest pianist Pablo Held and collaborators Ben van Gelder and Joris Roelofs on select tracks. Drawing inspiration from post-tonal tone-clock theory, Blom's intelligent compositions create an absorbing and free-flowing musical journey. `Polyphony 3' showcases the tight-knit quartet's remarkable interplay and highlights Blom's distinctive voice, documenting the ongoing evolution of his esteemed career.

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Gaute Storvse Band

Bebe' K'awil

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Jazz Shinsekai)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Apollon Records proudly presents Bebé K’awiil, the latest album by Gaute Storsve Band, scheduled for release on February 23rd. This album is a musical journey inspired by ancient Maya gods, masterfully blending Nordic jazz with Latin rhythms. The thematic inspiration for this album stems from Gaute Storsve's profound engagement with Mayan culture and archaeology, spanning over 25 years. His deep appreciation and understanding of this rich heritage have significantly shaped the band's innovative musical direction, culminating in this vibrant new release. Featuring Cuban percussionist Angel Terry Domech from the Buena Vista Social Club, Bebé K’awiil is enriched with authentic Latin rhythms, adding a vibrant dimension to the album. "Oración a Ixchel" showcases the stunning vocals of Patricia Morales, with lyrics penned by Guatemalan writer Christina Violeta Thrane Storsve. The cultural richness of the album is further enhanced by the exquisite ceramic artwork of Mayan artist Francisco Javier Iquic Garcia Gaute Storsve Band, which evolved from the Gaute Storsve Trio, has long been a significant presence in the Nordic jazz scene. The Trio's first album, Attention: This Is Not a Toy, For Adult Collectors Only, laid the groundwork for the band's distinctive fusion of Nordic jazz and Latin American music. Their previous album El Gran Gotzilla (Apollon Records, 2022) has enjoyed regular airplay on the domestic radio channel NRK Jazz.

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Walter Lang

Pure

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Jazz Shinsekai)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is a gem, a wonderfully transparent piece of music. Walter Lang's delicate and penetrating view of the world is crystallized here. There is nothing flashy or simple about it. Here is a dream played by the soul. This is Walter Lang's last studio recording album. The transparency, the impurity-free worldview, and the sense of unity as a work of art that never wavers even though some of the material is obtained outside of the artist's own. It can only be described as Pure in every way. All the songs are newly drawn by Walter, who puts his soul into them. Recorded at Stefano Amerio's Artesuono studio with drummer Magnus Ostrom of the legendary Swedish band E.S.T., this is the ultimate analog sound with the highest sound quality.

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Alessandro Galati

Cold Sand

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Libellule)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A "sound time-space" created by a piano wizard born in Italy. Listen to the silence. A drop of beautiful sound dripping from the heavens beyond. The soundscape, which can only be described as profound, unfolds from a beautiful melody filled with melancholy, and gives us a sense of mystery, as if we are traversing a corridor into some other time and space. The sounds spun are beautiful, but the silence that exists between them is also beautiful. This work was recorded by Alessandro Galati, a piano wizard born in Italy, at Stefano Amerio's Artesuono studio.

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Ichi Kato & Seiji Endo

Grace

Eastern Sounds Original Jazz Classics Series

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The first duo album by Daichi Kato and Seiji Endo with their emotional and energetic sound. The duo is comprised of Daichi Kato, a talented composer and arranger who handles a variety of instruments and rich tones in a straight-ahead style, and Seiji Endo, a genius who continues to captivate with his unique world view. Their first duo album "Grace", a collection of their original compositions, is finally completed. We hope you will enjoy the rich sound of the hall recording.

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Yusef Lateef

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ksenia Parkhatskaya

Colours

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Terashima)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Debut album by Ksenia Parkhatskaya, a talented vocalist and dancer / actress with a worldwide career! Limited quantity of the analog version is now available for the Record Day 2023!! "Close Your Eyes" sung by Ksenia Parkhatskaya was included in the vocal compilation "For Jazz Vocal Fans Only Vol. 6" (tyr-1110) selected by Yasukuni Terashima. In addition, her debut album from 2021 "Colors" will be released as an analog LP!! She is also a dancer, choreographer, and actress, and her videos have been viewed more than 200 million times. The track no.3 "How Long" will help you discover her charm as a vocalist.

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Lauren Henderson

Musa

2LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (BBE Music)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lauren Henderson, who won the Bronze Award in the vocal section of the "Jazz Audio Disc Award 2022", is coming back on Terashima Records. Limited quantity of the analog version is now available for the Record Day 2023!! "Musa", released in 2021, focuses on jazz standards and original compositions. It was recorded in New York with notable artists such as Sullivan Fortner (p), Eric Wheeler (b) and Joe Dyson (ds). The dark tones of her voice, which comes low and quiet and captivates the listener before you know it, are a must-hear.

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Maulawi

Orotunds

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Although there is an element of mystery to almost all jazz musicians, few are ever quite as enigmatic as Maulawi Nururdin. A legendary band leader and reedist to his disciples, information about Maulawi’s personal life and early years is so scarce that even his birth name remains unknown. What is known is that Maulawi was a tougher-than-nails Chicagoan by birth, inescapable mentor to others, and a virtuoso jazz musician unlike any other.

The earliest notes in Maulawi’s history begin on the south side of Chicago as a close associate of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians with Aacm pioneers Muhal Richard Abrams, Fred Anderson, Billy Brimfield and Roscoe Mitchell. From the beginning, Maulawi was a self assured leader, unafraid to boot other musicians off stage, commandeer their instrument, and give them an impromptu lesson on how to play it right. An intimidating figure in his signature beret and goatee, Maulawi wasn’t a stranger to the streets, and often spent his free time driving around, hipping his protégés to real life on the Chicago south side. But it would be his reputation as a musician, and not a streetwise bandleader, that would bring Maulawi to the doors of Strata Records.

“Maulawi could really, really play,” says percussionist Adam Rudolph, who, at 16 years old, began practicing and playing with Maulawi in the early 1970s. It was Rudolph who would introduce Maulawi to Strata’s Charles Moore, a meeting which would lead to Maulawi’s selftitled 1973 debut, the first album recorded by Strata by an artist from outside of Detroit.

True to the mysterious nature of Maulawi, even the story behind the recording of Ortunds is in dispute. They were either part of the 1973 sessions for Maulawi, recorded in a single night in Chicago, or from an unmixed session that took place in the Streeterville neighborhood at a later date. History aside, Ortunds never fails to astonish. Composed by Maulawi himself, Ortunds is an album of mostly Pop and R&B songs, all elevated by tip-toe funk tempos and Maulawi’s wildly inventive soprano saxophone. Tracks include Thom Bell and Linda Creed’s “People Make The World Go Round,” as well as the Burt Bacharach and Hal David-penned classic, “I Say A Little Prayer.” The title track is a drum and bass driven showcase, the perfect platform for Maulawi to strut his sublime expressionist style on the Saxophone. The album ends with a real find – a rarely heard spoken recording of Maulawi himself, introducing the players and defining the title Ortunds as “full, clearness, strength and smoothness.”

This deluxe edition of Maulawi Nururdin’s previously unknown and unreleased album has been painstakingly recovered and remastered from the original master tapes, and features cover art by Ge-ology (G Young).

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Robert Lakatos Trio

Sepia

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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To stop what is moving away. Sometimes delicately, sometimes powerfully, the piano spins memories and dreams. A superb piano trio by a Hungarian virtuoso. Lakatos's piano is imbued with love. But it is not drowned in sentimentalism, and sometimes it conveys a strong will or a rational abandonment. This ambitious work was recorded in Hungary with Gregory Hutchinson on drums. Each note of the grainy piano evokes a shadowy, monochromatic, pale brown.

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Tonu Naissoo

For Now And Forever

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Jazz Shinsekai X Atelier Sawano)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For now and forever. A time of composition and performance, a time of fulfillment. Tonu Naissoo's masterpiece that shows his true value. The title track from the album "Turning Point" released on Melodia in 1981 was performed again in 2007. The cover design also pays homage to the atmosphere of that time. This is a masterpiece among Tonu Naissoo's works that should be reevaluated.

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Arnold Klos

Heartstrings

Kristjan Randalu And New Wind Jazz Orchestra

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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All for the sake of beauty. The exquisite pianism created by his polished touch and phrases. You can hear the "soul" of the fantastic pianist Arnold Kros. This is the first studio recording by Dutch pianist Arnold Klos in 14 years, made in 2002. The performances on this album have the "elegant atmosphere" of the Evans Trio and Klos's attempt to "get close to his heart". The heart-soaking performance of his great predecessors reflects a sincere reverence that transcends stylistic beauty and technique, as well as his own way of life.

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Sisu Black Vinyl Edition

Seismic Shift Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP, 180g vinyl.Sisu marks the beginning of a new chapter for esteemed Estonian pianist and composer Kristjan Randalu - as his first large ensemble project recording with the New Wind Jazz Orchestra conducted by Wolf Kerschek, featuring special guest trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and guitarist Ben Monder. This nine-track record combines brand new, large ensemble arrangements of original compositions by Randalu, as well as reworkings of established pieces from the Estonian canon. Mixed and mastered by the multi-Grammy-Award winning engineers Klaus Genuit and Tyler McDiarmid.

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John Escreet

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP - 180 Gram VinylPianist John Escreet, hailed by Time Out London as a "transatlantic jazz genius," continues his artistic ascent with the bold, exploratory new album Seismic Shift. The UK native teams up with Eric Revis (bass) and Damion Reid (drums) for a set brimming with fire and invention. Seismic Shift offers ground-shaking evidence that Escreet ranks as one of the top pianist-auteurs of our time. The album gives what the title implies: it involves tumult, rupture, earthquake. Escreet and his colleagues unleash a lot of power, whether freely improvising, sculpting sound with extended techniques, or for that matter playing elegant tonal harmony.

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Serge Delaite

French Cookin'

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The entire trio has a smooth swinging feel. There are blues, waltzes, and bossas, with a nice balance of standards and originals. And all of them are really pleasant to listen to. Serge Delaite's greatest album is now available in analog format with a fresh new jacket!

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Roberto Olzer

Torre Del Lago

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Roberto Olzer's ultimate solo piano album on Giacomo Puccini, one of Italy's most famous composers. Performed on a custom Fazioli piano and recorded and mastered by Italian master Stefano Amerio. While maintaining the storyline of the original source material, the series of well-honed beautiful sounds are painfully beautiful and enthrallingly deep.

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Arnold Klos

Appreciations

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in 1988, this is Dutch pianist Arnold Klos at his best. The rhythmic surface-skimming groove, block chords, and harmonic sense... too deep in its shadow, sold out CDs more than a decade ago, and now a miracle performance known only to those in the know is back on record.

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Nikoletta Szoke

Shape Of My Heart

LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Red)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This work touches the true heart behind her dazzling beauty. Robert Lakatos' clear piano and Szoke's compassionate voice. The content of the LP retains the tension of the original CD, but Nikoletta's personality has been sharpened to the utmost. The cover design has been reconstructed from the original data provided by Nikoletta herself to the size of a vinyl jacket. It is hard to believe that this work was released in 2011, but it never fades away.

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Sam Rivers

The Quest

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tony Allen Gold Vinyl Edition

Adrian Younge

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Jazz Is Dead)

Kristjan Randalu And New Wind Jazz Orchestra

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The genius that is Tony Allen departed this mortal world in April of 2020, but not without leaving an unmatched legacy that crossed oceans and borders, bridging cultures and forging a sound that changed music. As the drummer for Fela Kuti"s revolutionary Africa 70, Allen"s polyrhythmic drumming defined Afrobeat. His contributions as an artist and cultural ambassador left an indelible impact on every genre of popular music, from Techno to Jazz to Rock and Hip-Hop. Tony Allen"s music stands as an ongoing testament to the interconnected musical relationships and dialogues across the African diaspora, and their lasting influence on how we listen. For Jazz Is Dead producer Adrian Younge, it is no small honor to share new music recorded with the drummer revolutionary Tony Allen.

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Sisu Grey Marble Vinyl Edition

44,79 €* 55,99 € -20%

Seismic Shift Grey Marble Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP - 180 Gram Vinyl / Handnumbered Edition limited to 300 Units, grey marble vinyl.Sisu marks the beginning of a new chapter for esteemed Estonian pianist and composer Kristjan Randalu - as his first large ensemble project recording with the New Wind Jazz Orchestra conducted by Wolf Kerschek, featuring special guest trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and guitarist Ben Monder. This nine-track record combines brand new, large ensemble arrangements of original compositions by Randalu, as well as reworkings of established pieces from the Estonian canon. Mixed and mastered by the multi-Grammy-Award winning engineers Klaus Genuit and Tyler McDiarmid.

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John Escreet

44,79 €* 55,99 € -20%

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Cimbarecord)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP - 180 Gram Vinyl / Handnumbered Edition limited to 300 Units, grey marble vinyl.Pianist John Escreet, hailed by Time Out London as a "transatlantic jazz genius," continues his artistic ascent with the bold, exploratory new album Seismic Shift. The UK native teams up with Eric Revis (bass) and Damion Reid (drums) for a set brimming with fire and invention. Seismic Shift offers ground-shaking evidence that Escreet ranks as one of the top pianist-auteurs of our time. The album gives what the title implies: it involves tumult, rupture, earthquake. Escreet and his colleagues unleash a lot of power, whether freely improvising, sculpting sound with extended techniques, or for that matter playing elegant tonal harmony.

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Simona Bencini

Unfinished

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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WaJazz Volume II The King RCDS Masters HHV Exclusive Sun Yellow Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (180g)

Rehearsal Tapes And Alt-Takes NYC 1976-1978

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This edition is limited to 500 copies worldwide and is only available at HHV. Following the highly acclaimed first volume in the series, Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa continues the WaJazz exploration with another essential collection of music that contains something uniquely Japanese — focusing this time on the King Records catalog. Featuring timeless music by Isao Suzuki, Toshiaki Yokota, Akira Miyazawa, Takeru Muraoka, Yasuaki Shimizu, Masahiko Togashi, George Otsuka, and more!

Gatefold 180g heavy double vinyl LP, reverse board print. Comes with extensive track-by-track liner notes by Yusuke Ogawa.
All tracks licensed by King Record Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Mastering and lacquer cut by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting Lab, Helsinki, Finland.
Artwork by Nker.

TEXT:

“It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the second volume of the “Japanese Jazz Spectacle” series. Following the first compilation which focused on recordings from the Nippon Columbia catalog, this time we are digging into the King Records archives. It is almost impossible to capture the whole picture of Wa-Jazz in a couple of compilation albums since it is such a broad and deep genre, however, by extracting tracks from the Nippon Columbia and King Records collections - both labels having an extensive archive of jazz music - we may be able to glimpse a part of its allure and essence. This time again, I have made the music selection with this idea in mind. The music in this compilation was recorded between 1962 and 1985 and is a brief history of Japanese jazz on King Records. Listening is believing, so I hope these tracks will capture your heart and that you will enjoy the charms of Japanese jazz.” - Yusuke Ogawa

Yusuke Ogawa has been running the Universounds store in Tokyo since 2001, specializing in jazz and second-hand, rare, and collector records. He is also a reissue supervisor, label manager, DJ, and music writer. Known for his vast musical knowledge, eye for detail, and archival skills, Ogawa has worked on more than 250 reissues and compilations – including the highly praised Deep Jazz Reality and Project Re:Vinyl series. He is the co-author of the Wa-Jazz Disc Guide and the Independent Black Jazz of America books.

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Mars

3LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Improved Sequence)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (La Canzonetta)

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Before No Wave there was China and after China there was Mars. For the first time on vinyl the complete 'Rehearsal Tapes and Alt-Takes NYC 1976-1978', an incredible document from this era. The rehearsal tapes are a chronological record of the 3 years of Mars' existence, the first year of which was spent forming their sound and musical identity, starting out with a lineup of upright piano, bass, acoustic guitar and percussion before going electric with guitars, bass and drums.

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Napoli Centrale

Jesceallah

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Inmelo Music)

Eduardo Hopper

Gratidao Infinita

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Impulse)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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If one had to embody Eduardo Hopper with a single word, that word would be “virtuoso”- a term the master musicians he worked with often used in reference to him. His unusual harmonic approaches in compositions and in musical interpretations beguile the ear and instil curiosity in the listener. This talent is only matched by Hopper’s technical skills as an instrumentalist, illustrated especially by his mastery of the acoustic and electric guitars.

As a Brazilian music researcher, he travels through diverse and rich universes of sound. Inspired by the instrumentalists Baden Powell, Hélio Delmiro, Lula Galvão and Guinga on one hand, and Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery, Bill Evans and Sonny Rollins on the other ; Hopper’s perfectionism becomes a tool, which allows him to work relentlessly until he is sure that every resource at his disposal has been used to express his vision.

Besides being a superb guitar player, he also plays the cavaquinho, the bass, the drums and the piano. He teaches music and is renown as a prolific creator of soundtracks for television programs, as well as music for commercials, etc. Throughout the 21 years of his career, he performed alongside many great names in Brazilian music, such as Francis Hime, Johnny Alf, Zimbo Trio, Dominguinhos, André Mehmari and Mônica Salmaso, among many others.

Born in 1983 in Santo André, a big industrial city, Eduardo Hopper began studying music at the precocious age of 4 years old by learning the guitar. He grew up surrounded by a festive and musical family environment. His determination and dedication also came from his parents, who were farm labourers and left the countryside in order to seek a better life. His first musical references were his father and siblings who played and rehearsed with relatives and friends at family gatherings.

Although he played in gospel music groups, he only began attending music school at the age of 13. Three years later, he was invited to replace his own teacher, thus starting his teaching career. In the meantime, he began composing which allowed him to gain entry to some of Brazil’s most prestigious music schools. Firstly, to Fundação das Artes in São Caetano do Sul, where under his teacher, Renato Santoro’s, guidance, he deepened his knowledge of guitar in popular Brazilian music. At the age of 19, he joined the Conservatório de Tatuí, the Institution supported by Hermeto Pascoal, where he further mastered the guitar with Fernando Correa, who was specialised in teaching Jazz and popular music.

At this point he was already touring professionally accompanying different bands and artists. At the Universidade Livre de Música de São Paulo, while he was guided by master Olmir Stocker, he was invited to join the orchestra Jovem Tom Jobim, at the time conducted by the maestro Roberto Sion. In this orchestra he had the opportunity to play with major names of the Brazilian pop music and contributed to the orchestra’s first album Álbum de Estréia.

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Sons Of Kemet

Your Queen Is A Reptile

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Free Flow Archive)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sons Of Kemet are born of many vital elements – including a name that nods to ancient Egyptian culture, and a line-up that comprises some of the most progressive 21st-century talents in British jazz and beyond. Band-leader/composer/sax/clarinet don Shabaka Hutchings (himself named after a Nubian pharaoh-philosopher) brings together his fiery vision alongside London-based bandmates Tom Skinner and Max Hallet (forming a dynamo duo on drums) and Theon Cross on tuba. On their third studio album, Your Queen Is a Reptile, they bring a genre defying approach which celebrates the restless exploration of identity within the Caribbean diaspora within the U.K. The collection was recorded in London with a host of guests spanning the breadth of the UK scene including jungle legend Congo Natty and poet Joshua Idehen.

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Gary Bartz NTU Troop

Live In Bremen 1975

Paris Jazz Festival 1964 Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gary Bartz (alto & soprano sax, vocals) - Charles Mims (piano, syntheziser) - Curtis Robertson (electric bass, back vocals) - Howard King (drums)
A fantastic live recorded in Bremen on 8th November 1975 set from reedman Gary Bartz – captured here with his ultra-hip NTU group – who you might know from their classic albums on Milestone in the 70s!
1 hour and 46 minutes of free and spiritual jazz.
Double LP 180gm vinyl
Gatefold cover
Strictly Limited Edition

Side A: Nation Time 11:54 / Ju Ju Man 18:50
Side B: Medley: Rise / Celestial Blues / The Sounding Song / Incident / Uhura Sasa 9:44 / Peace And Love 7:56 / Sifa Zote 10.02
Side C: I've Known Rivers 24:36
Side D: Sweet Tooth 24:26

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Miles Davis

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Sony Music Catalog)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Shabaka

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

511 Transparent Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
Shabaka says he's done playing saxophone--including in his beloved groups Sons of Kemet, the Comet is Coming and Shabaka and the Ancestors--and his new solo album bears that out: it's filled with spiritual ruminations delivered on clarinet and flutes, a deeply felt work that is much different in tone than his firebrand sax work. I saw him play Pharoah Sanders' parts of Promises at the Hollywood Bowl in September, and wept for most of the performance; this album feels like a spiritual successor to Shabaka inhabiting the role of spiritual jazz's most revered monk. Featuring contributions from Moses Sumney--who sings his ass off--Brandee Younger, Carlos Nino, Ndudzo Makathini and a show-stopping flute performance by Andre 3000, this is my favorite album of the year so far in a walk. Can't wait for everyone to hear it.
-- Andrew Winistorfer, VMP Senior Director of Music and Editorial

Limited to 1000 copies, the VMP exclusive version is pressed on 180g Black vinyl at Furnace Record Pressing. The 2LPs will arrive in double gatefold, tip-on, foil-stamped and numbered jacket. It was mastered for vinyl by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

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Susan Wong

LP | 2024 | WW | Original (Evo Sound)

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kenny Dorham & Jackie Mclean

Inta Somethin' Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

Watkins At Large Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This spirited 1961 live date for Pacific Jazz captured Kenny Dorham leading a quintet with Jackie McLean, Walter Bishop Jr., Leroy Vinnegar, and Art Taylor at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco. The band is firing on all cylinders throughout this set featuring four standards bookended by two Dorham originals. This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe tip-on jacket.

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Doug Watkins

LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

3LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Tuk Music)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in 1956 for Tom Wilson’s Transition label, Watkins At Large was the first of two albums bassist Doug Watkins made as a leader. With a first-rate band featuring Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Kenny Burrell, Duke Jordan, and Art Taylor, Watkins swings through a stellar set of blues, ballads and more. This mono Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe tip-on jacket with an 8.5” x 5.5” booklet.

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Paolo Fresu

Next Legacy Box

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charm Marble Vinyl Ediiton

Naya Baaz

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Whirlwind)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Melt Marble Vinyl Edition

Jure Pukl

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Whirlwind)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Vacuum Black Vinyl Edition

Roeland Celis

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Whirlwind)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie!

Ella Fitzgerald

LP | 2024 | Original (Verve)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album

Hasaan Ibn Ali

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (ADA)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Previously Unreleased Recordings Acoustic Sounds Edition

Stan Getz & Bill Evans

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Poly-Currents Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Elvin Jones

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Midnight Creeper Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Lou Donaldson

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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I Want To Hold Your Hand Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Grant Green

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Let No Man Write My Epitaph Acoustic Sounds

Ella Fitzgerald

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mack Avenue)

Aaron Diehl

Zodiac Suite

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Herbie Nichols Trio Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Herbie Nichols Trio

LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Space-Time Dreatime: The Four Dimensional Music Of

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Little-known in his time, recognition has grown in recent decades for the pianist Herbie Nichols’ unique style which was introduced on a series of innovative Blue Note releases in the mid-1950s including Herbie Nichols Trio featuring Max Roach on drums and bassists Al McKibbon and Teddy Kotick.

Blue Note Tone Poet Edition: Stereo, produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analogue master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.

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Lori Vambe

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Strut)

Jazz At Oberlin Live At Oberlin College

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Occasionally, you find music outside the commercial mainstream, outside of everything - the music of visionaries, eccentrics, inventors, loners, the keepers of secrets, the path-finders. Moondog, Daphne Oram, Harry Partch are from this mould. And so too is Lori Vambe. This is the first ever reissue of Vambe"s privately pressed original albums from 1982, Drumland Dreamland and Drumgita Solo, packaged in a deluxe slipcase and featuring both albums in their original artwork!

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The Dave Brubeck Quartet

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tony Bennett & Bill Evans

The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craf)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Masahiko Togashi/Mototeru Takagi

Isolation

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Lawson)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Inside The Light World: Sun Ra Meets The Ovc Record Store Day 2024 Edition

Sun Ra

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Strut)

43,69 €* 45,99 € -5%

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Candid)

Kenny Barron

Lemuria-Seascape

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Makoto Ozone & Park Street Kids

Park Street Kids Feat. Eiji Kitamura

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Eight Islands)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (We Are Busy Bodies)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Special project by Makoto Ozone tracing his roots in Dixieland jazz. Dixie groove with the legendary Eiji Kitamura and the "park Street Kids", full of music, life, and happiness! Live recording at the long-established jazz club "body & Soul" on Shibuya Koen-dori is now available on vinyl!! This is real Dixieland jazz, not just nostalgia, but a live performance full of wonder and happiness of music and life in the present.

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Hideo-Quintet- Shiraki

Plays Horace Silver

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain 1961-1973

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Decca)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller

In Harmony Record Store Day 2021 Edition

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Resonance)

My Conception Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Record Store Day 2021 Release. Extensive booklet with rare fotos / first official posthumous release in agreement Roy Hargrove estate / Interviews with a who´s is who of Jazz Icons / Limited 180g Gatefold Vinyl, mastered by Kevin Gray

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Sonny Clark

LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jimmy Smith & Stanley Turrentine

Prayer Meetin' Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joe Harley ist Mitbegründer und Koproduzent des renommierten amerikanischen Vinyl-Labels MUSIC MATTERS. Sein außerordentliches Gespür für die Klangästhetik des LP-Formats brachte ihm den Titel "Tone Poet" ein. Anlässlich seines 80. Label-Jubiläum beauftragte Blue Note Records den "Klangpoeten" damit, einige Alben für eine exklusive LP-Edition zusammenstellen. Diese rein analogen, d.h. ohne digitale Zwischenschritte gefertigten Reissues werden von Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) von den originalen Masterbändern neu gemastert und bei Record Technology Incorporated (RTI) auf 180g-Vinyl gepresst. Die Originalcover werden als schwere, laminierte Gatefold-Sleeves faksimiliert. Dabei wird eine Hüllenfertigung angewendet, deren Name nur LP-Gourmets etwas sagen dürfte: Tip-on-Sleeve. Wie zur Zeit der schweren, stabilen Papphüllen der fünfziger und sechziger Jahre wird auch hier eine stabile Papp-Grundlage mit glänzend laminierter Oberfläche verbunden.

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R+R=Now

Collagically Speaking

2LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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R+R=NO is a supergroup assembled by Robert Glasper but functionally egalitarian, in no small part because its members are visionary players, composers, and producers on their own: Glasper on keys, Terrace Martin on synthesizer and vocoder, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah on trumpet, Derrick Hodge on bass, Taylor McFerrin on synth and beatbox, and newcomer Justin Tyson on drums.

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Vladislav Delay Quartet

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Bobby Bradford And His Cuzns

Freddie Ain't Ready

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Intervention)