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Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Warner Music Poland)

Extra Ball

Birthday

18,99 €*

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Warner Music Poland)

Czeslaw Bartkowski

Drums Dream

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Freddie Hubbard & Stanley Turrentien

In Concert

2LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

55,99 €*

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Kudu)

Johnny Hammond

Breakout

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1979 | US | Reissue (CTI)

Joe Farrell

Outback

Release: 1979 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1978 | US | Reissue (Philadelphia)

Dexter Wansel

Voyager

18,99 €*

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Sommor)

Catch Up

Volume 1

Jazz At The Philharmonic: Lester Young Carnegie

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the best Jazz-Funk-Fusion albums from the 70s Euro scene, featuring such giants as Charly Antolini (famous for his MPS recordings) on drums, Max Greger jr. on electric piano, Moog, Hammond, Mellotron and Milan Pilar on electric bass. Top notch jamming & soulful funky-jazz sound with some kraut-prog touches, recorded at the legendary Studio 70 in Munich and originally released in 1975 on the Calig label.
Including the rare-groove classic “Onkel Joe” and more.
Original artwork and master tape sound.

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Lester Young

LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Verve)

37,99 €*

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Now-Again)

The Lightmen Plus One

Fancy Pants

27,99 €*

Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Revolutionary, spiritual jazz from Houston, reissued for the first time – expanded reissue of The Lightmen Plus One’s Spiritual Jazz classic, on sale and shipping now. (Worldwide release in March.) The second in a series of four expanded reissues of drummer and bandleader Bubbha Thomas’s lauded catalog.

Now-Again Records celebrated the expanded reissue of The Lightmen’s Fancy Pants with a pop-up record shop at Rappcats on February 24th. The sale was hosted by Egon of Now-Again, with records sourced from Bubbha Thomas and his Lightmen bandmates: saxophonist Doug Harris and bassist Don Patterson’s collections, one-of-a-kind rarities and classic soul, funk, jazz and rock LPs and 45s that inspired Thomas and his band.

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Ella Fitzgerald

2LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1976 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Stanley Cowell

Regeneration

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Nelson)

Release: 1976 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Around the time of this recording, Stanley Cowell had achieved a degree of prominence as the pianist for the advanced bop quartet Music Inc., which he co-led with trumpeter Charles Tolliver, as well as for unusual projects like his Piano Choir. With Regeneration he chose another path, essentially trying to produce a jazz-infused pop album with strong African roots, perhaps owing a little bit to Stevie Wonder. He assembled an extremely strong cast of musicians for the venture, including Marion Brown, Billy Higgins, and Ed Blackwell, as well as several African string and percussion masters and, by and large, succeeded conceptually if not commercially. A few songs use vocals in a fairly standard pop framework, and, while they are performed capably enough, the lyrical content leaves something to be desired in typical mid-'70s fashion. But much of the rest of the music makes up for this with, among other things, a delightful fife and drum piece by Brown and strong bass work by Bill Lee (Spike's dad). Regeneration is an interesting, often enjoyable album which, aside from its own small pleasures, provides a snapshot of some of the cross-fertilization in genres occurring at the time.

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I Marc 4

G.L.P. 1007

SAC - School Of American Craftsmen

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The best and most valued volume of GLP series featuring the fantastic modal madness of "André", "Peroche", "Suoni Distorti" and the milestone “Alfio” feat the flute by Alfio Galigani. The music goes from insane Psychedelic tunes to Jazz, Funk and more Bossa and Lounge tracks with plenty of Fuzz guitars, amazing Hammond job, and totally catching drum Breaks. An insane trip into early gold Italian Psychedelic and Underground vibes with loads of laden beats and grooves with the mark of the legendary Italian quartet. Simply essential!

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Jeff Resnick

LP | 1978 | UK | Reissue (Outernational Sounds)

23,99 €*

Billy Parker's Fourth World

Release: 1978 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Organically funky, laced with avant-garde synth textures, and studded with breakbeats, the second Outernational is Jeff Resnick’s unique, ultra-rare, 1978 promotional recording for the School for American Craftsmen, at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Five tracks of soul jazz and modal fusion — re-modelling Trane, and opening with a variation of Norwegian Wood — by a local group including trumpeter Jeff Tyzik and pianist Sonny Kompanek; then Resnick mostly solo for the second side, when the money ran out, multi-tracking synthesizers on his home set-up, in an engrossing blend of reflective abstraction, grooving electro and spiritualised fourth-world tropicalism.
Bim!

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Freedom Of Speech

LP | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Most of the musicians who gathered to record this fantastic spiritual jazz record for the Strata-East label on May 24th, 1974 had crossed each other's paths in various musical pairings over the preceding few years. Husband and wife team Dee Dee Bridgewater (vocals) and Cecil Bridgewater (trumpet) had been working together on albums like Frank Foster's "Loud Minority", and Roy Ayers' "Coffy" and "Virgo Red". Ten weeks before the "Freedom Of Speech" session, the couple had been joined in Tokyo by Cecil's brother Ronald Bridgewater (tenor saxaphone) to record Dee Dee's debut album, the beautiful "Afro Blue". Also in the studio on May 24th, 1974 was Donald Smith, (piano, vocals), fresh from recording on his older brother Lonnie Liston Smith's "Cosmic Funk" - on which Ronald Bridgewater had also played percussion. Cecil McBee (bass) was also there - just two weeks before, he'd completed his own Strata East date "Mutima", and in February he'd played on Mtume's "Rebirth Cycle" - with both albums also featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater on vocals. He'd also played on Lonnie Liston Smith's "Astral Travelling".
So 1974 was a huge year for all five of these people. Donald Smith and Cecil McBee were six months away from recording on Lonnie Liston Smith's massive "Expansions", with McBee fitting in a few Pharoah Sanders albums in between.
AND THEN, THE MYSTERY ... So with all this fervent activity, the question has to be asked ...Who was Billy Earl Parker Jr (drums), the leader of this session?
Billy Parker remains unlisted as a musician on all major jazz sites. His only other recording appears to be as a percussionist on Charles Tolliver's "Impact" in 1975.

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Monty Alexander

Here Comes The Sun

24,99 €*

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Everland Jazz)

John Gordon

Erotica Suite

Very Special Stash: Best Of Reefer Songs

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Official reissue of mega rare 1978 LP! Licensed by Strate-East.

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V.A.

LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Stash)

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Far Out)

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally released in 1981, now available again on vinyl, this is a very stoned collection of jazz tunes about - or dedicated to - grass, weed, marihuana, Marie-Jane or whatever you call it in your neighborhood.

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Antonio Adolfo

Viralata

LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (High Jazz)

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Far Out Recordings are honoured to be working with master composer, arranger and pianist, Antonio Adolfo for the first time since releasing his Destiny album in 2007. This time we present the first ever vinyl reissue of his era-defining Viralata LP: An essential album from Brazil's majorly progressive heyday of late seventies jazz-funk. Viralata is a sacred artefact of Brazilian music, which Antonio himself describes as ‘a product of my hybrid musical influences that joins together flavours of marchinhas de carnaval, frevo, toada, classical, baião, mpb and jazz, etc’.
The album’s first track ‘Cascavel’ is the emotionally charged, celebratory dance anthem, which became a London jazz-dance classic in the early ‘90s after Far Out label boss Joe Davis discovered a handful of copies in a second hand shop in Sao Paulo and brought them back to London to sell to DJs like Gilles Peterson and Patrick Forge. In recent years the track has been played out by the likes of Floating Points, Mr Scruff and Andrew Ashong, it was also the last song ever to play on the hallowed soundsystem of London’s beloved club Plastic People…

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Potter & Tillman

…Space…Rapture

29,99 €*

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Wagram)

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissue from this soul/jazz-funk fusion album originally released in 1982 on Poet Records. 500 copy LTD edition!
This sought-after album is an amazing and unique creative project produced and composed by David Eric Tillman including outstanding performances by some of the highest-level musicians whose common thread was their ability to kill up tempo and modal bop and excel in this jazz-funk/fusion style thanks to their up bop think quick knowledge.

This gem contains nothing but brilliant tracks like “…Space…Rapture”, “Love Is How”, “New Anniversary Waltz”, “It Must Be E.S.P.” and “(Sing) A Simple Song Of Praise”. Incredible golden lead and backing vocals, a super tight rhythm section, forward thinking arrangements, and an amazing combination of piano, Rhodes and various remarkable synthesizers makes this recording timelessly fresh. The beautiful “Time Is Love”, a tune of positive outlook written during her jazz composition studies, is performed by the one and only Carmen. Killer from the beginning to the end, one of our all-time favorite soul/jazz-funk LPs.

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Dave Brubeck

Take Five

15,99 €*

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1976 | UK | Reissue (Matsuli)

Pacific Express

Black Fire

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Release: 1976 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Militant jazz, fusion, funk and soul from mid-seventies Manenberg, outside Cape Town, with a set of roots in club dance traditions like ballroom ('langarm'), Khoisan hop-step and the whirling 'tickey draai' ('spin on a sixpence') of the mine camps; others in jazz-rock and the New Thing, from Santana and Chicago to Shepp and Coltrane.

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Jan Garbarek

Places

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Places” is an important album for the Norwegian saxophonist with its stellar transatlantic line-up.

“Places” brings together another congregation of musicians that could only come from ECM. Drummer Jack DeJohnette lassoes his scurrying loops to the acoustic hooks of guitarist Bill Connors, while John Taylor supplements most of the cargo with organ. At the helm of this vessel is Jan Garbarek, whose saxophonism starts high and goes only higher. With cumulative notecraft and a heartfelt commitment to atmosphere, he and Taylor unwrap a lush nexus in the stunning opener. The occasional harmonic falls like a dandelion seed onto this pool of night as cymbals splash all around us. Taylor weaves a fine spread, anchoring us with sustained bass lines and attentive chording, leaving Garbarek to seal every crack with his sonic caulk. Connors seeks to light his surroundings, striking at the flint with his percussive gesticulations in hopes that one spark might show the way. Garbarek sharpens himself with arid flavor and carves out a miniature oasis in the crumbling image of exotic desire. The organ weaves in and out like a halo circumscribing us with subtle urgency until it pulls us beyond the point of no return, where dwells only silence in these “Reflections.” We then find the organ “Entering” into an electric guitar embrace. Bass and drums give us footholds where we might not expect to find them. Thus, what began as an elegy turns into a far-reaching journey that is over too soon. But in the next track we’re still “Going Places,” spurred by DeJohnette’s steady pulse and Garbarek’s hidden thermals. The energy comes in waves, subsiding here for a guitar solo and swelling there at Garbarek’s call. “Passing” ends where the album began, in a fluid ostinato of organ over which Connors looses his wavering song. Garbarek draws an ascendant pattern between those quiet strings, lifting us to an arena in which age curls into a semblance of time.

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Ralph Towner

Solstice

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Underdog)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Featuring a lineup of musicians who would go on to weave ECM’s significance into the fabric of time, Solstice is a tour de force of musicianship, writing, arrangement, and recording.

Each track is brimming with life and features the sensitive application of a variety of instrumental combinations and studio savvy. “Oceanus” showcases Garbarek in his prime, soaring with an unbridled emotional register. As always, Towner’s 12-string speaks in 360 degrees. Superb drumming from Christensen complements lush melodic lines from Weber, who stretches a melodic cello into infinity while his bass arises like the conical aftereffect of a water droplet. “Visitation” clouds this ardor in a nocturnal vision filled with laughing spirits. “Drifting Petals” is a slow progression, a timid look out onto a dusty plain where the promise of freedom looms larger than the possibility of danger. But then an elder’s advice rings in our ears and pushes us onward. Feet move of their volition and pull us into the ever-receding horizon as the first drops of a squall streak across our foreheads. Towner proves again that his piano musings are not to be taken lightly, as they make for one of the most evocative tracks on the album. A transcendental 12-string solo (with gentle dimensional support from Weber) opens “Nimbus,” soon blossoming into a flourish of flutes, drums, and a bowed bass that cries with the grating fluidity of a sarangi. Garbarek’s sax joins in the fray and lets loose its harmonious fire. The deftly overdubbed flutes return, spreading their wings for a few moments before fluttering off into the distance. “Winter Solstice,” “Piscean Dance,” and “Red and Black” comprise a triptych of duets: the first for classical guitar and sax, the second a prime jam for 12-string and drums, and the third for 12-string and bass. “Sand” ends our cosmic journey with one of Garbarek’s deepest meditations for sax set to the strangely compelling ululations of Christensen’s flexatone lolling about in the background.

Melodically robust while structurally yielding, this is an album to be treasured and is a must-listen for anyone desiring to know what ECM is all about. An astounding meeting of musical minds if there ever was one.

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Janko Nilovic

Funky Tramway

A Me Stesso Con Simpatia Limited Colored Edition

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following the recent reissues of Pop Impressions, Super America, Soul Impressions, and Chorus, Underdog Records label follows-up to the series with another brilliant album by French underrated composer and producer, JANKO NILOVIC.

JANKO NILOVIC certainly was one of the greatest studio talents of Europe in the 70s!
He is a musician who devotes himself to music, which resulted in a great number of published works, but most of them made for library music labels and also not available for sale.
His oeuvre stretches from classical, jazz and funk to pop, psyche and easy listening. And has been sampled many times by hip-hop artists such as JAY-Z, DRE, DAFUNIKS or GUTS...

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Giacomo Dell’Orso

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Cinedelic)

27,99 €*

LP | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Orbeatize)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This 1975 album is a studio session organized by Maestro Giacomo Dell'Orso (the husband of Edda) here released under his given name and not the Oscar Lindok pseudonym under which he made a number of recordings including The Fine Machine. This album had the simple purpose of a fun and playful session without preconceived models.

The result is a carefree album, from the friendly cover (Orso means Bear) to the music that is interwoven with bossa nova, samba, jazz and funk in a style that recalls in many ways the work of Maestro Piero Piccioni.

Dell'Orso plays organ, electric piano and Bulisacchio (a synth with metal slats that simulate bass), Nino Rapicavoli on flute and sax, Jimmy Tamborelli on guitars and Ciro Cocozza on percussion.

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Armando Bertozzi

Fantastic World

12,99 €*

LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Stash)

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Orbeatize first release remastered limited gatefold edition 180g, features one of the biggest italian drummers Armando Bertozzi who has made a significant contribution to the world percussion literature and considered the Polyritmia Maestro for his style of playing different ryhthms at the same time. This Album from 1985 is a true jurney into Jazz and electronic music full of ambient landscapes and atmospheres. Drums and percussions are heavy on all the songs!

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V.A.

Reefer Songs

2LP | 1979 | US | Reissue (Herb Alpert Presents)

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally issued in 1976, this LP offers 16 jazz songs about marijuana, cannabis, bo-bo, weed, wacky weed, tea, reefer, boom, burnie, grass, pot, Mary Jane, crazy herb, or whatever you wanna call it.

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Herb Alpert

Rise

Release: 1979 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Four Flies)

The Green Birds

Diapason

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LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Totally brilliant and obscure psych era Italian library music. Originally released in 1971 for the microsmall label Vi.Di.Elle, the same label as another psych bomb, "The Black Fire - Cream". Behind the mysterious "The Green Birds" name is a marvellous trio of unsung
composers like Franco Bonfanti, Romano Rizzati (Corfull)and Renato Sperduti (Myrval), playing here some really dope jams in the style of the Braen's Machine's Underground LP. The whole album is full of psych effects, synth melodies, wah-wah & fuzz guitars, drum breaks & loungey vibes. Track A4 "Ambiente Elegante" by Franco Bonfanti was compiled in the cultish Speedball Experience in 1996.

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Bill Evans

The Bill Evans Album

33,99 €*

LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Black Saint)

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The global corporation Columbia recorded and released only two LPs with pianist Bill Evans. A meagre result when one considers the numerous concerts that the new trio undertook between 1969 and 1974. Together with Eddie Gomez, a phenomenon on the bass, and drummer Marty Mortell, the three established a firm – and ever better – trio. Evans became interested in the possibilities offered by the Fender Rhodes piano and used it for the first time in "The Bill Evans Album".
The LP is remarkable in that only Evans’s own compositions were recorded – three previously recorded pieces and four brand-new works. Of particular note is the melancholy "Two Lonely People", Evans’s musical interpretation of a poem by Carol Hall. "Sugar Plum" and "T.T.T." were to remain in his repertoire right up until his very last recordings. Unusual but very commendable because it begins with an ad hoc introductory improvisation is the electric piano version of Evans’s most well-known composition – "Waltz For Debby".
The excellent technical facilities at the Columbia Studio were used to the full by Bill Evans, even though they were only recording a small ensemble. And that is why the seven numbers sound far better than most of the trio’s live recordings. And as Bill Evans once said, it was with this trio that he could fulfil his musical ambitions.

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Muhal Richard Abrams

Sightsong

17,99 €*

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Tribute To Jack Johnson

Miles Davis

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

62,99 €*

2LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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SOURCED FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOGUE MASTER TAPES
MOBILE FIDELITY’S NUMBERED-EDITION 180G SUPERVINYL LP PRESENTS 1971 LANDMARK IN EXUBERANT, FULL-RANGE SOUND

Miles Davis' A Tribute to Jack Johnson is the best jazz-rock record ever made. Equally inspired by the leader's desire to assemble the "greatest rock and roll band you have ever heard,” his adoration of Johnson, and Black Power politics, Davis created a hard-hitting set that surges with excitement, intensity, majesty, and power. Bridging the electric fusion he'd pursued on earlier efforts with a funkier, dirtier rhythmic approach, Davis zeroes in on concepts of spontaneity, freedom, and identity seldom achieved in the studio — and just as infrequently accepted by the mainstream.

Sourced from the original analog master tapes, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl, and housed in a Stoughton jacket, Mobile Fidelity's 180g LP reissue brings it all to fore with startling realism. Benefitting from SuperVinyl’s nearly inaudible noise floor, superb groove definition, and clean, ultra-quiet surfaces, this 180g LP showcases everything — from the bold tonality of the headliner's white-hot trumpet solos to the decay of crashing cymbals, carry of wiry guitar notes, and echoes of the studio — in reference fashion.

Bristling with exuberance, Davis' high-register passages explode with authority and commanding presence. Around him, a barrage of urgent backbeats, knifing riffs, and supple bass lines emerge amidst black backgrounds. One of the most prominent differences long-time fans will notice is how much more aggressive, immediate, and vibrant the music sounds, with those aspects central to the composer's original desires.

Utilizing wah-wah and distortion, the go-to instrumentalist of the performances— guitarist John McLaughlin — attacks with a nasty edge, slashing style, and vicious streak that allows A Tribute to Jack Johnson< cross the until-then-impenetrable divide between rock and jazz. Davis puts both feet in the former camp and erases any gap. The stories of the record’s creation are nearly as legendary as the sounds within: Two sessions, multiple jams, different sets of musicians (several uncredited), and near-miraculous production perfectionism that made it all appear cohesive.

The least-well-known masterpiece of Davis' career, the 1971 record — seamlessly assembled and spliced together by producer Teo Macero — was a victim of limited record-label promotion. Audiences also didn’t immediately know what to make of its original cover art — faithfully replicated here. In addition, the powers that be at Columbia Records were directing the public’s attention to Miles at Fillmore, a completely different kind of album guided by two keyboardists. A Tribute to Jack Johnson practically lives in a different universe, one from the future. To many listeners who did manage to hear it — among them critic/musician Robert Quine, Stooges leader Iggy Pop, and renowned critic Robert Christgau — it surpassed everything that came before.

Indeed, Davis treated it as a personal manifesto: An opportunity to salute the Black championship boxer admired for his threatening image to the establishment and impeccable taste in clothes, cars, women and music. Davis explains in the liner notes his affinity for Johnson — a stance mirrored by the defiant music, which hits with a prize fighter's force and reflects the graceful elegance with which a pugilist navigates the ring — and closes the album with a Johnson quote read by Brock Peters.

Inspired not only by Johnson but by Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, Davis changed his approach and his band. He surrounds himself with a cadre of musicians in their 20s and, in the case of bassist Michael Henderson, a 19-year-old fresh from touring with Stevie Wonder. Henderson gives Davis what he requested: boogie-based grooves that don’t lose shape or direction. Soprano saxophonist Steve Grossman, drummer Billy Cobham, and organist Herbie Hancock adhere to a similar aesthetic that prizes brazenness, innovation, and energy.

In that vein, during a portion of “Yesternow,” Davis segues into a separate performance (which became known in its entirety as “Willie Nelson”) played by guitarists McLaughlin and Sonny Sharrock, bass clarinetist Bernie Maupin, keyboardist Chick Corea, bassist Dave Holland, and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Dig it!

Talking with jazz scholar Bill Milkowski — who himself noted how McLaughlin’s unrestrained style, decibel-forward volumes, and rapid-fire power chords engendered himself to the rock crowd at the same time that his harmonics and syncopation still definitely made him a jazz player — guitarist Henry Kaiser summed up part of the appeal of A Tribute to Jack Johnson as well as anyone, saying: “It’s a jazz record that way way more open than other jazz records at the time, but still not free jazz. [McLaughlin’s] rhythm guitar playing on ‘Right Off’ — the use of different chords in a rock shuffle than what anybody had used before — was revolutionary.”

And to think that’s just one aspect of a record that contains multitudes. “Never let them forget it.” Indeed.

MoFi SuperVinyl
Developed by NEOTECH and RTI, MoFi SuperVinyl is the most exacting-to-specification vinyl compound ever devised. Analogue lovers have never seen (or heard) anything like it. Extraordinarily expensive and extremely painstaking to produce, the special proprietary compound addresses two specific areas of improvement: noise floor reduction and enhanced groove definition. The vinyl composition features a new carbonless dye (hold the disc up to the light and see) and produces the world’s quietest surfaces. This high-definition formula also allows for the creation of cleaner grooves that are indistinguishable from the original lacquer. MoFi SuperVinyl provides the closest approximation of what the label’s engineers hear in the mastering lab.

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Herbie Hancock

Flood

55,99 €*

2LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Sony)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the summer of 1975, the Herbie Hancock Sextet made a hugely successful tour of Japan, which made people aware of a 'new' Hancock. The last LP that the keyboard virtuoso had recorded, "Thrust", was already one year old, and the film music for the Charles Bronson classic "Death Wish" was received negatively by his fans. At his concerts in Tokyo, Herbie Hancock reached back to his hits: "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the famous, soulful "Watermelon Man" made the fans at his concert hall and open-air appearances go wild with enthusiasm. Forty years later I have the courage to confess that I couldn’t have cared less about this music at the time; in Europe there was enough that was new and exciting to see and listen to. However, this re-release in its original format has given me the opportunity to check out whether this music has withstood the test of time. And I must say: it has passed the test! Just listen to Herbie at his best!
Dr. Michael Frohne

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Miles Davis

Bitches Brew

LP | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Far Out)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 gram pressing!

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Azymuth

Azimüth

LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Friends)

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissued on 180 gram vinyl in gatefold sleeve!

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Esther Williams

Let Me Show You

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Suite For Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Nathan Davis

LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Tomorrow)

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Prestige)

Sonny Phillips

Black Magic

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Blue Note)

Bobby McFerrin

Spontaneous Inventions

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Issued with the 75th Anniversary of Blue Note records!

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Jaco Pastorius

Word Of Mouth

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Word Of Mouth was the second album by virtuoso bassist Jaco Pastorius, released in 1981 while he was still a member of Weather Report. Word Of Mouth focused on his ability to compose and arrange for a larger band than was previously featured on his first self titled album from 1976 [MOVLP136]. The band's all-star cast included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Peter Erskine, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker, Don Alias and Toots Thielemans who is featured on harmonica on many of the songs.

180g vinyl.

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Joe Pass

Intercontinental

24,99 €*

LP | 1971 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joe Pass (born Joseph Passalaqua) knew how to conjoin melody and chords. Moreover, he brought the walking bass line into the jazz guitar repertoire, as heard in his duo performances with Ella Fitzgerald. Deftly accompanied by German bass virtuoso Eberhard Weber and English drummer Kenny Clare, the music runs the gamut of genres – a meditative Jobim bossa nova, a lusciously relaxed version of the jazz standard, “Stompin' at the Savoy”, a blues-drenched rendition of the Bobby Gentry pop classic, “Ode to Belly Joe”, and a display of dynamically controlled guitar pyrotechnics on the exhilarating “I Love You”.

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Freddie Hubbard

Straight Life

Release: 1971 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1976 | UK | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

Olli Ahvenlahti

The Poet

22,99 €*

LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1976 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Here's the long-awaited reissue on Mr Bongo Records of legendary 1976 jazz classic, The Poet by Olli Ahvenlahti. The release is given the optimum in production value makeovers with hard-card Japanese-style packaging and 180g vinyl.

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Herbie Hancock

Secrets

Ornette, Coleman, Paul Bley, Don Cherry Charlie Haden & Billy Higgins

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Secrets (1976) is a Jazz-Funk fusion album by acclaimed keyboard player Herbie Hancock. Following up on his previous album Man-Child, the album again features Paul Jackson on bass, and reedist Bennie Maupin continued to provide most of the solos alongside Hancock.

180g vinyl.

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Live At The Hillcrest Club 1958

2LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Doxy)

32,99 €*

LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Pausa)

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited to 500 copies, Audiophile Clear Vinyl Series!

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Sam Rivers

The Quest

20,99 €*

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Spectator)

Tordenskjolds Soldater

Peace

39,99 €*

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Sam Rivers

Contrasts

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Miroslav Vitous Group

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Keith Jarrett

Arbour Zena

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jean-Jacques Birgé, Francis Gorgé & Shiroc

Défense De

LP+DVD | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Fauni Gena)

16,99 €* 19,99 € -15%

Black Renaissance Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First ever vinyl reissue of this cult album from 1975. Défense de was the first album of Jean-Jacques Birgé and Francis Gorgé, before founding Un Drame Musical Instantane with Bernard Vitet in 1976. They had started to play together while at high school, and on their debut LP they were joined by percussionist Shiroc (who also played in Speed Limit). The DVD will include the experimental movie La Nuit Du Phoque made by Jean-Jacques Birge and Bernard Mollerat in 1974. The movie is a mix between avant-garde French movie and experimental ambience which takes the viewer back in time to 1974. The second part of the DVD will include 'June Sessions' which are very long pieces made by the trio (or quartet at times). Total of about 6 hours of music and 40 minutes movie in a Double LP & DVD set.

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Harry Whitaker

LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Luv N Haight)

17,99 €*

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Harry Whitaker is a piano player, producer and arranger who on MLK day 1976, at the age of 26, recorded Black Renaissance “Body, Mind, and Spirit,” a holy grail amongst collectors of soul-jazz and rare groove. So rare, it’s virtually a myth to many collectors and music aficionados.

Made up of two long tracks that periodically build and release for forty minutes over two sides of an LP it’s an improvised masterpiece combining Afrocentric spiritual soul, jazz, poetry, amazing solos, a tasty bass line or two and more than a fair share of funky beats. It’s also one of theearliest albums to feature rapping. “I called the project Black Renaissance because that is what I wanted to see happen – especially in music.”

Given its rarity, when asked if he was surprised that people knew about the album Whitaker jokes “I’ve told enough people about it over the years! Now they can actually hear it. It was a record before it’s time.”

Harry Whitaker cut his teeth on the best of the Roy Ayers Ubiquity releases (including playing keys on “We Live In Brooklyn Baby” and co-producing the “Coffy” OST) on and making a living working closely with Roberta Flack – as her musical director, even playing on her big Eugene McDaniels’ written hit “I Feel Like Makin’ Love.” Black Renaissance “Body, Mind, and Spirit,” was his first attempt at a project where he wrote and composed the music and played keys on all tracks.

This album features Woody Shaw, Azar Lawrence, Buster Williams, Billy Hart and Mtume amongst others.

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Herbie Hancock

Man-Child

33,99 €*

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Zbigniew Namyslowski Quintet

Kujaviak Goes Funky

LP | 1975 | PL | Reissue (Polskie Nagrania)

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Release: 1975 / PL – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Thad Jones & Mel Lewis Orchestra

Consummation

LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ray Stephen Oche And His Mutambo

Interpretation Of The Original Rhythm

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Favorite)

15,99 €*

LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Cotillion)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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High on everyones afro-jazz wishlist!

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Hank Crawford

It's A Funky Thing To Do

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Human Egg (Jean-Pierre Massiera)

Human Egg

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Favorite)

LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Super-obscure oddball disco funk goody by French studio wizz Jean-Pierre Massiera, re-released to celebrate the 50th release on Favorite!

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Bruce Palmer

The Cycle Is Complete

20,99 €*

LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Shady Brook)

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 Gram Pressing

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Cheyenne's Comin

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Companionship Jazz Joint 2

Sahib Shihab

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Rearward)

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Los Conquistadores Chocolates

Johnny Hammond

12" | 1975 | US (East End)

13,99 €*

Release: 1975 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Stan Getz

Captain marvel

LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Salvation)

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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limited remastered edition 180 gram vinyl

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Gabor Szabo

Macho

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Prestige)

Leon Spencer Jr.

Sneak preview!

Rodney Franklin / Willie Bobo

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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with Melvin Sparks, Idris Muhammad, Grover Washington Jr., ...

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The Groove / Always There

12" | 1980 | US (Columbia)

13,99 €*

Release: 1980 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Prestige)

Sonny Phillips

Black on black!

LP | 1986 | US | Original (Milestone)

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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with Bernard Purdie, Melvin Sparks, ...

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Azymuth

Tightrope Walker

14,99 €*

Release: 1986 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 1980 | US (Prelude)

The Nick Straker Band

A little Bit Of Jazz

13,99 €*

Alice Coltrane with Pharoah Sanders

Release: 1980 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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/ space age

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Journey in satchidananda

LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Impulse!)

36,99 €*