Jazz | Fusion Vinyl 1402 Items

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Giant Steps Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Dol)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Free At Last Extended Edition

Mal Waldron Trio

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (ECM)

34,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Nora Orlandi

A Doppia Faccia

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited to 300 copies.

We're proud to exhume another classic soundtrack from the world of Italian giallo with Nora Orlandi’s incredible score to the 1969 Riccardo Freda film, “A Doppia Faccia” (a.k.a. “Liz & Helen”). Starring Klaus Kinksi, Margaret Lee, and Annabella Incontrera, this film is from a story by the king of the macabre, Lucio Fulci.
For the first time ever on vinyl, this mysterious and charming soundtrack, leads off with a sensuous main theme; a powerful track with great harpsichord chords progression and a melody that really stands out. Maleficent sounds, gothic atmospheres, and alarming voices, all make this soundtrack captivating yet disturbing at the same time. Featuring exclusive liner notes by Nora Orlandi herself, and stunning artwork by Luke Insect.

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Music For Dance & Theatre Volume One

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Music From Memory)

19,99 €*

Handfuls Of Night Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Music From Memory are happy to finally announce MFM045 - VA ‘Music For Theatre And Dance’ (EP).
This will be the first in a small series of EPs which will focus on music which was initially created for or inspired by dance and performance. Created as a dialogue with the avant-garde and highly experimental work in dance, theatre and art evolving at the time, the music was in turn at times greatly innovative.

That it was created for a dance or performance though means that such music was also often highly rhythmic and a number of pieces from this time stand out and seem greatly deserving of a new context.

Whether it’s more ambient or atmospheric works or whether it’s in the more rhythmic or percussive pieces, Music From Memory brings together a selection of tracks which aim to highlight this highly innovative direction in music.

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Penguin Cafe

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Erased Tapes present Handfuls of Night — the highly anticipated follow-up to Penguin Cafe’s much applauded 2017 album The Imperfect Sea — inspired by the Antarctic, Arthur Jeffes’ journey following in Scott’s footsteps and our penguin friends that reside there.

Using gut-stringed violins, viola, cello, bass, percussion, upright and grand pianos, synthesiser, harmonium and more, Arthur Jeffes and his cohorts have crafted a vivid series of panoramic sonic landscapes, that are as rich in cerebral poignancy as they are in emotional depth.

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Lush Life

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

Moanin' Transparent Red Vinyl Edition

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Waxtime In Color)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Thelonious Monk Quartet

Misterioso

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track.

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Giant Steps Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2016 | CA | Original (Justin Time)

Diana Krall

Stepping Out

Release: 2016 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Gentle Art Of Music)

Panzerballett

X-Mas Death Jazz -Set

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Dol)

Ole Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Love Thoughts / 1976 Interview Of Al Hall Jr With By Gerald Wilson

Cosmos Dwellerz Arkestra

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Super Disco Edits)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Oscar Peterson Trio

Live In Cologne 1963

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Jackie McLean

Lights Out! 180g Edition

53,99 €*

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Be! Jazz)

Walter Trio Strerath

Fly To Brazil

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | Original (T3)

Pulsar Trio

Cäthes Traum

20,99 €*

Release: 2016 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2017 | Original (Mack Avenue)

Cameron Graves

Planetary Prince

Release: 2017 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet Baker Sings Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Chet Baker

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

43,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Legacy)

Moondog

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Jazz Room)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Moondog is the fifth album by American composer Moondog.

Moondog had released no music for twelve years since his 1957 album The Story of Moondog. Finally, in 1969, producer James William Guercio invited him to record an album for Columbia Records.[1]

The resulting album compiled various music which Moondog had been working on since the 1950s. This included two "minisyms" (Moondog's term for short symphonic-styled works performed by small orchestras); two canons; a chaconne in memory of Charlie Parker; ballet music originally written for Martha Graham ("Witch of Endor"); and three symphonic (or "symphonique") works, one of which was dedicated to Benny Goodman and featured elements of swing. A version of one composition, "Theme", had previously been recorded for Epic Records in 1952

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Take Vibe E.P.

Golden Brown

11,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2020. Full On Lockdown: Musician LaurenceMasonputs together this off the wall idea meshing together two of his biggest musical heroes, Dave Greenfield of the tough 1970's proto-punk band The Stranglers with the oh so cool 1960's jazz of Dave Brubeck. He puts up his demo on Youtube not really expecting much in the way of feedback. And gets ONE Million hits. And hundreds of requests for a release. Jazz Room Records Head Honcho Paul Murphy says "Do you wanna record that and release it?"."Affirmative!" The result is this grooving Soulful and Funky Jazz version of "Golden Brown". We're rush releasing this as when announced we were swamped with requests asking when it will be available. On the "B" side is a languid and super cool version of "Walking On The Moon", originally by 80's Supergroup The Police. This is just a taster for what we're confident will be a must have album to be readied for 2021 release.

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Herbie Hancock

Inventions & Dimensions

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Groovin' At Smalls' Paradise Volume 1

Jimmy Smith

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alan Hawkshaw & Brian Bennett

Full Circle

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Be With)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alan Hawkshaw (piano/Hammond) and Shadow’s drummer Brian Bennett are responsible for some of the slickest, funkiest and most sought-after library records ever made in the UK, particularly ones recorded on the legendary KPM label. Their work has now become the go-to place for sampling in music today. Artists such as Dilla, Nas, and the xx, right through to the billion selling Kanye & Drake have taken Hawkshaw’s and Bennett’s immaculate beat-driven soundscapes for their own usage.

Their new album, in full, iconic KPM cover is a return to the laidback jazz-funk that helped Alan and Brian demonstrate their library chops. The album is classic Hawkshaw/Bennett. It swings, it grooves, moves and thrills with a flair these two have perfected over years.

Standout tracks such as "Hole In One", "In The Clouds", "Interchange", "Oasis", "On The Nile" and "Corcovado" are no mere excursions in nostalgia, for they carry lots of deft studio work that many a producer would give their right arm for. Hawkshaw’s arrangements allow the drums, guitar, bass, strings, Hammond, flute and brass to swirl elegantly around the 12 original tracks; a masterclass in recording.

Cut by Pete Norman, housed in a beautifully designed Richard Robinson sleeve and pressed at 180g by Record Industry in Holland, this release has been afforded the care and attention it rightly deserves. Essential.

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Original Broadway Cast Recording - Hamilton

4LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Atlantic)

89,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Lonnie Smith

Live At Club Mozambique

29,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Groovin' You / Modaji / Till You Take My Love Record Store Day 2019 Edition

Harvey Mason

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Arista)

Daniel Casimir & Tess Hirst

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A trio of Harvey Mason classics reissued on 12 inch - 'Groovin' You' and 'Till You Take My Love' capturing the heyday of the New York discotheque, alongside the emotive, blissed-out 'Modaji' which features Hubert Laws' flute melodies that power it's jazz dreaminess.
Remastered for 12" audio power.

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These Days

LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Jazz Re:Freshed)

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Altercat)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Award-winning bassist Daniel Casimir and vocalist Tess Hirst release their debut album via pioneering London-based record labe Jazz re:freshed

Following the success of Daniel Casimir's critically acclaimed debut EP 'Escapee' which featured Hirst on vocals and fellow rising stars on the scene Moses Boyd, Joe Armon-Jones and Shirley Tetteh, this album - 'These Days' is inspired by the duo's London surroundings, delivering thought-provoking lyricism, neo-soul and modern jazz

Casimir, a former Birmingham Conservatoire student, has collaborated with Julian Joseph, Jason Rebello, Benet McLean, Lonnie Liston Smith, Nathan Facey, Shane Forbes, Chihiro Yamanaka, Ashley Henry, David Lyttle, Nubya Garcia, The Tracey Quintet (Meantime Jubilation), Tom Harrison (Unfolding In Tempo), Jasmine Power (Stories And Rhymes), Camilla George and Art Blakey Jazz Messenger saxophonist, Jean Toussaint

Named Young Jazz Musician of the Year by the Musicians' Company in 2016, Casimir has received plaudits for his arrangements and recital, while Hirst has made a name for herself with her vocals on the jazz circuit having moved between London, Leeds and LA to hone her craft. What sets Hirst apart as a musician is not only the originality of her music but her perspective of herself as an artist. She is an Ethnomusicology Graduate of Soas and her writing style walks us through her upbringing in West London and down the halls of academia

Casimir and Hirst fuse traditional jazz sounds into beautiful compositions, narrating their way through a political and cultural landscape across these twelve tracks. The frenzied groove heavy'Security' addresses the need to trust one another and how we protect ourselves personally, while the rich atmospherics of 'Freedom' combined with Hirst's vocals, explore liberation and the rejection of duty - from a female perspective.

At the heart of 'These Days', Casimir plays with a passion and power that resonates throughout each composition. His knack for complex chord changes are highlighted in 'What Did I Do', bringing an energy and enthusiasm to the track while Hirst decries our changing capital. Elsewhere, references to John Agard's poem 'Listen Mr. Oxford Don' in 'The Magic Money Tree', explore the past and its relevance to now while a re-imagining of Charles Mingus' 'Fables Of Faubus' further ensures this theme remains central to the essence of the album.

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Afrodyssey Orchestra

Under The Sun

19,99 €*

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Lightyear)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Greece is maybe not the first country that comes to mind when you think of Afrojazz. Afrodyssey Orchestra unexpectedly hit the scene some time ago after the release of In the Land of Aou Tila, their debut album — while that first album was going to the hands of the few lucky ones who managed to discover the band back then, Afrodyssey Orchestra were already booking more studio time in order to start working on further recordings. Three years later, we’re proud to present you Under the Sun, with seven new compositions that reflect the logical evolution the band has experienced during this time, including some fine-tuning in their line-up. A melange of African polyrhythms, jazz, a scent of the Balkans and a fling with Afrobeat that holds hands with their beginnings — all this devised through the prism of the vast Greek musical universe.

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Buddy Rich

Birdland

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes

What Kinda Music

Captured Spirits Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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We are excited to present Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes’ “What Kinda Music” – an astonishing collaboration between two artists of very different disciplines, and one of the most unique and seamlessly original projects of its ilk to date.

Moving fluidly through sleek electronica, avant-garde jazz, vintage hip hop and so much more, Misch and Dayes take you on a journey that is by turns surprising and spontaneous, heady and head spinning, and nothing less than compelling – a singular vision which fuses the DNA of both musicians with spectacular results, as can be seen in the title track, which comes backed by a gorgeously atmospheric video by XX.

Even though the fundamental bones of this project came together very quickly, its actual provenance stretches back much, much farther back, with the pair not only growing up in the same area of South East London, but Misch actually seeing Dayes play on drums in the school talent show for the first time when he was roughly 8 or 9. They both kept tabs on each other – Misch becoming a fan of Dayes’ act Yussef Kamaal, Dayes clocking his videos in 2014 – but it was only when they met at a launch party for Misch’s debut LP “Geography” in 2018 that the proverbial creative sparks began to fly. “As a musician you’re always looking for contemporaries who can push you and challenge you and make you better”, says Dayes. “I instantly felt that with Tom – he was such a gifted musician, and so prolific”. That summer they decided to go into the studio together, jam a little, and see what happens, with no other expectation placed upon it.

As it turns out, the music came fast and furiously. Two initial tracks were suddenly followed by a handful of others, and the pair found themselves contemplating what to do next. “Pretty soon, we knew that something was gelling”, Dayes says. “It didn’t feel like a one-off collaboration, it felt like a body of work”. What made the pair click, according to Misch and Dayes, were the exact same factors that meant it shouldn’t, by all rights, work. Misch says, “Yussef comes from a more experimental background, and he has a lot of loose, crazy ideas. I know how to write a catchy melody, but with interesting chords and have a good understanding of popular song forms, so I think I streamlined those ideas and made them accessible”. And certainly, in “What Kinda Music” you can sense the DNA of both musicians, but fusing so effortlessly and beautifully that it creates something else entirely, the appropriately named “Lift Off” sending goosebumps with its jazz flecked crescendo, and “Night Rider” hynotising with its deeply mesmeric grooves. “I have a love for harmony and chords”, Misch adds. “Working with someone like Yussef, who has such a gifted sense of rhythm allowed a perfect balance”.

Throughout the record, there is an utterly joyful feel of two musicians at the top of their game sparking off one another, picking up ideas and running with them – zigging where the other zags, ebbing where the other flows, with Misch producing the majority of the record and both having a hand in the overall sound and feel of the record.

“Working with Yussef has actually changed the way I work as a musician”, Misch muses. “He’s pushed me and unlocked a more experimental part of me that I hadn’t really allowed myself to explore before. I think we really did impact each other in a fundamental way”. Dayes is similarly effusive in his praise for Misch. “A musician like him, who’s at the top of his game, he doesn’t need to do this”, he raves. “He can just keep doing the same thing and why not? He’s killing it. The fact that he’s so humble, that he’s so curious about everything and open to collaboration, speaks a lot to him as an artist, because it’s not easy finding musicians who want to collaborate. Something always gets in the way, whether it’s ego or their team or whatever. But with Tom it felt like the intention was purely creative, and that’s what made it exciting”. In fact, Dayes says that the intentions of the record go even deeper than just music. “Both our parents who’d never met each other before, are now best friends as a result of this, they now see each other more than we do! I’d like to think, in some small way, that this album has a similar impact for people too – everything feels so divided these days, it would be nice for people to hear the record and hear two very different musicians coming together and realise it doesn’t have to be that way”.

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Mammal Hands

2LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

29,99 €*

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"The semi-classical drums/sax/piano trio Mammal Hands mutate into a high-volume rave act" The Guardian

Mammal Hands are pleased to announce the release of their highly anticipated fourth album 'Captured Spirits', released 11thSeptember via Manchester tastemaker record label, Gondwana Records.

Consisting of saxophonist Jordan Smart, pianist Nick Smart and drummer and tabla player Jesse Barrett, the trio have forged a growing reputation for their hypnotic fusion of jazz and electronica and have recieved glowing recommendations from the likes of The Guardian and Gilles Peterson. Drawing on their love of electronic, contemporary classical, world, folk and jazz music, Mammal Hands take in influences including Pharoah Sanders,Gétachèw Mekurya, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Sirishkumar Manji.

Forming in Norwich in 2012, brothers Nick and Jordan along with Jesse, developed their distinctive and polished sound with their meteoric live shows and release of three critically acclaimed albums: 'Animalia' (2014), 'Floa' (2016) and 'Shadow Work (2017). Landmark live performances have included shows at The Roundhouse London, the main stage at Field Day Festival, La Cigale Paris, Montreal Jazz Festival, Hamburg Elb Jazz, Athens Technopolis and Unit Tokyo.

Teaming up once again with trusted producer George Atkins (Wiley, The Courteeners) at 80 Hertz Studios in Manchester, 'Captured Spirits' explores themes including existence and displacement. "The name has multiple readings but was first inspired by something Jordan was reading about past experiences of ancestors being caught and coded into our DNA and having an effect on who you are today. This ties in with themes that we have touched on before relative to identity and the collective unconscious ('Shadow Work'). It also toys with the idea of feeling contained/trapped and the need to break out of something and also the idea of people being spirits that are "captured" in a body",says Nick.

Opening with the melodic rhythmic patterns of 'Ithaca', the tempo picks up with the mesmerising 'Chaser', as heavy percussion and Nick's frenetic keys draw the listener deep into Mammal Hand's distinctive soundsphere. North Indian influences dictate the meditative 'Versus Shapes' with Jesse's transcendental tabla playing taking centre stage while the dark and moody 'Spiral Stair' relies on a multitude of colliding and intersecting shapes and sounds.

All three members of the band contribute equally to the writing process: one that favours the creation of a powerful group dynamic over individual solos. "I think with this record, there was a strong and renewed sense of collective enjoyment and appreciation for the process and each other's contributions. After a long period of touring and a slow build up to the actual recording sessions we were able to mull over ideas for long periods, build on lessons from the past and pull our playing connection to an even deeper place. Realising each other's visions for the whole and clearly understanding how they intersect", says Jesse.

That vision is also realised by longtime collaborator and artist Daniel Halsall who designed the artwork for 'Captured Spirits'. His strong instinctive feel for the band's visual world is a key component to understanding the music. "Our work with Dan over such a long period of time now has become integral to the bands aesthetic and he always seems to grasp the themes and ideas that we send for each album and distills them into something striking and engaging that really complements the music. This is really important with instrumental music, as we need to be able to convey our ideas without being too literal or definitive and give the listeners space for imagination and to take their own journey when they listen to the music and look at the artwork", says Jordan.

Elsewhere across 'Captured Spirits', 'Riddle' and 'Rhizome' are rich in texture and heavy on groove and both compositions showcase a complex, emotional range and demonstrate three like-minded musicians with a dazzling understanding of jazz, electronica and cinematic rhythms. "Music has the capacity to fill so many spaces in our lives, as I think fundamentally it is a more direct form of communication than even language. In this way it can be refuge, it can be social, it can be revelatory, it can be memory, it can be what we need at a given point in time", says Jordan.

The high intensity of the trio's live shows is recreated with the spiritual jazz-influenced 'Into Sparks' as Jordan's sax exhibits an unrestrained energy and freedom but it's left to 'Little One' to bring down the curtain on arguably their most accomplished album to date, a soothing, breezy gift to Jesse's new daughter.

Gondwana Records is an independent record label founded by Matthew Halsall in 2008. The label has gone on to release music by, Allysha Joy, GoGo Penguin, Hania Rani, Matthew Halsall, Phil France, Portico Quartet and Sunda Arc.

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Dizzy Gillespie

On The French Riviera

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders

The Trance Of Seven Colors

2LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Zehra)

27,99 €*

Nuits Blanches Au Studio 116

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2024 Repress. A download code is included. Available on vinyl for the very first time: “The Trance Of Seven Colors” by master Gnawa musician Maleem Mahmoud Ghania and free jazz legend Pharoah Sanders. Produced by Bill Laswell and according to The Attic “one of the most important albums of Gnawa trance music released in the ‘90s”. Originally released in 1994 on Bill Laswell’s Axiom imprint, “The Trance Of Seven Colors” is the meeting of two true musical masters: Maleem Mahmoud Ghania (1951 – 2015), son of the master of Gnawa music Maleem Boubker Ghania and the famous clairvoyant and "moqaddema" A'isha Qabral, and a master of the traditional Gnawa style in his own right. Mahmoud learned this craft as a youth along with his brothers, walking from village to village, performing ceremonies with his father Boubker and was one of the few masters (Maleem) who continued to practice the Gnawa tradition strictly for healing (the central ritual of the Gnawa is the trance music ceremony – with the purpose of healing or purification of the participants). With 30 cassette releases of music from the Gnawa repertoire with his own ensemble and performances at every major festival in Morocco, including performing for the King in various contexts, Mahmoud Ghania was also one of Morocco's most prominent professional musicians. In 1994, Bill Laswell and Pharoah Sanders went to Mocrocco, equipped with just some mobile recording devices, to record Ghania and a large ensemble of musicians (to a good part family members) in a very intimate set up at a private house with the legendary free jazz musician contributing his distinctive tenor saxophone sounds that gained him highest praise as a truely spiritual soul right from the days of playing with John Coltrane and his wife Alice and on seminal solo albums like „Karma“. The aptly titled „The Trance of Seven Colors“ ranks among the best Gnawa recordings ever released, made it onto the list of “10 incredible percussive albums from around the world” by Thevinylfactory.com and is 25 years after its original CD release on finally available on vinyl!

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Ariel Kalma

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Transversales Disques)

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Favorite)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Transversales Disques is very glad to announce the release of Nuits Blanches au Studio 116, unreleased rarities from Ariel Kalma’s personal archives recorded in the legendary GRM’s Studio 116 during the 70’s.
Born and raised in Paris, Ariel Kalma started playing the recorder and saxophone as a youth. After successive studies of Computer Science, Music and Art in Paris he performed in various concerts from middle-age music to free jazz duo. Ariel performed and recorded with several bands (J. Higelin, R. Pinhas, NYL, G. Scornic, Baden Powell…).
After learning circular breathing on soprano sax, Ariel could include those endless notes into his own long-delay-effect system, dual Revox set-up and two tape machines “chained” together to form a long delay system.
In France during the mid-1970s, Kalma was staffed as a recording assistant at legendary Groupe de Recherches Musicales (INA GRM) studios, where Ariel recorded some of his compositions in the Studio 116; the same music “concrete” laboratory that spawned masterpieces by members Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani…

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Aldorande

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Help!! Milky Clear Vinyl Edition

Duval Timothy

2LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Carrying Colour)

30,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mawi Music)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Released in August 2020 to much acclaim, as well as receiving many accolades as one of the best albums of 2020, Duval Timothy present Help (2021 edition).

This new and limited edition will be released independently by Duval Timothy’s Carrying Colour label, fashion brand and shop. It comes on 2 x 140g milky clear vinyl, with new 2 x 12" square posters and shrink-wrapped.

Help was recorded in London and Los Angeles, and reveals the artists' experience traversing the meshes of the music industry, mental health, YouTube self-help videos, and the healing he discovered through friendship and collaboration. Co-produced by Rodaidh McDonald (King Krule, The XX) and Marta Salogni (Bjork), with collaborations from Lil Silva, Melanie Faye, Vegyn, Desta Haile, Mr Mitch, Dave Okumo, and Twin Shadow amongst others.

Duval Timothy is a multidisciplinary artist, whose practise is centred around colour and involves the use of music, photography, textiles, painting, sculpture, design, cooking and video. In between delivering a celebrated cookbook for Penguin Books, and an interactive installation at Tate Modern Turbine Hall, Duval makes music, which is sampled by the likes of Solange and Loyle Carner and collaborates frequetly with cktrl, Vegyn, Kwes, and Mr Mitch.

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Girls In Airports

Dive

21,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Ndeya)

Jon Hassell

Listening To Pictures

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Elemental)

Los Secretos

Los Secretos Debut Album

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Gearbox)

Abdullah Ibrahim

Balance

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Barney Wilen & Tete Montoliu

Grenoble '88 Black Friday Record Store Day 2020 Release

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Elemental)

Barney Wilen / Alain Jean-Marie

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Black Friday Record Store Day 2020 Release. RSD Exclusive. Limitation: 1000 copies. Elemental Music presents a never-before-heard complete concert which constitutes the only recorded testimony of the reunion of two jazz giants: French tenor and soprano saxophonist Barney Wilen and Spanish pianist Tete Montoliu. All tracks from this concert, which took place in Grenoble, France on February 12, 1988 are previously unreleased and boast excellent sound quality. The group is completed by the Italian bassist Riccardo del Fra (who frequently played and recorded with Chet Baker) and Chicago drummer Aaron Scott (who the year following this Grenoble concert would start a 14-year association and tenure with pianist McCoy Tyner as part of the McCoy Tyner Trio, winning three Grammy Awards and performing worldwide). This release includes specially prepared liner notes as well as never before published photos from the actual performance.

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Montreal Duets

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Anagram Music)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Elemental Music)

Dexter Gordon

Tokyo 1975

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Zara McFarlane with Dennis Bovell

East Of The River Nile

12" | 2019 | UK | Original (Brownswood)

17,99 €*

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Elemental)

Paul Winter

The Sound Of Ipanema

22,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2011 | UK | Reissue (Get On Down)

Tom Scott

The Honeysuckle Breeze

Just In Time-The Final Recording

Release: 2011 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Before he developed into a star composer and arranger, Tom Scott was an ambitious 19 year-old saxophonist looking for his big break in 1967. The opportunity came when legendary jazz label Impulse paired Scott with 9-piece vocal group The California Dreamers and allowed the young musician to take the helm as a band leader, with The Honeysuckle Breeze as the spectacular result. Out of print on vinyl since last reissued in 2018, the album features Scott leading a stellar lineup of sessions players-Bill Plummer (sitar), Glen Campbell (guitar) and Carol Kaye (bass) among them- through warm, smooth versions of songs by The Beatles (She’s Leaving Home), Donovan (Mellow Yellow), Joan Baez (North) and Jefferson Airplane (Today), which many will recognize from its sampling in the Pete Rock & CL Smooth classic T.R.O.Y."

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Buddy Rich

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Gearbox)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (Madlib Invazion)

The Heliocentrics

Infinity Of Now

Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The UK’s cosmic, psychedelic-funk ensemble issue their first album on maverick producer Madlib’s label, Madlib Invazion. The Heliocentrics’ albums are all confounding pieces of work. Drawing equally from the funk universe of James Brown, the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra, the cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone, the sublime fusion of David Axelrod, Pierre Henry’s turned-on musique concrète, and Can’s beat-heavy Krautrock, they have – regardless of the label on which they’ve released their music - pointed the way towards a brand new kind of psychedelia, one that could only come from a band of accomplished musicians who were also obsessive music fans. Drummer Malcolm Catto and bassist Jake Ferguson are the Heliocentrics’ masterminds and producers, and they are obsessive weirdos in today’s musical climate, searching, progressive humans who are often out-of-time with current trends. They have been playing together for nearly two decades and their collective drive is to find an individual voice. The Heliocentrics search for it in an alternate galaxy where the orbits of funk, jazz, psychedelic, electronic, avant-garde and “ethnic” music all revolve around “The One.” With Madilb’s label Madlib Invazion for Infinity of Now, the Heliocentrics have returned to develop their epic vision of psychedelic funk, while exploring the possibilities created by their myriad influences – Latin, African, and more.

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Dimensional Stardust

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Nonesuch)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2020 | US | Original (Get On Down)

Herbie Hancock

Flood Red Vinyl Edition

36,99 €*

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Verve)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This double live outing from Herbie Hancock was recorded in Tokyo in July of 1975. Backed up by The Headhunters, Hancock runs through selections from his albums Head Hunters, Thrust and Man-Child – that last project still being months away from release at the time of this recording. Get On Down’s reissue of the vinyl will be the first US release for the double LP, ever.

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Jimmy Smith

Root Down

37,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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My Favorite Things Gatefold Sleeve Edition

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Moon Beams Gatefold Sleeve Edition

The Bill Evans Trio

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gatefold 180g Includes Rare Or Exclusive Artwork Inside

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Gatefold Sleeve Edition

John Coltrane & Kenny Burrell

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gatefold 180g Includes Rare Or Exclusive Artwork Inside

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The Cats

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP+7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Glamourama)

Etta James

At Last!

22,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes 7" Single on Colored Vinyl.

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Ballads Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (Fantasy)

Bill Evans

On A Monday Evening

35,99 €*

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Chet Baker & Bill Evans

Alone Together

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Amherst)

Spyro Gyra

Vinyl Tap Clear Vinyl

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Duke Ellington & Charles Mingus & Max Roach

Money Jungle Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | US | Original (Firehouse 12)

Taylor Ho Bynum

Enter The Plustet

35,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Little Girl Blue Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Nina Simone

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Time Out Blue Vinyl Edition

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Dol)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | AU | Reissue (MILDLIFE)

Mildlife

Phase

29,99 €*

Release: 2018 / AU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Mildlife's 2018 critically renowened album 'Phase' back in supply.
Nominated for best album at Worldwide FM Awards
Dj from DJ Harvey, Artwork, Gilles Peterson, Bradley Zero & many more.
Only limited copies avail.

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Big Deal! Weinberger Funk Library Uk 1975-79

LP | 2016 | UK | Reissue (Sonorama)

22,99 €*

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Release: 2016 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Killer-Funk Compilation voller Highlights aus den Musikarchiven von Josef Weinberger Ltd. in London, mit 16 Tracks von seltenen Library-LPs auf Labels wie JW (Josef Weinberger/ Theme Music), IA (Impress) oder PM (Programme Music). Erste Auswahl unbekannter Titel von Toni Campo, Midas Touch, Trevor Bastow, Sidney Dale oder Vick Flick, zwischen Jazz-Funk, Soul Music, Proto Techno und arabischen Disco-Sounds - mit Open Drum-Breaks, fetten Basslinien und jeder Menge Brass/ Wah-Wah /Orgeln /Vibes /Flöten und elektronischen Effekten.Vergleichbar mit den besten Sounds von KPM, De Wolfe oder Bosworth.

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Makaya McCraven

Universal Beings

27,99 €*

Ultimate Sinatra Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Universal Beings is jazz drummer / producer Makaya McCraven's new album - his most ambitious, elegant and refined work yet. Recorded at 2 intimate live sessions and 2 pop-up "studio" sessions across the "new" jazz hotbed cities of New York, Chicago, London, and Los Angeles, Makaya collaborated with an all-star cast of improvisers (15 musicians in total, including Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Jeff Parker, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson,Tomeka Reid, Brandee Younger and Carlos Niño) to create source material for the signature style of "organic beat music" production he debuted on the groundbreaking 2015 release In The Moment. The result is this epic, 2xLP set that represents another breakthrough in Makaya's career as a recording artist, as well as a definitive new work of the exciting global groundswell of next-generation, Black musicians re-vivifying and re-articulating "jazz" in 2018.

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Frank Sinatra

2LP | 2015 | CZ | Reissue (Universal)

38,99 €*

Release: 2015 / CZ – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Evil In Oslo Clear Vinyl Edition

Hedvig Mollestad Trio

2LP | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Rune Grammofon)

38,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | UK | Reissue (Lovemonk)

Chip Wickham

Shamal Wind

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (In & Out)

Release: 2018 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in Madrid in July 2017, Shamal Wind combines Chip Wickham's globetrotting, spiritual jazz expeditions with hard-won schoolings in the funk. Following his critically acclaimed 2017 debut, La Sombra, the record draws on spiritual jazz influences like Yusef Lateef and Sahib Shihab, and rests on Chip's many-sided experience as a musician, spanning left-field beat experiments to hard-hitting funk heavyweights.

After the Latin and flamenco whispers on La Sombra, Shamal Wind adds some Arab-influence percussion to the mix, most notably on the title track. Elsewhere, 'Barrio 71' sees him nodding to Shihab: high energy, lyrical and absorbing, with sax and the vibraphone taking the lead. 'Snake Eyes' taps into the meditative exaltations of modal jazz, while 'Soho Strut' nods to the jazz fusion, funk-influenced side of Chip's playing.

Like the Persian Gulf winds referenced in the album title, which often mark the shift to a new season, this album signals a new chapter for Chip, opening up a newfound energy and inclusiveness in his music, and further expanding on what he achieved in the past year. "Shamal Wind" is a heavy record, built on strong foundations.

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Ron Carter

Foursight-Stockholm

46,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dopppel LP, 2 bisher unveröffentlichte Bonus Tracks (über 20 Minuten).

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Brazil

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Edition)

Ben Wendel

High Heart

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nice 'N' Easy 60th Anniversary Edition

Frank Sinatra

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Capitol)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Social Beats)

Flink

It's Dangerous

21,99 €*

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz In Saint-Germain Des-Près

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Must Have / Membran)

Ed Motta

Criterion Of The Senses

13,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Ray Charles

Hit The Road Jack

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Brownswood)

Shabaka & The Ancestors

Wisdom Of Elders

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Not Now)

Edith Piaf

Je Ne Regrette Rien

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Groove Merchant)

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Piaf is a legend who lived a life straight from a Hollywood movie, enduring hardships and acclaim in equal measure, her music is testament to a spectacular life. Never has an artist embodied the material they performed as much as Edith Piaf; enjoy her legacy in this definitive 2LP set.

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Jimmy McGriff

Fly Dude

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Kat Edmonson

The Big Picture

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Albert Mangelsdorff & Frankfurt All Stars

Rhein Main Jump Feat. Hans Koller

LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Be! Jazz)

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live At Beethovenhaus Bonn

Rosset Meyer Geiger

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Unit)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood Ferguson

Chicago Waves

LP | 2020 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Jean-Claude of Amalgamation Of Soundz

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In late November of 2018, long-time collaborators (& life-long Los Angelenos) Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood Ferguson flew to Chicago to participate in the album release performance of Makaya McCraven's Universal Beings. Just 11 months prior, Carlos & Miguel were part of recording the 'Los Angeles Side' of Universal Beings at Jeff Parker's house in Altadena, California, and this performance in Chicago would be the first time that all of the musicians reunited to re-learn and perform the music they'd collectively composed during those sessions. The Universal Beings performance and preceding days of rehearsal took place at the iconic South Shore Cultural Center - a historic gilded-era urban club-turned-public facility deep on Chicago's Southside and right along the reedy shore of Lake Michigan, giving the building's backdrop an infinitely blue Northern expanse.

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If Music Presents You Need This: A Jounrey Into Deep Jazz Volume 3

3x12" | 2019 | UK | Original (BBE Music)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Rough Guide To World Jazz

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Rough Guides)

17,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (BMG)

Sarah Vaughan

Lullaby Of Birdland

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Helen Merrill Mono Edition

Helen Merrill

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Acoustic Sounds)

46,99 €*

Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World Volume 1

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Helen Merrill attributed her childhood musical influence to her mother's singing. Truth is, she didn't wait long herself to make a mark as a teenage jazz ingénue, following-up with the notable self-titled LP you have in your hands, newly remastered, and reissued by Analogue Productions.
Helen Merrill arrives, remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio, and plated and pressed to 200-gram vinyl by the dedicated crew at Quality Record Pressings, supervised by plating expert and general manager Gary Salstrom. No less than an old-style, tip-on Stoughton Printing gatefold jacket would suffice for such a phenomenal-sounding reissue. Rare photographs inside the gatefold originally appeared as sleeve art for the 7-inch singles recorded and released in conjunction with the original 1955 album release.
Helen Merrill was born in New York City on July 21, 1930. Her professional career began at the age of 15 when, after singing at theatres and winning amateur contests, she landed a job as vocalist with Reggie Charles' Band. Merrill was later signed by Mercury Records to their EmArcy label. "Helen Merrill" is her debut studio album, backed by among others, trumpeter Clifford Brown and bassist/cellist Oscar Pettiford. The legendary Quincy Jones produced and arranged the album when he was just 21-years-old!
The success of Helen Merrill prompted Mercury to sign her for an additional four-album contract. AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow gave Helen Merrill 4 1/2 stars. »The music is essentially straight-ahead bop, yet the seven standards ... are uplifted by the presence of Merrill (in top form) and Brown.« Her success associated Merrill with the first generation of bebop jazz musicians.
Merrill's career continued with recordings and concerts throughout six decades, until the early 2000s. Her emotional, sensual vocal performances, particularly this engaging debut, stand as testament to her immense talent.
This is a high-quality reissue of a rare and valuable record. Original copies have sold for more than $1,000!

Recording: in mono

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Art Blakey

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charles Tolliver/Music Inc

Compassion

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

34,99 €*

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

Freddie Hubbard

First Light

34,99 €*

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Don't Smoke In Bed 45rpm, 200g Vinyl Edition

Holly Cole Trio

2LP | 2019 | US | Original (Analogue Productions)

69,99 €*