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A Love Supreme (Acoustic Sounds)

Release: 1965 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Record Store Day 2020 Release.
Limitation: 1500 copies.

The remarkable 1965 New York Concerts performances offer a rare, revealing glimpse into the discographic dark period. This captivating double LP would be valuable solely for the brilliant music, which finds Jimmy Giuffre leading otherwise undocumented trio & quartet lineups, advancing his experiments in counterpoint and abstraction into more adventurous avant-garde territory. But it also offers insight into one of jazz's most innovative thinkers at a key moment in his development. 180-gram vinyl. LP1 / Side A - 1. Syncopate 2. Introduction 3. Crossroads LP1 / Side B - 1. Drive 2. Quadrangle 3. Angles LP2 / Side A - 1. Syncopate 2. Quadrangle 3. Three Bars In One LP2 / Side B - 1. Cry, Want 2. Angles 3. Drive

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John Coltrane

LP | 1965 | UK | Reissue (Verve)

56,99 €*

Release: 1965 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Forbidden Fruit Pink Vinyl Edition

Nina Simone

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (20th Century Masters)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington

Together For The First Time

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Not Now)

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Orchestra Arranged & Directed By Geral Wilson

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When stars collide, sparks will fly. At least that's the theory. Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington accepted the invitation to record together with dignity and polite courtesy. While keen to see what this pairing might produce artistically speaking, it was certainly an historic occasion. As the red light went on and the tapes rolled, Duke on piano and Louis on trumpet and vocals, backed by the Armstrong All-Stars began to play. As Ellington hits the keys on a riff that sounds suspiciously like C Jam Blues and Satchmo sings cheerfully 'Baby, take me down to Duke's Place!' the champions are ready to exchange ideas rather than blows. Perhaps unsurprisingly Louis soon emerged from this unique musical gathering as the natural born leader. But all the source material was firmly Ellingtonian. Both men had enjoyed extraordinary careers and were world renowned figures when the idea of bringing them together was first proposed.

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Les Mccann Sings

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Honeypie)

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LP | 1961 | UK | Reissue (Roulette)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Here's a true West Coast soul-jazz gem originally released on pacific jazz in 1961. Les McCann's warm and emotional singing shines over some gorgeous big band arrangements signed by the great conductor and bandleader Gerald Wilson. McCann's usual trio with Herbie Lewis on bass and Ron Jefferson on drums is augmented by a phenomenal bunch of West Coast top musicians including clarinetist Buddy Collette, tenor sax lions Charles Lloyd, Teddy Edward, and Harold Land, and two absolute guest stars: tenor sax giant Ben Webster and organ stylist Richard "groove" Holmes, what else?

Soul-jazz and blues at their best. Allmusic Guide

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Count Basie

Basie In Birdland

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1961 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

'Basie at Birdland' is a 1961 live album featuring Count Basie and his famed orchestra playing at Birdland in New York City. Recorded on June 27-28th of 1961, and released just one month later in July of that year, 'Basie at Birdland' proved once again that Count Basie was one of the world's best players, band leaders, and flag bearers of Jazz. Birdland, the self-proclaimed, 'Jazz Corner of the World' provides a raucous, lively backdrop to the band's soulful Kansas City style Jazz, on tunes like, 'Blue Backstage', and 'Good Time Blues' alongside their harder hitting, big band bop. 'Basie at Birdland' features the Count at the height of his prowess, and he and his band's fervent, swinging performance cannot be missed - it's perfect for novices and aficionados alike.

This is a jaw-dropping recording of Basie's band in 1961. The band is so tight and swings so hard it sounds at times as if one is listening to a Wurlitzer organ. There simply was no band that swung as hard as Basie's - at least not as recorded on this live date. Amazing.

Simply the best live recording of a big band ever!

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Kenny Dorham

Trompeta Toccata

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Lee Morgan

The Rumproller

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Dexter Gordon

A Swingin' Affair

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Prisoner Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Herbie Hancock

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Eddie Harris

The In Sound

These Are My Roots - Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly

Release: 1965 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

Recorded 1965
Engineer – Tom Dowd

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Clifford Jordan

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Atlantic)

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded on February 1 & 17, 1965 in NYC

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Pete La Roca

Basra

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Underrated drummer’s 1965 album
His debut solo album and one of only two Blue Note albums as leader (the second emerged in 1997)
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio on 19th May 1965
Featuring Blue Note legend Joe Henderson on tenor, Steve Kuhn on piano and Steve Swallow on bass
Showcasing three fine La Roca originals (the title track, ‘Candu’, ‘Tears Come From Heaven’), Steve Swallow’s ‘Eiderdown’ and interesting takes on the standards ‘Malaguena’ and ‘Lazy Afternoon’
Produced by Alfred Lion
Includes a famous Reid Miles cover, plus photography by Francis Wolff and liner notes by Ira Gitler

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Buhaina's Delight

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The drum hero’s classic 1963 album
Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, during November and December 1961
The Jazz Messengers’ 11th Blue Note album
Featuring the classic Messengers line-up of Freddie Hubbard (trumpet/flugelhorn), Wayne Shorter (tenor), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Cedar Walton (piano) and Jymie Merritt (bass)
Showcasing three classic Shorter compositions (‘Backstage Sally’, ‘Contemplation’, ‘Reincarnation Blues’) plus Fuller’s ‘Bu’s Delight’, Walton’s ‘Shaky Jake’ and a take on Henry Mancini’s ‘Moon River’
Produced by Blue Note co-founder Alfred Lion
Includes photography by BN co-founder Francis Wolff and liner notes by esteemed writer Leonard Feather

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Elvin Jones

Midnight Walk

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | US | Reissue (Prestige)

Thelonious Monk

The Golden Monk

Release: 1965 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Hub-Tones

37,99 €*

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pata Pata (Definitive Remastered Edition)

Miriam Makeba

2LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Strut)

LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes both the mono and stereo versions of the album!

Strut presents an all-time classic of South African music, the definitive remastered edition of Miriam Makeba's 'Pata Pata', her first album recorded for Reprise in 1966.
The album marked a significant international breakthrough for Makeba. Moving to the US after the anti-apartheid film 'Come Back, Africa' gained international attention and staying there in exile, she quickly built her career in New York during the '60s, mentored by Harry Belafonte. Signing with Reprise after a period with RCA, she returned to one of her older songs: "I wrote 'Pata Pata' back in 1956, back in South Africa", remembered Makeba in her autobiography. "It was a fun little song and I was thinking of a dance that we do at home ("pata" means 'touch" in Zulu and Xhosa)".
The track peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at no. 12 and the album. Other songs on the album included a version of the traditional Xhosa classic, 'Click Song Number One' ('Qongqothwane'), the atmospheric 'West Wind', later famously covered by her friend Nina Simone, and a version of Tilahun Gessesse's 'Yetentu Tizaleny' which Makeba learned on a trip to Addis to perform for Haile Selassie at the Organisation Of African Unity.

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McCoy Tyner

Inception

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Archie Shepp

Fire Music

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Sonny Rollins

On Impulse!

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

Charles Mingus

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac

Dizzy Gillespie

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Sarah Vaughan

Sarah +2

Release: 1965 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Bija)

Michael Gregory Jackson

Clarity

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Svart)

Heikki Sarmanto Sextet

Flowers In The Water

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Open Sesame

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Grant Green

Grant's First Stand

Alan Hawkshaw & Keith Mansfield

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The debut album by a prolific musician, ‘Grant’s First Stand’ is a significant work that set out the Blue Note musician’s highly personal manifesto.

Though Grant’s First Stand was guitarist Grant Green’s maiden release for Blue Note Records it wasn’t his debut recording session for the famous New York jazz label. The St Louis guitarist had, in fact, gone into Rudy Van Gelder’s legendary studio at Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey – where Blue Note did the majority of their recordings from 1959 onwards – on two previous occasions. For some reason, however, the music recorded on two days across October and November 1960 was shelved. It wasn’t until Saturday, 28 January 1961, that Green got to lay down the six tracks that became his debut album for the label.

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Beat Incidental

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

Clark Terry & Orchestra Feat. Paul Gonsalves

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This release comes on 180g vinyl and was remastered from the original tapes.Be With have raided the KPM archives to re-issue another of our favourites from the KPM 1000 series. They say: A Dramatic Suite Of Themes, Montage, Sequences And Generics. We say: An enormously influential and heavy KPM set of timeless, killer funk breaks from 1972 by the mighty John Cameron. Jazzrock is an aggressive, percussion-heavy album with an energy that leaves jaws on the floor. Breaks and beats for days with electric piano, bass loops, and pounding percussion. Funky jazz with a deep, tough, soundtrack feel. As with all of our KPM re-issues, the audio for The Road Forward comes from the original analogue tapes and has been remastered for vinyl by Be With regular Simon Francis. We’ve taken the same care with the sleeves, handing the reproduction duties over to Richard Robinson, the current custodian of KPM’s brand identity. And don’t worry! Those KPM stickers aren’t stuck directly on the sleeves!

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Clark Terry And His Orchestra

LP | 1960 | US | Reissue (Sam)

Release: 1960 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Dexter Gordon

Doin' Allright

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Herbie Hancock

Takin' Off

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (London)

Burt Bacharach

Hit Maker!

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sonny Rollins

The Bridge

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Images)

Charles Mingus

Presents Charles Mingus

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Stan Getz

Big Band Bossa Nova

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music

Ray Charles

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Max Roach Trio Feat. The Legendary Hasaan

The Max Roach Trio

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Return To Analog)

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hardly any other musician has released so little as Hasaan Ibn Ali, born William Henry Langford Jr., in 1931, who died in 1980. Just seven titles in all are his complete output, all of which he composed himself, all of them on the present Atlantic LP, and all recorded in December 1964. The saxophonist Odean Pope, who often practised with him, talks of a second recording session in 1965 for Atlantic, but the recordings were never released because Hasaan was sent to jail shortly afterwards; rumour has it that the tapes were destroyed in a fire – and it might well be that recordings with John Coltrane still exist somewhere or other.
Until then, one should enjoy the Max Roach Trio with Art Davis on the bass to the full. We have here a recording that will astound and fascinate your ears with its originality. A first impression conjures up reminiscences of Cecil Taylor and Herbie Nichols, while Hasaan himself talks of the pianist Elmo Hope as the man who brought him closer to the 'mystery of music'. When asked how the recording session with maestro Max Roach went, Hasaan said: »They scared me to death.«
According to Odean Pope, Hasaan was not an easy person to get on with, and he was convinced of his talent to the point of arrogance. But despite this – or perhaps because of this – one listens spellbound to the 40 minutes on this LP, a legacy and never-fulfilled promise of an extremely talented man. We are indebted to Max Roach, who persuaded the bosses of Atlantic Records to make these recordings. For many, many years they had vanished from the record market, but fortunately they are now available as an audiophile re-release to be listened to and admired.

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

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Lee Gagnon

Jazzzzz

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Le Quatuor De Jazz Libre Du Quebec

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Return To Analog)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Return To Analog)

Jimmie Rowles

Kinda Groovy!

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On A Clear Day Record Store Day 2019 Edition

The Peddlers

7" | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Epic)

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At The Half Note Cafe Volume 1

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Expertly utilised in hit series 'Breaking Bad' to soundtrack Walt and Jesse's meth manufacturing, The Peddlers 'On A Clear Day You Can See Forever' is a sumptuous smooth soul journey - full of exquisite organ solos and deep vocal tones.
2019 marks 50 years since it's release and with original copies pushing £40 it's a chance to bag this iconic record at a fraction of the price.
Remastered and reissued on 7 inch with large / dinked centre hole in Epic generic paper sleeve.

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Donald Byrd

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mack The Knife: Ella In Berlin

Ella Fitzgerald

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Herbie Hancock

Fat Albert Rotunda

LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Fat Albert Rotunda is the venture into jazz-funk by keyboardist Herbie Hancock. The record is
centered around the music Hancock wrote the Fat Albert cartoon show. It’s one of the records which
appeared in the period between his landmark album Maiden Voyage of 1965 and his 1973 classic
Head Hunters. Fat Albert Rotunda is a unique item in Herbie Hancock’s long and diverse catalog, with
funky tracks like "Fat Mama" and modern jazz-oriented tunes like "Tell Me A Bedtime Story". The
sextet which is backing Hancock consists of some of the most prominent musicians of that time, like
Joe Henderson on tenor sax, Johnny Coles on trumpet and Buster Williams on the bass.
Herbie Hancock is one of the most prolific jazz pianists of the 20th century. A child prodigy, he played
with the greats such as Donald Byrd and Miles Davis. As he was a bit of a geek, he enjoyed gadgets &
buttons and he was one of the first to embrace and master the electric piano, but he always stayed
true to the acoustic sound. In fact, he always bounced back and forth between his electronic and
acoustic sound, touching upon almost every development in R&B, Funk and Jazz while retaining an
original and distinctive voice.

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Herbie Mann

At The Village Gate

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

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Oscar Peterson

Motions & Emotions

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Jazzaggression)

The Bird Curtis Quintet

Needs B

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Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gene Ammons

Nice An' Cool

53,99 €*

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This 1961 set of standards, favoring ballads, is Gene Ammons in his prime. For the most part, this session is tight and structured, keeping Ammons firmly locked in the groove more so than on some of his more wandering dates. His big-as-a-house tone stands center stage in front of a sympathetic piano-bass-drums trio of Richard Wyands, Doug Watkins and J.C. Heard, respectively.

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Paul Desmond

Easy Living

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Tiger Bay)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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

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Joki Freund Sextet

Yogi Jazz

20,99 €*

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | UK | Reissue (Finders Keepers)

Les Esclaves

Popera Cosmic

The Charles Lloyd Quartet

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For the few people lucky enough to have heard the entire album in the five
decades since its release, the mythical POPERA COSMIC LP is now considered
to be France’s first dedicated psychedelic album and the shrouded blueprint for
the hugely influential Gallic concept album phenomenon that followed – including
SERGE GAINSBOURG’s HISTOIRE DE MELODY NELSON and GÉRARD
MANSET’s LA MORT D’ORION.
Spearheaded by FRANÇOIS WERTHEIMER (songwriter for VANGELIS, BARBARA
and BYG RECORDS), composed with future JODOROWSKY soundtracker
and genius all-rounder GUY SKORNIK, and based on an embryonic concept
co-conspired by a teenage JEAN-MICHEL JARRE, this instantly deleted 1969
recording is a true essential for any outernationalradicalised record collection.
With credentials that mark the birth of the cosmic funk (later disco) that helped
shape the influential sound of France today, this LP also includes the first pressed
instrumentals by members of SPACE ART, some of the best orch rock arrangements
by WILLIAM SHELLER (Lux Aeterna, Eriotissimo) and orchestrator PAUL PIOT
(Jean Rollin), as well as sitar psych benchmarks courtesy of uber legend SERGE
FRANKLIN – all pinned down by the rhythm section that would later be known to
prog aficionados as ALICE.
Subtitled LES ESCLAVES (The Slaves), this street theatre/rock opera (influenced
by the work of Julien Beck’s Living Theatre) now celebrates its 50th birth-day
standing firmly as a sonic tome to the birth of the no-no era (that rebuked
France’syé-yé” hamster wheel) leading directly to the thematic progressive
network of WAKHÉVITCH, MANSET and MAGMA while comprising an inter-Gallic
intergalactic super group from the early annals of France’s pop psych revolution.
Imagine a rock opera where the cast of MISTER FREEDOM perform CLASH OF
THE TITANS at the foot of THE HOLY MOUNTAIN – then pinch yourself...

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Love-In

LP | 1967 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Chrysalis)

Release: 1967 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Blodwyn Pig

Ahead Rings Out

29,99 €*

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Warner Music Poland)

Jerzy Milian Trio

Bazaar

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Prestige)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is 180g vinyl.

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Rusty Bryant

Rusty Bryant Returns

15,99 €*

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Sony Legacy)

Greatest Hits

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Columbia)

Greatest Hits

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Concord)

John Lee Hooker

That's Where It's At!

20,69 €* 22,99 € -10%

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Albert Ayler / Don Cherry

New York Eye And Ear Control

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (ESP Disk)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (ESP Disk)

Albert Ayler

Bells

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Baden Powell

Tristeza On Guitar

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Albert Mangelsdorff And His Friends

Albert Mangelsdorff

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Les McCann

The Truth

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bobby Timmons

Soul Time

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blue Mitchell

Blue's Moods

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Centaur And The Phoenix

Yusef Lateef

22,79 €* 23,99 € -5%

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Where? Feat. Eric Dolphy And Mal Waldron

Ron Carter

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Workshop)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Workshop)

Paul Gonsalves

Gettin' Together

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (ESP Disk)

Paul Bley Trio

Closer

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | UK | Reissue (Cacophonic)

Francois Tusques

Free Jazz

LP | 1960 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Release: 1965 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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As Finders Keepers disobedient little-sister-label reaches her 20th (release) anniversaries
Cacophonic Records are proud to present a record that will not only leave rare record
collectors salivating but will open ambitious ears to a truly pioneering album from the seldom
celebrated and individualistic micro-genre that is French free Jazz. Comprising some of the
earliest uninhibited performances from key musicians behind records by Serge Gainsbourg,
Jef Gilson, Triangle, Don Cherry, Barbara and countless other groundbreaking European jazz
records and freakish films, this LP captures the birth of an exciting movement that would
soon earn its Parisian birthplace as the go-to European spiritual home of improvised and
avant-garde music. Spearheaded by polymath pianist and composer François Tusques this
1965 French LP coined the phrase “free jazz” before the American genre of the same name
had fully taken shape and packed its suitcase; laying the foundations (alongside Jef Gilson’s
Enfin!) for a unique satellite brand of jazz that would later provide visiting afro American
avant-gardeners with a vibrant Parisian platform. Having recorded a very rare single in
celebration of the architect Le Corbusier in late 1964 Tusques was lucky enough to play
live with Don Cherry (a key player on Ornette Coleman’s 1961 Free Jazz LP) thus planting a
pedigreed seed for this vibrant cultivar.
With this record we not only hear the unique differences within the Gallic approach to the art
form (combining masterful sombre cinematic changes with aerated free-form percussion and
erratic reed and brass) but we also get to witness the early lesser savoured secret ingredients
that would carry France’s mainstream pop culture into truly uncharted and unrivalled
territories throughout the following decades. Best known to faithful Finders Keepers fans as
the soundtrack composer to the horrortica films of Jean Rollin, Tusques is joined here by sax
and flute player Francois Jeanneau, who’s electronic jazz album Such A Weird Plane” would
later lead to his own band Triangle gaining recognition as France’s leading French language
prig-jazz-rock act. Featuring three players from the aforementioned Enfin! LP by French jazz
pioneer and producer Jef Gilson, Free Jazz combines the skills of Jeanneau, with clarinet
player Michel Portal (Gainsbourg Percussions/Claude Nougaro) and trumpeter Bernard Vitet
(whose avant-garde appearances on the Futura label are indispensable). In addition to this,
Free Jazz also boasts the inclusion of Tusques’ sidekick and double bass master Bernard
“Beb” Guérin (of Sonny Sharrock Monkey-Pockie-Boo infamy) who had also appeared on
the earlier Don Cherry/Le Corbusier recording providing further kudos to this LPs historical
importance.
It is by no coincidence that this carefully selected ensemble would around this time become
enlisted as the backing group for politically driven singer-songwriter Colette Magny (an action
which would arguably later influence Brigitte Fontaine’s choice to adopt The Art Ensemble Of
Chicago as her backing band after the Actuel records Pan-African Jazz festival and record
series). The fact that Colette Magny would provide the art direction for this very LP is a cute
small-print signifier of this LPs intended manifesto status. This album also captures a rare
glimpse of percussionist Charles Saudrais in free-form mode after his departure from the
Barney WIlen Quartet (Moshi) - an inclusion that would surely galvanise the relationship
between WIlen and Tusques resulting in the follow-up record Nouveau Jazz for actor Marcel
Mouloudji’s privately funded Disques Mouloudji label (on which both rare LPs were originally
pressed).
This glimpse into a seldom documented underground of a domestic, revolutionary,
uncompromised spiritual art-form successfully reveals the other-side of abstracted French
music which alongside musique concrète, protest pop, symphonic rock and Zeuhl-skool
electronic prog created a homegrown, self-contained music industry that went on to influence
a universe of Gallic magnetic inspiration. “This is free jazz, Jim; but not as we know it.”

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Eric Dolphy

Outward Bound

53,19 €* 55,99 € -5%

Exultation! 200g Vinyl Edition

Release: 1960 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dolphy had left his native California and come east as part of Chico Hamilton's group, settling in New York in 1960 and becoming part of Charles Mingus's group. This first recording as a leader brought comparisons with Ornette Coleman but the two were really parallel figures in the then-emerging avant-garde. Dolphy did not eschew 'changes', as Coleman did, but he used them in new ways. This LP was significant not only for his alto saxophone but introduced his individual approach to the flute and, particularly, the bass clarinet.

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Booker Ervin

LP | 1963 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

53,19 €* 55,99 € -5%

Release: 1963 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Intensity marked everything that Booker Ervin played. In his harmonic concept, slashing attack, and broad Texas sound, Ervin demanded attention and constantly built improvisations of searing drama and epic sweep. His primary legacy is a series of albums recorded for Prestige in the 1960s, of which this was his first, a riveting quintet recital where the alto saxophone of Frank Strozier supplies an urgent complement and the rhythm section is piloted by Horace Parlan, Ervin’s longtime compatriot from their days together in the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop and in a cooperative quartet that worked at "Minton’s Playhouse". In addition to four inspiring originals by Ervin and drummer Walter Perkins, the session features an eloquent reading of Fats Waller’s immortal "Black And Blue" and an exploration of the show tune "Just in Time". Both the latter and "No Land’s Man" are included in two versions, the shorter of which were cut for release as a 45rpm single.

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LP | 1963 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Seven Steps To Heaven

Release: 1963 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1960 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Oliver Nelson

Screamin' The Blues

Release: 1960 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Backlash

LP | 1966 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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

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Charles Lloyd

Dream Weaver

Release: 1966 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Sketches Of Spain Yellow Vinyl Edition

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Columbia)

29,99 €*

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The release comes on 180g Vinyl.

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John Coltrane

Plays The Blues

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

My Funny Valentine

49,99 €*

Release: 1965 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Nina Simone

I Put A Spell On You

Kenny Burrell & Coleman Hawkins

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g

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Bluesy Burrell 200g Vinyl Edition

LP | 1963 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

The Wonderful World Of Jazz

Release: 1963 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This session is a model of the emotionally intense ballad programs featured on Prestige's Moodsville subsidiary. The great Kenny Burrell receives a major assist from saxophone patriarch Coleman Hawkins (who is in exemplary early-Sixties form), Hawkins' rhythm section of the time (made up exclusively of natives of Burrell's hometown Detroit) and conga drummer Ray Barretto. The choice of material and variety of settings are inspired, with Burrell heard solo on "No More", over just bass and drums on "Guilty", in two different settings and on three titles by the full sextet. Each soloist is fully engaged throughout, with things shifting into even higher gear when Burrell and Hawkins converse on "Montono Blues" and "I Thought About You".

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John Lewis

LP | 1960 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Out There 200g Vinyl Edition

Release: 1960 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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Eric Dolphy

LP | 1969 | DE | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 1960, the free jazz pioneered by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Horace Tapscott and a very few others was rejected by many musicians and most listeners. For the visionary saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist Eric Dolphy, it was simply new music fed by the mainstream, a logical extension of the jazz tradition. In "Far Cry" without leaving form behind, he incorporated the spirit of adventure and abandon with which free jazz at its best infused freshness into jazz. Recording with a pianoless quartet that used Ron Carter’s cello as the other melody instrument, Dolphy worked from chord patterns developed within structures that depart from ordinary 32-bar jazz and popular song forms. He used 30-bar, 35-bar and 18-bar structures, but he also observed standard practice with 12-bar blues, “Serene”. Dolphy’s speech-like improvisations and Carter’s bowed or plucked cello solos soar over the impeccable and responsive accompaniments of bassist George Duvivier and drummer Roy Haynes.

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Frank Zappa

Hot Rats

Standard Coltrane 200g Vinyl Edition

Release: 1969 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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„Hot Rats“, originally released 1969, is Zappa’s second album. It‘s considered to be one of the first Jazzrock albums ever and mostly contains instrumental compositions except from one track.

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John Coltrane

LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

The Essential Carnegie Hall Concert 1956

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Coltrane brought a new sound and style to jazz, and he applied it in his own unique way to the standard material of the storehouse of American music gathered from Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley. With the excellent rhythm team of Red Garland, Paul Chambers (both of whom had done so many concert, club and recording dates with him) and Jimmy Cobb and the Miles-directed flugelhorn of Wilbur Harden, Trane puts his personal stamp on numbers not done that often like Henry Nemo's "Don't Take Your Love from Me", Fred Ahlert's "I'll Get By" and two more familiar yet still not overdone songs, Richard Rodgers' "Spring Is Here" and Bronislau Kaper's "Invitation."

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Billie Holiday

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Pan Am)

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Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Charles Lloyd

Forest Flower

Blues In Orbit 200g Vinyl Edition

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Duke Ellington

LP | 1960 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

53,99 €*

Release: 1960 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It's tempting for "Blues In Orbit" to be overlooked when Duke Ellington's best albums are discussed, but truly it's an undisputed gem. There are 14 tracks, none of them is longer than 4:50 and it is all good stuff. There are some familiar favorites such as "In A Mellotone" and "C Jam Blues" as well as less often heard gems like "Blues In Blueprint and "Sweet And Pungent". It is also in stereo, and the arrangements are superb.
The featured performers include Ellington stalwarts Johnnie Hodges, Ray Nance, Harry Carney and Jimmy Hamilton, as well as the less familiar Booty Wood and Matthew Gee. Johnnie, in particular is well showcased here, taking the lead not only in slow pieces like "Brown Penny" and "Sentimental Lady", but also in the rousing "Smada".
The full Analogue Productions reissue treatment is at work on this smashing LP — famed mastering engineer Bernie Grundman handled the remastering from the original analog tapes. The lacquers were plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings, maker of the world's finest-sounding LPs. Lastly we've stashed each super-silent 200-gram disc in a premium Stoughton Printing gatefold jacket.
All of the takes were recorded during after midnight sessions recorded over two nights starting on December 2, 1959 in New York at Columbia Record's studio on East 30th Street. Each night Duke's late dinner arrived at 2 a.m. — a sizzling steak, a pot of coffee with lemons in it, portions of American cheese, and grapefruits. After dinner, and a breather for the band, the sessions finished around dawn in a swinging fashion.
If you're just getting into jazz, this album is highly recommended as a great way to initiate your collection. The sound is incredible, with packaging to match. Another audiophile home run.

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

The Hub Of Hubbard

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jimmy Forrest

Out Of The Forrest

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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From the time Coleman Hawkins firmly established the tenor saxophone on the jazz map, it has been one of the most potent forces in the music, its best practitioners able to raise the roof with a jumping blues, soothe the savage beast with a tender love ballad, and do just about anything in between. At the time of this recording (1961), Jimmy Forrest, the St. Louis-born reedman, was a veteran of the Fate Marable, Jay McShann, Andy Kirk, and Duke Ellington bands. Later in his career he starred with Count Basie. Here he leads a quartet of teammates from the combo of 'Sweets' Edison, including the young Austrian pianist Joe Zawinul, through a gamut of the aforementioned moods from "Crash Program" to the caressing "That's All", with a few tips of the cap to Ben Webster along the way. With Joe Zawinul, Tommy Potter and Clarence Johnston.

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Eric Dolphy

At The Five Spot

LP | 1960 | US | Reissue (Vee Jay)

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One night during a one-time, two-week engagement at the Five Spot produced enough music of lasting merit for three albums. When Rudy Van Gelder took his portable equipment down to the fabled Cooper Square jazz club on July 16, 1961, he captured the interaction of an extraordinary quintet.
Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, Mal Waldron, Richard Davis and Ed Blackwell had formed a cooperative group and, if LIttle had not died in October 1961, there is no doubt that it would have been a potent force in the music of the 1960s and beyond. Dolphy himself died in June 1964, after establishing himself as one of the important contemporary reedmen. Here his alto saxophone and bass clarinet and Little’s trumpet explore three originals: "The Prophet" by Dolphy, "Bee Vamp" by Little, and "Fire Waltz" by Waldron. It’s time caught in a bottle — music for the ages.

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Paul Chambers

1st Bassman

16,99 €*

Release: 1960 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Herb Albert

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Rykodisc)

31,99 €*

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Hank Mobley

Workout

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Ascensionale)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This release comes with a download code.
180g Vinyl

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Jorge Lopez Ruiz

B.A. Jazz

39,99 €*