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Exotic Percussion Sea Glass Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A cult album from 1968 that has long since become known as a groove classic across genre boundaries, now for the first time as a deluxe edition, freshly remastered, with bonus tracks and attractive packaging. Along with Alice Coltrane, Dorothy Ashby was the only world-famous jazz harpist. Thanks to deep grooves and sophisticated orchestral sounds, “Afro-Harping” is her most famous album to date, which is continually breathed new life into thanks to samples and remixes by Pete Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Jay Dee (aka J Dilla), Madlib, Flying Lotus and others. Remastered from the original ¼-inch tapes by Alex Wharton/Abbey Road Studios and featuring eight strong, previously unreleased alternate tracks, including an explosive version of the single “Soul Vibrations”, the classic album is now available for the first time in a high-quality format appropriate to its ever-growing importance.

2-lp: gatefold sleeve, padded black inner sleeves, illustrated eight-page insert with detailed liner notes by Seán Casey/Shindig! magazine.

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Martin Denny

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Jackpot)

LP | 1964 | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sourced From The Original Master Tapes; Out of print since the 1960s

Now joining Jackpot Record's ever-expanding collection of Martin Denny re-issues is the hypnotic "visual sound" of Exotic Percussion, which has not been on vinyl since its original release in 1961.

His production on Exotic Percussion is ambitious, adventurous, and fascinatingly futuristic, especially when a tumbler with ice was still the preferred way to let loose. Xylophones and chimes swim from ear to ear; traditional jazz instrumentation collides with such musical oddities as boo bas, shamisens, Manga harp, and Burmese gongs.

As always, the choice of compositions on a Martin Denny record is a bizarre yet exciting spin around the globe, but this one is even weirder than usual. From the faster-than-light of "Cumana" to the luscious groove of "Moonlight On The Ganges" (made famous by Frank Sinatra and a track that is still being played on a loop at Disneylan's Jungle Cruise attraction), it's a whiplash of a ride. But the stand-out on the record is the combo of "Misirlou" (which would be made famous a few years later by Dick Dale and even decades later with its appearance in Pulp Fiction).

So join the conga line and head out into the street as Martin Denny once again creates a world we yearn to return to and an album we can always revisit.

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Wayne Shorter

Juju

Release: 1964 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Taru Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Lee Morgan

LP | 1968 | Reissue (Blue Note)

Dreams Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1968 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lee Morgan’s 1968 album "Taru" found the trumpeter at a crossroads exploring a variety of styles from modal jazz and post-bop to beautiful balladry and funky boogaloos. The band here is notable for the elevating presence of guitarist George Benson and the addition of tenor saxophonist Bennie Maupin.

BLUE NOTE TONE POET EDITION: Stereo, produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analogue master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a Gatefold Sleeve with deluxe tip-on jacket.

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Gabor Szabo

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Skye)

Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Arrangements by Gary McFarland Recorded at Western Recording, Los Angeles
August 6th, 7th and 9th, 1968

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Eddie Gale

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

30,99 €*

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Quest Limited Ojc. Series

Mal Waldron

LP | 1961 | Reissue (Concord)

Release: 1961 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Midnight Blue Blue Note 85 Blue Vinyl Edition

Kenny Burrell

LP | 1963 | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1963 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Guitarist Kenny Burrell debuted on Blue Note Records in 1956 and over the following seven years made a series of excellent albums for the label that culminated with his masterwork Midnight Blue. Recorded in 1963, the album waded deep into the blues, conjuring an alluring late-night vibe with a profoundly soulful cast including tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, bassist Major Holley, Jr., drummer Bill English, and Ray Barretto on congas.
Burrell originals including “Chitlins con Carne,” “Midnight Blue,” “Saturday Night Blues,” and the stunning solo guitar piece “Soul Lament” set the tone for this timeless classic adorned by one of the all-time great Reid Miles cover designs.

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Herbie Hancock

Empyrean Isles

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul Station Blue Note 85 Blue Vinyl Edition

Hank Mobley

LP | 1960 | Reissue (Blue Note)

Intensity Limited Contemporary Records

Release: 1960 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had already led nine dates for Blue Note Records by the time he arrived at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on February 7, 1960 with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey, but on that day the quartet laid down what would become his masterpiece: Soul Station.
The crystalline six-song set was a showcase for Mobley’s lyrical flow from the breezy opening take on Irving Berlin’s “Remember” through bluesy originals like “Dig Dis” and the title track, and the swinging up-tempo numbers “This I Dig of You” and “Split Feelin’s.” Soul Station endures as a jazz classic for the ages.

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Art Pepper

LP | 1963 | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1963 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | UK | Reissue (Blue Note)

Freddie Hubbard

Ready For Freddie

Release: 1962 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Free For All

LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Blue Note)

15,99 €*

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Royal Flush Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series

Donald Byrd

Oliver Nelson With Eric Dolphy

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Donald Byrd was off to the races after joining Blue Note in 1958 and had fully hit his hard bop stride by 1961 with his excellent album "Royal Flush". Joining the trumpeter was a state-of-the-art rhythm section featuring Herbie Hancock on piano, Butch Warren on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums plus Byrd’s frequent collaborator Pepper Adams on bari sax.

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

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Straight Ahead Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

35,99 €*

At The Renaissance Limitedcontemporary Records

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Straight Ahead, featuring saxophonists Oliver Nelson and Eric Dolphy, is the VMP Classics Record of the Month for April 2024. It's pressed on 180g black vinyl, with lacquers cut from master tapes (AAA) by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

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Ben Webster

LP | 1960 | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1960 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1966 | US | Reissue (Nature Sounds)

Dave Pike

Jazz For The Jet Set

29,99 €*

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Release: 1966 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With his 1966 debut for Atlantic, jazz vibraphonist and marimba player Dave Pike and an all-star lineup produced a perfect blend of Jazz, Latin, Soul and R&B that stands the test of time. Produced by Pike's frequent collaborator Herbie Mann, ''Jazz for the Jet Set'' featured a young Herbie Hancock on organ (an instrument he rarely played again), Clark Terry on trumpet, Billy Butler on guitar, Grady Tate on drums, and many other talented musicians. From an artistic perspective, the album marked a pivotal time in Pike's career, where he began to move away from straight ahead jazz and forge a relationship with soul music, Latin rhythms, pop arrangements and more experimental styles. With this official reissue courtesy of Nature Sounds, ''Jazz For The Jet Set'' is now back on limited-edition vinyl while supplies last. 1. Blind Man Blind Man 2. Jet Set 3. Sunny 4. When I'm Gone 5. You've Got Your Troubles 6. Sweet Tater Pie 7. Just Say Goodbye 8. Devilette

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The Big Beat

15,99 €*

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Life Goes On)

Eden Ahbez

Eden's Island

13,99 €*

LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It is 1960, Rock’n’Roll has just lost a couple of its protagonists during this and the previous year, the time of the great balladeers has just begun but soon will run out due to the new and exciting beat invasion. In US mainstream the tiki culture has reached a certain peak and is about to collapse but still goes strong and with it comes the so called “exotica” music, a crossover between smooth jazz and swing, Latin grooves, haunting melodies that are rooted in the folkloristic sounds from different parts of this world plus weird sound effects that often create a spooky jungle or dreamy island beach atmosphere. It can even bend your mind that far you would see palm trees growing out of your speakers and witness monkeys and parrots having fun in your room. Eden Ahbez, born in 1908, passed in 1995, a man living an even more consistent dropout and hippie lifestyle way before the movement was born in the mid 60s, a beat poet and composer who wrote the hit tune “Nature boy” that gave Nat King Cole his first big success in 1947, approaches the field of exotica music from a different point of view creating an epic concept album about an utopian society living in peace and harmony on an island far away from the modern western world as we know it. And indeed we find many trademarks of the prototypical exotica music beginning with this relaxed groove combining easy listening swing and Latin patterns, peaceful, dreamy and even transcendental vocal melodies, tinges of folk music from around the world including powerful dances and a whole color palette of mind expanding sounds giving the whole music an even greater depth and width.

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Herbie Hancock

Takin' Off

21,99 €*

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Skye)

Gabor Szabo

Bacchanal

Brown Sugar Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Labeled “the Nureyev of the guitar” by jazz critic Leonard Feather, Gabor Szabo was at his creative peak at the end of the 60s, when he recorded his masterpiece “Bacchanal”. Szabo’s 60s quintet, featuring guitarist Jimmy Stewart, is on top
form here with another of his unique collections of both jazz and pop hits. His restrained use of feedback at just the right moments shows Szabo was willing to open up to new sounds yet he keeps a tight grip on his signature sound throughout these eight cuts.

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Freddie Roach

LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

35,99 €*

The Body & The Soul Verve By Request

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Freddie Roach’s first three albums introduced him to the world, but Brown Sugar showed it who he was. It was the album that Roach made to capture the energy of soul jazz. To somehow take the sounds in the city, in the clubs, and bring them to a record. In his original liner notes, Roach writes that the album is an ode to late nights and loud clubs, to backs damp with sweat, arms wrapped around waists. ‘’Not caring for the moment about troubles or problems,'' he wrote of people dancing, ‘’their bodies quivering under smiles that seemed to promise ‘after the dance.’'' After talking to Alfred Lion, president of Blue Note, they decided that the album needed to be made up of standards — not the standards of the stage or screen, but the standards of the people. ‘’To get the ‘soul,’'' Roach wrote, ‘’I decided to do show soul tunes.''

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Freddie Hubbard

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Speak No Evil Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On his second and last album for Impulse! Records, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard went all out: with a first-class orchestra conducted and arranged by Wayne Shorter, occasionally reinforced by strings, and a varied repertoire that seamlessly combined standards with originals by Hubbard.
VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, Gatefold Sleeve

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Wayne Shorter

The Sidewinder Blue Note 85 Collection Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1964 was one of the most momentous years in the musical life of Wayne Shorter. Early in the year the saxophonist was still a member of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, appearing on classic Blue Note albums like Free for All and Indestructible. Shorter made his own auspicious label debut that spring with Night Dreamer and quickly recorded the impressive follow-up JuJu. That summer he joined the Miles Davis Quintet, cementing a line-up that would become one of the seminal bands in jazz history. And when Shorter entered Van Gelder Studio with Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Elvin Jones on Christmas Eve 1964 they created a masterpiece with Speak No Evil, a transcendent set of six Shorter originals including the swinging title track, “Witch Hunt,” and sublime ballad “Infant Eyes.”

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Lee Morgan

LP | 1964 | WW | Reissue (Blue Note)

Nobuo Hara Meets Hozan Yamamoto

Release: 1964 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nobody had expected the extraordinary success of this album and its funky title track. When Blue Note released trumpeter Lee Morgan's “The Sidewinder” in 1964, the label “only” pressed 4,000 copies, but they were completely sold out within three days. The instrumental album reached number 25 in the pop charts and number 10 in the rhythm'n'blues charts, while the soul-jazzy title track, which was shortened for that, was also successful as a single. The album, recorded with tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, pianist Barry Harris, bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Billy Higgins, is now a classic album that should be in every jazz collection.

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New Jazz In Japan

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Le Très Jazz Club)

Silver's Serenade Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nobuo "Hara", whose real name is Nobuo Tsukahara, is a Japanese saxophonist who became known in 1951 with his big band, the Sharp & Flats. Together they recorded more than a hundred album during their career. Hozan Yamamoto is, for his part, a Shakuhachi player, a traditional Japanese flute, enjoying such recognition in his country that he was awarded a Living National Treasure in 2002. The first record bringing together the two musicians is a live recorded in 1967 during the Newport Jazz Festival. It was a year later, in 1968, that New Jazz in Japan, their first studio recording, was released. Accompanied by the ower of the Sharps & Flats, Nobuo Hara"s tenor sax and Hozan Yamamoto"s shakuhachi respond subtly to give this record, which had not been reissued since 1971, a completely unique style.

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Horace Silver

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

43,99 €*

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Silver’s Serenade" was the last album Horace Silver made with his celebrated Quintet with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor and Roy Brooks. These five Silver tunes epitomize his compositional style: captivating melodies, sophisticated harmonies and intricate rhythms with an unerring sense of swing.

BLUE NOTE TONE POET EDITION: Stereo, produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analogue master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe tip-on jacket.

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A Love Supreme Uhqr Limited Edition Box Set

LP Box | 1964 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

201,99 €*

With A Little Help From My Friends

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Coltrane Quartet — A Love Supreme Analogue Productions' Uhqr, the pinnacle of high-quality vinyl! 45 RPM Ultra High Quality Record release. Limited to 10,000 copies. Mastered from the original tape by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound Pressed at Quality Record Pressings using Clarity Vinyl® Includes a 12" x 12" 12-page booklet featuring liner notes by Ashley Kahn and images from the Coltrane home

Audiophile reviews rave about saxophone master John Coltrane's immortal Impulse! records, A Love Supreme (1964) and Ballads (1963). In fact, jazz critics have lauded A Love Supreme as Coltrane's most important recording. The rave reviews which appeared in the magazines Downbeat, Jazz Hot, Jazz Podium and Swing-journal reflected this: critics all over the world, in America, Europe and Japan recognized that Coltrane's deep religious belief had influenced both his approach to life and his music-making.

You're about to experience A Love Supreme at its peak of vinyl perfection — in Uhqr format on Clarity Vinyl, with the added bonus of a double 45 RPM cut by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound. Ryan's cut has his characteristic clarity and transparency all set against Quality Record Pressing's usual noiseless backgrounds on 200-gram flawless records. Each Uhqr will be packaged in a deluxe box and will include a booklet detailing the entire process of making a Uhqr along with a hand-signed certificate of inspection. This will be a truly deluxe, collectible product.

For this 45 RPM 2LP edition you'll also receive a 12" x 12" 12-page booklet featuring liner notes by Ashley Kahn and images from the Coltrane home.

The original master tape is available but it's not in the best shape. This LP was cut from a flat tape copy made by Rudy Van Gelder and used for cutting in the UK in April of 1965. Of course, the original recording was in December '64, so only a handful of months later. This tape was discovered at Abbey Road and had been untouched between 1965 and 2002. So while the original tape is available and while we would always opt for the original whenever we can, in this case this copy was the better choice as the tape has incurred less overall wear and sounds much better than the original.

A Love Supreme was Coltrane's pinnacle studio outing that at once compiled all of his innovations from his past, spoke of his current deep spirituality, and also gave a glimpse into the next two and a half years (sadly, those would be his last). Recorded at the end of 1964, Trane's classic quartet of Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, and Jimmy Garrison stepped in and created one of the most thought-provoking albums of their relationship.

The album not only enabled Coltrane to express himself with great intensity but also lent him the necessary inner peace to conceive a work of almost 40 minutes in length and to lead his quartet along the same path as himself.

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Volker Kriegel

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Cinedelic)

East Broadway Run Down Acoustic Sounds

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Volker Kriegel is considered the pioneering Jazz-rock and Fusion guitarist from Europe. 1968 was a crucial year for his career as he released "With A Little Help From My Friends," his first solo album, and signed with American vibraphonist Dave Pike, joining what would quickly emerge as one of the most popular and influential jazz fusion combos. This precious document reissued for the first time by Cinedelic Jazz with bonus tracks highlights all his qualities that enabled him to become one of the most acclaimed and innovative guitarists in European jazz. The original album included two recording sessions; Side A in Cologne and Side B in Frankfurt, with different performers. Side A as a trio with double bass and drums, and on the other with the addition of vibraphonist Claudio Szenkar. The covers performed are the two by Lennon-McCartney 'With A Little Help From My Friends' and 'Norwegian Wood’, and the traditional Brazilian 'Nãnã Imborô'. Added to the original album are four previously unreleased tracks of great depth recorded at the Deutsches Jazz Festival in Frankfurt in 1968: "Teaming Up" and "Vian-De" by Kriegel himself, "Spanish Soul" by Szenkar and "Nina's Dance" lasting over 9 minutes and featuring Tony Scott on Clarinet and Gustl Mayr on Tenor Sax. Over the years, Kriegel would go on to participate in over 200 albums.

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Sonny Rollins

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

A Night In Tunisia Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series

LP | 1960 | Reissue (Concord)

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the great line-ups of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers coalesced when saxophonist Wayne Shorter joined trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt, as heard on the 1960 album "A Night In Tunisia". Opening with a fiery version of Dizzy Gillespie’s famous piece, the rest of the set showcased new bandmember originals.

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

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Blue Mitchell

Blue's Moods Ojc. Series

Release: 1960 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ray Charles In Person Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Ray Charles

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Creating harmony out of unlikely combinations was integral to Charles’ genius, and that’s evident with how effortlessly he navigates multiple genres on In Person, oftentimes on the same song. It’s an album that’s a testament to him as a versatile musical pioneer: someone who was unafraid to explore different ideas and sounds throughout his career, becoming a seminal figure in American music in the process.

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Getz / Gilberto

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Latin Jazz classic that started it all! Mandatory!

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Hank Mobley

Soul Station

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had already led nine dates for Blue Note Records by the time he arrived at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on February 7, 1960 with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey, but on that day the quartet laid down what would become his masterpiece: Soul Station.

The crystalline six-song set was a showcase for Mobley’s lyrical flow from the breezy opening take on Irving Berlin’s “Remember” through bluesy originals like “Dig Dis” and the title track, and the swinging up-tempo numbers “This I Dig of You” and “Split Feelin’s.” Soul Station endures as a jazz classic for the ages..

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

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Lee Morgan

The Sidewinder

Release: 1964 / 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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Grant Green

Grant's First Stand

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

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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Baden Powell

Tristeza On Guitar

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kenny Burrell & Coleman Hawkins

Bluesy Burrell 200g Vinyl Edition

LP | 1963 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

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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Eric Dolphy

At The Five Spot

Somethin' Else Blue Note 85 Collection Blue Vinyl Edition

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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Cannonball Adderly

LP | 1964 | WW | Reissue (Blue Note)

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1964 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Is that what you wanted, Alfred?” we hear in Miles Davis’ unmistakable rasp at the end of “One for Daddy-O,” making it clear that the legendary (and assertive) trumpeter was not just playing the role of sideman on Somethin’ Else, the sole Blue Note album by Cannonball Adderley. The alto saxophonist was a memb¬er of Davis’ band at the time and the depth of their musical camaraderie lifts this session up to rarefied heights throughout, from the breathtaking performance of “Autumn Leaves” that opens the album to the thrilling call-and-response theme of the title track. Pianist Hank Jones, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Art Blakey round out the quintet on this timeless classic.

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Howard McGhee

Maggie's Back In Town!!

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Hampton Hawes

For Real

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans

Know What I Mean Original Jazz Classic Series

LP | 1961 | Reissue (Concord)

Release: 1961 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blues & Roots Atlantic 75 Series

Charles Mingus

2LP | 1960 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions Atlantic 75 Series)

75,99 €*

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Candid)

Release: 1960 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g 2LP 45rpm

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Max Roach

We Insist (Mono)

30,99 €*

Bluesnik Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An avant-garde masterpiece, a vocal-instrumental suite, a work of collective improvisation, directly addressing the racial and political issues of it’s day, We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite is one of the most important artistic statements of Civil Rights Movement and one of the most groundbreaking jazz albums of all time. Max Roach was already almost a decade into his career as one of the most influential jazz drummers and composers when he teamed up with lyricist Oscar Brown Jr. to collaborate on a piece they planned to perform at the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1963. Recorded just months after the February 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, the album stands as an early musical testament to the burgeoning rage, anger and passion that would take the Civil Rights Movement from its early victory in Montgomery in 1955 into a future that would dramatically alter race relations in the United States.

The second release from the newly launched New York City based jazz label Candid Records, and produced by label co-founder, famed music critic and social activist, Nat Hentoff, the album is a bold statement, focused on civil injustices in black history ranging from slavery to contemporary racial prejudices, and featuring some of the finest jazz musicians ever, including Abbey Lincoln, Coleman Hawkins, Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, and Michael Babatunde Olatunji.

The five movements of the work are organized as a historical progression through African-American history, a shape similar to the one in Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige. The Freedom Now Suite moves from slavery to Emancipation Day to the contemporary civil-rights struggle and African independence.

The LP includes extraordinary liner notes written by Hentoff himself, giving a context and insight that adds to the experience of hearing these magnificent performances.

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Jackie McLean

22,99 €*

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean had the blues on his mind when he went into Van Gelder Studio in 1961 to record his hard bop masterpiece Bluesnik with a blazing quintet featuring Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Kenny Drew on piano, Doug Watkins on bass, and Pete La Roca on drums. The six-song set of bluesy originals brims with immediacy and vibrancy.

Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition: stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal, padded inner sleeve.

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Olé Coltrane Crystal Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

31,99 €*

The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissue as a part of the Start Your Year Off Right Kampagne von Warner. The final album recorded by Coltrane under his own supervision for Atlantic Records, Ole Coltrane features several of the players from Africa/Brass, which was recorded two days earlier, and is widely considered one of the premiere statements of Avant Garde jazz as well as the moment that Coltrane moved from an accessible artist to a more daring and complicated one. (Original RD: November 1961)

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Sun Ra

LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Out Of The Blue Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Sonny Red

LP | 1960 | UK | Reissue (Blue Note)

37,99 €*

Release: 1960 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For DJango Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Joe Pass

LP | 1964 | UK | Reissue (Blue Note)

42,99 €*

Release: 1964 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Crescent Acoustic Sounds Edition

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Dexter Gordon

Go!

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Horace Silver

Song For My Father

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jackie McLean

A Fickle Sonance

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | UK | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Yusef Lateef

The Blue Yusef Lateef

34,99 €*

Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

Release: 1968 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"The Blue Yusef Lateef" - Yusef Lateef (ts, fl, perc, voc); Sonny Red (as); Blue Mitchell (tp); Kenny Burrell (g); Hugh Lawson (p); Buddy Lucas (hca); Cecil McBee, Bob Cranshaw (b); Roy Brooks (dr); strings and vocal group

Yusuf Lateef was a leading representative of world music, long before world music was known as such in the jazz, pop and rock community. He integrated all kinds of oriental instruments in his jazz music, such as the koto, bamboo flute and tambura and also – as in this case – in his blues compositions. His saxophone playing is also flawless too and full of wonderful textures, hard and impulsive at one moment, cool and exotic at the next.
On this album Lateef explores, in a painterly way, the border areas of the blues, in all their various guises and addresses both eastern and western cultures. "Juba Juba" begins with a drumbeat on a slave ship, the tempo builds up slowly and agonizingly, and is only penetrated by Lateef’s plaintive flute and background voices singing »freedom, freedom, freedom«. After such a gloomy beginning the classical blues number "Like It Is" comes over like a breath of fresh air, with its superb string quartet as the foundation. The R&B contributions on the other tracks testify to Lateef’s skilled excursions into the realm of the blues, while the truly adventurous tracks such as "Back Home" and the mystic, Chinese odyssey "Moon Cup" weave a magical net of sheer pleasure. "The Blue Yusef Lateef" is in every possible way absolutely breathtaking. It is a milestone as a jazz album. As a blues album it is quite unique. But as a musical work of art it is a glorious and genial masterpiece.

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: April 1968 in RCA Studios, New York City by Ray Hall
Production: Joel Dorn

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Charles Mingus

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

19,99 €*

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Freddie Hubbard

Open Sesame

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Oh, Good Grief! - 50th Anniversary Vinyl Edition

Vince Guaraldi

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Omnivore)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Out There 200g Vinyl Edition

Eric Dolphy

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Latin In A Satin Mood 200g Vinyl Edition

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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Julie London

LP | 1963 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Release: 1963 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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She was the sultry film starlet-turned-torch singer-come-TV actress whose dusky alto captivated a generation. Julie London was 'discovered' while running a department store elevator in Hollywood.
Just three years earlier the bountiful 15 year old, born Julie Peck to her parents, a song-and-dance duo of the vaudeville era, was singing on her parents' radio show. When she started working in the movies in the 1940s, she changed her name to London. During the course of a celebrated career in acting and music, she made more than 30 albums.
The sultry-voiced actress, who was once married to "Dragnet" producer-star Jack Webb, had a hit record with the 1950s single "Cry Me a River". The single debuted in 1955, sold three million copies and remained in demand into the 1960s.
Analogue Productions has brought back Julie London sings Latin In A Satin Mood in damatic, deserving fashion. Remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, and plated and pressed on 200-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, the crispness and vibrancy of this recording is spectacular.
Exotic and Latin albums were big deals in the 1950s and early '60s, and singers as diverse as Dean Martin, Lena Horne, and Peggy Lee were recording with castanets and bongo drums. Like Peggy Lee, London combines a restrained vocal approach with jazz phrasing and a cool attitude with icy sex appeal on this album of relaxing Latin standards. Julie does look beautiful on the cover, and the backup male 'mariachi-esque' serenade adds to the romantic ambiance.
And as to the cover, expect only top-notch reproduction for our Analogue Productions reissue. Originally a single LP jacket, we've upgraded to a gatefold incorporating more original photographs provided by Universal Music.
Describing her smoky vocal style, London once said, »It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to a microphone. But it is a kind of over-smoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.« A style inimitable, in our estimation.

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LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Atlantic)

Giant steps

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lush Life 200g Vinyl Edition

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Riverside)

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Here is one of the musical giants of the 20th century, poised on the precipice of greatness. Between the spring of 1957 and the winter of 1958, during which time "Lush Life" was recorded, the music of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane (1926-1967) was developing in giant steps, thanks in great part to a six-month 1957 stint with Thelonious Monk that had much to do with sharpening Coltrane’s harmonic conception and torrential attack.
"Lush Life" contains Coltrane’s first recordings as sole leader, his initial date fronting a pianoless trio, and one of his first extended readings of a ballad, Billy Strayhorn’s resplendent title track. We also hear him at the helm of a quartet and quintet, featuring pianist Red Garland, with trumpeter Donald Byrd, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Louis Hayes added to “Lush Life”. Coltrane handles the tune’s delicate complexities with infinite style and finesse.
Coltrane and jazz would never be the same.

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Johnny ''Hammond'' Smith

Black Coffee

14,99 €*

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (New Jazz)

Dave Pike

Limbo carnival

14,99 €*

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Honeypie)

Dizzy Reece

Asia Minor

Blakey And His Jazz Messengers Verve By Request

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jamaican-born jazz trumpeter Dizzy Reece recorded one of his best opus in 1962. Released on the New Jazz label the album featured greats such as bassist Ron Carter, renowned saxophonist Cecil Payne and pianist Hank Jones. It’s a beautifully recorded and sequenced album, the compositions reflecting Reece’s interest in the music of the Asian continent and regions of North Africa, with each piece transitioning nicely into the next. Asia Minor would be the last session Reece would lead until 1967/68. A fixture of the European jazz scene of the Fifties, Reece came to New York in 1959. This intriguing, Eastern-flavored date, is still regarded has one of the best example of cross-pollination in the jazz genre.

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Art Blakey

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

LP | 1966 | UK | Reissue (Bgp / Tuba)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1961 Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers made their only recording for the label Impulse! Records. It marked a turning point for the popular hard bop formation as it was their first appearance as a sextet with trombonist Curtis Fuller, and secondly their last recording with pianist Bobby Timmons. Also unusual is the fact that only one piece by a band member was on the program and otherwise only standards were played.
VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, Gatefold Sleeve.

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Johnny Lytle

New And Groovy

Elvin Jones & Richard Davis

Release: 1966 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vibes player Johnny Lytle was one of the heroes of the early acid jazz club circuit, with his cut 'Selim' being an anthem of the scene.

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Heavy Sounds Verve By Request Edition

LP | 1968 | WW | Reissue (Verve)

Blues A-Plenty Acoustic Sounds

Release: 1968 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Not macht erfinderisch! Das Album “Heavy Sounds” war eigentlich als Trio-Session mit dem Gitarristen Larry Coryell geplant gewesen. Als dieser aber kurzfristig erkrankte und nicht im Studio auftauchte, spielten Schlagzeuger Elvin Jones und Bassist Richard Davis ad hoc eine fast zwölfminütige Duo-Version von “Summertime” ein. Die restlichen Nummern nahm das Gespann einen Tag später mit Verstärkung des Saxofonisten Frank Foster und des Pianisten Billy Green auf, wobei Elvin Jones in “Elvin’s Guitar Blues” höchstpersönlich den Gitarrenpart übernahm. Es sollte seine einzige Aufnahme als Gitarrist bleiben.

Verve BY Request Serie: remastert, audiophiles 180-Gramm-Vinyl von Third Man Pressing/Detroit, Gatefold Sleeve.

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Johnny Hodges

LP | 1960 | Reissue (Verve)

43,99 €*

Release: 1960 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | Reissue (Blue Note)

Hank Mobley

Workout

Release: 1961 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane

Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (Original Jazz Classics Series)

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Craft)

59,99 €*

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ballads UHQR (Ultra High Quality Record) 2LP 200g 45rpm Vinyl Deluxe Limited Edition Box Set

2LP | 1963 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

201,99 €*

Tex Book Tenor Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 1963 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Coltrane Quartet — Ballads
Analogue Productions' UHQR, the pinnacle of high-quality vinyl!
45 RPM Ultra High Quality Record release limited to 5,000 copies
Mastered from the original tape by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings using Clarity Vinyl®
Includes a 12" x 12" 12-page booklet featuring liner notes by Ashley Kahn and recording session images by Jim Marshall

Audiophile reviews rave about saxophone master John Coltrane's immortal Impulse! records, A Love Supreme (1964) and Ballads (1963). Ballads is an album that will never go out of style and never be unwelcome on any jazz lover's turntable.

You're about to experience Ballads at its peak of vinyl perfection — in UHQR format on Clarity Vinyl, with the added bonus of a double 45 RPM cut by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound. Ryan's cut has his characteristic clarity and transparency all set against Quality Record Pressing's usual noiseless backgrounds on 200-gram flawless records. Each UHQR will be packaged in a deluxe box and will include a booklet detailing the entire process of making a UHQR along with a hand-signed certificate of inspection. This will be a truly deluxe, collectible product.

For this 45 RPM 2LP edition you'll also receive a !2" x 12" 12-page booklet featuring liner notes by Ashley Kahn and recording session images by Jim Marshall.

The intense passionate Coltrane interpretation of standards such as "All Or Nothing At All," "What's New," "It's Easy To Remember" and the Sinatra classic "Nancy (With The Laughing Face)" are the essence of Ballads. When asked why attempt such an undertaking, Coltrane replied "Variety."

While it may have been a short detour by Trane before he exploded off into the nether regions of jazz music a few years later, it is still a fantastic document of one of the premier jazz groups of the 1960s.

Recorded December 21, 1961 and September 18 & November 13, 1962 at Rudy Van Gelder Studios.

"It's impossible to sleepwalk through tracks like "You Don't Know What Love Is" and "I Wish I Knew" and impart them with even a fraction of the emotional heft that the Quartet achieves. This is the type of jazz album in which the music just washes over the listener with it's restrained grace and beauty, and while it may not have the adventurousness that some listeners think Trane should have had each and every time he recorded, I'd say it shows off a side of him that only makes us appreciate his more bold and daring albums even more." — The Jazz Record

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Booker Ervin

LP | 1968 | Reissue (Blue Note)

43,99 €*

Release: 1968 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1964 | DE | Reissue (Impulse)

Crescent

Release: 1964 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nuff Said! Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Nina Simone

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

35,99 €*

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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I Just Dropped By To Say Hello Verve By Request

Johnny Hartman

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Idle Moments Blue Note 85 Blue Vinyl Edition

Grant Green

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

We Insist Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Time and troubles seem to melt away during the fifteen enrapturing minutes of “Idle Moments,” the opening track of Grant Green’s sublime 1963 album of the same name. As the piece unhurriedly unfurls all the unique colours of the ensemble present themselves with Green’s soulful guitar joined by Duke Pearson’s elegant piano, Bobby Hutcherson’s crystalline vibraphone, Bob Cranshaw’s reassuring upright bass, Al Harewood’s subtle drums, and Joe Henderson’s magnificent tenor saxophone. The pace quickens for the rest of this tremendous set including the nimble Green original “Jean de Fleur,” a bluesy take on John Lewis’ MJQ standard “Django,” and a driving performance of Pearson’s original “Nomad.”

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Max Roach

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Candid)

30,99 €*

Dance Mania Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tito Puente

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Dol)

32,99 €*

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Honeypie)

Hugh Masekela

Trumpet Africaine

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Honeypie)

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Trumpet Africaine" was Hugh Masekela's debut album, recorded in New York and released in 1962, two years after Masekela had left South Afrika as reaction to the increasing inhumanity of the apartheid regime. Masekela's trumpet shines on top of Hugo Montenegro's fine orchestral arrangements while the tracklist includes, among others, five fresh instrumental versions of Miriam Makeba's songs. Trumpet Africaine was an important early statement from one of the most representative South African musicians of its time.

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Ahmad Jamal

Happy Moods

We Insist! Freedom Now Suite

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ahmad Jamal's contribution to the expansion of the Jazz art form is undeniable. A true genius and a source of inspiration for other Jazz greats, one for all: Miles Davis. Jamal's piano style and music aesthetic come as a unique blend of sophistication and taste. Recorded in Chicago and first released on Argo in 1960 "Happy Moods" is the result of a happy studio date and lush production featuring his great trio with Israel Crosby on bass and Vernel Fournier on drums.

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Max Roach

LP | 1960 | UK | Reissue (Intermusic)

16,99 €*

Release: 1960 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Yakhal’ Inkomo HHV Summer Of Jazz Exclusive Orange Vinyl Edition

Mankunku Quartet

LP | 1968 | UK | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

29,99 €*

Little Johnny C Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition

Release: 1968 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition of 200 copies for the 2023 Summer of Jazz campaign, focused on South-African jazz. Only available at HHV.

The Mankunku Quartet's 1968 album 'Yakhal' Inkomo’ clocks in at just over 30 minutes of jazz perfection. This compact, and to-the-point, album would sit comfortably in amongst some of the best works in the catalogues of any of the quintessential jazz labels such as Blue Note, Prestige and Impulse. 'Yakhal' Inkomo’, however, was originally released on the South African record label World Record Co., which resulted in it becoming an elusive and sought-after piece for jazz collectors. First press copies sometimes fetch as much as £1,000 on the collectors' market. It has been long regarded as one of the finest South African jazz albums and DJ / broadcaster Gilles Peterson cemented this when he included it in his "best of genre" focussed radio show, 'The 20 - South African Jazz'. Tenor saxophonist Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi recorded the session on 23rd July 1968 at the Manley van Niekerk Studios, in Johannesburg. It was recorded by Dave Challen and produced by Ray Nkwe. The session is built up of two original works by Mankunku on the A-side, 'Yakhal' Inkomo' & 'Dedication (To Daddy Trane and Brother Shorter)', and on the B-side, the Horace Silver composition 'Doodlin', and a John Coltrane number 'Bessie's Blues'. What is striking is how the Mankunku-penned compositions not only hold their own next to Silver and Coltrane but they are, arguably, the better tracks on the record - a testament to the beautiful writing and playing of Mankunku. 'Yakhal' Inkomo' features the great musicians; Agrippa Magwaza on bass, drummer Early Mabuza, and pianist Lionel Pillay. Pillay was of Indian descent, making this a mixed-race group, thus the very recording of the album was an act of resistance as it broke the apartheid restrictions of the time. The title of 'Yakhal’ Inkomo' means “the bellow of the bull”, the Black audience would have understood this as coded community symbolism and an act of protest but it escaped the attention of the white government. For this edition, we have enlisted the services of Abbey Road Studios mastering, and lacquer-cutting engineer Miles Showell to cut a special half-speed master from the audio taken off the original master tapes. Miles has previously worked on our Arthur Verocai, Marcos Valle and Ian Carr re-issues, and once again we are blown away by the richness and clarity of Miles' work. We have also presented it as a replica copy using the cover artwork and labels from the primary World Record Co. original version. On the sleeve notes, Ray Nkwe the producer and the President of the Jazz Appreciation Society of South Africa writes "This is the LP that every jazz fan has been waiting for" and Ray was not wrong, it's a stone-cold timeless jazz classic.

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Johnny Coles

22,99 €*

Mr. Natural Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Under-recognized trumpeter Johnny Coles recorded only one album for Blue Note but 1963’s Little Johnny C is a little-known treasure of the catalog featuring Coles at the helm of a dynamic sextet with tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, alto saxophonist Leo Wright, pianist Duke Pearson, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummers Walter Perkins & Pete La Roca.

Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition: stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal, padded inner sleeve.

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Stanley Turrentine

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Remarkable Carmell Jones Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Carmell Jones

32,99 €*

Speakin' My Piece Blue Note Classiv Vinyl

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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24 Jahre jung war der Trompeter Carmell Jones, als er 1960 von seiner Geburtsstadt Kansas City nach Los Angeles ging. Und schon kurz nach seiner Ankunft erhielt der vielversprechende Youngster, den manche damals mit Clifford Brown verglichen, dort einen Plattenvertrag bei Pacific Jazz. 1961 konnte er für das Label sein phänomenales Debütalbum “The Remarkable Carmell Jones” aufnehmen. Im Zusammenspiel mit Tenorsaxophonist Harold Land, Pianist Frank Strazzeri, Bassist Gary Peacock und Schlagzeuger Leon Pettis präsentierte er auf dem Album eine hochinteressante Mischung aus Cool Jazz und Hardbop.

BLUE NOTE TONE POET EDITION: Stereo, produziert von Joe Harley, komplett analog von Kevin Gray von den Originalbändern gemastert, RTI-Pressung (180g), stabiles Tip-on-Gatefold, wattierte Innenhülle.

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Horace Parlan

22,99 €*

Beat Verve By Request Edition

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Best known for his work with Charles Mingus, pianist Horace Parlan began recording for Blue Note in 1960 with an excellent run of hard bop classics including Speakin’ My Piece, a quintet date featuring a frontline of Stanley Turrentine on saxophone and Tommy Turrentine on trumpet with the rhythm team of George Tucker on bass and Al Harewood on drums.

Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition: stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal, padded inner sleeve.

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Roy Brooks

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Workshop)

Booker Ervin

Cookin'

James Clay & David Fathead Newman

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally issued as Savoy Records MG 12154

The Booker Ervin Quintet Booker Ervin (tenor sax), Richard Williams (trumpet), Horace Parlan (piano), George Tucker (bass), Dannie Richmond (drums). Recorded at Medallion Studios, Newark, New Jersey, on November 26, 1960

Sound engineer: Paul Cady Cover art: Lee Jack Morton Liner notes & recording supervision by Tom Wilson Album preparation: Herman Lubinsky

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The Sound Of The Wide Open Spaces!!!!

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Workshop)