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Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2014 | UK | Original (Not Now)

Jacques Brel

Ne Me Quitte Pas

Release: 2014 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1973 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Milt Jackson

Sunflower

LP | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1973 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded over two days in December of 1972 at Rudy Van Gelder's Englewood, New Jersey home studio, vibraphonist Milt Jackson's "Sunflower" is the first -- and best -- of his three albums for Creed Taylor's CTI imprint. (And one of the finest offerings on the label.) With a core band consisting of Herbie Hancock (playing electric and acoustic piano), bassist Ron Carter, drummer Billy Cobham, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, drummer/percussionist Ralph McDonald, and guitarist Jay Berliner. A chamber orchestra exquisitely arranged and conducted by Don Sebesky adorns the session as well. Jackson's "For Someone I Love", opens the five-tune set, with Berliner playing solo flamenco guitar before the vibes, trumpet, and elements from the chamber orchestra delicately, impressionistically color the background. It gradually moves into a languid, bluesy ballad that slowly gains in both texture and dynamic until the strings trill tensely. Hubbard and Hancock engage them in solos that gently swing out the tune. The reading of Michel Legrand's "What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life" is a gorgeous showcase for Jackson; his solo dominates the arrangement. Carter gets downright funky on his upright to introduce Thom Bell's "People Make The World Go Round," and Hancock follows him on Rhodes. Jackson takes the melody, striking a layered contrast as Hubbard slips around all three playing an extension of the melody with requisite taste, fluidity, and taut phrasing. Hancock gets funky to the bone in his brief solo, as the vibes soar around and through his phrases. The title track is a Hubbard composition that floats and hovers with a Latin backbeat before shifting tempos as the solos begin. The expanded harmonic palette of trumpet with the reeds, woodwinds, and strings on the melody add an exotic textural palette for his solo. Jackson's "SKJ" closes the set with an old-school, swinging hard bop blues with barely detectable embellishments by Sebesky. While "Sunflower" sometimes feels more like a group session rather than a Jackson-led one, that's part of its exquisite beauty.

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Duke Ellington

The Nutcracker Suite

Release: UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Special hi-quality 180 gram limited edition. Audiophile mastering and pressing!

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Release: EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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The Modern Jazz Quartet & Guests: The Jimmy Giuffre Trio & Beaux Arts String Quartet

Third Stream Music

LP | 1976 | JP | Reissue (Atlantic)

Wild Is The Wind Acoustic Sounds Edition

Release: 1976 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Comes with OBI and insert. Record looks unplayed. Like new copy, except for one tiny corner cump.

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Nina Simone

LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2008 | EU | Original (Speakers Corner)

The Mahavishnu Orchestra

The Inner Mounting Flame

Release: 2008 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2014 | EU | Original (Berliner Meister Schallplatten)

Jocelyn B. Smith & Band

Honest Song

Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2018 | DE | Original (ECM)

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin

Awase

Release: 2018 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Makaya McCraven

Highly Rare

Don Blackman Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Highly Rare is a new mixtape produced and arranged by Makaya McCraven, featuring Junius Paul (bass), Nick Mazzarella (alto saxophone), and Ben Lamar Gay (cornet, diddley bow, voice). Recorded live to Tascam 424MKIII cassette four-track at the legendary Danny's Tavern in Chicago, Illinois.

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Don Blackman

LP | 1982 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Acid Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1982 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
Blackman came from the jazz world, but spent time in the fusion-funk hybrid that hovered around the edges of the chart in that transitional period of the early ’80s. Although it slipped between the cracks at the time, Don Blackman is a minor funk masterpiece that deserves shelf space next to Fuzzy Haskins’s A Whole Nother Thang, Bernie Worrell’s Blacktronic Science, Trey Lewd’s Drop the Line and others. Though those albums turn up on most P-Funk expanded discographies, Blackman’s record often doesn’t because there’s no playing or production from Clinton, Collins or Worrell. It might make more sense to think of it at the center of a Venn diagram whose circles include P-Funk, the jazz-funk practiced by artists like George Duke and Roy Ayers and the soul-funk of Fonzi Thornton and Garfield Fleming. Right in the middle, shining brightly, Don Blackman.

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Ray Barretto

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Three Faces Of Yusef Lateef Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ray Barretto’s songs are cinematic. Artfully composed, richly orchestrated, each one feels like something deserving of big-screen wonderment. And, indeed, from Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets (''Ritmo Sabroso'') and Oliver Stone’s JFK (''El Watusi'') to Lee Daniels’ Precious (''Teacher of Love'') to Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight (''Cocinando Suave''), his music as a bandleader made it into movies of major importance across the decades. Of course, you don’t need to be a card-carrying cinephile to appreciate the moods and magnitudes expressed by his work, especially his seminal 1968 album Acid for Fania Records.

It takes more than a minute into ‘’Acid'' before Barretto begins showing off on the congas, leading into a nearly three-minute solo marked by fabulous flourishes that culminates with the full band, including pianist Cruz, showing their united might. Elsewhere on Acid, the group would have dutifully jumped headfirst into this mode, but here it is just a spectacular finish to a rhythmic story — Barretto’s story — told like the best film you’ve never seen.

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Yusef Lateef

Baltimore Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef, the multifaceted 1960 album from multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef, is the VMP Classics Record of the Month for December 2022. It's here on 180g black audiophile vinyl pressed at RTI, with AAA lacquers...

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Nina Simone

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Oliver Nelson With Eric Dolphy

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Baltimore, an album originally made for the jazz label CTI, is a deep cut in Nina Simone's catalog. It's truly a lost sound found and we're proud to feature it here in celebration of her 90th birthday.

Limited to 2000 copies, the VMP exclusive version of Nina Simone's Baltimore is pressed on (AAA) 180g Red Marble vinyl at GZ Vinyl. The 1LP will arrive in a gatefold, tip-on, foil-stamped and numbered jacket. The (AAA) lacquers were cut from tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

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Straight Ahead Vinyl Me, Please Edition

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

Eternity Vinyl Me, Please Edition

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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Alice Coltrane

LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Teo Macero With The Prestige Jazz Quartet

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eternity arrived at a transitional point in Coltrane’s artistic and spiritual journey after she had founded her Vedantic Center in 1975, but before she abandoned secular performance for a quarter-century; after she had somewhat shaken the relentless comparisons to her husband’s work (and those who would use “John Coltrane’s widow” in lieu of her name), but still long before she was universally recognized as a musical luminary. Also importantly, after she released a slew of unexpected pop collaborations and as she signed to a major label pouring money into building a new jazz catalog. Secular, agnostically spiritual, and Vedic songs mingle together, as do a range of different musical textures. In this kind of middle place, Eternity showcases Coltrane’s ambition and range, offering a glimpse at sounds and styles she would rarely revisit.

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Teo Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Brown Sugar Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz is an art form that routinely asks performers to be the guy behind the guy. Louie, Basie, Dizzy all played for others before they became names themselves. Another famous guy behind the guy, Teo Macero, has a little less complicated, but he had more to do with shaping and re-shaping modern music than just his work with Charles Mingus. Part of the reason “Take Five” is considered one of the most famous songs of the 20th century is how Dave Brubeck and his Quartet played it, but it’s also because Macero was behind the glass, slowly turning knobs moving things up at some points, and down at others. It would be enough to produce Time Out, but he also helped mold Thelonious Monk’s sound during his time on Columbia in the 1960s into one of the master’s most fruitful periods. The man also produced Bitches Brew — yes, Bitches Brew, too! Macero isn’t one of the marquee names in the Bible of American Music, but he was an apostle for several of its greatest prophets. Then, in 1957, came Teo. Macero’s warm tenor sax playing is a big part of that, but so is Mal Waldron’s piano, Teddy Charles on the vibraphone, Jerry Segal on drums, and, trusted Mose Allison sideman. Everybody on this album knew exactly what they were meant to do, and they came together to create something lovely that deserves more appreciation than it has been given since its release in ’57.

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Freddie Roach

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

Nuff Said! Vinyl Me, Please Edition

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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Nina Simone

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

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Trident Vinyl Me, Please Edition

McCoy Tyner

Today And Tomorrow Verve By Request Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With 1975’s Trident, McCoy Tynerfinally achieved his true vision for the piano trio. In an era that finally — and firmly — established Tyner in the upper echelon of jazz masters, adored by critics, set at the top of festival bills and heartily supported by the record-buying public, Trident stands at the pinnacle of his brilliant album run from that decade.

Trident might not seem as ambitious as Tyner’s other ’70s outings, but don’t let its near-monochromatic gray and silver cover of McCoy by the ocean fool you; just beneath its surface is the heaviest, most vivid and deep music of his career. Trident finds him coming full circle, realizing his — and just about any fantasy jazz fan’s — dream piano trio. Call it Money Jungle for the new decade, only one featuring cogent and telepathic alignment rather than clashing intergenerational conflict. Three titans, three defining masters of their instrument, with thousands of recording dates between them.

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McCoy Tyner

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Impulse)

Naked And True Record Store Day 2023 Red & Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tyner’s third Impulse! album, originally released in 1964, resulted from two sessions— one featuring a sextet made up of three horns and fellow John Coltrane Quartet member Elvin Jones; the other featuring his trio at the time with bassist Jimmy Garrison (also a Coltrane bandmate) and drummer Tootie Heath.

VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, gatefold sleeve.

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Randy Crawford

2LP | 1995 | Reissue (Warner Music)

Release: 1995 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For Those In Love Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Dinah Washington

LP | 1955 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1955 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Dubbed the Queen of the Blues and the Queen of the Jukeboxes — titles Dinah Washington used herself — she nevertheless resisted genre orthodoxy, and was clearly resentful whenever she was asked to explain or categorize her vast catalog.
And yet, her omnivorousness has made consolidating her legacy a knottier task than most are willing to take on. Compared to Billie and Ella — inarguably her peers — Washington’s reach was broader, more challenging to sort into canons and best-of lists. Pop and blues and big band singles were recorded and released without an easily traced chronology or progressive narrative. The Queen could do it all, so why wouldn’t she?”

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Harry Nilsson

Ragas From Lahore Pink Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The phrase “standards album” was unheard of in 1973, yet within 20 years it had become common parlance in the careers of artists going back to the basics to underscore their vocal prowess. With A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night, Nilsson created the template of the solo contemporary singer accompanied by a live orchestra, which set the bar for what followed from Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt, Bryan Ferry, and countless others. The decision to make an album like this one would have been unusual for any contemporary artist around at that time, but it was especially strange for Nilsson. His two most recent rock albums had been incredibly successful, and RCA was surely clawing for another guaranteed hit, but, for Nilsson, this was just another twist and turn in his career.

It is mind-boggling how far ahead Harry Nilsson was in recording A Little Touch. But where other musicians have turned to a standards album as a way to extend or even resurrect their career, Nilsson made one at his absolute artistic peak. No one has had the guts to do it like he did, before or since — and Nilsson knew it.

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Tenderlonious

LP | 2020 | Reissue (22a)

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 2020 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2024 repress of Tenderlonious" sought-after 2020 LP "Ragas From Lahore", pressed on pale transparent pink marbled vinyl, housed in a matt sleeve with insert and strictly limited.

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The Eddie Fisher Quintet

The Third Cup

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2009 | UK | Reissue (Ancient Archive Of Sound)

Nat Birchall

Akhenaten

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original

Release: 2009 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Akhenaten was the first album Nat released on the fledgling Gondwana label back in 2009, it was the second release on the label and has remained a hugely popular and much sought after album ever since. Jazzman Records issued a vinyl version in 2016 (which quickly sold out and is now a collector’s item) and Nat reissued a CD version a few years later, but this is a much needed and long awaited new vinyl pressing. Featuring four original compositions the album is a deeply meditative offering of heartfelt Spiritual Jazz, in the classic mode of late 1960s/early 1970s John & Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

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London Music Works

Music From Westworld

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud

Miles Davis

LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | Original (Gray Cat)

Boz Scaggs

But Beautiful

Release: Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 1995 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Barbara Dennerlein

Take Off Limited Edition

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Late Night Jazz Feat. Philip Catherine

Chet Baker

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Elemental)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Minor Move Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Tina Brooks

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Legend Of E'boi The Hypervigilant Eye

Darius Jones

LP | 2024 | US | Original (AUM Fidelity)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Cooker Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Lee Morgan

LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Money Jungle Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Duke Ellington

LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ellington Black Vinyl Edition

Al&Ndr Bigband Jarreau

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Further Out Than The Edge Limited Clear Vinyl Edition

Speakers Corner Quartet

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Otih)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Clap Your Hands)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Das Südlondoner Speakers Corner Quartet begann 2006 als Hausband der legendären Spoken Word- & Hip-Hop-Nacht Speakers Corner in Brixton und unterstützt seitdem Musiker live und im Studio (u.a. Sampha, Kae Tempest, Tirzah, Dean Blunt, MF DOOM, Lianne La Havas). Sie verfeinerten ihr Handwerk und ihre Vielseitigkeit als multiinstrumentale Produzenten und präsentieren nun ihr Debütalbum 'Further Out Than The Edge' mit einigen der aufregendsten Namen der unabhängigen Szene: Tirzah, Kelsey Lu, Shabaka Hutchings, Coby Sey, Sampha, Kae Tempest, Mica Levi, Joe Armon-Jones, Lawfawndah, Léa Sen und mehr.

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Wolfgang Muthspiel

Etudes Quietudes

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Bela Fleck Productions - Thirt)

Bela Fleck

Remembrance 180

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2021 | US | Reissue (Fraternity Music Group)

Galt MacDermot

Coffee Cold / Space

LP | 2024 | Original (Is It Jazz?)

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Green translucent vinyl is slightly warped.

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The Verge

37,99 €*

Pajko, Fire In The Forest On The Mountain

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Norwegian jazz-rock quartet The Verge met at the legendary Norwegian jazz school NTNU, and did their first concerts in 2019. The band consists of four still up-and-coming musicians who are all active members of the Norwegian and European jazz, improv and rock scene. Emil, Aksel, Alf and Ingvald have, as The Verge, only done some humble touring in Norway until this point, but recorded a truly vital and original album in Duper Studio in 2021. This was done with the aspiring young producer Vegard Lemme, and the album is now being released on the also Bergen-based label Is It Jazz? Records.The album consists of seven original tracks composed by the different members of the band, which all sound very different from each other. Sonic landscapes that vary from fiery melodic jazz music to hysterical prog rock, atmospheric free-improvisation and heavy riffs are what define The Verge’s debut record. The hypnotic album encompasses a lot of different styles, but the ability of the four instrumentalists to weave it all together in a seamless manner makes it all take on a coherent form. The quartet’s way of improvising, spontaneous interplay, and a joyful attitude towards making music together make The Verge’s self-titled debut album worth a listen. 1.Nessesse2.Hyperreality3.Snake4.Gratitude5.Emils Låt / Postludium6.The Blast Supper7.Patterns for Meditation

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Sokratis Votskos Quartet

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Fair Weather Friends)

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rekondite)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A few words for the album Moment’s Aeternity: a 12/8 composition celebrating the raw power of the “moment”, marked by whirling improvised moments between drums, bass clarinet and Harris P’s Armenian duduk.

Pajko, fire in the forest on the mountain: in Sokratis own words: “I have a really vivid memory as a child. I was staring at the Djena mountain from my window in Archangellos which sits on the Pajko mountain. A little beam of light shone far in the horizon; it was a fire that in my little eyes looked as if the giants of Almopia were trying to communicate with each other using phryktoria (a way of contacting through fire in Ancient Greece).”

Footprints of some Giant Steps: While the classic compositions of two true Jazz Giants- Wayne Shorter and John Coltrane- are certainly different, they do both connect in a mystical way. Rearranged in 5/8 combining half of each melody and half of each one’s chord progression, keeping the form of the piece for improvisation, still in 5.

Oson Zeis Fainou (Seikilo’s Epitaph): found in a tomb stone in the Northeast of Greece, this is the only melody saved from the ancient times. It is accompanied by lyrics contemplating the meaning of life: Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ xρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ. ‘’While you live, shine don’t feel blue for anything because our life is short and time demands an end.’’

Here is to Oghene K: ’’Hey man, where is the groove?’’, he would say, just to trigger another wave of inspiration for Sokratis. Oghene was a true force of nature, a well of kindness, a masterful artist that left this world too early. This one is for him.

Balkan Riff (for Milcho Leviev): Milcho Leviev (1936-2019), was a long-time friend and collaborator and a true inspiration for expression, creativity and colorfulness. Expressing the deep sentiments evoked by the Balkan sound and history, this is a sorrowful dialogue between bass clarinet and contrabass.

Spirits of Djena: one of the most esoteric and personal moments of the album. Composed and recorded during the challenging times of the COVID-era, you can hear the baritone and tenor saxophone firmly grounded on a crispy, hypnotizing contrabass groove.

Sokratis Votskos Quartet Kostas Anastasiadis / Giorgos Klountzos - Chrysidis: Drums Leandros Pasias: Piano Vaggelis Vrachnos: Contrabass Sokratis Votskos: Soprano Saxophone, Bass Clarinet and Compositions

Sokratis Votskos is a jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, educator, and bandleader from Greece. Deeply invested in unearthing the folk sounds and heritage music of Greece and Eastern Europe, he weaves these into modern jazz compositions though the use of melodies, polyrhythms, and his reedy, timeless tone. He leads the Sokratis Votskos Quartet, he is one half of Kolida Babo and member of the Reggetiko Project. A highly regarded sideman and ensemble player, he has worked extensively with renowned jazz musicians with several highly acclaimed releases (MiC, Jazzman, Walt Disney and now Fair Weather Friends Records).

He has performed his music in numerous venues and festivals worldwide from Vinterjazz in Copenhagen, to the EFG London Jazz Festival where he performed at the legendary Ronnie Scott’s alongside Greg Foat.

He is also an archaeoacoustics researcher and enthusiast, having completed his Master studies on the field of ancient ritualistic caves of Greece research.

Leandros Pasias was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. At age 10 was introduced to piano, continuing his studies at the Modern Conservatory of Thessaloniki and later at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the department of jazz piano.Ηe holds a classical harmony diploma and a BA at the Department of Music Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2020 he received jazz improvisation lessons from Aaron Parks.

With a series of appearances in multiple international jazz festivals, Leandros has collaborated with a wide range of musicians from Nicolas Masson and James Wylie to Marina Osk, Ivo Papasov and Haris Lambrakis, among others.

A member of the Yako Trio, he released “OdesSea” on Fair Weather Friends Records (2021).

Vangelis Vrachnos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1989. While he started playing the bass at the age of 12, alongside his brother, his studies would commence a few years later. Introduced to double bass at the age of 23, he undertook jazz double bass studies at the Codarts Αcademy of Rotterdam. He has participated in several festivals such as the Technopolis and Odessa international jazz festivals. Since returning to his hometown, in 2015, he has been a founding member of Mordana and Yako Trio and has collaborated with a series of musicians like James Wyllie, Sokrates Votskos and Dimitis Agelakis, among others.

Kostas Anastasiadis is a tireless researcher, that has been diligently studying Tradition and its evolution, creating a fresh amalgam of sound moods. His mature improvisational virtuosity highlights a uniquely individual artistic expression and was recognized with the ̈Unique Individual Stylist" award by the PIT (Percussion Institute of Technology) in Los Angeles, California. He has been associated with various ensembles that have garnered significant interest in the global music scene. As an educator, he is the founder of "The Harmony of Rhythm" musical method, which aims to explore and establish the elements that constitute the concept of rhythm.

Giorgos Klountzos-Chrysidis was born in Thessaloniki in 1991. Following studies at the Modern Conservatory of Thessaloniki, he moved to France and the Conservatoire de Nice. With performances at well-known festivals like Nice Jazz Festival, Nuits du Sud and Jazz à Vienne, he had the opportunity to meet the American drummer Leon Parker, who encouraged him to move to Paris, where he spent the next two years under his tutoring and guidance.

In 2016, came a defining moment in his career as he traveled to New York for the first time. He participated in the quartet of saxophonist Diego Rivera for a series of performances and attended lessons by Rodney Whitaker and Randy "Uncle G" Gelispie at Michigan's State University.

Collaborations include Xavier Davis, Ricky Ford, Nicolas Masson, Diego Rivera, Craig Bailey, Baptiste Herbin, Marc Abrams, Pantelis Stoikos, Antonis Anissegos, David Lynch, Ziad Rajab and Ivo Papasov, among others

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Raul Midon & Friends

Eclectic Adventurist

37,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dialogue Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Bobby Hutcherson

LP | 1965 | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1965 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Gary Bartz NTU Troop

Live In Bremen 1975

Cliff Jordan Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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Clifford Jordan

LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Essential White Vinyl Edition

Melody Gardot

2LP | 2024 | DE | Original (Decca)

Release: 2024 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Santana

Shaman

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Baker's Holiday Acoustic Sounds

Chet Baker

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Verve)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Baby Face Willette Quartet

Face To Face Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Further Explorations Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Horace Silver Quintet

LP | 1958 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1958 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Clubhouse Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Dexter Gordon

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2014 | EU | Original (Verve)

Wallflower

Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Glad Rag Doll Limited Edition

2LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wallflower Limited Edition

2LP | 2014 | US | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 2014 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Look Of Love Limited Edition

2LP | 2001 | US | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 2001 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Axel Fischbacher Trio & Sophie Oster

Live 2022

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Lehmann Audio)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation

Anthropomorphic

LP | 2011 | Original (Denovali)

Release: 2011 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live In Bremen 1975 HHV Exclusive Blue Vinyl Edition

Gary Bartz NTU Troop

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Free Flow Archive)

LP | 1974 | JP | Reissue (Sony Music Japan)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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HHV Exclusive Coloured Vinyl Edition limited to 100 copies.

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

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Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Misty

The Shakedown Feat. The 22archestra Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1974 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The second release by Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, one of the most popular works on the TBM label. A definitive disc by a Japanese piano trio, packed with lyricism, powerful swing and a variety of other jazz delights! (From series supervisor Koki Hanawa).

Remastered and cut by Bernie Grundman. Includes original reissue liner notes.

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Tenderlonious

2LP | 2018 | Reissue (22a)

Release: 2018 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Decca)

Jacob Collier

DJesse Vol. 4

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Black Radio III Indie Exclusive Chartreuse Vinyl Edition

Robert Glasper

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Loma Vista)

3LP | 2018 | EU | Original (BHM)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Robert Glasper is a premiere example of musical aptitude and a proven champion of Black music - boasting nine Grammy nominations and four wins for Best R&B Album, Best R&B Song, Best Traditional R&B Performance, and Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, and an Emmy Award for his song for Ava Duvernay’s critically hailed documentary “13th” with Common and Karriem Riggins. The 43-year old Houston native has a rich history contributing his artistry across both music and film, all the while carrying a consistent cultural message. In 2012, Glasper delivered his album Black Radio that hit the scene as the first album in history to debut in the top 10 of 4 different genre charts simultaneously: Hip Hop R&B, Urban Contemporary, Jazz and Contemporary Jazz. The feat was then repeated by Black Radio 2. The ongoing Black Radio series has since become Glasper’s calling card, upholding a place at the heart of a trailblazing community: from long-time sonic brothers Mos Def and Bilal, to legends including Ledisi, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Jill Scott, and Erykah Badu.

"Robert Glasper has established himself as a master of the territory where jazz, hip-hop and R&B overlap" – Rolling Stone

“No one has shaped the resurgence of jazz in black music more than Robert Glasper in the 2000s” – Nate Chinen (NPR)

Black Radio and Black Radio II are landmark albums that have shaped the genres of jazz, hip hop and r&b for the past decade. Direct lines can be drawn to Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Kendrick Lamar, and black music writ large.

For Black Radio III, 4-time grammy® winner Robert Glasper cements his legacy as producer, curator and cultural icon. These collaborations range from the most powerful voices in contemporary black music (Killer Mike, ty dolla $ign, D Smoke, PJ Morton) to the most important lyricists and performers of the past 30 years (Jennifer Hudson, Ledisi, Common, Gregory Porter, Musiq Soulchild, India.Arie)

Black Radio III is also a statement for these times. It is Glasper’s most direct statement of the frustration and opportunity of a world disrupted by social change.

It is at once beautiful, powerful and innovative.

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WDR Big Band Köln

Plays Duke Ellington

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live At 131 Prince Street

Juju

2LP | 2021 | DE | Reissue (Strut)

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (U Jazz Me)

Release: 2021 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

White vinyl. Original inner sleeve with seam splits

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Lumbago

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Only 100 numbered copies of black 180g vinyl were made.

Lumbago is a duo of two renowned musicians - Paweł Stachowiak (bass) and Tymek Papior (drums). Their shared fascination with music on the border between jazz, hip-hop and electronic music led to joint recording sessions, from which Lumbago was born. The project is focused on playing live and does not intend to be pigeonholed.

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Bill Frisell

Four

The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow Limited

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two years after his critically acclaimed trio album „Valentine“, GRAMMY-winning guitarist Bill Frisell returns with “Four”, an intense meditation on loss, renewal and friendship. His third album for Blue Note consists of reinterpretations of previously recorded originals as well as nine new compositions. The session unites him with Blue Note colleagues Gerald Clayton on piano and Johnathan Blake on drums, as well as his longtime musical partner Greg Tardy on saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet.

2-lp, 180g, gatefold, padded inner sleeves.

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Charles Lloyd

2LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

40,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Speak To Me Limited Edition

Julian Lage

2LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

40,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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DJesse Vol. 2 Limited Edition

Jacob Collier

2LP | 2020 | Reissue (Decca)

40,99 €*

Release: 2020 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Frozen Reeds)

Julius Eastman

Femenine

41,99 €*

LP | 2024 | HK | Original (Chesky)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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Recorded live on Wednesday, November 6, 1974 at Composers Forum in Albany, The Arts Center on the Campus of the Academy of the Holy Names, Albany, New York. Performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble. Recorded by Steve Cellum. Tape transferred by Garry Rindfuss. With liner notes and then some by Mary Jane Leach. Mastered by Jim O'Rourke at Steamroom. Design by Antoine Verhaverbeke. Cover by Andrew Roth: »Untitled (Julius Eastman)«, c.1980.

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Rebecca Pidgeon

Retrospective

41,99 €*

Release: 2024 / HK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Steppin' Out Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Harold Vick

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Bobby Bradford And His Cuzns

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 1963, tenor saxophonist Harold Vick made his sole album as a leader for Blue Note, the underrated soul jazz gem „Steppin’ Out“. The record finds its groove from the first downbeat and stays firmly in the pocket throughout this set featuring Blue Mitchell, Grant Green, John Patton, and Ben Dixon.

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, packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket

Harold Vick (tenor saxophone); Big John Patton (organ);

Grant Green (guitar); Ben Dixon (drums); Blue Mitchell (trumpet)

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Freddie Ain't Ready

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Intervention)

Curtis Amy / Dupree Bolton

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Intervention Records is thrilled to announce its first jazz release, Bobby Bradford and his CuZns' Freddie Ain't Ready.

Freddie Ain't Ready is about identity. It is about discovering, developing, and embracing who you are. That is an act that makes us examine if we are indeed who we thought ourselves to be, and where does this leave us? Does a glimpse of the truth set us free?

Freddie was recorded live-to-two-track analog at Hollywood's legendary EastWest (formerly Western) Studios by Steve Genewick and Joe Harley. Custom Flux Magnetics head stacks were used, with no editing, limiting, or compression. Just the highest resolution delivery possible of live sound to your home. Mastering and lacquers are cut by Kevin Gray at CoHEARent Audio, and boutique press RTI delivers dead quiet 180g vinyl. No expense was spared, and laborious attention to detail ensured that the listener is transported into the studio and the creative experience.

His discography is extensive and includes classics such as Ornette Coleman's ''Science Fiction'' and ''Broken Shadows.'' Additionally, he holds a B.M. from Huston-Tillotson University (Austin, Texas), and was a jazz educator of note at Pomona College (Claremont, California) for 44 years. Bobby is currently 90 years of age and is still performing and smokin' on his cornet.

This recording project was initiated when drummer-percussionist Garth Powell (Zen Widow, AudioQuest) proposed a performance with CuZns (Bobby Bradford and William Roper) on the long-time New Music Sunday's series hosted by Open Gate Theatre in Los Angeles. This was extremely well-received, and a grand time was had by all.

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Katanga Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Rajah Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Lee Morgan

LP | 1984 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1984 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Koichi Matsukaze Trio + Toshiyuki Daitoku

Earth Mother

2LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (BBE Music)

The Master Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 Purple Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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As part of the widely respected BBE J Jazz
Masterclass Series, Koichi Matsukaze's incredibly
rare and much sought after album Earth Mother
sees a deluxe repress on BBE Music. This is the third
highly anticipated release in the series.
Regarded as one of the most sought-after yet
elusive albums from a pivotal era in Japanese jazz,
Earth Mother was originally issued in 1978 on ALM,
a private label home to some of the most innovative
jazz, contemporary classical and free
improvisational music released in Japan during the
late 70s and early 80s. It was here that Earth
Mother found a natural home among the
experimental and transgressive, destined to remain
in obscurity for decades until the album’s muscular,
bass-driven title track was included as the opening
cut on BBE’s acclaimed compilation J Jazz: Deep
Modern Jazz From Japan 1969-1984. It was a fitting
way to start such a landmark collection and the
track quickly became a favourite among DJs and
jazz fans.
Earth Mother sees saxophonist Matsukaze team up
once again with legendary drummer and band
leader Furusawa Ryojiro; joined by Tamio Kawabata
on bass to form the core trio which is augmented by
Daitoku Toshiyuki on acoustic piano and Fender
Rhodes.
This is a mythic album, seen and heard by very few;
often among the top wants for even the most hardcore
jazz collectors. The album ranges from
heavyweight spiritual jazz and post-bop burners, to
Dolphy-esque experimentation (Don't Worry About
Tenor Saxophone) and a singular take on the classic,
Round Midnight.
To optimise the sound of the music Earth Mother will
be issued as a 180g vinyl double album, with exact
reproduction artwork, obi strip, insert and labels
plus translated notes. It will also be available on CD
and across digital formats.
The BBE J Jazz Masterclass Series is curated by Tony
Higgins and Mike Peden and is dedicated to
presenting the very finest in Japanese jazz. The
series will feature fully licensed and authorised
deluxe reissues of rare, long-lost and unreleased
material from the golden era of Japanese jazz.

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Chico Hamilton

LP | 1973 | Reissue (Concord)

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

Release: 1973 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Quantity: 2000
Release type: 'RSD First' Release

50th anniversary edition of Chico Hamilton’s latin soul jazz classic recorded for Stax with backing from Lowell George and Little Feat. Remastered and lacquers cut by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl and pressed on 180-gram Purple Marble vinyl and housed in a tip-on jacket.

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Hideo Ichikawa

Approach

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Portico Quartet Black Vinyl Edition

Portico Quartet

2LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Real World)

Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Acoustic Sounds Edition

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The third, self-titled, album from Portico Quartet was originally released on 30 January 2012 and saw the band embracing new sonic territories. This 10th anniversary re-release sees the album newly remastered for vinyl and cut across three sides by John Davis at Metropolis (the fourth side is an etching). It also sees the track ‘Laker Boo’ added to the vinyl release for the first time.

The album features new artwork from the band’s Duncan Bellamy. The LP comes with a hi-res download code for the full album plus previously unreleased tracks exclusive to the download voucher. The LP jackets are embossed with silver foiled and include a 12-page 12” booklet of black and white photography from the recording period [sessions?]. The CD digipak includes a 12-page booklet of photography, and a foil-printed O-card.

The album draws on the inspiration of electronica, ambient, classical and dance music as the band take their beautiful, cinematic, future music to exciting new vistas where the inspiration of Burial, Mount Kimbie and Flying Lotus rubs shoulders with the textures of Arve Henriksen and Bon Iver with echoes of Steve Reich and Max Richter. All tracks are underpinned by a shared joy in collective music making as the band push their inimitable music into the future.

Produced by the band themselves and originally engineered brilliantly by Greg Freeman at Fish Market studios and Real World, Portico Quartet’s eponymous third album is the sound of a band that refuses to stand still. Full of mystery and drama Portico Quartet still take the listener on an unparalleled journey but where their previous album Isla was the sound of a band looking inwards, Portico Quartet finds the group looking defiantly into the future.

Portico Quartet have defied categorisation over the course of six studio albums. From their 2007 Mercury Music Prize nominated breakthrough ‘Knee-Deep in the North Sea’ through to the longform minimalist inspired ‘Terrain’ and recent electronic driven album ‘Monument’. The band’s precisely sculpted ideas combine human touch with electronic efficiency, delivering acclaimed widescreen minimalism.

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Charles Mingus

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Black Coffee (Acoustic Sounds)

Peggy Lee

LP | 1956 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1956 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Beautiful Thing Pink Vinyl Edition

IDLES

2LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Partisan)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Born To Be Blue Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Grant Green

LP | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Shabaka

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

Transfiguration Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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Alice Coltrane

2LP | 1978 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Impulse)

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
Recorded live at a UCLA concert hall in April 1978, Coltrane plays piano and organ accompanied by Roy Haynes on drums and Reggie Workman on bass. The trio conjures both a universe and a universal consciousness; Coltrane has no qualms with the commingling of exhilaration and asceticism it demands of listeners. In fact, she demands that you come closer, to its tone and to your natural self.

What this feels like in one aspect is Black music’s Bonnie and Clyde fantasy realized. What if we escape from mundane language and commune fully in these codes of light and frequency? It doesn’t have to be strange or timid. What if we pragmatically exceed ourselves and gather in silhouette as light bodies, here, on stage in plain sight?

Alice and John were both fugitives from received values and ideas that felt too limiting, and their shared refuge was this sound that can only culminate in the spirit displacing and becoming the body through a series of collective gestures made both into song and a live ritual as is this album. There are very few pieces in the so-called American Songbook with stakes this high and encompassing in their insistence on transformation. One is John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, another, Transfiguration.

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Sons Of Kemet

Your Queen Is A Reptile

Guitar Forms Acoustic Sounds

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Kenny Burrell

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Bob James & David Sanborn

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kenny Burrell's album "Guitar Forms" stands as Burrell’s definitive musical statement. It was nominated for three Grammys in 1965, is considered one of the true masterpieces in the Verve catalog. This is partly due to the outstanding performance of the guitarist himself, of course, but also to the unforgettable arrangements that Gil Evans wrote for five of the album's nine tracks. According to AllMusic, these were in no way inferior to the brilliant arrangements that Evans had made for Miles Davis classics such as "Birth Of The Cool", "Porgy And Bess" and "Sketches Of Spain".

Verve Acoustic Sounds Series: mastered fully analogue from the original tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound, QPR pressing (180 g), firm tip-on gatefold (Stoughton Printing), padded inner sleeve, Gatefold Sleeve.

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Double Vision

LP | 1986 | HK | Reissue (Evosound)

Release: 1986 / HK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Previously Unreleased Recordings Acoustic Sounds Edition

Stan Getz & Bill Evans

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Behind)

Benjamin Clementine

I Tell A Fly

44,99 €*

2LP | 2005 | DE | Original (Pulver)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Record is close to NM.

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Erik Sumo

My Rocky Mountain

44,99 €*

Charlie Haden & Kenny Barron

Release: 2005 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Slightly bent and worn corner, otherwise NM cover. Records in great condition.

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Night And The City

2LP | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

45,99 €*

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismailyr

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Night and the City was the third in a series of Charlie Haden duet projects for Verve in the 1990s, recorded live at New York City's Iridium Jazz Club in 1996. Since the mid-1970s, after the great collective and utopian struggles, Charlie Haden has made a specialty of musical conversation, like a return to the essential. Here he is engaging in a loving and modest tête-à-tête with pianist Kenny Barron, full of sobriety and introspective lyricism. A music that is both seductive and audacious, gently nostalgic, between the deep and melancholic bass and the precious harmonies of a piano firmly anchored in the history of jazz.

This 140-gram vinyl is the first international vinyl reissue, pressed at Optimal, and is presented in a wide-spine, single-sleeve jacket.

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Love In Exile

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Verve)

45,99 €*

Time Out 200g Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Love in Exile is a new collaborative album by Grammy® winner Arooj Aftab (vocals), influential composer & pianist Vijay Iyer (piano, synthesizers) and renowned multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily (bass, Moog synth).

On Love in Exile, the three world-class musicians meet in New York City to forge a singular voice that takes their distinct backgrounds and vast histories of collaboration as a starting point. From there, they explore one-of-a-kind performances defined by a sense of timeless beauty and sudden surprise alike.

Arooj Aftab (vocals) - Vijay Iyer (piano, synthesizers) - Shahzad Ismaily (bass, Moog synth)

All songs written by Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shazad Ismaily

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The Dave Brubeck Quartet

LP | 1960 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

46,99 €*