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Blue Note Re:Imagined Volume 1 Record Store Day 2024 Splatter Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2020 | Original (Decca)

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blue Note Re:imagined was first released in 2020 featuring fresh takes on music from the illustrious Blue Note Records vaults recorded by a heavyweight line-up of the UK jazz, soul, and R&B scene’s most hotly-tipped rising stars. This incredible compilation includes artists such as Jorja Smith, Jordan Rakai, Ezra Collective, Poppy Ajudha and more. This new version of Blue Note Re:imagined, pressed exclusively for Record Store Day on Smokey Clear & Blue vinyl with new blue cover, includes an exclusive bonus track - Jorja Smith – Rose Rouge (Joy Orbison Remix)

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Nikoletta Szoke

Inner Blaze

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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New standards for you. The classic songs that change their expression with Nikoletta's voice. Vocal magic that unfolds vividly. Familiar popular music speaks eloquently of its time. The melodies burned into our brains transcend time and instantly transport us back to that era. At the same time, music seems to have an invisible power to inspire our hearts once again. The piano of the virtuoso Lakatosz, with its crystal brilliance, enhances her voice, and the melody is imprinted in your mind again, deeper and deeper.

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Robert Lakatos Trio

But Not For Me

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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There is more than one face of a master musician. The Beatles and Bird are revived in a deep and transparent sound. Familiarity and depth come together in Lakatos' piano. Jazz Shinsekai recreates "But Not for Me," a hidden masterpiece from Robert Lakatosh's peak period, from a new aspect. The sound is not flirtatious at all. It has a delicate and mellow touch, as if he were stroking rather than playing.

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Jos Van Beest Trio

The Ginza Shuffle

Marielle Koeman & Jos Van Beest Trio

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For our beloved Japan, with all our hearts. Here are the pleasures of the piano trio. Taste the essence of Jos van Beest, the "poet of sentimentality". Simple yet profound. Beest has found a golden recipe for this question that everyone struggles with, and he captures the heart with a piano touch as neat and beautiful as if he had found a golden recipe. The melody is like the shimmer of a daiquiri pouring from a shaker into a glass.

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Love Bossa!

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Jazz Shinsekai X Atelier Sawano)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A wind that announces the seasons. A musical gift from the renowned duo Marielle & Jos. "Bossa of Love" that dyes you in light colors. Marielle's lovely voice and Jos' piano gently accompanies her. ...... Bossa nova standards, with heart-fluttering bossa rhythms.

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Walter Lang Trio

Translucent Red

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Somethin'cool)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ruby red transparency. A nostalgic melody. Quiet passion will shake your heart. Analog version of "Translucent Red" dedicated to Walter Lang, who sadly passed away in December 2021. All songs are curated exclusively from his own original compositions. The sound was mastered by Stefano Amelio in high quality to convey a sense of presence. This is Walter Lang's masterpiece, which captures his breath, his worldview, and even the air in which he breathes.

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Martha Kato

Soluna

Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Long-awaited analog release of the NY-based pianist and composer's second album! Lush and magnificent soundscapes by a new generation of jazz ensembles that make full use of voice. As the title of the album, which combines the words "Sol" (sun) and "Luna" (moon), suggests, the album contains colorful compositions with magnificent power. The new sound of the jazz ensemble, featuring a fusion of instrumentals and voices of talented New York musicians, is a perfect match for the warm tones of analog records.

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Lonnie Liston Smith Transparent Yellow Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Jazz Is Dead)

40,49 €* 44,99 € -10%

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Positive Elevation)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Coursing through the cosmic pulse of Jazz-Funk is the inimitable influence of Lonnie Liston Smith. For over five decades, the legendary keyboardist and bandleader has been a driving force in shaping the genre's sound. Smith made his recording debut as a sideman for heavyweights Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Gato Barbieri and Leon Thomas. He later formed his own ensemble, Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes which delivered an incredible run of classic albums through the 1970s. His music has served as the foundation for immortal hip-hop samples and ecstatic dancefloor revelry. In late February 2020, Smith headlined Jazz Is Dead’s Black History Month series, giving many jazz fans what would be their last taste of live music before the nightmare of Covid-19 that took over in the weeks that followed. Now, he reunites with Jazz Is Dead to deliver Lonnie Liston Smith Jid017 - a full-bloom tribute to the multitude of sonic strains that all lead back to the fingertips of the maestro himself.

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Gerald Cleaver

22/23

LP | 2023 | US | Original

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gerald Cleaver’s newest album, 22/23, journeys through genre, exploring the future and recalling history, in his most place-based album yet. Born and raised in Detroit, Cleaver is a product of the Motor City’s rich musical history. Long the manufacturing capital of America, Detroit citizens have never been afraid of imagination: technological innovation, a strong labor movement, techno-utopianism or afrofuturism. This spirit of innovation is felt on Cleaver’s newest album, particularly on songs like ‘31 Julys’ which builds on dynamic house beats, or ‘Cake’ which employs saxophone to compose a careening jazz track. This marks Cleaver’s third record with 577 Records (and its sub-label Positive Elevation, dedicated to electronic experimentation and avant soul), following 2020’s Signs, and his second album, Griots. Here, Cleaver deftly combines his talent for electronic composition with a curious ear for the unpredictable, occasionally accompanied by singer Jean Carla Rodea. Cleaver has performed and recorded as a jazz drummer with a wide variety of artists, including Tommy Flanagan, Daniel Carter, Bill Frisell and more, contributing as a musician for nearly 20 years before exploring his own electronic-forward projects.

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King Chino

Light Motif

3LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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King Chino's first full length instrumental album.

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Rat Pack

Platinum Collection

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Silent River Runs Deep)

Steve Shehan

Indigo Dreams

Michael Sarian / Matthew Putman

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Simultaneous double release of the percussionist / composer Steve Shehan's legendary albums!! The world's first LP reissue of his 1990 CD album "Arrows" from First on Vinyl, and his 1995 CD album "Indigo Dreams" from Silent River Runs Deep.

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A Lifeboat (Part II) Cyrstal Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (577)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Matthew Putman and Michael Sarian found a home in a makeshift studio, using a borrowed 20-year-old keyboard, a good microphone, and in cramped apartment acoustics, to improvise throughout the pandemic. What they called their “weekly pilgrimages” gave them a sense of much-needed sanity, grounding their friendship and keeping them afloat, as Sarian describes, “much like a lifeboat.” The resultant project was an exploration of cadences, rhythms, and full of searching and synchronicity. This album, A Lifeboat (Part II) follows the duo’s first release, and explores many of the same themes, balancing Putman’s velvety keyboard with Sarian’s character-driven trumpet and flugelhorn. Pressed on crystal clear vinyl.

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Chet Baker Trio

Mr.B

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Time Between Birth And Chaos

Symo Reyn

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ciel Rose)

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Northern Spy)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Is it a celebration? A reappropriation? A revolution? Symo Reyn has perfectly mastered the qanun, a 78-string zither invented by the Persian philosopher and musician Al Farabi circa 872. A virtuoso, Symo Reyn reinvents this instrument in his work, even revolutionizing it. And how can the sound produced by the only polyphonic instrument in oriental music, the qanun, be approached anew? A new language needs to be conceived for it. its vocabulary needs to be enriched. This process also requires the instrument itself to be transformed: a special sensor manufactured by Symo Reyn himself is attached to the bridge at four points (bass, midrange, treble). It captures the sound waves and converts them into magnetic signals that run through electric wires. A dozen or so pedals control the whole device. This qanun is modified, transfigured. Both on his own and multiplied, Symo Reyn experiments, invents new sound combinations to create a subtle musical tapestry, a tense ow of calm, refined, distended notes. There is a lot of tension in this music that draws from several sources (Henry Purcell, Michael Nyman, Steve Reich, Nils Frahm, Brian Eno, Björk) to be able to tread its own path. It’s quite organic, giving structure to its chaos. Beautiful in its gesture, with rhythmic precision and melodic richness, Symo Reyn’s music is precisely composed and spontaneous, deep and luminous, dense and clear, intense and intimate, delicate and mysterious, unique and familiar. A Time Between Birth and Chaos is as much a statement on the qanun as a purely poetic act. it is a space for possibilities, a place for reinvention. In the aftermath of the founding chaos, now comes the time of metamorphosis, rebirth.Franck Médioni

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The Necks

Travel

2LP | 2021 | JP | Original (Kawasaki)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Travel, the 19th studio album by Australian improvisational trio The Necks, documents their recent practice of starting each day in the studio with a 20-minute trio improvisation. The recordings offer some of their most ecstatic and captivating music cut to tape. As bassist Lloyd Swanton puts it: “It’s a really nice communal activity to bring us together in focus each day, and some lovely music has resulted from it.” Although a straight “live” improvisation has never been recorded in the studio by the band, these tracks (save for some light overdubs/post-production) feel closest to what they’ve been doing live for more than 30 years now. In 2017 Stephen O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ label released the band’s lauded Unfold, which first offered up this uncharacteristic studio work: four sub-20-minute pieces - instead of the typical 60+ minute arc for which the band is known - along with an obfuscated track list which leaves play order to the listener’s hand. The album quickly sold out, and persists as a treasure in collections or as a high-priced ‘Want’ on Discogs. Travel marks a return to this double-LP format, offered in a beautiful gatefold package that features photography by Traianos Pakioufakis and impeccable mastering by Doug Henderson.

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DJ Kawasaki

One World

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz & Cinema: Vinyl Story + Illustrated Book

Book+LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Diggers Factory)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vinyl Story + Hardback Illustrated Book

Claude Nougaro

Book+LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Diggers Factory)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sexopolis - Psychedelic Funk Experience Blue Marble Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Cosmic Disco Machine)

Live Under The Sky... '87

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Psychedelic Funk: this is the musical mood of the new Sexopolis. For those who enjoyed in the 70s or those who just discover them today, will find in this last release international and very rare historical songs shuch as “Flute Salad” from Ju- Par Universal Orchestra, “Misty Purple” by Rolf Kühn, “Dove” by Cymande, and also some Italian gems such as “Fall out” by The Braen's Machine (Alessandro Alessandroni ), “Nebbie misteriose” by Ugo Busoni. 16 tracks, 80 minutes of a music journey between the mystic and psychedelic, funk and afrofuturism, as always original versions gently remastered, and pressed on limited light blue splattered double vinyl.

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Miles Davis

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Red River Exports)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | JP | Original (Eight Islands)

Bob James & Sam Franz

2080.0

Essential Works: 1955-1959

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz fusion maestro Bob James met Sam Franz during the pandemic. Sam learned DJing and music production at Memco (Michigan Electronic Music Collective) while attending the University of Michigan. He spent his school years getting in touch with the historical and underground music of Southeast Michigan. In fact, Bob himself, after graduating from the University of Michigan about 60 years ago, challenged the cutting-edge avant-garde music of the time and became a sensation with his innovative sound. Sixty years have passed since then, and now both of them are challenging the music in the same place and with the same spirit.

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Charles Mingus

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Masters Of Jazz)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Essential Works: 1952-1962 Vinyl Edition

Thelonious Monk

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Masters Of Jazz)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Fire! With Stephen O'Malley And David Sandström

Requies Single Sided 12"

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Rune Grammofon)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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No two FIRE! records sound the same, but with Requies they venture into uncharted territory. Musically ever expanding and no strangers to collaborations, FIRE! this time team up with no other than the one and only Stephen O'Malley from Sunn O))) and David Sandström from legendary Swedish hardcore punk band Refused for a truly epic 21-minute ebb and flow journey starting with church bells and ending in a whirlwind of postpunk energy. Spellbinding stuff! Flip it over and discover the stunning silk screen print courtesy of Kim Hiorthoy on the B-side. Strictly limited to 1000 numbered copies, this is a most desirable object you don't want to miss! FIRE!'s debut album, You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago, was released in 2009 to wide international acclaim. "The basic strategy of pairing the expressive energy of free jazz with a sturdy sense of groove has yielded something potent and self-contained" (New York Times). Between their debut and their previous album Defeat (2021) there's been five albums, including collaborations with Jim O'Rourke (Unreleased?, 2011) and Oren Ambarchi (In The Mouth A Hand, 2012). Track Requies (21:23) Mats Gustafsson - bass sax, organ and live electronics Johan Berthling - electric bass Andreas Werliin - drums with Stephen O'Malley - guitar David Sandström - drums

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Very Best Of Doo Wop Pink Vinyl Edition

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Norway Feat. Piet Noordijk

Frans Elsen Septet

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Nederlands Jazz Archif)

The Jingle Workshop: Midcentury Musical Miniatures 1951-1965 Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the early seventies, pianist Frans Elsen (1934-2011) and alto saxophonist Piet Noordijk (1932-2011) formed a unique septet to play funk jazz. Their material was never released and is now available on a double LP. In 1970, pianist Frans Elsen spent part of the summer in Norway. Inspired by the desolate surroundings and the small towns, he wrote and arranged a 'Norwegian cycle' that he performed with his brand new electric septet. A star-studded line-up: altoist Piet Noordijk, trumpeter Eddie Engels, guitarist Wim Overgaauw and drummer Eric Ineke were members of this unique band, which was highly innovative and forward-thinking in sound and concept. At the time, they never made a complete album. However, two brilliant studio sessions have been found over fifty years later, recorded for the European Broadcasting Union and Radio Nederland Wereldomroep. The septet can also be heard live on this album performing at the International Loosdrecht Jazz Festival (1972) and – in its original line-up as a sextet – in The Hague's Pepijn theatre. With liner notes by drummer Eric Ineke. The vinyl version is mastered in high resolution. It includes an exclusive bonus track: the piece Skabu in a big band version conducted by Frans Elsen and with Jan Huydts on electric piano.

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Raymond Scott

2LP | 2019 | US | Reissue (Modern Harmonic)

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

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Back in print, now on clear vinyl! Tingling tartness of jingle perfection! In addition to being a pioneer of early electronic music, Raymond Scott generated hymns to hunger, odes to pudding and pilsner, and crafted carols for countless other products, elevating the form of advertisement to an art. If Zappa had written music for commercials, it's not hard to think his approach would have been similar! Pressed on clear vinyl at Third Man Pressing and containing varied styles in both instrumentation and vocalization plus previously unavailable electronic works! Products may contain soy, wheat, dairy, or Mel Tormé.

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Robert Glasper

Black Radio III

Supreme Love: A Journey Through Coltrane

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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Sean Khan

3LP | 2022 | UK | Original (BBE)

2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (BBE)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Trailblazing UK jazz renegade, saxophonist Sean Khan delivers his scintillating new album ‘Supreme Love: a Journey Through Coltrane’ on BBE Music. “Who is John Coltrane for me?” asks Khan. “He is man, legend, myth, storyteller, sage and atmosphere. My road and journey has been a rocky one, and like most on this journey, I have carved a path full of mistakes and triumphs. However, throughout my life Coltrane’s music has been a constant.” Weaving together disparate strands of the UK music scene (jazz, dance, broken beat and electronic) together onto one record, Supreme Love is presented in three parts: autobiography, homage and encyclopaedia. A pioneer of the Broken Beat movement early in the new millennium, working with Omar, Bugz in the Attic and 4hero among others, Khan enlisted the input of two old friends, Kaidi Tatham and Daz I Kue, who each contribute a future-minded yet reverential sense of originality to the album. Also featured on Supreme Love are two legends of UK jazz, Peter King and Jim Mullen, both of whom bring a rich and palpable sense of history to the project. Guitarist Jim Mullen has played with Brian Auger, toured with the Average White Band and recorded with Terry Callier over his long career. Mullen was also a regular fixture at Ronnie Scott’s, as was saxophonist Peter King, who actually performed at the club’s opening night, as well as working with two of Coltrane’s favourite drummers, Philly Joe Jones and Elvin Jones. Sadly Peter King’s contribution to ‘Supreme Love’ would be his last recording session, and he passed away in August 2020. Also featured among a talented and diverse group of performers on the album is Cinematic Orchestra front-woman Heidi Vogel, who adds her distinctive, soulful voice to Khan’s, and Coltrane’s, heartfelt lyrics. “I have always been a strange prisoner to my ambition” says Sean “and most of my recordings bear testimony to this, with this record being the next part of that evolution. I made a conscious effort to represent all of Coltrane's main artistic periods from hard bop (with Miles Davis), to sheets of sound (Giant Steps, Moments Notice), spiritual jazz (Love Supreme) and finally his last, most experimental and cosmic period (Interstellar Space). I have never heard a record that attempts to reflect all of the great man’s epochs in this way and use the recording artist’s autobiography (my own) as a conduit to these ends, and so here I am, for better or for worse.”

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Sons Of The Sun

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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J Jazz Volume 3: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan

3LP | 2021 | EU | Original (BBE)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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8: Kindred Spirits - Live From Lobero

Charles Lloyd

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

3LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Not Now)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charles Lloyd has played the 150-year-old adobe theater in downtown Santa Barbara more often than any other venue, and more often than any other performer. Knowing that Marian Anderson sang there on February 14, 1940 makes it a sacred space for him. In the concert film you can see him bobbing with pleasure beneath his pointy, indigo knit cap, curly white hair, and long goatee. He beams at his neighbors, places the palms of his hands together and pulls them against his black sweater and golden tenor saxophone in the traditional Buddhist greeting. “I always get nervous before I go on,” Lloyd confesses, “but once I get on, Dorothy [Darr] has to come and drag me off. It seems that once I’m on stage I get met by the spirits. I enter the now. Sometimes Prez and Bird will stop by and say, ‘Hi, Charles.’”

A birthday is a door between the past and the future, and this concert reflected that truth. Representing the future were 34-year-old pianist Gerald Clayton, who performs regularly with Lloyd, and 31-year-old guitarist Julian Lage, who had performed with him when he was 12-years-old. Representing the past was 74-year-old organist and fellow Memphis native Booker T. Jones, who had never played with Lloyd at all. This was a one-of-a-kind line-up for a one-of-a-kind ritual.

“I’ve known Julian since he was 12,” Lloyd says. “He’s from the Healdsburg area, and Jessica Felix, who runs the jazz festival there, asked if Julian could play with us during the festival in 2000. Billy Higgins and John Abercrombie were in the group. I knew she wouldn’t ask if he didn’t have something special, so we let him play, and he had something; he had big ears. We’re all seekers in life; we all get the rays of the sun, but some get a stronger dose. A lot of young geniuses flame out and no one remembers their names. But so far, Julian’s balanced: grounded but at the same time ecstatic. Even though he’s the future, he knows the past.”

“Gerald was often back stage when I was touring with the New Quartet. In 2013 when Jason’s other duties became overwhelming, I decided to try out Gerald. His father and uncle are great musicians,” Lloyd says, referring to bassist John and saxophonist Jeff of the Clayton Brothers, “so he comes from something deep. You can hear it when he plays.”

Jones was still in junior high when Lloyd was graduating from high school, so they didn’t know each other when they were both growing up in Memphis. But they both shared the city’s rich cultural heritage, and when they ran into each other at the 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival, they promised to play together at some point. This birthday party was the perfect excuse.

“Memphis was such a rich environment,” Lloyd recalls. “It was like New York City, only with biscuits and gravy. There was an intelligentsia that inspired me to always be a learner. New York was 1300 miles away, and Chicago 450 miles away, but we were on the river, so musicians were always coming through. These out-of-town guys would play the Peabody Hotel and then they’d come over to the joints in our neighborhood to play with us, and we’d put a hurt on them. We didn’t tap dance or do anything for the man. We had our own culture and we knew it was inspired. We knew nothing of the lamb tongues and the gold mines, and I’m so thankful; we were doing it for the music.”

Don Was first made his name as co-leader and bassist of the 1980s funk-rock band Was (Not Was) and went on to produce albums for the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Jason Moran and many more. In 2012, he became president of Blue Note Records and immediately set out to bring his hero Lloyd to the label. By 2015, he had succeeded in his quest and a magnificent series of albums has followed: Wild Man Dance, I Long To See You, Passin’ Thru, and Vanished Gardens.

Harland anchors every project that Lloyd pursues these days—Sangam, the Marvels, the New Quartet—and Rogers is present in every group but the bass-less Sangam. “Eric and Reuben put a magic carpet under me,” Lloyd exclaims, “and I can travel wherever I want to go. They want to be there, and they know that to be there they have to spread their wings in any situation. When we take that journey together; that’s communal living at its highest. Music is not for sleepwalking; it’s for wakefulness. Reuben and Eric understand. My music dances on a lot of shores, and they have the ability to be in the now with all of it.”

The Lobero set list docked at many of those shores. The evening began with the title track from Lloyd’s first album for Atlantic Records, 1966’s Dream Weaver. This infectious reverie begins with breathy exhalations and ends the same way 20 minutes later, but in between, Lloyd’s tenor saxophone attacks the theme with an increasingly edgy fearlessness—and Lage and Clayton follow his example.

“‘Dream Weaver’ is sacred ground to me,” Lloyd says. “That record was fresh and crazily beautiful. It has withstood the passage of the ages. I started playing it again and found new ways of expressing the truth. There are some notes on the saxophone I didn’t have as a young man. They aren’t on the horn; they’re in between the cracks. I’m not denying the young Charles, but as my character becomes whole, the music gets better.” If that tune reached back to the beginnings of Lloyd’s career, the next three came from his much-lauded resurgence in the 1990s through the 2010s on ECM. “Requiem,” which first appeared on 1992’s Notes from Big Sur, used patient tempos and pointillist solos by the tenor saxophone, piano, guitar and acoustic bass to create a mood that fits the title.

The Mexican folk song “La Llorona” from 2010’s Mirror (and 2016’s I Long To See You) opens with a piano solo that slowly builds from quiet to majestic and closes with a tenor solo that manages to always reference the melody as it’s sprinting through the octaves. That segues into “Part 5, Ruminations” from 2017’s Passin’ Thru, which begins with a meditative, free-floating consideration of the harmony before cohering into a more definite theme that inspires a stabbing guitar solo, a classically flavored piano solo, a rumbling drum solo and a low-register tenor saxophone solo.

The second set found Clayton sitting out until the encores. Rogers switched from acoustic to electric bass, and Was sat in for two numbers on acoustic bass. Jones contributed two compositions: the premiere of his birthday card “Song for Charles,” and his 1962 hit as leader of Booker T. & the MGs, “Green Onions.” Two Lloyd compositions from the 1960s, “Island Blues” and “Sombrero Sam,” joined the old hymn “Abide with Me” and the American folk tune “Shenandoah.” For the encore, Clayton rejoined the band to play Lloyd’s “Forest Flower” and Billy Preston’s 1974 hit single, “You Are So Beautiful.”

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Frank Sinatra

The Platinum Collection

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | Original (Twanky)

Judith Owen

Come On & Get It

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy

Evenings At The Village Gate Orange Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 (Universal)

The Lyman Woodard Organization

Release: 2023

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Im August 1961 spielte das John Coltrane Quintet ein Engagement im legendären Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Mitglied der Gruppe: der visionäre Multiinstrumentalist Eric Dolphy. Neunzig Minuten nie zuvor gehörte Musik dieser Gruppe wurden kürzlich in der New York Public Library entdeckt und werfen ein Schlaglicht auf eine musikalische Partnerschaft, die viel zu früh endete. Zusätzlich zu bekanntem Coltrane-Material („My Favourite Things“, „Impressions“, „Greensleeves“) gibt es mit „When Lights Are Low“ ein beeindruckendes Feature für Eric Dolphys Bassklarinette und die bislang einzige bekannte Nicht-Studioaufnahme von Coltranes Komposition „Africa“ aus dem berühmten „Africa/Brass“-Album.

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Saturday Night Special

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BBE)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Whirlwind)

Matt Calvert

Million Seller

Se Jong Cho & Marc Miller

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Million Seller is the new electro-acoustic album and project led by Matt Calvert, one of the founding members of the underground alt-rock sensation Three Trapped Tigers. The inspiration for the project originated as Matt revisited his collection of early 70s releases by Herbie Hancock"s Mwandishi group - some of the pianist"s most overlooked and least understood albums. Mwandishi had three horn players: Million Seller has none, instead using three synth players: Calvert himself is joined by Stale Storlokken of free-form experimental legends Supersilent, and by the unclassifiable improvisor Matthew Bourne. The line-up is completed by drummer Dave Smith, who brings his comprehensive knowledge of the Gambian tradition of Sabar drumming alongside his extensive jazz background.

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Matisse Bath

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Cow:Music / Astral Spirits)

Urban Myth Grey Marble Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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cow: Music & Astral Spirits are proud to present Matisse Bath by Dr. Se Jong Cho (environmental scientist/ painter/ animal trainer/ most positive person on Earth) & Marc Miller (guitarist/ composer/ Oxes guy/ backstage luthier/ best friend a man could ask for). While the liner notes, written by Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn, lay out how the 2xlp set came to be, the project is not only the 5th offering from the cow: Music, it also marks the beginning phase into the launch of cow: Visuals. This second branch of the cow arts program focuses on visual art, graphic design, and gallery viewings. More to come soon. Matisse Bath is a meditative masterpiece (audio and visually speaking). Dr. Cho's mini-essay describes her take on Henri Matisse's work, and Marc responds with his compositions. Recorded over the span of several months between 2018 and 2019, it was sequenced by the producer (from more than 100 compositions) for the purpose of the 2xLP set that you are putting your ears on.

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Trio Grande

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Second)

Daniel Carter, Patrick Holmes, Matthew Putman, Hilliard Green & Federico Ughi

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP - 180 Gram Grey Marble Vinyl / Handnumbered Edition limited to 300 UnitsProdigious multi-instrumentalist Nate Wood joins the indefatigably creative partnership forged in New York City by Gilad Hekselman and Will Vinson. Urban Myth is a powerful, diverse but unified set of recordings that combines elements of jazz with pop accessibility and the directness and honesty of folk and delivers a new surprise at every turn. The Jazz Mann gave Trio Grande four stars and wrote about them "The sound of three huge individual talents coming together to create something that is even greater than the sum of its parts."

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Electric Theeelpathy Volume 2

LP | 2023 | US | Original (577)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Second)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Electric Telepathy Vol. 2 is the latest installment from legendary multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter (tenor sax, soprano sax, trumpet, flute) together with Patrick Holmes (clarinet), Matthew Putman (keyboard), Hilliard Greene (bass) & Federico Ughi (drums), also known as the Telepathic Band. This new LP follows their previous albums Telepathic Alliances, Telepatia Liquida, and Electric Telepathy, Vol. 1, and Telepathic Mysteries, Vol. 1, further exploring in-the-moment themes and landscapes. On Electric Telepathy the band used material from a recording session in which they improvised, then went to recreate the album in the studio’s cutting-room floor. The Vinyl District calls “a glorious experience” and the Brooklyn Rail says it’s “a blissfully ecstatic sprawl of spiritual-jazz explorations of the most transcendent order.” A masterpiece of improvisation, the album is reminiscent of Ornette Coleman Prime Time, Pink Floyd and Sun Ra, overlaying lush wind instrumentation on textural percussion and electronic currents.

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Rebecca Nash

Redefining Element 78

LP | 2023 | Original (Turtle Bay)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP - 180 Gram VinylRedefining Element 78 presents a new work by British pianist-composer Rebecca Nash - a distinct musical voice with a deep musical identity. It got a 4-star review from the Jazzwise Magazine and The Jazz Mann Magazine.

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Sweet Megg

Santa Baby

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | Original (Turtle Bay)

Molly Ryan

Sweepin' The Blues Away

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | Original (Turtle Bay)

Hannah Gill

Everybody Loves A Lover

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Verve)

Abbey Lincoln

Over The Years

Release: 2023 / 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)

Horror Vacui Red Marble Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Selma Savolainen

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Second)

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Urban Discos)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Selma Savolainen is one of Finland's most exciting emerging vocalists who effortlessly combines Finnish folk sounds with jazz and alt singer songwriter styles. She is hailed by the Helsingin Sanomat and won the Rising Talent Price in 2022. Horror Vacui is her debut record and features some of the most sought-after musicians on the Finnish jazz scene.

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Akira Mizumoto

A.M.

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Urban Discos)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Akira Mizumoto is a DJ, editor, and writer. His full album "A.M.", originally released in 2002, will finally be released as an LP on Record Day 2023!! Guest vocalists include Tomomi Sano, Yasuyuki Horigome (ex:Kirinji), and Rie Aoki (flex life). In addition to the remastering of all songs, the artwork will be updated to LP-only version by Keiji Ito, who also worked on the artwork of the original CD. The sound of bossa, jazz, and electronics intersecting with a beat based on 4x4 should be reevaluated today. The music is a collection of gems that color the floor, and we hope that you will experience the reincarnation of club music that transcends the ages and continues to spin.

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Kenichiro Nishihara

Elastic Afterwords

2LP | 2023 | Original (Verve)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Kenichiro Nishihara is a highly acclaimed musician who has gained support from many in the dance music scene. His long-awaited 6th album "Elastic Afterwords", released in 2019 to celebrate 10 years of his career, is now available on LP!! Guest vocalists include Michael Kaneko, Sirup, Marter, and Pismo. The album also features Finland's national jazz player, Jukka Eskola (Flugelhorn), Daisuke (Sax) of "jabberloop", one of the leading instrumental jazz bands in Japan, and Akihiko Ogi (Gt) of Zainichi Funk, and many other live musicians. The album is a milestone work that bridges the club jazz scene of the 2010s and 2020s.

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Jon Batiste

World Music Radio

Southside Movement & Jackie Ross

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jon Batiste is a jazz multi-talent, late-night legend, convincing protest song protagonist (Best Album Grammy 2022 for "We Are") and Oscar winner (Pixar's "Soul"). With his new, most pop-oriented album to date, he wants to prove that there is one thing that can connect everyone on this planet: the magic of music. To his “World Music Radio” he has also invited Jon Bellion, Lil Wayne, Lana Del Rey, Fireboy Dml, J.I.D, Camilo, Newjeans and others.

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Southside Movement And Jackie Ross

LP | 2023 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Les Demerle Sound 67 Featuring Randy Brecker

Release: 2023 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The collaboration between Chicago funk band Southside Movement, who released a total of three albums between 1973 and 1975 on Wand and 20th Century Records, and female soul singer Jackie Ross, also based in Chicago and left many records for Chess and Brunswick. The fabulous collaboration is forgotten so long as it hasn't been released officially though a few test pressing copies only exist. P-vine proudly reissue the lost gems with new artwork and adding previously unreleased tracks from the Southside Movement to the tracklisting. The tropical groovy soul 'You Are The One That I Need' is just a super killer tune!

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Once In A Lifetime

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

Ngo Ma HHV Summer Of Jazz Exclusive Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Infinitely adaptable, DeMerle's power and rhythmic elasticity underlines his bold presence and command of modern jazz drumming. Herb Wong. By the time of "Spectrum," Les DeMerle's dynamic 1969 United Artists debut album, Les was a known, prodigious young drumming talent who had been wowing audiences through club and TV performances since he was a teen. The unheard gems were recorded in 1967 by his band, Sound 67, which was lost in the confusing era at Atlantic Records, never to see the light of day.

The acetates that followed DeMerle around for the last 56 years, reveal a 20-year old dynamo who knew talent, showmanship, and the sounds of his times. With a collection of crack arrangements by Frank Foster and Bob Hammer, channeling the latest grooves of Ramsey Lewis and Cannonball Adderley, balanced with sublime pop hits and burning swingers, Les sculpted his 5-piece band into a musical juggernaut. Featuring Randy Brecker on trumpet - in what would have been his first featured recording - and the voice of rock diva, Genya Ravan, "Once in a Lifetime" is an amazing time capsule find, containing great hints of the career DeMerle would unfurl over the coming decades.

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IzangoMa

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Brownswood)

2LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Emarcy)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition of 300 copies for the 2023 Summer of Jazz campaign, focused on South-African jazz. Only available at HHV.

The fifteen-piece kaleidoscopic ensemble IzangoMa might only be releasing its debut offering on the esteemed UK-based label Brownswood Recording this coming Northern Hemisphere Spring, but the collective’s roots stretch back to the meeting of Sibusile Xaba (vox/keys) and Ashley Kgabo (synths/snare drum/drum machine) in 2016. The album is the logical next step in a journey. Sibusile Xaba reveals a side to his virtuosic talent at cardinal opposites with the familiar folk sound the largesse knew him for. Kings rejoice in laughter on album opener “Agenda Re-member”, while the music cascades carefree over frequencies expressing joy and positive living. In this world, IzangoMa’s world, the moon sings sweet melodies and the children rejoice in laughter. Worries are but a distraction, and joy is the ultimate quest. It’s a declaration of love in its highest, lucid, uninhibited form.

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Lucky Peterson

I'm Ready

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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I’m Ready is Lucky Peterson's most bluesy and arguably one of his most accomplished records, the first in the series on Verve after leaving Alligator Records. Recorded in 1992 and produced by John Snyder, the album brings a decidedly modern twist to blues standards such as Muddy Waters' "I'm Ready", Willie Dixon's "You Shook Me", Little Walter's "It Ain't Right" and Howlin' Wolf's "Who's Been Talking". They blend happily with Peterson's original compositions such as "Junk yard", "Tribute to the king", "Nothing but smoke" or "Spankin' leroy". On Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond organ, guitar and vocals, this versatile and gifted musician is at his prime here.

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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Abbey Lincoln

Who Used To Dance

Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The late Abbey Lincoln was one of the greats in jazz singing and composition. 65 at the time of this recording, the singer performs a fiery musical statement and maintains her own distinctive manner of delivering a lyric. This 1998 Verve release mostly emphasizes slow tempos and melancholy moods. Seven of the nine tracks on Who Used To Dance are ballads that serve to demonstrate the graininess in Lincoln's voice, with highlights such as the nostalgic "Who Used to Dance" (featuring Savion Glover's tapdancing) "Street of Dreams" and an exceptionally charming "Mr. Tambourine Man". Alto saxophonists Frank Morgan, Steve Coleman, Oliver Lake, Justin Robinson, and Riley Bandy III provide feature work and several insightful solos, and the rhythm team of pianist Marc Cary, bassist Michael Bowie, and drummer Aaron Walker provide finest ballad accompaniment.

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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Kings Highway

2LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Stoner Hill)

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2013 | Original (Ozella Music)

Stefan Trio Aeby

Utopia 180 G Vinyl

Release: 2013 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | Original (Mighty Quinn)

Lizzie Thomas

Duo Encounters

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Roswell Rudd / Duck Baker

Live

LP | 2022 | Original (Dot Time)

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | Original (Ozella Music)

Eivind Trio Austad

Moving

Release: 2016 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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While We Wait For A Brand New Day

Oddgeir Berg Trio

LP | 2022 | Original

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Martti Vesala Soundpost Quintet

Landmarks

LP | 2022 | Original

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Saudades ECM Luminessence Series

Naná Vasconcelos

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Candid)

Shirley Scott

A Walkin' Thing

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismailyr

Love In Exile

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Verve)

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Concord)

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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London Brew

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazzy Juice - A Fine Selection Of Rare Jazz Tunes

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cosmic Disco Machine)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days '69

Graham Collier

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (My Only Desire)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jens Filser Organic Blues Project Feat. Brenda Boykin

Live 2021

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Lehmann Audio)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cheek To Cheek Live! Limited Edition

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Interscope)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Essential Works: 1954-1960

Art Blakey

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Masters Of Jazz)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Essential Works: 1953-1954

Lionel Hampton

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Masters Of Jazz)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (We Are Busy Bodies)

Kosuke Mine Quintet

Daguri

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (We Are Busy Bodies)

Sadayasu-Trio- Fujii

Like A Child

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band

Live From The Archives Bootleg June 15,2000

2LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Stoner Hill)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sounds Like The Flirtations

The Flirtations

LP | 2022 | DE | Original (Decca)

Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis Vinyl Story

Release: 2022 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Motown sound - made in UK! In 1969, the American girl trio The Flirtation recorded the album “Sounds Like The Flirtation” in England, which included the US Top 40 hit “Nothing But A Heartache”, which has long been considered a Northern Soul classic. The album is now being released worldwide for the first time as a limited LP remastered from the original tapes in a sturdy, laminated flip-back sleeve, padded inner sleeve and an insert with rare photos and liner notes by Sean Cassey (Shindig magazine).

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Miles Davis

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Bdmusic)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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WaJazz Volume II The King RCDS Masters Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (180g)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following the highly acclaimed first volume in the series, Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa continues the WaJazz exploration with another essential collection of music that contains something uniquely Japanese — focusing this time on the King Records catalog. Featuring timeless music by Isao Suzuki, Toshiaki Yokota, Akira Miyazawa, Takeru Muraoka, Yasuaki Shimizu, Masahiko Togashi, George Otsuka, and more!

Gatefold 180g heavy double vinyl LP, reverse board print. Comes with extensive track-by-track liner notes by Yusuke Ogawa.
All tracks licensed by King Record Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Mastering and lacquer cut by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting Lab, Helsinki, Finland.
Artwork by Nker.

TEXT:

“It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the second volume of the “Japanese Jazz Spectacle” series. Following the first compilation which focused on recordings from the Nippon Columbia catalog, this time we are digging into the King Records archives. It is almost impossible to capture the whole picture of Wa-Jazz in a couple of compilation albums since it is such a broad and deep genre, however, by extracting tracks from the Nippon Columbia and King Records collections - both labels having an extensive archive of jazz music - we may be able to glimpse a part of its allure and essence. This time again, I have made the music selection with this idea in mind. The music in this compilation was recorded between 1962 and 1985 and is a brief history of Japanese jazz on King Records. Listening is believing, so I hope these tracks will capture your heart and that you will enjoy the charms of Japanese jazz.” - Yusuke Ogawa

Yusuke Ogawa has been running the Universounds store in Tokyo since 2001, specializing in jazz and second-hand, rare, and collector records. He is also a reissue supervisor, label manager, DJ, and music writer. Known for his vast musical knowledge, eye for detail, and archival skills, Ogawa has worked on more than 250 reissues and compilations – including the highly praised Deep Jazz Reality and Project Re:Vinyl series. He is the co-author of the Wa-Jazz Disc Guide and the Independent Black Jazz of America books.

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Blue Note Re:Imagined II Black Vinyl Edition

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

Release: 2022 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ellery Eskelin / Dave Ballou / Michael Formanek / Devin Gray

Dirigo Rataplan

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Rataplan)

Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bass – Michael Formanek Drums, Composed By, Mixed By, Producer – Devin Gray Graphic Design – Karlssonwilker Mixed By, Producer – Jon Rosenberg Tenor Saxophone – Ellery Eskelin Trumpet – Dave Ballou

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Jazz Is Dead 11 Green Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Jazz Is Dead)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Right Tempo)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With Jazz Is Dead Series 2, Younge and Muhammad have once again, together with a roster of world-renowned legends, crate digger patron saints, and an exciting vanguard of young talent, delivered another unimpeachable collection of fresh and captivating recordings inspired by jazz's past, present, and future. There are names that some may already be familiar with, such as Lonnie Liston Smith, Jean Carne, and Tony Allen, and those less so, like Henry Franklin, Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Garrett Saracho, & Katalyst. What unites each new collaborator is their unbent dedication to remaining original, preserving their creativity, and sharing it with the world.

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Mario Rusca

Monochrome Blues

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Emarcy)

Curtis Stigers

This Life

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Elkar)

Katebegiak

Yellow Moon: The Complete Recordings 1961 - 1962

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Music produced in the 70’s in the Basque Country got trapped between two earth shattering artistic currents; Ez Dok Amairu in the 60s and Basque Radical Rock in the 80’s, and unfortunately, most of the lovely discs and tunes created at that magical time have been pushed to a remote (and sometimes even despised) corner of our collective memory. 60’s and 80’s music currents are almost opposite, and both work as magnetic poles with a very strong power of attraction, and maybe also as a burden for any of the later artistic currents. 60’s generation of artists searched within their rich and ancient cultural roots to acknowledge and update them, in proud, hopeful and unforgettable folk songs. The 80’s one on the other hand, worked in a flammable environment in constant social and political conflict and found in punk the perfect way to express their anger and weariness for so many unfulfilled promises and the lack of opportunities into short, noisy, direct and corrosive songs, technically sparse but full of energy and expressive power. Most of the “classic” names engraved in our memory come from one or the other like Benito Lertxundi, Mikel Laboa, Lourdes Iriondo and Xabier Lete or Kortatu, Hertzainak, Zarama, Las vulpes, Eskorbuto or Cicatriz. 70’s generation and their music works somehow as the “missing link” (“katebegia” in Basque) between the two. They loved folky tunes and don’t forget their ancient roots, but they also look outside for inspiration and experimentation. Just as the 80’s boys and girls found punk the 70’s guys found a completely different sonic and aesthetic landscape in the works of Grateful Dead, Fairport Convention, King Crimson, Soft Machine, Gong,… and worked closely with keen souls in other neighboring regions such as Maquina!, Pau Riba or Sisa in Catalonia or Smash and Triana in Andalusia. This resulted in more abstract and poetic lyrical content, much longer psych-folk-prog-jazz tunes, full of complex instrumental passages and mesmerizing structures of sheer ambition and masterful execution in many cases. But, most important of all, they found a voice of their own, rich, unique, and fascinating, and that’s what makes them so valuable to us. Not only to us, but also to lots of vinyl collectors and crate-diggers around the world, who have in many cases paid fortunes for some of the original editions of LPs that are the source of tunes in this compilation. Mikel Unzurrunzaga Schmitz aka DJ Makala, Dj and producer of worldwide scope and wisdom, noticed this fact first and decided to pay homage to these wonderful tunes through this masterful and dedicated selection for your pleasure and as an open invitation to dig deeper into your adventures in the dark and hidden side of Basque popular music. The album Katebegiak, now published by Elkar, contains 13 tunes on double LP gatefold edition from Haizea, Izukaitz, William S. Fischer, Magdalena, Enbor, Itoiz, Koska, Itziar, Errobi, Lisker, Amaia Zubiria & Pascal Gaigne, Gontzal Mendibil & Taldea and Urria, and the CD-Book edition adds an extra bonus track by the great unknown artist Juan Arkotxa. Along with this compilation, and as a sample of the era, we reissued two more little gems of which we have included a track on the compilation.

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Sly & The Viscaynes

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Regroved)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The amazing, unpredictable, one and only Sly Stone has never made a secret of his beginnings as a teenaged hopeful in Vallejo, California in the early 1960s. A trio of singles with his interracial high school vocal group The Viscaynes, followed by two more releases as a solo, recorded in Los Angeles with producer George Motola, comprise the fascinating apprenticeship Sly needed to undergo on the road to fame. For decades, Sly’s earliest works have been spread around on a parade of unauthorized collections, most with low-fidelity sound, artificially extended versions, and tracks by unrelated artists. Yellow Moon: The Complete Recordings 1961-1962 corrects this injustice by offering up Sly and the Viscaynes entire output from the correct master sources. This special 2 LP set complements the recent Ace Records CD of the same title and adds a brace of additional, exceedingly rare Sly-related material. Along with the original singles by The Viscaynes, and Sly’s first solo releases as Danny (Sly) Stewart and Sylvester Stewart, there are also several unissued demo tracks produced by teen idol and Viscaynes mentor Gary Stites, plus the sought-after Jasper Woods 45, featuring an incognito Richard Berry with the Viscaynes on vocal support. Exclusive to this vinyl edition are a rare High School recording by an early incarnation of the Viscaynes, both sides of the 1961 Royal Aces single on which Sly plays guitar, and as a special bonus, the Stewart Four gospel release from 1956, featuring a teenaged Sly on lead vocals – his very first appearance on disc. The deluxe package comes with an authoritative and heavily illustrated booklet with much heretofore unpublished information and fresh interview material from the group and associates, as well as commentary from Sly himself. Yellow Moon: The Complete Recordings 1961-1962 is the last word on Sly Stone’s very first phase, and this vinyl edition is a must for any fan of his work.

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WaJazz: Japanese Jazz Spectacle Vol. I - Deep, Heavy And Beautiful Jazz From Japan 1968-1984 Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (180g)

Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Universounds, HMV Record Shop and 180g team up for an exceptional release: from blazing hard bop to free jazz, to introspective saxophone solos and massive big band sounds, renowned Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa presents an essential 14 track collection of “WaJazz” music taken from the Nippon Columbia vaults. Featuring Jiro Inagaki, Minoru Muraoka, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hozan Yamamoto, Count Buffalo, Takeshi Inomata, and much more!

“Japanese jazz has been recognized and celebrated by music lovers worldwide for decades. The origins of this trend may be traced back to the rare groove movement that flourished in the 1990s, but its current deep and wide popularity seems to be connected to the fact that Japanese people have been reevaluating their own jazz since the mid-2000s, locally referred to as WaJazz ("Wa" meaning Japan but also the Shōwa emperor period, from 1926 to 1989). Since the beginning of the 2000s, there has been a growing trend to move away from the DJ-focused perspective and to appreciate jazz with a deeper understanding. Nowadays, there is more and more interest in the background and roots in which jazz has developed in Japan, with Japanese jazz as a whole now considered as its own distinctive genre.

Of course, even if we speak about "WaJazz" as one genre, there is a truly wide variety of styles within it. However, when Japanese musicians play, there is something uniquely Japanese flowing through that creates a kind of synergy. It may be the melody, the rhythm, or even something deeper, like an inexpressible flicker. I would be happy if some of its charms and secrets emerge from the fourteen tracks included in this collection.” (Yusuke Ogawa)

Yusuke Ogawa has been running the Universounds store in Tokyo since 2001, specializing in jazz and second-hand, rare, and collector records. He is also a reissue supervisor, label manager, DJ, and music writer. Known for his vast musical knowledge, eye for detail, and archival skills, Ogawa has worked on more than 250 reissues and compilations – including the highly praised Deep Jazz Reality and Project Re:Vinyl series. He is the co-author of the Wa-Jazz Disc Guide and the Independent Black Jazz of America books.

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Remixes Limited Colored Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Jazz Is Dead)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Liudas Mockunas & Christian Windfeld

Pacemaker

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (NoBusiness)

Cornell Dupree Meets The Texas Horns

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded live by Sony Tc-dm at jazz inn Lovely, Nagoya, Japan, October 9th, 1990 Gigs produced by Katsuhiko Kawai 河合勝彦 Tapes provided by Koujiro Tanaka 田中康次郎 Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios Design by Oskaras Anosovas

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Doin' Alright

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (P-Vine)