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2LP | 1980 | UK | Reissue (BBE)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Master of the strings, Al Di Meola, who turn his back on over-ambitious manual dexterity as in "Elegant Gypsy" to concentrate more on musical substance, demonstrates his intensive work with the material in the follow-up album "Casino". For example in "Egyptian Danza", an amalgamation of melodies which circle around one another and evoke with light electronics the contrasting worlds of the Orient, Occident and New World. A far sharper sound is conjured up in "Chasin‘ The Voodoo", which escalates to an extremely tightly-knit continuous fire, infused with the maestro‘s familiar guitar sound. Di Meola - with himself alone - combines the idea of multiple rhythms and parts: In the "Fantasia Suite For Two Guitars", four miniatures with percussive zapateado and whirling flamenco, he accompanies himself thanks to multi-tracking. All great stuff, but the best comes last: in the lengthy title number "Casino" all powers come together to create a magnificent performance with varying tempos, layered patterns, deceptive metrical changes and, of course, guitar playing of the highest order.

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

Recording: May - September 1977 at Electric Lady Studios, New York, by Dave Palmer
Production: Al Di Meola

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Ralph Thomas

Eastern Standard Time

12" | 1983 | EU | Reissue (Best Record Italy)

Release: 1980 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following hard on the heels of BBE delving into the archives of
Detroit’s Strata Records and delivering their widely acclaimed
and hugely in-demand exploration of J-Jazz, comes another
crate digger’s delight- Ralph Thomas’ ‘Eastern Standard Time’,
which dropped the USA back in in 1980, on the obscure Zebra
Jazz imprint.
This is the is the kind of “spiritual’ jazz gem that appears on You
Tube and upon checking it out on Discogs reveals a price well in
excess of £150.00. To have it widely available in its original
vinyl format, as well as digitally and on CD, is a real treat. So,
who is Ralph Thomas?
The self-produced ‘Eastern Standard Time’ features Thomas on
baritone, alto and tenor saxophones as well as flute and
percussion. He describes himself as a practicing ethnomusicologist
who’s musical vision evolved during the Sixties and
it’s Thomas’ multifaceted, global approach that gives the music
on Eastern Standard Time’ an engaging and distinct flavour.
"My music has always been open to different cultures and
sounds Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Mexican, Peruvian, American,
Hebrew, Turkish, African, Indian and Japanese,” declares the
Chicago born musician. While attending the Chicago
conservatory of music in 1969 he became a member of the
Chicago A.A.C.M, studying with master musicians Phil Cohran
and Richard Muhal Abrams. He also recorded with well-known
blues legends, Howlin' Wolf and Mighty Joe Young for the Cadet
imprint of Chess records.
In 1974, he moved to Los Angeles and was employed as a
session player with both 20th Century Fox and Motown – where
he recorded with Marvin Gaye, Jermaine Jackson, Smokey
Robinson and Rick James. In the early Eighties he was working
for Quincy Jones Productions appearing on the soundtrack of
Roots and The Color Purple but a passion for reggae music led
him to Jamaica where he recorded with producer Jack Ruby and
artists like Augustus Pablo and Gregory Isaacs.
In ’86 he moved to NYC where he collaborated with Boogaloo
legend Johnny Colon and played with like-minded musical
explorers Sun Ra, Don Cherry and Olatunji. However, by 1993
his restless spirit carried him to Paris where studied
Ethnomusicology and performed with trumpeter Mra Oma and
film-maker Ranaivo-Rajaona Hery. There were also gigs with
percussionist Trilok Gurtu as well as drummer Sunny Murray
and saxophone legend Archie Shepp. Upon moving to the
South of France Thomas ran an art gallery and initiated his
MusArt project – which has since toured in the US, Canada and
Japan
After a productive stint in Chiang Mai, Thailand – where he
immersed himself in Issan culture – Ralph Thomas recently relocated
back to the US to live and work.

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Tullio De Piscopo

Stop Bajon

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (BMG)

Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally released in 1983 Stop Bajon (Primavera) became a favourite in Rimini Discotheques, Balearic Islands and even Chicago during the early house days. It was an anthem on what went on to become the Italo Disco movement. The vocal mix is still revered and played to this day by DJ's such as DJ Harvey at his Mercury Rising night at Pikes, Ibiza. This special limited edition release from Best Record Italy features for the first time the original acapellas (tracked down during tape restoration) plus the song Stadera that was available only on the first italian pressing and of course the original extended club vocal and instrumental.

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Weldon Irvine

Cosmic Vortex

21,99 €*

LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Chiaroscuro)

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 gram vinyl!

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Dollar Brand

Soweto

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1977 | US | Reissue (Chiaroscuro)

Dollar Brand

Cape Town Fringe

LP | 1978 | US | Reissue (Chiaroscurio)

Release: 1977 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 gram pressing!

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Walt Dickerson

Unity

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Warner Music Poland)

Stanislaw Sojka

Blublula

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Harold Vick

Don't Look Back

Release: 1974 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Norman Connors

Love From The Sun

Release: 1974 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Muse)

Pat Martino

Consciousness

Max Roach & Clifford Brown

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Muse 5039

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Daahoud

LP | 1972 | US | Reissue (Mainstream)

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1979 | US | Reissue (CTI)

Joe Farrell

Outback

Release: 1979 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1978 | US | Reissue (Philadelphia)

Dexter Wansel

Voyager

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Shamek Farrah

First Impressions

Release: 1974 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz At The Philharmonic: Lester Young Carnegie

Lester Young

LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Verve)

37,99 €*

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Mental Experience)

Wild Havana

21,99 €*

Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Obscure Dutch private pressing from 1977. Laid-back instrumental psychedelic / progressive sounds with jazz-funk-groove and abstract / experimental / Latin-indigenous touches. Stoned homemade atmosphere with treated / distorted electric & acoustic guitars, flute, electric piano, primitive drum machines / homemade electronics...Much in the vein of the experimental-underground scene of France & Germany during the early 70s but actually recorded and released in Holland.
Wild Havana was the project of guitar player Johan Smith, helped by his brother Cor on flute. Influenced by artists like Zappa and Herbie Hancock, Johan recorded the “Wild Havana” album at his home studio on a 4-track, using effect devices developed by himself, like a modified proto-drum machine taken from a Hammond organ. He also used effects like phase shifter, chorus, etc and experimented with putting wool on the guitar strings and electric effects on the mandolin. The result sounded like nothing else at the time.
Buried for many years, we’re excited to bring to life this unique album.

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Ella Fitzgerald

2LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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SAC - School Of American Craftsmen

Jeff Resnick

LP | 1978 | UK | Reissue (Outernational Sounds)

23,99 €*

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Discmedi)

Release: 1978 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Organically funky, laced with avant-garde synth textures, and studded with breakbeats, the second Outernational is Jeff Resnick’s unique, ultra-rare, 1978 promotional recording for the School for American Craftsmen, at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Five tracks of soul jazz and modal fusion — re-modelling Trane, and opening with a variation of Norwegian Wood — by a local group including trumpeter Jeff Tyzik and pianist Sonny Kompanek; then Resnick mostly solo for the second side, when the money ran out, multi-tracking synthesizers on his home set-up, in an engrossing blend of reflective abstraction, grooving electro and spiritualised fourth-world tropicalism.
Bim!

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Tete Montoliu

Boleros

24,99 €*

Billy Parker's Fourth World

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A reissue of a fine Spanish jazz-album, recorded in 1975. Here Tete Montoliu is accompanied by Manuel Elias (bass), Peer Wyboris (drums) and Rogelio Juárez (percussion).

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Freedom Of Speech

LP | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Everland Jazz)

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Most of the musicians who gathered to record this fantastic spiritual jazz record for the Strata-East label on May 24th, 1974 had crossed each other's paths in various musical pairings over the preceding few years. Husband and wife team Dee Dee Bridgewater (vocals) and Cecil Bridgewater (trumpet) had been working together on albums like Frank Foster's "Loud Minority", and Roy Ayers' "Coffy" and "Virgo Red". Ten weeks before the "Freedom Of Speech" session, the couple had been joined in Tokyo by Cecil's brother Ronald Bridgewater (tenor saxaphone) to record Dee Dee's debut album, the beautiful "Afro Blue". Also in the studio on May 24th, 1974 was Donald Smith, (piano, vocals), fresh from recording on his older brother Lonnie Liston Smith's "Cosmic Funk" - on which Ronald Bridgewater had also played percussion. Cecil McBee (bass) was also there - just two weeks before, he'd completed his own Strata East date "Mutima", and in February he'd played on Mtume's "Rebirth Cycle" - with both albums also featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater on vocals. He'd also played on Lonnie Liston Smith's "Astral Travelling".
So 1974 was a huge year for all five of these people. Donald Smith and Cecil McBee were six months away from recording on Lonnie Liston Smith's massive "Expansions", with McBee fitting in a few Pharoah Sanders albums in between.
AND THEN, THE MYSTERY ... So with all this fervent activity, the question has to be asked ...Who was Billy Earl Parker Jr (drums), the leader of this session?
Billy Parker remains unlisted as a musician on all major jazz sites. His only other recording appears to be as a percussionist on Charles Tolliver's "Impact" in 1975.

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John Gordon

Erotica Suite

Very Special Stash: Best Of Reefer Songs

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Official reissue of mega rare 1978 LP! Licensed by Strate-East.

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V.A.

LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Stash)

Descendants Of Mike And Phoebe, The

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally released in 1981, now available again on vinyl, this is a very stoned collection of jazz tunes about - or dedicated to - grass, weed, marihuana, Marie-Jane or whatever you call it in your neighborhood.

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A Spirit Speaks

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Far Out)

Release: 1974 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the most unique albums on the Strata East label – and that's saying a heck of a lot, given the creative energies flowing through that legendary jazz outlet! "Descendents Of Mike & Phoebe" is a righteous little project put together by Spike Lee's father, Bill Lee, and his brothers and sisters (Cliff Lee, Grace Lee Mims, and Consuela Lee Moorhead) – working here in a group named after their slave ancestors, who are paid tribute in a beautifully flowing batch of tunes! Lee's round, warm bass tones are firmly at the head of the group on most numbers – recorded at a similar level to his excellent work with Clifford Jordan on Strata East during the same time – and other instrumentation includes piano from Consuela, flugelhorn from Cliff, and percussion from Sonny Brown and Billy Higgins – all used in a wonderfully evocative style that's even better than some of Lee's later soundtrack work. A few numbers feature vocals from Grace – singing wordlessly and with a really heavenly sort of quality – and together, the whole group have an undeniable sense of power and majesty, yet also one that's touched by a really personal sense of poetry too. Titles include a great version of Lee's "Coltrane", which was more famously recorded with Clifford Jordan.

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Antonio Adolfo

Viralata

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (BBE)

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Far Out Recordings are honoured to be working with master composer, arranger and pianist, Antonio Adolfo for the first time since releasing his Destiny album in 2007. This time we present the first ever vinyl reissue of his era-defining Viralata LP: An essential album from Brazil's majorly progressive heyday of late seventies jazz-funk. Viralata is a sacred artefact of Brazilian music, which Antonio himself describes as ‘a product of my hybrid musical influences that joins together flavours of marchinhas de carnaval, frevo, toada, classical, baião, mpb and jazz, etc’.
The album’s first track ‘Cascavel’ is the emotionally charged, celebratory dance anthem, which became a London jazz-dance classic in the early ‘90s after Far Out label boss Joe Davis discovered a handful of copies in a second hand shop in Sao Paulo and brought them back to London to sell to DJs like Gilles Peterson and Patrick Forge. In recent years the track has been played out by the likes of Floating Points, Mr Scruff and Andrew Ashong, it was also the last song ever to play on the hallowed soundsystem of London’s beloved club Plastic People…

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Bert Myrick

Live N' Well

20,99 €*

LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (High Jazz)

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rescued from relative obscurity by DJ Amir’s 180 Proof Records, BBE is delighted to present a gem from the tiny yet highly influential catalogue of Strata Records, Bert Myrick’s ‘Live ‘n Well’. This is the first in a long line of reissues focusing on the Strata catalog details attached.

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Potter & Tillman

…Space…Rapture

29,99 €*

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Wagram)

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissue from this soul/jazz-funk fusion album originally released in 1982 on Poet Records. 500 copy LTD edition!
This sought-after album is an amazing and unique creative project produced and composed by David Eric Tillman including outstanding performances by some of the highest-level musicians whose common thread was their ability to kill up tempo and modal bop and excel in this jazz-funk/fusion style thanks to their up bop think quick knowledge.

This gem contains nothing but brilliant tracks like “…Space…Rapture”, “Love Is How”, “New Anniversary Waltz”, “It Must Be E.S.P.” and “(Sing) A Simple Song Of Praise”. Incredible golden lead and backing vocals, a super tight rhythm section, forward thinking arrangements, and an amazing combination of piano, Rhodes and various remarkable synthesizers makes this recording timelessly fresh. The beautiful “Time Is Love”, a tune of positive outlook written during her jazz composition studies, is performed by the one and only Carmen. Killer from the beginning to the end, one of our all-time favorite soul/jazz-funk LPs.

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Billie Holiday

Strange Fruit

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Wagram)

Dave Brubeck

Take Five

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1977 | UK | Reissue (Soul Brother)

Idris Muhammad

Turn This Mutha Out

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Strut)

Release: 1977 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Idris Muhammad recorded this classic Jazz-Funk album 'Turn This Mutha Out' in 1977 for the Kudu label. Some great session musicians accompanied him and the album has that David Matthews signature Disco-Jazz-Funk sound. It was well received in the UK most notably for the opening track 'Could Heaven Ever Be Like This', an undisputed classic. Idris and Wilbur Bascomb on bass create the perfect bedrock for Mike Brecker on Tenor Sax, Hiram Bullock on Guitar and Cliff Carter on Synthesizer to solo above, topped by Frank Floyd's vocals. It has been sampled at least seventeen times, most notably by Jamiroquai and Drake.

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Mulatu Astatke

Mulatu Of Ethiopia

23,99 €*

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Strut present the first official reissue of a landmark album in the field of African music, Mulatu Astatke’s ‘Mulatu Of Ethiopia’ from 1972. Recorded in New York, the album arrived at a time when Astatke had begun to master the delicate fusion of styles needed to create Ethio jazz.

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LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Crossings

2LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the 1970s, Herbie Hancock’s "Crossings" was to be found on every IKEA record shelf in the student pads of jazz-fusion fans. The cover, with its psychedelic touch, also contributed significantly to its popularity – although it was unclear where the crossing was going to take us …
Nevertheless, the excellent trumpeter Eddie Henderson – often underestimated as an improviser and composer, and Benny Maupin – who like Hancock had grown up under Miles Davis’s wing, present a wide range of sound-generating instruments – as was all the rage in those days. Synthesizer and Mellotron (a polyphonic tape replay keyboard and as such practically the prototype of the sampler) were permanent members of the group – and even produce here melodic arches of sound! Whether Bennie Maupin’s "Quasar" launches the group and us into extraterrestrial territory (as stated in one review) is a moot point.
This LP is a contemporary historical document, though it certainly doesn’t sound antiquated. That’s why younger listeners too will find pleasure in this experiment from the previous millennium.

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

Recording: February 1972 at Pacific Recording Studios, San Mateo, CA., by Patrick Gleason
Production: David Rubinson

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Circle

Paris Concert

34,99 €*

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Circle was a band on fire with creativity. Corea and Holland had just left Miles Davis' band, keen to explore all parameters of new music in an improvised context. Braxton, equally inspired by Stockhausen and Coltrane, brought in new directions from the AACM. Altschul's resume included extensive work with Paul Bley. Together they were, for a while, matchless.

The short-lived Chick Corea outfit outdoes itself in this 1971 live recording. A delicate piano intro primes us for an extended rendition of Wayne Shorter’s “Nefertitti” to start. Once Braxton throws himself on top of incoming bass and drums, however, what began as contemplative awakening quickly turns into a spastic jaunt into more upbeat territory. The gnarled unity of the quartet paints in bold strokes, all the while flirting with total breakdown. Braxton’s perpetual motion and uncompromising tone make a superb tune out of a great one. “Song For The Newborn” gives Holland a moment in the spotlight. Swaddled in all the innocence of its title and bound by a mature sense of structure, this is an engaging interlude to the Braxton/Corea duet that follows. Corea’s frenetic style in the latter works its way through a host of rhythmic options before settling into a row of block chords. Braxton’s heady phrasing tears a page from the book of Coltrane, while his solitary diversions crackle with the urgency of a broken mirror, as yet unframed by the bastion of mundanity. Altschul delights in “Lookout Farm,” in which he dives headfirst into his percussive arsenal. The tinkling of icicles and cowbells in an open field give way to an extended solo, thus providing ample segue into “73 degrees Kelvin,” a beautifully convoluted organism that could only come from the mind of Braxton. Below its cacophonous surface pulsates a vast network of instrumental veins, through which flows the passionate immediacy that is Circle’s lifeblood, and from which Holland’s rapture sings with detail and imagination. “Toy Room Q&A” (Holland) boasts Corea in notably fine form, leaving plenty of elbowroom for Braxton to flex his reeds. The freer aesthetic crashes in on itself by the end, leaving us craving a familiar foothold. This, we get in the standard “No Greater Love,” capping things off with notable turns from all.

Corea busts out with some of his most captivating fingerwork, proving himself finely attuned to the mechanisms of his caravan at every rest stop along the way; Braxton’s “Pharaonic” sound titillates the ear; and one could hardly ask for a tighter rhythm section at one’s side. As a collective unit, Circle doesn’t so much make music out of as inhabit its raw melodic materials. This recording is a lasting testament to a vibrant formative period for ECM. The audience’s enthusiastic reactions give the listener the feeling of being present in the making of history.

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Jan Garbarek

Places

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Places” is an important album for the Norwegian saxophonist with its stellar transatlantic line-up.

“Places” brings together another congregation of musicians that could only come from ECM. Drummer Jack DeJohnette lassoes his scurrying loops to the acoustic hooks of guitarist Bill Connors, while John Taylor supplements most of the cargo with organ. At the helm of this vessel is Jan Garbarek, whose saxophonism starts high and goes only higher. With cumulative notecraft and a heartfelt commitment to atmosphere, he and Taylor unwrap a lush nexus in the stunning opener. The occasional harmonic falls like a dandelion seed onto this pool of night as cymbals splash all around us. Taylor weaves a fine spread, anchoring us with sustained bass lines and attentive chording, leaving Garbarek to seal every crack with his sonic caulk. Connors seeks to light his surroundings, striking at the flint with his percussive gesticulations in hopes that one spark might show the way. Garbarek sharpens himself with arid flavor and carves out a miniature oasis in the crumbling image of exotic desire. The organ weaves in and out like a halo circumscribing us with subtle urgency until it pulls us beyond the point of no return, where dwells only silence in these “Reflections.” We then find the organ “Entering” into an electric guitar embrace. Bass and drums give us footholds where we might not expect to find them. Thus, what began as an elegy turns into a far-reaching journey that is over too soon. But in the next track we’re still “Going Places,” spurred by DeJohnette’s steady pulse and Garbarek’s hidden thermals. The energy comes in waves, subsiding here for a guitar solo and swelling there at Garbarek’s call. “Passing” ends where the album began, in a fluid ostinato of organ over which Connors looses his wavering song. Garbarek draws an ascendant pattern between those quiet strings, lifting us to an arena in which age curls into a semblance of time.

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Ralph Towner

Solstice

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Underdog)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Featuring a lineup of musicians who would go on to weave ECM’s significance into the fabric of time, Solstice is a tour de force of musicianship, writing, arrangement, and recording.

Each track is brimming with life and features the sensitive application of a variety of instrumental combinations and studio savvy. “Oceanus” showcases Garbarek in his prime, soaring with an unbridled emotional register. As always, Towner’s 12-string speaks in 360 degrees. Superb drumming from Christensen complements lush melodic lines from Weber, who stretches a melodic cello into infinity while his bass arises like the conical aftereffect of a water droplet. “Visitation” clouds this ardor in a nocturnal vision filled with laughing spirits. “Drifting Petals” is a slow progression, a timid look out onto a dusty plain where the promise of freedom looms larger than the possibility of danger. But then an elder’s advice rings in our ears and pushes us onward. Feet move of their volition and pull us into the ever-receding horizon as the first drops of a squall streak across our foreheads. Towner proves again that his piano musings are not to be taken lightly, as they make for one of the most evocative tracks on the album. A transcendental 12-string solo (with gentle dimensional support from Weber) opens “Nimbus,” soon blossoming into a flourish of flutes, drums, and a bowed bass that cries with the grating fluidity of a sarangi. Garbarek’s sax joins in the fray and lets loose its harmonious fire. The deftly overdubbed flutes return, spreading their wings for a few moments before fluttering off into the distance. “Winter Solstice,” “Piscean Dance,” and “Red and Black” comprise a triptych of duets: the first for classical guitar and sax, the second a prime jam for 12-string and drums, and the third for 12-string and bass. “Sand” ends our cosmic journey with one of Garbarek’s deepest meditations for sax set to the strangely compelling ululations of Christensen’s flexatone lolling about in the background.

Melodically robust while structurally yielding, this is an album to be treasured and is a must-listen for anyone desiring to know what ECM is all about. An astounding meeting of musical minds if there ever was one.

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Janko Nilovic

Funky Tramway

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Souffle Continu)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following the recent reissues of Pop Impressions, Super America, Soul Impressions, and Chorus, Underdog Records label follows-up to the series with another brilliant album by French underrated composer and producer, JANKO NILOVIC.

JANKO NILOVIC certainly was one of the greatest studio talents of Europe in the 70s!
He is a musician who devotes himself to music, which resulted in a great number of published works, but most of them made for library music labels and also not available for sale.
His oeuvre stretches from classical, jazz and funk to pop, psyche and easy listening. And has been sampled many times by hip-hop artists such as JAY-Z, DRE, DAFUNIKS or GUTS...

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Cohelmec Ensemble

22,99 €*

2LP+DVD | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Souffle Continu)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Next' (originally from 1972) is even more audacious than its 1971 predecessor 'Hippotigris Zebra Zebra'. Relatively brief tracks follow hot on the heels of one another, bolstered by a poly-instrumentality which stands out even more than in the past, giving the album the feel of a contrasting suite. Limited to 700 copies in a gatefold sleeve with an obi.

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Barney Wilen

Moshi

39,99 €*

A Me Stesso Con Simpatia Limited Colored Edition

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 1970 Barney Wilen assembled a team of filmmakers, technicians and musicians to travel to Africa in order to record the music of the native pygmy tribes. Upon returning to Paris, two years later, he created 'Moshi', a dark, eccentric effort fusing avant-jazz sensibilities with African rhythms, ambient sound effects and melodies rooted in American blues traditions. Cut with French and African players, including guitarist Pierre Chaze, pianist Michel Graillier and percussionist Didier Leon, this is music with few precedents or followers, spanning from extraterrestrial dissonance to earthbound, streetlegal funk. The set includes a 20-page booklet with rare pictures, sheet music and original liner notes. The DVD includes Caroline de Bendern's movie 'A L'Intention De Mlle Issoufou A Bilma', documenting this incredible African journey.

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Giacomo Dell’Orso

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Cinedelic)

27,99 €*

LP | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Orbeatize)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This 1975 album is a studio session organized by Maestro Giacomo Dell'Orso (the husband of Edda) here released under his given name and not the Oscar Lindok pseudonym under which he made a number of recordings including The Fine Machine. This album had the simple purpose of a fun and playful session without preconceived models.

The result is a carefree album, from the friendly cover (Orso means Bear) to the music that is interwoven with bossa nova, samba, jazz and funk in a style that recalls in many ways the work of Maestro Piero Piccioni.

Dell'Orso plays organ, electric piano and Bulisacchio (a synth with metal slats that simulate bass), Nino Rapicavoli on flute and sax, Jimmy Tamborelli on guitars and Ciro Cocozza on percussion.

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Armando Bertozzi

Fantastic World

12,99 €*

2LP | 1979 | US | Reissue (Herb Alpert Presents)

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Orbeatize first release remastered limited gatefold edition 180g, features one of the biggest italian drummers Armando Bertozzi who has made a significant contribution to the world percussion literature and considered the Polyritmia Maestro for his style of playing different ryhthms at the same time. This Album from 1985 is a true jurney into Jazz and electronic music full of ambient landscapes and atmospheres. Drums and percussions are heavy on all the songs!

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Herb Alpert

Rise

Release: 1979 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Miles Davis

Big Fun

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally released in 1974, Big Fun presents music from three different phases of Miles Davis's early-seventies "electric" period. Sides one and four ("Great Expectations" and "Lonely Fire") were recorded three months after the Bitches Brew sessions and incorporate sitar, tambura, tabla, and other Indian instruments. "Ife" was recorded after the 1972 On the Corner sessions, and the framework is similar to tracks from that record. Recorded in March 1970, "Go Ahead John" is an outtake from Davis's Jack Johnson sessions.

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2LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Flood

55,99 €*

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Muse)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the summer of 1975, the Herbie Hancock Sextet made a hugely successful tour of Japan, which made people aware of a 'new' Hancock. The last LP that the keyboard virtuoso had recorded, "Thrust", was already one year old, and the film music for the Charles Bronson classic "Death Wish" was received negatively by his fans. At his concerts in Tokyo, Herbie Hancock reached back to his hits: "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the famous, soulful "Watermelon Man" made the fans at his concert hall and open-air appearances go wild with enthusiasm. Forty years later I have the courage to confess that I couldn’t have cared less about this music at the time; in Europe there was enough that was new and exciting to see and listen to. However, this re-release in its original format has given me the opportunity to check out whether this music has withstood the test of time. And I must say: it has passed the test! Just listen to Herbie at his best!
Dr. Michael Frohne

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Lester Bowie

Fast Last

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Far Out)

Azymuth

Azimüth

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissued on 180 gram vinyl in gatefold sleeve!

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Sonny Stitt

Constellation

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Blue Note)

Bobby McFerrin

Spontaneous Inventions

26,99 €*

Cedar Walton / Hank Mobley Quintet

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Issued with the 75th Anniversary of Blue Note records!

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Breakthrough!

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Jaco Pastorius

Word Of Mouth

Until It's Time For You To Go

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Word Of Mouth was the second album by virtuoso bassist Jaco Pastorius, released in 1981 while he was still a member of Weather Report. Word Of Mouth focused on his ability to compose and arrange for a larger band than was previously featured on his first self titled album from 1976 [MOVLP136]. The band's all-star cast included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Peter Erskine, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker, Don Alias and Toots Thielemans who is featured on harmonica on many of the songs.

180g vinyl.

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Rusty Bryant

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Prestige)

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim)

The Journey

LP | 1977 | US | Reissue (Chiaroscuro)

Release: 1977 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Sam Rivers

Contrasts

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Miroslav Vitous Group

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Keith Jarrett / Dennis Russell Davies

Ritual / Piano

LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Seven Songs For Quartet And Chamber

Gary Burton

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jean-Jacques Birgé, Francis Gorgé & Shiroc

Défense De

LP+DVD | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Fauni Gena)

16,99 €* 19,99 € -15%

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First ever vinyl reissue of this cult album from 1975. Défense de was the first album of Jean-Jacques Birgé and Francis Gorgé, before founding Un Drame Musical Instantane with Bernard Vitet in 1976. They had started to play together while at high school, and on their debut LP they were joined by percussionist Shiroc (who also played in Speed Limit). The DVD will include the experimental movie La Nuit Du Phoque made by Jean-Jacques Birge and Bernard Mollerat in 1974. The movie is a mix between avant-garde French movie and experimental ambience which takes the viewer back in time to 1974. The second part of the DVD will include 'June Sessions' which are very long pieces made by the trio (or quartet at times). Total of about 6 hours of music and 40 minutes movie in a Double LP & DVD set.

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LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Man-Child

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Trad Vibe)

Cortex

Volume 2

Zbigniew Namyslowski Quintet

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Final reissue, limited to 500 copies!

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Kujaviak Goes Funky

LP | 1975 | PL | Reissue (Polskie Nagrania)

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Release: 1975 / PL – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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If You're Ready Come Go With Me

Jimmy McGriff

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Groove Merchant)

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Chet Baker

She Was Good To Me

29,99 €*

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1972 | US | Reissue (Groove Merchant)

O’Donel Levy

Breeding Of Mind

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Miles Davis

On The Corner

29,99 €*

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Scorned by critics at the time of its release, Miles Davis' 1972 album 'On The Corner' is now seen as a forerunner of Post Punk, Hip Hop, Drum and Bass and Electronic music, thanks to its revolutionary recording techniques. Miles wanted to reconnect with a younger audience, who had forsaken him for Rock and funk, and the experimental On The Corner was his answer. Leaning more heavily on a drum and bass groundwork, the overdubs consisted of free improvisations held in the studio. On The Corner' isn't one of Miles easiest records to listen to, but it can yield the most fruits. Now released with completely re-mastered audio.

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Jimmy Heath

The Gap Sealer

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sonny Stitt

Tune-Up!

27,99 €*

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1972 | US | Reissue (Atlantic)

Oscar Brown Jr.

Movin' On

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Human Egg (Jean-Pierre Massiera)

Human Egg

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Favorite)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Super-obscure oddball disco funk goody by French studio wizz Jean-Pierre Massiera, re-released to celebrate the 50th release on Favorite!

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LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Thrust

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g audiophile pressing

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George Benson

The world is a ghetto

12" | 1977 | US (Warner)

Los Conquistadores Chocolates

Release: 1977 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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/ breezin

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Johnny Hammond

12" | 1975 | US (East End)

Release: 1975 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1972 | US | Reissue (Nodlew)

Weldon Irvine

Liberated brother

LP | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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early release on his own label ... real nice!

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Stan Getz

Captain marvel

LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Salvation)

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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limited remastered edition 180 gram vinyl

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Gabor Szabo

Macho

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rodney Franklin / Willie Bobo

The Groove / Always There

12" | 1980 | US (Columbia)

Release: 1980 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1986 | US | Original (Milestone)

Azymuth

Tightrope Walker

14,99 €*

Release: 1986 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 1980 | US (Prelude)

The Nick Straker Band

A little Bit Of Jazz

LP | 1972 | US | Reissue (Decca)

Release: 1980 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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/ space age

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David Axelrod

The auction

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1980 | US | Reissue (Muse)

Vic Juris

Horizon Drive