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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Jazzaggression)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz Codes is Moor Mother"s second and latest album for Anti- and a companion to her celebrated 2021 release Black Encyclopedia of the Air. Jazz Codes uses free jazz as a starting point but the collection continues the recent turn in Moor Mother"s multifaceted catalog toward more melody, more singing voices, more choruses, more complexity. In its warm, densely layered course through jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, and other Black classical traditions, Jazz Codes sets the ear blissfully adrift and unhitches the mind from habit. Through her work, Ayewa illuminates the principles of her multidisciplinary collaborative practice Black Quantum Futurism, a theoretical framework for perceiving and adjusting reality through art, writing, music, and performance, informed by historical Black ontologies.The songwriter, composer, vocalist, poet, and educator Camae Ayewa spent years organizing and performing in Philadelphia"s underground music community before moving to Los Angeles to teach composition at the University of Southern California"s Thornton School of Music. She released her debut album as Moor Mother, Fetish Bones, in 2016, and has since put out an abundance of acclaimed music, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians who share her drive to dig up the untold. She has performed and recorded with the free jazz groups Irreversible Entanglements and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and made records with billy woods, Mental Jewelry, and YATTA.

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Misha Panfilov

In Focus

25,99 €*

Schizophrenia Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Listen to Misha Panfilov’s latest release and witness the mastery of beat, mood, and melody as he teams up with jazzaggression. None can do it better than MISHA PANFILOV!”

Estonia native Misha Panfilov has been making waves in the vibrant rare groove scene, solidifying his presence with a string of personalized albums. Renowned for his crafted and funk-infused singles on the FNR label out of Detroit, it was albums like the laid-back "Days As Echoes" and the jazz-inflected "Momentum" that firmly placed him on the map, leading to coveted gigs in Hamburg, Copenhagen and Stockholm.

Recognizing his burgeoning talent, Jazzaggression approached Misha to collaborate on an album before the opportunity slipped away. The decision was clear: a library album for the esteemed 'New Library Series,' a realm Misha is intimately familiar with, having drawn inspiration from his fellow library music composers for years.

The latest offering from Misha Panfilov, unveils a collection of 14 entrancing tracks that beautifully highlight his mastery with his distinct melodic finesse. This array of tracks traverses a broad spectrum of rhythmic diversity, spanning from infectious head-nodding beats to thoughtfully minimalistic themes, often with vintage instrumentation in collaboration with his fellow musicians. The outcome is a retrospective package that skilfully captures the true essence of "In Focus."

LP comes limited with Obi strip and insert sheet and is part 3 in our New Library series.

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Wayne Shorter

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Modern Jazz Quartet:The Montreux Years

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wayne Shorter’s 1967 album Schizophrenia found the legendary saxophonist at the pinnacle of post-bop with a sextet of like-minded musical explorers including James Spaulding, Curtis Fuller, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter & Joe Chambers performing Shorter originals like ‘Tom Thumb’, ‘Go’, and ‘Miyako’.

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

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Modern Jazz Quartet

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mccoy Tyner-The Montreux Years

McCoy Tyner

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Real Gone Music)

Henry Franklin

Tribal Dance

35,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Black Sweat)

Langendorf United

Yeahno Yowouw Land

31,99 €*

Terrain Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Spiritual Jazz paths always open up unexplored dimensions, this is the clear impression revealed by this superb and ambitious first double album by Lina Langendorf and her new band. The Swedish saxophonist (OK Star Orchestra, James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Second Hand Orchestra) seems to be blowing in the lesson of the great sacred monsters of the instrument such as Wayne Shorter, Pharoah Sanders or Archie Shepp, but revising it in a melting pot of bolder contaminations. The secret lies in embracing different musical traditions and genres in the flow of a futuristic, psychedelic sound in constant metamorphosis. Ethio Jazz may marry Mali Blues, Afro Beat, Scandinavian melanolic melodies and tonalities from the Mandinka tradition. Everything, however, is focused toward a lysergic fury of rhythmic euphoria. Acid keyboards draw astral and hypnotic grooves, kaleidoscopic carpets, exotic intergalactic and satellite patterns; a hymn toward the Cosmos that still smacks of Sun Ra-like solar myths and Mulatu Astatke's East African winds. Co-produced with Sing a song fighter.

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Portico Quartet

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Portico Quartet announce Terrain, a three-part suite drawing on American minimalism and ambient music alongside their own rich heritage as they explore new musical vistas

When Duncan Bellamy and Jack Wyllie – the driving force behind Portico Quartet got together in their East London studio in May 2020 and started work on the music that would become their new album, the world, or most of it, was in the midst of the first lockdown. The unique impact of the events of 2020 became the backdrop to their time composing and recording; causing them to take stock, re-think, and plot a new musical path.

Indian novelist Arundhati Roy expressed the sense of grief and rupture from the pandemic as "a portal, a gateway between one world and the next", and as they created the music that would become Terrain they were drawn towards longer, slowly unfolding pieces, which are perhaps the most artistically free and also the most beautiful they have ever made.

These are compositions more in the lineage of Line and Shed Song (Isla/2009), Rubidium (Portico Quartet/2012) and Immediately Visible (Memory Streams/2019). Wyllie expands: "We've always had this side of the band in some form. The core of it is having a repeated pattern, around which other parts move in and out, and start to form a narrative. We used to do longer improvisations not dissimilar to this around the time of our second record Isla. On Terrain we've really dug into it and explored that form. I suppose there are obvious influences such as American minimalism, but I was particularly inspired by the work of Japanese composer Midori Takada. Her approach, particularly on 'Through the Looking Glass', where she moves through different worlds incorporating elements of minimalism with non-Western instruments and melodies were at the front of my mind when writing this music".

Terrain I, II & III are all subtly different, but a short rhythmic motif that repeats is the starting point in all three movements. There is a sense of a shared journey to all these pieces, they move through different worlds, with a sense of horizontal movement that lends the music real momentum. Terrain I was the first piece they worked on and it started with a hang drum pattern, improvised by Bellamy, who added cymbals and synthesiser. From there on it grew, Wyllie adding saxophone, another synthesiser section, strings. For Bellamy "It felt more like filmmaking than music making, a bricolage of conflicting, shifting signs, subtle tension and multiple narratives. Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Mirror' and British artist John Akomfrah's incredible 'Handsworth Songs' were pivotal points of reference for me." Wyllie expands the point. "There is a sense of conversation between us both, in that someone presents a musical idea, the other person responds to it with something else, which would then be responded to again... until it feels finished. These responses are often consonant with each other but there is also a dissonance to some of this work. The music slowly evolves through these shared conversations."

It is this sense of dialogue, both between the composers, and between tranquillity and a subtly unsettling melancholy, that makes Terrain such a powerful statement. One that speaks to both our interior and exterior worlds, to our own personal landscape, to our Terrain.

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WDR Big Band Cologne

Metro Big Band Boom

15,99 €*

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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La Clave Verve By Request Edition

La Clave

LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

31,99 €*

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Albert's Favourites)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The White Stripes' Elephant Analogue Productions' Uhqr, the pinnacle of high-quality vinyl! 200-gram 45 RPM double LP limited to 10,000 copies! Mastered from the original analogue master tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound Pressed at Quality Record Pressings using Clarity Vinyl® Includes a 12-page booklet featuring liner notes from Ben Blackwell (co-founder and minority owner at Third Man Records and the official archivist of The White Stripes) and never-before-seen session photos by David Swanson Purest possible pressing and most visually stunning presentation and packaging!

The fourth studio album by the American rock duo the White Stripes was an extraordinary success. It peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard charts and topped the U.K. Albums Charts. To date it's sold 4 million copies worldwide, achieving platinum-sales certification from the Recording Industry Association of America and 3x platinum from the British Phonographic Industry. It spawned the hit single "Seven Nation Army," the band's signature track that's become a sports anthem, plus the hits "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself," "The Hardest Button to Button" and "There's No Home for You Here." Elephant has received critical acclaim and it's often cited as the White Stripe's best work, including receiving a nomination for Album of the Year and a win for Best Alternative Music Album at the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004.

Rolling Stone ranked the album No. 449 on its 2020 list of the 500 Best Albums of All Time. The Stripes, it said, exploded out of Detroit with a minimalist garage-blues attack: just Jack White on guitar and Meg White on drums, taking on the world.

To give Elephant the sonic perfection and signature packaging it deserves, Analogue Productions and Third Man Records have teamed up for the ultimate reissue edition. We present in Uhqr format on Clarity Vinyl this rock masterpiece, limited to 10,000 copies. It comes with gold foil numbered jackets, housed in a premium slipcase with a wooden dowel spine.

Jack and Meg insisted they were a brother and sister, even after people learned they were secretly a divorced couple. But against all odds, the low-budget duo became a global sensation for their sheer rock power. Rolling Stone says Elephant "seethes with raw desperation and lust" in "Seven Nation Army," "Hypnotize," and "The Hardest Button to Button." Jack plays guitar hero in the seven-minute jam "Ball and Biscuit."

More About Clarity Vinyl

The off-white color of the record you are receiving is the color of raw vinyl in its purest form (un-tinted vinyl). To make the ultimate record, we decided to enhance sound quality by removing potential sources of noise contamination or sonic interference. By not adding traditional carbon black colorant, we eliminate that potential due to carbon black particles, instead allowing your stylus to effortlessly slide down a silky smooth groove wall.

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Huw Marc Bennett

Days Like Now

Soulnick Featuring Yusef Lateef

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On the new album, Days Like Now, Bennett takes direct inspiration from the music of Wales. The songs draw heavily on acoustic folk sounds and melodies. During the pandemic Huw sat and wrote a lot of material just with his bass and acoustic guitars and that low key atmosphere is very present throughout the new record. Drums are lo-fi and fuzzy, and the palette of sounds draws from many folk cultures around the world, but this time round has a distinctly Welsh influence.

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Doug Watkins

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Intermusic)

19,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Jazzline)

Trilok Gurtu

One Thought Away

15,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

Art Blakey

Art Blakey Big Band

16,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Turnaround: Unreleased Rare Vinyl From On The Corner Sessions Record Store Day 2023 Sky Blue Vinyl Edition

Miles Davis

LP | 2023 | Reissue (Legacy)

32,99 €*

Sam Gendel & Shin Sasakubo

Release: 2023 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Attn.: We did not receive this record in time for RSD, but we will get it this week.

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Sam Gendel & Shin Sasakubo Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | JP | Original (Carnet)

44,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Leopard)

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sam Gendel/Shin Sasakubo" was co-written with Sam Gendel, a standard-bearer of "modern outsider jazz" based on the West Coast of the United States.

Sam Gendel played Side A and Shin Sasakubo played Side B. It is a conceptual work in which the final song of each side was co-written. A little more released.

This time, with the cooperation of Cafe Carnet, we will change to a mixed Color Vinyl specification based on gold, remodel the artwork by popular illustrator Masukoeri, and release it in a new form.

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Philip Lassiter

Live In Love

15,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Schallplattenfirma)

Opek

The Call

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hiroshi Suzuki / Masahiko Togashi

Variation

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Lawson)

43,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Lawson)

Hi-Phonic Big 15

Hi-Phonics Hi-Phonics

39,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kind Of Blue UHQR Edition

Miles Davis

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Analogue Productions)

140,99 €*

Bill Evans Trio / Scott Lafaro

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Legends have a way of sticking around. If there was ever an album awaiting a high-fidelity, custom-pressed vinyl treatment of the level you now hold in your hands, it is Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue". The top-selling jazz album of all time, it has been lauded, entered into "Best Of" lists and Halls of Fame, and universally acknowledged as a landmark recording — a five-track masterpiece of melancholy mood and melody. Now Analogue Productions, the audiophile in-house reissue label of Acoustic Sounds, Inc., together with Quality Record Pressings, is putting "Kind Of Blue" where it belongs: the Ultra High Quality Record (uhqr) pressed on Clarity Vinyl on a manual Finebilt press with attention paid to every single detail of every single record. The 200-gram records will feature the same flat profile that helped to make the original Uhqr so desirable. From the lead-in groove to the run-out groove, there is no pitch to the profile, allowing the customer's stylus to play truly perpendicular to the grooves from edge to center. Clarity Vinyl allows for the purest possible pressing and the most visually stunning presentation. Every Uhqr will be hand inspected upon pressing completion, and only the truly flawless will be allowed to go to market. Each Uhqr will be packaged in a deluxe box and will include a booklet detailing the entire process of making a Uhqr along with a hand-signed certificate of inspection. This will be a truly deluxe, collectible product. A minor audio complication with "Kind Of Blue" has been addressed with this Uhqr edition. The motor on the studio's 3-track master recorder was running slowly the day of the album's first session. This speed issue affected the album's first three tracks, "So What", "Freddie Freeloader" and "Blue In Green", making them a barely perceptible quarter-tone sharp.This issue was finally addressed with the Classic Records reissue in 1995. This Uhqr was pressed from the same parts that Bernie Grundman cut directly from the original 3-track masters for Classic in '95. Sixty years have passed; this LP bridges that time span in the best way possible, struck from the master reel of "Kind Of Blue", free of speed issues and replete with all the instrumental detail, sonic environment and minimal noise. As we set out to make our Uhqr series the world's best-sounding vinyl records, we have also used Clarity Vinyl, which is free of any carbon black pigment which might introduce surface noise. All-in-all this edition of "Kind Of Blue" meets the highest audiophile standards and offers the truest sound for the most enjoyment.

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Sunday At The Village Vanguard

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

45,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Charles Mingus

Mingus Ah Um

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pop Sensation / Sounds In The Night

Orgasmo Sonore

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Farfalla)

14,99 €*

Friday Afternoon In The Universe

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pop Sensation - A groovy and sensual rhythm for a laid back evening with spring reverb Fender guitar and space echo Moog as featured guests. Sounds In The Night - Walking at night into the city after the rain when every sound seems to reverberate on the wet concrete. Modulating guitar over ambient dark jazz and noir.

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Medeski Martin & Wood

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Real Gone Music)

41,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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J Jazz Volume 3: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan

V.A.

3LP | 2021 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

39,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Intermusic)

Eartha Kitt

The Best Of Eartha Kitt

18,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Intermusic)

Beverley Kenney

With The Basie-Ites

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Intermusic)

Ethel Ennis

Lullabies For Losers

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums

Sonny Rollins

3LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

131,99 €*

Live At The Pershing Lounge 1958

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums vereint die beiden Studioalben des legendären Jazz-Saxophonisten Sonny Rollins für Lester Koenigs Contemporary Records, Way Out West und And The Contemporary Leaders, mit einer dritten Scheibe, Contemporary Alternate Takes. Das von Bernie Grundman neu gemasterte Audio-Set wurde als RTI 180g 3-LP gepresst und enthält ein erweitertes Booklet mit neuen Anmerkungen und einem Interview des mit dem GRAMMY Award ausgezeichneten Musikhistorikers Ashley Kahn.

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Ahmad Jamal Trio

LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Intermusic)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Stian Carstensen

Musical Sanatorium

25,99 €*

Release: 2021 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

Cab Calloway

Hi De Hi De Ho

Release: 2010 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (BBE Music)

Shintaro Quintet

Evolution

33,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Jaco Pastorius

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | DE | Original (Sonorama)

Freddy Cole

The Cole Nobody Knows

25,99 €*

LP | 2015 | HK | Original (Evosound)

Release: 2010 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sonorama is proud to release a legendary and sought after soul jazz LP that will send shivers down your spine. 77-year-old singer & pianist Freddy Cole, youngest brother of Nat "King" Cole and uncle of Natalie Cole, is a truly unique interpreter with an impressive career from 1952 until 2010. This very rare and privately pressed LP was recorded back in 1976 and finally gets its first remastered 1:1 reissue with original cover artwork (First Shot label), including such greats as "Wild Is Love", "Brother Where Are You" and "Live For Life".

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Chantal Chamberland

Autobiography

41,99 €*

Release: 2015 / HK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Marlow)

Atlantis Jazz Ensemble

Celestial Suite

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ABP)

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Atlantis Jazz Ensemble is on the rise once again with "Celestial Suite", a brilliant set of spiritual soul-jazz, with a righteous energy in the mode of some of the best work on independent labels such as Strata East or Tribe back in the day, though updated with a fresh current vibe. With the blend of electric piano, sax, trumpet, bass and percussion presented here, the quintet has refined the searching, soaring quality of their sound, capturing over the course of two days in the studio an inspired session worthy of the skyward promise of the album’s title.

The set flows seamlessly from track to track. Opener “Breaking Dawn” starts things off gently as in a morning sunrise, before settling into a hypnotic modal groove. “Transcendence” then kicks up the tempo with boisterous Afro-Latin rhythms, before heading into the mystic soul-bossa brew of “Enlightenment”. Side A eases off with the pleading soul-jazz of “Invocation”, before ramping things up again on Side B with the ethereal pharoanic groove of “Oneness”. The tension builds on “Blessings”, with its searching, coltranesque modal quality, before easing into the funky, down-home exultations of “Joyful Noise”. The suite then winds down as calmly as it began with a solemn “Meditation”, closing the arc of this skybound journey.

The Atlantis Jazz Ensemble was first formed by Pierre Chrétien and Zakari Frantz of The Souljazz Orchestra back in 2013, as an outlet for the more modal, esoteric and spiritual compositions they were exploring outside the confines of their original unit. After the addition of trumpeter Ed Lister, bassist Alex Bilodeau and drummer Mike Essoudry, the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble released their maiden voyage "Oceanic Suite" in 2016, a bold first outing that became a bit of an underground classic, capturing the number two spot on the Canadian radio jazz charts that year (just behind BadBadNotGood’s "iv"), and leading Atlantis to open up live for the likes of Kamasi Washington and Anderson Paak.

However, the wind was somewhat taken out of the group’s sails when their original bassist suddenly moved away to Boston to study with Dave Holland, Cecil McBee, and other jazz luminaries. Atlantis sank into hiatus for a few years, until young double bass phenom Chris Pond blew into town from Eastern Canada, and the group rose up once again in 2022. After a fruitful residency in Ottawa’s hip Somerset Village that summer, perfecting the new set of original compositions that were to make up "Celestial Suite", the quintet hit Metropolitan Studios in the fall, and laid down an especially inspired rendition of the suite, captured with all of the analogue warmth the studio is known for.

"Celestial Suite" is the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble’s 2nd album and is released by Marlow Records on LP, CD, and digital / streaming on October 27th 2023. LP format is meticulously pressed in Canada with the new WarmTone fully automatic, modernised vinyl record pressing system, and comes with download card.

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Antoine Bourachot

Diversions

Southern University Jazz Ensemble

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One year after his first release, the french producer and multi instrumentist Antoine Bourachot returns with Diversions, a groove filled journey into espionage. Inspired by great fusion and disco records, with the help from virtuosos Jim Grandcamp (Guitar) and Shoko Igarashi (Soprano Saxophone, Flute), this record is a tribute to musicians and their craft. Alongside cinematic instrumental tracks, a pop side of the record emerges. Miracle, with epic celestial vocals from Giacomo Lecchi d’Alessandro and the ever so sweet Action with his trusted studio mate Irfane (Breakbot). Created in a gear sanctuary somewhere in Paris this record takes the listener into a spy fantasy, portrayed on the cover by the very talented Julia & Vincent.

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Live At The 1971 American College Jazz Festival

LP | 2023 | Original (Now-Again)

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First ever commercial releases of New Orleans’ legend Alvin Batiste’s Spiritual Jazz albums created with the college band he instructed and led in Baton Rouge - Goes To Africa With Love and Live at The 1971 American College Jazz Festival Originally given away as souvenirs at Southern University, these albums contains deep Batiste originals and, on Live, are paired with excellent John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard covers. They are some of the most sought after albums of Americas 70s jazz underground. Each album contains extensive booklet detailing Batiste’s life and his time spent honing and recording this remarkable band of young students. That one of the great Spiritual Jazz albums of the era could be found in duplicate New Orleans thrift store in the 1980s goes a long way in illustrating the lack of acclaim this special and overlooked album maintained, even in a city where the Batiste name is musical royalty. The Southern University albums Alvin Batiste offered the world were novelies, not worthy of serious consideration, a moment captured, but not necessarily worthy of being collected or preserved by anyone not immediately involved in its creation. That changes now. With the release of the two Southern University albums, Now-Again continues a conversation begun with the late Kashmere Stage Band director Conrad O. Johnson and the issue of his high school students’ music as Texas Thunder Soul, and the continued belief that beautiful music created by youth - even under the most adverse circumstances - can always inspire us.

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Matthew Halsall

An Ever Changing View

29,99 €*

LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Empire)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Transparent Vinyl Edition.
Includes original inner sleeves.

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Dinner Party

Enigmatic Society

19,99 €*

LP | 2023 | DE | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Clear/Blue Marble with Red Splatter Vinyl Edition.
Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Includes original inner sleeve.

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Mankunku Quartet

Yakhal' Inkomo

All Through The Night Black

Release: 2023 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Limited Orange Vinyl Edition.
Still shrink wrapped but opened.

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Bill Charlap

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elemental)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Marlow)

Cinephonic

Visions

Hanamichi - The Final Studio Recording

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cinephonic's sophomore release "Visions" is a baroque funk tour-de-force - an intriguing concept album made up of ancient medieval and baroque themes, refracted through a modern prism of soul, jazz and psychedelia, all performed by a massive fourteen-piece chamber orchestra.

Cinephonic was founded in 2018 by composer / multi-instrumentalist Pierre Chrétien, as an outlet for the new cinematic tunes he had been quietly writing when he wasn't busy leading groups such as The Souljazz Orchestra, Atlantis Jazz Ensemble and Slim Moore & the Mar-Kays.

Drawing inspiration from classic film and library music, Cinephonic expands on the sound with elements of cinematic soul, psychedelic rock, and spiritual jazz, creating a rich, evocative, and complex soundscape that juxtaposes intricate compositions with dark funk backbeats - a kind of epic soundtrack for a film that never existed.

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Masabumi Kikuchi

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Red Hook)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Matthew Halsall

An Ever Changing View

49,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (GLM Music)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Limited Transparent Vinyl with Signed Art Print.
Includes original inner sleeves.

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Mulo Francel

The Melody Sax

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Trost)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

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The End

Why Do You Mourn

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Gearbox)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dwight Trible

Mothership

38,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Witchy Activities And The Maple Death

Monika Roscher Big Band

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Zenna)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Undercover Live At The Village Vanguard

Kurt Rosenwinkel

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Heartcore)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Futura Resistenza)

Salenta + Topu

Moon Set, Moon Rise

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Two old souls creating music not of this plane, taking you to a dream world...

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Nina Simone

The Montreux Years

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

V.A.

Jazz Men

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Sonor Music Editions)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Discover our new Men Collection : a fine selection of the greatest male artists in Soul & in Jazz on two nice vinyls !

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Mark Saddlemire

Sound In The Round

19,99 €*

Luke Stewart & Jarvis Earnshaw Quartet

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We're presenting under our New Tape label Mark's debut release "Sound-In-The-Round", that draws a deep inspiraton by the golden era of Italian Library and Soundtrack Music. Something akin to the legendary Prog-Rock ensemble Goblin and the avant-garde composer Giuliano Sorgini, but with a rich plenty of grooveness. Mark Saddlemire is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer from Philadelphia, passionate about creating instrumental compositions from a blend of acoustical and electronic sounds using analog techniques. An electrical engineer by trade, he's customized and repaired much of the vintage gear used for his recordings - his studio is a collection of unique and rare analog instruments from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (No Quarter)

Cosmic Disco Machine Volume 2

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bassist Luke Stewart Was Called "One Of The 25 Most Influential Jazz Artists Of His Generation" By Downbeat Magazine. Here He Teams Up With Co-Bandleader/Sitarist Jarvis Earnshaw, Drummer Ryan Sawyer And Alto Saxophonist Devin Waldan For A Rich, Expansive And Mercurial Set. Recorded At Pioneer Works In Red Hook, Brooklyn Towards The End Of The Dark Winter Of 2021, The Six Performances Explore And Embrace Chaos, Ultimately Finding A Serenity Made Only More Striking By What Precedes It. The Calm After The Storm.

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V.A.

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Cosmic Disco Machine)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Dol)

Eric Dolphy

Out There

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Musiques Légères (1976-1982)

Bruno Spoerri

LP | 2023 | CH | Original (We Release Jazz)

29,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | DE | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 2023 / CH – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

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Volker Kriegel

Inside: Missing Link

The Best Of The MPS Years

Release: 2023 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Monty Alexander

2LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

26,99 €*

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Songs For Distingué Lovers

Billie Holiday

LP | 2023 | Reissue (Verve)

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ti Amo Come Un Pazzo Black Vinyl Edition

Mina

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Pdu Music & Production Sa)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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Donald Byrd / Bobby Jaspar

Paris 58

LP | 2023 | FR | Original (Sam)

Release: 2023 / FR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | FR | Reissue (Souffle Continu)

Kristen Nogues

Marc 'H Gouez

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cien Fuegos)

Release: 2023 / FR – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Why would I sing in French? I have Breton culture, I speak Breton, I live in Brittany, and the Breton language is the language of this country...” So explained Kristen Noguès, of whom this is the first of the (rare) albums that she recorded Marc’h Gouez, is a fabulous voyage in space on each listening.

Noguès learned the Breton language as a child, at the same time as the Celtic harp, – taking lessons with Denise Mégevand, who would go on to teach others, notably Alan Stivell. At the beginning of the 1970s, she discovered the Breton song tradition (soniou and gwerziou) through Yann Poëns and became involved in Névénoé, a cooperative of traditional expression founded by Gérard Delahaye and Patrick Ewen. It was under this label that her first album Marc’h Gouez, was released in 1976.

With a dozen friends playing guitar, piano, violins, flutes..., Noguès composed not Breton music, but music from Brittany: a type of shared folklore in which imagination is married to the reality of the moment, that of social demands and companionship. At the very beginning of the record, we can hear her drawing up a chair, before the plucked notes of the harp become a cascade: “Enez Rouz”, is an invitation to listen up close.

We are reminded here of the Meredith Monk of “Greensleeves”, there of the early albums of Brigitte Fontaine / Areski, elsewhere of Emmanuelle Parrenin, Pascal Comelade... Noguès rhyming pattern is ever changing: airy (“Hunvre”), cosmopolitain (“Pinvidik Eo Va C'hemener”), enigmatic (“Ar Bugel Koar”), profound (“Ar Gemenerez”) or enchanting (“Hirness An Devezhiou”). And then there is the track from which the album takes its’ name: Marc’h Gouez which, between nursery rhyme and chamber music, weaves a fabulous web in which the auditor is obliged to be caught. “Brittany equals poetry”: so said André... Breton; and Kristen Noguès proves it to be true.'

Carefully remastered from the master tapes by Gilles Laujol. Graphic design by Stefan Thanneur. 8 page booklet. Heavyweight 180 gr. LP. 425 gsm brownboard outer sleeve. Licensed from Katell Branellec.

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Schlippenbach Quartet

Anticlockwise

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Jazz Room)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Schlippenbach Quartet: Evan Parker - soprano & tenor saxophone, Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano, Alan Silva - double bass, Paul Lovens - drums, percussionThis album was originally released on FMP in 1983. Remastered in 2022 by Martin Siewert.CREDITS:Recording:live on September 11th, 1982 at the Quartier Latin in Berlin by Jost GebersProduction:Jost GebersRe-Mastering:2022 by Martin SiewertArtwork:G. Fritze MargullPublisher:FMPPhotos:Dagmar Gebers

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Blue Mode & El Chavo

Smells Like Teen Spirit

14,99 €*

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Jazz Room)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The A Side of course is just one of the biggest tunes from the grunge era and is given a Jazzy Funky Groovy version by Blue Mode of Nirvana's Biggest Hit. It turns out that they were influenced by everything from the Gap Band to Louie Louie and a fair smattering of 80's indie and this producytion by by Chip Wickham mixes together a Swinging '60's Blue Note Vibe with the Acid Jazz sound and brings it bang up to date with the Nu-Jazz Experience. First time on 45 and is already a DJ favourite after being included in the Paul Murphy set "Jazz Room" on BBE Records.
Side 2 is a Boogaloo Latin Jazz version (produced by Paul Murphy Live in the studio in Budapest when he was living there) of the Lonnie Smith track "Hola Muneca" beloved of the Acid Jazz era DJ's and previously released on a now impossible to find 7 inch single that goes for crazy prices.

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Nautilus

Lady Day & John Coltrane

12,99 €*

Bring Backs Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Japanese trio Nautilus, whose name and style was inspired by the great Bob James turn their attention to Gil Scott-Heron's Jazz tribute and turn it into a broken beat masterclass. Coming soon on London Jazz DJ Paul Murphy's must-check Jazz Room records on vinyl seven-inch. On the B side you will find UK underground Jazz Keyboard Surf Queen Jessica Lauren's much admired funkster "Serengeti".

Already receiving plays on Gilles Peterson's Bbc6 Music and Colin Curtis Latin Jazz Fusion show.

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Alfa Mist

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Anti)

26,99 €*

The Loud Minority Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alfa Mist is one of the driving forces behind a young and vibrant scene of UK musicians, who've taken on jazz as their musical narrative. On his new album Bring Backs the producer, self-taught pianist and rapper takes us on a sonic trip back to his beat-making past on the streets of East London, through the depth and musicality he discovered composing and playing jazz. 2017 saw the release of Alfa's breakthrough record, Antiphon and the 2019's album Structuralism were both self-released on his Sekito label. His latest endeavour, 2021's Bring Backs, sees Alfa taking on new challenges. The record marks his first release for the label Anti and is also the most detailed exploration of his upbringing in musical form.

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Frank Foster

LP | 2021 (Wewantsounds)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sam)

Release: 2021

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.

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The Heath Brothers

Paris 76

32,99 €*

Live At Jaiyede Jazz Festival Transparent Ochre Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Stickly Limited Edition 3000 copies. Re-mastered from the original stereo master tapes. Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Mastering. 180g vinyl LP pressed in Marciac, France by Garcia & Co. Deluxe flipback album jacket. Artwork by Jean-Louis Duralek. Sam Records presents:

A never-before released The Heath Brothers 1976 live recordings.

First official release with the full permission and cooperation of the INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel).

The Heath Brothers – Paris ‘76 – Recorded live in Paris, 1976.

Sam Records is proud to presents here a live recording the band gave in Paris at Studio 104, Maison de la Radio, on April 16, 1976. In addition to a superb version of ‘One for Juan’, the band perform two tracks from the ‘Marchin’ On! album, ‘Watergate Blues’ and a wonderful version of ‘Smilin’ Billy’.

“That was the first Heath Brothers album. Stanley Cowell had started the Strata-East label with Charles Tolliver, and they engaged us to do a record. It was a family affair, and we adopted Stanley because we thought he was amazing. That was a different type of record for us. We recorded it while we were on tour in Oslo, Norway. We used to get on the train and travel around Europe, and we’d be playing in these cabins on the train. Percy played a bass with a cello body that Ray Brown created, Tootie and I played flutes, and Stanley played a chromatic African thumb piano. People would stop and listen to us on these trains going from one country to the next, and it was something that they liked. It was like a chamber-music group. So we decided to include that sound on the record”.

Source : Jimmy Heath in ‘I Walked With Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath‘

Jimmy Heath (tenor & soprano saxophone, flute) Stanley Cowell (piano & mbira) Percy Heath (bass and “baby bass”) Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath (drums, flute and African double-reed instrument)Double insert using an original photo by Thierry Trombert. Each record has been visually checked to prevent defects.

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London Odense Ensemble

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (El Paraiso)

The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol.1

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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London Odense Ensemble is a powerhouse quintet that combines forces from the Causa Sui/El Paraiso family tree (Jakob Skott, Jonas Munk, Martin Rude) with the vibrant, experimental London jazz scene (Tamar Osborn, Al MacSween). On two studio full-lengths, released in 2022 and 2023, they have explored the confluence of psychedelia, improvisation and cosmic jazz. On this set, recorded at the 2021 edition of Denmark's Jaiyede Jazz Festival, the energy is cranked up another notch or two. Comprised almost entirely of exclusive material not found on the two studio records these three sonic excursions dive head-on into the fiery side of the group's sound. Taking up the entire A-side "Energy Ascending" starts out as a gently flowing piece of dreamy jazz that wouldn't have sounded out of place on a late 1960s Pharoah Sanders record. As the piece evolves the guitar takes it into rock territory, where it dissolves in a mesmerising breakdown before commencing a build of epic proportions, lead by Tamar Osborn's baritone sax, channelling The Stooges as much as John Coltrane. Heavy. On the B-side things get more electronic and spacy. Here the ensemble uses album track "Sojourner" as a starting point for a new improvisation guided by Al MacSween's virtuoso keyboard work. The rhythm section creates a hypnotic foundation for layers of synths and electric keys to fully blossom and travel into cosmic territory.

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Fats Navarro

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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My Favorite Things / Music Legends Collection

John Coltrane

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Wagram)

26,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (New Interplanetary Melodies)

Strata-gemma

Radamanto

14,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Edition)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Strata-Gemma lands for the first time on Simona Faraone's label, New Interplanetary Melodies, with their third album: Radamanto. The trio, comprised of DJ and record producer Niccolò Bruni, musicians Luca Cacciatore and Andrea Moretti, masterfully blend jazz, electronic music and otherworldly atmospheres. Radamanto is a beautiful album, crooked, dense and vibrant, in which jazz, psychedelia, experimental electronics and more, elegantly merge for a nocturnal journey full of smoky suggestions.

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Matt Carmichael

Marram

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Malik Alston Presents Painted Pictures: Air

Malik Alston

LP | 2021 | Original (The Jazz Diaries)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Teranga Beat)

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following a prosperous career in music and poetry, Detroit-based musician and performer Malik Alston readies his vibrant album 'Malik Alston Presents Painted Pictures: Air' set for release via The Jazz Diaries. The album is a spirited celebration between jazz virtuosity and Motor City house music, showcasing Alston's roots in Jazz, Gospel, Soul and Dance Music.

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Jan Van Angelopoulos

Streams

23,99 €*

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Jazz Is Dead)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Teranga Beat proudly presents the drummer-composer Yannis Angelopoulos, aka Jan Van and his last project "Streams". A well known musician in the Athens jazz scene, accompanied by three fellow musicians, he created an album with a tough= background story. Jan Van started as a drummer in clubs playing popular greek music (laïka) even before he was 18, a typical first step for a musician in Greece. In this way he experienced the underground and in fact the surrealistic atmosphere of the laïka greek clubs. At the age of 20, he started working as a roadie (installing drums) and it was then that he realised a drummer can be a musical directorproducer and not just a session musician. So he decided to continue his education and in 1996 he went to study at the Rotterdam’s Conservatorium's (Codarts) Jazz Department, where he stayed for seven years. Soon after his return to Athens he started wondering how to fuse jazz with laïkodimotiko (lumpen, popular music), something detectable in his recent discography. Since the mid ‘00s, Jan Van has been working on various jazz projects in Athens, even though the years preceding the 2010s were something of a tough period for the local scene, with limited live opportunities. Furthermore, since 2010, Greece has famously been at the epicentre of the global financial crisis. In an already dysfunctional cultural system during this decade, culture eventually became a luxury. Following ten years of recession, in March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic destroyed the efforts of the country that was struggling to recover and took away any hope. Under high psychological pressure, Jan Van had the idea of a jam session as a way-out for expression. At the same time, the particular concept of water and its properties were stuck in his mind. Water’s fluidity and momentum and the idea of a quiet streaming state, shaped the only concept he eventually shared with his fellow musicians before starting to play. He only wanted them to have the energy of the water as a reference. By the end of May, a few days after the end of the lockdown, they gathered in a studio and recorded a live session of spontaneous compositions and improvisations. During that session each musician took a step back to listen and give space to one another. None of the tracks was composed before the recording. The result is a deep album which consists of organic beats with spiritual jazz vibes, sometimes exploring fusions with demotika (traditional) elements, sometimes leaning to cinematic atmospheres. The recording was mixed on 2 inch reel tape with analog equipment, to achieve the best possible sound quality. The LP version of the album is a Deluxe Edition and comes with a high gloss laminated gatefold cover and a digital download code.

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Adrian Younge

The American Negro

38,99 €*

LP | 2023 | HK | Original (Evosound)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The American Negro is an unapologetic critique, detailing the systemic and malevolent psychology that afflicts people of color. This project dissects the chemistry behind blind racism, using music as the medium to restore dignity and self-worth to my people. It should be evident that any examination of black music is an examination of the relationship between black and white America. This relationship has shaped the cultural evolution of the world and its negative roots run deep into our psyche. Featuring various special guests performing over a deeply soulful, elaborate orchestration, The American Negro reinvents the black native tongue through this album and it’s attendant short film (TAN) and 4-part podcast (invisible Blackness). The American Negro - both as a collective experience and as individual expressions - is insightful, provocative and inspiring and should land at the center of our ongoing reckoning with race, racism and the writing of the next chapter of American history.

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Bob James

Jazz Hands

41,99 €*

Release: 2023 / HK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The House That Bobby Built

Nathan Francis

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ajabu!)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Elton Dean, Steve Miller & Pip Pyle

Home Brewed

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (British Progressive Jazz)