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LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Rrgems)

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2024 Repress. A download code is included. Available on vinyl for the very first time: “The Trance Of Seven Colors” by master Gnawa musician Maleem Mahmoud Ghania and free jazz legend Pharoah Sanders. Produced by Bill Laswell and according to The Attic “one of the most important albums of Gnawa trance music released in the ‘90s”. Originally released in 1994 on Bill Laswell’s Axiom imprint, “The Trance Of Seven Colors” is the meeting of two true musical masters: Maleem Mahmoud Ghania (1951 – 2015), son of the master of Gnawa music Maleem Boubker Ghania and the famous clairvoyant and "moqaddema" A'isha Qabral, and a master of the traditional Gnawa style in his own right. Mahmoud learned this craft as a youth along with his brothers, walking from village to village, performing ceremonies with his father Boubker and was one of the few masters (Maleem) who continued to practice the Gnawa tradition strictly for healing (the central ritual of the Gnawa is the trance music ceremony – with the purpose of healing or purification of the participants). With 30 cassette releases of music from the Gnawa repertoire with his own ensemble and performances at every major festival in Morocco, including performing for the King in various contexts, Mahmoud Ghania was also one of Morocco's most prominent professional musicians. In 1994, Bill Laswell and Pharoah Sanders went to Mocrocco, equipped with just some mobile recording devices, to record Ghania and a large ensemble of musicians (to a good part family members) in a very intimate set up at a private house with the legendary free jazz musician contributing his distinctive tenor saxophone sounds that gained him highest praise as a truely spiritual soul right from the days of playing with John Coltrane and his wife Alice and on seminal solo albums like „Karma“. The aptly titled „The Trance of Seven Colors“ ranks among the best Gnawa recordings ever released, made it onto the list of “10 incredible percussive albums from around the world” by Thevinylfactory.com and is 25 years after its original CD release on finally available on vinyl!

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Brahja

Brahja Edition #3

Kind Of Blue Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Edition #3 of a highly sought-after LP from 2019. Limited to 1000 copies. "Brahja is a deep ethereal dive into the true soul of the jazz fabric woven out of the classic era of spiritual jazz and the avant-garde". Includes liner notes by award winning music journalist, TONE Scott.
Woodblock printing album artwork by RYOCK. Her woodcuts are extrapolated from front and back cover photography by Isaac Rosenthal, from front cover typography by Hanz Mambo, from interior photos by No Land, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Mazen Kerbaj and Simon DesRochers. And from gatefold artwork by Jason McLean. Lettering and word design on back cover by COREY J. of The
Veazies. Layout by Ilja Tulit.
12” standard-weight black vinyl in black poly lined inner sleeve–pressed at Schallplattenfabrik Pallas in Germany. Classic tip-on gatefold record jacket printed and hand-pasted in Estonia.

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Miles Davis

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Time Out Blue Vinyl Edition

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Dol)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lou Donaldson

Alligator Bogaloo

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery

The Comet Is Coming

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Impulse)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Waltz For Debby Gatefold Sleeve Edition

The Bill Evans Trio

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Legacy)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gatefold 180g Includes Rare Or Exclusive Artwork Inside

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Moondog

Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World Volume 2

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Moondog is the fifth album by American composer Moondog.

Moondog had released no music for twelve years since his 1957 album The Story of Moondog. Finally, in 1969, producer James William Guercio invited him to record an album for Columbia Records.[1]

The resulting album compiled various music which Moondog had been working on since the 1950s. This included two "minisyms" (Moondog's term for short symphonic-styled works performed by small orchestras); two canons; a chaconne in memory of Charlie Parker; ballet music originally written for Martha Graham ("Witch of Endor"); and three symphonic (or "symphonique") works, one of which was dedicated to Benny Goodman and featured elements of swing. A version of one composition, "Theme", had previously been recorded for Epic Records in 1952

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Art Blakey

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Herbie Hancock

Inventions & Dimensions

28,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nuits Blanches Au Studio 116

Ariel Kalma

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Transversales Disques)

24,99 €*

The Melody At Night, With You

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Transversales Disques is very glad to announce the release of Nuits Blanches au Studio 116, unreleased rarities from Ariel Kalma’s personal archives recorded in the legendary GRM’s Studio 116 during the 70’s.
Born and raised in Paris, Ariel Kalma started playing the recorder and saxophone as a youth. After successive studies of Computer Science, Music and Art in Paris he performed in various concerts from middle-age music to free jazz duo. Ariel performed and recorded with several bands (J. Higelin, R. Pinhas, NYL, G. Scornic, Baden Powell…).
After learning circular breathing on soprano sax, Ariel could include those endless notes into his own long-delay-effect system, dual Revox set-up and two tape machines “chained” together to form a long delay system.
In France during the mid-1970s, Kalma was staffed as a recording assistant at legendary Groupe de Recherches Musicales (INA GRM) studios, where Ariel recorded some of his compositions in the Studio 116; the same music “concrete” laboratory that spawned masterpieces by members Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani…

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Keith Jarrett

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (ECM)

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The 1999 album, for the first time on vinyl!

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Nils Petter Molvaer

Khmer

The Complete Birth Of The Cool

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The 1996 album - now on vinyl!

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Miles Davis

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

38,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In The Wee Small Hours Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Frank Sinatra

Moon Beams Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gatefold 180g Includes Rare Or Exclusive Artwork Inside

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The Bill Evans Trio

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gatefold 180g Includes Rare Or Exclusive Artwork Inside

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Undercurrent Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gatefold 180g Includes Rare Or Exclusive Artwork Inside

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Bill Evans & Jim Hall

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Misha Panfilov Sound Combo

En Route 3rd Edition

LP | 2017 | US | Reissue (Funk Night)

20,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Edition)

Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Misha Panfilov Sound Combo “En Route” is back by popular demand!

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The Bad Plus

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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21 years after their landmark first appearance as a genre exploding piano-bass-drums trio,
the ever adventurous The Bad Plus have reinvented themselves as a dynamic quartet with
the addition of guitarist Ben Monder and saxophonist Chris Speed. This new iteration of the
group makes its vital eponymous debut now, as always, challenging convention by pushing
their inimitable approach to jazz in boundary-breaking new directions. Though the
components may have changed, what remains is The Bad Plus’s unique musical language
and their undeniable drive and intent.
Having re-contextualized their own chemistry, 'The Bad Plus' not only affirms the band’s
continuing relevance and longevity, it burns bright on its own terms as an extraordinarily
powerful debut from an all-new creative force to be reckoned with.

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Giant Steps Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Dol)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blue Train Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Dol)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Groovin' At Smalls' Paradise Volume 1

Jimmy Smith

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Free At Last Extended Edition

Mal Waldron Trio

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World Volume 1

Art Blakey

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Favorite)

Aldorande

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Groovin' You / Modaji / Till You Take My Love Record Store Day 2019 Edition

Harvey Mason

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Arista)

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Sekito)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A trio of Harvey Mason classics reissued on 12 inch - 'Groovin' You' and 'Till You Take My Love' capturing the heyday of the New York discotheque, alongside the emotive, blissed-out 'Modaji' which features Hubert Laws' flute melodies that power it's jazz dreaminess.
Remastered for 12" audio power.

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Alfa Mist

Structuralism

32,99 €*

Horace Tapscott with The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Named after the theoretical breakdown of the basic elements of conscious experience, Alfa Mist's latest album 'Structuralism' is based around a conversation between Mist and his sister, discussing themes of debate culture and personal growth and is an intricate and profound glimpse into the East London artist's battles with self and the societal pressures that inform our own conscious experience. 'Structuralism' provides listeners a rare opportunity to disconnect from the world, and to consider their very presence in time and space. Mist's ability to entrance listeners into states of experiential self-reflection and contemplation oozes from these seven minutes of vivid, meditative jazz composition.

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Horace Tapscott with The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra Live At I.U.C.C

3LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Outernational Sounds)

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Schema)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“I love Horace Tapscott! I love his music, his philosophies, and everything he did for the community that I grew up in” Kamasi Washington
Soul Jazz Records are proud to release the first in a series of albums by the legendary Los Angeles radical jazz artist, Horace Tapscott and The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. Horace Tapscott is the key figure in the Los Angeles political and underground jazz scene of the late 20th century – his stridently independent and radical music, as far-reaching, cosmic and spiritual in scope as it was rooted in the Watts community of Los Angeles where he lived.
This superb rare, deep and spiritual jazz opus album was recorded at the Immanuel United Church of Christ, Los Angeles, in 1979, and has been unavailable on vinyl for over 40 years. ‘I had a vision of the inside of this church, and I went there, and it was just like I had dreamed it.’ This location remained the residence of the musical collective for most of the 1970s.
The music of Horace Tapscott and The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra is part Sun Ra Arkestra, part John Coltrane, part Art Ensemble of Chicago. This ground-breaking and monumental album (released here for the first time ever on expanded triple vinyl and double CD) explores the multi-faceted deep and spiritual jazz of Tapscott – Afro-centric rhythms, hypnotic bass lines, Tapscott’s stabbing modal piano playing and stunning flute and horn arrangements. ‘The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra – Live at I.U.C.C.’ is a true high point in the cannon of great independent underground jazz music recorded during this era.

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Alessandro Magnanini

Someway Still I Do

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Etcetera Tone Poets Vinyl

Wayne Shorter

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Blue Note)

47,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Randy Brecker

Rocks

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Super Bad Disco / HHV)

Athletic Progression

Dark Smoke

19,99 €*

2LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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"Dark Smoke" is the debut release from the Danish Jazz & Hip Hop outfit Athletic Progression. 9 tracks with the help of Minna Forouzandeh, Isatta Sheriff and Blacc El.

"When we recorded Dark Smoke in late 2016, Athletic Progression was a quartet featuring our main man Ole Koefoed Larsen on guitar. Our group composition and sound has changed since then, but reflecting our common background in hiphop, Dark Smoke is where our story began, and a fitting introduction to our musical universe." - Athletic Progression

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Mammal Hands

Shadow Work

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Captivating, ethereal and majestic, Mammal Hands unleash their third album, Shadow Work: drawing on spiritual jazz, north Indian, folk and classical music to create something inimitably their own. Recorded at 80 Hertz Studios in Manchester, it is the result of 18 months of intensive touring and mammoth writing sessions. The energy from their exhilarating live performances has fed into the writing process and yet there is a quiet reflective side to this album, giving it an expanded emotional range that draws the listener deep into Mammal Hand’s sound world.

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Tony Allen

The Source

38,99 €*

<Atras/Além> Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Afrobeat legend Tony Allen will release “The Source”, the Nigerian-born Paris-based drummer's debut full-length album for Blue Note Records, following the tantalizing 4-track EP release “A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers”.

“The Source” is the next step in Allen’s musical and spiritual voyage, and a further exploration of his early jazz influences. To share writing tasks and take care of the arrangements, he called on saxophonist Yann Jankielewicz, with whom he has worked since 2009 and the album Secret Agent. They began by getting together to listen to and exchange their favorite jazz records: Lester Bowie, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Gil Evans… albums that served as a compass to guide them on their way.

“Tony has never played drums as well as this,” says Jankielewicz. “He's never had as much freedom, never had as much power as he does today.”

Surrounding Allen are some of the best musicians on a Paris scene that is difficult to call “jazz” due to its highly changeable nature: Jankielewicz alongside saxophonists Rémi Sciuto and Jean-Jacques Elangue, trumpeter Nicolas Giraud, trombonist Daniel Zimmermann, bassist Mathias Allamane, pianist Jean-Philippe Dary, and keyboardist Vincent Taurelle, who produced the album with Bertrand Fresel… a French cast to begin with, but with the addition of guitarist Indy Dibongue from Cameroon who, like Allen, contributes an indispensable African sound to this palette. 11 excellent players in total would finally deliver The Source, including one notable guest: Damon Albarn, who adds an ethereal piano part to “Cool Cats.”

The album sparkles in the variety of its timbres and the diversity of its colors. Each of the 11 instrumental tracks—all new originals co-written by Allen and Jankielewicz—bring forward a particular instrument: Giraud's trumpet on “Bad Roads”; the bass of Allamane on “Crusin’”; Dary's piano inside “On Fire,” and Sciuto's bari sax on “Woro Dance.” With “Cool Cats,” it's the turn of Elangue and his tenor, while Zimmerman's trombone is featured on “Wolf Eats Wolf.” And throughout, Tony’s indelible signature, a unique way of hitting skins or a cymbal, its main characteristics a caressing, almost ethereal energy, and a formidable efficiency.

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O Terno

2LP | 2019 | US | Reissue (Psychic Hotline)

33,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mario Biondi And The High Five Quintet

Handful of Soul Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Schema)

31,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | NL | Reissue (South Of North)

Ronald Langestraat

Apollo 2023 Repress

La Saboteuse Black Virgin Vinyl Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / NL – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Instruments
Live: Grand Piano, Yamaha QX1 Sequencer, 2x Yamaha TX7 Tone Generator, Drumtraks Sequential Circuits, Clarinet, Voice
Added at home: Yamaha DX7 Sounds, Roland R-8
Space Train: Kurzweil Piano, Yamaha DX7, Roland R-8, Soprano Sax, Voice

Recorded live at the Apollo Hotel Amsterdam in 1991, except 'Space train', which was recorded in Ronald’s living room.

All instruments played and arranged by Ronald Langestraat.
All tracks written an composed by Ronald Langestraat, except 'Lowdown' which was written by David Paich & Boz Scaggs, 'Give and take' which was written by Michael Shrieve, Tom Coster & Carlos Santana and 'Orpheus' which was written by David Sylvian.

Special thanks to Annemarie, from Ronald.

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Yazz Ahmed

2LP | 2017 | UK | Reissue (Night Time Stories)

Release: 2017 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Polyhymnia Black Virgin Vinyl Vinyl Edition

Yazz Ahmed

2LP | 2019 | UK | Reissue (Night Time Stories)

Release: 2019 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eastern Flowers HHV Exclusive Numbered White Vinyl Edition

Sven Wunder

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Piano Piano)

Paal Flaata & Vidar Busk & Stephen

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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HHV, Piano Piano and Sven Wunder team up to bring you this white vinyl edition of three albums only available at HHV. The color was picked by the artist. Each album is limited to 300 copies and numbered.

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The Gospel Album

LP | 2019 | NO | Original (Grappa)

19,99 €*

Release: 2019 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Siri Nilsen

Skyggebokser

14,99 €*

Release: 2019 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Anteprima)

Eric Legnini

Six Strings Under

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Warner Music International)

Kinga Glyk

Feelings

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Abstractions Of Reality Past And Incredible Feathe

Binker Golding

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Gearbox)

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Gearbox)

Nitin Sawhney

Live At Ronnie Scott's

29,59 €* 36,99 € -20%

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Sekito)

Alfa Mist

Structuralism

24,99 €*

LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover with a beginning seam split at the upper edge.
Records are close to NM.

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Freddie Hubbard

First Light

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eastern Flowers (Doğu Çiçekleri)

Sven Wunder

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Piano Piano)

28,99 €*

LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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US issue of 2019’s "Doğu Çiçekleri”

This is the first stop on Sven Wunders musical journey. Wunder takes the listener somewhere around the easternmost part of the Mediterranean Sea, around the Levantine Sea, where he paints a colourful portrait and illustrates the regions flora through sound. The fruitage is a vivid bouquet where Wunder fuses colours and pigments by using traditional and modern instruments merged with arrangements and melodies that stretches from popular to folk music by portraying tulips, red roses, hibiscus, hyacinths, chamomile, magnolia, daisies etcetera. With both fine and thick brushes are these flowers being pictured in a both modern and classic idiom. The outcome is prismatic. It stands between Anatolian rock and European jazz-funk with ponderous drum patterns, groovy organs, far-out synthesizers, enchanting Saz and impetuous bass lines. Eastern Flowers sweeps through time and space and points towards the future. It could appeal both psych and prog listeners, folk or jazz aficionados and as well the gourmet hip hop connoisseurs.

Eastern Flowers is the US issue of 2019s Docu Çiçekleri. This record is produced with financial support from the Swedish Arts Council.

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Maston

Tulips

27,99 €*

Miles Davis With John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Can be played at 33rpm or 45rpm. Frank Maston’s Tulips is a sample-ready film score to the best 70s movie never made. Originally a super-limited self-release on his Phonoscope label in late 2017, Tulips has already become incredibly sought-after. Be With were introduced to Maston by mutual friends Aquarium Drunkard and it didn’t take long before we decided this modern classic deserved a reissue. Inspired by the deep-grooving soundtracks of Italian cinema - think Morricone, Umiliani and Alessandroni - Maston conceived the entire Tulips project as a continuation of these revered works. Frank designed the artwork and made two 16mm films to accompany the music: “It wasn’t just the LP… it was kind of a whole vibe I was trying to create. Not really trying to emulate the things that influenced me but more trying to make something that could sit alongside those records on a shelf. I’m still very proud of the project.” There’s a distinct library music feel too, with wiry organ, spacey keyboards and loping 60s guitar hinting at KPM and DeWolfe.

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The Complete Cookin' Sessions

4LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

68,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Lonnie Smith

Live At Club Mozambique

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Matthew Halsall

Sending My Love

John Coltrane & Kenny Burrell

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Remixed and remastered with bonus material and released on vinyl for the first time.

Deluxe 2LP editions with artwork re-imagined by Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic.

"If I could watch any jazz band in the UK, any, I would choose Matthew Halsall's band, just love what he's been doing over the last few years... It's always high level, spiritual jazz music" Gilles Peterson BBC Radio 1

Matthew Halsall (born September 11, 1983, in Manchester, England) is a Worldwide Award winning and MOBO nominated trumpeter, composer, producer and DJ. Since 2008, Matthew has released seven critically acclaimed studio recordings and has been a key figure in the rise of a new jazz sound in the UK. In addition to his own releases Halsall has collaborated with many DJs and producers, most notably DJ Shadow and Mr. Scruff, and in 2013 Matthew's music was selected by Bonobo for his Late Night Tales compilation. Halsall is also the founder of Gondwana Records, a genre bending independent record label featuring a wealth defining albums by the likes of Portico Quartet, GoGo Penguin, Hania Rani and Mammal Hands. His own rich music draws on the spiritual-jazz of Alice Coltrane and Phaorah Sanders, contemporary electronica and dance music alongside his travels in Japan, the traditional art and music of which, has left a lasting impression on his compositions.

Sending My Love (2008) and Colour Yes (2009) were his first releases and document Halsall's first great bands featuring the likes of flautist Chip Wickham, saxophonist Nat Birchall, harpist Rachael Gladwin, bassist Gavin Barras and drummer Gaz Hughes. Joyful, life-enhancing albums, drawing on UK jazz and spiritual jazz influences but with a decidedly modern bounce, they introduced Halsall's music to the world gathering support from the likes of Gilles Peterson and Jamie Cullum, Mojo, Straight No Chaser and beyond. But Halsall was never completely happy with how the records were presented and as part of Gondwana Records 10th anniversary decided to revisit the recordings, meticulously remixing and remastering them for vinyl and commissioning new artwork from Ian Anderson, one of his favourite designers. These then are the definitive editions of the records. Sending My Love comes complete with the beautiful bonus track This Time, while Colour Yes features the equally striking It's What We Do and Ai.

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The Cats

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Don't Smoke In Bed 45rpm, 200g Vinyl Edition

Holly Cole Trio

2LP | 2019 | US | Original (Analogue Productions)

69,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Holly Cole brings her own dimension to the tradition of cabaret, a strong voice that's still capable of nuance, an ear for quirky repertoire, and a light touch that keeps some of these performances floating just at the edge of irony.
On her second album, 1993's "Don't Smoke In Bed", Cole explores varied musical styles, adding pop, blues, country and a French ballad to her standard, low-key jazz. It's a favorite of ours, which is why for this Analogue Productions reissue we've given it the reissue treatment it deserves. Bernie Grundman did the mastering, from the original analog tapes, at his Los Angeles studio, giving this release a spectacular foundation. Plating and pressing on 200-gram heavyweight vinyl was done by Gary Salstrom and crew at Quality Record Pressings, makers of the world's finest-sounding LPs. Lastly we wrapped up the whole package in a premium gatefold tip-on jacket from Stoughton Printing. There's nothing but aces in this smokin' hot reissue and the quality shines through.
Holly's delivery of more traditional fare shines on Cole Porter's witty "Get Out Of Town" and Kurt Weill's torchy "Je Ne T'aime Pas", while she brings clarity, power, and anthemic passion to the surprising treatment of Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now". She's generally well supported in this intimate set by pianist Aaron Davis and bassist Davd Piltch, while there's sparing and effective use of strings. There are fine guest spots by tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, on "Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday", and David Lindley, whose steel guitar contributes to the strange country music of "Don't Let The Teardrops Rust Your Shining Heart".

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Ramsey Lewis Trio

More Sounds Of Christmas

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Handfuls Of Night Black Vinyl Edition

Penguin Cafe

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Erased Tapes present Handfuls of Night — the highly anticipated follow-up to Penguin Cafe’s much applauded 2017 album The Imperfect Sea — inspired by the Antarctic, Arthur Jeffes’ journey following in Scott’s footsteps and our penguin friends that reside there.

Using gut-stringed violins, viola, cello, bass, percussion, upright and grand pianos, synthesiser, harmonium and more, Arthur Jeffes and his cohorts have crafted a vivid series of panoramic sonic landscapes, that are as rich in cerebral poignancy as they are in emotional depth.

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Louis Sclavis Quartet

Characters On A Wall

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bill Evans, W. Haffner, E. Mbappé & WDR Big Band

The East End

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Timesig)

Datach'I

Bones

21,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Jazzaggression)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joseph Fraioli, a.k.a. Datach'i, returns with eighth album 'Bones'. Released on Venetian Snares' Timesig imprint, 'Bones' features 12 tracks of mind expanding electronica, once again recorded on his custom-built Eurorack modular system. Much like its predecessor, 'Bones' manages to make the most of the possibilities modular systems offer, whilst avoiding their many pitfalls that can often turn such music into little more than a dry academic exercise. Indeed 'Bones' is a remarkably intimate album, written and recorded in the time following his father's death, and reflects this intense period of personal change in Joseph's life. "Creating this music was a therapy of sorts," Joseph recalls. "It was almost like a close friend being there for me, and it's something that I hope others can perhaps utilize in the same way." The connection to his father is something that is reflected not just in the emotional intensity of 'Bones', but in the actual production itself. "My father and I were very close," he explains. "Whilst he was sick with cancer I bought him a guitar as he wanted to learn how to play, just to have something to do while he was getting treated. After he passed away my mother gave me the guitar to have as a sort of memory of him. I had the idea to record some sounds and music on the guitar and load it onto granular sample players on the modular synth so I could make new music from those sounds as a sort of tribute to my dad. You can hear some of those sounds on a few of the tracks here like 'Arrivals', 'Motion in the Living Room' and 'Undimension'." . Even though 'Bones' is about endings and finding closure, it also looks forward to new beginnings. "It was something very much on my mind throughout recording this album," he relates, "ends being beginnings and beginnings being the end. Cycles of time and how time works, it's all reflected throughout the album right down to how the tracks are ordered." Ranging from blissful ambience and guileless, starry eyed melodies, to intricate claustrophobic rhythms that forever sound close to collapsing in on themselves before expanding into bold new patterns, 'Bones' is the work of a producer who, twenty years on from his debut, continues to push the boundaries of electronic music.

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Ville Vannemaa

Cassiopeia

21,99 €*

LP+7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Glamourama)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ville Vannemaa Cassiopeia is an exciting quintet project led by reed player Ville Vannemaa, known for his engagement in UMO Jazz Orchestra and key player in several other Finnish jazz constellations. With him on this date is Vibraphonist Panu Savolainen, Kasperi Sarikoski on trombone, Heikko Remmel on Bass and Jaska Lukkarinen on drums. Six sublime songs penned by Ville himself, plenty of detail and swinging from joy to melancholy in a melodic sense aimed for repeated listening. Future classic assured! Limited to 500 copies comes with CD inside.

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Etta James

At Last!

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Kryptox)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes 7" Single on Colored Vinyl.

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JJ Whitefield

Brother All Alone

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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German guitarist, bandleader and producer JJ Whitefield has been spearheading several musical sub-genres over the last two decades. His bands Poets of Rhythm, Whitefield Brothers and Karl Hector & The Malcouns are almost legendary to fans worldwide.

He has been releasing influencial albums on Ninja Tune, Mo'Wax, Daptone, Strut, Stones Throw and Now-Again and is probably one of the most respected German undergound musicians. Now he is reaching new levels of nastiness with his Kraut-Jazz debut for Kryptox music. The new german label that has been created to show what's happening in the growing german Neo-Jazz underground.

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Anouar Brahem

Le Pas Du Chat Noir

Burnin' Transparent Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For the first time on vinyl! The album from 2002.

Hypnotic, magnetic new album by Anouar Brahem which adds a new dimension to our knowledge of this exceptional Tunisian musician. "Le pas du chat noir" gives the clearest indication yet of the work of Brahem as composer and features a spacious "chamber music" that resonates with the freshness of improvisation. The instrumentation is unique: oud, piano, accordion. Brahem's writing for this combination is highly evocative, meticulously controlled and sparse. Half of the magic, as he notes, resides in the not-played, in the marvellous mingling of overtones, sounds that rise from the piano to blend with the warm tones of the oud and the breath of the accordion's bellows.

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John Lee Hooker

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Waxtime In Color)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Elvis Presley

Debut Album

20,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Lush Life

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Julie Is Her Name 200g, 45 Rmp Vinyl Edition

Julie London

2LP | 2019 | US | Original (Analogue Productions)

69,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (BMG)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It's back. Our 45rpm, 2LP version of the great Julie London debut on Liberty Records. Mastered by Bernie Grundman on his all-tube cutting system and now plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings. This 45rpm spreads the 12 tracks over two LPs for even better cartridge tracking and superior sound quality!
Much like Dean Martin's 1954 debut LP ("Dean Martin Sings"), Julie London's recording career started on the silver screen in the 1940s. In 1955 she made her debut LP on the newly formed Liberty Records. Recorded in August of that same year, in state-of-the-art mono sound, "Julie Is Her Name" is regarded by jazz buffs and '50s pop enthusiasts as a genuine classic! This LP features the hit single "Cry Me A River" and her stellar performances of "I Should Care" and "No Moon At All".
Supported by the legendary Barney Kessel on guitar and Ray Leatherwood on bass, this LP release brings back memories of the cool '50s. Whether you were a cool swinger in the '50s or you're a cool hi-fi lovin' swinger today, you will be transported to a time when a 15" coaxial speaker, a 20 watt amplifier and a girl who looks like Julie were all that mattered.

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Oscar Peterson

Get Happy

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

Black Flower

Future Flora

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Polskie Nagrania)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With a hybrid jazz based on African grooves, Ethio-oriental melodies and psychedelic dub this Belgian five-piece creates an atmosphere where ancient and modern sounds fuse into a powerful, hypnotic and groovy sensation.

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Kuba Wiecek Trio

Another Raindrop

30,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Polskie Nagrania)

Laboratorium

Quasimodo

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Pure Pleasure)

Dadisi Komolahe

Hassan's Walk

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Squama)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Don’t let the date fool you, released back in 1983 this modal to slightly free jazz outfit from California takes you on a journey back to the late 60s and very early 70s, into the spiritual realms of greats like John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, John McLaughlin and Miles Davis among others. A soul jazz treasure from the LA scene of the early 80s – a fantastic record that I rank with the best Strata East sides of the time! The group's led by alto saxophonist Dadisi Komolafe, and features vibes by Ricky Kelly, piano by Eric Tillman, bass by Roberto Miranda, and drums by Sunship Theus – all working together in a style that's infused with soulful, post-Coltrane exploratory energy, never going too far outside, and always staying true to the rhythmic pulse at its core. Kelly's vibes are really great – sparkling underneath solos by Komolafe that remind me a lot of Gary Bartz's earliest work.

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Fazer

Nadi

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz In Saint-Germain Des-Près

V.A.

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music!

Mark Guiliana

LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Motema)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Where We Come From (Chicago X London Mixtape)

Makaya McCraven

LP | 2019 | US | Original (International Anthem)

At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall / Hamburg '82

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Over the course of 3 days in London, drummer/producer Makaya McCraven connected with first time collaborators (Theon Cross, Nubya Garcia, Joe Armon-Jones, Soweto Kinch, Ashley Henry, Daniel Casimir and Kamaal Williams) and did 2 improvised performances as part of a 2-night showcase called CHICAGOxLONDON at legendary UK Jazz hub Total Refreshment Centre (TRC). The following Sunday afternoon five producers (LeFtO, Ben LaMar Gay, Quiet Dawn, Earl Jeffers & Don Leisure of the Darkhouse Family) were invited to TRC to participate in an event called Fresh Roasted: Live Beat-Making & Battle, where they did live remixes of the recordings from Makaya & cos CHICAGOxLONDON performances. Remixes by Emma-Jean Thackray and Lexus Blondin were added to the pool, at which point Makaya took all the remixes and the raw live recordings from TRC back to his home studio in Chicago, chopped everything up and re-composed the music into two continuous side suites for this CHICAGO x LONDON mixtape.

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Timeless Allstars

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

21,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Thelonious Monk Quartet

Misterioso

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

16,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track.

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Giant Steps Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (ECM)

Anouar Brahem

Blue Maqams

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Portrait In Jazz Gatefold Sleeve Edition

The Bill Evans Trio

Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gatefold 180g Includes Rare Or Exclusive Artwork Inside

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Sun Ra And His Arkestra

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Superior Viaduct)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“To understand the significance of the word ‘featuring’ on Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold, consider how infrequently Sun Ra used it and the exact way it had been used.

“The October Revolution in Jazz, organized by Bill Dixon in the West Village in 1964, presented a vivid cross section of approaches to the new music, including a sextet led by Ra. For the October Revolution’s continuation, titled Four Days in December, held at nearby Judson Hall on the last days of 1964, the Arkestra performance presented Pharoah Sanders as well as a flautist (who was and remained obscure thereafter) named Harold Murray, nicknamed Black Harold.

“It wasn’t until long after Sanders had achieved worldwide acclaim with John Coltrane that Ra and manager Alton Abraham decided to issue the music they’d recorded at Judson Hall. After its first release in plain or hand-decorated covers in 1976, Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold remained an exceptionally rare item in the El Saturn discography, known to a few lucky collectors.

“We’re lucky to have this glimpse of what Sanders sounded like in such a different context, galvanizing the large group and in turn being inspired to make his first significant contribution on record.”

—John Corbett (excerpt from the liner notes)

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Giant Steps Remastered Mono Edition

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Rhino)

38,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ballads Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art In The Age Of Automation

Portico Quartet

2LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

31,99 €*

12" | 2017 | UK | Original (Young Turks)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mercury Prize-nominated Portico Quartet has always been an impossible band to pin down. Sending out echoes of jazz, electronica, ambient music and minimalism, the group created their own singular, cinematic sound over the course of three studio albums, from their 2007 breakthrough 'Knee-Deep in the North Sea', and 2010 John Leckie produced 'Isla', to the self titled record 'Portico Quartet' in 2012. Now rebooted as Portico Quartet after a brief spell as the three-piece Portico, the group are set to release their fourth studio album Art In The Age Of Automation this August on Manchester's forward thinking indy jazz and electronica label Gondwana Records. It's an eagerly anticipated return, with the band teasing both a return to their mesmeric signature sound and fresh new sonic departures in their new music. So much so that their four-night run at Archspace E8 (June 22-25) sold out in less than an hour as fans from around the world scrambled for tickets to hear the return of Portico Quartet. Support from Gilles Peterson, Jamie Cullum and similar minded DJs around the world. Airplay from TSF France.Features in Jazzism, Jazzthing, Jazzwise and beyond. Reviews in the Guardian, Mojo, Uncutand more. Full servcing to the Gondwana Records international DJ and radio mailing list.

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Kamasi Washington

Harmony Of Difference

17,99 €*

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Harmony of Difference will mark Washington’s first collection of new music since his 2015 debut, The Epic. The six-movement piece was premiered as part of this year’s Whitney Biennial alongside a film by A.G. Rojas which also featured artwork by Washington’s sister, Amani Washington. The vinyl version of the record will come with a concertina booklet that includes some of Amani’s artwork and stills from Rojas’ film. The last track of this fantastic EP runs 13 minutes!!

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Julie London

About The Blues

16,99 €*

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Betino's)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes four bonus tracks.

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The Big Hustle

Afrorever

12,99 €*

Cross My Palm With Silver

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Betino's Records proudly presents its third release: an EP by the very sharp collective The Big Hustle. The band founded in 2014 by bass player and composer Sébastien Levanneur, brings together 70's old school funk with the hippest actual sound with influences spanning from Steely Dan to Snarky Puppy, from Mandrill to Lettuce and from Herbie Hancock (Manchild era) to Soulive. With mighty horn players, a rock and funky rhythm section, and percussions added to it, The Big Hustle’s music has a very large variety of sound landscapes. Still, the music never loses the groove and always stays close to the funk.
The A side opens with "Afrorever", a tribute to African culture and music. The guest of honor on this song is legendary Malian musician Cheick Tidiane Seck, longtime partner of Salif Keita, and collaborator of Joe Zawinul, Carlos Santana and Damon Albarn to name a few. After Cheick’s introduction, the songs jumps into a typical afrobeat vibe featuring a tight and powerful horn section, suddenly breaks into an electro funk groove and ends in a furious percussive party.
Second track on the A side is "Faure is the Magic Number". It is dedicated to Thomas Faure (co-composer of the track) and François Faure (both featured on this song on tenor sax and keyboards respectively). This piece displays the band’s ability to blend jazz-funk groove with a heavy hip-hop beat. Kind of DJ Premier meets Steely Dan.
The B side starts with "Afrorever (Sun's Up Mix)". Through this mix, one can acknowledge instantly Olivier Portal's touch. From the very first chords, he conveys us into his realm blending warm and melancholy keyboards with an old school deep-house rhythm pattern.
The fourth track is called “1, 2, 1, 2”. It is a purely improvised moment in the studio while the band was sound checking before recording with special guest rapper Raashan Ahmad. Nicolas Gueguen had the good idea to press the R button and what you hear is basically what happened afterwards.
Enjoy!

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Avishai Cohen

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (ECM)

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Analogue Productions)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Trumpeter Avishai Cohen leads a quartet consisting of pianist Yonathan Avishai, bassist Barak Mori, and drummer Nasheet Waits.

A year after his impressionistic, critically-lauded ECM debut Into The Silence, trumpeter Avishai Cohen's Cross My Palm With Silver introduces a program of new pieces which put the focus on the ensemble, on teamwork, with a quartet of the highest caliber. The adroit, almost telepathic interplay among the musicians allows Avishai Cohen to soar, making it clear why he is one of the most talked-about jazz musicians on the contemporary scene. "All of these people together are my dream team", says the charismatic trumpeter of fellow players Yonathan Avishai, Barak Mori and Nasheet Waits, who share his sense for daring improvisation and his feeling for structure. "I feel we're in a perfect place with the balance. It's open and there's so much room for the improvisation to take the music any place we can. At the same time the composition is very specific and the vibe is very direct and thought about." As with Into The Silence, Cross My Palm With Silver was produced by Manfred Eicher at Studios La Buissonne in the south of France.

180g Vinyl LP comes with download code.

Musicians:
Avishai Cohen, trumpet
Yonathan Avishai, piano
Barak Mori, double bass
Nasheet Waits, drums

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V.A.

The Sound Of Jazz

46,99 €*

A World Of Masks Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This 200-gram Analogue Productions LP reissue is a magnificent-sounding recording of a historic TV event. For a rare and glorious one-hour nationwide broadcast, CBS brought together 32 leading musicians — a Who's Who of the swing era — including Count Basie, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Jo Jones and Coleman Hawkins; the Chicago style players of the same era, like Henry 'Red' Allen, Vic Dickenson, and Pee Wee Russell; and younger 'modernist' musicians such as Gerry Mulligan, Thelonious Monk, and Jimmy Giuffre. These players played separately with their compatriots, but also joined to combine various styles in one group, such as Red Allen's group and the group backing Billie Holiday on "Fine and Mellow".
The one-hour program aired on Sunday, December 8, 1957, live from CBS Studio 58, the Town Theater at 851 Ninth Avenue in New York City.
Columbia Records released this LP in 1958 that is actually a rehearsal that preceded the telecast (recorded on December 4 at Columbia's 30th Street studios), and is not its soundtrack. The recording doesn't include all of the performers on the TV show (Mulligan refused to participate because no additional payment was involved) and includes several who were not on the show.
For this Analogue Productions reissue we started with the original tape and the best mastering available — Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound did a steller job, and naturally, plating at Quality Record Pressings was handled by master plating technician Gary Salstrom. Our 200-gram QRP platters serve up an utterly noiseless background that lets the superior sonics shine through.

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The Heliocentrics

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Soundway)

17,99 €*