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Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Friday Afternoon In The Universe

Martin Medeski & Wood

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

41,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Django Reinhardt / Stephane Grappelli

La Marsellaise - Le Quintette A Cordes 1946-1947

LP | 2024 | Original (Adf Bayard Musique)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Buddham Jazz)

Gregory Privat

Phoenix

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane

LP | 1957 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Release: 1957 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1958 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Thelonious In Action

Release: 1958 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1957 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Monk's Music

Release: 1957 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1957 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Brilliant Corners

Release: 1957 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1960 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

At The Blackhawk

Release: 1960 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (Stunt)

Dicte

Let's Escape

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP+CD | 1963 | Reissue (Groove Replica)

Thelonious Quartet Monk

Monk's Dream

Release: 1963 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Trio Evans

LP+CD | 2020 | Original (Groove Replica)

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Countdown-Time In Outer Space

Dave Quartet Brubeck

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Pan Am)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong

Ella & Louis

LP | 1956 | Reissue (Sound & Vision)

Release: 1956 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Pan Am)

Dave Brubeck

Angel Eyes

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ella Fitzgerald & Loius Armstrong

Ella & Louis - Complete Small Group Studio Recordings

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Jazz Wax)

38,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Small Variations From The Previous Day

Louis Matute

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Neuklang)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Character Actor Ep Record Store Day 2024 Edition

The Near Jazz Experience

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Sartorial)

17,99 €*

LP | 2024 | Original (Verve)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is a 5 track EP of brand new, previously unreleased material from The Near Jazz Experience (Terry Edwards, Mark Bedford and Simon Charterton).

Whilst recording the new album Terry asked pianist Mike Garson (best known for his work with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins) – whom Terry has toured with if he’d like to play on a track. Mike said yes, recorded a stupendous solo for Character Actor at his home studio and sent it over. All in the space of 24 hours! On hearing the piano part NJE bassist Mark Bedford came up with the idea of having the piano mixed with the original track (as intended) but also using it as the basis for a completely new recording with the piano leading rather than complementing the band.

Side 1 of the EP has these two very different versions from the same seed. Unidentical twins indeed. Side 2 of the EP contains 4 outliers from the album sessions. These aren’t out-takes or unfinished pieces. They simply couldn’t find a place for themselves within the album – along the lines of the tunes Tom Waits put together for his Orphans compilation of 2006. They are standalone tunes which have found a home together on this EP because in some way they all have filmic qualities.

Side 1 contains 2 takes on Character Actor (the title being a nod to Cracked Actor, a tune on Aladdin Sane, the album that introduced Bowie fans to Mike Garson), and Side 2 has The Loping Four; Projector; MacGuffin and Lockstep, all titles which contain strong cinematic elements, MacGuffin in particular.

It was Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite word for a red herring in the plot. The musical cast on this release has a remarkable pedigree. The NJE consists of Terry Edwards (solo artist and session player with PJ Harvey, Franz Ferdinand, Siouxsie, Jimi Tenor, Piroshka, Tindersticks etc); Mark Bedford (Madness, Robert Wyatt, Robyn Hitchcock, Nightingales etc); Simon Charterton (The Higsons, Alex Harvey, Zook, Serious Drinking etc). Alongside featured guest Mike Garson there is an appearance by Oliver Cherer (Aircooled, Miki Berenyi Band) on keys and synth.

This is an RSD exclusive on black vinyl in full colour sleeve which reflects the filmic quality of the recorded material. No download. The title track will appear on the next Near Jazz Experience studio album. The 4 additional tracks, however, will remain exclusive to Record Store Day.

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Julius Rodriguez

Evergreen

33,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Golden Number Verve By Request

Charlie Haden

LP | 2024 | Original (Verve)

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Librarian Black Vinyl Edition

Sefi Zisling

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Tru Thoughts)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Real Landscape)

Dip Friso

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Edition)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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This self-titled LP marks the fifth release of Scottish artist Murray Collier’s Dip Friso project, his longest running alias and the solitary vanguard of his own Real Landscape imprint. Across the six tracks he delivers another collection of warped percussive loops, heavily manipulated guitar work and psychedelic sound experiments that drift between popular music forms ('I’ll Get to Hiding') and whittled down takes on electric blues and shoegaze ('Another Country’). The former features the instantly recognisable croon of Still House Plants vocalist Jess HK embellishing a backdrop of tape loop alchemy, an inspired pairing given the shared history of Glasgow dwelling. ‘Thin Ayrshire’ (written with Hannan Jones) treads a similar path with Collier’s own beyond-unrecognisable voice featuring, broken suddenly by a brief flash of 12th Isle’s Loris S. Sarid & Innis Chonnel’s ‘Spalted Water Portal’ thanks to a recycled tape spool. ‘A Sorry Business’ takes on avant-jazz inspired puddle skronk, a stunted casio bleep propelling forward guitar dirge and cymbal crashes, whilst Australian minimal wave heroes The Systematics are paid homage via a farewell cover of their track ‘Midnight on Balancing Day’ (here ‘Midnight’). All in, the album sees the project incorporating more instrumentation and a full use of vocalists, leaning less heavily on gauzy sample collage styles and providing a more introspective look at the hazy, dubwise world Collier has been building for the past half a decade.

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Elliot Galvin

Influencing Machine

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Edition)

Slowly Rolling Camera

All Things

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jiro Inagaki And Soul Media

In The Groove White Coloured Vinyl Edition

12" | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Nippon Columbia/Lawson (Japan))

57,99 €*

LP | 1976 | EU (Trading Places)

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Refined jazz. Well-crafted rock. Finely honed funk. Swallowing everything, a strong groove begins to run.

Since their formation in 1969, Soul Media has advocated a fusion of jazz and rock. This work, ``In the Groove,'' recorded in 1973, took this route to the next step. Bringing the sharpness of jazz to the fore, blending rock to give it an edge, and injecting funk to exude power and elasticity. They created strong, sophisticated, and simply "cool music" that could not be categorized into existing genres such as jazz-rock, jazz-funk, and fusion.

This work is said to be a response to The Crusaders, which Jiro Inagaki was paying attention to at the time. The aim was on point. With this work, Soul Media acquires a "sophisticated black feeling" and heads toward their final destination, "Funky Stuff.”

Text by Yusuke Ogawa (universound/deep Jazz Reality)

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Frank Strazzeri

After The Rain

Release: 1976 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Greasy Mike's Lost & Lonely Ladies

V.A.

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Jazzman)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It's Ok, B U Moon Yellow Vinyl Edition

Kiefer

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Stones Throw)

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kiefer’s newest album It’s Ok, B U shows us a new side to the optimistic artist– exploring his lesser-discussed emotions ranging from panic to lust to self-doubt – ultimately pointing him toward self-acceptance. It’s Ok, B U reveals a new layer to Kiefer’s beatmaking style, placing listeners right beside him in navigating these emotions that accompany each track. Album artwork by acclaimed Barcelona-based artist María Medem.

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Cuban Jazz Report

LP (Stunt)

21,99 €*

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pierre-Alain Dahan & Slim Pezin

Neo Rythmiques

LP | 1976 | Reissue (Be With)

You've Got To Learn Indie Exclusive Bone Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1976 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pierre-Alain Dahan & Slim Pezin's Neo Rythmiques is an absolute KILLER Tele Music library classic from 1976. It's absolutely sensational throughout, all scorching, uptempo jazzy soul funk that Mr James Brown himself would've been envious of. This is serious business with breaks for days. French drummer, percussionist and composer Pierre-Alain Dahan was a key member of the legendary Arpadys, Disco & Co, Voyage, Tumblack (with Wally Badarou, Mallia et al!) and Jef Gilson Septet. With Neo Rhythmiques, he's joined by his eternal guitar colleague Slim Pezin (Voyage, Manu Dibango, Nino Ferrer), so you know this Be With reissue is fundamentally vital.

Opener "Soul Car" is a swaggering, horn-drenched jazz-funk beast whilst the slick JBs funk of "Happy Penalty" is just plain irresistible. Definitely influenced by American funk flavours, it stands alone on its own right as a brilliant piece of music, no question about that. The blazing "Kuzi-Kuza" is again horn-fuelled but has a more exotic, Latino feel, all loose grooves and bastard blues with funky organ and shredding guitars. The stomping, proto-disco of "Mercy Boa" is a guitar-sizzled Bohannon-esque hypno-groove for adventurous dance floors the world over. Outstanding. And if all that wasn't enough from one half of a 70s French library LP, the A side ends with the monumental, stratospheric "Slim Bertha"! I mean, what can you even say about this absolute monster?! Slo-motion, deep drama funk breaks with jazzy guitar and gleaming percussion. Just sensational.

Side B opens with "Country + Country", a rather forgettable slice of piano driven bluegrass funk (?!) Aaaaannyway, "Super Airship" follows and is a driving fuzz-guitar psych-rock workout of the highest order. We're back on track now. The brilliantly titled "Electronic Mutation" is a total highlight, the funk most definitely returning and, indeed, strong in this one with its deep clean breaks (with some particularly ace hi-hats), echoey effects and funky clavs. "Africa Semper" follows, all funky percussion, trippy echo and distorted, psychy guitar licks. To close out the set, "Neo Rythmiques 1 and 2" form a great salvo of top-tier, percussion-heavy synthy-funk-fusion. For our money, the bugged-out echoey space-soul of "N° 2" just about edges it.

One of the very best French drummers ever, Pierre-Alain Dahan began his career at the Blue Note in Paris with Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon and Daniel Humair. Some start, eh?! He also participated in the recording of Serge Gainsbourg's cult album 'La Ballade de Melody Nelson' before going on to make countless KILLER library funk records and be a key member - alongside his partner here, Slim Pezin - in the legendary Arpadys, Disco & Co and Voyage. Dahan also featured in Tumblack (with Wally Badarou, Sauveur Mallia et al) and Jef Gilson Septet (alongside Henri Texier), whilst the CCCP Pezin backed, among others, Manu Dibango and Nino Ferrer. Some pedigree.

The audio for Neo Rythmiques has been remastered by Be With regular Simon Francis, ensuring this release sounds better than ever. Cicely Balston's expert skills have made sure nothing is lost in the cut whilst the original, iconic Tele Music house sleeve has been restored here at Be With HQ as the finishing touch to this long overdue re-issue.

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Nina Simone

LP | 2023 | CZ | Original (Verve)

14,99 €*

Black Classical Music Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / CZ – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Previously unreleased live album recorded at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival

The Newport Jazz Festival had always brought the best out in Nina Simone. When she took to that famous stage on July 2, 1966, the audience was treated to the full range of her artistry—from the opener, a breathtaking version of “You’ve Got To Learn” to a uniquely swinging take on “Mississippi Goddam”. Unwilling to let her leave the stage, and after sustained applause, her fans were rewarded with the show-stopping encore, “Music For Lovers”. This previously-unknown and unreleased recording makes it clear why hearing Nina Simone in concert was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Liner notes are by Shana L. Redmond, scholar and author.

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Yussef Dayes

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Brownswood)

51,99 €*

Clifford Jordan In The World

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Multi-instrumentalist and visionary artist Yussef Dayes is set to release his highly anticipated debut solo studio album ‘Black Classical Music’, on the 8th September 2023. ‘Black Classical Music’ is a 19-track record taking listeners through a looking glass into the exalted artist’s past and present whilst exploring themes of home and family. The album draws influence from his musical heroes Miles Davis & Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Yussef’s extensive travel around the globe that has deepened his study of rhythm. Honourable features on “Black Classical Music” - Chronixx, Jamilah Barry, Tom Misch, Shabaka Hutchings, Miles James, Sheila Maurice Grey, Nathaniel Cross, Theon Cross and the Chineke! Orchestra, plus Venna, Rocco Palladino, Charlie Stacey & Elijah Fox.

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Clifford Jordan

LP | 1972 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

48,99 €*

I Don't Worry About A Thing Limited Edition

Release: 1972 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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There are few saxophonists who were able to hold their own against the late great Eric Dolphy. Clifford Jordan is one of them. As a member of the Charles Mingus sextet on his legendary 1964 European tour with Eric Dolphy, Jordan is featured on iconic albums such as The Great Concert of Charles Mingus and Town Hall Concert. Born in 1931, the tenor saxophonist was a giant of the hard bop genre, with an adaptable style that could match the earthsy avant-blues of Mingus, or soar into space alongside Dolphy. In The World, Jordan’s first album for Strata-East and the first in the seminal Eric Dolphy series, sees the saxophonist lead two different ensembles, featuring talents such as Don Cherry (tp.), Kenny Dorham (tp.), Wynton Kelly (pf.), Richard Davis (b.), Al Heath (ds.), and more! Album opener “Vienna” is a Jordan composition, a 17 minute waltz that starts almost pensive, but gradually increases in intensity until the sextet reaches a roaring climax mid-way through the song. Jordan plays his horn as if he’s yearning for something, deftly weaving arpeggios with upper register acrobatics in one of the finest solos of his career. Cherry is in top shape as well, with his instantly recognizable playing adding a welcome dose of avant-garde. On the C-side, Ouagoudougou is another extended Jordan composition, with another fantastic solo from Jordan opening the solo section. Yet Dorham’s playing soon takes center stage, with the trumpeter showing a side to his playing that rarely appears on his best-known records. You can practically hear Dorham straining as his solo flies upwards, giving it an aggression vastly unlike much of the Blue Bossa trumpeter’s studio output. For the first time ever, Clifford Jordan In The World is going to be reissued as 2xLP on audiophile-grade vinyl, complete with an iconic Japanese obi-strip! Our 2019 reissue sold out almost immediately - so make sure to get this one while you can!

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Mose Allison

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Modern Harmonic)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Everybody Digs Bill Evans 180g Vinyl Edition

Bill Evans

LP | 1958 | EU | Reissue (Dol)

15,99 €*

Release: 1958 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With Sonny Stitt: Live At The Free Trade Hall. Manchester 1960

Miles Davis Quintet

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Jazz Wax)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (New Continent)

Henry Mancini

Essential Henry Mancini

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sarah Vaughan And Her Trio

At Mister Kellys

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Supper Club)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Number One Essentials)

Ray Charles

The Best Of Ray Charles

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (BBE Music)

Larry Nozero

Time

35,99 €*

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Chick Corea Elektric Band

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Candid)

Birds & Beasts Yellow & Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Led by the legendary pianist and composer Chick Corea - 27-time Grammy winner and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master - The Elektric Band stormed onto the jazz scene in the mid-1980s, making an immediate and lasting impact on the genre. With their electrifying performances and innovative blend of jazz fusion, the group produced a series of albums that set the bar for excellence in contemporary jazz.

Featuring a core lineup of virtuosic musicians - John Patitucci on bass, Dave Weckl on drums, Eric Marienthal on saxophone and Frank Gambale on guitar - the group created a dynamic and electrifying sound that came to define the jazz fusion style. Their collective musicianship was on full display on each album, as they seamlessly blended complex compositions with captivating improvisations.

With each outing, the band explored new sonic territories, incorporating elements of funk, Latin and Afro music, and pop sensibilities. Their 5-album studio discography is a masterful tapestry of multi-layered music, showcasing their creativity, innovation, and musicianship.

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Suss

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Nortehrn Spy)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Autre Distribution)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pioneering ambient country trio, Suss “perform with an effortless sense of synchronicity,” according to Stereogum. This quality is as vividly on display as ever throughout their latest full-length, Birds & Beasts. Suss’s recordings have garnered much praise for effecting a sense of long drives through desert landscapes, a context famously ripe for such synchronicities: slow motion pedal steel guitar, dobro and near-subconscious synthesizer rumbles and sweeps seem to operate via the same logic as that which dictates the interactions of a road-weary mind and a cloud of migrating birds. While Suss’s previous records have dealt in these kinds of scenes, Birds & Beasts –– though instrumentally more spare –– deepens the sense of meaning and meaning projected.

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Marion Rampal

Oizel

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Endless Happiness)

Gal Costa

Legal

22,99 €*

John Surman, Eddie Louiss, Daniel Humair

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pure class as always from Gal Costa! The record is her first after the immediate Tropicalia years, and it's a stunning blend of styles that seems to draw heavily from changes going on in the American rock scene at the time. The core of the music is still steeped in Brazilian elements – but there's a lot of influences coming into play on the album, like bluesy rock phrasing, showy nostalgia-heavy arrangements, psychedelic production elements, and some of the baroque orchestrations that would show up on Gal's later albums in the 70s.

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Our Kind Of Sabi

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Endless Happiness)

22,99 €*

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Edition Ltd.)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in Japan during a tour in 1970. Featuring famous French musicians Eddie Louiss on organ and Daniel Humair on drums. A classy trio album with Louiss’ superb Hammond organ play front and center and a glimmering of the Caribbean dancing in the shadows.

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Donny McCaslin

Kid

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Third Man)

Rich Ruth

Water Still Flows

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pathways To Paradise Yellow Vinyl Edition

Ixtahuele

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Subliminal Sounds)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | Reissue (20th Century Masterworks)

Bill Evans Trio

Explorations

Release: 1961 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (Outside Music)

Jill Barber

Encore!

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (New Soil)

Jake Long

City Swamp

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Whited Sepulchre)

Joy Guidry

Amen

LP | 2024 | Original (Just One Rec.)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Amen is the 3rd release by bassoonist / composer / producer Joy Guidry. Representing a major step up in her ability to fully realize and embody a sound and concept, Amen moves from rousing, rafter-splitting spiritual jazz and gospel compositions to ambient compositions that create a powerful statement of communal healing and peace. The album features contributions by Niecy Blues, Kalia Vandever, Tyrone Allen and Jessie Cox.

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Madeleine Peyroux

Let's Walk

New Masada Quartet Benefit

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Let us advance our mortal bodies up Where hearts and minds will go Let’s walk, let’s roll.” So sings Madeleine Peyroux on the upbeat title track of her captivating tenth album, Let’s Walk, the acclaimed singer-songwriter’s most assured, courageous work to date. Powered by the distinctive, honeyed croon that delivered her from the Paris streets to concert halls, these ten unabashedly personal songs, all co-written by the versatile Peyroux, deftly interweave jazz, folk, and chamber pop, with themes ranging from the confessional to the political, from whimsy to yearning. In every note, Peyroux digs deep, rendering this exquisite work with the disarming grace and gravitas of an artist in peak form. Let’s Walk was a long time coming, but well worth the wait. Following Peyroux’s 2018 album, Anthem, the enforced isolation of the global pandemic made any real-time community gathering impossible. From a creative standpoint, however, Covid offered Peyroux a silver lining: she seized the opportunity to hunker down with longtime collaborator, multi-instrumentalist Jon Herington (Steely Dan, Lucy Kaplansky). The pair reflected on the seismic era at hand and wrote and re-wrote in what Peyroux calls “a shadow of reckoning.” When multi-Emmy-and-Grammy-winning producer Elliott Scheiner (Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles) heard a sampling of the new material, including “Let’s Walk,” he mandated “no covers” for the album. The longtime studio veteran knew the time was ripe to highlight Peyroux’s incisive, often topical lyrics meshed with Herington’s ear for melody and arrangements.

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John Zorn

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Tzadik)

76,99 €*

Ben Webster Coleman Hawkins

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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New Masada Quartet is one of the best groups Zorn has ever had. Bristling hot guitar master Julian Lage, bass wizard Jorge Roeder and 30-year Zorn veteran Kenny Wollesen perform with a crackling live energy that brings the Masada music to life like never before! Led by Zorn’s versatile sax and stop-and-start conducting, the music is filled with burning solos, telepathic group interaction, heartfelt lyricism and hypnotic grooves. Please purchase this limited edition LP and help Tzadik continue its mission to support and document new music in the 21st century.

Special Thanks to Sarah Robertson, Marisa Rolish, Scott Hull, Heung-Heung Chin, Bruce Gallanter, Stephen Svacina, Glenn Dicker, and Redeye for donating their time and services to help Tzadik with this special benefit vinyl release.

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Blue Saxophones Cool Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

17,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Neil Ardley, Ian Carr, Don Rendell

Greek Variations

LP | 1970 | EU (Endless Happiness)

21,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Hipnotech)

Release: 1970 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in '69, Greek Variations & Other Aegean Exercises is irresistible on two counts. First, for its daringly conceived and brilliantly performed music, inspired by Greek folk songs and instrumental textures and deep enough to reveal all its treasures only after many repeated listenings. Second, for being recorded at the moment when the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet, a major force in British straight-ahead jazz since '62, had broken up and Carr's equally influential jazz-rock band Nucleus was rising from the ashes.

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Aisha Ellis

Luck Or Favor

I Haven t Got Anything Better To Do

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Discover 'Luck or Favor': Aisha Ellis's Debut Album Blending Hip Hop, Jazz, Soulful Rhythms Released: May 2023 About the Project: Aisha Ellis is a drummer/percussionist whose signature style revolves around playing in the pocket while capturing the essence of the moment. Aisha’s debut album embodies a blend of hip hop, jazz, and soulful grooves. Her style draws inspiration from the explosive energy of Art Blakey, technical prowess and innovative approach of Max Roach, complex rhythms of Tony Williams, and the soulfulness of Karriem Riggins. Her album, titled "Luck or Favor," captures the essence and timeless vibe reminiscent of Roy Ayers mixed with the impeccable groove of Questlove. On "Luck or Favor," Aisha Ellis's drumming doesn’t take up the space of center stage, but rather serves as the driving force behind the album's infectious rhythms and captivating feel that allows all of the instruments to be heard and felt with equal measure. Aisha's ability to play in the pocket is her signature, effortlessly locking in with the bass, providing a solid foundation, and creating an irresistible groove that moves the listener. Her flawless sense of timing and control allows each note and rhythm to breathe, ensuring a tight and cohesive musical experience. Incorporating elements from various genres, Aisha's drumming effortlessly transitions between hip hop-inspired beats, jazzy syncopations, and soulful accents. Her use of the hi-hat and ride cymbal creates a shimmering texture, while her snare drumming provides precise and powerful backbeats that make heads nod and feet tap. The bass drum adds depth and weight, punctuating the rhythm and driving the energy forward. "Luck or Favor" captures the spirit with its laid-back and infectious atmosphere. The album resonates with warm and inviting melodies, soulful grooves, and a sense of optimism that brings joy to the listener's ears. Aisha Ellis's drumming serves as the heartbeat of the album, infusing each track with a sense of rhythm, groove, and musicality that keeps the listener engaged from start to finish.

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Astrud Gilberto

LP | 1969 | EU (Endless Happiness)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Supper Club)

Release: 1969 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With her tenure on Verve drawing to a close, Astrud Gilberto steps further away from her bossa nova roots with I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do, an intimate, nocturnal set closer in scope and spirit to the Baroque pop of Burt Bacharach, whose "Trains and Boats and Planes" is beautifully rendered here. In the liner notes Gilberto dubs it "my fireplace album," and indeed the record is immediately warm and comforting, despite the melancholy that colors all of the selections. Albert Gorgoni's arrangements are sumptuously romantic, perfectly complementing the simple, poignant vocals. Mistakenly considered a minor entry in the Gilberto canon, I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do is instead a minor masterpiece.

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Lurlean Hunter

Night Life

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Jazz Wax)

John Coltrane

Plays The Blues

16,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Together To The Tune Of Coltrane's "Equinox"

Sarah Webster Fabio

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Smithsonian Folkways)

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jujus/Alchemy Of The Blues: Poems By Sarah Webster Fabio

Sarah Webster Fabio

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Smithsonian Folkways)

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Desert Wind Red Vinyl Edtion

Yasar Akpençe

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Hot Casa)

16,99 €*

LP | 1963 | Reissue (Jazz Samba)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Yaşar Akpençe was born in 1966 in Istanbul (Türquiye) and can be consider as one of the best world darbouka player. He began his career in music at the age of 9 by playing Congo and carried on with the darbuka at 13 and made his musical dream come true by working with famous musicians. Akpençe has performed as a guest musician on numerous albums as well as being the founder of the percussion collective known as « Harem Group ». Yasar has performed with almost every major artist in Turkey, spanning many genres including pop, traditional. gypsy, jazz, arabesque and contemporary. The track « Desert Wind » was released in 2004 on his cd album « Passion Percussion » and we ‘re very proud to reissue it for the first time on vinyl. This track is a dance floor classic ! A perfect tool for DJ’s all over the world.

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Jorge Ben

Samba Esquema Novo

Release: 1963 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Endless Happiness)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the rarest recordings in Sun Ra's enormous catalog. Recorded in 1982, featuring the groove-infested x-rated warning hit "Nuclear War". The remaining tracks include four originals and three standards, Ellington's "Drop Me Off in Harlem," "Sometimes I'm Happy," and "Smile." A cult album finally repressed on virgin audiophile vinyl. XYZ Records. Made in USA.

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Ornette Coleman

Crisis

Plays And Sings The Blues

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A superb and under-recognized recording, Crisis is one-third of a trilogy of extraordinary albums -- the others being Broken Shadows and Science Fiction -- by Coleman's small groups of the late '60s and early '70s. A rendition of the piece "Broken Shadows" itself, a dirge of astonishing beauty second only to his "Lonely Woman," opens the live performance and offers solos of deep and poignant probity from Coleman and tenorist Dewey Redman, whose earthy growled tones counterbalanced the leader's so well for so long. Crisis somehow lacks the reputation of the revolutionary Coleman albums from early in his career, but on purely musical grounds it ranks among his most satisfying works.

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John Lee Hooker

LP (Waxtime)

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Candid)

Toshiko Mariano

Toshiko Mariano Quartet

30,99 €*

Moon Child Orange & Gold Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Toshiko Mariano Quartet is the 1961 album from fourteen time Grammy Nominated pianist and composer Toshiko Akiyoshi - then known as Toshiko Mariano. Women have long been denied the credit they deserve in jazz. It must be noted that as a Japanese women in jazz, Akiyoshi had to battle for acceptance on many fronts. Jazz has been a patriarchy community from the beginning, and even critical praise of her playing could not help but take note of her gender. Leonard Feather, for example, writing at the time in the Encyclopedia of Jazz called out Akiyoshi’s playing as “fiery, powerfully articulated and exceptionally fluent,” but added that there was “nothing delicately feminine.” Even today it is still hard for people to see Jazz in any other way. We are pleased to be a part of shifting the narrative and shine a spotlight on this talented artist and this wonderful album. While she was later to compose using themes, harmonies, and instruments connected to her Japanese heritage, this album captures the pianist early in her career playing a straight ahead, harp bop style. This was already her 7th album as a band leader, and it is a shining example of her confidence and mastery of her instrument and as a band leader. Recorded at the Nola Penthouse Studios in New Your City in December of 1960, the LP includes extraordinary liner notes by Candid A&R man and producer Nat Hentoff giving a context and insight that adds to the experience of hearing these extraordinary performances.

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Pharoah Sanders

LP | 1990 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Christer Bothén Feat. Bolon Bata

Release: 1990 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 gram audiophile vinyl
Sleeve printed on heavy cardboard with linen laminate finish
Classic jazz album featuring William Henderson, Stafford James, Eddie Moore, and Cheikh Tidiane Fall
Limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on gold & orange marbled vinyl

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of iconic Dutch jazz label Timeless Records, Music On Vinyl is releasing a series that features albums that are part of the Timeless Records legacy and will be released mainly throughout 2022.

Part of this series is Pharoah Sanders' Moon Child from 1990, which bookended a decade of musical soul searching for Sanders. The acclaimed free jazz player is known to have a raw and abrasive sound, but reinvented himself on this album as a more traditional improviser capable of thoughtful deliberations. Moon Child is a grand old time throughout, and Sanders has never been more eminently sing-along-able as he is on its title track. The record was co-written with Horace Silver, George Gershwin and Abdullah Ibrahim and recorded with William Henderson, Stafford James, Eddie Moore and Cheikh Tidiane Fall.

Moon Child by Pharoah Sanders is available as a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on gold & orange marbled vinyl and is printed on heavy cardboard with linen laminate finish.

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Trancedance (40th anniversary edition)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Wicked Wax)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Black Truffle is pleased to announce the first vinyl reissue of Trancedance, a wild slice of Swedish Afro-fusion from Christer Bothén, originally released in 1984. A major figure in Swedish jazz and improvised music since the 1970s, often heard on bass clarinet and tenor sax, Bothen studied doso n’koni (the large six-stringed ‘hunter’s harp’ of the Wasulu) in Mali in 1971-2 before turning to the guinbri (the three-stringed lute of the Gnawa/Gnauoua) in Marakesh later in the decade. In between, he performed extensively with Don Cherry during his Organic Music Society period and taught Cherry the doso n’koni. In the later 70s and 80s he worked with the most important figures in the distinctive Swedish jazz-rock-world fusion scene, joining Archimedes Badkar for their African-influenced Tre and participating in Bengt Berger’s legendary Bitter Funeral Beer Band. Many of the musicians who played on the Bitter Funeral Beer Band’s ECM LP (including Berger on drums, Anita Livstrand on voice and percussion and Tord Bengstsson on piano, violin and guitar) joined Bothén for one of the sessions that produced Trancedance, the first release under his own name, dedicated to his compositions. The other session introduced his seven-piece group Bolon Bata, heard on the second track of each side. The title track opens the album with the rubbery buzzing strings of the doso n’goni playing a hypnotic ten beat pattern, soon joined by bass and piano before the entire nine-piece group kicks in with a rollicking Afro-jazz workout, Berger’s drums driving an intricate, winding melodic line played by the horns with Mattias Helden’s cello throwing in pizzicato slides and smears. Bothén then takes centre stage on tenor sax, soloing with a wide, vibrating tone and moving seamlessly from soaring melodies to guttural stutters. After a return to the composed horn lines and a solo from Elsie Petrén on alto sax, the piece builds to an ecstatic conclusion of yelping voices and handclaps, gradually simmering down to return to the solo doso n’koni where it began.

The hypnotic sounds of the hunter’s harp carries over to ‘Mimouna’, where it is joined by Bothen’s overdubbed guinbri. The piece develops into a haunting whispered and sung invocation, gradually building momentum until the organic textures of strings, voices, and hand percussion are ruptured by Lennart Söderlund’s distorted guitar, which brings an unmistakable touch of 1984 to the otherwise timeless sound. Joined by chicken scratch guitar and increasingly dominated by the insistent clang of three of Bolon Bata’s members on karqab (a kind of cast-iron castanet), the grove develops frenetically.

The B side opens with the multi-part epic ‘9+10 Moving Pictures for the Ear’, at over 16 minutes the record’s longest piece. Though Bothen is heard only on horns on this piece, the hypnotic repeating bass line carries on the first side’s link to African musical traditions. Using an expanded 16-piece ensemble, the music balances untethered improvisation with carefully arranged passages of knotty ensemble playing that at points suggest Mingus, Moacir Santos or some of the ambitious post-free work being done in the same years by figures like David Murray or Henry Threadgill. The piece ends with a triumphant passage of looping unison melody reminiscent of the Scandinavian folk explorations of Arbete och Fritid (whose Kjell Westling is heard on bass clarinet and soprano sax here). The sound of Bjorn Lundqvist’s fretless bass introduces the odd left turn made by the record’s final track, a spaced-out expedition into bluesy horn lines and distant guitar atmospherics set to a semi-reggae beat, perfumed by the core Bolon Bata group and bearing the appropriate title of ‘The Horizon Stroller’. A must for fans of the Swedish scene around groups like Arbete och Fritid and Archimedes Badkar, as well as any listener who has been seduced by Louis Moholo’s Spirits Rejoice!, The Brotherhood of Breath, or, more recently, the guinbri grooves of Natural Information Society, Trancedance is a lost classic ripe for rediscovery.

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Kotokid

Fridge

21,99 €*

Kenny Dorham & Jackie Mclean

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On his debut album kotokid walks you through meandering scenes of jazz fusion and hip-hop infused sonic cinema. While bass guitar is his bread and butter, the Amsterdam-based musician is a multi-instrumentalist in the truest sense of the word. Throughout this album he effortlessly blends together enchanting harmonies, expansive synth-scapes, intimate piano melodies, stanky bass grooves. With ‘ignite’ and ‘early spring’ he captures the emotions of rebirth, renewal, and hope. Energizing the spirit with ‘Fl00t’, ‘floating’ and ‘Titan’ he invites a sense of action, urgency and eventual triumph. Victory’s abound. Sonic meditations in their own right, ‘soil’ and ‘kotokin’ blend cinematic stylized melodies together eliciting introspection and clarity. And whether it's joy, nostalgia, discomfort, pain, grief, longing or happy remembrance - ‘family & death’ - conjures the plethora of these experiences in a life giving dance between piano and cello.

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Inta Somethin' Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

Watkins At Large Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This spirited 1961 live date for Pacific Jazz captured Kenny Dorham leading a quintet with Jackie McLean, Walter Bishop Jr., Leroy Vinnegar, and Art Taylor at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco. The band is firing on all cylinders throughout this set featuring four standards bookended by two Dorham originals. This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe tip-on jacket.

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Doug Watkins

LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

Francisco Mela, Cooper-Moore And William Parker

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in 1956 for Tom Wilson’s Transition label, Watkins At Large was the first of two albums bassist Doug Watkins made as a leader. With a first-rate band featuring Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Kenny Burrell, Duke Jordan, and Art Taylor, Watkins swings through a stellar set of blues, ballads and more. This mono Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe tip-on jacket with an 8.5” x 5.5” booklet.

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Music Frees Our Souls Volume 3

LP | 2024 | US | Original (577)

31,99 €*

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cuban-Born, Drum Genius Francisco Mela Is Releasing the Third Chapter of the Iconic Tribute to His Legendary Mentor and Bandleader McCoy Tyner. Featuring William Parker on Bass and Leo Genovese on Piano with Music That Continues to Surprise and Delight Lovers of the Avant-Garde. Limited edition of 200 copies.

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Hampton Hawes

For Real

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Johnny Hammond

Gears

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kenny Wheeler / Lee Konitz / Dave Holland / Bill Frisell

Angel Song Luminessence Series

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (ECM)

49,99 €*

Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Dafür bestimmt, als Jazz-Klassiker in die Geschichte einzugehen" – so das Urteil des Guardian bei der Veröffentlichung des Albums im Jahr 1997. Weiter meinte die Zeitung: "Wheelers Kompositionen und vier der weltbesten Improvisatoren schaffen ein nachdenkliches Set, das es sich lohnt wieder und wieder zu hören. Dies ist wunderschöne, leuchtende Musik." Angel Song gehört zu den Höhepunkten im Katalog des Labels und vereint vier Improvisationsgrößen – jeder mit einer einzigartigen künstlerischen Identität – in einer intimen, Schlagzeug-losen Quartett-Session. Kenny Wheeler ist der Komponist der neun eindringlich lyrischen Kammer-Jazzstücke und verleiht ihnen an Flügelhorn und Trompete im expressiv-melodischen Austausch mit Altsaxophonist Lee Konitz eine besonders eindringliche Atmosphäre. Das Bassfundament von Dave Holland ist so überzeugend wie eh und je und lässt Bill Frisell alle Freiheiten für harmonieumfassende Improvisation. Wie der Guardian jubelte 1997 auch die Times und sprach von einem: "rührend schöne[n] Album: Hollands wendige Zuverlässigkeit ist der Anker für die elegante Klangfülle von Konitz, die flimmernde Raffinesse von Frisell und die klangliche Zärtlichkeit von Wheeler selbst."
Das Album erscheint zum allerersten Mal auf Vinyl als Teil der Luminessence-Reihe und wird in einem Tip-on-Gatefold mit Session-Fotos präsentiert.

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Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (Original Jazz Classics Series)

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Craft)

59,99 €*

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Tokuma/Lawson (Japan))

Akio Niitsu

I/O(I･O)

36,99 €*

Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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(Japanese pressing, Official reissue) Brilliant synth prog weirdness from the late 1970s Tokyo. Recorded by the guitarist Akio Niitsu who was compared, not without reason, to Manuel Göttsching. Niitsu has a fairly small discography of only three full-length albums, but his second one - “Pet Step” - was on Tomita’s label and supposedly with the involvement of Haruomi Hosono (this is according to Chee Shimizu who lists it in his “Obscure Music”).

Akio Niitsu's first album, "i/o(i･o)" released in 1978, was produced in a homemade studio that had been converted from a storeroom in his home, and he spent three years doing everything from composition to engineering by himself, using overdubbed guitar recordings. 's first analog re-release has been decided.As a guitar multi-recording album, the idea was realized six years earlier than the album "e2-e4" released in 1984 by Manuel Göttsching, the central figure of "Ash La Tempel", but it was too early. A hidden experimental/ambient gem!The paradoxical sound that makes you feel as if you are lost deep in a labyrinthine forest, combined with Tadanori Yokoo's artwork, is a piece that allows you to enjoy Akio Niitsu's worldview with your ears and eyes.

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Elastic Wave

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2024 | EU | Original (We Release Jazz)

Mo Kolours

Original Flow

Francisco Mela & Zoh Amba

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We Release JAZZ is very happy to announce an exciting new body of work by Joseph Deenmamode aka Mo Kolours. The singular musical spirit’s new 21-track album Original Flow is available as a double LP housed in a heavy 350gsm sleeve with original artwork by Mo Kolours himself and the classic WRJ obi strip, as well as in digipack CD and digital formats.

A catalog of critically acclaimed records, including his self-titled debut (2014), ‘Texture Like Like Sun’ (2015), 2018 album ‘Inner Symbols’ and three companion EPs, established Deenmamode as a prodigious musician and vocalist. Pitchfork extolled his “hypnotic, tribal-infused dance grooves”, DJ Mag appreciated the “colourful celebration of soundsystem culture”, and Resident Advisor advocated that “no one sounds quite like Mo Kolours”. Musical analogies were drawn by The Guardian as “The best album Curtis Mayfield never made with A Tribe Called Quest and Lee Perry” and Mojo as “like Marvin Gaye produced by J Dilla”.

Five years ago, Deenmamode moved to the Japanese countryside. Far away from familiarity, he contemplated his place and further questioned his identity. “I had none of my ‘own’ people around. I had time to really find what makes me tick musically. Japan has helped me go back to those subconscious leanings, really go deep, and reflect the aspects that make up my story”.

The tracks on ‘Original Flow’ have been constructed from sessions, improvisations and soundbites captured around the world during this time; collecting contributions from musicians including Deenamode’s brothers Reginald Omas Mamode and Jeen Bassa plus Andrew Ashong, Charles Bullen, Dwaye Kilvington, Eddie Hick, Stefan Asanovic, Myele Manzanza, Ross Hughes, and Tom Dreissler. Deenamode says “I’m proud of this album’s creative process. Coming from a tradition of scouring through hours of records, I wanted to create my own samples, to find that perfect loop that no other producer could put their hands on. I decided to invite a group of friends and acquaintances, who also happen to be incredible musicians, to a studio in Crystal Palace to improvise based on some loose ideas I had. We spent all day, and recorded everything”.

‘Original Flow’ is an album of UK street-soul nouveau, future indigenous jazz fusion, Rasta Segga, Nyahbinghi jazz, Malagasy Hebrew hip hop. While retaining a spirit of exploration and improvisation, it sees Deenmamode grow and flex beyond beat tape brevity, expanding composition and stretching his musical muscle to play live with other musicians. Themes of empowerment, overcoming adversity, and mental liberation coexist with notes from ancient history, futurism, and science, as well as musings on family and togetherness.

‘Magik Momentum’ springs from a discussion that features at the start of the song, an inspiring mentor answering a question from Deenmamode about improvisation and what role it plays in life when planning and manifesting the future. ‘Rockets to Mars’ questions the lack of care for the billions of people with nothing, while governments plan to explore space. “This sparked a comparison in my mind to a Sonny Okuson song that I would reference when performing. Okuson’s song talked of the lack of resources in many communities in the world, while governments go to the moon”.

He says the music behind ‘The News These Days’ is “possibly my favourite on the album”. Looped like he would a late sixty jazz-fusion sample, there was nothing added and the track was complete within a matter of minutes. “It was the first and best moment from the entire Crystal Palace session”, he adds. The album’s contrasting title track with minimal instrumentation played solo by Deenamode. While frustratingly searching for gems in past recordings, he thought in a burst of ego, “I don’t need no-one else to make a dope beat!” picked up his ravanne, (the traditional frame drum of his fathers home-land of Mauritius), pressed record, and started to play. He says, “In my thoughts were the rhythms of the Nubians in Upper-Egypt and Sudan, the swing of the huge drums played by Mauritanian women, of-course the Sega beat of Mauritius, and the ever inspiring beat of James Yancey”.

Driven by UK broken beat, Cuban congas, Nigerian and Mauritian inflections, ‘Love Vibration’ follows the concept that all emotions carry a vibratory frequency and pays homage to the frequency of creation and the power of love. The two part ‘Tatamaka’ tells of the history of Deenmamode’s ancestors, the maroons of Mauritius. “We are people who managed to run from our oppressors and find refuge in a corner of the island called ‘Le Morne’ where they could not reach us. One bloody day they came in numbers to re-capture, to revenge. Many of us chose to jump to our deaths, rather than be taken back into subjugation. The poem by Creole Richard Sedley Assonne says; “there were hundreds of them, but my people, the maroons chose the kiss of death over the chains of slavery”. Tatamaka was the name of a famed maroon leader who was murdered for claiming his, and our people’s freedom. The song is the imagined journey of escape and freedom by an ancestor of the maroons of Le Morne”.

Born in the west midlands and raised on the traditional sega music of his father’s Indian Ocean homeland of Mauritius alongside records by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Santana and Michael Jackson; his influences expanded with late 90s jungle and drum and bass nights in Bristol, experiments at art college in Camberwell, and the rich culture of Peckham, “at the time we called it the Afro Quarters of London” says Deenmamode, adding hip hop, dub, soul and soundsystem styles to his individual sound.

He explains, “I love drum music, from hand-drums to 808s. I love music from the ancient past, heritage music, indigenous music, traditional music passed down from the beginning of time. Music from the body, hand claps, grunts and foot stomps. Music with audible depth, busy, bustling, highly charged. Music from the soul, the music from beyond. I love music from the islands and the mountains. The music of the streets, hustle music, alleyway beats. Club music”.

He describes the creative process as thinking in images. “The visual world and the world of sound seem to intermingle in my thought process. When I play the drum with my eyes closed, a world of imagery dances and moves with beat. Improvised drumming feels like I am listening to what I want to hear, rather than trying to play what I want to hear. Following the rhythm and finding new pathways to walk within the patterns is what I experience. In this way I often feel I am just a listener, instead of the player”.
Original Flow is pressed on biovinyl, a sustainable alternative to traditional vinyl. Biovinyl replaces petroleum in S-PVC by recycling used cooking oil or industrial waste gases, resulting in 100% CO2 savings in bio-based S-PVC production. Furthermore, it is 100% recyclable and reusable, embracing the circular economy ideology.

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Causa Y Effecto Voluem 2

LP | 2024 | US | Original (577)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Herb Geller And His Sextet

Fire In The West

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Jazz Workshop)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded IN LOS Angeles, ON March 14, 1957

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Azmari

Maelstroem

Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die ((World War)) Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Emerging from the heart of Brussels, the captivating five-piece Azmari is set to release ""Maëlström"" on October 20. For Maelström, the follow up to their acclaimed debut album Sam?'? (with raving reviews in Uncut, Songlines, Uk Vibe and Electronic Sound), the group has delved into uncharted musical territories creating a mesmerizing ""azmarian"" identity and melding intricate jazz textures with intoxicating oriental influences, otherworldly ethio grooves, enigmatic dark funk, and the pulsating beats of dub music,

For the creation of ""Maëlström,"" Azmari embarked on an intensive one-week recording journey. During this time, they meticulously honed the sound of their instruments, blending the nostalgic notes of old-school clavinet keyboards with cutting-edge synth sounds, resulting in a distinct and alluring atmosphere. Enriching their traditional instruments with balanced pedal effects and special amplification, the band added new flavours to their sound.

Founded in the vibrant musical haven of Brussels in 2015, Azmari have been crafting a truly unique tapestry of musical exploration. Azmari defies conventional labels to weave a narrative of sonic innovation and artistic liberation. Influences range from an eclectic array of artists, including Okay Temiz, Heliocentrics, Whitefield Brothers, Surprise Chef, Antibalas and Sons of Kemet.

From the band: ""For the third part of our musical journey, we dug into a deeper creative process. We literally immersed ourselves in deep waters during a unique two-week aquatic residency. The tracks on this album are thus directly imbued with distinctive underwater frequencies, the sounds of abyssal creatures, and the beauty of the seabed. Convinced by this creative experience, and guided by captain (and producer) Frederik Segers, we brought this album back to the surface and reveal a resolutely scaly, sandy, and deep soundscape."""

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Jaimie Branch

LP | 2023 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Black Unity Verve By Request Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In July of 2022, just one month before jaimie branch"s death sent shockwaves around the world, the trumpet player and composer was in Chicago at International Anthem (iarc) studios putting finishing touches on an album. It was a suite of music she had composed and then recorded with her flagship ensemble, Fly or Die, over the course of a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. In her wake, the album was near complete, with only mixing tweaks, final titles, and artwork to be fully realized. In the months following, her family (led by sister Kate Branch), her band (Jason Ajemian, Lester St. Louis, and Chad Taylor), and her collaborators at Iarc (engineers Dave Vettraino and David Allen, comrades Alejandro Ayala and Scott McNiece) banded together to gather memories, texts, emails, photographs, artwork and fragments belonging to jaimie to light the path forward. The goal was always to do what jaimie would have done. Packaged in stunning artwork by John Herndon, Damon Locks, and branch herself, Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) is jaimie"s final album with the quartet.

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Pharoah Sanders

LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

35,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pietropaoli / Lena / Sigurta'

La Notte

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Fone')

46,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | WW | Original (Yoruba)

Centaur Jackson

New World Order

33,99 €*

Body And Soul Acoustic Sounds

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A deeper dive into the mind of the mysterious man who gave us Niggajazz at the top of the pandemic. Although only a six song ep, the title song gained traction for its jazz bop, house appeal. The follow up, New World Order is the first full length from the artist and displays a wider scope of that exact sound. Written and produced in 2021 NWO comprises tunes for the floor as well as the ride. With lush ballad Black Apple, The Common Suicides latin flare, The Torus’ obscurity and Ota Benga with its tribute to the worlds most renown human zoo attraction, this release is complete and advanced from the introduction received prior. We are pleased to present New World Order in a time when most needed to reflect and absorb carefully. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

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Billie Holiday

LP | 1957 | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1957 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Star Splitter Gabriele Mitelli Rob Mazurek

Medea

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (We Insist!)

7" | 2024 | US | Original (Dynamite Cuts)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Duo in the mirror that, in a continuous game of doubling and multiplication, ventures into another world, dense with unexpectedness and vital thrills. Sun Ra and post-rock, as well as Chicago experimentation and echoes of the world of Suzanne Ciani and minimal music, are the hints one can sense while listening to Medea, a journey to the edge and beyond. Star Splitter's new album comes five years after the debut album, a period in which the two artists experimented with the infinite possibilities of this lineup, the length and breadth of Europe, at some of the most important festivals. In complete freedom, a three-day session in the recording studio in Reggio Calabria gave birth to Medea, a dedication, in retrospect, to the film work of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Peter Herbolzheimer

The Catfish

16,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Ponderosa)

Supermarket

Italo Barockq

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mystical Funk / Spaced Out

Gerardo Frisina

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Schema)

10,99 €*

3LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Tuk Music)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Currently at work on new compositions that will give shape to a new album scheduled for the fall of 2024, Gerardo Frisina delights our ears with a 45rpm containing two unreleased tracks representing a brief funk digression within his musical journey without, of course, affecting his unmistakable style. “Mystical Funk” and “Spaced Out” skilfully mix “modern funk” elements with electronic influences, creating a unique sonic experience. In both cases, one of the surprising features is the hypnotic, incessant groove, capable of drawing the listener into a sound universe full of cosmic percussion and atmospheres, enhanced by Dennis Coffey-style guitars and by a Deodato-like Fender piano. Once again Gerardo hits the mark: the production is masterful, with a clear attention to details and those typical arrangements that reflect the overall quality of the sound with delicate power.

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Paolo Fresu

Next Legacy Box

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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4LP | 2024 | US | Original (Cuneiform)

Soft Machine

Hovikodden 1971

141,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mellow Dream Blue Vinyl Edition

Ryo Fukui

LP | 1977 | JP | Reissue (Slow Boat / Lawson Entertainment, Inc.)

39,99 €*