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LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Far Out)

Release: 1982 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing without obi. close to NM

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Antonio Adolfo

Viralata

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Jan Garbarek

Places

LP | 1982 | JP | Original (Warner Bros.)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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Michael Franks

Objects Of Desire

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

Release: 1982 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing without OBI.

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Nucleus

Elastic Rock

30,99 €*

LP | 1982 | JP | Reissue (Invitation)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nucleus's Elastic Rock is undisputedly a milestone in Jazz-Rock. A beautiful and vital debut album, it was first released on Vertigo in 1970. Original copies are now very tricky to score and, like all the Nucleus records, it’s aged ridiculously well. This Be With re-issue, re-mastered from the original analogue tapes, shows off just why this deserves to be back in press.

Genius trumpeter and visionary composer Ian Carr was one of the most respected British musicians of his era. He was a true pioneer and saw the potential in fusing the worlds of jazz with rock, just as Miles Davis and The Tony Williams Lifetime did in the US. In late 1969, following the demise of the Rendell-Carr quintet, and tiring of British jazz, Carr assembled the legendary Nucleus. Regarding music as a continuous process, Nucleus refused to “recognise rigid boundaries” and worked on delivering what they saw as a “total musical experience”. We can get behind that.

Under bandleader Carr, Nucleus existed as a fluid line-up of inventive, skilled musicians. This constant evolution and revolution was all part of the continuous musical exploration and discovery that took jazz to new levels. And the music has kept relevant. To steal a line from a review of our re-issue of Roots, when it comes to anything Nucleus “it’s basically already hip-hop”.

The very title Elastic Rock could be regarded as the group's MO, describing a melting point between their rock and jazz impulses. Indeed, housed in a memorable gatefold jacket designed by Roger Dean, the die cut molten teardrop shape on the front sleeve opens to reveal a fiery volcanic crater. On the back, Dean's drawing has Carr with saxophonist Brian Smith, guitarist Chris Spedding, drummer John Marshall, bassist Jeff Clyne and sax, oboe and pianist Karl Jenkins in a circle, the central core of a movement and the basis for its activity.

Recorded over four days in January 1970, Elastic Rock didn't sound like any other British jazz album. Exploding out the gate, "1916" opens with Marshall's frantic pounding before melancholic horns enter. The smooth title track, "Elastic Rock" is just a gorgeous electric blues track. Light drums, gentle melodic horns, piano and a solid bassline serve as the perfect bed for Spedding's graceful bluesy guitar melodies. The serene "Striation", a Clyne and Spedding collaboration, is led by bowed bass and is the epitome of calm before the late night laid back vibe of "Taranaki" breezes along sweetly and smoothly with great trumpet and tenor.

The truly emotional "Twisted Track" is elegant with horns, while guitar is gently played with drums and bass. Initially deeply soothing, it gradually builds with various solos and duets. "Crude Blues (Part 1)" features an excellent oboe part by Jenkins with laconic guitar helping out. "Part 2" is livelier, with a heavy backbeat and great wind parts. "1916 (Battle Of Boogaloo)" features a steady bassline and great call and response parts from the horn section.

The highly-charged centrepiece of the record, the mesmeric epic "Torrid Zone" features an hypnotic bassline and hi-hat with some of the ensemble's best soloing. Brilliantly encapsulating the jazz fusion aesthetic so desired by the group, the rhythm section is rock-influenced but magically retains a laid-back jazz vibe. Just perfection. Spacey jazz in the style of In a Silent Way, the semi-ambient "Stonescape" features smooth, muted brass, warm, smokey keys and a barely-there rhythm section. Heavenly.

The bubbling, fragile restraint of "Earth Mother" partially utilises the "Torrid Zone" bassline but takes the energy in a different direction with Marshall's frenetic drumming and Spedding's unpredictable riffing. Next comes the very idiosyncratic drum solo track by Marshall in the appropriately-titled "Speaking for Myself, Personally, in My Own Opinion, I Think." The album closes with the raucous "Persephones Jive", a track that ends the album frantically, riotously, just as it began.

This Be With edition of Elastic Rock has been re-mastered from the original Vertigo master tapes, Simon Francis’ mastering working together with Cicely Balston's cut at AIR Studios to weave their usual magic with these wonderful recordings. The stunning die-cut gatefold sleeve has been restored in all its molten glory.

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Kei Ishiguro

Yokohama Ragtime

39,99 €*

Release: 1982 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pungent Effulgent 2020 Ed Wynne Remaster Black Vinyl Edition

Ozric Tentacles

LP | 1989 | EU | Reissue (Kscope)

Release: 1989 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1989 | EU | Reissue (Mono Jazz)

Chet Baker

Chet On Poetry

27,99 €*

It's Nice To Be With You: Jim Hall In Berlin

Release: 1989 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Long time hard to find and long awaited reissue of Chet Baker’s last studio album. Lyrical, poignant, it shows Chet Baker at his best. Included the original version of Elvis Costello’s “Almost Blue”. Which has become an all-time classic masterpiece in Chet’s repertoire, also heard on the “Let’s Get lost” soundtrack. HQ re-matsering

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Jim Hall

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Haki R. Madhubuti And Nation: Afrikan Liberation Arts Ensemble

Rise Vision Comin

LP | 1976 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

31,99 €*

Archie Shepp/Lars Gullin Quintet

Release: 1976 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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If being the founder and chairman of Third World Press Organisation - the largest independent black-owned publishers - wasn’t enough for activist and poet Haki R Madhubuti, he is also credited with a lesser-known yet remarkable music career. As the bandleader of Haki R. Madhubuti and Nation: Afrikan Liberation Arts Ensemble, Madhubuti combined his razor-sharp spoken-word poetry with a band of incredible musicians to create an unforgettable experience of avant-garde and spiritual jazz.

The first album by the group Rise Vision Comin was released in 1976, and features among others Wallace Roney on trumpet, Clarence Seay on bass and Agyei Akoto on saxophone who also served as creative director. It features 9 tracks with the title track, “Rise, Vision, Comin” a great example of the adhesive comradery between instrumentation and Madhubuti’s spoken-word. On the track, they match each other pace for pace and build into frenzy where they finally reach Madhubuti's prophetic words, “We are what we are, We are what we are not, we are what we are going to be”.

A prominent name in the Black Arts Movement, Haki R Madhubuti to date has published over 20 books with his direct and illuminating form of poetry having shared the same halls as other vital voices in the movement like Audre Lorde and Maya Angelou. P-vine is thrilled to reissue Rise Vision Comin on limited-edition vinyl with a unique Japanese obi strip, and celebrate the music of Madhubuti’s extraordinary career.

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The House I Live In

LP | 1980 | WW | Reissue (SteepleChase)

43,99 €*

Release: 1980 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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South Side Soul (Original Jazz Classics Series)

John Wright Trio

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Craft)

44,99 €*

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cults Percussion Ensemble

The Cults Percussion Ensemble

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Trunk)

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited Repress With NEW (original) Artwork. Legendary privately pressed 1979 LP from Scotland. This illusive, super rare and sublimely wonderful percussion album is like no other. Hypnotic, celestial, even cosmic and ambient in parts and totally unique in all ways, it was played by a group of 11 girls with an average age of 14. The group included Evelyn Glennie, who was destined to become one of the world’s greatest percussionists. This is her first ever record. The Cults Percussion Ensemble was a group formed by percussion teaching legend Ron Forbes in the mid 1970s. The ensemble must have one of the best group names of all time. To many it will immediately come across as something sinister, a touch spooky and possibly a bit dramatic too. They are certainly two of those but the use of the word “Cults” here is easily misinterpreted. Cults, in this case, is the suburb of Aberdeen. The average age of the students was just 14. They came from a few of the schools in the area, including the Cults Academy, Ellon Academy, Aboyne Academy, Inverurie Academy and Powis. My original copy of the album came from Spitalfields market in London. I loved the music the second it started, because it reminded me of Carl Orff and peculiar library. So I started to investigate it further, and eventually, thanks to the highly tuned world of percussion, was given the address of Ron Forbes. I got in touch with him and now we have this, a formal release of something quite lovely that was only previously available very briefly in 1979 at concerts when the young girls performed. The music here is really quite unique, with a celestial swirling hypnotic quality. The blend of glockenspiels, xylophones, vibraphones, marimba and timpani drums is quite intoxicating and can recall the shimmering warmth of the desert sun one minute (“Baia”) or freezing glacial ice caps the next (“Circles”). The Ensemble perform with an effortless tightness and deftness of touch, building textured layers with recurring percussive motives which appear simultaneously dense and yet sparse, almost sounding like modern sampling. In fact, while struggling to find a musical comparison, during the pulsating introduction to "Percussion Suite" I found myself recalling "Gamma Player", a piece of soulful Detroit techno minimalism from Jeff Mills (Millsart - “Humana” EP 1995) with its rhythmic percussion layered with complex emotion. Weirdly enough, other tracks on that EP also prominently feature xylophone and tuned percussion, although obviously synthesised and programmed, a good 20 years after the CPE first recorded. Sleevenotes also include a letter from Ron Forbes: “I decided to form a percussion group to provide an outlet for my percussion pupils to play music specially written for them. The group soon became well known in the region and as a result of winning the outstanding award at the National Festival of Music for youth on three occasions, they were invited to play at other festivals within Europe, one being in Erlangen in Germany - hence the Erlangen Polka - and Autun in France - hence the Autun Carillon. During these visits we were often asked if we had any recordings and so it was decided to make an LP”. Thanks to Ron Forbes and Trunk Records, more people can now enjoy the simple hypnotic musical charms of the Cults Percussion Ensemble

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Charlie Mingus

Oh Yeah

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Commenting on this album in 1962, Billboard magazine wrote: »He seems to be everywhere, everywhere that is but on his usual instrument«. Charles Mingus, one of the most impressive musicians in the history of jazz, doesn’t play a single note on the bass for a change, but leads the band from his (blues-)piano – the instrument that he always used for composing. He hits the keys, he sings the blues, he shouts and he encourages – apparently Mingus really found the need to express himself loudly in this album. (Doug Watkins stood in for him on the contrabass.) "Oh Yeah" is definitely Mingus’s most powerful and passionate album. He calls on two hot, intensive saxophonists – Roland Kirk and Booker Ervin – as well as Jimmy Knepper on the trombone. Kirk is the main soloist, but all three wind-players deliver expressive improvisations, carrying out a non-stop dialogue with one another, and pushing one other to achieve maximum energy. The music is wild and ecstatic, but it’s not free jazz, remaining – as it does – grounded in blues and gospel. "Hog Callin’ Blues" is an enthralling shuffle with a wealth of riffs, "Devil Woman" a clever slow blues with inventive wind figures. "Ecclusiastics", with its constant change of rhythm and expression alternating between gospel and blues has the most complex form. Blues has always been a part of a black church service, said Mingus. "Eat That Chicken" (a homage to Fats Waller and his favourite food) even plays around with an old-time, Dixie feeling. Humour is never far away. Even in the atomic bomb song (this too, a sort of churchy blues) one hears the words: »Don’t let ’em drop it! Stop it! Be-bop it!«

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

Recording: November 1961 at Atlantic Studios, New York City, by Tom Dowd and Phil Iehle Production: Nesuhi Ertegun

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Billy Cobham

Total Eclipse

Charles Tolliver / Music Inc & Orchestra

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ever since his time with John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra (1971–1973), the drummer Billy Cobham is one of electric fusion jazz’s greatest heroes. "Total Eclipse" was the third album he made as a leader within just a few months, and here again he composed all the numbers himself. In the opening 'suite' entitled "Solarization" (eleven minutes long) he already shows his broad and certainly refined stylistic spectrum. Cobham’s music leaps from high-energy jazz-rock with wild guitar and thundering volleys on the drums to highly original improvisations on the piano and winds. Smooth electric Latin grooves and gripping funky numbers are not missing either. Cobham’s handpicked band is bursting with virtuosos. A look at the names of the three-man wind section proves the point: Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Glenn Ferris are highlights in themselves. And the then 30-year-old band leader himself was the non plus ultra when it came to jazz-rock drumming technique – his amazingly rapid drum volleys are just as sensational today as they were then. With this album this exceptional drummer will thrill all fans of first-class fusion sound similar to Weather Report or Return To Forever.

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

Recording: 1974 Atlantic Recording Studios and at Electric Lady Studios, New York, N.Y. by Ken Scott Production: Billy Cobham & Ken Scott

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Impact

LP | 1976 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

35,99 €*

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1976 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Trumpeter/flügelhornist Charles Tolliver often straddled the line between the lyricism of hard bop and the adventurous nature of the avant-garde. Released in 1975, "Impact" contained a stimulating progressive edge within an energetic large band (14 horns, eight strings, and rhythm section) format. Tolliver's arrangements are consistently bright and build momentum, while the soloists are given sufficient room to manoeuvre through the multiple textures. Featured soloists in the remarkable reed section include Charles McPherson, James Spaulding, George Coleman, and Harold Vick.

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Ry Cooder

Jazz

LP | 1979 | JP | Reissue (Prestige)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When someone such as Ry Cooder, who delved deeply into traditional sources, just names his LP "Jazz", it is unlikely that one will hear avant-garde music. Actually, in the numbers gathered together here the investigative guitar man dedicated himself more or less to almost forgotten music. Historically informed, yet not adhering to the original instrumental ensemble, this ostensibly antiquated music enjoys a brilliant renaissance. Just like in an album of charming black and white photographs, the old-fashioned style shines out brightly, such as in "Big Band Bill", which (hardly by accident) is modelled on the jaunty swing of Django Reinhard, but does not imitate him. Cooder’s slightly acidic-sounding guitar mixes homogeneously with the delightfully rustic sound of the tuba and a bluegrass mandolin ("Face To Face…"). The typical Caribbean rattle of the marimba enters into a pleasant dialogue with the warped sound of the slide guitar. Folksy bliss in three-four time ("Happy Meeting In Glory") stands confidently on a par with the merry, self-willed saxophone ("In A Mist") and with the poetic, dreamy and meditative guitar ("Flashes"). And just listen to how the classic number "Davenport Blues" – with its emphasis on the woodwinds – grooves along with the vibraphone and tingly inner parts. This sound is both filled with the spirit of Bix Beiderbecke and, based loosely on Mingus, will sooth the Jelly Roll Morton-soul of its fans.

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

Recording: 1977 at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, by Lee Herschberg & Douglas Decker
Production: Ry Cooder & Joseph Byrd

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The Modern Jazz Quartet

Concorde

LP | 1974 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1979 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Shamek Farrah

First Impressions

35,99 €*

Release: 1974 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Miles Davis

Big Fun

LP | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Far Out)

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Azymuth

Azimüth

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

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissued on 180 gram vinyl in gatefold sleeve!

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Miles Davis

On The Corner

29,99 €*

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Le Très Jazz Club)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Terumasa Quintet Hino

Into The Heaven

LP | 1984 | JP | Reissue (Prestige)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We can"t really say that Japanese jazzmen benefit (not justify in fact) from a great international fame. However, trumpet player Terumasa Hino is an exception, undoubtedly because since the 70s he has collaborated with numerous Americanmusicians : Gary Burton, Roy Haynes, Herbie Hancock ... On Into the Heaven, which was released in 1970, Terumasa Hino is surrounded by the same musicians as on Hi- Nology, released a year earlier : his brother Motohiko Hino on drums, Hiromasa Suzuki on electric piano, Kunimitsu Inaba on electric bass and Takeru Muraoka on tenor sax. The eponymous piece, which lasts more than 20 minutes, is a jazz fusion giving room to choruses and which is reminiscent of the music that Miles Davis then oï¬Çered, in what we will call his "electric period". B side opens with "Love More Train", a brilliant and long hard bop song, while the album closes melancholy with the peaceful"Feeling Blues As YouAre Feeling".

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The Modern Jazz Quartet

Django

14,99 €*

Release: 1984 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1980 | JP | Reissue (EM)

Roland P. Young

Isophonic Boogie Woogie

Courtial With Errol Knowles

Release: 1980 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2022 repress. Reissue of the legendary 5-track first LP from horn wizard & original underground FM radio DJ Young, featuring soprano sax, clarinet, and electronically-processed bass clarinet. An enjoyable outing from a neglected musician. Cosmic afro mimimal electronic winds recorded in late 1970s San Francisco.

Thankfully, Isophonic Boogie Woogie is as weird and as wacked as all the above business would lead you to believe. Originally released in 1980, Isophonic Boogie Woogie was the first realization of Young's unique version of free jazz music, which he referred to as "Afro spiritual minimal electronic space music" which on closer listening is WAY more spot on... Some of the coolest, weird-est, most far out free jazz we've heard for sure (Aquarius Records)

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Don't You Think It's Time

LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Mad About)

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First time worldwide reissue on 180 gram vinyl with original 6 pages insert book with lyrics. Cult LP including rare groove classics like “Losing You”, “Don’t You Think It’s Time” or “Love Nevermore” Released in 1976 on Pipeline, a small label from Woodside, California.

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Eddie Marshall

Dance Of The Sun

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Akuma Ga Kitarite Fue Wo Fuku

Hozan Yamamoto & Yu Imai

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

LP | 1972 | UK | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We've got a bit of an obsession with Hozan Yamamoto here at Mr Bongo! A legend of Japanese jazz, he is rightly regarded as a true master and was recognised as a "living national treasure" by the Japanese government in 2002. Over five decades he pushed the genre into new directions, absorbing fusion, funk, spiritual jazz and many other sounds, resulting in a discography studded with gems of rare beauty. Exploring his back catalogue has taken us on an engrossing journey that now sees us reissuing another work from this ground-breaking musician.

Though not translating perfectly into English 'Akuma Ga Kitarite Fue Wo Fuku', (kitarite has not been a modern expression in Japanese) roughly means 'The Devil Comes Playing The Flute' / 'The Devil Is Coming While Blowing The Whistle' or 'Devils Flute’. It is the original soundtrack to Kôsei Saitô’s 1979 mystery and suspense movie, ‘Devil’s Flute’. The film is based on a story by the famous author, Seishi Yokomizo, and is centred around a much-loved fictional Japanese detective, Kosuke Kindaichi. A Japanese Sherlock Holmes that has been popular for generations.

Hozan Yamamoto was invited to compose the soundtrack directly by the producer of the film, Haruki Kadokawa. Mr Kadokawa also hired keyboard player and producer Yu Imai as assistant producer on the project, resulting in a stunning cosmic, breaks and beats-laden, funk, disco soundtrack extravaganza.

When it comes to the soundtrack and the technology of the time, Hozan Yamamoto and Yu Imai got inventive, tripped out, funked up, and experimented, creating a quirky soundtrack masterpiece that needed to be heard more outside of Japan. Differing from the more traditional Japanese music orientation of some of his other albums such as 'Beautiful Bamboo-Flute' (also released on Mr Bongo) the album showcases a number of genres, from lush atmospheric incidental music to disco and funk grooves, experimental nuggets, drum and flute workouts, to neo-classical and more.

A special record that showcases the further depths of this wonderful musician's talents.

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Ian Carr

Belladonna

22,99 €*

Release: 1972 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 1974 | JP | Original (United Artists)

Shirley Bassey

Live In Japan

7,99 €*

LP | 1974 | JP | Original (Blue Thumb)

Release: 1974 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

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Pointer Sisters

The Pointer Sisters

15,99 €*

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Sommor)

Release: 1974 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

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Japanese pressing. OBI is missing.

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Catch Up

Volume 1

Los Conquistadores Chocolates

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the best Jazz-Funk-Fusion albums from the 70s Euro scene, featuring such giants as Charly Antolini (famous for his MPS recordings) on drums, Max Greger jr. on electric piano, Moog, Hammond, Mellotron and Milan Pilar on electric bass. Top notch jamming & soulful funky-jazz sound with some kraut-prog touches, recorded at the legendary Studio 70 in Munich and originally released in 1975 on the Calig label.
Including the rare-groove classic “Onkel Joe” and more.
Original artwork and master tape sound.

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Johnny Hammond

12" | 1975 | US (East End)

13,99 €*

Release: 1975 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The George Benson Collection

George Benson

2LP | 1981 | JP | Original (Warner Bros.)

Disco Revival - Harlem Nocturne '77

Release: 1981 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing, comes with Obi and inserts. Cover has light foxing.

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Sam Taylor

LP | 1976 | JP | Original (Canyon)

9,99 €*

LP | 1975 | JP | Original (A&M)

Release: 1976 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

close to NM

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Carpenters

Horizon

7,99 €*

LP | 1979 | JP | Original (Infinity)

Release: 1975 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Pop

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing without OBI, with insert.

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Spyro Gyra

Morning Dance

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (MCA)

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

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Spyro Gyra

Carnaval

14,99 €*

LP | 1983 | JP | Reissue (Bearsville)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

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Randy Vanwarmer

Warmer

Release: 1983 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Larry Carlton = Larry Carlton

Larry Carlton = 夜の彷徨

LP | 1978 | JP | Original (Warner Bros.)

LP | 1978 | US | Original (Elektra)

Release: 1978 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

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Lee Oskar

Before The Rain

3,99 €*

Release: 1978 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1986 | JP | Original (A&M)

Chuck Mangione

A&M Gold Series

LP | 1973 | JP | Original (MCA)

Release: 1986 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

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Louis Armstrong

Super Deluxe

19,99 €*

2LP | 1974 | JP | Original (RCA)

Release: 1973 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Glenn Miller

Gold Deluxe

CD | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

Release: 1974 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lonnie Smith

Afro-Desia

LP | 1984 | JP | Original (Polydor)

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The second in our Mr Bongo series opening the vault on classic recordings from the fabled Groove Merchant Records catalogue. This time the spotlight turns to the Hammond B3 organ maestro Lonnie Smith, as we proudly present a reissue of his cosmic jazz-funk journey, ‘Afro-Desia’.

Originally released in 1975, this much-loved album was produced by Groove Merchant label owner Sonny Lester and features the mysterious 'Compliments Of A Friend' on guitar. Considering Smith was part of George Benson’s quartet in the ‘60s, that not so discreet veil appears to have been lifted on who this ‘friend’ might be. However, presumably due to contractual reasons, Benson had to remain covert for this recording. The lineup doesn’t stop there though, with the likes of legendary bassist Ron Carter and Grammy award winning saxophonist Joe Lavano joining the outfit.

An album of two parts, the first side sees Lonnie Smith in a spaced-out, cosmic jazz funk setting. The opener 'Afrodesia' is a funk flexing, steamy groover. Greg Hopkins and Lavano trading off on trumpet and sax respectively, as that bassline walks its way over fluttering jazz percussion and off-kilter electronics. 'Spirits Free' is an epic 15-minute free-wheeling jazz-funk workout. A mind melting trip that rises and falls, in parts spacey and serene, with Smith’s organ playing complimented by stretched out horns. Before long it opens out into unconstrained fluid sections that do its title proud. Pure ‘70s jazz-funk at its most stellar.

Side B takes a more classic soul-jazz flavour, with touches of Latin spice. 'Straight To The Point' kicks off with a carnival zing, full-frontal horn and organ lines providing a fiery party punch. It’s a swinging jazz cut that used to receive spins by DJs at Russ Dewbury's Jazz Room's sessions in Brighton in the ‘90s.

Finally, 'Favors' and 'The Awakening' close out the release. Two sure shot, quintessential Lonnie Smith firing Hammond grooves. Each conjuring up images of packed out, smokey jazz bar jams, every player letting loose with masterful improv sections to whip the crowd up into a frenzy.

A truly wonderful album, and an archetypal release showcasing the height of jazz musician excellence from this era.

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Mezzoforte

Observations

17,99 €*

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Endless Happiness)

Release: 1984 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Antonio Carlos Jobim

Stone Flower

Guilherme Coutinho E O Grupo Stalo

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Antônio Carlos Jobim was a primary force behind the evolution of bossa nova and his 6th studio release Stone Flower is an absolute classic. The album is emblematic of 70’s bossa with it’s seductive samba beat fused with elements of modern jazz provided by a star-studded supporting cast of Ron Carter, Hubert Laws, Airto Moreira, and Joe Farrell. Stone Flower was recorded by Blue Note engineering virtuoso Rudy Van Gelder and arranged by fellow pianist and guitarist Eumir Deodato; the fidelity and musicality is so well cared for that it effortlessly carries listeners away.

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LP | 1978 | UK | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

29,99 €*

LP | 1976 | EU (Trading Places)

Release: 1978 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We are proud to present the Mr Bongo pressing of Guilherme Coutinho E O Grupo Stalo's self-titled mythical album. Blending lo-fi, Brazilian tropicalia, jazz, funk and MPB with a unique aroma, this record is pure perfection.

It was originally released in 1978 on Erla - Estudio Rauland, an obscure record label from Belém in Brazil, that only released 7” singles, with this album being one of two exceptions. During the 1970s, Belém had a thriving nightclub scene, but it is thousands of miles away from the music industry hubs of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, making this record insanely difficult to find, even in Brazil. Added to the scarcity factor is the magical nature of the recording, which has naturally resulted in a hefty price tag to match. Original copies have become a prized, collector’s item.

The elusive Brazilian band leader and keyboard player, Guilherme Coutinho is a true cult artist. He passed away in 1983, at the age of just 41, and during his career he only seems to have appeared on a handful of marvellous records, which makes them all the more special. This album feels individualistic and distinctive from other albums of the day. Listening back to vocalist Elinho’s (aka Hélio Rubens de Oliveira) delivery, it sounds not too dissimilar to some of Belle & Sebastian’s songs. ‘Guilherme Coutinho E O Grupo Stalo’ is rich in charm, quirky and playful. It feels cinematic, soothing and benefits from being heard in its entirety. A proper album experience.

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Frank Strazzeri

After The Rain

20,99 €*

Release: 1976 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1979 | UK | Reissue (BBE)

Masao Nakajima Quartet

Kemo Sabe

40,99 €*

LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Get On Down)

Release: 1979 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The long-awaited vinyl pressing is finally with us. BBE Music continues its highly acclaimed J Jazz Masterclass Series with Kemo Sabe, the debut album from pianist Masao Nakajima. Recorded in 1979 on Yupiteru Records, it’s an elusive beast in the field of J Jazz and balances delicate and refined playing with power and vigour.

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Miles Davis

You're Under Arrest

18,99 €*

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (As Shams)

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pressed ON Crystal Clear Vinyl Housed IN A Gatefold Jacket With Japanese Stylized Insert AND Deluxe OBI Strip Remastered From The Original Analog Tapes A partner album to the previous Miles release Decoy this album is also produced by Miles and loaded with the synths of Robert Irving. You’re Under Arrest has some surprising new looks at pop tunes by Micheal Jackson and Cyndi Lauper and also features the return of John McLaughlin on guitar, and a guest performance from Sting. This is the nal installment of the proli c and brilliant collaboration between Miles and Columbia Records. Also featured on this album are Al Foster, Kenny Garret, and Daryl Jones.

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Gideon Nxumalo

Early-Mart

Tülay German & Francois Rabbath

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gideon Nxumalo was a key figure during the formative years of South African jazz in the 1950s, helping shape the emerging South African jazz sound as a pianist and composer and contributing to the scene as a radio presenter, music teacher and arranger. His recorded output as bandleader/composer is comprised of three iconic albums from Jazz Fantasia (1962) to Gideon Plays (1968) to Early-Mart (1970).

Early-Mart was Gideon Nxumalo's tribute to his friend and musical compatriot, drummer Early Mabuza (Castle Lager Big Band, Mankunku Quartet), who died in 1969. Nxumalo assembled what journalist and observer Leslie Sehume reports was a 14-piece band for the album, which was recorded during a legendary overnight session in February 1970 and released just months before Nxumalo's own death on 24 December 1970.

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LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Zehra)

Ruben Rada & Eduardo Mateo

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Remastered vinyl reissues of the two essential albums by Turkish folk/ jazz singer Tülay German, starting with the self-titled release (1980) and followed by "Hommage to Nazım Hikmet" (1982) in early 2022. Referring heavily on turkish poets and the tradition of aşıks (singer-poets and wandering bards) these two albums represent unique and modern interpretations of turkish folk songs unmatched
to this day. A matured artist with full conviction at the height of her powers! Back in the 60s Tülay German (*1935 in Istanbul, Turkey) shook the turkish music landscape with several 7" records. Most notably her first 7" record Burçak Tarlası (1964) is now considered
the cornerstone of what was to become the Anadolu Rock/ Pop movement and underlines her rebellious nature and sense of justice.
But due to increasing repression Tülay German and her lifelong partner and intellectual impetus Erdem Buri decided to leave Turkey a few years later. In fact, an impending prison sentence for Erdem Buri for translating Hegel’s Dialectic and Science of Logic led the couple to emigrate to France.

In France Tülay German signs a major contract with Philips resulting in many 7" releases sung in french under her french moniker Toulaϊ. In the long run Tülay German doesn’t feel quite comfortable with this major deal. And thus, despite the success and recognition she had gained, she decides to quit the contract with Philips! Later on she signs to independent world-music label Arion to pursue her actual artistic goals more in line with her origin and temperament. Back to her mother tongue, Tülay German records above mentioned albums for Arion under full artistic freedom, the only full-lenghths in her 20+ years career. Alongside with double-bass virtuoso and turkophil François Rabbath (*1931 in Aleppo, Syria) the albums consist of aşık traditionals and intonated poems mainly by Nazım Hikmet. Her passionate voice and the restrained arrangements of François Rabbath turn these centuries old melodies and poems into glowing manifestos for love and justice.

The fruitful collaboration of these artists-in-exile adds significantly to the rich heritage of turkish folk music. The self-titled debut, which was awarded with the prestigious Grand Prix du Disque of Académie Charles Cros in 1981, is now seeing a vinyl reissue after 40 years. Tülay German ended her musical career in 1987 and after the death of Erdem Buri in 1993 she retired from public life completely, leading a quiet life in Paris where she still lives to this day. In 2021 Tülay German was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Turkey.

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Botija De Mi Pais

LP | 1987 | EU | Reissue (Little Butterfly)

35,99 €*

Ryo Kawasaki & The Golden Dragon

Release: 1987 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded between 1985 and 1987, this album brings together the two founders and leading performers of candombe-beat, Ruben Rada and Eduardo Mateo. They hadn´t collaborated in a project since 1969. Both artists had reached their creative prime, with Mateo having released “Cuerpo y Alma” and Rada, “La yapla mata” (which included the classic song ‘Tengo un candombe para Gardel’). 140 gram vinyl with OBI & Insert This initiative sprang from the artists themselves. But when it was time to create, they rarely got together in the studio, preferring to work on their own. Once finished, the album failed to make an impact, since neither of them promoted it. This revival brings that semi-hidden treasure to light. It includes two tracks of the artists strictly performing a duet, the only recordings of Mateo and Rada working alongside each other and no one else. It also contains two additional tracks where you can relish Rada accompanied by Mateo’s guitar and Mateo backed by Rada’s percussion. It includes a track where Mateo commands the instruments (as in Mateo solo bien se lame) and another with Rada’s solo on vocals and percussion. There are instances when Rada’s band of that moment and “super-group” (with Osvaldo Nolé on keyboards, Ricardo Lew on electric guitar, Urbano on the bass and Osvaldo Fattoruso on drums), makes an appearance. Sometimes, Urbano comes forth as lead singer, completing the triad of singers of “El Kinto”. All excellent songs. This album is exceptional and one-of-a-kind, an overflow of talent, musicality, swing, imagination, rhythm, spark, and transcendence. Guilherme de Alencar Pinto

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Little Tree

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Studio Mule)

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Wagram)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Japanese legendary jazz guitarist “ryo kawasaki”,some of his famous works are like mellow jazz fusion masterpiece “tarika blue”,dance jazz classic “trinkets&things”,cosmic new wave jazz “lucky lady”.

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Dave Brubeck

Take Five

15,99 €*

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Suite For Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Nathan Davis

LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Tomorrow)

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Prestige)

Sonny Phillips

Black Magic

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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If You're Ready Come Go With Me

Jimmy McGriff

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Groove Merchant)

18,99 €*

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1972 | US | Reissue (Groove Merchant)

O’Donel Levy

Breeding Of Mind

15,99 €*

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Plays The Music Of Jimi Hendrix

Gil Evans

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (RCA)

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bobby Hamilton Quintet Unlimited

Dream Queen

LP | 1972 | US | Reissue (Now-Again)

34,99 €*

LP | 1983 | EU | Reissue (Studio Mule)

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited to 1000 copies.

All analog lacquer by Bernie Grundman. Liner notes delving into the history of Hamilton and this special album. Bobby Hamilton founded the band Anubis in Syracuse, New York, and they put out their awesome ‘Ecology’ single on Charles Bazen’s Salt City imprint. It’s a highlight on the Soul-Cal anthology Now-Again issued in 2012, something akin to Terry Callier and Gil Scott Heron’s most soulful works. Shortly after issuing that single, Bobby put together the Bobby Hamilton Quintet Unlimited and recorded and issued Dream Queen in 1972. The last clean copy Bobby Hamilton had, he sold to the musician Jamie XX in 2021 for a princely sum. Few originals will ever surface again – its original run of 500 units having disappeared into the ether decades ago. This is your chance to hear a masterwork of deep, spiritual jazz lacquered directly from its original master tape in an all analog transfer by the legendary Bernie Grundman. Dream Queen’s story is told for the first time in extensive liner notes by Torii McAdams. Dig deeper and expand.

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Shinsuke Honda

Silence

Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1983 | US | Reissue (Goner)

Fred Lane

From The On That Cut You

LP | 1986 | US | Reissue (Goner)

Release: 1983 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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As anyone who worked in a record store from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s can relate, the two Shimmy Disc albums released by the Rev. Fred Lane were the weirdest, most bizarre, abstractly enigmatic releases any of them had ever heard. From the dadaist titles and surrealist cover artwork to the absurdly peculiar lyrics and dementedly brilliant musical bent that careened from country to jazz to Morricone-inspired Western soundtracks, From The One That Cut You and Car Radio Jerome bewitched listeners with Lane’s eccentric take on music and, by extension, life in general. Early internet chat rooms and message boards were devoted to solving the mystery. For decades, rumors swirled about them. “We would just stare at the album covers and kinda make up our own stories,” Eric Friedl of Goner Records says of the misleading recording notations, fictitious back catalogs, and vague artistic allusions that dropped mostly fake clues for Lane’s most astute fans to decipher. Then, in 2013, Lane himself surfaced at the University of Alabama for an exposition. Seven years later, Icepick To The Moon, a documentary about Lane by filmmaker Skizz Cyzyk, premiered. The film, which took more than twenty years to piece together, filled in most of the blanks that had stumped generations of fans. Learning the details of Lane’s albums doesn’t change their inscrutability. The alternate Alabama universe that Lane and his compatriots conjured up—in, of all places, the southern college football town of Tuscaloosa—is a metaphysical place as vast and imbued with meaning as Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha. As Friedl raves, “They’re still different from any other record out there.”

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Fred Lane

Car Radio Jerome

Sammy Burdson, Klaus Weiss & Larry Robb

Release: 1986 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Dramatic Tempi / Larry Robbins Background

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Trad Vibe)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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C-l-a-s-s-i-c library breaks and beats set of heavy drums and louche funk. One of two Be With forays into the archives of revered British library institution Conroy, we present one of our favourites on the label - the super in-demand Dramatic Tempi / Larry Robbins Background Rhythms, originally released in 1975. Rare and sought-after for many years now, this is one of those cult library LPs that rarely turns up on even the deepest dig. As a single LP, Dramatic Tempi / Larry Robbins Background Rhythms is two distinctly different collections of music. The first side, Dramatic Tempi, is made up of four tracks each from Sammy Burdson and Klaus Weiss. Sammy Burdson was one of the many, many aliases of the mighty Austrian composer, arranger and conductor, Gerhard Narholz. Founder of adored library label Sonoton in 1965, and a classically trained composer, his work runs from easy listening through pop, jazz and electronic, to avant-garde. About as cult as it gets when it comes to library music legends (German or otherwise), he produced essential records on German library labels Coloursound, Selected Sound and Sonoton.

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Cortex

Troupeau Bleu

LP | 1974 | IT | Reissue (Four Flies)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited 2020 repress of this Euro-Jazz-Funk classic - this time with poster!

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Alessandro Alessandroni

Spontaneous

27,99 €*

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

Release: 1974 / IT – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Maybe the best Alessandroni’s album ever. A true holy-grail for any collector and worldwide music lover, which we can consider nowadays as the most sought-after record of the whole legendary RCA SP 10000 series, and as the rarest album from the king of Italian libraries.
Jazz, mellow-funk, downtempo breaks, and incredible rock blends, make this record a refined portrait of the 70’s American way of life, viewed through the fully Italian lens of Alessandroni’s sensitivity.
The magic around Spontaneous is that this album is not only beautiful and astonishing, but is certainly on of those amazing records to which time gives new life and freshness, making it sounds unbelievably contemporary.
After five years of exhausting research, and three years later the finding of the original master tapes of the album, finally Four Flies can give a light to this obscure and fascinating mystery, rescuing it from the darkness. It’s not just another piece of Alessandroni’s legacy that is finally put back in the right place. This should be considered as the definitive act to re-estabilsh Alessandroni's leadership into the library music scene, and beyond.
Available again from July 19, coming in 180gr black vinyl, housed in a hard tip-on sleeve cover.
Limited Edition 500 copies

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John Cameron

Jazzrock

LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (We Release Jazz)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This release comes on 180g vinyl and was remastered from the original tapes. Be With have raided the KPM archives to re-issue another of our favourites from the KPM 1000 series. They say: A Dramatic Suite Of Themes, Montage, Sequences And Generics. We say: An enormously influential and heavy KPM set of timeless, killer funk breaks from 1972 by the mighty John Cameron. Jazzrock is an aggressive, percussion-heavy album with an energy that leaves jaws on the floor. Breaks and beats for days with electric piano, bass loops, and pounding percussion. Funky jazz with a deep, tough, soundtrack feel. As with all of our KPM re-issues, the audio for The Road Forward comes from the original analogue tapes and has been remastered for vinyl by Be With regular Simon Francis. We’ve taken the same care with the sleeves, handing the reproduction duties over to Richard Robinson, the current custodian of KPM’s brand identity. And don’t worry! Those KPM stickers aren’t stuck directly on the sleeves!

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Ryo Fukui

Scenery

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

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is the Standard Edition, mastered at half speed, 140g vinyl and Sticker. We Release Jazz (WRWTFWW Records’ new sister-label) is proud to present its first release, the official reissue of Ryo Fukui’s highly sought-after masterpiece Scenery (1976), sourced from the original masters.

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Herb Alpert

Rise

Release: 1979 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Overground Black Vinyl Edition

Sandro Brugnolini

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Sonor Music Editions)

Overground HHV Exclusive Grey Vinyl Edition

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sonor Music Editions proudly presents this restored issue of Maestro Sandro Brugnolini's Overground. This elusive masterpiece in library music captures the most impressive work, alongside Underground (1970), of the Italian composer and alto sax player. Overground was released on Sincro Edizioni Musicali in 1970 as the soundtrack to Enrico Moscatelli and Mario Rigoni's documentary Persuasione, commissioned by Ente Provinciale Per Il Turismo Di Trento, a local tourism board in Italy, with music composed by Sandro Brugnolini and Luigi Malatesta featuring some of the best musicians in Italy at the time like Angelo Baroncini and Silvano Chimento on guitars, Giorgio Carnini on piano and organ, Enzo Restuccia on drums, and Giovanni Tommaso on bass and effects. The music spans from underground Psychedelic Prog. Rock with swirling organs, trippy effects, and distorted fuzz guitars to sophisticated Lounge grooves with Avant- garde orchestrations. The music has been transferred and remastered from the original master tapes. It has been lacquer cut in stereo by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting and packed in a thick cardboard sleeve featuring a fully restored painting by Umberto Mastroianni licensed by Centro Studi dell’Opera di Umberto Mastroianni.

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Sandro Brugnolini

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Sonor Music Editions)

LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited to 300 copies on grey vinyl. Only available at hhv.de

Sonor Music Editions proudly presents this restored issue of Maestro Sandro Brugnolini's Overground. This elusive masterpiece in library music captures the most impressive work, alongside Underground (1970), of the Italian composer and alto sax player. Overground was released on Sincro Edizioni Musicali in 1970 as the soundtrack to Enrico Moscatelli and Mario Rigoni's documentary Persuasione, commissioned by Ente Provinciale Per Il Turismo Di Trento, a local tourism board in Italy, with music composed by Sandro Brugnolini and Luigi Malatesta featuring some of the best musicians in Italy at the time like Angelo Baroncini and Silvano Chimento on guitars, Giorgio Carnini on piano and organ, Enzo Restuccia on drums, and Giovanni Tommaso on bass and effects. The music spans from underground Psychedelic Prog. Rock with swirling organs, trippy effects, and distorted fuzz guitars to sophisticated Lounge grooves with Avant- garde orchestrations. The music has been transferred and remastered from the original master tapes. It has been lacquer cut in stereo by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting and packed in a thick cardboard sleeve featuring a fully restored painting by Umberto Mastroianni licensed by Centro Studi dell’Opera di Umberto Mastroianni.

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Johnny Hammond

Gears

37,99 €*

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1985 | Reissue (Verve)

Nina Simone

Nina's Back

Pierre-Alain Dahan & Slim Pezin

Release: 1985 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally recorded in 1985, following a lengthy semi-retirement from the music business and time spent living in Barbados and Liberia, "Nina’s Back" features a rejuvenated Nina Simone reaching out to a wider musical audience: A well-chosen set of memorable standards and several Simone original compositions, the band includes horns and backup singers for a recording that’s unique in Nina’s catalog. Originally released on LP, cassette and later in the 80s on CD, Verve Records, in partnership with the Nina Simone Estate, are proud to release this album with refreshed artwork on vinyl, CD, and for the first time ever digitally.

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Neo Rythmiques

LP | 1976 | Reissue (Be With)

27,99 €*

Blues And The Soulful Truth

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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Leon Thomas

LP | 1972 | UK | Reissue (BGP / Flying Dutchman)

LP | 1973 | JP | Reissue (CTI)

Release: 1972 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The title of Thomas’s third album for Bob Thiele’s Flying Dutchman referenced Oliver Nelson’s classic 1961 LP “The Blues and the Abstract Truth”. Released in 1972, “Blues And The Soulful Truth” featured an expansive all-star band that included Pretty Purdie (drums), Stanley Clarke (bass), Cecil Payne (Baritone sax) and the unsung Neal Creque (keyboards). It’s a soul meets jazz meets the blues masterpiece with arrangements from ex-James Brown horn-man Pee Wee Ellis.

This astounding album features the extraordinary ‘Shape Your Mind To Die’, ‘l-o-v-e’, a captivating vocal version of Gabor Szabo’s ‘Gypsy Queen’, the compelling ‘Love Each Other’, the plaintive ‘China Doll’ and a driving version of John Lee Hooker’s ‘Boom-Boom-Boom’.

Pressed on 180gm vinyl we have remained faithful to the original pressing, replicating the Flying Dutchman label style and gatefold sleeve.

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Eumir Deodato

Deodato 2

20,99 €*

LP | 1984 | JP | Original (Arista)

Release: 1973 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Original japanese pressing without OBI. close to NM. 1978 reissue.

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Barry Manilow

2:00 AM Paradise Cafe

14,99 €*

LP | 1985 | JP | Original (Warner Bros.)

Release: 1984 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing. OBI is missing.

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George Benson

20/20

LP | 1979 | JP | Original (Atlantic)

Release: 1985 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with OBI. close to NM

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The Manhattan Transfer

Extensions

LP | 1973 | JP | Reissue (CTI)

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with obi and insert.
Cover is close to NM.

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Eumir Deodato

Prelude

18,99 €*

LP | 1978 | JP | Original (CBS/Sony)

Release: 1973 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing. No obi. 1978 reissue.

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Billy Joel

52nd Street

Guilherme Coutinho E O Grupo Stalo

Release: 1978 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Japanese pressing. With OBI and insert. Tiny corner wear.

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LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Mad About)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1982 | JP | Original (Polydor)

Shakatak

Night Birds

22,99 €*

LP | 1978 | JP | Reissue (A&M)

Release: 1982 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Original Japanese pressing with OBI!

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Neil Larsen

Jungle Fever

19,99 €*

LP | 1972 | JP | Original (Crown)

Release: 1978 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

OBI is missing. tiny wear. Japanese reissue from 1982.

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Sam Taylor

Niji O Watatte

6,99 €*

LP | 1976 | JP | Original (Canyon)

Release: 1972 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing. With OBI. Tear in spine.

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Sam Taylor

北の宿から

3,99 €*

LP | 1979 | JP | Original (Warner Bros.)

Release: 1976 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing. With OBI.

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Rickie Lee Jones

Carlos Santana, John McLaughlin

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing. OBI is missing .

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Love Devotion Surrender

LP | 1973 | JP | Original (CBS/Sony)

Caravelli And His Magnificent Strings

Release: 1973 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing without OBI, with insert.

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New Gold Disc

LP | 1975 | JP | Original (Epic)

6,99 €*

LP | 1982 | JP | Reissue (A&M)

Release: 1975 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing. OBI is missing. close to NM

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Neil Larsen

High Gear

LP | 1970 | JP | Original (A&M)

Release: 1982 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Japanese pressing. 1982 reissue. Few paper scuffs. OBI is missing.

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Burt Bacharach

Golden Prize

John Lewis With Hank Jones

Release: 1970 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing. Without OBI. Few paper scuffs. Cover is close to NM.

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Live In Tokyo

LP | 1978 | JP | Original (Trio)

LP | 1974 | JP | Original (Vogue)

Release: 1978 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Vinyl is close to NM. Japanese pressing. Tiny wear. OBI is missing.

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Clifford Brown

Paris Collection Vol. 1

17,99 €*

LP | 1978 | JP | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 1974 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing. OBI is missing. Seam split.

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Eugen Cicero

Swinging Tschaikowsky