Organic Grooves Vinyl 1246 Items

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

A Hard Road

2LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Lovers)

New York Eye & Ear Control

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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More than a compilation, this album is a complete document of the Bluesbreakers' recordings with Peter Green, of which "A Hard Road" was just the most prominent part. The 16 bonus tracks include several non-LP singles (among them the 1967 B-side "Rubber Duck," which has never before appeared on LP).

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Albert Ayler

LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Esp Disk Ltd.)

Queen Of Latin Soul / Reina De La Cancion Latina Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the key 60s free jazz recordings!

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La Lupe

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Magic Of Christmas Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
There is something raw and disruptive about La Lupe and her modalities of performance, something that far exceeds tropes of so-called hysteria and all the gendered and racial scripts that come along with it. Uncontrolled expression opens up new routes; it presses against obligatory composure.

The boleros, boogaloos and salsas of Reina de la Canción Latina contain lessons about love, about a willingness to stay alive, about what it means to push against the confines. Reina de la Canción Latina asks us to listen to La Lupe outside of a binary mode — to look a little deeper, to find her personhood and to search for flashes of freedom wherever we can.

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Soulful Strings

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Ray Charles In Person Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cadet Records was one of the oddest jazz labels to ever issue LPs in America; it was the jazz imprint of Chess Records, and most of its releases came from the minds of two men: Charles Stepney and Richard Evans. The latter man ran point on the short-lived label's lone holiday release, which found the label's house band – which included luminaries like Phil Upchurch – doing their thing on 10 holiday classics. A curio for the cratedigger who already owns every Dorothy Ashby album, this album was AAA remastered by Barry Grint.

Limited to 2,000 copies, the VMP exclusive version of The Soulful Strings' The Magic of Christmas is pressed 180g Opaque Olive vinyl at Independent Record Pressing (IRP). The AAA 1 LP will arrive in a single, tip-on, foil-stamped and numbered jacket. The lacquers were cut by Barry Grint at Alchemy Mastering at AIR.

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Ray Charles

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Nina Simone Sings The Blues Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Creating harmony out of unlikely combinations was integral to Charles’ genius, and that’s evident with how effortlessly he navigates multiple genres on In Person, oftentimes on the same song. It’s an album that’s a testament to him as a versatile musical pioneer: someone who was unafraid to explore different ideas and sounds throughout his career, becoming a seminal figure in American music in the process.

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Nina Simone

LP | 1967 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Hey Jude Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1967 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nina was singular in both her ability and the music she made. She will always be one of the best to ever do it. "Nina Simone Sings the Blues' comes on 180 gram blue vinyl.

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Wilson Pickett

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Mar-Keys / Booker T. & The M.G.'S

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Let’s start with the scream. We tend to define our singers by how “great” their voice is, how deftly they can ascend and descend major and minor scales, and how they can turn up and turn down the emotion inherent in their voices. But when considering Wilson Pickett, it begins and ends with his scream. He could take you on a journey, he could butter you up, he could make you feel things in your vital organs, but you don’t get a nickname like “Wicked Pickett” because you’re a crooner.

Pickett’s “Hey Jude” forms the spiritual centerpiece and title track of hisfinal trip up to the mountain-top, his last true masterpiece LP. He’d take forays to Philadelphia for the new sound of soul, and even go vaguely disco in the late ’70s. But for his final album of the ’60s, a decade where he dominated the soul charts, he’d unwittingly help start southern rock, and scream his way across one of the most recognizable tunes in the history of song. Not bad for 31 minutes and eight seconds worth of music.

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Back To Back Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 1967 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Charles Musselwhite Blues Band

Release: 1967 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Back to Back captures the instrumental aspect of the ’67 Stax-Volt European tour (“Volt” is the name of Stax’s subsidiary label). Immediately apparent is that the live versions of these songs are played much faster than the recorded ones. Exuberant? Definitely! These folks were racing across unfamiliar cultures and landscapes, reimagining their place in this world, looking down at the clouds for the first time. The pace was faster because their lives were — quickly — getting so much larger. In these recordings, you can hear all of that emotional exhilaration, all of that savoring of personal respect, that thrill of the new. Many of these songs were several years old, but they shine on Back to Back like they’re being performed for the first time. Over and over, you hear the musicians throwing in something extra, curlicues and tangents that express their excitement.

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Tennessee Woman Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Another Earth Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tennessee Woman is an undervalued Chicago blues masterpiece, a flawlessly executed showcase for Charlie Musselwhite’s unique blues harp sound, an album that perfectly meshed the urban, raucous sounds of Chicago electric blues of Musselwhite’s adult life and the down-home sound of the Memphis blues of his youth. Musselwhite never set out to be a musician; he just wanted to find a job in Chicago that would allow him some spending money to see the blues musicians he loved. When it came time to make his own records, all of Charlie Musselwhite went into Tennessee Woman, and you can hear it from the first notes.

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Gary Bartz

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

LP | 1969 | US | Original (Kent)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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During the pagan hours of an otherwise uneventful Harlem pre-dawn in 1963, Gary Bartz glimpsed a galactic mystery that conventional aeronautics could not explain. Only a few weeks prior, the nascent alto saxophone virtuoso had acquired his first telescope to pursue a newfound passion for astronomy. The purchase was already yielding dividends.

The recent Juilliard graduate’s fascination with the heavens began with astrology, but the then 22-year-old quickly realized that those celestial sketches were just photographs of the sky as captured during a specific orbit. Why bother with the rough blueprint when you could witness the entire electromagnetic spectrum in its full glory?

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Snatch And The Poontangs

Release: 1969 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Blakey And His Jazz Messengers Verve By Request

Art Blakey

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Elvin Jones & Richard Davis

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1961 Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers made their only recording for the label Impulse! Records. It marked a turning point for the popular hard bop formation as it was their first appearance as a sextet with trombonist Curtis Fuller, and secondly their last recording with pianist Bobby Timmons. Also unusual is the fact that only one piece by a band member was on the program and otherwise only standards were played.
VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, Gatefold Sleeve.

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Heavy Sounds Verve By Request Edition

LP | 1968 | WW | Reissue (Verve)

Nobuo Hara Meets Hozan Yamamoto

Release: 1968 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Not macht erfinderisch! Das Album “Heavy Sounds” war eigentlich als Trio-Session mit dem Gitarristen Larry Coryell geplant gewesen. Als dieser aber kurzfristig erkrankte und nicht im Studio auftauchte, spielten Schlagzeuger Elvin Jones und Bassist Richard Davis ad hoc eine fast zwölfminütige Duo-Version von “Summertime” ein. Die restlichen Nummern nahm das Gespann einen Tag später mit Verstärkung des Saxofonisten Frank Foster und des Pianisten Billy Green auf, wobei Elvin Jones in “Elvin’s Guitar Blues” höchstpersönlich den Gitarrenpart übernahm. Es sollte seine einzige Aufnahme als Gitarrist bleiben.

Verve BY Request Serie: remastert, audiophiles 180-Gramm-Vinyl von Third Man Pressing/Detroit, Gatefold Sleeve.

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New Jazz In Japan

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Le Très Jazz Club)

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Le Très Jazz Club)

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nobuo "Hara", whose real name is Nobuo Tsukahara, is a Japanese saxophonist who became known in 1951 with his big band, the Sharp & Flats. Together they recorded more than a hundred album during their career. Hozan Yamamoto is, for his part, a Shakuhachi player, a traditional Japanese flute, enjoying such recognition in his country that he was awarded a Living National Treasure in 2002. The first record bringing together the two musicians is a live recorded in 1967 during the Newport Jazz Festival. It was a year later, in 1968, that New Jazz in Japan, their first studio recording, was released. Accompanied by the ower of the Sharps & Flats, Nobuo Hara"s tenor sax and Hozan Yamamoto"s shakuhachi respond subtly to give this record, which had not been reissued since 1971, a completely unique style.

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Terumasa Hino Quintet

Hi-Nology

Jazz Portrait Of Frank Sinatra Verve By Request

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Terumasa Hino is undoubtedly one of the most famous Japanese jazzmen. Learning the trumpet at the age of 9, he began his career as a professional musician by playing in the orchestra of an US Army base, before joining Hideo Shiraki"s Quintet and then forming his own band in 1964. On Hi-Nology we find his brother Motohiko Hino on drums, Hiroma Suzuki on electric piano, Kumitsu Inaba on electric bass and Takeru Muraoka ontenor sax. The inspiration from the "electric period" of Miles Davis (notably Miles In The Sky released in 1968) is felt and is even accepted, since the opening piece is entitled "Like Miles". Coincidentally, Hi-Nology was recorded on July 31, 1969, the day after the release of In a Silent Way and has nothing to envy of this great record by Miles Davis.

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Oscar Peterson

LP | 1961 | Reissue (Verve)

Gypsy Woman Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Oscar Peterson's Frank Sinatra tribute features his trio with bassist Ray Brown & drummer Ed Thigpen. The renditions are all under four minutes and are highlighted by "Come Dance with Me," "Just in Time," "I Get a Kick Out of You," and "How About You?" This is one of Oscar Peterson's most essential dates—swinging and enjoyable.

VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, Single Sleeve

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Joe Bataan

LP | 1967 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1967 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Special Pink Mood Deluxe = スペシャル・ピンク・ムード・デラックス

V.A.

2LP | 1968 | JP | Original (Victor)

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1968 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing without OBI!

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Joe Henderson

Power To The People

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dexter Gordon & Slide Hampton

A Day In Copenhagen Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 Sky Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

A Jackson In Your House Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release type: RSD Limited Run / Regional Focus Release

With his big, warm, round-toned sound, sophisticated phrasing, and hip quotes, Dexter Gordon was one of the major forces on the tenor saxophone from the mid-1940s until his death in 1990. Gordon was cited by both Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane as a major influence on their playing and is acknowledged as a jazz icon.

The popularity of mainstream jazz was on the decline in the States during the 1960s. The Vietnam war and racial turmoil were in high gear, and many of the music’s top-flight musicians, including Gordon, migrated to Europe in order both to escape and to make a living playing jazz. Gordon eventually settled in Copenhagen, Denmark. During this period, he usually played and recorded backed by a piano trio, but this 1969 recording is different. The usual quartet has been expanded with some of those premiere jazz ‘refugees’, each a major voice on his instrument, assembled for the session.

One of the great modern jazz trombonists, Slide Hampton, is also a composer/arranger of note. The album was a collaborative venture between Gordon and Hampton, and three of the compositions and all the arrangements on the album are his. The classy Jamaican trumpeter Dizzy Reese completes the front line. The rhythm section includes two jazz giants who were Gordon’s constant companions at Copenhagen’s famous Club Montmartre, fellow American expatriate pianist Kenny Drew and the great Danish bassist N-H Örsted-Peterson. The Gordon/Drew pairing is one of the classic horn-/piano matchups in jazz, and has often been compared with the Miles Davis/Red Garland and John Coltrane/McCoy Tyner pairings. Art Taylor, who “helped define the sound of modern drumming”, was brought in from Paris to complete the all-star rhythm section.

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Art Ensemble Of Chicago

LP | 1969 | UK | Reissue (Charly)

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | UK | Reissue (Arc Records)

Max Roach

Members, Don't Git Weary

Release: 1968 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Slow Drag Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Donald Byrd

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Our Meanings And Our Feelings

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Donald Byrd’s 1967 album Slow Drag was one of the last pure hard bop records the trumpeter would make before his music began evolving towards fusion. Byrd flies high on this gratifying set featuring alto saxophonist Sonny Red, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Walter Booker & drummer Billy Higgins.

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

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Michel Portal

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Le Très Jazz Club)

Music For The Small Hours

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On June 27th, 1969, Michel Portal pushed the door of the Pathé Marconi studios. With him were drummers Jacques Thollot and Aldo Romano, bassist Jean-François Jenny-Clark and pianist Joachim Kühn. They hadn"t rehearsed anything, as if entering the studio to record an album without any plan was something normal. The musicians were obviously very used to playing with each other, as the five tracks on Our Meanings And Our Feelings seem to flow perfectly without any hint of improvisation. The zokra, an oriental clarinet that Michel Portal plays on "Walking through the land" and "Dear old Morocco" brings a singular touch to this album. This singularity is transcended by Joachim Kühn"s ability to easily go from the piano to the saxophone alto, from supporting to soloing, before playing the bells, then the tambourine, opening the soundscape. Our Meanings And Our Feelings may not be the first French free jazz record - as it was preceded by the fantastic Free Jazz by François Tusques, released in 1965 and on which Michel Portal plays as well - but it remains one of the most important. Its incredible outburst of sounds and melodies is completely free yet never turns into cacophony. 44 years after its release, it is still urgent to listen to Our Meanings And Our Feelings and what these five talented musicians had to tell us.

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Clarke-Boland Sextett

LP | 1967 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

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LP | 1965 | JP | Reissue (Think!)

Release: 1967 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Formed by Kenny Clarke and Francy Boland, the Clarke-Boland Sextett, with the participation of numerous musicians from both Europe and the United States, made significant contributions to the development of jazz in Europe. At the core of this ensemble, the powerhouse sextet consisting of Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland, Sahib Shihab, Jimmy Woode, Joe Harris, and Sadi came together to record the album "Music For The Small Hours" in 1967, and it is now set to be reissued with an obi.

This album spans a wide range of styles, from standards like Burt Bacharach's "Wives & Lovers" to Brazilian and Afro-Cuban influences such as Luiz Bonfá's "Ebony Samba" and Dizzy Gillespie's "Tin Tin Deo." Additionally, it features original compositions like Shihab's "Please, Don't Leave," where he takes on vocal duties. The entire recording exudes a sophisticated and relaxed mood, showcasing the utmost skill of this formidable sextet. "Music For The Small Hours" is a masterpiece that deserves a place in the history of European jazz, boasting the ultimate level of refinement.

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Mighty Sparrow

Tattoo Woman

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Dance With Death Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 1965 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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"Tattoo Woman" was originally released in 1965 and includes "Under My Skin", a favorite not only among calypso fans but also Ska and Reggae lovers! This is a calypso arrangement of Cole Porter's original song "I've Got You Under My Skin" and is truly a masterpiece! The album as a whole contains many wonderful pieces that convey the breath of calypso in its heyday! Please enjoy these two historical masterpieces by the god of calypso, Mighty Sparrow, together with "The Outcast", which will be released at the same time on analog LP!!

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Andrew Hill

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

LP | 1967 | Reissue (ORG Music)

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Andrew Hill’s 1968 album Dance With Death stands as one of the most gratifying though under-recognized sessions of the brilliant pianist’s discography featuring his singular compositions performed by a versatile quintet with Charles Tolliver, Joe Farrell, Victor Sproles, and Billy Higgins.

Blue Note Tone Poet Edition: Stereo, produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analogue master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.

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Dexter Gordon

Take The A Train

Release: 1967 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey & The New Jazz Men

Live In Paris '65

LP | 1965 | UK | Reissue (Sam)

LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Fantasy)

Release: 1965 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey's "Live In '65" boasts an exceptional one-hour concert from Paris in 1965. This performance showcases one of the few undocumented Blakey bands, the New Jazzmen, featuring Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Jaki Byard on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, Nathan Davis on sax, and, of course, Blakey on drums.

Freddie Hubbard's incendiary playing on "Blue Moon" and the blistering 24-minute version of his own "Crisis" shows that he was one of the most innovative trumpeters in jazz history.

On this live session, the audiences seem to have been enthusiastic and appreciative. »Everywhere we’d go people would say, this is the best Jazz Messengers we’ve heard!«, according to Davis. »And because of the way Jaki would play and Reggie would go, it was like a semi-freedom thing – with Messengers heads, you know, but when we got to soloing...! And Blakey was ridin’ and oatin’ the time ... but he would always be loose enough to follow, to keep it going. He’s one helluva musician.«

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John Coltrane

Stardust

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Sony Music Japan)

Lisa Ono

Catupiry

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | UK | Reissue (Charly)

Don Cherry

Mu. First Part

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dance Mania Colored Vinyl Edition

Tito Puente

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Dol)

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | UK | Reissue (Charly)

P.P. Armold

Kafunta

Release: 1968 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wynton Kelly Trio & Wes Montgomery

Smokin' At The Half Note Acoustic Sounds Edition

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Exciting Wilson Pickett

Wilson Pickett

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Rhino)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Sam)

Nathan Davis Sextet

Peace Treaty

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Olé Coltrane Crystal Clear Vinyl Edition

John Coltrane

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

The World Of Cecil Taylor

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissue as a part of the Start Your Year Off Right Kampagne von Warner. The final album recorded by Coltrane under his own supervision for Atlantic Records, Ole Coltrane features several of the players from Africa/Brass, which was recorded two days earlier, and is widely considered one of the premiere statements of Avant Garde jazz as well as the moment that Coltrane moved from an accessible artist to a more daring and complicated one. (Original RD: November 1961)

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Cecil Taylor

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Candid)

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Candid)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The World Of Cecil Taylor is the fifth studio album by radical, free jazz pianist pioneer, Cecil Taylor.Taylor's music is often described as ahead of its time. And it's easy to imagine what the reaction of the average jazz fan was to this 1961 recording. It is arguably a tremendous departure from what jazz was widely considered to be at the time. At once a modern approach to standard material and a genre pushing exploration, it is a document of an artist pushing the boundaries of what jazz meant and where it was capable of going. This brand new reissue is available on CD and LP (180g) and has been remastered from the original Candid Records master tapes by Bernie Grundman.

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Abbey Lincoln

Straight Ahead

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1966 | US | Original (RCA Victor)

Paul Desmond

Easy Living

Release: 1966 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Marvin Peterson And The Soulmasters

In Concert

LP | 1969 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 1969 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An impressive live album by Marvin Peterson who was one of the finest trumpetersin the 60's-70's is making its return on vinyl format. These tracks were performed by the band led by Hannibal Marvin Peterson, though he had yet to add "Hannibal" to his name at the time of recording. Here, he performed with eight musicians in his hometown of Texas, and theirperformance crossed the boundaries of jazz, soul and funk with skilled musicians. These included organistEugene Carrier who also participated in the BB King Band and drummer Emry Thomas who would later participate in the band led by Johnny "Guitar" Watson.

With a glance at the cover art, you can get a sense of the powerful and passionate live recording that brought joy to its many fans. The opening "Groove for Otis" (m1) with a jazz-funk whose edgy beat excites rare groove fans. "Our Groove" (m4) is also a fine track whichhas a slick bassline and Eugene'sorgan fusing in harmony. P-vine are very proud to be repressing this record with its intimate feeling akin to being there in the crowd as the mighty Peterson walks up to take center stage.

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Sam Cooke

Sam Cooke At The Copa

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Soul Album 180g Edition

Otis Redding

LP | 1966 | US | Reissue (Sundazed)

Release: 1966 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live At The Apollo Volume 2

James Brown

2LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Polydor)

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 gram vinyl!

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Roland Kirk

Rip, Rig & Panic

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in 1965 at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in New Jersey, Roland Kirk's album Rip, Rig and Panic finds him teamed with the most awesome rhythm section he ever recorded with: pianist Jaki Byard, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Elvin Jones. It received a 5 stars rating on AllMusic, with reviewer Thom Jurek stating that "Rip, Rig, and Panic may be pre-Rahsaan Roland Kirk's greatest outing. Kirk and his quartet moved through a series of musicological changes that defined him as an artist at the time. Five of the seven compositions are his, and reach through each of the phases that Kirk was interested in integrating into his compositional and improvisational voice. Positively smashing."

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LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

A Day In The Life

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissue of the debut album on A&M Records by jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1967. It reached #1 on the Billboard Jazz Album chart and #2 on the R&B chart. Considered by far the best of his three albums on A&M (in partnership with Creed Taylor’s CTI Records), A Day in the Life features a plethora of star sidemen, such as Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Ray Barretto, and Grady Tate, among others, as well as superb arrangements by Don Sebesky. The LP was masterfully engineered by Rudy Van Gelder.

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Antonio Carlos Jobim

Wave

LP | 1969 | WW | Reissue (Wienerworld)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissue of the 5th studio album by Brazilian jazz legend Antônio Carlos Jobim. Considered one of Jobim’s best albums, this masterpiece peaked at #5 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. It features a plethora of star sidemen, such as Dom Um Romão, Claudio Slon, Jerome Richardson, Ron Carter & Urbie Green, among others, as well as superb arrangements by Claus Ogerman.

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Dizzy Gillespie

Soul & Salvation

Release: 1969 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Oscar Peterson Trio Plays

The Oscar Peterson Trio

LP | 1964 | JP | Original (Verve)

Release: 1964 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

Fairport Convention

Unhalfbricking

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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What We Did On Our Holidays

Fairport Convention

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Proper)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

Charles Mingus

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Elemental Music)

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Love Cry Verve By Request Edition

Albert Ayler

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1968’s Love Cry mixes Albert Ayler’s free jazz with a catchy combination of nursery rhythms and brass band marches, resulting in a peak example of experimental jazz of the period. This was Ayler’s last recording with his brother, Donald, who keeps the pace fiery along with the rhythm section of bassist Alan Silva and drummer Milford Graves, and harpsichordist Call Cobbs.

Verve BY Request Series: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, gatefold sleeve.

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Yusef Lateef

Live At Pep's

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

A Hard Road

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Proper)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler On The Roof

Cannonball Adderley

LP | 1964 | US | Original (Capitol)

A Charlie Brown Christmas Gold Foil Limited Vinyl Edition

Release: 1964 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vince Guaraldi Trio

LP | 1965 | IT | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1965 / IT – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Is Alive And Well At The Whiskey

Hugh Masekela

LP | 1967 | US | Original (UNI)

John Mayall / John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

Release: 1967 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Diary Of A Band Volume Two

LP | 1968 | DE | Original (Decca)

Release: 1968 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Alive)

Doris Duke

I'm A Loser

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | UK | Reissue (ATCO)

Dr. John

Gris Gris

Release: 1968 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Columbia)

Thelonious Monk

It's Monk's Time

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Marcos Valle

Samba 68

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Elemental Music, together with Universal Music Spain presents a new vinyl reissue of “Samba ’68“, the only album released on the Verve label by prolific Brazilian singer Marcos Valle. In 1968, Valle was commissioned by Verve to record his Brazilian hits in English in order to capitalize on the then-huge Getz-Gilberto-Jobim-Mendes-Astrud market. Marcos’ rapid and stunning artistic growth is apparent on this brilliant Bossa Nova album. Fans of Sérgio Mendes and Astrud Gilberto (both of whom recorded tons of Valle tunes) will enjoy it immensely, for “Samba ’68” is definitely one of the ultimate “loungy” records. “Samba ‘68 is a vibrant set of Brazilian pop, indebted to bossa nova and samba but undeniably Americanized for a domestic audience. The result is a joyous album throughout that wears its dated sound quite well. Marcos Valle interprets eleven of his own songs, including Brazilian standards like ‘Chup Chup, I Got Away,’ ‘Batucada’ and ‘So Nice (Summer Samba),’ as well as new tracks like ‘Crickets Sing for Anamaria’ and ‘The Answer.’ The vocal harmonies of his wife (the Anamaria of the song title) provide a beautiful counterpoint to Valle’s voice on several tracks, making Samba ‘68 one of the best Brazilian crossovers of the 1960s.”(John Bush, AllMusic) Marcos Valle was the Renaissance man of Brazilian pop, a singer/songwriter/producer who straddled the country’s music world from the early days of the Bossa Nova craze well into the fusion-soaked sound of ‘80s Brazilian popular music. Though his reputation in America never quite compared to contemporaries like Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, or even Tom Zé. Valle is one of the most important and popular performers in the history of Brazilian pop.

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Richie Havens

Mixed Bag

Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mixed Bag is the debut studio album by Richie Havens, released in 1966. Mixed Bag is frequently cited as the singer's best work,[1] and was his first album to appear on Billboard's charts (appearing on both the jazz and pop charts). The recording was the first to introduce a wider audience to Havens's rich baritone vocals and the full-sound of Havens's distinct guitar style (thumb-chorded and played in open E tuning).[1] Electric Havens and Mixed Bag were two of the records reported among the personal collection of Havens' one-time Greenwich Village buddy, Jimi Hendrix.

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Eddie Gale

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

Pharoah Sanders

Jewels Of Thought

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Impulse!)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jewels of Thought is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. It was recorded at Plaza Sound Studios in New York City on October 20, 1969, and was released on Impulse! Records in the same year.

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John Coltrane

A Love Supreme

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

California Dreaming

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Released in 1967, California Dreaming was Wes Montgomery's last album for Verve (other than an exciting collaboration with Jimmy Smith). It’s an extraordinary orchestral date featuring arrangements by Don Sebesky that showcases soloists such as pianist Herbie Hancock and percussionist Ray Barretto. The songs (which include "Sunny" and the title tune "California Dreaming") are in this case mostly pop material of the era, from which the great performer extracts magic sounds. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard jazz album chart and No. 4 on the R&B chart, and was one of the last great works by Montgomery, whose later guitar style influenced jazz fusion and smooth jazz. At the peak of his popularity, the guitarist unexpectedly died of a heart attack on June 15, 1968, at the age of 45.

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Wynton Kelly

Smokin' At The Half Note

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An American jazz critic once said that Wes Montgomery was the "best thing that could happen to a guitar." Grand words, one might say quickly racking one's brains to come up with other great names. But after only a few minutes of listening to this live recording made in 1965 at the Half Note in New York, you will forget your brain-storming and concentrate on the unfused performance of this brilliant guitarist and the superb Wynton Kelly Trio. The music which gets down to the nitty-gritty, is always cool and straight with no fuss or frills getting in the way; the message comes over clearly--and it makes the blood surge through one's veins! This legendary session was recorded at a New York nightclub. It captures Montgomery at the height of his improvisational powers. Many consider it the best performance on record by one of the most inventive guitarists in jazz history.

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LP | 1966 | JP | Reissue (Verve)

California Dreaming

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Elemental / Universal)

Release: 1966 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ike & Tina Turner

The Hunter

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We Insist Clear Vinyl Edition

Max Roach

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An avant-garde masterpiece, a vocal-instrumental suite, a work of collective improvisation, directly addressing the racial and political issues of it’s day, We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite is one of the most important artistic statements of Civil Rights Movement and one of the most groundbreaking jazz albums of all time. Max Roach was already almost a decade into his career as one of the most influential jazz drummers and composers when he teamed up with lyricist Oscar Brown Jr. to collaborate on a piece they planned to perform at the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1963. Recorded just months after the February 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, the album stands as an early musical testament to the burgeoning rage, anger and passion that would take the Civil Rights Movement from its early victory in Montgomery in 1955 into a future that would dramatically alter race relations in the United States.

The second release from the newly launched New York City based jazz label Candid Records, and produced by label co-founder, famed music critic and social activist, Nat Hentoff, the album is a bold statement, focused on civil injustices in black history ranging from slavery to contemporary racial prejudices, and featuring some of the finest jazz musicians ever, including Abbey Lincoln, Coleman Hawkins, Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, and Michael Babatunde Olatunji.

The five movements of the work are organized as a historical progression through African-American history, a shape similar to the one in Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige. The Freedom Now Suite moves from slavery to Emancipation Day to the contemporary civil-rights struggle and African independence.

The LP includes extraordinary liner notes written by Hentoff himself, giving a context and insight that adds to the experience of hearing these magnificent performances.

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Max Roach

We Insist (Mono)

Buddy Rich And Alla Rakha

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rich A La Rakha Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Moder Harmonic)

Buddy Rich And Alla Rakha

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz snare & ride cymbal meet classical Indian tabla & pakhawaj!

What happens when one of the best jazz drummers of all time combines efforts with one of India’s most renowned tabla players? Voilà! Rich À La Rakha. Calypso-flavored compositions, spontaneous jams, and a genuine instrumental dialogue between the two greats truly makes this a one-of-a-kind listen.

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Rich A La Rakha Gren Vinyl Edition

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Moder Harmonic)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Toshiko Mariano

Toshiko Mariano Quartet

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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Phil Woods

Rights Of Swing

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When he first came on the scene, Phil Woods was often referred to as “The New Bird,” in a nod to the legendary Charlie Parker. A testament to his genius on the saxophone to be sure. But while obviously indebted to Parker - as all modern jazz saxophonists of a certain era were - there is no question that Phil Woods was an original. After earning a degree in music from Juilliard in the early 1950’s, Woods found himself in the orbit of the great Quincy Jones. At Jones’ invitation Woods joined Dizzy Gillespie’s infamous Jazz Ambassadors - a tour sponsored by the US State Department as part of a global cultural diplomacy initiative - and subsequently became a member of Jones’ own touring band. This recording, his 9th album as a band leader, consists entirely of Woods’ five-part Rights of Swing Suite. An ambitious large-scale composition based solidly on jazz traditions. A culmination of the influences the then 30 year artist had absorbed. Arguably considered one of Woods finest recordings, the record features a stellar section made up of Wood’s fellow Quincy Jones band members. (It should be noted that these same musicians, for the most part, are also the section on Benny Bailey’s Candid Records recording, Big Brass, recorded a a few months prior in November of 1960). Recorded at the Nola Penthouse Studios in New Your City on two dates in January and February of 1961, and conducted by Quincy Jones. The LP includes extraordinary liner notes by Candid A&R man and producer Nat Hentoff, and in-depth commentary from Woods himself, giving a context and insight that adds to the experience of hearing these extraordinary performances.

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Charles Mingus

Mingus

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At the time of this recording, Mingus had been working regularly with the piano-less quartet of Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond. The same group featured on the 1960 Candid release, Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus. The Mingus album, also recorded that year, features one track, "Stormy Weather," recorded with that same quartet, and two tracks recorded with a larger group featuring piano and additional horns. Of note, "mdm (Monk Duke & Me)” consumes the majority of this album. The piece consists of three intertwining themes - Duke Ellington's “Main Stem”, Thelonious Monk's “Straight, No Chaser”, and Mingus' “Fifty First Street Blues.” Released in 1961, and recorded in the fall of 1960 by Candid A&R and Producer Nate Hentoff at the Nola Penthouse Sound Studios. The LP includes extraordinary liner notes written by Hentoff, giving a context and insight that adds to the experience of hearing these magnificent performances.

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Bumpin'

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul Dressing Mono Clear Vinyl Edtion

Booker T. And The Mg's

LP | 1965 | US | Reissue (Jackpot)

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Yakhal’ Inkomo HHV Summer Of Jazz Exclusive Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 1965 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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All Analog Process From The Original Master Tapes. Cut by Kevin Gray. Long out of print 1965 Mono release. Featuring the legendary The Mar-Keys’ horn section. Includes the hit single "Soul Dressing". Limited Clear Vinyl Pressing

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Mankunku Quartet

LP | 1968 | UK | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

Jazz Impressions Of New York

Release: 1968 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition of 200 copies for the 2023 Summer of Jazz campaign, focused on South-African jazz. Only available at HHV.

The Mankunku Quartet's 1968 album 'Yakhal' Inkomo’ clocks in at just over 30 minutes of jazz perfection. This compact, and to-the-point, album would sit comfortably in amongst some of the best works in the catalogues of any of the quintessential jazz labels such as Blue Note, Prestige and Impulse. 'Yakhal' Inkomo’, however, was originally released on the South African record label World Record Co., which resulted in it becoming an elusive and sought-after piece for jazz collectors. First press copies sometimes fetch as much as £1,000 on the collectors' market. It has been long regarded as one of the finest South African jazz albums and DJ / broadcaster Gilles Peterson cemented this when he included it in his "best of genre" focussed radio show, 'The 20 - South African Jazz'. Tenor saxophonist Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi recorded the session on 23rd July 1968 at the Manley van Niekerk Studios, in Johannesburg. It was recorded by Dave Challen and produced by Ray Nkwe. The session is built up of two original works by Mankunku on the A-side, 'Yakhal' Inkomo' & 'Dedication (To Daddy Trane and Brother Shorter)', and on the B-side, the Horace Silver composition 'Doodlin', and a John Coltrane number 'Bessie's Blues'. What is striking is how the Mankunku-penned compositions not only hold their own next to Silver and Coltrane but they are, arguably, the better tracks on the record - a testament to the beautiful writing and playing of Mankunku. 'Yakhal' Inkomo' features the great musicians; Agrippa Magwaza on bass, drummer Early Mabuza, and pianist Lionel Pillay. Pillay was of Indian descent, making this a mixed-race group, thus the very recording of the album was an act of resistance as it broke the apartheid restrictions of the time. The title of 'Yakhal’ Inkomo' means “the bellow of the bull”, the Black audience would have understood this as coded community symbolism and an act of protest but it escaped the attention of the white government. For this edition, we have enlisted the services of Abbey Road Studios mastering, and lacquer-cutting engineer Miles Showell to cut a special half-speed master from the audio taken off the original master tapes. Miles has previously worked on our Arthur Verocai, Marcos Valle and Ian Carr re-issues, and once again we are blown away by the richness and clarity of Miles' work. We have also presented it as a replica copy using the cover artwork and labels from the primary World Record Co. original version. On the sleeve notes, Ray Nkwe the producer and the President of the Jazz Appreciation Society of South Africa writes "This is the LP that every jazz fan has been waiting for" and Ray was not wrong, it's a stone-cold timeless jazz classic.

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The Dave Brubeck Quartet

LP | 1965 | US | Original (Columbia)

The Drifters' Golden Hits

Release: 1965 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Drifters

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Atlantic)

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | NL | Original (Blue Horizon)

Duster Bennett

Bright Lights...

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Endless Happiness)

Release: 1969 / NL – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kashmere Stage Band

Our Thing

Eero Koivistoinen With Friends

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Self-released in 1969 ‘Our Thing’ is the debut album of the performing Houston unit known as Kashmere Stage Band. The Texas student band came together at the Kashmere High School and under the direction of musical director Conrad O. Johnson, released a series of cult album on Kram Records, before disbanding in 1978. Raw funk, that’s basically what they’ve been playing and clearly there was a blacksploitation feel all over the place, but their drive was quite unique. Rediscover the myth.

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Jappa: The Complete Jazz At The Polytechnicum Recordings 1967-1968

2LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Svart)

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Svart Mondo Release. Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl. By early 1960’s, jazz in its mainstream form had become the standard dance music for the student parties in high schools and several student union clubrooms in Helsinki. The Polytech union even organized matinée dances for high school students on Sundays. The change in the musical preference of young people’s dance music occurred with the arrival of British rock in the mid-sixties and this, of course, coincided with another cultural and musical development. As the new campus for the school was built in Otaniemi, Espoo in 1955-1966 and its operations gradually moved there, the modern style “Dipoli” building became the crowning edifice on the campus. It was to be the new home for the Polytech student union. When this controversial building was opened in 1966, it was meant to introduce a new vision of the future and constituted an embodiment of the modernist spirit of those times in the late 1960’s. This reissue of The Complete Jazz at the Polytechnicum recordings, done in 1967-68, also provides us with a glimpse of the modern directions of those days, not only in jazz music, but also in performance art. It is easy to hear that the main aesthetic in these performances was to break conventions and find new avenues for individual expression. The publisher of these recordings was the Jazz Society of the Tech Students, which was formed a little before these recordings. The name of the society was a take-off from Norman Granz’ Jazz at The Philharmonic and it became Jazz at the Polytechnicum. Both are, of course, abbreviated as J.A.T.P., which became formulated in musicians’ mouths into “Jappa”. This Svart Records re-issue consists of four EP-records in chronological order. The first three feature three jazz groups of the leading young players with their ages ranging from 21 to 30. The fourth one documents an avant-garde art “happening” held in Dipoli on March 20th – 24th 1968 called “Posotusta, pimputusta, pompotusta”, which could freely be translated as “Huff ‘n’ puff ‘n’ plonk”.

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Miles Davis

Miles In Tokyo

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Sony)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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'Miles in Tokyo' is a live album recorded on July 14, 1964, by the Miles Davis Quintet (featuring Sam Rivers, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams) at the Tokyo Kosei Nenkin Kaikan, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. It is the first recording of Davis in Japan and the only album to showcase an early incarnation of his Second Great Quintet featuring Sam Rivers on tenor saxophone, following George Coleman's departure. After this, Wayne Shorter's appointment completed the classic line-up which recorded such albums as 'ESP' and 'Miles Smiles', through to 'Miles in the Sky'. The legendary 'Miles in Tokyo' album is now available on vinyl in Europe for the first time. The heavyweight gatefold contains a 4 page-booklet glued inside, like the original 1969 Japanese LP version.

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Miles Davis

In A Silent Way

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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King Of The Delta Blues Singers

Robert Johnson

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Columbia)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The 3 & 4: New York Concert Record Store Day 2020 Edition

Jimmy Giuffre

2LP | 1965 | US | Original (Anagram Music)

Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated

Release: 1965 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Record Store Day 2020 Release.
Limitation: 1500 copies.

The remarkable 1965 New York Concerts performances offer a rare, revealing glimpse into the discographic dark period. This captivating double LP would be valuable solely for the brilliant music, which finds Jimmy Giuffre leading otherwise undocumented trio & quartet lineups, advancing his experiments in counterpoint and abstraction into more adventurous avant-garde territory. But it also offers insight into one of jazz's most innovative thinkers at a key moment in his development. 180-gram vinyl. LP1 / Side A - 1. Syncopate 2. Introduction 3. Crossroads LP1 / Side B - 1. Drive 2. Quadrangle 3. Angles LP2 / Side A - 1. Syncopate 2. Quadrangle 3. Three Bars In One LP2 / Side B - 1. Cry, Want 2. Angles 3. Drive

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Red Hot From Alex

LP | 1964 | UK (Trading Places)

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Sundazed)

Release: 1964 / UK

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alexis Korner's third album, originally released on the Transatlantic Label in 1964, after two live albums recorded at the Cavern at the Marquee, featuring his all-time hits 'Stormy Monday ' and Chicken Shack'. A true masterpiece from one of the godfathers of the white blues movement from the 60's.

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The Debutantes

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 1967 | US | Original (Pacific Jazz)

Booker Ervin

Structurally Sound

Irene Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1967 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: G+, Cover: G+

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Caetano Veloso

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Lilith)