Organic Grooves Vinyl 604 Items

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | Reissue (Blue Note)

Lee Morgan

The Gigolo

Release: 1965 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In Person At The Blackhawk

Miles Davis

2LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Impex)

62,99 €*

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mickey & The Soul Generation

Iron Leg

7" | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Gc Production)

12,99 €*

LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Tamla)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissued and remastered with replica artwork - the highly sort after classic rare groove track, 'Iron Leg' by DJ Shadow's favourite Funk band, Mickey & The Soul Generation.

Original copies trade hands for £125+. Black 7" dinked centre hole vinyl.

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Miracles

I'll Try Something

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Solid State)

Candido

Thousand finger man

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Duke)

Little Junior Parker

Driving Wheel

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Great Electric Show And Dance

Lightnin' Hopkins

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Jewel)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Blue Note)

Johnny Coles

Little Johnny C

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Excello)

Slim Harpo

Raining In My Heart

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (RCA)

Sonny Rollins

What's new?

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Cadet)

Ramsey Lewis Trio

Another voyage

15,99 €*

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lady Soul Clear Vinyl Edition

Aretha Franklin

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Rhino)

36,99 €*

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 1968 | UK | Reissue (Outta Sight)

Tobi Legend

Time Will Pass You By

Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album

Release: 1968 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Iconic 1968 Northern Soul Anthem, One Of The Famed “3 Before 8” As Played Every Sunday Morning At Wigan Casino During It’s 8 Year Reign Coupled With The Original Demo, Recorded By The Writers At The Impact Studio, Detroit, 1965

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Tony Bennett

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Sony Music Catalog)

26,99 €*

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gris Gris Colored Vinyl Edition

Dr. John

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Jackpot)

35,99 €*

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Tiger Bay)

Joki Freund Sextet

Yogi Jazz

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pastel Blues Back To Black Edition

Nina Simone

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

35,99 €*

LP | 1964 | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This 180g reissue comes with a download code.

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Wayne Shorter

Juju

Release: 1964 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

A Night In Tunisia

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Second)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Essential Carnegie Hall Concert 1956

Billie Holiday

LP | 1961 | UK | Reissue (Intermusic)

Release: 1961 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | Reissue (Jazz Samba)

Carlos Lyra

2nd Album

Release: 1961 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sings Latin In A Satin Mood

Julie London

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | EU (Endless Happiness)

Nara Leao

22,99 €*

LP | 1968 | EU (Trading Places)

Release: 1968 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nara Leão is known as "the muse of bossa nova”. Already as a teenager in the late 1950s, she became friends with several singers and composers who took part in Bossa Nova's musical revolution, including João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. By 1963, after singing as an amateur for a few years, she became a professional and toured with Sérgio Mendes. In 1968 she appeared on the album “Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses” together with artists including Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Os Mutantes and Gal Costa, performing "Lindonéia”, which appears as first track in this album, published in the same year.

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Ike & Tina Turner

So Fine

LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Lovers)

Release: 1968 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Among the most famous husband-and-wife soul duos of all time, Ike & Tina Turner scored an incredible array of hits in the 1960s and 70s, before Tina finally exited the partnership. The debut LP on the Pompeii label, So Fine dates from 1968, a couple of years after a support slot on a Rolling Stones tour boosted their profiles; in addition to a remake of early hit ‘A Fool In Love,’ there’s an awesome take of Johnny Otis’ ‘So Fine’ and a competent rendition of ‘Shake A Tail Feather.’ Tina is fully in her element, the Ikettes keep up the harmonic pressure, and producer Ike handles the rest. Recommended listening for all soul fans!

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Lightnin' Hopkins

Mojo Hand

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Not Now)

Max Roach

It's Time

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker

LP | 1963 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1963 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Seize The Time White Marble Vinyl Edition

Elaine Brown

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Vault)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Down With It! Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Blue Mitchell

LP | 1965 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

43,99 €*

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1965 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Trumpeter Blue Mitchell had a soulful, swinging style and was equally at home in jazz, R&B, and funk settings. This 1965 date featured his Horace Silver bandmates Junior Cook on tenor sax and Gene Taylor on bass along with a 24-year-old Chick Corea on piano and 22-year-old Al Foster on drums.

“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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Yusef Lateef

Live At Pep's

31,99 €*

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Charly)

Archie Shepp

Yasmina, A Black Woman

33,99 €*

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | Reissue (Not Now)

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd

Jazz Samba

26,99 €*

Release: 1962 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Atlantic)

Dusty Springfield

Dusty In Memphis

39,99 €*

LP | 1962 | EU (Survival Research)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 gram vinyl ... classic !

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Jeanne Lee And Ran Blake

The Newest Sound Around

Release: 1962 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Speak No Evil Blue Vinyl Edition

Wayne Shorter

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

LP | 1969 | WW | Reissue (Wienerworld)

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1964 was one of the most momentous years in the musical life of Wayne Shorter. Early in the year the saxophonist was still a member of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, appearing on classic Blue Note albums like Free for All and Indestructible. Shorter made his own auspicious label debut that spring with Night Dreamer and quickly recorded the impressive follow-up JuJu. That summer he joined the Miles Davis Quintet, cementing a line-up that would become one of the seminal bands in jazz history. And when Shorter entered Van Gelder Studio with Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Elvin Jones on Christmas Eve 1964 they created a masterpiece with Speak No Evil, a transcendent set of six Shorter originals including the swinging title track, “Witch Hunt,” and sublime ballad “Infant Eyes.”

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Dizzy Gillespie

Soul & Salvation

31,99 €*

Release: 1969 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Terumasa Hino Quintet

Hi-Nology

33,99 €*

I'll Be A Happy Man / Take A Trip Record Store Day 2023 Edition

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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Latin Blues Band

7" | 1968 | UK | Reissue (Speed)

Introducing George Guzman

Release: 1968 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissued for the first time ever on 7 inch, having previously only ever been on the Take A Trip Pussycat LP, Latin Blues Band - (I'll Be A) Happy Man. A dynamic dancefloor jazz and boogaloo belter from 1968, with a legendary piano riff and breakbeats that were most famously sampled by DJ Premier for Christina Aguilera’s classic ‘(Ain´t No Other Man)’. The B side houses another boogaloo bomb in the form of ‘Take A Trip’ that will set you back £80+ for an original copy. Yellow label version with white sleeve.

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George Guzman

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Get On Down)

LP | 1963 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It was 1968 when Fania Records President, Jerry Masucci, received a phone call from conguero George Guzman, inviting Jerry to listen to his band. Jerry turned the project over to Harvey Averne, who later reported to Jerry that the band was “out of sight” and suggested that Masucci sign them up. A short time later, things became complicated for George and his band. First of all, the lead singer was drafted into the military, leaving George high and dry. By the time a replacement was found, George learned that his trumpet player was leaving to join another orchestra, so the search was on for his replacement. One problem led to another and before you knew it several months had gone by before George was finally ready to enter the studio and begin recording. Thanks to George and Harvey’s perseverance, “Introducing George Guzman” was released in time for George to join the fray of Boogaloo bands that had brightened up the night scene in New York City in 1968. - Bobby Marin

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Thelonious Monk

Criss-Cross

Release: 1963 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Tony Bennett

At Carnegie Hall

69,99 €*

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is it, the live, double LP where the magical Tony Bennett created indelible memories! "Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall" is the Tony Bennett album to buy for any Bennett fan or those just introduced to his music. And you'll never hear or experience it presented in finer fashion than from this outstanding reissue by Analogue Productions and Quality Record Pressings!
We've given "Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall" the deluxe reissue treatment. Starting with premier mastering by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound from the original analog tapes. Then plating and presssing by Gary Salstrom and the crew at Quality Record Pressings, where the finest quality LPs in the world are pressed. But it doesn't stop there: We've expanded and enhanced the original studio photography, which was supplied by Sony to our graphic designers. And we've wrapped up the whole package in a deluxe 'old-school' tip-on gatefold jacket from Stoughton Printing!
Originally recorded in 1962, "Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall" is a testament to Bennett's live vocal ability, writes allmusic.com. Backed by the Ralph Sharon Orchestra, Bennett moves far beyond his standard musical catalogue.
Along with standards like "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" and "Just in Time", Bennett reached out to create great medleys such as "(I Like New York in June) How About You/April in Paris", that automatically become his as soon as they are performed. Altogether there are 30 tracks on the album. Most remarkable is the clarity of the recording of the concert. If not for the tremendous applause of the audience, you could swear that Bennett had recorded each track in the studio. A masterpiece!

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Thelonious Monk

Monk's Dream

LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (New Jazz)

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Monk's Dream is the first album jazz musician Thelonious Monk released on Columbia Records. Jazz scholars and enthusiasts alike also heralded this combo as the best Monk had been involved with for several years.

180g audiophile vinyl.

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Roland Alexander

Pleasure Bent

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Endless Happiness)

Tamba 4

Samba Blim

29,99 €*

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Impex)

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is the second incredible album which the Brazilian bossa combo did in the US for A&M Records, during the brief time when they were expanded to a quartet from the original Tamba Trio lineup. This album can be considered a masterpiece that combines their original style with American sophistication. The set is completely sublime. A wonderful mix of the group's trademark harmony vocals and crackling bossa rhythms, with the warmly flowing CTI production style of the time – not funky like the CTI sound of the 70s, but a bit more sophisticated than the style Creed Taylor had been using earlier at Verve. Tracks are short, breezy, and often very lively – bossa grooving warmed in the California sun.

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Bud Shank

Barefoot Adbenture

49,99 €*

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (T-Neck)

The Isley Brothers

The brothers: Isley

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Taru Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Lee Morgan

LP | 1968 | Reissue (Blue Note)

38,99 €*

Ibrahim Khalil Shihab Quintet

Release: 1968 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lee Morgan’s 1968 album "Taru" found the trumpeter at a crossroads exploring a variety of styles from modal jazz and post-bop to beautiful balladry and funky boogaloos. The band here is notable for the elevating presence of guitarist George Benson and the addition of tenor saxophonist Bennie Maupin.

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

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Spring

LP | 1968 | UK | Reissue (Matsuli)

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Workshop)

Release: 1968 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“South Africa’s lost jazz history contains many an overlooked classic. But even within that hidden tradition, there are few albums that suffered such an unlucky fate as Spring, the monumental 1968 debut album by pianist Ibrahim Khalil Shihab, formerly Chris Schilder.

Though Shihab was only twenty-two when Spring was recorded, he was already a lynchpin of the Cape Town scene, and the album was to be his first major statement as leader and composer. It is a magnum opus gilded by the presence of the upcoming saxophonist Winston ‘Mankunku’ Ngozi, who was soon to find huge acclaim with the hit album Yakhal’ Inkomo.

Three months of touring southern Africa in 1968 honed the band to the point that this entire album was recorded within the just two hours of allocated studio time. This album was repressed just once before the master tapes were destroyed by an ignorant record company executive. While it has remained out of print since then, the album was ‘kept alive’ as an ‘add-on’ to a 1996 CD of Mankunku’s Yakhal’ Inkomo. As a result, many modern jazz lovers still incorrectly believe these five compositions come from Yakhal’ Inkomo.

With this edition of Spring, Matsuli Music corrects an historic wrong. This edition of Shihab’s stunning debut, produced with the blessing of the man himself, is the first time it has been properly available in over forty years, and the first time it has ever been available outside South Africa. Restored and presented with new liner notes by Valmont Layne, Spring can now be seen for what it is: a peerless masterwork of Cape Jazz, blessed by the presence of the great Mankunku, but truly animated by the subtle vision and original musical spirit of its creator, Ibrahim Khalil Shihab.”

• The monumental 1968 debut album by pianist Ibrahim Khalil Shihab, formerly Chris Schilder.

• Almost lost recording is back on vinyl after more than 50 years.

• Heavyweight 180g vinyl with remastered audio, inner sleeve with photographs and new notes by Valmont Layne

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Joe Harriott Quintet

Free Form

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Going Back To The Village Of Love

Nathaniel Mayer

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Honeypie)

12,99 €*

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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American Rhythm 'n' Blues singer Nathaniel Mayer (1944-2008) is mostly remembered for his raw vocal timbre and for his particularly wild live act. Originally released in 1963 on Detroit based label Fortune Records, "Going Back To The Village Of Love" still sounds like an incredibly explosive hyper-energetic irreverent piece of pure Detroit sound.

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Pete La Roca

Basra

25,99 €*

LP+CD | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Schema)

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Underrated drummer’s 1965 album
His debut solo album and one of only two Blue Note albums as leader (the second emerged in 1997)
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio on 19th May 1965
Featuring Blue Note legend Joe Henderson on tenor, Steve Kuhn on piano and Steve Swallow on bass
Showcasing three fine La Roca originals (the title track, ‘Candu’, ‘Tears Come From Heaven’), Steve Swallow’s ‘Eiderdown’ and interesting takes on the standards ‘Malaguena’ and ‘Lazy Afternoon’
Produced by Alfred Lion
Includes a famous Reid Miles cover, plus photography by Francis Wolff and liner notes by Ira Gitler

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Piero Umiliani

Fischiando In Beat

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally released in 1969, “Fischiando in beat” presents twelve gems of instrumental beat music,
fabulous specimen of that music genre often labelled with the much-abused term ‘lounge’ – or ‘easy
listening’, if you prefer. Forget about the experimental “Synthi Time”: here you can only breathe an
incredible desire for fun and dream of the late 60s, Rome and its exclusive cocktail party.

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Free For All

LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Blue Note)

15,99 €*

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Lightnin' Hopkins

Mojo Hand

LP | 1969 | UK | Reissue (Charly)

Release: 1962 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Forget lightning in a bottle, we have Lightnin' on a vinyl! Recorded in New York in 1960 with famed producer Bobby Robinson, Mojo Hand is considered by many to be one of the finest blues records of all time. Since P-vine reissued it for the first time ever in 1983, word of the record’s quality quickly spread, with original copies now selling for thousands of dollars on the second hand market! Whether it’s the boogie of title song “Mojo Hand”, or the low and slow blues of “Have You Ever Loved a Woman”, the Lightnin’s acoustic blues is soulful. Don’t miss Mojo Hand, available for the first time ever on limited edition red vinyl with an obi-strip, only from P-vine Records.

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Don Cherry

Mu. First Part

32,99 €*

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans

Know What I Mean Original Jazz Classic Series

LP | 1961 | Reissue (Concord)

38,99 €*

Release: 1961 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Gene Ammons

Nice An' Cool

53,99 €*

Medina Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This 1961 set of standards, favoring ballads, is Gene Ammons in his prime. For the most part, this session is tight and structured, keeping Ammons firmly locked in the groove more so than on some of his more wandering dates. His big-as-a-house tone stands center stage in front of a sympathetic piano-bass-drums trio of Richard Wyands, Doug Watkins and J.C. Heard, respectively.

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Bobby Hutcherson

LP | 1969 | Reissue (Blue Note)

38,99 €*

LP | 1965 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1969 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bobby Hutcherson’s cutting-edge 1969 session "Medina" found the vibraphonist with a remarkable band featuring Harold Land on tenor saxophone & flute, Stanley Cowell on piano, Reggie Johnson on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums. The set presents original compositions by Hutcherson, Cowell, and Chambers.
BLUE NOTE TONE POET EDITION: Stereo, produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analogue master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a single sleeve with deluxe tip-on jacket.

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Sarah Vaughan

Sarah +2

Release: 1965 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | Reissue (20th Century Masterworks)

John Coltrane

Plays The Blues

Release: 1962 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It's Monk's Time Translucent Vinyl Edition

Thelonious Monk

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Ascensionale)

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL
HIS 1964 ALBUM FEATURING “STUFFY TURKEY”
RECORDED WITH BUTCH WARREN, BEN RILEY, CHARLIE ROUSE,
AND TEO MACERO

60TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF 1500 INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED
COPIES ON TRANSLUCENT RED COLOURED VINYL

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Jorge Lopez Ruiz

B.A. Jazz

39,99 €*

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Culture Factory)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jorge López Ruiz is one of most versatile of musical talents to emerge from Argentina. As a bass player, composer, performer and arranger he has worked across many genres including jazz, pop as well as stage productions and feature films. The "B.A. Jazz" album has been a rarity for years and original pressings attract huge amounts from collectors. It's rarity is matched by the fantastic music contained with its grooves. It's a genuinely important record in the development of jazz in South America.

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Foundations

Build Me Up Buttercup

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1964 | UK | Reissue (Kent)

Jimmy Hughes

Steal Away

Turkish Delight Clear Vinyl Edtion

Release: 1964 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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colored vinyl

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Oudi Hrant

LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Sowing)

Ballads UHQR (Ultra High Quality Record) 2LP 200g 45rpm Vinyl Deluxe Limited Edition Box Set

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blind musician Hrant Kenkulian (1901-1978), generally known as Oudi Hrant was a master of the oud (fretless lute) who was probably best known for his taksims. He was an Armenian born in Adapazar, a city close to Istanbul which had a large Armenian population before the Genocide of 1915. After WWI, Hrant's family settled in Istanbul. Hrant started out singing in the church choir, but soon moved on to the oud. He made his career in Istanbul, but he toured the US in 1950, and did a world tour in 1963 to Paris, Beirut, Greece, America, and Yerevan, Soviet Armenia. He was a teacher of many Armenian-American oudists including Richard Hagopian. He was the pride of the Armenian people, and many consider him to be the most soulful oudist ever to emerge from Turkey. Released in 1964 on jazz label Prestige the record shows the stunning classical inspiration of the musician.

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John Coltrane

2LP | 1963 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

201,99 €*

LP | 1961 | JP | Reissue (Teichiku)

Release: 1963 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Coltrane Quartet — Ballads
Analogue Productions' UHQR, the pinnacle of high-quality vinyl!
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Includes a 12" x 12" 12-page booklet featuring liner notes by Ashley Kahn and recording session images by Jim Marshall

Audiophile reviews rave about saxophone master John Coltrane's immortal Impulse! records, A Love Supreme (1964) and Ballads (1963). Ballads is an album that will never go out of style and never be unwelcome on any jazz lover's turntable.

You're about to experience Ballads at its peak of vinyl perfection — in UHQR format on Clarity Vinyl, with the added bonus of a double 45 RPM cut by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound. Ryan's cut has his characteristic clarity and transparency all set against Quality Record Pressing's usual noiseless backgrounds on 200-gram flawless records. Each UHQR will be packaged in a deluxe box and will include a booklet detailing the entire process of making a UHQR along with a hand-signed certificate of inspection. This will be a truly deluxe, collectible product.

For this 45 RPM 2LP edition you'll also receive a !2" x 12" 12-page booklet featuring liner notes by Ashley Kahn and recording session images by Jim Marshall.

The intense passionate Coltrane interpretation of standards such as "All Or Nothing At All," "What's New," "It's Easy To Remember" and the Sinatra classic "Nancy (With The Laughing Face)" are the essence of Ballads. When asked why attempt such an undertaking, Coltrane replied "Variety."

While it may have been a short detour by Trane before he exploded off into the nether regions of jazz music a few years later, it is still a fantastic document of one of the premier jazz groups of the 1960s.

Recorded December 21, 1961 and September 18 & November 13, 1962 at Rudy Van Gelder Studios.

"It's impossible to sleepwalk through tracks like "You Don't Know What Love Is" and "I Wish I Knew" and impart them with even a fraction of the emotional heft that the Quartet achieves. This is the type of jazz album in which the music just washes over the listener with it's restrained grace and beauty, and while it may not have the adventurousness that some listeners think Trane should have had each and every time he recorded, I'd say it shows off a side of him that only makes us appreciate his more bold and daring albums even more." — The Jazz Record

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Hideo Shiraki

In Fiesta

52,99 €*

Release: 1961 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

Miles Davis

My Funny Valentine

48,99 €*

Release: 1965 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | UK | Reissue (Matsuli)

Gideon Nxumalo

Gideon Plays

26,34 €* 30,99 € -15%

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Bija)

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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• Long lost 1968 album from visionary South African jazz composer incorporating traditional African music sources and instruments.

• Officially licensed from the Nxumalo family and reissued with inner sleeve containing archival photographs and new liner notes by Francis Gooding.

Gideon Nxumalo’s Gideon Plays might just be the most mythologised and sought-after LP in the whole South African canon. A sophisticated bop excursion with a distinctive African edge, it was only Nxumalo’s second LP as leader, despite his crucial place in South African jazz history. Pianist Nxumalo was a visionary jazz composer who had recorded regularly during the 1950s, and his 1962 Jazz Fantasia album was the first South African jazz recording to incorporate traditional African musical sources and instruments. But he was also the country’s most significant radio presenter and jazz tastemaker – from 1954 onwards, he had worn the nickname ‘Mgibe’ to introduce ‘This Is Bantu Jazz’, South African radio’s premier jazz show. But in the aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre in 1961, Nxumalo had been side-lined from radio play, and was eventually sacked for playing records with political meanings. By 1968, he had not been heard on record or airwave for several years. Gideon Plays was a celebrated return to the studio for one of South Africa’s best loved and most forward-thinking jazzmen, and it showcases Nxumalo’s deep understanding of jazz, his brilliant touch as a composer, and his commitment to bringing South Africa’s indigenous sound into the music. However, it was released on the tiny JAS Pride label owned by production impresario Ray Nkwe, and after one pressing in 1968, Gideon Plays fell into the undeserved silence that has obscured so much of the South African jazz discography. It has since become a legend: hardly more than a rumour, it has been bootlegged by the unscrupulous, changed hands for eye-watering sums, and has scarcely been heard outside the circles of the most committed South African jazz devotees. It goes without saying that it has never been released outside South Africa, and even now only a handful of original copies are known to have survived. Over the last ten years, Matsuli Music has been proud to present some of the greatest lost and found jazz recordings in South African history – but we have never presented a rarer, lesser known album than the mighty Gideon ‘Mgibe’ Nxumalo’s Gideon Plays.

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Michael Gregory Jackson

Clarity

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Dr. John

Gris Gris

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Brunswick)

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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His grandmother is purported to have transported objects using her spiritual powers and it is said that she sometimes floated through the room. Her grandson Malcolm Rebenneck was fully aware of his unique features when he appeared under the name of Dr. John, a voodoo healer in the 19th century, and was the first person to transcend from pitch-black spheres to psychedelic music as its high priest, so to speak.
In the seven magical musical numbers of "Gris-gris", the root doctor conjures up a potent mixture of creole melodies, primeval heathen sounds, a pinch of mardi-gras and New Orleans jazz and even undreamt-of sounds. "Gumbo Ya Ya", a dragging procession with archaic sing-song, shows that suggestive Afro sounds are what rule in this album. And to play with them, to soften them here and there, or to enhance them with dance-like expression and voices from afar ("Danse Fambeaux") is all part of the programme in this collection of artistic treasures. In between raspy sounds there are flattering, intimate tones such as the springy, gentle and forward-looking "Croker Courtbullion".
The equation Witchcraft = Masterwork certainly applies to this unrivalled album, which is listed at No. 143 in the 500 Greatest Albums of all Time by the magazine Rolling Stone.

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: 1967 at Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles
Production: Harold Battiste

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Barbara Acklin

Seven days of night

27,99 €*

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | EU (Survival Research)

Etta James

At Last!

Release: 1961 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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I Got 'Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues

Janis Joplin

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

41,99 €*

LP | 1963 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g

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Hank Mobley

No Room For Squares

Release: 1963 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Supraphon)

Marta Kubisova

Songy A Balady

26,99 €*

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Together Original Master Mono

Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells

LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Motown)

36,99 €*

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Motown)

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vinyl LP pressing.

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The Temptations

Cloud Nine

36,99 €*

Gladys Knight And The Pips

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vinyl LP pressing.

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Gladys Knight & The Pips

LP | 1965 | UK | Reissue (Reel)

22,99 €*

Release: 1965 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Soulgramma)

Whispers

Planets Of Life

Harlem Street Singer Limited Edition +2 Bonus Tracks

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Formed in 1964 in Watts, California, U.S. and based in Los Angeles, the original members were the texan twin brothers Wallace Scott and Walter Scott plus Gordy Harmon, Marcus Hutson and Nicholas Caldwell. In 1973 Gordy Harmon injured his larynx in a driving accident and was replaced by Leaveil Degree. Planets Of Life was the result of the incoming change, a vocal soul-funk masterpiece from a renewed harmony group. Often compared to the Isley Brothers, due to Scotty Scott vocal similarities to Ronald Isley, the band was an excellent r&b combo, turning lately into an electric funk vibe with a clear Temptations twist.

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Blind Gary Davis

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Blues Joint)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soft Winds: The Swinging Harp Of Dorothy Ashby Clear Vinyl Edition

Dorothy Ashby

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Sowing)

The Max Roach Trio Feat. The Legendary Hasaan

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited Clear Vinyl edition, 300 copies! Dorothy Ashby album from 1961 that also features female vibes player Terry Pollard. Comes with a version of The Skatalites 'Guns of Navarone' which is a pretty surreal listening experience. From the original liner notes: "Dorothy Ashby may not be the first jazz harpist (Caspar Reardon) or the first female jazz harpist (Adele Girard), but her good feeling for time and ability to construct melodic, guitar-like lines, mark her as the most accomplished modern jazz harpist (...) Accompanying her was another Detroit girl, Terry Pollard. Terry's main instrument is the piano and she is one of the best in the country, bar none. She is also a pretty fair country vibraharpist and in this set, Miss Pollard plays vibes exclusively. With them is still another Detroiter, Herman Wright, who like Miss Pollard has worked with Terry Gibbs and Yusef Lateef, and who also served as Miss Ashby's regular bassist. (...) Completing the quartet is Jimmy Cobb, drummer for the Miles Davis group. During the proceedings, Cobb travels between brushes and sticks without upsetting the equilibrium of this essentially quiet set. There is wide range of material presented here, from blues like Benny Goodman's title number, 'Soft Winds', and Miss Ashby's 'With Strings Attached', to movie themes such as 'Laura', 'Wild Is the Wind', and 'The Guns Of Navarone'. Then there are works by such superior writers of standards as Kurt Weill ('My Ship'); Gershwin ('The Man I Love' and 'Love Is Here To Stay')"

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The Max Roach Trio

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Steamin' 180g Vinyl Edition

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hardly any other musician has released so little as Hasaan Ibn Ali, born William Henry Langford Jr., in 1931, who died in 1980. Just seven titles in all are his complete output, all of which he composed himself, all of them on the present Atlantic LP, and all recorded in December 1964. The saxophonist Odean Pope, who often practised with him, talks of a second recording session in 1965 for Atlantic, but the recordings were never released because Hasaan was sent to jail shortly afterwards; rumour has it that the tapes were destroyed in a fire – and it might well be that recordings with John Coltrane still exist somewhere or other.
Until then, one should enjoy the Max Roach Trio with Art Davis on the bass to the full. We have here a recording that will astound and fascinate your ears with its originality. A first impression conjures up reminiscences of Cecil Taylor and Herbie Nichols, while Hasaan himself talks of the pianist Elmo Hope as the man who brought him closer to the 'mystery of music'. When asked how the recording session with maestro Max Roach went, Hasaan said: »They scared me to death.«
According to Odean Pope, Hasaan was not an easy person to get on with, and he was convinced of his talent to the point of arrogance. But despite this – or perhaps because of this – one listens spellbound to the 40 minutes on this LP, a legacy and never-fulfilled promise of an extremely talented man. We are indebted to Max Roach, who persuaded the bosses of Atlantic Records to make these recordings. For many, many years they had vanished from the record market, but fortunately they are now available as an audiophile re-release to be listened to and admired.

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.

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Miles Davis

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Dol)

15,99 €*

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1964 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Jimmy Smith

The Cat

24,64 €* 28,99 € -15%

Release: 1964 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1963 | EU (Survival Research)

Albert Ayler

Something Different!!!

17,99 €*

Standard Coltrane Back To Black Edition

Release: 1963 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Unorthodox saxophonist Albert Ayler straddled different jazz streams during his brief career. After playing with Stanley Turrentine and Harold Budd in the late 1950s, a move to Sweden brought him into the limelight, fronting his own trio. Debut album Something Different!!!!!! comprised four dissonant songs delivered live with bassist Torbjörn Hultcrantz and drummer Sune Spångberg, with a barely recognisable rendition of showtune “I’ll Remember April,” an off-kilter take of Sonny Rollins’ “The Stopper” (retitled “Rollins’ Tune”) and a wobbly cut of Miles Davis’ “Tune Up,” along with the original “Free.” An exceptional musical experience!

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John Coltrane

LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Prestige)

21,99 €*

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Workshop)

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g vinyl including download code.

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Paul Gonsalves

Gettin' Together

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Blues And The Abstract Truth Limited Edition

Oliver Nelson

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Soundsgood)

22,99 €*

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Oscar Peterson

Motions & Emotions

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Ella Fitzgerald

Sunshine Of Your Love

21,24 €* 24,99 € -15%

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Sidewinder Blue Note 85 Collection Blue Vinyl Edition

Lee Morgan

LP | 1964 | WW | Reissue (Blue Note)

Somethin' Else Blue Note 85 Collection Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 1964 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nobody had expected the extraordinary success of this album and its funky title track. When Blue Note released trumpeter Lee Morgan's “The Sidewinder” in 1964, the label “only” pressed 4,000 copies, but they were completely sold out within three days. The instrumental album reached number 25 in the pop charts and number 10 in the rhythm'n'blues charts, while the soul-jazzy title track, which was shortened for that, was also successful as a single. The album, recorded with tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, pianist Barry Harris, bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Billy Higgins, is now a classic album that should be in every jazz collection.

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Cannonball Adderly

LP | 1964 | WW | Reissue (Blue Note)

LP | 1968 | UK | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1964 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Is that what you wanted, Alfred?” we hear in Miles Davis’ unmistakable rasp at the end of “One for Daddy-O,” making it clear that the legendary (and assertive) trumpeter was not just playing the role of sideman on Somethin’ Else, the sole Blue Note album by Cannonball Adderley. The alto saxophonist was a memb¬er of Davis’ band at the time and the depth of their musical camaraderie lifts this session up to rarefied heights throughout, from the breathtaking performance of “Autumn Leaves” that opens the album to the thrilling call-and-response theme of the title track. Pianist Hank Jones, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Art Blakey round out the quintet on this timeless classic.

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Yusef Lateef

The Blue Yusef Lateef

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Bear Family)

Release: 1968 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"The Blue Yusef Lateef" - Yusef Lateef (ts, fl, perc, voc); Sonny Red (as); Blue Mitchell (tp); Kenny Burrell (g); Hugh Lawson (p); Buddy Lucas (hca); Cecil McBee, Bob Cranshaw (b); Roy Brooks (dr); strings and vocal group

Yusuf Lateef was a leading representative of world music, long before world music was known as such in the jazz, pop and rock community. He integrated all kinds of oriental instruments in his jazz music, such as the koto, bamboo flute and tambura and also – as in this case – in his blues compositions. His saxophone playing is also flawless too and full of wonderful textures, hard and impulsive at one moment, cool and exotic at the next.
On this album Lateef explores, in a painterly way, the border areas of the blues, in all their various guises and addresses both eastern and western cultures. "Juba Juba" begins with a drumbeat on a slave ship, the tempo builds up slowly and agonizingly, and is only penetrated by Lateef’s plaintive flute and background voices singing »freedom, freedom, freedom«. After such a gloomy beginning the classical blues number "Like It Is" comes over like a breath of fresh air, with its superb string quartet as the foundation. The R&B contributions on the other tracks testify to Lateef’s skilled excursions into the realm of the blues, while the truly adventurous tracks such as "Back Home" and the mystic, Chinese odyssey "Moon Cup" weave a magical net of sheer pleasure. "The Blue Yusef Lateef" is in every possible way absolutely breathtaking. It is a milestone as a jazz album. As a blues album it is quite unique. But as a musical work of art it is a glorious and genial masterpiece.

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: April 1968 in RCA Studios, New York City by Ray Hall
Production: Joel Dorn

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Etta James

Tell Mama