Organic Grooves Vinyl 596 Items

LP | 1969 | EU (Endless Happiness)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A deep dive into the one of most collectable jazz catalogues in the world, a selection of some of the rarest and most sought-after recordings from the 60s and 70s, a time when British jazz began to find its own identity. Drawn from the iconic labels of Decca, Deram, Argo, EMI Columbia/Lansdowne Series, Fontana, Mercury, & Philips. Kenny Wheeler was born Canada in 1930 and, with encouragement from his father - himself a trombone player - began playing trumpet at age 12. After studying at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory, he arrived in London in 1952, his playing enveloped in the sounds of Miles Davis, Booker Little, and Fats Navarro. In 1959, Wheeler joined the Johnny Dankworth Orchestra and stayed there until 1963, although he returned frequently for shows and other projects in the years that followed. He quickly become a distinguished soloist in the Orchestra and appeared on Dankworth’s key sixties albums. Wheeler met and played with the rising artists of London’s free jazz scene. Players such as Trevor Watts, Derek Bailey, and Evan Parker, musicians who would challenge the conventions of the day, eschewing formal composition and structure to embark on group improvisation. For a musician thoroughly schooled in all the conventions of charts and dance bands as Wheeler was, this was a radical departure. Wheeler’s contributions proved his ample flexibility and showed he was capable of inhabiting both the free environment and the more formal and controlled settings of a big band and orchestra. This was shown most clearly on his debut album, Windmill Tilter, recorded for Fontana with the John Dankworth Orchestra. The album features a young John McLaughlin on guitar along with bassist Dave Holland and a roster of talented and well respected musicians playing on one of the greatest modern jazz big band and orchestral albums.

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Jimmy Ruffin

Ruff 'N Ready

Original Grooves: Ella In Berlin: Mack The Knife / Summertime Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 1969 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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All killers and no fillers on this fabulous 1969 Motown masperpiece. It is a shame that Jimmy lived in the shadow of those other Motown singers such as Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. It really is one of Motown's best albums!

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Ella Fitzgerald

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue

15,99 €*

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Life Goes On)

Hal Blaine

Psychdelic Percussion

The Drifters' Golden Hits

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Psychedelic Percussion definitely sticks to his title. With the help from Paul Beaver of Beaver & Krause (famous keyboard wizard and sound engineer for the likes of Stevie Wonder), vibe master Emil Richards (check is two fantastic album on Impulse! with The Microtonal Blues Band featuring Joe Porcaro, father of the famed Toto brothers) and Gary Coleman (percussionist in the famous Wrecking Crew), Blaine goes wild in the studio with drums, gong, xylophone, organ, bongos, congas and timpani. Unusual textures and tones lead the way to 12 instrumental exotic numbers similar in a way to Raymond Scott most visionary experiments. This is pure madness, a record full of breaks and still unsurpassed in many ways. Blaine was an American drummer and session musician, estimated to be among the most recorded studio drummers in the history of the music industry, claiming over 35,000 sessions and 6,000 singles. His drumming is featured on 150 US top 10 hits, 40 of which went to number one, as well as many film and television soundtracks. He became one of the regular players in Phil Spector's de facto house band, which Blaine nicknamed "the Wrecking Crew". Some of the records Blaine played on include the Ronettes' single "Be My Baby" (1963), which contained a drum beat that became widely imitated, as well as works by popular artists such as Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, the Carpenters, Neil Diamond and the Byrds.

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The Drifters

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Atlantic)

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At The Village Gate Colored Vinyl Edition

Nina Simone

LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (American Jazz Classics)

18,99 €*

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bacchanal Black Vinyl Edition

Gabor Szabo

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Ebalunga!!!)

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Dexter Gordon & Slide Hampton

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The long-awaited reissue of this rare Eastern and psychedelic Jazz LP by the famous Hungarian guitarist, originally released in 1968.

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A Day In Copenhagen

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

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Workshop)

Harold Land

The Fox

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Workshop)

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Due to his decision to settle in Los Angeles, tenor saxophonist Harold Land has long been underrated. A strong bop stylist who later on would be influenced a great deal by John Coltrane, Land in 1959 had a sound closer to Sonny Rollins. For this excellent straight-ahead quintet set with trumpeter Dupree Bolton and pianist Elmo Hope, Land performs four of Hope's superior but little-known compositions along with two of his own. This is high-quality hard bop, easily recommended to fans of straight-ahead jazz." Scott Yanow -All Music Guide

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Harold Land

West Coast Blues!

Eastward Ho! Harold Land In New York

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"[...] Tenor saxophonist Harold Land leads an all-star sextet that includes guitarist Wes Montgomery, trumpeter Joe Gordon, pianist Barry Harris, bassist Sam Jones and drummer Louis Hayes. Together, they perform three of Land's originals, "Don't Explain," and Charlie Parker's "Klactoveedsedstene," and an early version of Montgomery's "West Coast Blues." The music is as well-played and swinging as one would expect from this superior bop group." Scott Yanow -All Music Guide

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Harold Land

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Workshop)

LP | 1968 | EU (Survival Research)

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Tenor saxophonist Harold Land and trumpeter Kenny Dorham make for a potent front line on this session, a superior hard bop set. With an obscure and quietly boppish rhythm section (pianist Amos Trice, bassist Clarence Jones, and drummer Joe Peters) giving suitable backup, Land and Dorham stretch out on five selections, most notably Cole Porter's "So in Love," "On a Little Street in Singapore," and Land's "O.K. Blues," which was dedicated to producer Orrin Keepnews. A fine effort that serves as a strong example of Harold Land's early work." Scott Yanow -All Music Guide

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Senor Soul

Plays Funky Favourites

16,99 €*

Springtime / I Am Satisfied

Release: 1968 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Before there was War there was Señor Soul, which saxophonist/flutist Charles Miller formed in Long Beach, California; he played on Brenton Wood sessions for Double Shot, who released their loose interpretation of Miriam Makeba’s ‘Pata Pata,’ the hit that led to this blinding debut LP. Blending funk, Latin jazz and psychedelic soul, the group makes a range of material their own, led by Miller and vibraphonist Edwin Stevenson; everything from Heard It Through The Grapevine to Psychotic Reaction gets the Señor Soul treatment, rendered with equal doses of sensitivity, humour and funky flavour. Long before Miller recruited members of Nightshift to morph Señor Soul into War, this top-notch debut is a stone-cold winner from first note to last, a must-have for all funk and Latin jazz afficionados.

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Jimmy Thomas / Owen Grey

7" | 1969 | EU | Reissue

13,99 €*

Mutantes Bottle Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Deep/Mod Funk heavy hitter previously comped on Le Beat Bespoke and a deep Jamaican Soul cut increasingly in-demand among progressive Northern/Rare Soul deejays.

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Os Mutantes

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Lovers)

20,89 €* 21,99 € -5%

El Grito (Suite Para Orquesta De Jazz)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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One album into their career in 1969, Mutantes showed few signs of musical burnout after turning in one of the oddest LPs released in the '60s. Similar to its predecessor, Mutantes relies on an atmosphere of experimentation and continual musical collisions, walking a fine line between innovation and pointless genre exercises. The lead track ("Dom Quixote") has the same focus on stylistic cut-and-paste as their debut LP's first track ("Panis et Circenses"). Among the band's musical contemporaries, Mutantes sounds similar only to songs like the Who's miniature suite "A Quick One While He's Away" -- though done in three minutes instead of nine, and much more confusing given the language barrier. The album highlights ("Nao Va Se Perder por Ai") and ("Dois Mil e Um") come with what sounds like a typically twisted take on roots music (both Brazilian and American), complete with banjo, accordion, and twangy vocals. Though there are several other enjoyable tracks, including "Magica" and a slap-happy stomp called "Rita Lee," there's a palpable sense that the experimentation here isn't serving much more than its own ends. If the first album's relentless eclecticism did in fact occasionally result in dry passages, it's especially true here

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Jorge Lopez Ruiz

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Endless Happiness)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Be With is delighted to present Jorge López Ruiz’s El Grito (Suite Para Orquesta De Jazz), eternal Argentinian magic released on CBS in 1967 that must be one of the most sought-after South American jazz LPs. Living in Buenos Aires in the 60s, driven by creative impulse and rage Jorge López Ruiz used music as his platform to protest the Argentine military dictatorship: “I could never stand dictatorships, to be told how you have to think, what you have to do. Nor did I endure discrimination”. A young López Ruiz had appeared on a television panel alongside writer, politician and philosopher Arturo Jauretche, criticising the Onganía dictatorship. Jauretche told López Ruiz “Now say it with music”. This was the deep inhale that lead to El Grito, literally “The Scream”. As López Ruiz later explained “Jauretche urged me that my protests should not remain in words and acquire the consistency of a work… but it was not so much what he told me but how he told me, what prompted me to make the work take shape, first in a live concert and then in a recording”. As the police and military began resorting to kidnapping, torture and summary executions to quiet dissent, with depressing inevitability the artist community and their work were a particular target of the increasingly brutal regime. El Grito was banned not long after it was released and the majority of original copies were unceremoniously destroyed. The work of a genius artist living under an opressive dictatorship, erased by the government of the time, this is buried treasure in every sense and it’s been a rare record for over 50 years.

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Kashmere Stage Band

Our Thing

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Polysom)

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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Brazilian Octopus

39,99 €*

LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Not Now)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The only LP from the group Brazilian Octopus, featuring Hermeto Pascoal and Nilson da Matta. Originally released in 1969 on the Fermata label. Rare in its original format, a much welcomed re-issue from the Polysom label. Deep soul-funk grooves meet library-esque progressive cinematics and psychedelics meet jazz dance jams! Full range.

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Max Roach

It's Time

17,99 €*

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eero Koivistoinen With Friends

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

2LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Svart)

Mickey & The Soul Generation

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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Iron Leg

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

Mike Westbrook Concert Band

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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Celebration

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Audio Clarity)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

McCoy Tyner

The Real McCoy

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Presenting Joe Williams And Thad Jones / The Mel Lew

Joe Williams

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Culture Factory)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ain't That Terrible / A Change Is Gonna Come

Roy Redmond

7" | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Harlem Shuffle)

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Not Now)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Very little is known about Roy Redmond besides the fact he recorded 4 songs and 2 singles in 1967 for Loma Records, a Warner Bros subsidiary that is well known by Norther Soul/6os Soul aficionados. Redmond's largest success is probably his soulful cover of The Beatles 's "Good Day Sunshine", considered by some as one of the best Beatles covers. His other single is a more obscure affair featuring on the A side "Ain't That Terrible" and on the flip "A Change Is Gonna Come", a very fine cover of the Sam Cooke's classic - beautiful stuff. The A side "Ain't That Terrible" is a stylish, uptempo, relentless Northern Soul piano stomper that will get Soul fans up and moving their moneymakers in no time! Relatively unknown, this track is on par with the greatest numbers of the genre such as Lou Pride's "I'm coming home in the morning" or Bob and Earl's "Harlem Shuffle". This is pure underground Northern Soul at its absolute best. To be played often and... Loud. Keep the faith!

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John Lee Hooker

That's My Story

20,99 €*

We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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There is little doubt that John Lee Hooker was one of the most commercially successful blues artists that ever lived. He rose above his contemporaries with worldwide hit records and a particularly long series of albums, and a career that lasted for over sixty years. He was always prolific and attracted other artists to collaborate with him without ever losing his own highly distinctive style. One of the real and lasting strengths of "That's My Story" as an album is in its immediacy. Orrin Keepnews knew just how to use studio microphone placement to make the listener feel right in the middle of the session. Nothing extraneous is used to move John Lee away from you, making it evident that the producer's original intention with the album has certainly been fulfilled. No wonder that this laid-back work, so quickly recorded, has stood the test of time as one of John Lee Hooker's most revered records.

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Max Roach

LP | 1960 | EU (Sowing)

20,99 €*

King Of The Delta Blues Singers

Release: 1960 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the major statements in the history of Jazz and African American liberation movements. Originally released in 1960 on Candid Records, Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite consists of five original compositions and performances staging and celebrating different moments and aspects of the African American history and culture. Here is a wonderful cast of musicians reunited around Max Roach – drums and Abbey Lincoln – vocals. Throughout the album you can find great contributions from the likes of Booker Little – trumpet, Julian Priester – trombone, Walter Benton – tenor saxophones, James Schenk – bass and three percussionists Michael Olatunji, Raymond Mantilla and Tomas du Vall. Highlights include the highly intense triptych for Drum and Voice by Roach & Lincoln and a special appearance of tenor sax giant Coleman Hawkins on the opening Driva Man.

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Robert Johnson

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Columbia)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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I Caught You In A Lie Record Store Day 2020 Edition

Robert Parker

7" | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Nola)

11,99 €*

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

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Record Store Day 2020 Release. Finally, after 53 years, “I Caught You In A Lie” is now rightly regarded as one the Great New Orleans Soul classics. Whilst many people may only know the various cover versions, Robert Parker’s original sublime slice of heartfelt Soul has steadily built in reputation, especially recently. That’s why original Nola copies are £150+, even for battered ones! So here is the official legitimate, remastered repress on the sacred Nola label. 7 Inch with replica artwork.

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Jimmy Giuffre

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

The Prisoner Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

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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Herbie Hancock

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

36,99 €*

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Eddie Harris

The In Sound

These Are My Roots - Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly

Release: 1965 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London

This is one of Eddie Harris' great records. The playing is inspired! What a band! Cedar Walton (piano) and Billy Higgins (drums), Lee Morgan's favourite rhythm section. The underrated but popular tenor saxophonist introduces his "Freedom Jazz Dance," which would become a jazz standard after featuring on Miles Davis' album Miles Smiles. Plays one of the earlier versions of "The Shadow of Your Smile," romps on "Love for Sale" and "'S Wonderful," and also performs "Born to Be Blue" and his own "Cryin' Blues." Harris is heard in prime form in a quartet/quintet with pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Billy Higgins, and part-time trumpeter Ray Codrington. A gem. - Scott Yanow/AMG

Recorded 1965
Engineer – Tom Dowd

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Clifford Jordan

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Atlantic)

The Wonderful World Of Sam Cooke

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London

Clifford Jordan hailed from Chicago, hometown of hard-driving, so-called ‘tough tenorists’ like Gene Ammons and Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis. While Jordan shared their unnerving bravado, his tone is different, an alluring tone, simultaneously rough around the edges and ephemeral. A sought-after sideman, Jordan recorded with stalwarts as Lee Morgan and Max Roach in the late fifties and early sixties, as well as a series of high standard solo albums. Like age matures wine, Jordan’s style ripened in the early seventies, his lines becoming fluent like ripples of lake water. Jordan kept recording and performing steadily until his death in 1993.

Maybe this album, filled with interpretations of such classic tunes as Take This Hammer and Goodnight Irene, is not such a surprise act after all. The preceding year, Jordan had been part of Charles Mingus’ outfit (appearing on the hi-voltage live album Right Now: Live At The Jazz Workshop) Musical gobbler Mingus’ unfazed search for new vistas while retaining an all-embracing sense of the past’s relevance and blend of harmonic finesse with unbridled juke joint tumult surely rubbed off on Jordan.

Da Gray Goose is one of the cases in point. Tasteful harmony over the stop-time theme kicks it into action, strongly plucked bass and fiery drums inspire the soloists, creating an atmosphere of abandon. Lusty shout choruses stoke up the fire as the tune progresses. There are also some, yes, virtuoso banjo parts.

The gloomy folk blues music of Huddie ‘Leadbelly’ Ledbetter, whose life story reads like a combined effort of Shakespeare and James Baldwin, including oppression, hardship, addiction, treachery, murder and prison life, is excellently cast in a jazz frame. But not too jazzy, often the sound of Jordan’s top-notch group is as tough-as-nails as the sound of any one group that enlivened the back alley bars way back when. Jordan’s unpredictable phrasing overcomes the restrictions of the rigid folk blues form.

Craftily uncrafted, These Are My Roots is a spirited album of earnest, raw and ebullient swing.

Recorded on February 1 & 17, 1965 in NYC

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Sam Cooke

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Coltrane & Don Cherry

The Avant-Garde

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Charlie Palmieri & His Charanga (La Duboney)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Avant-Garde is an album by the two jazz giants John
Coltrane & Don Cherry. Coltrane plays compositions
by Ornette Coleman accompanied by the members of
Coleman’s quartet: Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed
Blackwell. The album is a result of the mutual respect and
friendship between Coltrane and Coleman. It’s the ability
of each to complement the other that lends heavily to the
success of these recordings. Both fans of jazz music as
of one of the two jazz musicians will love this records, as
it brings the best of both to the surface. So don’t let this
record pass you

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Viva Palmieri

LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Alegre)

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Pete La Roca

Basra

The Famous Ward Singers / Jessy Dixon

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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I'm Getting Richer / Wade In The Water

7" | 1960 | UK | Reissue (Honest Jon's)

11,99 €*

LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Impulse!)

Release: 1960 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A scorcher from the golden age of gospel, via its cardinal label.
From 1960, during the family’s second decade with Savoy, featuring Gertrude Ward, Christine Jackson, Mildred Means and Vermettya Royster — and Clara, totally riveting and in-your-face with evangelistic fervour and raw soul.

Plus a rambunctious, floor-filling Wade In The Water, by Jessy Dixon and his Singers.

Handsomely sleeved (showing a contemporary but slightly different Wards lineup).

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John Coltrane

Coltrane

36,99 €*

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | CA | Reissue (Return To Analog)

La Revolution Francaise

C.Cool

22,49 €* 24,99 € -10%

Release: 1968 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1960 | US | Reissue (Checker)

Bo Diddley

Have guitar will travel

Release: 1960 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Bar-Kays

Gotta Groove

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | US | Reissue (Prestige)

Thelonious Monk

The Golden Monk

Release: 1965 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Richard Groove Holmes & Rusty Bryant

That Healin' Feelin'

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Prestige)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Tamla)

Miracles

I'll Try Something

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Elvin Jones

Midnight Walk

33,99 €*

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Sarah Vaughan

Sarah +2

Release: 1965 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alexis Korner Blues Incorporated

R&B From The Marquee Audiophile Edition

LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Waxtime)

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pata Pata (Definitive Remastered Edition)

Miriam Makeba

2LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Strut)

26,99 €*

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Svart)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes both the mono and stereo versions of the album!

Strut presents an all-time classic of South African music, the definitive remastered edition of Miriam Makeba's 'Pata Pata', her first album recorded for Reprise in 1966.
The album marked a significant international breakthrough for Makeba. Moving to the US after the anti-apartheid film 'Come Back, Africa' gained international attention and staying there in exile, she quickly built her career in New York during the '60s, mentored by Harry Belafonte. Signing with Reprise after a period with RCA, she returned to one of her older songs: "I wrote 'Pata Pata' back in 1956, back in South Africa", remembered Makeba in her autobiography. "It was a fun little song and I was thinking of a dance that we do at home ("pata" means 'touch" in Zulu and Xhosa)".
The track peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at no. 12 and the album. Other songs on the album included a version of the traditional Xhosa classic, 'Click Song Number One' ('Qongqothwane'), the atmospheric 'West Wind', later famously covered by her friend Nina Simone, and a version of Tilahun Gessesse's 'Yetentu Tizaleny' which Makeba learned on a trip to Addis to perform for Haile Selassie at the Organisation Of African Unity.

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Heikki Sarmanto Sextet

Flowers In The Water

22,99 €*

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Miles Davis

Filles De Kilimanjaro

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Blue Note)

Lonnie Smith

Think

37,99 €*

LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This Blue Note 80 Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

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McCoy Tyner

Inception

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Archie Shepp

Fire Music

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Sonny Rollins

On Impulse!

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | BR | Reissue (Polysom)

Tom Ze

Grande Liquidacao

39,99 €*

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1968 / BR – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is a 180g vinyl pressing. In 1968 Tom Zé; moved from Salvador Bahia to Sao Paulo where he hung out and wrote with his friends Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. Although initially part of theTropicalia movement,Zé was so independent he was determined to forge his own musical path. He started by recording Grande Liquidacao, a hyperactive pop album backed up by two incredible psychedelic rockbands: Os Brazoes and Os Versateis.

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Freddie Hubbard

Open Sesame

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Return To Analog)

Lee Gagnon

Jazzzzz

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Le Quatuor De Jazz Libre Du Quebec

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Return To Analog)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | US | Reissue (Return To Analog)

Jimmie Rowles

Kinda Groovy!

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alan Hawkshaw & Keith Mansfield

Beat Incidental

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Miles Davis

Miles In The Sky

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (CBS)

Joe Thomas Group

Comin' Home

15,99 €*

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On A Clear Day Record Store Day 2019 Edition

The Peddlers

7" | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Epic)

Open The Door To Your Heart Record Store Day 2019 Edition

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Expertly utilised in hit series 'Breaking Bad' to soundtrack Walt and Jesse's meth manufacturing, The Peddlers 'On A Clear Day You Can See Forever' is a sumptuous smooth soul journey - full of exquisite organ solos and deep vocal tones.
2019 marks 50 years since it's release and with original copies pushing £40 it's a chance to bag this iconic record at a fraction of the price.
Remastered and reissued on 7 inch with large / dinked centre hole in Epic generic paper sleeve.

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Darrell Banks

12" | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Revilot)

13,99 €*

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (London)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2019! Often quoted as being one of the greatest Soul records of all-time, “Open The Door To Your Heart” was Darrell Bank’s first release and biggest hit. A one-off UK issue copy on London Records recently sold for a huge £14,543 in 2014 and is testament to the quality of the song and recording. Here, for the first time ever, is the previously unissued instrumental version by the Funk Brothers - the Solid Hitbound musicians including Rudy Robinson, Uriel Jones, Eddie Willis, Bob Babbit and Dennis Coffey. This work of art will be reissued on the original Revilot label.

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Burt Bacharach

Hit Maker!

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Images)

Sonny Rollins

The Bridge

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Images)

Stan Getz

Big Band Bossa Nova

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music

Ray Charles

LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Images)

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac

Dizzy Gillespie

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Everland)

Freddy Butler

With A Dab Of Soul

Mack The Knife: Ella In Berlin

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A crown jewel of the US American soul music of the 1960s. The earthy production and vivid feeling makes this album way more tangible for fans of the genre than most polished and slick major productions. A true gem for all collectors of underground soul from the USA.

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Ella Fitzgerald

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1960 / 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 | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Herbie Mann

At The Village Gate

33,99 €*

I`M So Happy / Love Me For All The Right Reasons

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Comin’ Home Baby" – that’s how the LP begins and that’s what catapulted it right into the charts. Not to one of the top places, but from this time on Herbie Mann was one of the superstars in Atlantic’s collection of jazz musicians. He was known as 'our man with the flute', and the critics in the early Sixties were full of praise for him. He became even more famous, and probably richer, through soundtracks and later on sometimes rather commercialised productions. Well, good for him. 'The Man' serves up jazz pure on this recording, made live at the legendary Village Gate club, which is no wonder considering the rhythm group that includes Ahmad Abdul-Malik and Rudy Collins. The composer of "Comin’ Home Baby", Ben Tucker, also makes an appearance as a guest soloist before the two Gershwin numbers from "Porgy And Bess" offer a wealth of rhythm pure. On the cover text of the LP, Willis Conover, who hosted the Newport Jazz Festival as a sideline (older jazz fans will know his baritone voice from AFN broadcasts), describes in detail the ethnic background of the musicians who come from all over the world – from Romania to Puerto Rico. The three numbers are by no means commonplace. Perhaps a tasty flute cocktail would be a good description. This true rarity from Atlantic’s treasure trove in the early Sixties has long been marked down on the wish list of many fans and at long last it’s available again.

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Brenda Holloway

7" | 1967 | EU | Original (Record Shack)

14,99 €*

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Cree)

Release: 1967 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Exclusive Version Of The Mega Northern Soul Classic With None Other Than The One And Only Mrs. Holloway Providing The Soulfulful Vox

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Andre Tanker Five

Afro Blossom West

16,99 €*

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Jazzaggression)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When this album was first released in 1969, the young combo around vibraphonist and singer Andre Tanker conveyed a new style mix, which apparently naturally merged quite different musical influences into a new whole. At the centre of the music of the Andre Tanker Five was jazz in its Caribbean, Trinidadian style, a combination of the modern jazz of those days and the sounds of the extremely popular steeldrum bands of the time. A very decisive addition is typical for Trinidad: Calypso. Calypso stands for the attitude to life of this young generation of musicians, for the 'Good Time Feeling' and the desire to incorporate danceable Caribbean rhythms and Afro-Latin grooves into their individual style.
Although the original sounds of the young Andre Tanker Five are deeply rooted in the music of the West Indies, Afro-American elements always remain in the foreground. The young combo is musically equally at home in the Caribbean as in the 'hip' jazz clubs of the US megacities and the juke joints of the south with their sultry blues as well as the soul dance halls in Detroit or Memphis. The combination of vibraphone and electric guitar plus bass/drums is also rather unusual in those days. Not a pure instrumental album, 'Afro Blossom West' delivers some surprising vocals - rather unusual for a groove-jazz-based project with a sophisticated rhythmic sound.
Bandleader and vibraphonist Andre Tanker is considered a very creative and versatile musician. His exciting improvisations are a dominant feature of this group. Party In The City, Lena and Swahili are original compositions of which he sings the first two himself. Guitarist Clarence Wears is a gifted accompanist and effective soloist. His sometimes 'funky soul style' is more reminiscent of 'Memphis' than 'Trinidad'. Bass player Clive Bradley, who also plays piano and guitar, is a fine all-round musician who knows his music to the limit, and the rhythm section around Kester Smith (drums and timbales) and Mikey Coryat (congas) are able to provide the necessary power, but they can also play softly and subtly when the mood demands it.
As the album's name suggests, the combo refers deeply to the music and rhythms of Africa, whose roots - when shifted to the West - have produced the calypso, blues and Afro-Latin rhythms heard on this LP. We have had the album reworked from the original master tapes for this limited high quality LP edition by mastering expert Tom Meyer. New liner notes by Ron Reid shed light on the history of Andre Tanker, his combo and the circumstances that led to this creative product!

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The Bird Curtis Quintet

Needs B

20,99 €*

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Monkey Dog)

Perry & The Harmonics

Intrigue With Soul

Homework / I Have To Laugh

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1965 funky Instro-Soul album from Chicago that originally came out on Mercury. It deals with new interpretations of James Bond themes and own Bond inspired compositions. Feat. Studiomusic Clarence Perry (tenor), Richard McCrea (organ) and Ed Townsend (Piano).

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Otis Rush

7" | 1962 | US | Reissue (Duke)

9,99 €*

Gris Gris Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1962 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Driving mid-paced R’n’B crossover with nice blues on the flip.

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Dr. John

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Jackpot)

36,99 €*

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Irene Colored Vinyl Edition

Caetano Veloso

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Lilith)

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Although Veloso had already been thrown in jail once for his criticism of Brazil’s military regime, he continued to speak out against it on his second album (1969), with tracks like “Irene”, (about a machine gun-toting outlaw celebrated by the left). No wonder he would soon find himself in political exile in the UK. The general tone of the album is in keeping with its dire message and actually, Veloso felt it was important for his voice of protest to be heard around the world. If he was a high profile public figure, he felt that he would be safer. All this (or perhaps because of all this) and the man still managed to make excellent records! Color vinyl version.

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Paul Desmond

Easy Living

33,99 €*

The Charles Lloyd Quartet

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why should you buy this LP? 1. Because of its super sound? Of course! 2. Because Paul Desmond and Jim Hall are playing? Naturally! 3. For "Easy Living"? Surely one of the best numbers in one of the most multifaceted versions! 4. Because you missed out on the first release in 1966? Well, don’t make the same mistake in 2018!
Not everyone wants to purchase all Victor recordings by Paul Desmond and Jim Hall with umpteen alternate takes in a voluminous CD Box, to listen to it all, and to find it just wonderful to show off on the record shelf. The eight numbers on "Easy Living" constitute the height of Desmond’s career anyway after he had at last managed to take his leave from Dave Brubeck’s group. And the change from purely chordal playing and single notes from Jim Hall is more airy and more inspiring than the meaty piano clusters of his former boss. And don’t forget either that half of the Modern Jazz Quartet, namely the bassist Percy Heath and the drummer Connie Kay, deliver an exquisite skeletal structure over which the musicians can improvise brilliantly.
LPs are, and remain, unbeatable, both as regards sound and feel. And happily they are also a safe investment – maybe not all, but "Easy Living" with Paul Desmond and Jim Hall most definitely!

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: June 1963, July and September 1964, June 1965 at RCA Studio, New York City
Production: George Avakian

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Love-In

LP | 1967 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (8th)

Release: 1967 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Four-and-a-half decades after the event, saxophonist Charles Lloyd's "Love-In", recorded live at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium in 1967, the counterculture's West Coast music hub, endures as much as an archaeological artifact as a musical document. From sleeve designer Stanislaw Zagorski's treatment of Rolling Stone photographer Jim Marshall's cover shot, through the album title and some of the track titles ("Tribal Dance", "Temple Bells"), and the inclusion of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's "Here There And Everywhere", "Love-In's" semiology reeks of the acid-drenched zeitgeist of the mid 1960s, a time when creative music flourished, and rock fans were prepared to embrace jazz, provided the musicians did not come on like their parents: juicers dressed in sharp suits exuding cynicism.
It is likely that more joints were rolled on "Love-In's" cover than that of any other jazz LP of the era, with the possible exception of saxophonists John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" (Impulse!, 1965) and Pharoah Sanders's "Tauhid" (Impulse!, 1967). Chet Helms, a key mover and shaker in the West Coast counterculture, spoke for many when he hailed the Lloyd quartet as »the first psychedelic jazz group«.
It is to Lloyd's credit that, at least in the early stages of his adoption by the counterculture, he resisted dumbing down his music. The adoption stemmed from Lloyd's espoused attitude to society, his media savvy, his sartorial style and his sheer nerve in playing jazz in the temples of rock culture. He took the quartet into the Fillmore West three years before trumpeter Miles Davis took his into the Fillmore East.
So "Love-In" comes with a load of baggage, some of it less than fragrant. But as 45 minutes of music, it still has legs. Lloyd's vocalized tenor (and flute on two tracks) has Coltrane-derived muscle; the young Jarrett's lyrical and funky solos, particularly on his 07:55 showcase, the gospel-ish "Sunday Morning", his two featured originals ("Sunday Morning" and the soul jazz-ish "Is It Really the Same?"), and his playing the strings of the piano directly with his hands, all remain compelling; McClure and DeJohnette are solid and inventive.

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T-Bone Walker

The Truth

22,99 €*

Introducing George Guzman

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Aaron Thebeaux "T-Bone" Walker was all but destined for performance from the start. After all both of his parents were musicians, who taught him how to play guitar, ukulele, banjo, violin, mandolin, and piano. He was even an early protege of Blind Lemon Jefferson, who was a friend of the family, and often came over to dinner. Walker began performing blues music during the late 1920s and early 1930s, cutting his first singles, while performing as a sideman across the country, often performing alongside Blind Lemon Jefferson himself, as well as contemporaries like Douglas Fernell, Big Jim Wynn, and Charlie Christian. By the 1940s, Walker had begun to perform more frequently as a solo act, recruiting his own backing band, and being among the first to adapt a guitar technique that would change the course of music history: electric amplification.Were it not for Walker leading the charge and pioneering the electric blues sound, contemporary music might have been very different. His sound help set the stage for essential Chicago Blues artists like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Willie Dixon, while providing key influence to the likes of B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, and innumerable others.

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George Guzman

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

The Butterfield Blues Band

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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East West

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Oh, Good Grief! - 50th Anniversary Vinyl Edition

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Paul Butterfield was an iconic blues harmonica player and singer, famous for his in 1963 formed Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Their 1966 releases classic East West is one of the outstanding albums in which they integrated psychedelic rock in traditional blues music. The supergroup consisted at that time of guitar hero Mike Bloomfield, keyboardist Mark Naftalin, bassist Jerome Arnold, drummer Billy Davenport and, of course, the master himself, Paul Butterfield. The authentic blues sounds are woven in the sounds of jazz and raga music. It’s an exciting trip in which you can hear the talented individuals, but also how they created their music together. The album proved to be one of the essential albums in the blues-rock movement of the 60s.

Paul Butterfield died in 1987 at the age of 44. During that time he was still recording new songs. In 2006 he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and in 2015 again as part of his own Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

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Vince Guaraldi

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Omnivore)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | UK | Reissue (Finders Keepers)

Les Esclaves

Popera Cosmic

18,99 €*