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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

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Blue Note)

Johnny Coles

Little Johnny C

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Duke)

Bobby Bland

Two Steps From The Blues

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Rearward)

Helen Merrill

Parole e Musica

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

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Helen Merrill with Piero Umiliani!

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Lush Life 200g Vinyl Edition

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Fantasy)

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Here is one of the musical giants of the 20th century, poised on the precipice of greatness. Between the spring of 1957 and the winter of 1958, during which time "Lush Life" was recorded, the music of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane (1926-1967) was developing in giant steps, thanks in great part to a six-month 1957 stint with Thelonious Monk that had much to do with sharpening Coltrane’s harmonic conception and torrential attack.
"Lush Life" contains Coltrane’s first recordings as sole leader, his initial date fronting a pianoless trio, and one of his first extended readings of a ballad, Billy Strayhorn’s resplendent title track. We also hear him at the helm of a quartet and quintet, featuring pianist Red Garland, with trumpeter Donald Byrd, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Louis Hayes added to “Lush Life”. Coltrane handles the tune’s delicate complexities with infinite style and finesse.
Coltrane and jazz would never be the same.

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The Bill Evans Trio

Explorations

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Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Oscar Peterson Trio

Live From Chicago

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

My Favorite Things

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Ascensionale)

Jorge Lopez Ruiz

B.A. Jazz

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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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Eric Dolphy

At The Five Spot

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The Essential Carnegie Hall Concert 1956

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One night during a one-time, two-week engagement at the Five Spot produced enough music of lasting merit for three albums. When Rudy Van Gelder took his portable equipment down to the fabled Cooper Square jazz club on July 16, 1961, he captured the interaction of an extraordinary quintet.
Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, Mal Waldron, Richard Davis and Ed Blackwell had formed a cooperative group and, if LIttle had not died in October 1961, there is no doubt that it would have been a potent force in the music of the 1960s and beyond. Dolphy himself died in June 1964, after establishing himself as one of the important contemporary reedmen. Here his alto saxophone and bass clarinet and Little’s trumpet explore three originals: "The Prophet" by Dolphy, "Bee Vamp" by Little, and "Fire Waltz" by Waldron. It’s time caught in a bottle — music for the ages.

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Billie Holiday

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Pan Am)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lightnin'

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Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Lightnin'" is among the rewarding acoustic dates Lightnin' Hopkins delivered in the early '60s. The session has an informal, relaxed quality, and this approach serves a 48-year-old Hopkins impressively well on both originals like "Thinkin' 'Bout An Old Friend" and the familiar "Katie Mae" and enjoyable interpretations of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee's "Back To New Orleans" and Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup's "Mean Old Frisco". Hopkins' only accompaniment consists of bassist Leonard Gaskin and drummer Belton Evans, both of whom play in an understated fashion and do their part to make this intimate setting successful. From the remorseful "Come Back Baby" to more lighthearted, fun numbers like "You Better Watch Yourself" and "Automobile Blues", "Lightnin'" is a lot like being in a small club with Hopkins as he shares his experiences, insights and humor with you.

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Paul Gonsalves

Gettin' Together

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Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

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Joe Harriott Quintet

Free Form

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Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

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Gene Ammons

Nice An' Cool

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At The Half Note Cafe Volume 1

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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Donald Byrd

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Blue Note)

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Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Images)

Charles Mingus

Presents Charles Mingus

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dexter Gordon

Doin' Allright

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

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Cookin' With The Miracles

Miracles

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Tamla)

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Atlantic)

My Favorite Things

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Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Tamla)

Miracles

Hi We're The Miracles

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | UK | Reissue (Roulette)

Count Basie

Basie In Birdland

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Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington

Release: 1961 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

'Basie at Birdland' is a 1961 live album featuring Count Basie and his famed orchestra playing at Birdland in New York City. Recorded on June 27-28th of 1961, and released just one month later in July of that year, 'Basie at Birdland' proved once again that Count Basie was one of the world's best players, band leaders, and flag bearers of Jazz. Birdland, the self-proclaimed, 'Jazz Corner of the World' provides a raucous, lively backdrop to the band's soulful Kansas City style Jazz, on tunes like, 'Blue Backstage', and 'Good Time Blues' alongside their harder hitting, big band bop. 'Basie at Birdland' features the Count at the height of his prowess, and he and his band's fervent, swinging performance cannot be missed - it's perfect for novices and aficionados alike.

This is a jaw-dropping recording of Basie's band in 1961. The band is so tight and swings so hard it sounds at times as if one is listening to a Wurlitzer organ. There simply was no band that swung as hard as Basie's - at least not as recorded on this live date. Amazing.

Simply the best live recording of a big band ever!

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Together For The First Time

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Not Now)

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Forbidden Fruit Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When stars collide, sparks will fly. At least that's the theory. Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington accepted the invitation to record together with dignity and polite courtesy. While keen to see what this pairing might produce artistically speaking, it was certainly an historic occasion. As the red light went on and the tapes rolled, Duke on piano and Louis on trumpet and vocals, backed by the Armstrong All-Stars began to play. As Ellington hits the keys on a riff that sounds suspiciously like C Jam Blues and Satchmo sings cheerfully 'Baby, take me down to Duke's Place!' the champions are ready to exchange ideas rather than blows. Perhaps unsurprisingly Louis soon emerged from this unique musical gathering as the natural born leader. But all the source material was firmly Ellingtonian. Both men had enjoyed extraordinary careers and were world renowned figures when the idea of bringing them together was first proposed.

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Nina Simone

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (20th Century Masters)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dexter Calling Clear Vinyl Edtion

Dexter Gordon

Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dexter Gordon, one of the true sax giants in the history of Jazz. Recorded in 1961 and released the following year, "Dexter calling" is his second recording for Blue Note.A solid swinging session with Gordon at the head of a great quartet featuring pianist Kenny Drew and the great bass and drums team of Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones. This is a very well-balanced selection of hard-driving numbers, gospel-tinged blues, and deep ballads.

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Know What I Mean?

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (No Frills)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Depending on the nature of the person involved, success either dictates more and more compulsive activity, or else it permits relaxation. With Cannonball Adderley, the latter certainly appears to be the case; and this album can, among other things, serve as a testimonial to the truth of the impression. In a peculiar way, the present album is a result of that success. For it is something that Adderley might well not have dared attempt in the past, and that he might not have been able to convince his record company to do. This his most satisfying LP. The nature of this album should be immediately apparent from Adderley's choice of associates. Cannonball feels, and many agree, that pianist Bill Evans is unexcelled when moody delicacy is called for.

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Clifford Jordan

Starting Time

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Out Of The Cool Acoustic Sounds Edition

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"This fine set matches together the already distinctive tenor of Clifford Jordan with veteran trumpeter Kenny Dorham, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Wilbur Ware and drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath. Other than Duke Ellington's "Don't You Know I Care," the group sticks to originals by Jordan, Dorham and Walton. The music is straight-ahead, and although the tunes are pretty obscure, the solos and high musicianship uplift the music. Recommended to straight-ahead jazz collectors." Scott Yanow -All Music Guide

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The Gil Evans Orchestra

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

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Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Blues And Abstract Truth Acoustic Sounds Edition

Oliver Nelson

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Impulse)

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The Genius Sings The Blues Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blues And The Abstract Truth is Oliver Nelson’s triumph. Featuring his all-time classic ‘Stolen Moments’, Nelson assembled one of the most potent modern jazz sextets ever. Lead trumpeter Freddie Hubbard is at his peak of performance, while alto saxophonists Nelson and Eric Dolphy (Nelson doubling on tenor) team to form an unlikely union that was simmered to perfection. Bill Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass) and Roy Haynes (drums) can do no wrong as a rhythm section.

Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

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Ray Charles

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Dol)

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Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet

Free Jazz

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

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Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The term 'free jazz' was already in existence – but it had a quite different meaning, namely jazz without paying for an entrance ticket. The album "Free Jazz", however, was intended to lend its name to a quite different style of jazz. 'Free' playing – now this meant that no one was bound to conventions, you could let your imagination run loose. Free jazz gave one the chance to find new rules for every new composition. And it was to be the greatest boost to innovation in the world of jazz. Ornette Coleman’s album from December 1960 stands at the beginning of the free jazz era like a massive portal. Coleman thought big: he brought two quartets into the studio at the same time, both with two wind instruments and no piano, and let them play together for 36 minutes without a break – a collective improvisation. There aren’t any precise themes, although short, fanfare-like motifs do exist in which the winds come together. A continuous dense rhythmic beat underlies the music almost throughout – and the pulse is felt rather than heard. One musician after the other comes into the foreground to improvise, almost like at a jam session. First Coleman, then Dolphy, then the two trumpeters. The other winds, however, never remain silent, then make comments and support one another continually – the energy level is immense the whole time (it was cold in the studio ...). Only when it is the turn of the bass and drum players do the winds remain silent for about eleven minutes. This album is not only a historic caesura, but a truly great experience over and over again.

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: December 1961 in A&R Studios, New York City, by Tom Dowd Production: Nesuhi Ertegun

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At Last! Orange Vinyl Edition

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Dol)

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Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Culture Factory)

Three Sounds

Here We Come

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (BMG Rights Management)

Booker Ervin

The Book Cooks

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

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Jimmy Smith / Percy France / Kenny Burrell / Bailey

Home Cookin'

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Culture Factory)

Jimmy Smith

Home Cookin'

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

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Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams

Motor City Scene

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Honeypie)

Quincy Jones & Band

I Dig Dancers

Heavy Soul Clear Vinly Edition

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Deliberately presented as a dance music release, this brilliant Quincy Jones album - first released on Mercury label in 1961 - comprises material from two marvelous big band performances recorded the year before in Paris and New York. Here the great composer and arranger leads a first class "dance organization", a top-flight big band featuring the cream of NY Jazz musicians, among them: Clark Terry and Freddie Hubbard - trumpets, Curtis Fuller and Melba Liston - trombones, Phil Woods, Oliver Nelson and Sahib Shihab - saxes, Stu Martin - drums. An exquisite platter of highly swinging and danceable grooves signed by the genius of Quincy Jones

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Ike Quebec

Flute, Brass, Vibes And Percussion

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Heavy Soul" can be easily considered as one of Ike Quebec's best showcases. Recorded in 1961 by master Rudy Van Gelder and originally released on Blue Note, this fine studio session sounds as a perfect mixture of down-home blues spirit and warm, sensual ballads, with Quebec's big tenor sax voice as the leading force of a hard swinging quartet featuring Freddie Roach - organ, Milt Hinton - bass and Al Harewood - drums.

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Herbie Mann

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Life Goes On)

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

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 1959, flutist Herbie Mann put together a very interesting band that was in its brief existence (before Mann's interests shifted elsewhere) one of the top in Afro-Cuban jazz. Utilizing four trumpets (including Doc Cheatham), up to three percussionists and a flute-vibes-bass-drums quartet, Mann performs four standards (including "Dearly Beloved," "I'll Remember April" and "Autumn Leaves") and two originals in a style that was beyond bop and much more African- and Cuban-oriented.

Personnel: Herbie Mann (flute, bass clarinet), Johnny Rae (vibes), Nabil Knobby Totah (bass), Rudy Collins (drums), Ray Mantilla (conga drums), Ray Barretto (bongos except on #8 and #12). Plus trumpet section: Doc Cheatham, Siggy Schatz, Jerome Kail and Leo Ball. Recorded in New York City, 1959

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Dorothy Ashby

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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Jackie McLean

A Fickle Sonance

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | Reissue (Not Now)

Grant Green

Grant's First Stand

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Release: 1961 / Reissue

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Lightnin' In New York

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Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Candid)

Abbey Lincoln

Straight Ahead

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Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blakey In Paris Feat. Bud Powell And Lee Morgan Clear Vinyl Edtion

Art Blakey

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Not Now)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited Clear Vinyl edition, 300 copies! This is Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers, with guests Bud Powell - piano and Barney Wilen - alto sax, caught live at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris in1959. At that time Blakey's Messengers were no less than Lee Morgan – trumpet, Wayne Shorter – tenor sax, Walter Davis Jr. – piano and Jymmy Meritt – bass. In other words one of the greatest Hard Bop combos ever, a pool of great young individuals under the direction of one of the most influential drummers and band leaders in the history of Jazz. No need to add that "Paris Jam Session" is regarded as an essential release in Blakey's extensive discography.

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The Bill Evans Trio

Explorations

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Roland Kirk With Jack Mcduff

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When Bill Evans played those haunting exploratory notes that introduce So What on the Miles Davis album Kind Of Blue he made a lifelong impression on generations of music lovers. Bill thereafter launched a solo career greeted with the kind of critical acclaim the bespectacled, classically-trained Pianist no doubt found unsettling yet deeply satisfying. While his association with Miles, which included performing on the most influential Jazz album of all time, was relatively short, his time with the Bill Evans Trio was longer lasting and in many ways more productive. Certainly Explorations proved a great success when first released by the Riverside label in 1961. The trio was completed by Scott LaFaro on double bass and Paul Motian on drums, gave the leader the right combination of swing and subtlety needed to suit Evans’ sensitive and yet ultimately commanding style. It was the second album by the trio and Bill claimed it was his personal favourite. Explorations produced by Orrin Keepnews certainly impressed the Jazz critics of Billboard magazine who voted it the Best Piano LP of 1961 in their annual poll.

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Kirk's Work Clear Vinyl Edtion

Goodnight, It's Time To Go

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited Clear Vinyl edition, 300 copies! Roland Kirk was one of the most creative, extravagant figures in jazz history. A master multi instrumentalist with no boundaries in terms of language, style and technique. Here we find him co-leading a strong studio session with organ specialist Brother Jack Mcduff. Backed up by Joe Benjamin on bass and Art Taylor on drums, Kirk and McDuff give voice to a soulful post-bop set full of groovy riffs and highly inventive instrumental ping pong. Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder and released in 1961 by Prestige Records, this is a fine early step in Kirk's varied and intense career.

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Jack McDuff

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Honeypie)

Oliver Nelson With Eric Dolphy

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in 1961 and released on Prestige records in the same year, this was Brother Jack McDuff's fourth studio effort and the first featuring his regular partners Harold Vick on tenor saxophone, Grant Green on guitar and Joe Dukes on drums. Vick and Green would soon become two prominent figures in soul jazz while McDuff stands as one of the key organ players in the genre. This is an absolute soul-jazz gem!

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Straight Ahead Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Honeypie)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited Clear Vinyl edition, 500 copies! Originally released in 1961 by Prestige/New Jazz label, "Straight Ahead" marks the last Dolphy's appearance within a series of fortunate collaborations with saxophonist Oliver Nelson. This is a great modern jazz album taking shape from a quintet studio session (all first takes) engineered and supervised by master Rudy Van Gelder and featuring: Oliver Nelson - alto and tenor saxes, clarinet - Eric Dolphy - alto sax, bass clarinet, flute - Richard Wyands - piano - George Duvivier - double bass and Roy Haynes on drums. A serious bunch of jazz stylists all caught in fine form and concentration. Needless to add that the Nelson-Dolphy sax tandem shines throughout the whole album while Duvivier and Haynes inject their angular yet hard swinging groove. The track list consists of five Nelson's originals plus Milt Jackson's "Ralph's new blues".

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Alegre All Stars

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Born from a studio jam organized by Al Santiago in 1961, the "Alegre All Stars" was inspired by the famous late 50's Cuban jam sessions. Originally published by Alegre Records, a New York City based label specialized in Latin music, this album stands as a legendary release in the field. This is like an open door on a wild Nuyorican party including food, drinks and an ongoing selection of highly infectious Latin grooves to dance to.

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Barry Harris Quintet

Newer Than New

LP | 1961 | US | Original (Everest)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"A quick listen to the lively bop on 'Newer Than New' may enlist a perplexing question: Was this music really recorded 40 years ago? Apparently so, but the music still sounds fresh and exciting. If pianist Harris set out to show bop was still a vital force in 1961, he accomplished his task. Of course he didn't do this alone. Trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer, alto Charles McPherson, bassist Ernie Farrow, and drummer Clifford Jarvis join him on eight tunes that would've made Parker and Gillespie proud. The influence of bop pioneers is evident on tunes like "The Last One" and "Anthropology," both giving the horns lots of room to soar against the backdrop of dynamic rhythm. "Mucho Dinero," one of several Harris originals, has an exuberant Latin feel. After the horns set the piece in motion, Harris takes the first solo, creating colorful textures with his keen sense of harmony. Newer Than New also places special emphasis on the young horn players, providing McPherson and Hillyer lots of room to show what they've got. Both echo Parker and Gillespie without copying them. Hillyer displays a fat rich tone on numbers like "Easy to Love," while McPherson's resonant pitch, no matter how quickly he's playing, always comes across. Farrow and Jarvis keep the shifting rhythms heavy in the mix, pushing each soloist to create something vital. The title 'Newer Than New' perhaps mocks the obsession with the latest thing, as opposed to opting for the timelessness of high-octane improvising. Jazz styles, like all styles, come and go, but great music like 'Newer than New' transcends styles. It's also fun (and illustrative) to listen to an album like this back to back with the latest retro jazz. Barry Harris and his colleagues make great jazz without the least bit of self-consciousness."

—Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. (All Music Guide)

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Gloria Lynne

I'm Glad There Is You

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Release: 1961 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Culture Factory)

Grant Green

Grant's First Stand

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Impex)

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Time Further Out

49,99 €*

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Olé Coltrane Crystal Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

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Bluesnik Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Jackie McLean

The Remarkable Carmell Jones Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean had the blues on his mind when he went into Van Gelder Studio in 1961 to record his hard bop masterpiece Bluesnik with a blazing quintet featuring Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Kenny Drew on piano, Doug Watkins on bass, and Pete La Roca on drums. The six-song set of bluesy originals brims with immediacy and vibrancy.

Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition: stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal, padded inner sleeve.

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Carmell Jones

32,99 €*

Ken Mcintyre / Eric Dolphy

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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24 Jahre jung war der Trompeter Carmell Jones, als er 1960 von seiner Geburtsstadt Kansas City nach Los Angeles ging. Und schon kurz nach seiner Ankunft erhielt der vielversprechende Youngster, den manche damals mit Clifford Brown verglichen, dort einen Plattenvertrag bei Pacific Jazz. 1961 konnte er für das Label sein phänomenales Debütalbum “The Remarkable Carmell Jones” aufnehmen. Im Zusammenspiel mit Tenorsaxophonist Harold Land, Pianist Frank Strazzeri, Bassist Gary Peacock und Schlagzeuger Leon Pettis präsentierte er auf dem Album eine hochinteressante Mischung aus Cool Jazz und Hardbop.

BLUE NOTE TONE POET EDITION: Stereo, produziert von Joe Harley, komplett analog von Kevin Gray von den Originalbändern gemastert, RTI-Pressung (180g), stabiles Tip-on-Gatefold, wattierte Innenhülle.

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Looking Ahead Clear Vinyl Edtion

The Essential Carnegie Hall Concert 1956

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Looking Ahead is the debut album by American jazz musician Ken McIntyre, recorded with fellow alto saxophonist Eric Dolphy in 1960 and released on the New Jazz label in January 1961. From the beginning Mr. McIntyre considered himself part of the avant-garde or ''new thing'' movement in jazz, as spearheaded by musicians like Ornette Coleman, Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor, although his own music was considerably more traditionally melodic than theirs. He played a whole fleet of reed instruments, including oboe, bassoon, bass clarinet and saxophones. In 1964, on the album ''Way, Way Out,'' he recorded bouncing, urgent jazz tunes with chilly, dissonant string arrangements; in 1966, he accompanied Mr. Taylor on the album ''Unit Structures,'' a landmark recording of the jazz avant-garde.

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Billie Holiday

LP | 1961 | UK | Reissue (Intermusic)

Release: 1961 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Battle Of The Groups Vol. II

V.A.

LP | 1961 | US | Original (End)

6,39 €* 15,99 € -60%

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 1961 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Sam Cooke

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At The Five Spot Volume 1 Clear Vinyl Edtion

Eric Dolphy

Free Form Clear Vinyl Edtion

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded live by Rudy Van Gelder this is one of a pair of Dolphy's albums documenting the 1961 historical residency at the Five Spot, the New York's major temple of the early avantgarde. This is timeless music performed by one of the essential lineups in modern Jazz. A marvelous quintet featuring the great Booker Little on trumpet and the amazing rhythm section of Mal Waldron — piano, Richard Davis — double bass and Ed Blackwell — drums plus, of course, master Eric Dolphy on alto saxophone, bass clarinet and flute. "All forward thinking and challenged listeners need to own these epic club dates" Allmusic

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Joe Harriott Quintet

LP | 1961 | EU (Destination Moon)

17,99 €*

Little Johnny C Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The West Indian-born alto saxophonist Joe Harriott was one of the most convincing boppers outside of the USA, though by the end of the 1950s he was exploring freer musical pastures, and the quintet with which he undertook the exploration was an outgrowth of the hard bop band with which he'd made a name on the British scene. Often in the past the group's music, in which trumpet and flugelhorn player Shake Keane figured alongside Harriott in the front line, has been compared with that of the early Ornette Coleman quartets, but here it's far more interactive, a fact borne out most obviously by the lack of soloists. Here on Free Form (1961) is where the rhythm of that indigenously West Indian form is extraordinarily maintained in the midst of characteristic group exchanges.

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Johnny Coles

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Under-recognized trumpeter Johnny Coles recorded only one album for Blue Note but 1963’s Little Johnny C is a little-known treasure of the catalog featuring Coles at the helm of a dynamic sextet with tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, alto saxophonist Leo Wright, pianist Duke Pearson, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummers Walter Perkins & Pete La Roca.

Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition: stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal, padded inner sleeve.

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Don Ellis

How Time Passes

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Culture Factory)

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A fascinating blend of jazz and contemporary classical influences, How Time Passes is the debut album from the envelope pushing trumpeter and composer Don Ellis. Known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of time signatures, Ellis began his long career in the New York City’s post bop and avant-garde jazz scenes of late 1950s. Most notably he appeared on Charles Mingus’ Mingus Dynasty, and albums by George Russell and Maynard Feguson. But he also worked with, among others, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, and Woody Herman. On subsequent albums, Ellis would take an even wilder direction. Here, on his first recoding date as a band leader, the experimentation begins. Ellis stretches the boundaries of bop-based jazz playing with time, tempo and meter. It is the start of his exploration of Third Stream - a fusion of jazz and contemporary classical music. The album title itself - How Time Passes - was taken from an article written by the controversial German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen on the “function of time.” The exceptional section features Ron Carter on bass, the underrated Jaki Byard on piano and saxophone, and Charlie Persip on drums. The LP includes extraordinary liner notes by Candid A&R man and producer Nat Hentoff, and noted musician, historian and writer Gunther Schuller - the originator of the term “Third Stream” - giving a context and insight that adds to the experience of hearing these extraordinary performances.

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Donald Byrd

Royal Flush

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charles Mingus

Mingus

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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LP | 1961 | UK | Reissue (Ace)

Blues In My Bottle

Release: 1961 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Genius After Hours Sacd Edition

Ray Charles

SACD | 1961 | UK | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

51,99 €*

Release: 1961 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Toshiko Mariano

Toshiko Mariano Quartet

Free Jazz Limited Edition Colored Vinyl

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Ornette Coleman

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Now Or Never)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Now Or Never)

Bo Diddley

Is A Lover

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Phil Woods

Rights Of Swing

LP | 1961 | US | Original (Everest)

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Gloria Lynne

This Little Boy Of Mine

4,79 €* 5,99 € -20%

Release: 1961 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Midnight Special (Blue Note Classic Vinyl)

Jimmy Smith

LP | 1961 | EU (Destination Moon)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It’s a testament to Jimmy Smith’s volcanic creativity that the Hammond B3 organ firebrand recorded not one but two soul jazz classics—Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack—in a single day when he entered Van Gelder Studio on April 25, 1960 with Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Kenny Burrell on guitar, and Donald Bailey on drums. Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition: Stereo, mastered from a digital source by Kevin Gray, manufactured at Optimal (180 g), padded inner sleeves.

Jimmy Smith (Hammond B3 organ); Stanley Turrentine (tenor sax); Kenny Burrell (guitar); Donald Bailey (drums)

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Mance Lipscomb

Trouble In Mind

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 1961 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The son of a slave and of part-Native American heritage, Texan blues songster Mance Lipscomb began recording albums in 1960 after the Arhoolie label became aware of his talents, the work coming at the start of the country blues revival, which he became a key part of. The excellent follow-up Trouble In Mind, released by Reprise in 1961, has top-notch renditions of favourites such as ‘Alabama Bound,’ ‘Ballad of the Boll Weevil’ and ‘Motherless Children,’ the latter with great slide guitar work, yet somehow the LP sold poorly, rendering it a sought-after rarity. Definitely one of Mance Lipscomb’s best!

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Charles Mingus

Pre-Bird Acoustic Sounds

34,99 €*

Release: 1961 / EU – 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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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Mosaic

LP | 1961 | DE | Reissue (Blue Note)

28,99 €*

Release: 1961 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Ace)

Blues In My Bottle

Oscar Peterson Trio with Milt Jackson

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Very Tall Acoustic Sounds

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

43,99 €*

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (20th Century Masterworks)

Lush Life

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | US | Original (Pacific Jazz)

Gerald Wilson Orchestra

You Better Believe It!

15,99 €*

LP | 1961 | UK | Reissue (Blues Joint)

Release: 1961 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Robert Pete Williams

Free Again

26,99 €*

Release: 1961 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In Person, Friday Night At The Blackhawk, San Francisco, Volume 1

Miles Davis

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Columbia)

Little Johnny C Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Johnny Coles

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | Reissue (Gm & Publishing)

Miss Etta James

27,99 €*

Release: 1961 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Impex)

Bud Shank

Barefoot Adbenture

49,99 €*

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Miss Etta James Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

A Night In Tunisia

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

A Night In Tunisia Orange Marble Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

A Night In Tunisia Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Miss Etta James

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Miss Etta James Orange Marble Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Max Roach

We Insist (Mono)

We Insist Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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

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

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Max Roach