Great early stuff from Paul Winter – a player who's certainly done some terrible stuff over the years, but who really sounded great in his younger days! Winter was a hip young player coming out of Northwestern U in Chicago, and he had a well-educated, slightly-modern approach to jazz that ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Paul Winter & Winter Consort —
Icarus ... LP Epic, 1972. Near Mint- Gatefold ...
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With Winter on soprano and vocals; David Darling on cello and vocals; Paul McCanless on oboe, english horn, contrabass, sarrusophone, and vocals; Ralph Towner on guitars and vocals; Herb Bushler on bass; and Collin Walcott on percussion; plus guests including Billy Cobham, Barry Altschul, and ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Paul Winter with Luiz Bonfa & Roberto Menescal —
Rio ... CD Columbia (Japan), Mid 60s. Used ...
$9.9911.99
This bossa LP on Columbia is pretty good stuff! The record was recorded with some of Brazil's best bossa players – like Luiz Bonfa, Roberto Menescal, and Luiz Eca (of Tamba Trio fame). John Hammond produced the session, so you can be sure it's got the kind of rootsy sound that will make the ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Jerri Winters gets some hip backings here – thanks to help from the Al Belletto Sextet, who almost share the star spotlight on the record as much as Jerri! The combo are perhaps best known for their 50s work on Capitol, but they sound equally great here – stepping out with a tight ... (Vocalists) read moreCD
Gentle vocals from Pinky Winters – a contemporary singer, but one of the few who get the best spirit of torchy vocalists from years past! Pinky's working here with pianist Richard Rodney Bennett, plus some slight bass accompaniment from Bob Mazie – and the overall sound has a spare, ... (Vocalists) read moreCD
A beautiful collaboration between vocalist Pinky Winters and pianist Lou Levy – the second half of the live date that was partially issued on the album Shadow Of Your Smile – recorded back in 1983, but making its world premiere here! There's a mellow, intimate feel to the record that ... (Vocalists) read moreCD
(2006 Japanese pressing – includes obi!)
Robert Winters & Fall —
Magic Man ... LP Arista, 1981. Very Good+ ...
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Beautifully smooth soul from Robert Winters & Fall – a great mix of 80s groove and modern mellow – handled with lots of warm touches that make Winters' vocals come off wonderfully! The feel here is a bit like some of the smoother sets from DJ Rogers – as Winters' voice has a ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Steve Winwood —
Winwood ... LP United Artists, Mid/Late 1960s. Near Mint- 2LP Gatefold ...
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A career retrospective, with selections by Spencer Davis Group, Powerhouse, Traffic, and Blind Faith. (Rock) LP, Vinyl record album
(Tan label pressing in a textured cover, with a cut corner.)
Steve Winwood —
Winwood & Friends ... LP Springboard, Mid/Late 1960s. Very Good+ ...
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A collection of 60s recordings by Winwood, with Jeff Beck, Yardbirds, and Long John Baldry. (Rock) LP, Vinyl record album
(70s issue in the foil cover, with some ring and edge wear, application wrinkles at the top right corner, and a small center split in the bottom seam.)
A great mid-period Wipers album for Restless that was for quite a few years relegated to a figurative land of the lost – finally developing a well-earned reputation as one of their most consistently strong beginning-to-end efforts just as it was becoming pretty hard to find many years later! ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Limited yellow vinyl pressing – with a locked groove!)
The incredible second album by The Wipers – a record that cements Greg Sage's status as not only a pioneering figure in Pacific Northwest punk/post punk songcraft, but also as one of the more innovative guitarists in that scene. Youth Of America carries on the surprisingly melodic, yet ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A pretty astonishing creative leap for Wire – a record that still holds all the short, sharp, energy of their Pink Flag debut – but which also opens up the group to all these weird elements they'd explore in later years and solo work too! The record is almost the group's equivalent of ... (Rock) read moreCD
(Out of print.)
Wire —
Chairs Missing ... LP EMI/Pink Flag, 1977. New Copy (reissue)...
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A pretty astonishing creative leap for Wire – a record that still holds all the short, sharp, energy of their Pink Flag debut – but which also opens up the group to all these weird elements they'd explore in later years and solo work too! The record is almost the group's equivalent of ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Wire —
Chairs Missing ... LP Harvest (UK), 1977. Near Mint- ...
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A pretty astonishing creative leap for Wire – a record that still holds all the short, sharp, energy of their Pink Flag debut – but which also opens up the group to all these weird elements they'd explore in later years and solo work too! The record is almost the group's equivalent of ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Mid 80s UK black and silver label pressing, with the black and white inner sleeve, in a Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd cover without barcode. Cover has a bit of light wear, but this is an incredibly well preserved copy!)
Wire —
Pink Flag ... LP EMI/Pink Flag, 1977. New Copy (reissue)...
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One of greatest of all British punk era records – released in '77 and one that transcends mid-to-late 70s punk cultural baggage better than just about any other – a real benchmark! Wire kept it short and sweet on Pink Flag – with 21 tracks in about 35 minutes – and it's as ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
In pretty much any bio of the pioneering art punk band Wire you'll read about how between 1977 and 1979, the group made three of the best, most forward looking rock albums of the era. First they perfected punk rock (Pink Flag), a year later they opened the doors to the more melodic new wave ... (Rock) read moreCD
Saxophonist Darius Jones is an artist whose music is always in flux – especially in recent years when he's really been stretching out – and that quality is really opened up here in a great cover feature! This issue of the The Wire also features articles on the legendary new age synth ... (Magazines) read moreMagazine
Once again, the Wire goes way past the ordinary – and opens the door to the kinds of sounds that keep our ears happy, and our record collections interesting year after year! In addition to a look at composer/producer Bobby Krlic, aka The Haxan Cloak, on the cover – the issue features ... (Magazines) read moreMagazine
A big double-length issue of The Wire – one that offers a very detailed look back at the musical year of 2023 – but from that decidedly leftfield perspective that makes the magazine so great year after year! There's special features that include "Beyond Bandcamp", "Practi ... (Magazines) read moreMagazine
Avant metal giants Khanate are on the cover – looking as dark as you might guess from their music – and the issue also has a look back at legendary Krautrock experimentalists Agitation Free, plus electroacoustic duo Beam Splitter, multi-instrumentalist Mpho Molikeng, Osaka group Violent ... (Magazines) read moreMagazine
(In a red and white Apexton sleeve, lightly stained at the spine, with some stuck-on paper, and an index label with BPM. Label has BPM written in pen.)
Denis Wise —
Wize Music ... LP Finders Keepers (UK), Late 70s/Early 80s. New Copy ...
$10.9926.99
Denis Wise plays all instruments on this record – everything but the kitchen sink! Oh wait – the liner notes actually indicate that he does play a kitchen sink – and a garbage disposal too – but in ways that are completely changed, as he mixes them with sounds from a ... (Out Sound) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Spiritual sounds from Pamela Samiha Wise – a musician who was a bit late to the Tribe Records scene in Detroit, but who's really done a lot to carry on the vision of the music! You might know Wise from some of her recordings with Wendell Harrison, and Harrison is very much in full force here ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Tracks include "Boom Bash", "Do The Egyptian", "New York New York", "Let's Rock The House", "Time For Peace", "Watt U Got 2 Say", and "House Is Smokin" (Hip Hop) LP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has light wear and aging, a cutout notch, hype and Play It Say It stickers, and some small scrapes and blemishes.)
A snapping little 80s groover – produced by Patrick Adams and Greg Carmichael, with a sound that's a bit rougher than some of their earlier club tracks – but mostly because of the heavy use of electric drums on the beat! Fonda's vocals are deep and soulful as ever – and even the ... (Soul) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
(Label has BPM in pen.)
Wishbone Ash —
Argus ... LP Decca, 1972. Very Good+ Gatefold ...
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The early 70s mix of medieval themes and more 70s rooted jams – Argus by Wishbone Ash! If you haven't heard this one, and you're expecting battle axes, swords and early metal bombast. . .well, there's some of that. But Wishbone Ash were restless cats, and there's longwinded acoustic ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Tripped-out and wonderful sounds from Witch – served up in this excellent early record from the Zamrock kings of the 70s! Lyrics are in English, and have these dark tones that work perfectly with the group's offbeat guitar and organ lines – sometimes mixed here with acoustic guitar ... (Global Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A surprisingly great later set from Witch – one that still has some of their funky styles of a few years before, but which also seems to bring in some stronger African elements as well – in the kind of sweet fusion that was showing up in some of the hipper South African acts of the ... (Global Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Global psychedelic grooves from Zambia – the tripped out sounds of Witch! Witch works in a killer rock groove on Lazy Bones, with furious rhythms, heavy drums and fuzzed out guitars. It's all nice and raw and done with a really heady and fierce sense of groove – but there's some more ... (Global Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Zambian funk legends Witch really knock it out of the park with this smoking little set – using really amazing basslines on most tracks, in a way that sets up a rumbling groove for all the other instruments to follow – a heady blend of psychedelic currents with more soulful styles, in a ... (Global Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Witch —
Movin' On ... LP Teal/Sharp Flat (Netherlands), 1980. New Copy (reissue)...
$30.9934.99
An unusual later album from Witch – one that has a sweet funky style at the core – a mode that shows the group picking up a fair bit of disco and club from the American scene, and fusing it with their older Zamrock styles to create a really unique sound overall! At times, the record ... (Global Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Witch —
Zango ... LP Desert Daze, 2023. New Copy ...
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A stunning return to form for Witch – aka We Intend To Caus Havoc – a legendary group from the Zambian scene of the 70s, and one whose presence in the studio is as great for music as it was a surprise to the rest of the world when it was first announced! Witch have gotten huge ... (Global Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A stunning return to form for Witch – aka We Intend To Caus Havoc – a legendary group from the Zambian scene of the 70s, and one whose presence in the studio is as great for music as it was a surprise to the rest of the world when it was first announced! Witch have gotten huge ... (Global Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Bill Withers —
'Bout Love ... LP Columbia, 1978. Near Mint- ...
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One of Wither's most underrated sets, a nice effort from the latter part of his Columbia career. The set has the sort of modern soul polish throughout that separates these CBS sides from his earlier grittier work for Sussex, and though the sound has a little more commercial and mainstream appeal ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(White label promo. Includes the printed inner sleeve. Cover has a promo stamp.)
2 of Bill's best cuts from the early 70s – one a stone-cold hit that still sounds great, the other a nice little composition that was covered by many other artists at the time! (Funky 45's) 7-inch, Vinyl record
The mellow soul of Bill Withers is always a treat – and although this best of collection was released on Columbia, it mostly features tracks from Bill's stellar early days at Sussex, when he was turning out some of the most quietly revolutionary soul of the decade! Nearly every cut's a ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A brilliant double live album by Bill Withers – different than his studio work, and every bit as essential! The album's similar to Curtis Mayfield's double live album around the same time – in that it's got Bill in front of a very enthusiastic crowd, playing in a stripped down way that ... (Soul) read moreCD
A brilliant double live album by Bill Withers – different than his studio work, and every bit as essential! The album's similar to Curtis Mayfield's double live album around the same time – in that it's got Bill in front of a very enthusiastic crowd, playing in a stripped down way that ... (Soul) read moreCD
A brilliant double live album by Bill Withers – different than his studio work, and every bit as essential! The album's similar to Curtis Mayfield's double live album around the same time – in that it's got Bill in front of a very enthusiastic crowd, playing in a stripped down way that ... (Soul) read moreCD
Completely wonderful music from the great Bill Withers – a set that's overflowing with 70s soul classics, all delivered in that wonderful vocal style that made Bill one of the most unique singers of his time – mixed with the acoustic touches of his early years, and the well-produced ... (Soul) read moreCD
An amazing legacy in soul music – the legendary run of records that Bill Withers cut for the Sussex and Columbia labels – each of them a masterpiece in their own way! The early hit sound of Withers is the stuff that dreams are made of – a unique blend of acoustic instrumentation, ... (Soul) read moreCD
Bill Withers —
Just As I Am ... CD Sussex/Big Break (UK), 1971. New Copy ...
$13.99
A beautiful album by Bill Withers – filled with incredibly well written songs, and an amazing instrumental technique that blended folksy elements with smoother 70s soul, in a sound that would put Bill at the top of the charts for many years, yet still give him cred with soul fans for decades! ... (Soul) read moreCD
Bill Withers —
Just As I Am ... LP Sussex, 1971. Very Good+ ...
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A beautiful album by Bill Withers – filled with incredibly well written songs, and an amazing instrumental technique that blended folksy elements with smoother 70s soul, in a sound that would put Bill at the top of the charts for many years, yet still give him cred with soul fans for decades! ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Original pressing with Bell Sound. Cover has light wear and a small stain.)
A beautiful album by Bill Withers – filled with incredibly well written songs, and an amazing instrumental technique that blended folksy elements with smoother 70s soul, in a sound that would put Bill at the top of the charts for many years, yet still give him cred with soul fans for decades! ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A massive 70s album from the great Bill Withers – one that's sometimes overlooked next to his huge crossover records that preceded it – but which is every bit as wonderful! Withers is still on Sussex Records, and still has that completely unique approach that made him a soul genre unto ... (Soul) read moreCD
The mellow soul of Bill Withers is always a treat – and although this best of collection is released on Columbia, it also features tracks from Bill's stellar early days at Sussex, when he was turning out some of the most quietly revolutionary soul of the decade! Bill's voice is one of the ... (Soul) read moreCD
Bill Withers —
Making Music ... LP Columbia, 1975. Very Good+ ...
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Damn! Bill Withers can never do wrong in our book – and this album is definitely case in point! The set marks Bill's big move from Sussex Records to Columbia, and it's the start of an amazing run in the late 70s – completely sublime soul that wraps up all Withers' roots from the ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Includes the printed inner sleeve and lyric insert. Cover has light wear and a few faded scribbles in marker.)
Bill Withers —
Menagerie ... LP Columbia, 1977. Very Good ...
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One of Bill Withers' greatest albums of the 70s – a set that has hip stepping off the acoustic sound of his Sussex records, into a warm and jazzy style that we like every bit as much as his earlier work! The album's got a wonderfully sophisticated jazzy vibe, and includes the excellent cut ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Original pressing with Masterdisk stamp. Vinyl appears heated but play is not affected. Cover has minimal wear.)
Bill Withers —
Still Bill ... CD Columbia/Legacy, 1972. Used ...
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Bill Withers' second album – even more wonderful than the first! The record's a perfect summation of all that made Bill so great – warm raspy vocals, sweet soulful production, mature songwriting, and just the right use of acoustic guitar to accent all the best elements in the music! ... (Soul) read moreCD
Bill Withers —
Still Bill ... LP Sussex, 1972. Very Good- Gatefold ...
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Bill Withers' second album – even more wonderful than the first! The record's a perfect summation of all that made Bill so great – warm raspy vocals, sweet soulful production, mature songwriting, and just the right use of acoustic guitar to accent all the best elements in the music! ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Original pressing with Sterling/Arp stamp in the split front cover – with some edge and surface wear.)
A sweet little 80s session from Bill Withers – a lot less acoustic than his soul of the 70s, but in a way that works surprisingly well! As always with Bill, the vocals are the main thing, and the passage of time has done nothing to take off his edge – that warmly raspy quality that's ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Backings feature Kenny Burrell on guitar, Leo Wright on alto, and Gildo Mahones on piano! Titles include "Mean Old Frisco", "Rocks In My Bed", "Lonely Boy Blues", and "One Scotch One Bourbon One Beer". (Vocalists) CD