A really wonderful album of obscure jazz recordings from the Chicago scene of the 70s – way more than just the usual school band record, as the tracks here are mostly originals, and performed by a very inventive group of musicians! Governor's State University was a very hip place at the time ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Great Japanese pressing – with obi! Part of the excellent Groove Diggers series!)
A rare Spanish session from trumpeter Dusko Goykovich – and easily one of the most soulful albums he ever recorded! The set's got a warm, laidback vibe – very much in keeping with the title and cover image – as Dusko blows some great open-ended solos with rhythm from the trio of ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Maroon label pressing – a nice copy!)
GQ —
GQ Two ... LP Arista, 1980. Very Good+ ...
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Completely sublime grooves from GQ – a second set that's almost even better than their first – thanks to perfect production, and wicked rhythms that are right on the money, track after track! The group start the set with a flurry of upbeat grooves that really show the full potential of ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Hakon Graf/Sveinung Hovensjo/Jon Eberson —
Blow Out ... LP Compendium Records (UK), 1977. Near Mint- ...
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A really cool set from the famous Nordic scene of the 70s! There's a touch of prog in the mix, even though the album's all instrumental – and the group features Hakon Graf on moog, Fender Rhodes, and organ – with Jon Eberson on guitar, Jon Christensen on drums, and Sveinung Hovensjo on ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Davy Graham —
Folk Blues & Beyond ... LP Decca/East Central One (UK), 1964. New Copy (reissue)...
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A hell of a record, and one that definitely lives up to its promise of folk, blues, and beyond – as Davy Graham here is as comfortable with influences from Jack Elliott and Leadbelly as he is with Chico Hamilton, Bobby Timmons, and Charles Mingus! The album's a very early instance of a ... (Folk/Country) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Davy Graham —
Hat ... LP Decca/East Central One (UK), 1969. New Copy (reissue)...
$18.9921.99
Prepare to discover your new favorite artist – a tremendously hip cat who never got his due – and who should be held as high on these shores as British talents like Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, or John Martyn! Like all of those three, Davy Graham is a complete original – a guy with ... (Folk/Country) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A classic set of ballads and mellow soul numbers from Larry Graham – quite a change from some of his funkier work, and a nice step forward in his growth as a singer! Larry's voice is deep and round on most tunes – a classic baritone approach that almost goes back to jazz vocalists of ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Larry Graham hits the slow jam generation – stepping aside from his funkier groove for this classic album – a record that gave the world a huge crossover cut in the title track! The main focus here is on Larry's vocals, not his basswork – and he does a surprisingly good job as a ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Sweet modern soul from Larry Graham – a set that's miles from his earlier work, but in a great way that really shows him stretching out in new directions! In keeping with the times, the grooves here are often heavy on the beats, bass, and keys – fused together especially nicely on some ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(EU pressing.)
Larry Graham —
Victory ... LP Warner, 1983. Sealed ...
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A definite victory for Larry Graham – an album that really put him on top of the early 80s mainstream soul crowd with a great mix of styles! Some of the tunes here are in the bouncy, bubbly mode you might expect from Larry's 70s work – but they're also tuned a bit more towards an 80s ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Titles include "Sparks And Dreams", "Critiques", "You Used To Be So Pure", "Can't You Take It Standing Up?", and "Blind Men Go Flying". (Soul) LP, Vinyl record album
Very interesting soul material from this enigmatic singer. Ralph had a righteous approach that mixed larger arrangements with a folksy style – in an overall effect that was a few parts Terry Callier, a few parts late Jerry Butler, and a few parts Grady Tate – but which had an approach ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The legendary first album by Larry Graham and Graham Central Station – Larry's bold move away from Sly & The Family Stone, and the beginning of a new dynasty in mainstream funk! Larry's bass work really drives the set along – pushing the riffing guitars over the top of the heavy ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Graham Central Station —
Mirror ... LP Warner, 1976. Near Mint- ...
$7.99
Larry Graham and crew are definitely going for a fuller sound on this set – starting off the record with a funky marching band, in Tusk-like fashion – then rolling into some bass-heavy funk that tops even their previous records for tightness! The groove is a key element in the growth ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Includes the insert. Cover has a cutout notch, bent corners, and a mostly separated and crinkled "mirror".)
A dozen hard early 60s Latin numbers – performed by Rene Grand and his combo, with some occasional vocals by Frankie Rodriguez – but also a number of great instrumentals with a sweet jazzy finish! The groove is very strong, with lots of mambo jazz in the mix, and a hard New York groove ... (Latin) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Grand Agent —
Fish Outta Water ... LP Interworld Agency Media, 2003. Near Mint- 2LP Gatefold ...
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Includes their classic "We're An American Band" – plus "Walk Like A Man", "Ain't Got Nobody", "Creepin", "Stop Lookin Back", and "Black Licorice". Produced by Todd Rundgren. (Rock) LP, Vinyl record album
(Black vinyl pressing, including the stickers! Cover has minimal wear, and is nice overall.)
A record that asks a musical question with the title – although one that provides an answer that's different than you might expect if you're a fan of soul music! Still, if you've been a lover of Grand Funk right from the start, you'll find plenty to please your ears here – a slight 80s ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A double-length collection of work from the first chapter of Grand Funk Railroad – that moment when the group was just a power trio, and really helping to move their early blues inspirations into some fierce hard rock territory! The title's a reference to the lineup – Mark Farner on ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The mighty debut of Grand Funk Railroad – a set that has them bursting out of the box as one of the hardest-hitting power trios on the American scene! Like contemporaries ZZ Top or James Gang, these guys have clearly been influenced by the best electric blues of the previous decade or two ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Grand Funk Railroad —
Survival ... LP Capitol, 1971. Near Mint- ...
$9.9914.99
A nice batch of organ solos. Selections include "Robbin's Nest", "Mood Indigo", "Get Out Of Town", "Old Devil Moon", "All The Way", and more! (Jazz) LP, Vinyl record album
(Cover is great!)
Earl Grant —
Stand By Me ... LP Decca, 1966. Very Good+ ...
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Great organ and piano from Earl Grant – a cat we grow to love more and more as the years go on! (Now Sound) LP, Vinyl record album
An unlikely contender to the throne of king of electro, this early 80s effort from Eddie Grant helps to prop him up there quite nicely. Heavy synth driven grooves bubble along nicely with that crisp Linn Drum sound, and though this album benefited from some wider pop appeal, there's more than a ... (Reggae) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(US pressing on Portrait/Ice. Cover has a partially unglued top seam and is bent a bit at the corners.)
Sofia Grant —
Extinction ... LP Jazz Refreshed (UK), 2023. New Copy ...
$22.9926.99
Maybe the first vocal album we've heard on London's Jazz Refreshed label, but one that really lives up to the high quality of the imprint's legacy of well-chosen music! Sofia Grant's got this style that warmly wraps around the jazzier backings of the music – relatively lean on most numbers, ... (Vocalists) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Incredible pop psych sounds from Grapefruit – a group who might be best known for their early inclusion in the Beatles' Apple Corps – but who can easily stand on their own with the strength of material like this! The production is superb, and the overall vision in the music is sublime ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Grapefruit —
Deep Water ... LP RCA, 1969. Very Good+ Gatefold ...
$24.99
Really beautiful work from Stephane Grappelli – a record that's got its roots in the sound of his older Hot Club work, but which also carries itself with a sense of modernism that really opens things up! The sound here is sparer and simpler at times – without as much of the gypsy swing ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Notable sidemen include Daniel Humair, Mark Hemmeler and Guy Pederson. (Jazz) LP, Vinyl record album
Stephane Grappelli & Stuff Smith —
Violins No End ... LP Pablo, 1957. Very Good+ ...
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Twin jazz violins from Stuff Smith and Stephane Grappelli – with rhythm from Oscar Peterson on piano, Ray Brown on bass, Herb Ellis on guitar, and Jo Jones on drums! (Jazz) LP, Vinyl record album
One of the best of Decca's Jazz Studio series of recording – a tight set of chamber jazz tracks headed by John Graas, and featuring a strong assortment of players that includes Charlie Mariano, Zoot Sims, Larry Bunker, Gerry Mulligan, Howard Roberts, and Conte Candoli. Tracks get a little ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Back in the 60s, the Grass Roots already had this tight, compressed energy that was totally great – a quality that also makes their 70s work like this so wonderful too! There's a focus here that's totally great – horns informed by earlier soul music styles, and vocals that borrow a bit ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Building block logo pressing in the textured cover, with a small cutout hole and bumped corner.)
Maybe the most famous record ever given to the world by California quartet The Grass Roots – famous for its title tune, and for the way that it effortlessly blends together folk inclinations and psych inspirations! The record's definitely one of those that showed the world that there was ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A seminal set from the Sunset Strip scene of the 60s – and just the kind of record that shows why the changes taking place in Cali were so important to the growth of so much other music at the time! A few years before, and The Grass Roots would have been a pop folk combo re-tuning ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Original black label stereo pressing with yellow border logo. Cover has some ringwear, edge wear, and small peeled spots at the bottom.)
One of the crowning early moments from the young Grateful Dead – a key Warner studio album that really has the group moving from psychedelic to more roots-oriented modes – maybe a Marin vibe versus a Haight sort of happening – with loads of great guitar and pedal from Jerry Garcia ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Green label Capitol record club pressing. Cover has a split top seam, splitting on the bottom seam, edge wear & aging.)
A classic set from the Grateful Dead – and one that features the group mixing studio tracks with their rising fame as a must-see live act! The package features both concert and studio recordings, and there's a wonderfully optimistic, late 60s vibe to the whole thing – the group still ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Grateful Dead —
Blues For Allah ... LP Grateful Dead/United Artists, 1975. Near Mint- ...
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Prime Grateful Dead from the mid 70s – a time when the group were traveling famously around the globe, spinning out long songs with plenty of solos – but also able to keep on coming up with nicely sharp songs on records like this! By this point in their career, they're so ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Prime Grateful Dead from their early years on the San Francisco scene – performing in the very friendly confines of The Fillmore – and spinning out long tracks that already show the group embracing their talent for improvisation! The set features an 18 minute "Jam" track ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
One of the finer Dead studio albums of the mid 70s for sure – managing to catch a bit of the spontaneous energy that made them such a vaunted live band on some tunes, really delivering on the wry yet easygoing songcraft they don't really get enough credit for, and even some cool facets of ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The seminal debut of The Grateful Dead – a record that was maybe as important to the American psychedelic scene as the first two albums by Pink Floyd were to the UK! Like those sets, this one almost seems to come out of nowhere – still very much a part of its time, with trippiness and ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
An essential early document of the Grateful Dead – a double-length collection of live material that was one of the first to give the rest of the world a chance to hear what they could provide to their ever-growing concert audiences! The tracks were mostly recorded in New York in early 1971, ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Not a true history of the Grateful Dead, but instead an important early album of well-selected live tracks – presented in a way that hints at the huge run of archival material that would see the light of day in the 21st Century! The release came out in the early 70s, but features tracks ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Not a true history of the Grateful Dead, but instead an important early album of well-selected live tracks – presented in a way that hints at the huge run of archival material that would see the light of day in the 21st Century! The release came out in the early 70s, but features tracks ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
An album that hardly has the Grateful Dead in the dark – given that it was one of their biggest of the 80s, and really helped the group find a big new audience, thanks to a surprising hit! All the older elements are still in place, but the production has definitely changed since the early ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Early Grateful Dead at Winterland – a rare set of live recordings that stands as a nice bookend to the Skull & Roses record – as you might guess from the cover! The material here was pulled from original tapes, and features long live readings of "Sugar Magnolia", "Tur ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The Grateful Dead in the early 80s – still going strong in a live setting, and with a vibe that's maybe even closer to their roots than some of their Arista studio material at the time! The set is a massive ten-sided representation of a show that has the group soaring and stretching out on ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Note: This item is not for sale online until 7:00am on Sunday, April 21. It is in limited supply – and by nature of the Record Store Day rules it will be offered for sale first to customers who visit the Dusty Groove retail outlet in Chicago the morning of Saturday, April 20. It will not be ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A legendary live set from the Grateful Dead – served up here in a set so big, it needs 16 sides' worth of vinyl to deliver the music! There's loads of long jams here – the kind of criss-crossing, song-shifting material that makes the Dead so wonderful at this point in their career ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The first Grateful Dead album on Arista, and a set that definitely marks a new chapter for the group – one that has them using a surprising amount of soul references in their music, in part through some heavy vocal contributions from Donna Jean Godchaux! The arrangements are fuller than ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The first album issued by the Grateful Dead on their own label – a setting that might make you think they'd act with less control than when at Warner Brothers, but which actually seems to have them doing the reverse! The whole thing's a great back-to-basics effort – sharp songs, rootsy ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The first album issued by the Grateful Dead on their own label – a setting that might make you think they'd act with less control than when at Warner Brothers, but which actually seems to have them doing the reverse! The whole thing's a great back-to-basics effort – sharp songs, rootsy ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
One of the first giant hits by the Grateful Dead – and a record that has the group tightening things up a bit more, and stepping into some of the country-tinged territory of The Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers! Turns out, the move is a great one – as the songs come across with a real ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(60th Anniversary 180 gram pressing!)
Gravediggaz —
6 Feet Deep ... LP Gee Street/HHC, 1994. New Copy 2LP (reissue)...
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The first installment from the RZA, Poetic, Prince Paul and Fruikwan, setting up the whole horrorcore genre, which lasted about a minute (well. . .long enough for these guys to release a second LP and a fair number of weak copycat groups to crop up). There's a few nice nuggets on here, and some ... (Hip Hop) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Nick Gravenites/Mike Bloomfield/Maria Muldaur —
Steel Yard Blues ... LP Warner, 1972. Near Mint- ...
Just Sold Out!
A treasure trove of bluesy rock material – and a set that almost works as well as a straight album project from Nick Gravenites and Mike Bloomfield – as it does as the soundtrack for this offbeat film that starred Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland! The vibe here is a bit like other ... (Soundtracks) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(White label stereo promo. Cover has light wear, some tape remnants at the spine, small distro sticker. Label has a small sticker.)
Early solo work from Carl Graves – a Canadian soul artist who was first heard with the band Skylark, but who sounds pretty darn nice on his own! Carl's got a free and light voice that works well with the tightly crafted arrangements of the set – kind of a real mix of styles, but one ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(White label promo. Cover has a cutout hole, some ring and edge wear, and is bent at the corners and edges.)
One of the rarest albums ever from percussionist Milford Graves, and one of the most intense as well – a completely unbridled live performance that features saxes from Hugh Glover and Arthur Doyle! Glover and Doyle are amazing together – and with that trademark raspy tone, Doyle's set ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Milford Graves —
Babi ... LP IPS, 1976. Sealed ...
Temporarily Out Of Stock
One of the rarest albums ever from percussionist Milford Graves, and one of the most intense as well – a completely unbridled live performance that features saxes from Hugh Glover and Arthur Doyle! Glover and Doyle are amazing together – and with that trademark raspy tone, Doyle's set ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(2023 reissue pressing – still sealed – but the bottom of the cover has a nasty 2 inch wide edge bump with a torn spot.)
Groundbreaking early work from drummer Milford Graves and pianist Don Pullen – a set of long, free improvisations that were originally issued on Graves' Self-Reliance Productions label! The music is even more striking than sounds from the time on the ESP label – and also really ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Beautiful pressing – heavy cover and bonus insert!)
Groundbreaking early work from drummer Milford Graves and pianist Don Pullen – a set of long, free improvisations that were originally issued on Graves' Self-Reliance Productions label! The music is even more striking than sounds from the time on the ESP label – and also really ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(2023 reissue pressing – still sealed with hype sticker. Cover has mild edge bump on the bottom.)
Milford Graves & Don Pullen —
Nommo ... LP SRP/Superior Viaduct, 1966. New Copy (reissue)...
Temporarily Out Of Stock
Groundbreaking early work from drummer Milford Graves and pianist Don Pullen – a set of long, free improvisations that were originally issued on Graves' Self-Reliance Productions label! The music is even more striking than sounds from the time on the ESP label – and also really ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Beautiful pressing – heavy cover, and bonus insert!)
Milford Graves & Don Pullen —
Nommo ... LP SRP, 1966. Good ...
Out Of Stock
Groundbreaking early work from drummer Milford Graves and pianist Don Pullen – a set of long, free improvisations that were originally issued on Graves' Self-Reliance Productions label! The music is even more striking than sounds from the time on the ESP label – and also really ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(2023 reissue pressing. NOTE – vinyl plays with a bad click on the first track, but the rest is great. Cover has a HUGE corner cut on the lower left corner.)
Milford Graves with Arthur Doyle & Hugh Glover —
Children Of The Forest ... LP Black Editions, 1976. New Copy 2LP Gatefold ...
$39.9944.99
A really amazing set of recordings, and a fantastic lost chapter in the career of legendary percussionist Milford Graves – material recorded in his home basement studio in the months before his classic album Babi – and done in a style that's often more freewheeling and unbridled than ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Dobie Gray —
Hey Dixie ... LP MCA, 1974. Very Good+ ...
Just Sold Out!
Another pretty great set from Dobie, and actually with a bit less of a country soul feel and a bigger, more freewheeling sound overall – some big horn section- backed tunes, to grittier soul, to more laidback numbers. Includes "Hey Dixie", "How Can You Live All Alone", ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album