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Discos Machuca/Analog Africa (Germany), Late 70s.
The amazing legacy of a tiny Colombian record label – a small imprint, but a groundbreaking one as well – with a rich variety of sounds that you'll hear on this really wonderful collection! Discos Machuca was based in Barranquilla, a real crossroads of cultures, sounds, and styles ... CD
Sonny Rollins
Rollins In Holland – 1967 Studio & Live RecordingsResonance, 1967. 2CD
CD...$22.99
24.99
Stunning rare material from Sonny Rollins – from a period when he wasn't doing that much work in the studio! The double-length package features Sonny blowing with a great sense of majesty and freedom – working in trio format that recalls his classic Vanguard recordings for Blue Note ... CD
Ol Dirty Bastard
Return To The 36 Chambers Instrumentals (2LPs with bonus 7 inch) (2020 Black Friday Release)Elektra, 1995. 2LP Gatefold
A rare all-instrumental version of the very first album from ODB! Pressed up here like a rare promo release – with versions of "Shimmy Shimmy Ya", "Baby C'Mon", "Brooklyn Zoo", "Hippa To Da Hoppa", "Rawhide", "Damage", "Don't ... LP, Vinyl record album
Barney Wilen & Tete Montoliu
Barney & Tete – Grenoble 88Elemental, 1988. 2CD
CD...$17.99
19.99
Great work from French tenor genius Barney Wilen – a live festival set from 1988, a year when Wilen was really making a strong comeback to the scene – in a group that also features Spanish piano legend Tete Montoliu, plus Riccardo Del Fra on bass and Aaron Scott on drums! The setting ... CD
Black Unity Trio
Al-FatihahSalaam Records/Gotta Groove, 1969. Gatefold (reissue)
Amazing spiritual jazz treasure – the only album ever issued by this obscure avant trio from the Cleveland scene – a group that includes a young Abdul Wadud on bass and cello! The style is nicely loose and open, but also very different than the sound of the AACM at the time – ... LP, Vinyl record album
Tompkins Square, Late 60s/Late 70s/Early 80s. 5CD
CD...$60.99
64.99
Unheard music from guitar genius Robbie Basho – a selection of tracks that were never issued at the time, all rescued from Basho's archive of over 100 reel to reel tapes! Robbie gave us some groundbreaking records on Takoma, Vanguard, and Blue Thumb – which established him as one of ... CD
Resonance, 1968. 2CD
CD...$22.99
24.99
The first-ever release of a Bill Evans concert recorded at Ronnie Scotts in London – a place where he cut other work in other years, but maybe not at a level like this! The group is wonderful – Bill's budding relationship with the bassist Eddie Gomez, who was bringing a richness to the ... CD
Stanley Cowell, Billy Harper, & Others
Such Great Friends (180 gram pressing)Strata East/Pure Pleasure (UK), 1983. (reissue)
LP...$34.99
44.99
A lost bit of late Strata East – and an all-star session that never lets up! The album's a quartet effort – led by Stanley Cowell, but equally featuring participation from Billy Harper on tenor, Reggie Workman on bass, and Billy Hart on drums – all soaring together on long tracks ... LP, Vinyl record album
Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders
GarciaLive Volume 15 – May 21st, 1971 Keystone KornerRound, 1971. 2CD
CD...$15.99
16.99
The legendary Jerry Garcia, in one of our favorite settings – stretching out on a long set with organist Merl Saunders – a player who always seemed to open up the jazzier side of Jerry's music! The material here is long and jamming, but in a way that's nicely laidback – certainly ... CD
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Complete Island Recordings (11CD set)Island/Tuff Gong (Germany), 1970s. 11CD
CD...$53.99
59.99
A groundbreaking set of work from one of the musical giants of the 70s – not just a reggae star, but an artist who took the sound of Kingston to the rest of the globe with the crucial albums in this collection! Bob Marley had already been one of the reigning stars of Jamaican music when he ... CD
Ugly Things
Issue 55 – Winter 2020Ugly Things, 2020.
Another great entry in the always-rich musical world of Ugly Things – a publication so jam-packed, it usually takes us five times longer to read than any other music magazine! This time around, the issue features a long interview with Bun E Carlos of Cheap Trick fame – plus a look at ... Magazine
Karen Dalton
It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best (180 gram pressing) (2020 Black Friday Release)Capitol, 1969. (reissue)
The 1969 debut studio album from Karen Dalton – one of the most unique voices of the 60s folk scene, and one of the most emotionally rich, blue & soulful – a heroine to many artists to come, and one of the (sadly) very few pieces of music she made in a professional studio she made ... LP, Vinyl record album
Various
Tokyo DreamingSony/We Want Sounds (UK), Early 80s.
A great dip into the wide world of Japanese pop in the early 80s – a set that does a nice job of bringing in some elements from the world of jazz, and showing just how much a range of electric modes flowed together in Tokyo at the time! Some of these artists were doing more offbeat work, ... CD
Jahari Massamba Unit (Madlib & Karriem Riggins)
Pardon My French (2020 Black Friday Release)Madlib Invazion, 2020.
A tremendous collaboration between Madlib and drummer Karriem Riggins – both artists who are great enough on their own, but who really hit some new territory in this funky instrumental project! Riggins plays live drums, and Madlib throws in all this other instrumentation that really changes ... LP, Vinyl record album
Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra
Dimensional StardustInternational Anthem/Nonesuch, 2020.
One of the most ambitious albums ever from Rob Mazurek – and a set that really continues the legacy of community building and world healing that's become such an important part of his music! Rob's a player who was great at the start – a hell of a trumpeter, and a great experimentalist ... CD
Horace Tapscott
Songs Of The UnsungInterplay/Survival Research (Australia), 1978. (reissue)
Solo piano work from the magical Horace Tapscott – a blend of original compositions, plus work by hip composers like Cal Massey and Elmo Hope – key modern jazz talents with whom Tapscott genuinely shares a lineage! Tapscott's got the usual fluid touch on the keys – opening forth ... LP, Vinyl record album
Joseph Bonner (Joe Bonner)
Impressions Of Copenhagen (180 gram pressing – with bonus track)Theresa/Pure Pleasure (UK), 1981. (reissue)
LP...$34.99
44.98
One of the most interesting records we've ever heard from pianist Joe Bonner – a set that still has all the long, spiritual lines of his excellent albums from the 70s – but which also showcases Bonner's ear for larger arrangements – as he brings in trumpet, trombone, flute, and a ... LP, Vinyl record album
Andrew Cyrille
Ode To The Living Tree (180 gram pressing)Venus (Japan), 1994.
Pure genius from Andrew Cyrille – a record that's got a bit more of a soaring, spiritual vibe than some of his more freely improvised work of the past – a set that marks a key chapter in this stretch of the drummer's career, similar to his album on DIW at the same time! The group is ... LP, Vinyl record album
People Under The Stairs
OSTOm Records, 2002. 2LP (reissue)
LP...$24.99
25.99
A stone classic from People Under The Stairs – a record that not only stands as some of their strongest work on wax, but which undeniably helped a lot of the west coast find a way forward after too many years stuck in the shadow of thuggish posturing! The set bristles with the kind of ... LP, Vinyl record album
Various
Mr Bongo Record Club – Vol 4Mr Bongo (UK), Late 60s/1970s.
Maybe the coolest entry so far in this excellent series – and proof that the Mr Bongo label has gone much farther in recent years than it ever did in the past! Years back, Bongo was known as a hotbed of Latin and Brazilian music – but the sounds here are also rare funk and soul, other ... CD
