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Minoru Muraoka
Bamboo (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 24/May/2019 ] Japanese jazz/breakbeat, folkloric mega-rarity as hallowed by the likes of DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Egon and co. Uniquely combines traditional Japanese instrumentation with Western jazz influences. Official Mr Bongo reissue. Gatefold single LP. |
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Nik Bärtsch's Ronin
Awase (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 4/May/2018 ] "Awase", a term from martial arts, means "moving together" in the sense of matching energies, a fitting metaphor for the dynamic precision, tessellated grooves and balletic minimalism of Nik Bärtsch's Ronin. Six years have passed since the last... |
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Oded Tzur
My Prophet (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Jul/2024 ] On My Prophet, Oded Tzur together with his quartet of pianist Nitai Hershkovits, bassist Petros Klampanis and the new group member Cyrano Almeida on drums, continues on the idiosyncratic musical path he has carved out for himself - a flowing jazz... |
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O'Donel Levy
Simba (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Baltimore-born, Levy was already well regarded as one of the best up-and-coming jazz guitarists at the time of Simba's release. Having toured with George Benson and Jimmy McGriff, as well as featuring on McGriff's Black Pearl album on Blue Note, he... |
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Outside
The Rough & The Smooth (LP) [ Dorado Records / 2 LP - released 27/Jun/2025 ] "The Rough And The Smooth" was the highly anticipated 2nd album from Outside. Written, produced, mixed and engineered by a 22-year-old Matt Cooper, who journeyed through dub, jungle, hip hop and latin rhythms and vibrant, modal jazz. Playing much of... |
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Rafiq Bhatia
Environments (LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 12/Sep/2025 ] Oscar-nominated composer Rafiq Bhatia has only deepened his status as "one of the most intriguing figures in music today...who refuses to be pinned to one genre, culture or instrument" (New York Times). On his new album Environments, Bhatia makes... |
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles (Limited LP) [ Rhino / Warner / LP - released 3/Feb/2023 ] Ray Charles' Atlantic debut in mono is a must-have. Also known as Hallelujah, I Love Her So, Ray Charles is a compilation of Charles' early singles that helped forge this his original fusion of blues, R&B, jazz and pop. Limited clear vinyl. |
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Terje Rypdal
Conspiracy (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 12/Feb/2021 ] A new ECM studio album and a programme of new music from Terje Rypdal is cause for celebration. On Conspiracy the great Norwegian guitarist seems to reconnect with the wild inspiration that fuelled such early masterpieces as Whenever I Seem To Be Far... |
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Weather Report
Tale Spinnin' (Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Weather Report was one of the most influential jazz-fusion groups of their era and outlasted many of its contemporaries such as Herbie Hancock's Headhunters and The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Despite many personnel changes over its 16-year lifespan, they... |
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Anu Komsi (soprano), Marzi Nyman (organ)
Duke Ellington: Sacred Concert (LP) [ Alba / LP - released 14/May/2020 ] Duke Ellington wrote the Sacred Concert in the mid-1960's and performed the work with his orchestra and various soloists between 1966 and 1974 at Churches around the USA and Europe. Ellington never wrote a score of Sacred Concerts, and it wasn't... |
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Charlie Hunter
Bing Bing Bing (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Charlie Hunter's 1995 Blue Note debut Bing Bing Bing! was a groove-heavy tour-de-force that marked the arrival of a virtuosic guitarist whose unique concept on his 8-string guitar produced music that was both impressive and irrepressible. Hunter's... |
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Chick Corea
Return to Forever (180g LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 18/Oct/2010 ] The legendary first lineup of Chick Corea's fusion band Return to Forever debuted on this classic album (titled after the group but credited to Corea), featuring Joe Farrell on soprano sax and flute, the Brazilian team of vocalist Flora Purim and... |
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Clifford Brown
Memorial Album (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown recorded two leader sessions for Blue Note in 1953-a co-led quintet date with Lou Donaldson and his own sextet date-that were compiled on the 12" LP Memorial Album (BLP 1526) shortly after his tragic death in... |
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Mark De Clive Lowe / Shigeto / Melanie Charles
Hotel San Claudio (LP) [ Soul Bank / LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Revered composer, pianist, DJ and acknowledged bridge between jazz, dance and hip-hop, Mark de Clive-Lowe links up with jazz vocalist/flautist Melanie Charles and Detroit drummer/producer & DJ, Shigeto on Hotel San Claudio, a collaborative LP of... |
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Joey Defrancesco
More Music (LP) [ Mack Avenue / 2 LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] On More Music, master organist Joey DeFrancesco, who has long supplemented his keyboard virtuoso with his skilled trumpet playing, here brings out his full arsenal: organ, keyboard, piano, trumpet and, for the first time on record, tenor saxophone.... |
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Dr Tree
Dr Tree (Limited Edition LP) [ WallenBink / 2 LP - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Originally released in 1976, this highly sought-after local album has been reissued as a limited edition double LP by WallenBink, a UK-based independent record label dedicated to issuing the finest in jazz and beyond. |
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Hank Mobley
Curtain Call (LP) [ Universal / LP - released 27/May/2022 ] It's a sign of the sheer volume of top-notch hard bop that Blue Note was recording in the 1950s-60s that a supremely swinging date like Hank Mobley's 1957 album Curtain Call would sit in the vaults unreleased until 1984. Mobley himself was in the... |
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Joe Lovano / Marilyn Crispell / Carmen Castaldi
Trio Tapestry (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Jan/2019 ] The great saxophonist Joe Lovano has appeared on a number of ECM recordings over the last four decades, including much-loved albums with Paul Motian, Steve Kuhn and John Abercrombie. Trio Tapestry is his first as a leader for the label, introducing a... |
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John Scofield Trio
Uncle John's Band [ ECM / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2023 ] Named for the Grateful Dead song that concludes this inspired double album, Uncle John's Band features masterful guitarist John Scofield at his most freewheeling. Wide ranging repertoire finds his trio with Vicente Archer and Bill Stewart tackling... |
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Johnny Griffin
Introducing Johnny Griffin (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |