10" coloured vinyl edition. Ten tracks drawn from the 1954-56 Pacific Jazz sessions. Chet Baker Sings is a record that arrived too early for its own audience. In 1954 a twenty-four-year-old trumpet player set down his horn, leaned close to the microp…
*2026 repress* The soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch's 1986 film Down By Law is composed and performed by John Lurie, who also plays the pimp Jack in the movie. His world-weary avant-jazz pieces like "Please Come to My House," "What Do You Know About Music,…
Harold Ousley’s The Kid! is a superb example of early-1970s soul-jazz and jazz-funk, putting the spotlight on the saxophonist’s distinctive tone and commanding presence. From the first notes, the album radiates energy and character, marrying dynamic …
*100 copies limited edition* There is a strange form of clairvoyance that does not look to the future, but digs back into the earth, into the ground itself. Etruscan mythology tells that the small Tages who emerged from the furrow of a plowed field a…
Once again studio master / composer / bassist Guy Segers assembles a huge cast of progressive musicians to perform / improvise 8 new pieces. Guy's methods of composition and collage remain as before, but each new Eclectic Maybe Band release brings a …
A fourth collection of Keith Jafrate's soulful music and poetry in the grand lineage of spiritual jazz, performed once more by a team of top drawer northern UK players who can interpret this music with power and sensitivity.
With their fourth album o…
*2026 stock. 500 copies limited edition* Lynx started in 2004 and is a doubledrumleadrhythmsectionpowerband. Based on Antonis’ compositions the music is developing in collective improvisations. Combination of arithmetical structures and spontaneous d…
1982 US re-issue on Riverside/Jazzland's "Original Jazz Classics" series of the 1961 album featuring John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins and Art Blakey. With obi.
1975 2LP US compilation on Milestone with tracks from the 1950's albums Brilliant Corners and Five By Monk By Five plus a previously unissued track, featuring Max Roach and Sonny Rollins. With original innersleeve.
1980 US re-issue on Columbia's "Contemporary Masters Series" with different title and cover of the 1961 album featuring Coleman Hawkins and Julian Priester.
1995 US limited edition re-issue on Impulse!'s "The Impulse! Reissue Series" of the 1965 album featuring Marion Brown and Ted Curson. With original innersleeve.
Original Japanese edition on Milestone of the 1977 double-album featuring Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Gomez and Ron Carter. With insert and obi.
This is not a Ben Vida, Booker Stardrum, and Will Epstein record; it’s a Play Time record. That’s a subtle but important distinction, for a couple reasons. One, the sound of Magic Object—a polymetric blend of improv and pulse minimalism for saxophone…