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Live At Walker Art Center (LP)
Original and sole edition of the 1982 album privately released on World Artists featuring Milo Fine. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Alphonse Mouzon, Carmen McRae, Councilman Dave Cunningham, Ronnie Laws, Earl Klugh, Donald Byrd, Blue Note All-Stars
Blue Note Live At The RoxyOriginal Japanese edition on Blue Note of the 1976 live double-album. With insert and obi.
Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey, Reggie Workman, Johnny Griffin, Curtis Fuller, Walter Davis, Kenny Burrell, Grady Tate, Stanley Turrentine, Jimmy Smith, Grover Washington, Lou Donaldson
One Night With Blue Note Volume 3 (LP)Original Japanese edition on Blue Note of the 1985 live album. With insert.
Freddie Hubbard, Randy Brecker, Peter Erskine, Shelly Manne, Robben Ford, Alphonso Johnson, George Duke, Harold Land, Joe Farrell, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker
Jazz Of The 80's (LP)Original edition on Eastworld's "Aurex Jazz Festival" series of the 1980 live album. With insert and obi.
Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Randy Brecker, Milt Hinton, Eddie Gomez, Peter Erskine, Shelly Manne, Robben Ford, Alphonso Johnson, George Duke, Rare Silk, Cedar Walton, Teddy Wilson, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Harold Land, Illinois Jacquet, Joe Farrell, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Helen Humes
Live Special (LP)Original edition on Eastworld's "Aurex Jazz Festival" series of the 1980 live album. With insert and obi.
Dexter Gordon, Kenny Burrell, Roy Haynes, Richard Davis, Tommy Flanagan, J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Clark Terry
AJF '82 All Star Jam (LP)Original edition on Eastworld's "Aurex Jazz Festival" series of the 1982 live album. With insert and obi.
Big Tenors (LP)
Original and sole edition on Mercury's "Keynote Jazz Series" of the 1973 Japan-only compilation. With insert and obi.
Johnny Hodges And Orchestra, Rex Stewart And Orchestra, Barney Bigard And Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey And His Clambake Seven, Artie Shaw And His Gramercy Five
The Essence Of Small Groups (4LP box)Original and sole edition on RCA's "A Treasury Of Historical Jazz On RCA" of the 1975 Japan-only 4LP compilation box set. With insert.
Powerhouse
A bold new spotlight shines on the classic 1971 release Powerhouse by celebrated organist Chester Thompson—an album that captures the pulse of its time with fire, finesse, and unmistakable soul. Released in 1971, Powerhouse remains a standout work in Thompson’s discography, drawing listeners into a world where groove, grit, and melodic imagination collide.
From the first notes, Powerhouse delivers an electrifying blend of organ-driven energy and captivating musical momentum. Thompson’s masterful…
The Skipper at Home
Henry Franklin is set to release *The Skipper At Home*, a bold new musical journey arriving on **[Release Date]**. The album blends intimate storytelling with adventurous grooves, drawing listeners into a world where humor meets heart, and every track feels like a destination.
With *The Skipper At Home*, Henry Franklin crafts a sound that’s both reflective and kinetic—layered arrangements, memorable melodies, and a distinct voice that moves effortlessly between the personal and the playful. From…
Sound Sun Pleasure
Sound Sun Pleasure was recorded in Chicago at the same March 1959 sessions that produced the instrumental album Jazz In Silhouette, and features near-identical personnel. However, the recordings sat on the shelf for over ten years, finally achieving release in 1970. Whereas Silhouette was comprised of Sun Ra originals, Sound Sun Pleasure explores two works Sunny co-composed with trumpeter Hobart Dotson and four standards, two of which ("'Round Midnight" and "Back In Your Own Backyard") are sung …
Izipho Zam
"Strata-East present a reissue of Pharoah Sanders's Izipho Zam (My Gifts), originally released in 1973. "Popular and increasingly in demand, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) falls into the 'rare' category among record collectors and is a gift to fans of master Pharoah Sanders. This demand is partially galvanized by the fact that 'Prince Of Peace' has become an inspirational mine to hip hop artists and is much loved by samplers.
Izipho Zam is Pharoah Sander's third album, initially recorded in January 1969,…
Two Balls Are Enough
The debut album from the duo of Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen and Swedish reedist Mats Gustafsson - both musicians have routinely blown past the rules of the traditions from which first emerged—folk and free jazz, respectively—to explore constantly expanding worlds. It was only a matter of time before these iconoclasts collided to create something wonderfully raw and unexpected.
The Call
Two sessions from the white heat of mid-sixties New York, drawn from the ESP-Disk archive and returned to full clarity in the new Reference series from AlAy, the Basel imprint curated by Werner X. Uehlinger. The Call brings together the only recording ever made under the direction of the painter, engineer and multi-instrumentalist Marzette Watts and the sole date led by the great bassist Henry Grimes, the connecting thread between the two, in a single volume with sonic restoration and mastering …
Nostalgia
The second volume in the Reference series from AlAy, the Basel imprint curated by Werner X. Uehlinger, gathers twenty two sides that document one of the great partnerships of modern jazz: trumpeter Fats Navarro and composer, arranger and pianist Tadd Dameron, captured across seven New York studio sessions between January 1947 and January 1949, with sonic restoration and mastering by Michael Brändli and new liner notes by Art Lange.
Navarro, gone at twenty six, made perhaps the deepest impression…
Hommage To Africa
** Deluxe matte laminate gatefold sleeve and polylined paper inner sleeve ** Paris, August 1969. Sunny Murray books a studio for a single afternoon and walks in with thirteen musicians - among them three members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the working sextet built around Archie Shepp, and the singer Jeanne Lee. What they cut that day, Hommage To Africa, is one of the high-water marks of the legendary BYG Actuel catalogue, and one of the warmest and least abrasive records the free jazz moveme…
Low Profile
Strut Records proudly presents a new reissue of the original Afrobeat classic Low Profile (Not For The Blacks), recorded and composed by Afrika 70 saxophonist and bandleader Lekan Animashaun and produced by Fela Kuti.
After years touring the world as Fela’s baritone saxophonist, Animashaun stepped forward to lead the legendary Egypt 80 band following Tony Allen’s departure, remaining the group’s musical director until Fela’s death in 1997. He continued on subsequent tours with Seun Kuti until 20…
Slowly Melting
On Slowly Melting, Janel Leppin turns her fuzz‑saturated cello into a one‑woman orchestra of grief, resolve and slow-motion rapture. Layering guitar, bass, piano and Prophet‑5 around her bowed lines, she sculpts a solo album where an ancient instrument, wired into modern circuitry, becomes a tectonic emotional force.
Black Marigolds
Michael Garrick's Black Marigolds is widely regarded as one of the landmark recordings of 1960s British jazz. The album is performed by some of the finest jazz musicians in Britain during the 1960s, including Ian Carr, Joe Harriott, Don Rendell, and Tony Coe. Michael Garrick alternates between piano, harpsichord, and celeste, creating an unusually rich palette of sounds. Indeed, the album is characterized not only by post-bop improvisation, chamber-jazz textures and poetic storytelling, but also…
Quintet (LP)
Very rare original edition on Ali’s own Survival Records of the 1973 album featuring James Blood Ulmer.