Jazz & Improvisation / All styles

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 …

"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,…

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 inspiration for Album l and Album II began with a performance by Japanese musician Eiko Ishibashi at Cologne's Week-End Fest in 2019. For this appearance, the renowned experimental musician and composer of the Oscar-winning film Drive My Car was joined on drums by Tatsuhisa Yamamoto and Joe Talia; both integral members of the top-level improvisational/experimental scene in Tokyo. While in town for the festival, Ishibashi met up with the members of the Cologne-Berlin based group Von Spar who …

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 …

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…

** 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…

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…

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.

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…

Very rare original edition on Ali’s own Survival Records of the 1973 album featuring James Blood Ulmer.

Rare original edition on Ali’s own Survival Records of the 1976 album.

1978 Japanese re-issue on Odeon's "Jazz All Time Favorites 1800" of the 1969 album.

Rare 1970's re-press on Nessa of the 1970 album with the soundtrack to the Moshé Mizrahi film.

Original US edition on Arista/Freedom of the 1975 2LP compilation with tracks from Tutankhamun and The Spiritual recorded in 1969, plus two previously unreleased tracks.

1970 French compilation on Byg's "History Of Jazz" series with tracks from several albums released in 1969 on the label's "Actuel" series.

1984 Japanese re-issue on ECM's "ECM Collection 50" of the 1980 album. With insert.

Original US edition on ECM of the 1983 double album.72 Japanese re-issue on Trio/Japo of the 1970 album. With insert.

Original edition with white cover of the 1980 Italy-only album on Black Saint.

1970's re-issue on Milestone of the 1969 album featuring Pharoah Sanders.

1970's re-issue on Milestone of the 1969 album featuring Pharoah Sanders.

1972 Japanese re-issue on Trio/Japo of the 1970 album. With insert.

Original Japanese edition on Enja Records of the 1983 album. With insert and obi.

Original German edition on Enja Records of the 1979 album.

1972 original Japanese edition on Delmark's "Trio Jazz Mania" series of the 1971 double album. With insert.

Original French edition on Freedom of the 1973 double album featuring Dave Holland, Barry Altschul, Kenny Wheeler and Chick Corea.

Original Japanese edition on Freedom's "Trio Jazz Mania" as two separate LP's - this is the second volume - of the 1973 double album featuring Dave Holland, Barry Altschul, Kenny Wheeler and Chick Corea. With insert.

1980's re-press of the 1981 double-album on Hat Hut Records featuring Marilyn Crispell.

Original edition of the Italy-only 1982 album on CECMA featuring John Lindberg.

Original 1971 Japan-only album on CBS/Sony by the quartet of Anthony Braxton, Dave Holland, Barry Altschul and Chick Corea. With insert.

Original 1971 Japan-only album on CBS/Sony by the quartet of Anthony Braxton, Dave Holland, Barry Altschul and Chick Corea. With insert and obi.

1971 Japanese re-issue on Mercury's "Clifford Brown Collection" series of the 1955 album. With insert and obi.

1983 Japanese re-issue on EmArcy's "We Remember Clifford Original Collection" series of the 1956 album featuring Sonny Rollins. With insert and obi.

2019 grey area repro of the 1969 album originally on Polydor with the soundtack to the Marcel Camus film, featuring Gunter Hampel and Barre Phillips.

Early 1990's first CD re-issue on ESP-Disk' / ZYX Music of the 19686 album featuring Rashied Ali.

1990 release (light wear) ** The second ESP-Disk' statement, 1966: Marion Brown with a killing band including Stanley Cowell at the piano, deepening everything the debut promised. The writing is stronger, the group interplay more spacious, and Brown's alto - that singing, speech-like sound, closer to a voice than almost any horn of the era - moves through the material with total assurance, balancing fire and lyricism phrase by phrase. The mid-sixties ESP sessions caught a whole generation at the…

1992 Japanese re-issue on EmArcy's "The Final Press" series of the 1955 album. With insert and obi.

Rare 1994 Japanese re-issue on Blue Note's "LP 1500 Collection" series of the 1958 album featuring Miles Davis and Art Blakey. With insert and obi.

1983 Japan-only EP on Blue Note with recordings from 1958 featuring Miles Davis and Art Blakey. With insert and obi.

1975 Japanese re-issue on Riverside's "Original Recording Series" of the 1958 album featuring Bill Evans. With insert and obi.