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1990's Italian CD re-issue on ESP-Disk'/Abraxas of the 1966 album. With obi.

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 microphone, and sang as if confiding something he wasn't sure he wanted overheard. What the era received as a flaw - a voice too soft, too high, too undefended for a man - is exactly what now sounds like the future turning up ahead of schedule. There is al…

*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, You're Not a Lawyer," "Strangers in the Day," and "Fork in the Road" convey the film's seedy but humorous crime story.

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 phrasing with a deeply confident sense of swing. The record thrives on infectious grooves, a tightly locked rhythm section, and spirited improvisation that keeps the music moving at every turn. Seamlessly blending the worlds of jazz, funk, and soul, …

*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 at Tarquinia was not an ordinary child, but memory itself—coming from the earth’s innards—to dictate its divinatory secrets. For the seventh installment of the Drove catalog, the ensemble Oracle Column turns this myth into sound material, treating mag…

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 new perspective to the music. This time round harder, more brittle sounds emerge from an album with a very punchy attitude. A mixture of avant pop and progressive complexity.

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 on discus Uroboro continue to expand composition into improvisation, or perhaps set it free to become improvisation, or perhaps sabotage it with improvisation. by way of explanation, they offer an absorbing set of eight new pieces, four vocal and four…

*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 decisions. Hypnotic melodies, ecstatic drumming and extended sound trips. Studio prize 2005 of the Culture Senat in Berlin! Cool dark sounds in Jazzy and Latin ways!

2006 EP on Honest Jon's Records with two previously unpublished tracks from 1964 featuring Donald Byrd and Elvin Jones.

1980 Japanese re-issue on Vogue of the 1954 album. With obi.

1974 Japanese re-issue on Milestone's "Riverside Original Recording Series" of the 1957 album featuring John Coltrane. With insert and obi.

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.

1974 Japanese re-issue on CBS/Sony's "Best Jazz Collection" series of the 1963 album. With insert and obi.

Original Japanese edition on CBS/Sony with different cover of the 1969 compilation.

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.

1982 Japan-only compilation on Blue Note never re-issued on either LP or CD. With Obi and insert.

1982 Japan-only compilation on Blue Note never re-issued on either LP or CD. With Obi and insert.

Late 1980's US re-issue on EmArcy/Mercury of the 1956 album featuring Sonny Rollins.

1983 Japanese re-issue on Baybridge Records of the 1958 album featuring Ramsey Lewis. With insert and obi.

1973 US re-issue on Mercury of the 1958 album.

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.

1976 Japanese re-issue on GNP Crescendo's "Jazz Library 1500" series of the 1956 album. With insert and obi.

1992 Japanese re-issue on GNP of the 1956 album. With insert and obi.

1984 Japan-only edition on GNP Crescendo with the uncut long versions of the tracks of the 1956 album. With insert.

Original 1977 Japanese edition with different cover of the 1976 double-album. With insert and obi.

Rare original US edition on Impulse!/ABC of the 1969 album. With original innersleeve.

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.

1973 US re-issue on Impulse!/ABC of the 1965 album featuring John Tchicai. With original innersleeve.

1973 US re-issue on Impulse!/ABC of the 1967 album.

Original US edition on Impulse!/ABC of the 1969 album with a live recording from 1966. With original innersleeve.

1978 UK re-issue with different cover on Affinity of the 1969 album featuring Malachi Favors, Dave Burrell and Lester Bowie.

1978 original Japanese edition on Freedom/Trio of the 1976 album with a live recording from 1975 featuring Dave Burrell. With insert.

Original 1982 Japanese edition of the 1980 album. With obli and insert. With insert and obi.

1985 Japanese re-issue on Compendium Records of the 1976 album. With insert and obi.

Original edition on Victor with different cover from worldwide pressings of the 1972 Japan-only album. With insert.

Original Japanese edition on Milestone of the 1977 double-album featuring Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Gomez and Ron Carter. With insert and obi.

Original US edition on Milestone of the 1977 album.

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, drums, and Moog—doesn’t really sound anything like any of their many other ensembles or respective solo projects. And two, it was only while making Magic Object, their debut album, that Play Time realized they were a band at all. Let’s back up. The…

Moses Yoofee Trio, the Berlin group of pianist Moses Yoofee, drummer Noah Fürbringer and bassist Roman Klobe, came up through clips of their jams posted online, which drew a following and led to the 2023 mini-album Ocean on LEITER and a German Jazz Prize for live act of the year. Their 2025 debut album proper, MYT, expanded the improvised concept with fuller arrangements, landed on year-end lists and a German Jazz Award nomination, and sent them touring through Asia, the US and Europe. Chasing L…

Gatefold LP edition + OBI.  There are few figures in improvised music quite like Akira Sakata. A marine biologist by training, he surfaced in the early 1970s inside the Yamashita Yosuke Trio, one of the most ferocious units Japanese jazz has ever produced, and for half a century since he has gone entirely his own way: bandleader, relentless collaborator, singer of strange incantations, a man who can make an alto saxophone sound like grief and slapstick in the same breath. Born in 1945 near Hiros…