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Live In Wuppertal (LP)
Original edition on FMP of the first album from 1973 by 'the' free jazz big band, featuring Peter Brotzmann, Peter Kowald, Paul Lovens, Evan Parker, Alex Schlippenbach, Paul Rutherford, Kenny Wheeler and a host of others.
Jahrmarkt / Local Fair (LP)
Original 1977 album on Po Torch with gatefold sleeve by 'the' free jazz big band, featuring Peter Brotzmann, Albert Mangelsdorff, Anthony Braxton, Peter Kowald, Paul Lovens, Evan Parker, Enrico Rava, Alex Schlippenbach and a host of others.
Improvisations (LP)
Original German edition on Japo of the 1978 album by 'the' free jazz big band, featuring Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, Albert Mangelsdorff, Peter Kowald, Paul Lovens, Evan Parker, Tristan Honsinger, Alexander von Schlippenbach and a host of others.
Compositions (LP)
Original German edition on Japo of the 1980 album by 'the' free jazz big band, featuring Steve Lacy, Albert Mangelsdorff, Paul Lovens, Evan Parker, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Kenny Wheeler, Manfred Schoof, Enrico Rava and a host of others.
People Symphony (LP)
Original 1970 LP on Hampel's own Birth records, featuring Jeanne Lee and Willem Breuker. A great "symphony", never re-issued on either CD or LP
A Place To Be With Us (LP)
Original 1981 LP on Hampel's own Birth records with his composition played by the Band featuring Jeanne Lee and Thomas Keyserling. Never re-issued on either CD or LP.
Companion (LP)
Original 1982 LP on Hampel's own Birth records with his composition played by himself Jeanne Lee and Thomas Keyserling. Never re-issued on either CD or LP.
Live Performances (LP)
Original 1977 split LP on FMP with solo cello and double bass live improvisations. Never re-issued on either CD or LP.
Lavoro (LP)
Original 1981 LP with textured sleeve on Centro Attivita' Musicali / Materiali Sonori. Never re-issued on either CD or LP.
Sound (LP)
2011 LP on ILK Music in an edition of only 150 copies available for sale. With 2 inserts.
Iskra 1903 (2LP)
Rare second pressing with white labels from 1983 in original 1972 gatefold sleeve of one of the very early Incus releases from 1972, the revolutionary and monumental album by Barry Guy, Derek Bailey and Paul Rutherford.
Schlingerland / Dynamische Schwingungen (LP)
Very rare first album on FMP's SAJ series from 1972, with silk-screened folded cover and innersleeve, and Johansson's uncompromising first solo album.
At The Deer Head Inn
Big Tip! ** One-time pressing, strictly limited edition ** After more than three decades of whispered reverence among jazz cognoscenti, the complete story of Keith Jarrett's transformative return to his musical birthplace can finally be told. At The Deer Head Inn: The Complete Recordings, a sumptuous 4LP box set to be released in August 2025, captures every note from what may be the most emotionally resonant performance in the pianist's extraordinary catalog. On September 16, 1992, something ext…
Drumland Dreamland
Occasionally, you find music outside the commercial mainstream, outside of everything – the music of visionaries, eccentrics, inventors, loners. Moondog, Daphne Oram, Harry Partch are from this mould. And so too is Lori Vambe.
Drumgita Solo
Occasionally, you find music outside the commercial mainstream, outside of everything – the music of visionaries, eccentrics, inventors, loners. Moondog, Daphne Oram, Harry Partch are from this mould. And so too is Lori Vambe.
Candy Girl
An electrified meeting of minds, Candy Girl is a lost 1975 session by jazz pianist Mal Waldron, recorded in Paris with core members of the mighty Lafayette Afro Rock Band, the American funk unit who had made France their home and whose deep grooves would later be mined by generations of hip-hop producers. By 1975, Waldron was a decade into his self-imposed exile from the United States—a transformed musician who had reassembled his sound in Europe and Japan after a devastating breakdown in the ea…
Live At Montreux 72 (LP)
Original 1972 LP on Les Disques Pierre Cardin, with typical sleeve with round corners, of superb fusion / free improvisation by the French masters, never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Chateauvallon 76 (LP)
Original 1979 LP (recorded 1976) on L'Escargot, of superb experimental fusion / free jazz by the French masters, never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Was Da Ist (CD)
Rare 1995 CD-only release on FMP of solo contrabass improvisations at their best.
Music Book (A Dedication To Booker Erwin) (LP)
Very rare original edition on Spectator Records, with fold-out sleeve, of 1971 Danish classic, including Ole Matthiessen of Tordenskjolds Soldater and Carsten Meinert Musictrain fame. Never re-issued on either CD or LP.