Jazz /
Peace & Blessings
Nat Birchall goes back to the source. Not Coltrane this time, but the record that led him to Coltrane in the first place.
In 1973 a schoolboy in Lancashire ordered a triple LP from his local record shop after reading about it in Black Music magazine. It was Grounation, by Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - hand drums, chanting, poetry, and the tenor saxophone of Cedric 'Im' Brooks, soulful and untamed, heard years before Birchall ever put on a John Coltrane record. When he finall…
Essential John Coltrane
John Coltrane’s legacy defies boundaries—not only musical ones. From his early beginnings in Philadelphia to his final, urgent explorations of the unknown, Coltrane continually expanded the language of modern music, transforming the possibilities of the jazz saxophone and redefining the relationship between performer, composition, and spiritual expression. His playing was never merely virtuosic: it was a deeply personal force, capable of moving from the most delicate melodic statements to torren…
Fukushima
Sinsuke Fujieda Group recorded Fukushima at Groove Studio Matsudo in May 2023. When Superfly Records put it out on vinyl in the spring of 2025 the thousand copies vanished within days, two further pressings followed, and copies on the second-hand market are now asking three figures. This CD is the record the LP could not hold: the five compositions restored to their full unedited length, three flute pieces that had only ever appeared digitally, and Jiva, a previously unheard piece for bamboo cla…
Informel
2 × 180g vinyl LP, Flating jacket, Obi. Deluxe edition. Informel emerged from the rupture of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and stands as the point of origin for the present-day Sinsuke Fujieda Group. With regular performance activity brought to a halt, Sinsuke Fujieda was given time to reconsider his own music at its deepest level, and to ask himself what the music was that he truly wanted to express now. His answer was to return to jazz as his foundation, and to pursue, through both compositio…
An Unexpected Pleasure (Rare Live And Studio Sessions 1958-1972)
Double CD Edition, comes with a 36-page booklet. Every national jazz history has its unrepeatable figure. Britain's is Tubby Hayes, and this is the deepest single drop into his archive that anyone has yet managed - thirty-six performances, every one of them previously unissued, drawn from ten different settings across fourteen years. He was called the Little Giant, and both halves of that name did real work. Barely taller than the tenor he carried, Hayes was a professional at fifteen, a member o…
Bloque 6
“Bloque 6” (1968), by Juan Carlos Calderón, is a landmark recording in the history of modern jazz in Spain, markedly different from the albums Calderón would record just a few years later under the influence of funk, disco music, and even flamenco. Juan Carlos Calderón enjoyed a long and successful career, composing and arranging some of the most iconic songs by Spanish artists such as Joan Manuel Serrat, Mocedades, and Ana Belén, among many others. However, his musical beginnings were closely …
Porgy And Bess (LP)
1977 Japanese re-issue on CBS/Sony of the 1959 album featuring Cannonball Adderly, Gunther Schuller, Gil Evans, etc. With insert and obi.
Miles In The Sky (CD)
2023 Japanese CD re-issue with bonus track on Sony's "We Want Jazz" series of the 1968 album featuring Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Still sealed with obi
Filles De Kilimanjaro (CD)
2023 Japanese CD re-issue with bonus track on Sony's "We Want Jazz" series of the 1968 album featuring Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock, George Benson and Wayne Shorter. Still sealed with obi.
Far Cry (CD)
1990 release (light wear) ** December 1960: Eric Dolphy and Booker Little's first recorded meeting, with Jaki Byard, Ron Carter and Roy Haynes completing a frighteningly good band - the Five Spot partnership taking its first documented steps, seven months before the club residency made it legend. The Charlie Parker tribute sequence - "Mrs. Parker of K.C.", "Ode to Charlie Parker" - shows exactly where Dolphy came from and how much love he carried forward; "Tenderly", solo alto saxophone, shows w…
Spirit Sensitive (LP)
Rare original edition on India Navigation of the 1979 album featuring Don Moye.
Phase III
Endless Happiness reissues the 1968 British jazz classic Phase III by The Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet, showcasing their creative peak and innovative spirit.
Jazz In Britain '68-'69
*2026 repress* John Surman's Jazz in Britain '68-'69 is an overview disc of his '60s band and one of the more enjoyable vintage British jazz records. These tunes come from several different sessions recorded in the late sixties, as evidenced by the alternate drummers - Alan Jackson and Tony Oxley - and the use of different instrumentation, like the three-horn modal piece "Bouquet Garni," from 1968 that places Surman in the company of only two other horn players - Alan Skidmore and Mike Osborne -…
Standard Coltrane (LP)
1973 Japanese re-issue on Prestige's "Jazz Right Now" series of the 1962 album featuring Wilbur Harden. With insert.
Live At The Village Vanguard (LP)
First mono pressing in stereo sleeve of the 1962 album featuring Eric Dolphy, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With original innersleeve.
Live At The Village Vanguard (LP)
1976 Japanese re-issue on ABC Impulse!'s "Impulse Best Collection" of the 1962 album featuring Eric Dolphy, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert.
Coltrane (LP)
First mono pressing in stereo sleeve of the 1962 album by the "John Coltrane Quartette" featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.
Ballads (LP)
1972 US re-issue on Impulse!/ABC of the 1963 album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.
Ballads (LP)
1980 Japanese re-issue on MCA's "Impulse Definitive 1500 Yen Collection" of the 1963 album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.