Vol. 1
Sommor Records present a reissue of Catch Up's Vol. 1, originally released on Calig in 1975. One of the best jazz-funk-fusion albums from the '70s Euro scene, featuring such giants as Charly Antolini (famous for his MPS recordings) on drums, Max Greger Jr. on electric piano, Moog, Hammond, and Mellotron, and Milan Pilar on electric bass. Top-notch jamming and soulful funky-jazz sound with some kraut-prog touches, recorded at the legendary Studio 70 in Munich. Includes the rare-groove classic…
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Sought after spiritual jazz/grooves album recorded 1972 in Germany, arranged and conducted by Serbian maestro Mladen “Bobby” Gutesha with band, orchestra and choir. Towering anti-war statement and a tribute to Martin Luther King, rooted deep in funk and spiritual symphonic music, mixed with Balkanese, Yiddish, German and Spanish sounds.
Young Girl Sunday Jazz
New compilation showcasing some great early works by the outstanding Dutch jazz singer Greetje Kauffeld, featuring 16 lost songs from the 1960s - short, soulful and to the point. Contains incredibly tight versions of „Fever“, „Love For Sale“, „Handful Of Soul“ or „Almost Like Being In Love“, with the deep tenderness of Greetje Kauffeld and renowned jazz masters such as Rolf Kühn, Tony Vos, Ingfried Hoffmann, Cees Slinger, Wolfgang Schlüter and Jan Huydts. Carefully remastered in 2015 for Vinyl-L…
Emphasis
Emphasis was a Swiss fusion project featuring Pierre Cavalli (guitar, bass), Renato Anselmi (piano, synthesizer), Fernando Vicencio (flute, sax), drummer Nick Liebman and Curt Treier on percussion. Their only selftitled album from 1974 saw two original releases on the Swiss Pick label and in the UK on Jaycee and is darn tough to find: 12 tracks in all offer masterfully played European Jazz Rock, a combination of electronic Fusion and latinesque conga percussion. The sessions were con…
Stop Time!
First release of a previously unknown album from the personal archives of 'clarinet bird' Rolf Kühn, recorded 1962 in Hamburg. Outstanding modern jazz and hard bop session featuring Klaus Doldinger (ts), Ingfried Hoffmann (org/ p), Cees See (d) and Herman Schoonderwalt (b), with plenty of tunes made famous by Horace Silver ('Sister Sadie'), Charlie Parker ('Au Privave'), Miles Davis ('Solar') or Thelonious Monk ('Bemsha Swing') - all arranged by Kühn.
Berlin Jazz Soundtracks
Previously unknown hard bop and cool jazz from Berlin Image Films of the 1960s, transferred from the original master tapes. All music by composer, vibraphonist and pianist Manfred Burzlaff (1932-2015), a true master of harmonies, inventing improvisational concepts and experiments somewhat comparable to the famous style of the Clarke-Boland Sextet. Burzlaff was one of the best European vibraphonists and a great arranger, which is not just a sentence being said because he doesn't live anymo…
Lost Continent
Doxy present Angelo Lavagnino's soundtrack for the 1968 film, The Lost Continent. From an interview with the Maestro Lavagnino, one of the legendary Italian score masters: "If I talk about The Lost Continent, I talk about one of my favorites, just because it gave me the opportunity to show myself as a man and as a composer. I was gone for more than six months in Indonesia. At that time, for an Italian, going to Indonesia was like Marco Polo going to China! I found there what I expected to f…
Boccaccio '70
Doxy present a reissue of Nino Rota and Armando Trovajoli's soundtrack for the 1962 Italian anthology film, Boccaccio '70. From original liner notes: "Two of Italy's top soundtrack musicians, Nino Rota and Armando Trovajoli, are responsible for the exciting music featured in Boccaccio '70. Rota has been the composer of dozens of famous film soundtracks and his music contributed greatly to Fellini's previous hit films, La Strada (1954), I Vitelloni (1953) and La Dolce Vita (1960). In The Tempt…
A Message From Garcia
Jazz guitar autodidact and 1956 Downbeat Critics Poll winner Dick Garcia struts his stuff while the likes of Bill Evans, Gene Quill, and John Drew try to keep up! The combination of Bird, Christian and his own personality meld here in Dick’s own swinging style, delivering repertoire so diverse it required three different backing bands! Message From Garcia presents Dick in various contexts so as to give the listener an idea of his scope - the material is diversified in order to give Garcia and th…
Jazz For Hi-Fi Lovers
A smart set of fine beat-era jazz, beautifully programed and compiled for the hi-fi in your home! Includes some of the top players of the era- Zoot Sims, Paul Quinichette, Gene Roland, and others- in selections suited for a swingin’ starlit session! ”Start Here,” says it all as this both the perfect way to start this LP and the perfect way to start your jazz collection! From the distinctive style and touch of Randy Weston on the keys, to the tenor tones Paul Quinichette blows, these are the trac…
Requiem per un agente segreto
A groovy little soundtrack by the great Piero Umiliani! The score is for a b-grade spy film from the late 60s – starring Stewart Granger as (according to the notes) "a seasoned secret agent, but always ready to kiss and to bang!" A lot to live up to, we know – but Umiliani more than does the job, with a wonderful mix of tunes that run from Barry-esque Bond to swinging Milan, blending electric guitar, bubbling organ, and exotic themes into a 17 track package that sparkles with the best o…
Esterno Giorno D'Estate
Another rare and unreleased gems mined from the RCA SP Series, here we have the sunny side of Esterno, between warm rhythms, percussions, bossanova, wah wah guitars, psychedelic flutes and explosive synth sounds - including Carlo Pes & i Marc 4, Alberto Baldan Bembo, Stelvio Cipriani, Alessandro Alessandroni, Nico Fidenco and Gianni Oddi. Musiche leggere e gaie [Light and joyful music] - to use the title of a collection from the RCA SP series in which some of these tracks could have ended. …
Esterno Notte Jazz
A welcome portrait of the late nite 60s jazz and cool breaks from RCA Italy film music vaults (1962-1969). A volume entirely dedicated to the jazz atmospheres of the Italian movies from the ‘60s, with great musicians such as Piero Umiliani, Romano Mussolini, Amedeo Tommasi, Robby Poitevin, Piero Piccioni or Armando Trovajoli - including genres such as noir, melò, giallo, dark comedy and crazy ‘musicarelli’. With a great variety of styles and moods, jazz represented the perfect soundtrack f…
Pinky Violence
Limited Edition to 300 Copies. Rare Groove Sound from Toei and Nikkatsu 70's Japanese Sexploitation Movies By: Masao Yagi, Hajime Kaburagi and Ichiro Araki. The selction represents the best of music from the Pinku Eiga films, produced in the early 70s by Nikkatsu and Toei: killer wah wah, lightning paced drums, intense horns. A must for any collection.Pinku Eiga filmmakers, an equivalent of the American sexploitation film genre, which was in itself a response to decades of repression: The unco…
The Music Of Sven Libaek
Facsimile reissue reproduction of the Norwegian-born, Australian-based composer’s 3rd LP. A collection of jazz soundtracks taken from 1960s Australian documentary and public information films. Originally released in 1967, some six years prior to Libaek’s widely regarded Inner Space soundtrack, which was most recently used Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.In the words of the albums original liner notes, “A kaleidoscope of 1960s Australia…” Compiled here is a collection of soundtr…
Stuntman
**First 200 on smokey Vinyl **LP Gatefold 180 Gram + Poster. The jazz beat soundtrack, composed by Maestro Carlo Rustichelli for the Caper / Crime Movie ”Stuntman” directed by Marcello Baldi in 1968. The film starred Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Viharo, Marisa Mell and Marie Dubois. The orchestra was directed in the studio by Bruno Nicolai, with the participation of Alessandro Alessandroni’s “I Cantori Moderni” (The Modern Singers) choir and was produced by Franco De Gemini. The first print of this…
Les Stances À Sophie
As if this batch couldn’t get any better, the Art Ensemble Of Chicago falls in our laps. Springing from the wonders of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians during the mid 1960’s, there are few bands of greater importance in the history of free jazz. Formed from some of the the most talented voices of their generation - Famoudou Don Moye, Joseph Jarman, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors, Phillip Wilson, and Roscoe Mitchell, there has never been a band like them. Innovators …
Nell'Anno della Luna
A deep mystery surrounds both the film Nell'anno della Luna and its beguiling 1970 soundtrack, a work that hovers somewhere between the elegant swing orchestrations of an earlier era and the more adventurous sonic territories being charted by Italian composers at the close of the 1960s. Even in our current age of instant information and exhaustive online databases, almost nothing is known about the movie itself. What remains is the music: ten tracks of remarkable sophistication and inventiveness…
La Proprietà Non è Più un Furto
* Restocked. Reduce Price * Goodfellas present a reissue of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for La Proprieta Non E Piu Un Furto, originally released in 1973. Another fine example of the maestro's skills, breathtaking orchestration for Elio Petri's final part of the neurosis trilogy which began with Indagine Su Un Cittadino Al Di Sopra Di Ogni Sospetto (1970) and was followed by La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso (1971). Total, a young bank cashier, has been wondering for some time if his life, with i…
Funky Tramway
Take the Funky Tramway with Janko Nilovic and the Mad Unity Band! Here is another most wanted lbrary LP composed by iconic Janko Nilovic who recorded it with some of the finest musicians from Belgium under the Mad Unity group including Koen De Bruyne on Keys, Richard Rousselet & JP Onraedt from Placebo, Synthe wizard Dan Lacksman. No need to say more, you know this album is good from start to finish. "One of the coolest projects ever from funky sound library genius Janko Nilovic – and one of his…