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Released in 1988, the album has somewhat grown in cult status to frequently appear on a number of greatest albums of all time lists.

Females have never figured strongly in the ranks of blues and rock guitar players, but the woman featured on this LP can claim to be one of the formative influences on modern rock ‘n’ roll guitar.

"Backed By Jimmy Bond And Albert 'Tootie' Heath, This Album Showcases Her (Nina Simone) Ballad Voice As One Of Mystery And Sensuality And Her Up-Tempo Jazz Style With Authority And An Enigmatic Down- Home Feel That Is Nonetheless Elegant. The Album Also Introduced A Fine Jazz Pianist. Simone Was A Solid Improviser Who Never Strayed Far From The Blues." - Thom Jurek, AllMusic

Mercurial bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus was signed to Columbia records for the briefest of time during 1959.

“The enchanted chemistry of these late 1940’s sessions has lost none of its unalterable magic.” JAZZ MAGAZINE

First Christmas record to be issued by Elvis.

Son House was one of the musicians to play a profound role in the development of both successive black and white blues players.

Djangology is a compilation album by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, released in 1961

Reissue of herbie hancock's essential 1962 debut album on blue note. the lp features quality sound taken from the original master tapes, 180g vinyl, heavy cardboard sleeve and original artwork.

With Ballads Coltrane looks into the warmer side of things, a path he would take with both Johnny Hartman and with Duke Ellington.

Much about Beat Bop is shrouded in mystery. Who really produced it? Why was Jean-Michel Basquiat relegated from rapper on the track to drawing the cover and labels? What are they actually rapping about for most of the ten-minute length?

Nina Simone made her first trip into the studio in New York during 1957 to record her debut album Little Girl Blue.

This debut track from Hip Hop collective MNEA features production from Conbel Evrence, co-production and vocals from Dweller, guest vocals from Scrabble and cuts from DJ Simon C (Get it Together).

Presented here is Bland's outstanding debut LP for Duke Records

First Word Records is very proud to bring you a brand new EP from Amanda Whiting, entitled 'Can You See Me Now?'

Duke Ellington surprised the jazz world in 1962 with his historic trio session featuring Charles Mingus and Max Roach.

Ray Charles At Newport is a 1958 live album of Ray Charles' July 5, 1958 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival.

THE JAZZINVADERS "Last Summer in Rio" (feat. Alex Malheiros, Ivan Conti) 'Samba Doido (Crazy Samba)' is definitely the best term to describe the music of the Brazilian band Azymuth.

"Trip Hop Vintage Sounds" is a 2023 compilation album by Wagram Music that features various tracks from artists such as Kid Loco, Zero 7, and Etienne De Crécy. It is a collection of downtempo, atmospheric music that blends hip-hop beats with other genres like dub, soul, and jazz, characteristic of the trip-hop sound that originated in the UK in the 1990s.

This release presents the complete original Mongo Santamaria LP Watermelon Man!

Propelled by Booker T. Jones' smoky organ and the funky guitar bursts of Steve Cropper, "Green Onions" — the first chart-topper by Booker T. and the MGs — slithered across the 1962 airwaves, followed immediately by an album every bit as savory.

Presented here is one of Luiz Bonfa greatest albums, Plays and Sings Bossa Nova, on which he collaborates with such stars as Leo Wright, Oscar Castro- Neves , and Lalo Schifrin.

Charlie Byrd (1925 -1999) was one of the first modern guitar players to reintroduce the unamplified Spanish guitar into jazz.

Research Records indicate their inclination for cosmic instrumentation and kraut pervaded polyrhythms once again with an introduction to newcomer Glass Beams.

Porgy And Bess’, recorded in late 1957, was the third album by Ella and Louis to be produced by Norman Granz.

Featuring a stellar band including Stanley Turrentine on tenor sax and Ray Barretto's work on congas which adds at times a Latin touch to this jazz blues masterpiece.

Originally issued in 1959 to capitalise on the crossover success of his single "Try Me", James Brown's debut album Please, Please, Please is a collection of sixteen of his A and B-sides recorded for the Federal label between 1956 and 1958. 

In 1958 Random House published Breakfast At Tiffany’s, a novella by Truman Capote regarding the exploits of a young writer who makes the acquaintance of a remarkable, free-style living neighbour named Holly Golightly. When Blake Edwards opted to film the story, Henry Mancini was brought in to provide a soundtrack for the film. He then approached lyricist Johnny Mercer about providing the lyrics.

Chet Baker in New York has Chet Baker playing with great East Coast musicians: Philly Joe Jones on drums, Al Haig on piano, the great Paul Chambers on bass, and tenor saxophonist Johnny Grifn added on three tracks.

Strut presents the new album from the modern day leader of Afrobeat, Seun Kuti. 

One of THE great jazz quartets of all time: Coltrane (tenor & soprano), McCoy Tyner (piano), the earth-shaking Elvin Jones (drums) and Steve Davis (bass, though 'Trane's band would most often feature Jimmy Garrison and sometimes Reggie Workman), playing a blues-inspired program of originals.

Big Dada are incredibly proud to partner with the Anticon label to release the Young Fathers album in Europe. The Edinburgh based trio consist of Liberian, Nigerian and Scottish heritage and make exactly the sort of music the label was founded to release.

In addition to being members of Miles Davis' band, John Coltrane, Red Garland and Paul Chambers recorded several projects together without the trumpeter, Soultranebeing one of them

Miles Davis’ first truly influential project as a leader—which produced a series of recordings between 1949 and 1951 that helped shift the course of improvised music—was publicly underappreciated for almost ten years.

Kalita are excited to announce the first ever reissue of student medical group the IgG Band’s highly sought-after 1980 soul, funk and disco grail ‘Ultra/Sound’.

What We Say / What We Do is nothing short of a triumph, it will make you dance, you will play it on repeat, and after every couple of listens your favourite song will change, just like a good record should, right? And this is a great record. The synths on The Unknown dance around a creeping rhyth...

“Her voice is gutsy, earthy and coarse, but at the same time there is a beauty, sensitivity and control to everything she does.” Big Mama created tension without harshness, excitement without strain. She can make you weep.

This collection is drawn from throughout the sixties, though it does not entirely fit the commonly held belief that Northern Soul records are all ultra-rarities, because half of the tracks here actually were major hits in the US, and four of them were top twenty entries!

Backed by a group of hand picked musicians, the whole album is exclusively the work of three young men who are trying to bring back some freshness and raw funk into the current flash-in-the-pan songs being recorded in this country.

Over the course of two EPs, two singles and a stripped-back live album, Puma Blue has established himself as one of the UK’s most vital new talents.

Roots is his third album on revered German imprint Sonar Kollektiv.

Impulse! Records proudly announces the signing of free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements with their label debut Protect Your Light.

The selection of subtle dub versions of the songs included serve to highlight the brilliance of the musicians playing in the classical 'rockers' style that dominated the latter half of the seventies.

Mahalia Jackson was the link between ‘Empress of the Blues’ Bessie Smith and ‘Queen of Soul’ Aretha Franklin. Yet, she was not a Blueswoman, considering the Blues to be ‘songs of despair – Gospel songs are the songs of hope’.

Two years after the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s ground- and time-signature breaking Time Out (1959), this classic quartet (Brubeck, piano, Paul Desmond, alto sax, Eugene Wright, bass, and Joe Morello, drums) would continue its jazz experiments in a series that was often inspired by abstract paintings. Time Further Out: Miró Reflections was the group’s attempt at a “jazz interpretation” of Miró’s 1925, a visually kinetic work featuring a prominent string of numerals descending from the upper edge of the canvas.

The Beach Boys reached number 75 in national charts with their first single (the resultant song 'Surfin'') and were immediately signed to a major label.

Lush Life (1958) is among John Coltrane’s best endeavours on the Prestige (and Music) label.

The rags-to-riches chronicle of Penny Penny's life would be remarkable if he had only released his smash debut Shaka Bundu and packed houses for a few years.

It's safe to say that starting a jazz album with a version of Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" was quite a daring deed, to say the least. In Argentina — back in 1977.

For Fans Of : El Michels Affair, Adrian Younge, Roy Ayers, Karnem Riggins, The Roots, Khruangbin. Jason Grimez is a Cincinnatibased DJ and producer. 

Recorded live in Newport in 1958 by a sextet led by Miles Davis.

Sahib Shihab was, in many ways, the Thelonious Monk of the baritone saxophone. Like Monk, he was an uncompromising individualist with an idiosyncratic, often quirky, approach to improvisation.

Dutch jazz/dance group Jazzinvaders team up with the legendary organist Lonnie Smith for this kicking new 10 track album that was recorded live in the studio.

Founded rock solid on the well oiled rhythm section of clean drums and thumping bass, the dangerously growling Hammond organ and the reverbing guitar sounds find their way into your soul blindly.

The 'Renaissance Man' of Brazilian pop, Marcos Valle (born in Rio de Janeiro in 1943) is a singer/songwriter/producer who has straddled the country's music world from the early days of the bossa nova craze well into the fusion-soaked sounds of '80s MPB and into the 21st Century.

Across the Not Real People EP, oreglo showcase their innovative take on multiple genres: freewheeling through heavy rock riffs to drill-inspired percussion and breezy reggae, the quartet have cultivated a unique sound that acts as a melting pot of all the sounds they know and love from London.

In scoring Becoming, director Nadia Hallgren's Michelle Obama documentary, saxophonist, composer, and arranger Kamasi Washington reveals a side of his musical universe we've not encountered.

Poté (Sylvern Mathurin) is St. Lucian-born, London-bred and Paris based, electronic artist and A Tenacious Tale Of Her is released on Bonobo’s label OUTLIER label.

The concept of The Stones Of Convention was always intended to be fairly fluid; given the virtual nature of the project and the location of the band members

"Destination Unlimited" triumphs in pushing artistic boundaries, leaving an indelible mark in the vast expanse of musical expression. An essential experience for avid music explorers.

Last Nubian — one of South London’s most electrifying producer/DJ talents — partners with Geneva’s Sweet Fruity Brunch to debut on Errol and Alex Rita’s Touching Bass with six tracks oozing the grit and groove of South London with deep house, broken beat and dub at its core. 

This is the sound of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

A lot changed between Gal Costa's pleasantly straightforward 1967 debut Domingo and her eponymous follow-up two years later. Domingo, also a debut for young Brazilian songwriter Caetano Veloso, featured a set of airy, somewhat standard bossa nova tunes, sung ably by Costa.

Jorge Ben is someone who needs no introduction. Since his first hits in the early 60s, this the greatest icons of the greatest icons of Brazilian pop music. His anthems ‘Mais Que Nada’ or ‘Pais Tropical’ are among two of the most ever listened Brazilian songs of all time.

Remastered version of ‘Home Cooking’, the album that cemented Yoda as a versatile producer and not just a deejay. It now serves as a snapshot of the jazz and soul scene at the time with artists like Nubya Garcia, Eva Lazarus and Theon Cross going on to break out.

Ratio; an epic track bordering on 19-minutes that harks back to his earlier dance floor focussed releases. Floating Point developed Ratio as part of his solo live electronic show at festivals around the world. The track became a fan favourite, a true highlight of the set.

An instrumental Suite based on a day in their home town of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. Featuring local musicians and field recordings of bird song and pubs, this album captures the essence of life in this seaside town.

Rare 1972 Conceptual Funk-Soul-Jazz album.

Growing up in the 80's listening to the records of Yes, King Crimson & Genesis, The One was infected by the magic of these prog bands.

Folky Americana album from Desert Vinyl

Alternative rock band AFTER LONDON's debut album.

Full of interesting arrangements, Pino Donaggio's score for this Italian movie from 1974 sees its first reissue since the original release.

Delve into the Dutch jazz scene of the 1950s and 1960s with a selection of classic and rare hard bop and cool jazz tracks from artists like Herman Schoonderwalt, the Diamond Five, Wessel Ilcken and Tony Vos.

This genre-bending album takes the listener on a sonic journey through moments of gritty hip hop as well as lush soul/R&B soundscapes, also providing a glimpse into modern jazz.

Shout Out! To Freedom... is the new album from Nightmares on Wax featuring Shabaka Hutchings, Greentea Peng, Haile Supreme, Mara TK, Sabrina Mahfouz and Pip Millett.

A Jazz Dance Favourite that Jazz Room Records Head Honcho Paul Murphy was hepped to by Brownswood and 6Music Jazz Supremo Gilles Peterson at the 20th Birthday Bash of London's most Underground of Clubs: Shiftless Shuffle.

Italian duo Not Me But Us release their debut album Two via Sonic Cathedral. It’s a stunning record and proof that when two very different musicians meet it’s always possible for magic to happen.

Oh Me Oh My is both elegant and ferocious. It is stirring in one moment and a balm the next. It details histories both global and personal.

Lascelle 'Lascelles' Gordon - the driving force behind Vibration Black Finger – astonishes us yet again with a magnificent second album.

Kraut synth funk explosion from the sci-fi, library & soundtrack specialists.