Contemporary Jazz

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The all-star collaboration between a producer, a saxophonist, and a symphony is a celestial event. But it’s Pharoah Sanders’ playing that holds it all together, a clear late-career masterpiece.
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Promises
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders
Contemporary Jazz
£33.00
Dance, No One's Watching is an ode to the sacred, yet joyous act of dancing, an album that musically guides you through a night out in the city, from the opening of possibilities as a new evening spans out ahead, to dawn’s final hours as the night comes to a close.
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Dance, No One's Watching (Double Satin Red LP)
Ezra Collective
Contemporary Jazz
£29.00
After putting down the saxophone, the instrument he has become synonymous with, Shabaka returns with his first full length album under his own name.
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Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace
Shabaka
Contemporary Jazz
£29.00
Trumpeter, bandleader and composer Matthew Halsall announces landmark new album An Ever Changing View, an expansive, immaculately conceived project which presents Halsall’s signature blend of jazz, electronica, global and spiritual jazz influences. 
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An Ever Changing View
Matthew Halsall
Contemporary Jazz
£29.00
Blue Note Re:imagined is a brand-new collection of classic Blue Note tracks, reworked and newly recorded by a selection of the UK scene’s most exciting young talents.
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Blue Note Re:Imagined
Various Artists
Contemporary Jazz
£37.00
London Brew is inspired by Miles Davis’ album, Bitches Brew. Recorded in December 2020 at the Church Studios, this three-day recording session brings together 12 London-based artists
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London Brew
Various Artists
Contemporary Jazz
£32.00
It’s a deeply personal oering about her trek to falling back in love with musical composition over the past four years.
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Odyssey
Nubya Garcia
Contemporary Jazz
£36.00
Like former and present Gondwana Records label mates such as GoGo Penguin and Portico Quartet there’s something strongly cinematic about Kessoncoda’s music, like a narrative arc which unfolds through different themes and moods, with an ebb-and-flow of intensity, as breath-taking swells of melody burst into being, eventually to resolve in a wondrous climax.
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Outerstate
Kessoncoda
Contemporary Jazz
£26.00
Almost three decades on from their last release, Acid Jazz forefathers Galliano are back with news of their new LP ‘Halfway Somewhere’ which is being released on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings.
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Halfway Somewhere (Limited Edition Double Blue Vinyl Gatefold - Limited to 2000 worldwide)
Galliano
Contemporary Jazz
£32.00
The borders between London’s musical tribes have always been porous. For Yussef Kamaal, the sound of the capital - with its hum of jungle, grime and broken beat - has shaped a self-taught, UK-tipped approach to playing jazz.
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Black Focus
Yussef Kamaal
Contemporary Jazz
£23.00
Blue Note Re:imagined returns this year with a new 16-track compilation featuring fresh takes on music from the illustrious Blue Note vaults recorded by a heavyweight line-up of the UK jazz, soul and R&B scene’s most hotly-tipped rising stars.
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Blue Note Re:Imagined II
Various Artists
Contemporary Jazz
£33.00
Kamasi Washington releases his new album, Fearless Movement, via Young. Washington calls Fearless Movement his dance album.
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Fearless Movement (Red and Blue Vinyl)
Kamasi Washington
Contemporary Jazz
£32.00
Butcher Brown releases their new album, Solar Music. While rooted in jazz, their musical exploration expands into a blend of genres, including Hip-Hop and R&B / Soul.
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Solar Music
Butcher Brown
Contemporary Jazz
£32.00
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While containing elements of jazz throughout, this release leans further into heavy dance-hall themes, providing hypnotic, electronic soundscapes to dance to while keeping you intellectually stimulated.
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Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
The Comet Is Coming
Contemporary Jazz
£27.00 £19.00 Save £8.00
First Word Records is very proud to present 'The Liminality of Her', a brand new 10-track album from their newest signing, Amanda Whiting; a highly-acclaimed Welsh harpist & composer.
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The Liminality of Her
Amanda Whiting
Contemporary Jazz
£23.00
Two-time ARIA Award-winning Naarm / Melbourne-based psychedelic jazz outfit Mildlife present their much-anticipated third studio album, Chorus.
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Chorus
Mildlife
Contemporary Jazz
£24.00
Shabaka Hutchings debut release under his own name, Afrikan Culture, was released on Impulse! Records in May 2022. 
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Afrikan Culture
Shabaka Hutchings
Contemporary Jazz
£28.00
Several magazines voted the Future Sounds Of Jazz as one of the best compilation series of all time. With this series, starting in 1995, the term Future Jazz became a genre landmark.
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Future Sounds Of Jazz VOL. 15
Various Artists
Contemporary Jazz
£32.00
Translated from Spanish as 'The Shade', Chip Wickham's debut album La Sombra drops after a 25-year career touring, recording and experimenting across three decades of jazz, funk, soul, hip-hop, Latin and electronica.
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La Sombra
Chip Wickham
Contemporary Jazz
£20.00
Channeling spiritual/modal jazz and Latin rhythms, they simultaneously reference the greats such as Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane, while maintaining a fresh perspective on ensemble dynamics.
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Spirits
The Circling Sun
Contemporary Jazz
£28.00
Superkilen the new album from Danish duo Svaneborg Kardyb, Nikolaj Svaneborg (keyboards) and Jonas Kardyb (drums), is named after a public park in the ethnically diverse Nørrebro district of Copenhagen.
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Superkilen (Black Bio Vinyl)
Svaneborg Kardyb
Contemporary Jazz
£26.00
Bolbec, brand new project of childhood friends and multi-instrumentalists Axel Concato and Barth Corbelet, present their debut record, "Victime De L'aube”, on Batov Records. Drawing on their wide blend of musical tastes, from spiritual jazz and folk to classical and electronic sounds, to create an imaginary soundtrack that could easily sit beside the best of Piero Piccioni or Michel Legrand. The album features the duo playing over a dozen different instruments between them, with some heavyweight support from the Nostalgia 77 rhythm section.
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Victime de l’Aube
Bolbec
Contemporary Jazz
£23.00
BADBADNOTGOOD's biggest release now on white vinyl for the first time. BADBADBADNOTGOOD is the talented young quartet of Matthew Tavares on keys, Chester Hansen on bass, Alex Sowinski on drums & Leland Whitty on saxophone.
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IV (White Vinyl)
BADBADNOTGOOD
Contemporary Jazz
£25.00
Multi-award-winning singer-songwriter and leading UK jazz vocalist Zara McFarlane releases Sweet Whispers – Celebrating Sarah Vaughan on 14th June.
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Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan
Zara Mcfarlane
Contemporary Jazz
£24.00
2023 sees the return of multi-talented Norwegian producer Espen Horne to Wah Wah 45s, after a 24 year hiatus.
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The Anatomy Of Serene Eloquence
Espen Horne
Contemporary Jazz
£25.00
Matthew Halsall releases a limited-edition vinyl only pressing of Bright Sparkling Light, a luminous three track EP featuring some of his most gorgeous compositions. 
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Bright Sparkling Light
Matthew Halsall 
Contemporary Jazz
£25.00
First Word Records are very proud to bring you a new album from Don Leisure with Amanda Whiting.
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Beyond The Midnight Sun
Don Leisure
Contemporary Jazz
£18.00
John Carroll Kirby follows up his Stones Throw debut My Garden with a vinyl release of a collection of ambient pieces for piano.
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Conflict
John Carroll Kirby
Contemporary Jazz
£28.00
Chip Wickham is a jazz musician and producer who divides his time between Spain, UK and the Middle-East and who has made a name for himself with a series of beautifully crafted solo albums that draw equally on the hard swinging spiritual jazz of Roland Kirk, Yusef Lateef and Sahih Shihab, alongside the music of British jazz legends such as Tubby Hayes and Harold McNair and the more contemporary sounds of Jazzanova, Kyoto Jazz Massive and Robert Glasper.
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Cloud 10
Chip Wickham
Contemporary Jazz
£27.00
Blue Note Re:imagined II once again infuses the spirit of the new UK jazz generation into the legendary label’s iconic catalogue.
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Blue Note Re:imagined II (2LP clear Vinyl)
Various Artists
Contemporary Jazz
£35.00
Sixteen years after their previous effort, in 2017 Nicola Conte met again his friend and colleague Gianluca Petrella, an encounter that led to the release of 3 EP's and this full-length album.
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People Need People
Nicola Conte
Contemporary Jazz
£30.00
A part of Gilles Peterson’s expanded network, Future Bubblers is backed by Arts Council England, which continues to focus on uncovering unsigned talent and growing the audience for innovative, experimental music.
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Future Bubblers 8.0
Various Artists
Contemporary Jazz
£21.00
Diogo Silva, Nuno Fulgêncio and Rui Martins collectively go by the name Bardino.
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Memória da Pedra Mãe
Bardino
Contemporary Jazz
£25.00
The publication of "Jet Sounds" in October 2000 and its subsequent release on the international market represented the turning point from the initial productions carried forward by Schema and the new course taken by the label reaching sales of 40,000 copies and still counting.
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Jet Sounds (2LP)
Nicola Conte
Contemporary Jazz
£43.00
Ashley Henry presents his second album, Who We Are, a London-born jazz journey that unites devotion, collective dreaming, and the fight for freedom.
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Who We Are
Ashley Henry
Contemporary Jazz
£27.00
At 88 years of age, the Ghanian highlife and afrobeat pioneer Ebo Taylor travelled to the US for the very first time to perform at the now iconic Jazz Is Dead concert series, selling out venues across the country. It was during this time that Ebo recorded a psychedelic afrobeat album alongside Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad.
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Ebo Taylor JID022
Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Contemporary Jazz
£28.00
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.
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That's What You Say!
The Jazz Invaders
Contemporary Jazz
£20.00
In truth, there is so much on this album to appeal to so many different listeners: tight – and new! – beats, exotic melody, far-out horns, references from within and without the worlds of Jazz, Library, Ethio, etc etc, as well as the wholly analogue ATA sound that satisfies DJs and audiophiles alike.
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I Too Am A Stranger
The Sorcerers
Contemporary Jazz
£26.00
Tear-up bad-boy brass-band scorchers. Just like dad crossed Sun Ra with Kool And The Gang, this crashes funkdafied New Orleans street jazz into hip hop. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is a 9-piece, Chicago-based jazz group featuring 8 sons of Phil Cohran (SUN RA) on horns.
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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Contemporary Jazz
£26.00
Mr Bongo proudly presents the debut album from Tasmania-born, Melbourne-based, Finn Rees.
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Dawn Is A Melody
Finn Rees
Contemporary Jazz
£27.00
UK jazz ensemble The Jazz Defenders release their third album "Memory In Motion" in April on Haggis Records (home of The Haggis Horns and Malcolm Strachan).
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Memory in Motion
The Jazz Defenders
Contemporary Jazz
£28.00
For the first time, Brandt Brauer Frick’s seminal album Mr. Machine is reissued on coloured vinyl.
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Mr Machine
Brandt Brauer Frick
Contemporary Jazz
£31.00
"We're at a point now where playing and writing together can sometimes feel almost telepathic, that as individuals we can tune in to a collective resonance..."
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Gift From The Trees
Mammal Hands
Contemporary Jazz
£31.00
Snarky Puppy has built a loyal following with their adventurous blend of jazz, rock and funk based around a heavy touring schedule and live-in-studio video content. 
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Empire Central
Snarky Puppy
Contemporary Jazz
£50.00
The music on Mensa Rotunda collects inspiration from numerous sources, but always with a groovy beat as companion. 
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Mensa Rotunda
Ojkos
Contemporary Jazz
£21.00
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...
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What We Say What We Do
Ping Pong Warrior
Contemporary Jazz
£12.00
Sababa 5 continues their musical journey following the success of their acclaimed self-titled debut album, which fused deep funk and Middle Eastern grooves.
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Aspan
Sababa 5
Contemporary Jazz
£24.00
UK jazz master Chip Wickham follows last year’s brilliant soulful long-player Cloud 10 with a deftly crafted, reflective EP of beautiful spiritual jazz sounds influenced by the soulful sounds of Yusef Lateef.
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Love & Life
Chip Wickham
Contemporary Jazz
£24.00
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Woke rhythms and high-spirited grooves from the vaults of two seminai ltalian jazz labels, between the 70s and 80s.
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Hyperituals Vol.2 - Black Saint
Various Artists
Contemporary Jazz
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Halsall draws on a diverse range of influences from Alice Coltrane, Dorothy Ashby, Phil Cohran and Leon Thomas to the more contemporary sounds of The Cinematic Orchestra, Max Richter and Nils Frahm to deliver his most complete recording to date. 
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Into Forever (Indies Exclusive Transparent Blue Vinyl)
Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra
Contemporary Jazz
£27.00
Over the course of the last five years, the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio have established themselves as the world's premier funky organ trio.
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Cold As Weiss
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
Contemporary Jazz
£24.00
Featuring flautist Chip Wickham and recorded live to 2-inch analog tape at All Things Analogue Studios, Leeds, UK, this album is a living, breathing tribute to the golden age of soul-jazz — the electric alchemy of smoky clubs, Sunday afternoons at the record store, and the spiritual communion of groove and grit.
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Release Date: 14/03/2025 - Doo-Ha!
The Lewis Express and Chip Wickham
Contemporary Jazz
£25.00
A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole is the latest album from London-based composer-poet-activist-improviser Alabaster DePlume, his first major work following 2022’s GOLD and 2020's To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol 1.
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Release Date 07/03/2025 - A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole (140g colour vinyl)
Alabaster DePlume
Contemporary Jazz
£27.00
A Paradise In The Hold is an album of yearning. It’s about Ivor Novello Award winning Yazz Ahmed’s dual heritage, drawing on traditional music and folklore as well as her own personal experience as a British-Bahraini woman.
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Release Date 28/02/2025 - A Paradise In The Hold (2 LP)
Yazz Ahmed
Contemporary Jazz
£28.00
Highly anticipated sophomore album from the Jazz trio
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Release Date: 28/02//2025 - Entrance Music (Orange/Black Swirl Vinyl)
Okonski
Contemporary Jazz
£26.00
List of Demands, Damon Locks' first foray into creating an entire album from spoken and text-based work, finds the Chicago-based musician and educator collecting cultural abstractions and reorganizing them into a firm truth. The album lays out a vision of Black liberation and transmits it outward as a song cycle of bite-sized.
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List Of Demands (Deluxe Vinyl package)
Damon Locks
Contemporary Jazz
£28.00
Three time Grammy nominated Hiatus Kaiyote return with their eagerly anticipated new album Love Heart Cheat Code.
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Love Heart Cheat Code
Hiatus Kaiyote
Contemporary Jazz
£25.00
Introducing Biel Solsona: A Barcelona pianist with a vibrant musical background. His debut solo album, "· i · ", showcases a fusion of jazz, electronic, and cinematic sounds. 
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· i · (Release date 1st dec 23)
Biel Solsona
Contemporary Jazz
£25.00
"Im Schwarzwald" ("Hamburg Spinners in the Black Forest") is the third album by the mod-jazz quartet Hamburg Spinners. The Hamburg Spinners are Carsten Meyer on organ, Dennis Rux on guitar, David Nesselhauf on bass and Lucas Kochbeck on drums.
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Im Schwarzwald ("Hamburg Spinners in the Black Forest")
Hamburg Spinners
Contemporary Jazz
£25.00
"Handful of Soul", Mario Biondi's three-time platinum debut album
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Handful of Soul (2 LP coloured vinyl)
Mario Biondi and the High Five Quintet
Contemporary Jazz
£43.00
Mildlife's 2018 critically renowened album 'Phase' back in supply.
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Phase
Mildlife
Contemporary Jazz
£27.00
Acid jazz legend Chris Bangs returns with a brand new album for 2024, following his early-2023 release Firebird, and 2022’s collaboration with Mick Talbot Sumthin’ Else.
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Dream World
Chris Bangs
Contemporary Jazz
£27.00
Montis, the hottest ‘bluesjazz’ organist for miles and miles around, puts his heart and soul, not to mention exceptional chops, into a mere minute of Hammond B3 variations.
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Honk Honk
The Pulitzers
Contemporary Jazz
£20.00
Warriors Of The Dystotheque was started as a production project about ten years ago by Jonny Mac.
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It’s A Beautiful Thing
Warriors Of The Dystotheque
Contemporary Jazz
£24.00
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.
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Not Real People (Transparent Green Vinyl)
oreglo
Contemporary Jazz
£18.00
Hill Collective is a jazz ensemble based in Brighton, UK. Led by saxophonist and composer Pete Piskov, the group offers a fresh musical attitude, employing modern improvisation techniques and nuanced compositions - a soulful, avant-garde addition to the bustling UK jazz landscape.
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Tonal Prophecy
Hill Collective
Contemporary Jazz
£22.00
Influential jazz collective Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids return with an epic new opus, Shaman!
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Shaman! (2LP)
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
Contemporary Jazz
£29.00
In 1975, the New York City alto saxophonist Alan Braufman released his debut album, Valley of Search, on the India Navigation label.
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Infinite Love Infinite Tears
Alan Braufman
Contemporary Jazz
£27.00
Wu Hen is the sophomore album from Peckham visionary Kamaal Williams an invitation to elevate to a higher state.
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Wu Hen
Kamaal Williams
Contemporary Jazz
£23.00
Oscar Jerome hibernated to make what became The Spoon, his second album.
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The Spoon
Oscar Jerome
Contemporary Jazz
£24.00
On this unique session, two of the finest exponents of the London jazz scene, Tamar Osborn and Al MacSween, join forces with members of the celebrated Danish psychedelic underground – Jonas Munk, Jakob Skøtt and Martin Rude – to create a heady sonic brew. 
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Jaiyede Sessions Vol. 1
London Odense Ensemble
Contemporary Jazz
£24.00
This is essential. We don't just refer to the album title: this new record by multi-instrumentalist and producer Thysenterprise is essential material for lovers of spiritual jazz with a hip-hop edge.
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Essential
Thysenterprise
Contemporary Jazz
£30.00
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One of the most highly-regarded modern Brazilian jazz trios, Caixa Cubo release Angela, their latest album, and first to be licensed for European release by Heavenly Recordings.
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Angela
Caixa Cubo
Contemporary Jazz
£28.00 £18.00 Save £10.00
Blowout contains all the hallmarks of the signature sound John Carroll Kirby has finessed over six solo albums and dozens of collaborations – playfulness, humour, and lushness.
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Blowout
John Carroll Kirby
Contemporary Jazz
£32.00
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Impulse! Records proudly announces the signing of free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements with their label debut Protect Your Light.
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Protect Your Light
Irreversible Entanglements
Contemporary Jazz
£29.00 £21.00 Save £8.00
Village Of The Sun is an enigmatic collaboration between UK jazz virtuosos Binker Golding and Moses Boyd and electronic music legend Simon Ratcliffe of Basement Jaxx fame.
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First Light
Village Of The Sun
Contemporary Jazz
£25.00
Australian 9-piece Spiritual Jazz group Menagerie announce their highly anticipated fourth album 'The Shores Of Infinity' - representing the 3rd LP to be released by Freestyle Records from the Melbourne-based Jazz ensemble, founded by producer, songwriter, guitarist, DJ and recording artist Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos, Lanu, Rare Groove Spectrum, Machines Always Win).
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The Shores of Infinity
Menagerie
Contemporary Jazz
£25.00
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For Fans Of... El Michels Affair, Adrian Younge, Roy Ayers, Karriem Riggins, The Roots, Khruangbin. Producer "Grimez" has been making music for 20 years deep.
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Sacrifice
Doctor Bionic
Contemporary Jazz
£29.00 £20.00 Save £9.00
First released in 2004 under the pseudonym Phynix, Primal Prayer’s 8 tracks are a wildly creative fusion of jazz, world, dance and classical influences. Sonically the album is almost without comparison, a life-affirming acknowledgement of the many paths we humans walk to enable us to open our hearts and lives to each other.
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Primal Prayer
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Contemporary Jazz
£31.00
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Alexander Flood, one of Australia’s most creative and versatile drummers and bandleaders, forges a new direction in his sound with third outing “Oscillate” – a synthesis of club music and jazz, bringing together Australian & European energies and sonics into an LP that is music for the whole body.
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Oscillate
Alexander Flood
Contemporary Jazz
£28.00 £18.00 Save £10.00
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Residing in Rio de Janeiro, Vasconcelos Sentimento is a self-taught composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist.
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Furto
Vasconcelos Sentimento
Contemporary Jazz
£25.00 £16.00 Save £9.00
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Composer, clarinetist, singer and educator Angel Bat Dawid announces the release of a new work, Requiem For Jazz.
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Requiem for Jazz
Angel Bat Dawid
Contemporary Jazz
£34.00 £27.00 Save £7.00
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Two decades since they formed in New York City and over ten years since their last album, Tel Aviv based quartet Shotnez are back with Dose a Nova, an album of 10 exhilarating jazz filtered jams.
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Dose A Nova
Shotnez
Contemporary Jazz
£27.00 £17.00 Save £10.00
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ATALAYA, similarly, wasn’t processed in the lab, but rather, captured in the room. The realness factor is once again forefront in the sound.
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ATALAYA
Dezron Douglas
Contemporary Jazz
£28.00 £18.00 Save £10.00