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RELEASE DATE: 12/31/2018
[this release is delayed but TBA -- currently anticipated for late 2018...] Mule Musiq present a reissue of Fumio Itabashi's Watarase, originally released in 1982. French-born English DJ, record label, owner, and music collector Gilles Peterson once called Watarase the best jazz record from Japan. Tokyo based Mule Music unearth Watabase, the second solo piano album of the Japanese jazz pianist Fumio Itabashi, remastered from the original recordings. While diving deep into the seven compositions on Watarese, any sensible listener finds out, that the instrumental piano pieces are somehow soulfully connected to what Keith Jarrett plays on his legendary live album The Köln Concert (1975) . Like Jarrett, Itabashi does not play his notes in an academic sense. He lets them fly, gives them some kind a life of their own, hits the piano keys deeply emotional and injects his compositions and interpretations some kind of nervous human soul. In terms of style, some call his Watarase recordings post-bop, others contemporary jazz. Three tunes, the epic "Someday My Prince Will Come" as well as "Msunduza" and "I Can't Get Started", are interpretations of compositions by the US movie score pioneer Frank Churchill, South African pianist Dollar Brand, and Russian-American composer and songwriter Vernon Duke. The other four compositions were written and recorded by Itabashi who started to play the piano when he was eight years old. While studying at the Tokyo-based Kunitachi College Of Music, he fell in love with jazz. In the 1970s he worked with such legendary Japanese jazz musicians such as trumpet player Terumasa Hino, drummer Takeo Moriyama, and saxophonist Sadao Watanabe. Fumio Itabashi remains a vital part of the Japanese jazz culture as a live performer and film score composer. Watarase will get you hooked by the highly infectious piano gems; they will haunt you, they will come for good, and they will force you to be a good friend with the repeat button. Recorded at Nippon Columbia first studio in Tokyo on October 12th and 13th 1981. Edition of 1000.
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$21.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/5/2018
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Nina Simone's Folksy Nina, originally released in 1964. Recorded live at Carnegie Hall in early 1963, in an intimate setting with her trio of guitar/bass/piano and of course with Nina herself at the piano, this live album is a beautiful piece of early, raw, and emotional material from one of the most unique voices of 20th century jazz and pop. Covering tracks from Leadbelly and Pete Seeger, to Johnny Mathis, old English traditional ballads, and Israeli folk tunes, Nina Simone always drew inspiration from the farthest possible reaches. As one of the finest interpreters of songs ever, this live recording is further proof of the genius of the one and only Nina Simone. Reissued on 180 gram vinyl.
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$31.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/5/2018
Wewantsounds present the first ever reissue Jack Wilkins's highly sought-after Mainstream Records album Windows, originally released in 1973. Produced by Bob Shad, the album, which is on many want-lists, is especially cult for his rendition of Freddie Hubbard's classic "Red Clay", notably sampled by A Tribe Called Quest (on "Sucka Nigga") and Chance The Rapper. Recorded in 1973 at New York's Record Plant, this superb session sees guitarist Jack Wilkins in a trio setting accompanied by Mike Moore on bass and young seasoned west coast drummer Bill Goodwin (Gabor Szabo, Gary Burton, Paul Horn, Tom Waits). Together, the trio plays mix of classics including John Coltrane's "Naima", Wayne Shorter's "Pinocchio", and Chick Corea's "Windows", showcasing their instant rapport. Jack Wilkins is an underrated guitarist; he's accompanied such stars as Stanley Turrentine, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, and Sammy Davis Jr. but he has remained more of a musician's musician. Windows has reached cult status for the fact that its slow funk version of Freddie Hubbard's "Red Clay" has been sampled by A Tribe Called Quest for "Sucka Nigga" from their masterpiece Midnight Marauders (1993). ATCQ's jazz samples have always garnered a huge amount of attention from DJs and hip-hop fans and this one has had an instant effect on Windows's popularity, making it one of the most sought-after albums released on Mainstream. Chance the Rapper has also sampled "Red Clay", in the song "Nana" which featured on his second mixtape, Acid Rap (2013). This reissue is thus a great opportunity to (re)discover a great guitarist. Comes in gatefold sleeve featuring never-seen session photos and new liner notes by leading UK journalist, Kevin Le Gendre (Jazzwise, Echoes, BBC's Jazz Line Up).
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RELEASE DATE: 10/5/2018
"DVD 1: Looking For Ornette - a film by jacques goldstein, 2016, 61', stereo. Jacques Goldstein goes on a quest for a spectre, a spectre that haunts Jazz. Who was Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist and composer whom we owe the invention of Free Jazz to... If his seminal body of work is now -- rightfully so -- fully recognized, the man remained deliberately mysterious and enigmatic. The director makes attempts to approach him. He visits and interviews musicians who owe him a lot. A portrait of Ornette takes shape as these sketches gradually unfold, the man who thought that beauty was a rare thing. DVD 2: Ornette - Apparitions a film by stéphane jourdain, 2016, 56', stereo, 5.1. From his career debut within the ONJ (french National Jazz Orchestra) to his duet Grand Bazar with Eve Ris- ser, Antonin-Tri Hoang's music is reminiscent of the late Ornette Coleman, with its florid lyricism and a similar taste for controlled skidding. Commissioned by Banlieues Bleues, Ornette - Apparitions aims at summoning the spirit of the free jazz godfather. Antonin-Tri Hoang offers dreams, wanderings, evocative bridges. Not a revival, but a survival. His Novembre quartet, joined by its many guests, masters the art of zapping and collage between eras and references. The film is the story of this creation and of these apparitions."
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$15.50
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RELEASE DATE: 9/21/2018
After their sensational debut album Oracle in 2017 (COMP 499CD/LP), the German jazz supergroup Web Web follow with an amazing new album, Dance Of The Demons. Their second full-length is a furious dance with the demons -- from positive spirit soul jazz "Land Of The Arum Flower", while the melody reminding to Ethiopian jazz of the '60s, to the mad, outstanding "Sandia", or beautiful weird "Safar" Web Web have had an intense year, they've played dozens of live concerts, where they proved their professionalism, closeness, power and spirituality once more. As a nice but ideal step, Web Web were thrilled to invite the well-known singer and gembri-player Majid Bekkas from Rabat, Morocco, who joined the group into the studio. Tony Lakatos was working with Majid and Joachim Kühn in the last years, also Roberto Di Gioia played with Majid and Klaus Doldinger. This brilliant musician with his North-African roots enriches the rough and bluntly concept of Web Web jazz. In "Maroc Blues", a solo performance by Majid Bekkas, you can hear the warm vibrant gembri, an instrument like an upright bass or lute with three strings. Majid's marvelous voice, which, reflecting the centuries-old tradition of the Berber tribes, perfectly underpins the great improvisation and spirituality of Web Web. Majid Bekkas is one of the most famous musician and representative of Gnawa music, which has its domicile in the south of Sahara. Majid Bekkas studied at the Conservatory For Music & Dance in Rabat, while playing since 1975 classical acoustic guitar and oud. For example, he played with Archie Shepp, Louis Sclavis, Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, and lot of others in the world of jazz and world music. Dance Of The Demons (as well as the debut Oracle) was recorded live in Munich, engineered by Jan Krause (Beanfield, Poets Of Rhythm), produced by Roberto Di Gioia and Michael Reinboth. Web Web are: Roberto Di Gioia - piano, synth, percussion; Tony Lakatos - tenor and soprano saxophone; Christian von Kaphengst - upright bass; Peter Gall - drums.
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RELEASE DATE: 9/21/2018
LP version. After their sensational debut album Oracle in 2017 (COMP 499CD/LP), the German jazz supergroup Web Web follow with an amazing new album, Dance Of The Demons. Their second full-length is a furious dance with the demons -- from positive spirit soul jazz "Land Of The Arum Flower", while the melody reminding to Ethiopian jazz of the '60s, to the mad, outstanding "Sandia", or beautiful weird "Safar" Web Web have had an intense year, they've played dozens of live concerts, where they proved their professionalism, closeness, power and spirituality once more. As a nice but ideal step, Web Web were thrilled to invite the well-known singer and gembri-player Majid Bekkas from Rabat, Morocco, who joined the group into the studio. Tony Lakatos was working with Majid and Joachim Kühn in the last years, also Roberto Di Gioia played with Majid and Klaus Doldinger. This brilliant musician with his North-African roots enriches the rough and bluntly concept of Web Web jazz. In "Maroc Blues", a solo performance by Majid Bekkas, you can hear the warm vibrant gembri, an instrument like an upright bass or lute with three strings. Majid's marvelous voice, which, reflecting the centuries-old tradition of the Berber tribes, perfectly underpins the great improvisation and spirituality of Web Web. Majid Bekkas is one of the most famous musician and representative of Gnawa music, which has its domicile in the south of Sahara. Majid Bekkas studied at the Conservatory For Music & Dance in Rabat, while playing since 1975 classical acoustic guitar and oud. For example, he played with Archie Shepp, Louis Sclavis, Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, and lot of others in the world of jazz and world music. Dance Of The Demons (as well as the debut Oracle) was recorded live in Munich, engineered by Jan Krause (Beanfield, Poets Of Rhythm), produced by Roberto Di Gioia and Michael Reinboth. Web Web are: Roberto Di Gioia - piano, synth, percussion; Tony Lakatos - tenor and soprano saxophone; Christian von Kaphengst - upright bass; Peter Gall - drums.
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$14.00
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RELEASE DATE: 9/21/2018
The German jazz quintet Fazer presents "White Sedan" with two remixes by Glenn Astro & Hodini and Werkha. The original track builds on a traditional Latin rhythm that is closely tied to dance. This is a special turn for an eclectic DJ-set.
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$18.00
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RELEASE DATE: 9/21/2018
Down At Dawn present a reissue of Miles Davis's The Original Quintet (First Recording) , originally released on Prestige in 1963. In 1955, Davis played a beautifully received set at the Newport Jazz Festival and was offered a contract with Columbia Records if he could get a steady group together. In order to record for Columbia, Davis would first have to settle an obligation to Prestige and so he put together the now legendary quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. It was under these conditions, in a desire to churn out as many records as possible to change labels, that Davis recorded some of the most celebrated music of his entire career. This group, in the span of several months released a half-dozen LPs including this one and the great Cookin' (1957), Workin' (1959), and more. This title, originally recorded in 1955 features a great Duke Ellington piece, "Just Squeeze Me", the brilliant Davis original "The Theme", and several other great tunes, but most importantly it is the introduction to a group that features two towering giants of jazz together on some of the fieriest playing of either's career. Edition of 300.
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RELEASE DATE: 9/21/2018
Trost have unearthed another gem from the Japanese jazz maestro Akira Sakata, together with Bill Laswell, Hamid Drake, and Pete Cosey. Fisherman's.com was released originally on CD, Japan-only, by Starlets Records in 2001. This release marks its first time on vinyl and available worldwide. Fisherman's.com is Sakata's ode to folksongs of the sea -- an intense personal statement on the fluidity of tradition. Personnel: Akira Sakata - alto saxophone, vocals, synth; Bill Laswell - bass, synth; Hamid Drake - drums; Pete Cosey - guitar.
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RELEASE DATE: 9/7/2018
If Conversations celebrates the memory, the artistic and spiritual heritage of bassist Fred Hopkins -- a historical member of the revolutionary Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians of Chicago -- who died in January 1999, it also marks the amazing collaboration between the Ritual Trio of Kahil El'Zabar (with Ari Brown and Malachi Favors) and the intrepid veteran Archie Shepp, the great voice of the '70s Afro-free-jazz. Being a tribute that invites to an intimate memory, almost an antidote to exorcise the loss of a brother, the music is a spiritual hymn to life. Between ballads, hard-bop, and free-improvised accents, blow winds of vibrant pianistic chiaroscuros, which are reminiscent of the best McCoy Tyner in the great blinding quartet of John Coltrane in the '60s. Furthermore, when an angular rhythmic base decisively follows the typical hypnotic ostinato of the ancient tribal rituals, the voice is expressed in the purest black spirituals (Big Fred and Brother Malcolm), pervading some moments of that "Holiness" culture dear to the dawn of Afro-American identity. Here, Shepp brings back the flaming shivers of the golden age, when his message of freedom resonated the true spirits of primordial Africa.
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$31.00
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RELEASE DATE: 9/7/2018
Jack the hipster. A musician's musician. The white negro from the docks. Jack Sels has been given many nicknames throughout the years. The Antwerp saxophone player who died at the mere age of 48 in 1970, remains Belgium's most mythical jazz musician, both to those who knew him during his lifetime and those who only know him from the stories -- and there are quite some stories to be told about Jack Sels. Throughout his career, he would play with jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Lou Bennett, and Lucky Thompson, but he remained virtually unknown outside Belgium due to his reluctance to leave Antwerp. Almost fifty years after his death, Jack Sels remains Belgium's most intriguing jazz musician. Partly due to his limited discography, he is overlooked by a wider audience. Yet, his contribution to the development of the modern jazz scene in Belgium cannot be overestimated, and neither can his influence on his fellow musicians, to whom he was the embodiment of jazz. As vibraphone player Fats Sadi once said: "I loved Jack. He had never studied music and didn't have the least bit of technique. But if Jack played, the gates of heaven opened. Jack was more jazz than jazz itself." Minor Works is a collection of rare, previously unreleased studio and live recordings paying homage to the life and jazz of the enigmatic musician. Limited edition double-CD version includes 36-page booklet.
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$27.50
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RELEASE DATE: 9/7/2018
As electronic music knows no creative boundaries, Spiral Deluxe is clearly a profound and convincing example of what is possible in the times we live in today. Traditionally, they would be considered a musical quartet. Each of the four members contributing to make a special joint effort -- the meeting of minds from different spectrums of the musical sphere, but if you move in closer to examine how each have modified the way they communicate in order to play with each other. A longtime vision of their drummer/percussionist and Jeff Mills. Before becoming the world renown and groundbreaking DJ, producer, and artist he is recognized for, he was a drummer in his youth, which carried on up until he began DJing in the late 1970s. Since then, he had always carried idea to get back to his musical roots. This longtime dream began to surface a few years ago when Mills was bestowed a "white card" residency at the Museum du Le Louvre in Paris. It was there that he found the opportunity to form a band for one night and it opened the doors to a chance to materialize his dream. Since then, the formation has carefully evolved into one might describe as a "super band" -- a group of highly-skilled musicians, working together to reach a higher level of creativity. For example, although members are using electronic instruments, there is no MIDI syncing connection. Each plays their instrument unattached as if any jazz or rock band would play together. Each having a vast amount of experience in live and studio projects, this release displays their wealth of skill and musical knowledge that comes from jazz, funk, pop, gospel, Detroit techno, and all forms of house music. Spiral Deluxe is: Yumiko Ohno - keyboard; Gerald Mitchell - keyboard; Kenji "Jino" Hino - bass guitar; Jeff Mills - drums and percussion. Voodoo Magic is the result of a two-day recording session at the famous Studio Ferber in Paris. Most tracks on this release were recorded in one-take recordings to "capture the moment". "Let It Go" was composed by Spiral Deluxe and features even more masterful artistry of the likes of veteran vocalist Tanya Michelle, with the mix production of the one-and-only Detroit native producer and DJ Terrence Parker. 180 gram vinyl; Axis Audiophile Series; Color gatefold jacket. A and B side: 33 1/3rpm; C and D side: 45rpm.
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RELEASE DATE: 9/7/2018
Listening to the music of Al Doum & The Faryds is always like staying in the pristine nature of an exotic island, in the sacred harmony of a new organic society; imaging all brothers and sisters singing and dancing in the unity of the brotherhood. This is the message of love and joy that pervade this fourth album, Spirit Rejoin. Moving towards accents of jazz ancestry, the Faryds absorb and re-elaborate -- with remarkable insights -- disparate elements and influences of electric jazz of the '70s (Miles Davis, Dr. John) and spiritual jazz (Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry), marrying them with the forceful instances of Afro-free (Pyramids, Alkebu-Lan). The music celebrates a new collective soul, a dancing cathartic ritual with birds, plants, and all the animals, together in the circle of devotion. A journey in the total pranic breath.
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RELEASE DATE: 9/7/2018
Hi Hat presents a newly released archival recording from Kenny Burrell & the West Coast All Stars, Laguna Beach - Friends Of Jazz Festival 1979. This superb set was performed at California's first annual Friends of Jazz Festival, and broadcast as part National Public Radio's Jazz Alive series. It captures veteran guitarist Kenny Burrell at the top of his game, tackling a selection of standards in typically breezy fashion, backed by the cream of the country's jazz talent. The entire National Public Radio broadcast is presented here, digitally remastered, with background notes and images. Personnel: Kenny Burrell - guitar; Jerome Richardson - sax, flute; Conte Candoli - trumpet; Thad Jones - flugelhorn; Frank Foster - tenor sax; Art Hillery - keyboards; Leroy Vinnegar - bass; Shelly Manne - drums.
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RELEASE DATE: 9/7/2018
LP version. Listening to the music of Al Doum & The Faryds is always like staying in the pristine nature of an exotic island, in the sacred harmony of a new organic society; imaging all brothers and sisters singing and dancing in the unity of the brotherhood. This is the message of love and joy that pervade this fourth album, Spirit Rejoin. Moving towards accents of jazz ancestry, the Faryds absorb and re-elaborate -- with remarkable insights -- disparate elements and influences of electric jazz of the '70s (Miles Davis, Dr. John) and spiritual jazz (Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry), marrying them with the forceful instances of Afro-free (Pyramids, Alkebu-Lan). The music celebrates a new collective soul, a dancing cathartic ritual with birds, plants, and all the animals, together in the circle of devotion. A journey in the total pranic breath.
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RELEASE DATE: 9/7/2018
Double LP version. 180 gram vinyl; gatefold sleeve with liner notes; Includes download code with bonus live recordings. Jack the hipster. A musician's musician. The white negro from the docks. Jack Sels has been given many nicknames throughout the years. The Antwerp saxophone player who died at the mere age of 48 in 1970, remains Belgium's most mythical jazz musician, both to those who knew him during his lifetime and those who only know him from the stories -- and there are quite some stories to be told about Jack Sels. Throughout his career, he would play with jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Lou Bennett, and Lucky Thompson, but he remained virtually unknown outside Belgium due to his reluctance to leave Antwerp. Almost fifty years after his death, Jack Sels remains Belgium's most intriguing jazz musician. Partly due to his limited discography, he is overlooked by a wider audience. Yet, his contribution to the development of the modern jazz scene in Belgium cannot be overestimated, and neither can his influence on his fellow musicians, to whom he was the embodiment of jazz. As vibraphone player Fats Sadi once said: "I loved Jack. He had never studied music and didn't have the least bit of technique. But if Jack played, the gates of heaven opened. Jack was more jazz than jazz itself." Minor Works is a collection of rare, previously unreleased studio and live recordings paying homage to the life and jazz of the enigmatic musician.
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RELEASE DATE: 9/7/2018
Don Cherry Trio, live from Studio 105, Maison de l'ORTF, Paris on March 18th, 1967. Having played with a who's who of cutting-edge American jazz musicians (including Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Sonny Rollins, Archie Shepp, and Pharoah Sanders), by the mid-60s Don Cherry was spending increasing amounts of time in Europe. There he developed his concept of a symphony for improvisers, wherein form was more important than melody. This remarkable set was broadcast on French radio station ORTF, in Paris, March 1967, and is a fiery document of the trumpeter at his peak. The entire broadcast is presented here, digitally remastered, with background notes and images. Personnel: Don Cherry - cornet, piano, bamboo flute, gong; Karl Berger - vibes, marimba, piano, celeste, percussion; Jacques Thollot - drums, bells, timbales.
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RELEASE DATE: 9/7/2018
Hi Hat present a live set from the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Live At the Grand Casino Basel 1963. Dave Brubeck was already a living legend by the time this concert was performed for broadcast on Radio Suisse. Featuring his classic quartet with Paul Desmond on sax, it takes in material that had been in their repertoire for years, as well as newer material from their Time Changes (1963) and Jazz Impressions Of Japan (1964) albums. Versatile, smooth, and powerful, the entire Radio Suisse broadcast is presented here, digitally remastered, with background notes and images. Personnel: Dave Brubeck - piano; Paul Desmond - alto saxophone; Eugene Wright - bass; Joe Morello - drums.
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RELEASE DATE: 9/7/2018
First of all, Bengt Berger -- a pioneer of the Swedish underground of the '70s and historical member of bands such as Archimedes Badkar and Arbete Och Fritid -- is a versatile drummer-percussionist and well-educated ethnomusicologist with several research sojourns in India and Ghana. Deeply influenced by Hindustani, Carnatic, and West Africa music, he founded the Bitter Funeral Beer Band in 1980, an ensemble of 12 elements, basing his ideas on the traditional funeral music of the people of LoBirifor, in the northern region of Ghana. The sound material reinterprets the spirit of the funeral ritual, when the dance and its songs become a moment of catharsis, releasing a sense of joy in the trance for the liberation from pain. The marriage between this Afro-polyrhythmic roots, with the spiritual jazz of the eternal Don Cherry, and the Ondian sarod of K. Sridhar, it is in the direction to a pan-internationalism of profound spirituality, which blends different geographical traditions in a single contemplative gaze. It is the convergence towards a music without boundaries, where every instrumental voice shines and is well fermented and integrated.
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2018 repress. Originally released in 1978 on El Saturn Records. Disco 3000 is one of Sun Ra's greatest from the '70s. Recorded in Italy in 1978, it features some incredibly otherworldly keyboards that are some of his most enigmatic on record. Original tracks from the album include "Disco 3000", an incredible workout on synthesizer, with a tiny bit of drum machine, a little "Space Is The Place" breakdown, and all of the wild sound you'd expect from a Sun Ra album -- plus more long tracks -- the sweetly soulful "Friendly Galaxy", a great soul jazz number, and "Dance Of The Cosmo Aliens", which has spooky organ, frenetic bass, and somber percussion.
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Corbett Vs. Dempsey present a reissue of Amarcord Nino Rota, a tribute album assembled by producer Hal Willner, originally released by Hannibal Records in 1981. If you think you know how to put a mix-tape together, take a lesson from Hal Willner, the absolute master. In 1981, Willner produced a landmark record of interpretations of music written by Nino Rota for the films of Federico Fellini. With ten tracks and as many different lineups, this record set the template for a series of brilliant tributes that Willner has made over the ensuing 35 years, covering the songbooks of Monk, Mingus, Weill, and Disney, with a mind-expanding range of performers from Eugene Chadbourne to Chuck D to Diamanda Galas to Peter Frampton. On Amarcord Nino Rota, Willner drew together an equally dazzling spectrum of musicians, compiling them into a perfect program that explores Rota's wonderful, sly, sexy oeuvre from contrasting and complementary perspectives. Pianist Jaki Byard sets the stage with the title track and ends things with "La Strada", and in his first appearance on record, guitarist Bill Frisell contributes a haunting solo acoustic version of "Juliet Of The Spirits". Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, who lived in Rome early in his international years, offers a take on Rota's "Roma" and vibraphonist Dave Samuels provides interludes and transitions in a couple of spots. On the other end of the size bracket, Muhal Richard Abrams arranges and conducts his band as part of "La Dolce Vita Suite", which ends with a rock group featuring Debbie Harry singing a wordless waltz. The Carla Bley Band presents a daunting, suitably hilarious version of "8 ½", with Gary Windo's ballistic tenor saxophone, a David Amram Quintet with Sharon Freeman on French horn plays "Satyricon", and in a surprise appearance, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis plays alongside his brother Branford, tenor saxophonist George Adams, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Wilbert Fletcher, in William Fischer's arrangement of a medley of Rota chestnuts. Long out-of-print on LP and only released on CD for a hot minute in the early nineties, Amarcord Nino Rota is a certifiable classic.
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Down At Dawn present a reissue of Jimmy Smith's The Sermon!, originally released in 1959. Recorded in 1959, The Sermon! appeared as another proof that Jimmy Smith was the most inventive organist of the bop generation. This was the product of a marathon jam session including highly energetic hard bop renditions of Charlie Parker tunes like "Confirmation" and "Au Privave" and a mind-blowing line-up featuring jazz masters of the time such as Lee Morgan (trumpet), Lou Donaldson (alto sax), Art Blakey (drums), Tina Brooks (tenor sax), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Kenny Burrell (guitar), and George Coleman (tenor sax). Edition of 300.
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Down At Dawn presents a reissue of Grantstand, an essential part of guitarist Grant Green's discography, originally released in 1961. Recorded in 1961, Grantstand is Green's third album for the legendary Blue Note label. An excellent soulful and groovy session features Green leading a line-up consisting of Yusef Lateef (tenor saxophone, flute), Brother Jack McDuff (organ), Al Harewood (drums), and Ben Tucker (bass). Green's guitar tone matches perfectly with McDuff's organ sound and Lateef's warm tenor phrasings; this is swinging soul jazz at its best. Edition of 300.
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Down At Dawn present a reissue of In Milan, a rare studio date from Chet Baker's first trip to Europe. In Milan captures the king of West Coast jazz in Milan with a band specially assembled for these sessions that features some of the best Italian musicians of the time. The basic quartet includes Chet Baker (trumpet) Renato Sellani (piano) Franco Cerri (bass), and Gene Victory (drums). However, that unit is often upgraded to a sextet with Glauco Masetti (alto sax) and Gianno Basso (tenor sax). The cool spirit of Baker's music lives through some inspired fluid performances of American bop classics such as Miles Davis's "Tune Up" and Charlie Parker's "Cheryl Blues". Edition of 300.
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DAD 113LP
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Down At Dawn present a reissue of Roy Haynes's Cymbalism, originally released in 1963. A very rare album by one of the master drummers in modern jazz. Recorded by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder in 1963, Cymbalism is among the albums that Roy Haynes provided for Prestige's New Jazz series. This session finds the drummer leading an acoustic quartet with Frank Strozier (alto sax, flute), Ronnie Mathews (piano), and Larry Ridley (bass). An unpredictable hard bop-post bop transition album bearing different colors and moods. From Charlie Parker's primary influence through some sort of Coltranish expanded sound. Without forgetting to mention a both unexpected and welcomed funky soul-jazz number as ending track. Edition of 300.
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