Just wanted to express a big thank you to everyone who tuned in to our anniversary livestream, came by the store over the past 2 weekends, all the artists who took their time off to spend it with us, crew from BCUBE and team from SGCR for making this all happen. Thank you!!! Read on to relive the stream or peek at the editorials on SGCR.
#14 in our mix series is brought to you by none other than Sadat! He's 1/4 of the celebrated Afrodesia crew and an absolute joy to be around. Straight up infectious vibes on this mix from start to finish, so give it a listen if smiling is something you enjoy doing! Read on for the interview + tracklist. 
AV013 is one for the hip hop & jazz heads! TAV Alumni Matt Sekiya [@magneticmza] delivers a lovely jazz-focused mix for our series. A great blend from the man who used to work right here at the vault, Matt takes us through some delicious rare groove, soul jazz and hip hop for a steady hour. Press play to catch the vibe!
George makes his special come back on modular synth inspired by the writings of Paul Virilio, the figure of Liu Bai Yuan in Wuxia films along with the global information war we are experiencing.
Through our many musical interactions at the vault, he has personally taught us to seek the meditative qualities in all sorts of music through our short but sweet listen-ing sessions together. Luckily for us, we now have the opportunity to go deeper with George and pick at his approach - a detached, but informed practice with the foreign but familiar.
$300.00
This box set features remastered versions of all of Sade's studio albums to date, on pure 180-gram black vinyl - the first complete collection of their studio work up to the present day. All six of the band's acclaimed albums - Diamond Life (1984), Promise (1985), Stronger Than Pride (1988), Love Deluxe (1992), Lovers Rock (2000) and Soldier Of Love (2010) - are packaged into the beautifully finished, white case-bound box. – Sade.com
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Label: Epic – 88985456121, Sony Music – 88985456121 |
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Format: Box Set, Compilation, Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180 Gram, Gatefold |
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Country: USA, Canada & Europe |
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Released: 09 Oct 2020 |
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Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Rock, Reggae, Funk / Soul |
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Style: Soul-Jazz, Downtempo, Soft Rock, Lovers Rock, Contemporary Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Soul, Neo Soul |
$45.00
Around his emergence back in 2016, George Van Den Broek’s Yellow Days sat at the mellow edges of indie, mixing a hazy, lo-fi singer-songwriter aesthetic with jazzy inflections; think Mac DeMarco taking on blue-eyed soul. And while the Canadian troublemaker does, in fact, make an appearance on the Surrey songwriter’s second, it’s the flip side of his sound that takes centre-stage on ‘A Day In A Yellow Beat’: it’s a jazz deep-dive. There are sampled, spoken-word interludes (“The trippers, the grasshoppers, the hip ones, all gathered in secrecy, and flying high as a kite” goes ‘(Pot Party)’ as if you required any hint as to where George’s head might be); further guest spots from noted UK trumpeter Nick Walters and American R&B singer Shirley Jones. And while it does quickly blend into one long - and at 24 tracks, it is long - medley - he’s created a heady, vibey, dare we say it - groovy - mood. – diymag.com
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Label: Sony Music – 19439777681 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz, Rock |
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Style: Indie Rock |
$39.00
Slidin'. Ramblin'. Driftin'. Movin'. Strugglin'. The War on Drugs frontman Adam Granduciel is all of these things on Slave Ambient, the Philly outfit's second full-length release. Given these professed feelings of restlessness and uneasiness, it's no surprise the band's hypno-roots-rock is all about forward motion and momentum, favoring steady, locomotive rhythms that rarely pause or waver-- elements that reinforce Granduciel's efforts to make his problems disappear in the rearview mirror.
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Slave Ambient shares several qualities with its 2008 predecessor, Wagonwheel Blues: a sense of open-freeway abandon and splendid isolation set against a glorious expanse; an unabashed admiration for FM-radio Americana icons of yore (Springsteen, Dylan, Petty); and a willingness to buff the band's gritty edges with serene, if randomly deployed, instrumentals and reprises. In other words, the War on Drugs still deal in "excellent road trip music," as Pitchfork's Stephen Deusner described Wagonwheel Blues. However, this time Granduciel is less interested in documenting the environmental and economic travesties he sees unfolding outside his window as he is the internal dramas swirling around in his head. Nearly every song here expresses some desire to get outta town and start anew. – Pitchfork
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Label: Secretly Canadian – SC190 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Album, Repress |
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Country: US |
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Genre: Rock |
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Style: Indie Rock |
$48.00
‘Door to the Cosmos’ expresses On the Corner’s adventure; future sounds referencing the source, be it Detroit, UK bass culture, New Orleans or the Niger delta. The title riffs off of the otherworldly, afro-futurist jazzer Sun Ra’s infamous chant ‘dare to knock at the door to the cosmos’. Sun Ra’s sound and narrative bending inspires us to kick at the rules and push at the infinite, the ecstatic and the unknown through music by knock, knock, knocking at the door to the cosmos. – Bandcamp
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Label: On The Corner Records – OTCRLP010 |
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Format: 3 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 18 Sep 2020 |
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Genre: Electronic, Jazz |
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Style: Leftfield |
$39.00
Celebrating 15 years from the release of their debut album, Daptone's Royal Court from Staten Island delivers a truly epic collection of new material that finds the group further bridging the gap between the farfisa-fueled Ethio-Funk stylings of their early recordings, with the psychedelic, Sabbath-inspired hellfire of late.
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“In some ways, it’s reminiscent of our first two albums The Budos Band and Budos II,” says Tom Brenneck. “We branched off on Burnt Offering and V. Now, we’re still moving forward. You can play these songs on the dance-floor. We knew the horns had to stand out too. Thinking about hip-hop allowed us to put the bounce back into The Budos.” This is evident from needle drop to final rotation. Heavy drum breaks, reminiscent of the B-Boy approved grooves of their early output reign supreme, setting the stage for the pulsating, hallucinatory wall of organ, menacing horns, and rugged guitar riffs to permeate your soul - leaving the listener in a rhythmic wash of Budonian rapture.
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Long in the Tooth represents the culmination of a 15-year journey by a band that has consistently carved its own distinct path through the grooves of history. – Bandcamp
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Label: Daptone Records – DAP-065 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: US |
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Released: 2020 |
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Genre: Hip Hop, Funk / Soul |
$39.00
It’s hard to believe now, but when Michael Jackson’s Thriller was released in the UK in time for Christmas 1982, there was an initial sense of misfire. In choosing the album's most lacklustre track, The Girl Is Mine, as its lead single, the postcard delivered was mildly disappointing. The playful duet with Paul McCartney, chosen no doubt to emulate the success McCartney had had earlier the same year with Stevie Wonder on Ebony and Ivory, was simply not what the listeners were expecting. It reached number eight on the UK chart, and the album sold well, but certainly not in the manner that the man who’d delivered Off the Wall should have done.
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By the following Christmas, Thriller had become the phenomenon it remains to this day. Singles kept dropping off the album like golden fruit from a platinum bough: the precision snap of that snare on UK number one Billie Jean; the raucous Eddie Van Halen guitar on Beat It; the groove-driven frenzy of Wanna Be Startin' Something. It became apparent that this was a remarkable, ever-yielding pop jukebox.
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By 1984, the album got an extension on its lifecycle with the John Landis-directed video for Thriller, which took the album from successful pop record to cultural icon. Casting the then-clean cut, scandal-free singer as a werewolf in a 15-rated short film was a risk, but one that truly paid off. Soon enough Thriller had become a greatest hits package – seven of its nine tracks were issued as singles. Love it or hate it, Thriller is pop's great, immovable Everest. Marketing departments realised that more and more singles could be pulled from a record to prolong its shelf life, and Michael Jackson became the King of Pop with the whole of the recording industry at his investiture. - BBC
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Label: Epic – 88875143731, MJJ Productions – 88875143731 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 2015 |
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Genre: Funk / Soul, Pop |
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Style: Disco |
$48.00
For much of my youth and young adulthood, I listened to music for cheap emotional catharsis, and so I preferred songs that were feral, tenuous, unstudied, and impolite—anything that sounded as mixed-up and precarious as I usually felt. I equated wildness with authenticity, and wanted only to be reminded, again and again, that I wasn’t alone or unique in my feelings. This isn’t a particularly unusual way to commune with records, though it is, perhaps, the easiest way. I eventually came to understand that over-valuing anguish and ecstasy—conflating theatrics with feeling, and feeling with Art—was limiting and naïve. Things like pleasure, contentedness, a solid laugh—any good, ordinary moment—are just as evanescent, and certainly just as formidable (and important) to capture.
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Beginning in the early 1970s, Steely Dan—the duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen—made cerebral, clever, formally sophisticated music that resisted any autobiographical extrapolating. Even in the context of the era—the late 1960s had seen the development and rise of both jazz-fusion and prog-rock, two of the brainiest, chops-iest genres going—their work was shrouded in irony and a distancing intellect. There was no pretense of dissolution or even emotion. Listening to their records felt like running my hands along a slab of polished marble—there were no craggy bits to grab on to, no easy way to find purchase—and so for years, I believed that Steely Dan’s seeming aversion to sincerity meant that they were cold and dorky. Did they not just make inert, polished music for men with meticulously groomed facial hair?
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Then Aja—Steely Dan’s sixth album, from 1977—turned everything around for me: It’s a thoroughly convincing argument against my notion that aggressive or discordant music was inherently real and rebellious, whereas virtuosic or studied songs were always limp and bloodless. Aja is as bold as records get. It’s full of strange, unprecedented, disorienting moves. It is braver, more idiosyncratic, and more personal, in some ways, than any other record I own. - Pitchfork
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Label: ABC Records – 0076732168813 |
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Series: Back To Black – |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Gatefold, 180g |
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Country: UK & Europe |
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Released: 22 Oct 2008 |
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Genre: Jazz, Rock, Pop |
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Style: Pop Rock, Fusion |
$48.00
Moses Boyd is a drummer in the same way Questlove from the Roots is a drummer, which is to say that the twice Mobo-winning 28-year-old Londoner is a producer-composer-collaborator-influencer not bound by the kit surrounding him. A progenitor of the current London jazz scene, Boyd’s official solo debut goes large on cross-pollination – and dancing.
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Whereas Boyd’s previous Mobo-winning duo with the saxophonist Binker Golding and his Exodus ensemble remained more or less on-genre, Dark Matter exists very much in the wake of Boyd’s breakout track of 2016, Rye Lane Shuffle (which featured Four Tet and Floating Points on mixes). This is the London hybrid jazz of now – a party-facing electronic record that takes note of Afrobeats, two-step garage and Boyd’s travels in South Africa.- The Guardian
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Label: Exodus – XOLP001 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 14 Feb 2020 |
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Genre: Electronic, Jazz |
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Style: Contemporary Jazz |
$45.00
The UK’s cosmic, psychedelic-funk ensemble issue their second album on maverick producer Madlib’s label, Madlib Invazion.
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The Heliocentrics’ albums are all confounding pieces of work. Drawing equally from the funk universe of James Brown, the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra, the cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone, the sublime fusion of David Axelrod, Pierre Henry’s turned-on musique concrète, and Can’s beat-heavy Krautrock, they have – regardless of the label on which they’ve released their music - pointed the way towards a brand new kind of psychedelia, one that could only come from a band of accomplished musicians who were also obsessive music fans. Drummer Malcolm Catto and bassist Jake Ferguson are the Heliocentrics’ masterminds and producers, and they are obsessive weirdos in today’s musical climate, searching, progressive humans who are often out-of-time with current trends.
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They have been playing together for nearly two decades and their collective drive is to find an individual voice. The Heliocentrics search for it in an alternate galaxy where the orbits of funk, jazz, psychedelic, electronic, avant-garde and “ethnic” music all revolve around “The One.” With Madilb’s label Madlib Invazion for Telemetric Sounds, the Heliocentrics have returned to develop their epic vision of psychedelic funk, while exploring the possibilities created by their myriad influences – Latin, African, and more. - Bandcamp
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Label: Madlib Invazion – MMS 039 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: US |
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Released: 07 Aug 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz, Rock, Funk / Soul |
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Style: Psychedelic |
$45.00
The First Lady of Song returns to Berline, Home of Her Legendary Concerts. Recorded in 1962 but never released, hear the most popular Jazz singer of all time deliver an iconic performance at Sportpalast Berlin for the first time. Thie recording finds Ella and her band at the top of their game recorded in High Fidelity Stereo.
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Label: Verve Records – B0032589-01, UMe – B0032589-01 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Stereo |
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Country: US |
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Released: 02 Oct 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Bop, Swing, Vocal |
$48.00
Generally regarded as John Coltrane’s greatest work and often listed amongst the greatest jazz albums of all time - this 3LP Complete Masters version celebrates the 50th anniversary of the original album release, and finally collects all the previously unavailable outtakes, overdubs, and studio chatter from the session. "An all-time classic expanded to include unreleased sextet recordings from Coltrane's personal tapes; 32-page booklet with the artist's musical notations, rare images and an essay by Ashley Kahn"
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Merely mention the name John Coltrane and you’re likely to evoke a deeply emotional, often spiritual response from even the most casual jazz fan. John Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (1926 – 1967), was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and was later at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least 50 recording sessions during his career, and appeared as a sideman on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk.
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Coltrane was among the most important, and most controversial, figures in jazz. He influenced innumerable musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history. He received many awards, among them a posthumous Special Citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2007 for his "masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz". - JohnColtrane.com
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Label: Impulse! – B0032077-01, Verve Records – B0032077-01, UMe – B0032077-01, Impulse! – A-77 |
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Series: Acoustic Sounds Series – |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, 180g, Gatefold |
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Country: US |
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Released: 09 Oct 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Free Jazz, Modal |
$39.00
Kenny Dorham’s 1964 album Trompeta Toccata would be the final album that the great underrated trumpeter and composer would record as a leader, and it stands as a fitting testament to his prodigious talent. The album featured a stellar quintet with Dorham and his frequent collaborator Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone along with pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath. The brilliant album cover design by Reid Miles featured the bold typography that made his style so influential.
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This Blue Note 80 Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.– Blue Note
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Label: Blue Note – 00602508525490, Blue Note – 0852549, Blue Note – BST-84181, Blue Note – ST-84181, Blue Note – 84181, UMe – 0852549 |
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Series: Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series – |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, 180g |
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Country: USA & Europe |
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Released: 19 Jun 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Bop |
$39.00
After trumpeter Lee Morgan set the music world on fire with the runaway success of his hit soul-jazz single “The Sidewinder” in 1964, many artists tried to duplicate his triumphant feat in search of another boogaloo sensation. Even Morgan himself cooked up funky follow-ups using “The Sidewinder” recipe including “The Rumproller,” which was recorded the next year. Beyond the groovy title tune (which was written by Andrew Hill) the quintet featuring Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Ronnie Mathews on piano, Victor Sproles on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums traverses diverse territory from the post-bop of “Desert Moonlight” to the calypso of “Eclipso” to the mournful closing ballad “The Lady” dedicated to Billie Holiday. The ingenious album cover design by Reid Miles is a memorable example of the brilliant typography that made his style so influential.
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This Blue Note 80 Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. – Blue Note
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Label: Blue Note – 0850312, Blue Note – 84199, Blue Note – ST-84199, Blue Note – BST 84199, Blue Note – 00602508503122, UMe – 00602508503122, UMe – 0850312 |
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Series: Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series – |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, 180g |
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Country: USA & Europe |
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Released: 10 Apr 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Hard Bop |
$39.00
On his second Blue Note album Smoke Stack, pianist and composer Andrew Hill used an unusual line-up of two bassists (Richard Davis and Eddie Khan) along with the masterful Roy Haynes on drums. Blue Note founder Alfred Lion considered Hill to have as distinct and important a compositional voice as Thelonious Monk, and the seven Hill compositions that the quartet explore here contain all the rare beauty to be found in his music. Designer Reid Miles photographed Hill himself for the striking album cover design. This Blue Note 80 Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. – Blue Note
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Label: Blue Note – 00602508525445, Blue Note – 0852544, Blue Note – BST-84160, Blue Note – ST-84160, Blue Note – 84160 |
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Series: Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series – |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, 180g |
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Country: USA & Europe |
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Released: 19 Jun 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Post Bop |
$45.00
Chick’s brilliant trio album from 1968, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs is held in the same kind of rarefied esteem as the classic Bill Evans trio sessions. One listen will tell you why …. the exquisite interplay between Chick, Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous and drum master Roy Haynes make it abundantly clear why this album has achieved such legendary status among jazz piano trio recordings. Now He Sing’s, Now He Sobs features a program of all Corea compositions including the first recording of Matrix, one of Corea’s most beloved tunes. – Blue Note
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Label: Solid State Records (2) – SS18039, Solid State Records (2) – B0029363-01, Blue Note – B0029363-01 |
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Series: Blue Note Tone Poet Series – |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180 Gram |
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Country: US |
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Released: 08 Feb 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Post Bop |
$45.00
Gabor Szabo was one of the most original guitarists to emerge in the 1960s, mixing his Hungarian folk music heritage with a deep love of jazz and crafting a distinctive, largely self-taught sound. Born in Budapest, on March 8, 1936, Szabo was inspired by a Roy Rogers cowboy movie to begin playing guitar when he was 14 and often played in dinner clubs and covert jam sessions while still living in his hometown. He escaped from his country at age 20 on the eve of the Communist uprising and eventually made his way to America, settling with his family in California.
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He attended Berklee College (1958-1960) and in 1961 joined Chico Hamilton’s innovative quintet featuring Charles Lloyd. Urged by Hamilton, Szabo crafted a most distinctive sound; as agile on intricate, nearly-free runs as he was able to sound inspired during melodic passages. Szabo left the Hamilton group in 1965 to leave his mark on the pop-jazz of the Gary McFarland quintet and the energy music of Charles Lloyd’s fiery and underrated quartet featuring Ron Carter and Tony Williams.
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Szabo initiated a solo career in 1966, recording the exceptional album, Spellbinder, which yielded many inspired moments and ""Gypsy Queen,"" the song Santana turned into a huge hit in 1970. Szabo formed an innovative quintet (1967-1969) featuring the brilliant, classically trained guitarist Jimmy Stewart and recorded many notable albums during the late ’60s. The emergence of rock music (especially George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix) found Szabo experimenting with feedback and more commercially oriented forms of jazz.
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During the ’70s, Szabo regularly performed along the West Coast, hypnotizing audiences with his enchanting, spellbinding style. From 1970, he locked into a commercial groove, even though records like Mizrab occasionally revealed his seamless jazz, pop, Gypsy, Indian, and Asian fusions. Szabo had revisited his homeland several times during the ’70s, finding opportunities to perform brilliantly with native talents. He was hospitalized during his final visit and died in 1982, just short of his 46th birthday. – Light In The Attic
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Label: Ebalunga!!! – EBL-003LP |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Gatefold |
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Country: Austria |
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Released: 05 May 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Soul-Jazz, Jazz-Rock, Fusion, Contemporary Jazz |
$39.00
The dark, droning metal of Sunn O))) must be approached with a reverence for its spiritual and aesthetic values. You don’t just listen to Sunn; you experience it. Built on repetition and atmosphere, the ambience created by Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson encourages introspection from its audience and a listening environment that allows such. The music of Sunn has become viable in the realms of yoga (aka Black YO)))ga) because of its visceral, transportive qualities.
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Kannon carries on many of those traditions, emphasizing meditative drones across a tri-movement piece. Per the album’s press release, “Kannon” literally represents an aspect of Buddha: the “goddess of mercy” or “perceiving the sounds (or cries) of the world.” To classify Kannon as an album relegates it to the commercial framework of recorded music and economic product, demeaning some of that spiritual allure. Sunn seek to defy that consumerist inevitability, essentially creating a mixed media art project around the release of Kannon. – Consequence of Sound
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Label: Southern Lord – sunn250 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: US |
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Released: 04 Dec 2015 |
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Genre: Rock |
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Style: Doom Metal, Drone |
$39.00
The duochrome Peter Saville cover of this first Joy Division album speaks volumes. Its white on black lines reflect a pulse of power, a surge of bass, and raw angst. If the cover doesn’t draw you in, the music will. Following the first kick of drums and bass come the vocals: "I’ve been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand". This young band was the ‘guy’ to take post punk music by the hand and lead it to 80s electronica. Joy Division were unlike anything that came before them and anything that has ever come after them.
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The album is at times aggressive: "And all God’s angels beware. And all you judges beware, sons of chance take good care. For all the people out there, I’m not afraid anymore," Ian Curtis intones on Insight, lapsing, at times, into despondency. Unknown Pleasures is always brooding and always intense. Joy Division were four boys from 1970s Salford. They took their name from the literary prostitution wing of a Nazi concentration camp and they took their inspiration from the familiar atmosphere of run-down, post-industrial estates. Deep heaving baritones come out of a man so small he’d be blown away by the gust of his own voice. Together Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris created something approaching pure energy. - BBC
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Label: Factory – FACT 10, Rhino Records (2) – R1-465628 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180 Gram, Textured Sleeve |
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Country: US |
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Released: 30 Jun 2015 |
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Genre: Electronic, Rock |
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Style: New Wave, Post-Punk |
$39.00
The ultra-hip and sophisticated "cool jazz" that Chet Baker (trumpet/vocals) helped define in the early '50s matured rapidly under the tutelage of producer Dick Bock. This can be traced to Baker's earliest sides on Bock's L.A.-based Pacific Jazz label. This album is the result of Baker's first sessions for the independent Riverside label. The Chet Baker Quartet featured on Chet Baker Sings: It Could Happen to You includes Kenny Drew (piano), Sam Jones (bass), and Philly Joe Jones (drums). (Performances by bassist George Morrow and drummer Dannie Richmond are featured on a few cuts.) This results in the successful combination of Baker's fluid and nonchalant West Coast delivery with the tight swinging accuracy of drummer Jones and pianist Drew. Nowhere is this balance better displayed than the opening and closing sides on the original album, "Do It the Hard Way" and "Old Devil Moon," respectively. One immediate distinction between these vocal sides and those recorded earlier in the decade for Pacific Jazz is the lissome quality of Baker's playing and, most notably, his increased capacity as a vocalist. The brilliant song selection certainly doesn't hurt either. This is an essential title in Chet Baker's 30-plus year canon. – Dusty Groove
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Label: Original Jazz Classics – OJC-303, Riverside Records – RLP-1120 |
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Series: Riverside Contemporary Series – |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Repress |
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Country: US |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Cool Jazz, Vocal |
$58.00
Generally regarded as John Coltrane’s greatest work and often listed amongst the greatest jazz albums of all time - this 3LP Complete Masters version celebrates the 50th anniversary of the original album release, and finally collects all the previously unavailable outtakes, overdubs, and studio chatter from the session. "An all-time classic expanded to include unreleased sextet recordings from Coltrane's personal tapes; 32-page booklet with the artist's musical notations, rare images and an essay by Ashley Kahn"
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Merely mention the name John Coltrane and you’re likely to evoke a deeply emotional, often spiritual response from even the most casual jazz fan. John Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (1926 – 1967), was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and was later at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least 50 recording sessions during his career, and appeared as a sideman on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk.
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Coltrane was among the most important, and most controversial, figures in jazz. He influenced innumerable musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history. He received many awards, among them a posthumous Special Citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2007 for his "masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz". - JohnColtrane.com
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Label: Impulse! – B0023911-01, Verve Records – B0023911-01, UMe – B0023911-01 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo Vinyl, LP, Mono Vinyl, LP, Stereo All Media, Remastered |
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Country: US |
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Released: 2016 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Hard Bop, Post Bop, Free Jazz, Modal |
