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Les Sourdes Oreilles (Deaf Ears), is the next generation analog cinematic music from the 21st century. Following the sound of 70's cinematic jazz funk, this first 300 copies from Cosmic Analog Ensemble is the new My Bags emergency hammer glass breaker.

Designed like a 70's movie soundtrack Graal, with the perfect hijacking artwork of Jerk 45, the album is a future now crate digging target. Built like a narrative scenario, scene after scene, each composition deploys his uniqueness, from the explosives intense actions of Camille 3000", moments of suspense with "Sol Sur Sol", to running chase on "En Faction" and flying panoramic views of "Point De Bascule"... the compositions are depicting a rich range of situations, moods and intrigue.

Brilliantly composed, produced and interpreted by Charif Megarbane, playing himself all instruments, track after track, each song is a one man piece of art. Chiseled drum breaks, evocative bass and stirring melodies are a part of a bigger plan, sprinkled with subtle sound effects.

Les Sourdes Oreilles is a long artisanal goldsmith work, cooking occidental classic jazz-funk tradition into an afro oriental kitchen. It's what makes this release so awesome, unique and necessary to our deaf ears.

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John Weldon J. J.' Cale was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Though he avoided the limelight (being temperamentally averse to celebrity), his influence as a musical artist has been widely acknowledged by artists like Mark Knopfler, Neil Young, and Eric Clapton, who described him as one of the most important artists in the history of rock.
J.J. Cale is considered to be one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz.

Cale unfortunately passed away in 2013, but his legacy lives on.

Number 10 is Cale's 10th album and contains another wonderful and laid back/mellow collection of typical J.J. Cale tunes. Traces', Artificial Paradise', Low Rides' and Jailes' are considered part of his best 1990s songs.

We celebrate the 25th anniversary of Number 10 by pressing a limited run of 1.000 copies on 180 gram silver vinyl.

Oldschool vibes meet acid and jazz in this EP full of House energy written by Aiby & The Noise. Comes with a remix by Kyodai (Exploited Recs) giving Jazz Affair an extra dose of funk.
Supported by Paul Nazca, hrdvsion, Paco Osuna, Christian Varela, Kindimmer, Charles Webster, and many more

Claude Debussy (+1918) was one of the most popular and forward thinking composer associated with impressionist music. His innovative and at this time new way to compose music with non traditional scales and chromaticism inspired countless artists from the likes of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock.
Remarkable attributes of his music were i.e. the usage of parallel chords, bitonality and many compositions of whole-tone and pentatonic scales and all this surely reminds us on contemporary electronic music where you hardly find limits or boundaries when it comes to traditional, harmonic sounding scale tone music.
After studying countless composers of the last centuries Marc Romboy decided to accept the challenge to edit, remix and reconstruct several works of his favorite French composer, ranging from - La mer' to "Prélude à l´après-midi d´un faune'. Romboy: - One sentence of Debussy impressed me a lot when he said that he simply intents to write new sounding music. This is and has been exactly my goal, to create kind of unheard sounds'.
On the album Romboy performs together with the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra, the renowned conductor Ingo-Martin Stadtmüller, the well respected Düsseldorf based concert master Miki Kekenj and sound programmer Ali Khalaj. The recordings was directed December 12th 2016.
It´s the first live recording ever released on an album where electronic sounds and classical components were merged in such manner.

Claude Debussy (+1918) was one of the most popular and forward thinking composer associated with impressionist music. His innovative and at this time new way to compose music with non traditional scales and chromaticism inspired countless artists from the likes of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock.
Remarkable attributes of his music were i.e. the usage of parallel chords, bitonality and many compositions of whole-tone and pentatonic scales and all this surely reminds us on contemporary electronic music where you hardly find limits or boundaries when it comes to traditional, harmonic sounding scale tone music.
After studying countless composers of the last centuries Marc Romboy decided to accept the challenge to edit, remix and reconstruct several works of his favorite French composer, ranging from - La mer' to "Prélude à l´après-midi d´un faune'. Romboy: - One sentence of Debussy impressed me a lot when he said that he simply intents to write new sounding music. This is and has been exactly my goal, to create kind of unheard sounds'.
On the album Romboy performs together with the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra, the renowned conductor Ingo-Martin Stadtmüller, the well respected Düsseldorf based concert master Miki Kekenj and sound programmer Ali Khalaj. The recordings was directed December 12th 2016.
It´s the first live recording ever released on an album where electronic sounds and classical components were merged in such manner.

Recorded over three sessions in New York City on 9 December 1970, 21 January 1971 and 9 March 1971. The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show showcases new songs and tough renditions of previous work. Featuring the songs of Annette Peacock, this collection sets another milestone in the free jazz spectrum and celebrates an innovative and iconic figure. Some funky episodes, with Ra-esque ARP synthesizer moves and moods.

Full colour insert with interviews, liner notes and rare archival photos.

Recorded live on 26 March 1971, at Club B14 in Rotterdam, with Annette Peacock on voice, electric piano and synthesizer, and radical drummer Han Bennink. Improvisie completes the 1971 trilogy of Paul Bley and Annette Peacock's combined experimental synth. works. Together with the reissues of The Bley - Peacock Synthesizer Show release, Revenge: The Bigger The Love, the Greater the Hate, and Annette Peacock & Paul Bley - Dual Unity, Improvisie completes a compelling period for two iconic figures of the free jazz movement, and their pioneering use of moog synthesizers.
Presented with expansive liner notes, interviews, and rare archival photos. Professionally re-mastered.

Next up on All My Thoughts is eight cuts of warm fuzz from U-I.

MOOCHIN' ABOUT, NEW ORTHOPHONIC' HIGH FIDELITY RECORDING, BRINGS YOU...

MAMBO FOR CATS+10!
Damiron, Don Elliott, Tony Martinez, Noro Morales, Perez Prado, Al Romero, and their orchestras

Plus 10 classic mambo tracks as bonus downloads..!

Including... Isla Verde / Noro Morales / Mambo 5 / Perez Prado / Mambo 8 / Perez Prado / Mississipi Mambo / Noro Morales Y su Orchestra Mambo en Sax / Perez Prado /Mambo Del Politecnico / Perez Prado / Mambo En Trompeta / Perez Prado / Hollywood Mambo / Tony Martinez quintet / Black Magnolia / Perez Prado / Broadway Mambo / Perez Prado

'Man, it's time to bolt down the furniture and kick back the rugs. This is no time to be a drag - let down your hair, roll up those trousers and start swingin'! This is the righteous stuff for all you jazzbos - mambo for cats - and, man, if you're not a jumpin', rockin', screamin' cat by the time this record ends, there's just no hope - you're dead...!

We've assembled just about every fast-movin' mambo out in the game, lighted are under their respective music stands and, brother, the results are absolutely the livin' end. They just have to be, for this is music that moves and moves and never gives up - it's the greatest, man, it's the most frantic, it's the hippest! And any of you deluded hipsters who thought the Latins could play nothing but guitars are sure livin' somewhere in the middle ages...!'

Jim Flora was an artist, best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for Columbia Records and RCA Victor from the 1940s through the 1970s. His abstract creations are almost Picasso-esque at times and have a dynamic suggestion of motion that pairs well with music—especially Jazz & Classical...

Over the next year ,together with Irwin Chusid , Author/Editor and biographer of all things Flora, plus the Jim Flora website - and Barbara Economon who lovingly restored all Flora's wild & wacky album covers, Moochin' about will be re-issuing a series of special edition boxset's, LP's, featuring all the Columbia & RCA Victor recordings, including some of the finest Jazz and Classical recordings ever, as well as some hidden gems, in sensational celebration of The Wizard Of The Foot Square Canvas...

So to get us started, a classic Mambo Collection. An ultra rare LP, featuring some of the greatest Mambo artists ever and one of the most Iconic Flora album covers ever - MAMBO FOR CATS, which was originally released on RCA Victor, now digitally re-mastered for release on LP, plus 10 extra mambo classic's via download link ...

And as hipster, BILL ZEITUNG says in his mad, beatnik style sleeve notes... 'When the mambo meets jazz, man, don't run for cover - just stand your ground
and swing with the rest - but above all else, friends, STAY LOOSE! '

Recorded almost two years after his most popular trio album, At the Pershing, Happy Moods is a program of mostly standards, a flirtation with a classical piano piece and two Jamal originals. According to All Music Guide critic Dave Nathan, Playing with his patented sneaky left-hand voicings and his jingling right hand, interspersed with block chords all within a lean framework, the performances offered by this album are representative of Jamal's work of the period. He takes a piece of fluff like 'Little Old Lady' and transforms it into a fugue replete with the counterpoint that personifies this classical form. An up-tempo 'Easy to Love', highlighting Fournier's brushes, is tastefully garnished with runs and chords borrowed from fellow Pittsburgher Erroll Garner. Billy Strayhorn's 'Raincheck' features heady arpeggios as well as quotes from 'I'm Beginning to See the Light'.'

This release contains the complete original 1957 LP Tough! (Cadet LP-4049) by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. The album seems to be one of Blakey and the Messengers' more obscure efforts. As a bonus, we have added the group's first version of the Gershwin Medley they later included on Tough! This earlier reading of the medley was taped during the same sessions that produced another album by the Messengers titled Hard Bop and first appeared on a compilation LP.

If you know the 1968 Eurovision song, or the TV kids cartoons tunes which Claude Lombard sang, it will be hard to believe what's happening there...Beautiful pop songs sung in French by this Belgian maverick (who worked with Luciano Berio) swirling upon wonderful 60's abstract-expressionism orchestrations: chimes and ondes Martenots among lovely dream bass lines and organ drifting, with dreamy use of echoes, reverbs and sometimes electronics.

There are incredibly beautiful songs here, and probably one of the unique example of French songs with really gorgeous, untypical sound work, closer to some UK and US proto-psychedelic orchestration in pop world. It was by the time a complete commercial flop... A shame of course considering the quality of compositions offered here by Claude Lombard herself, who have no shame to feel if one compare the elegance of her work to an inspired and electronic version of Michel Legrand...

Any serious fan of Broadcast or Stereolab will fall in love forever with this true secret gem, to say the least...And no need to mention the kaleidoscopic design of the cover, mesmerizing and perfectly illustrating the content. Masterpiece here Hell yes! And you can forget about the cartoon tunes of your lazy childhood...' - Emmanuel Holterbach

Brubeck and Desmond played with several musicians over the years, the formation of Brubeck-Desmond-Wright-Morello would become the most famous of Brubeck's bands. The new quartet had been together for about a year when the State Department hired them for a goodwill' tour of Europe in 1958. Brubeck, Desmond, Wright and Morello made the trip across the Atlantic and performed across two continents for audiences in England, Germany, Scotland, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq.

Big band jazz-funk at its best. Words cannot describe the energy the ensemble releases on both sides. For fans of the Kashmere Stage Band and the TSU Jazz Ensemble.

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on May 18, 1959, would remain together for five more years. Their final recorded concert took place on May 29, 1965 at Tivoli Gardens, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Drummer Ed Thigpen would quit the group soon after, in mid-1965. Peterson hadn't ever recorded Liza', Con Alma', Close Your Eyes' or The Maidens of Cadiz' prior to The Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson. On the other hand, he had been playing My Heart Stood Still' for many years and versions of that tune by Peterson exist dating from 1949. The pianist had recorded Dizzy Gillespie's Woody 'n' You' with its composer on October 29, 1954 for an album that also showcased trumpeter Roy Eldridge.

Underground Jazz, Street Funk & The Roots Of Rap 1968-79

Soul Jazz Records' new release 'Soul of a Nation: Afro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power' is released in conjunction with a major worldwide art exhibition, Soul of A Nation: Art in the The Age of Black Power which takes place at the Tate Modern, London, UK (July-Oct 2017) and The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
The album shows how the ideals of the civil rights movement, black power and black nationalism influenced the evolvement of radical African-American music in the United States of America in the intensely political and revolutionary period at the end of the 1960s following the assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and the rise of the Black Panther party.
Featuring groundbreaking artists such as Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Ayers, Don Cherry, Oneness of Juju, Sarah Webster Fabio, Horace Tapscott, Phil Ranelin and many others, Soul of A Nation shows how political themes led to the rise of 'conscious' black music as new afro-centric styles combined the musical radicalism and spirituality of John Coltrane and radical avant-garde jazz music alongside the intense funk and soul of James Brown and Aretha Franklin and the urban poetry and proto-rap of the streets.
The Soul of a Nation exhibition draws on the links between Black art forms - art, music, poetry - and how they came together during the civil rights and black power era as part of the wider black arts movement across the United States.
Iconic African-Amercian revolutionary figures such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Angela Davis, John Coltrane, Muhammad Ali all appear in the radical artworks of Barkley L. Hendricks, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Lorraine O'Grady and Betye Saar.
A selection of original radical jazz record sleeves artworks which appear in Soul Jazz Records' earlier groundbreaking Freedom, Rhythm and Sound - Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art book will also be on show at the Tate, London throughout the exhibition. The Freedom, Rhythm and Sound book is also newly back-in-print in conjunction with this major exhibition and the release of the Soul of a Nation album.
Stuart Baker (founder of Soul Jazz Records) will appear on the panel of Jazz for Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power discussion at the gallery as part of the show.
Soul of a Nation comes with extensive sleeve-notes and exclusive photography in a large 36-page outsize booklet and slipcase. Double gatefold vinyl album edition comes with full colour inners + bonus download code and includes full sleeve-notes/photography.

On the back of Chip Wickham's fabulous debut album La Sombra come two quite different but equally mouthwatering remixes of two of its tunes. On the A-side, Detroit house stalwart extraordinaire Andrés grabs 'Red Planet' by the ear and drags it straight to the dance floor. And he means business: no beating around the bush with intros and the like - it's hands in the air and go from start to finish. Relentless.

The other A side, A.K.A. AA side, is for L.A.'s ambassador of avant-garde and spiritual music Carlos Niño. Rather than remixing the album's title track in the strict sense of the word, his 'Spaceways Radio Edit' adds a subtle and otherworldly flavour to it, extending the mix with some gorgeous ambient washes.

La Sombra (Lovemonk, January 2017) is Chip Wickham's first album after a 25-year career touring, recording and experimenting across three decades of jazz, funk, soul, hip-hop, Latin and electronica. It's a monumental record for Chip as it symbolises the moment he stepped out into the light as a director of his creations with freedom to explore his roots, express and tell his version of jazz, and pay testament to his heroes Roland Kirk, Yuseef Lateef & Harold McNair.

Hermann Nitsch playing the organ in the Jesuit church, vienna.
4 long, heavy drones.

Blanche Calloway was the sister of both famous jive bandleader Cab Calloway and the lesser-known performer Elmer Calloway, one of the best jazz vocalist of the era, the recordings are all in chronological order and recorded in various location where the artist was performing.

New work for artist MCENDOZ, an album from the atmospheric lounge with unique sound for a trip around the world, exploring the sounds of every territory. For this new project, Medioli uses the collaboration of Marco Rosetti on guitars, Fabrizio Benevelli on sax, Marco Tonelli on the trombone, Gabriele Bolognesi on the flute, Cinzia Di Nuzzo on the violin, Marco Remondini on the cello, Annibale Guarini on the owl, Elena Giardina, Heron Borelli, Daniela "Dhany" Galli, and Cinzia Di Nuzzo to the voices. In total 16 tracks for a collection album!

A new Sun Ra LP touches ground in the earthly bins, 50 years after its creation!

Sun Ra is still trying to get our attention 50 years after dispatching this transmission. Humanity's path since then makes his message even more urgent today. Years after Herman Poole LeSony'r Ra' Blount left the planet' he's still trying to reach us, to wake us up and to change our destiny. Sun Ra and the Arkestra weren't a traditional studio band, and every star in the vast galaxy of their discography reflects this. The origins of these records can be hard to pinpoint at times, but when it comes to Thunder Of The Gods, it's a bit easier. Calling Planet Earth - We'll Wait For You' was discovered on tapes from Ra's, Universe In Blue, believed to be recorded in '71. The raucous title track and Moonshots Across the Sky' are unearthed from the '66 Strange Strings sessions. Modern Harmonic has once again paired Ra's sonic art with the visual art of The Father of Modern Space Art,' Chesley Bonestell, whose 1952 work 'Formation of the Earth's Continents' spralls across the front and back covers.

"Thanks to Modern Harmonic, in partnership with Sun Ra LLC, soon you will be holding an album of unreleased Sun Ra music 50 years after it was recorded! That this music survived to reach our ears after all of this time is quite a miraculous gift. It sounds as though it could have come from either the ancient past or the distant future, yet most perfectly, it's the music of right now.' — Christopher Eddy (Sun Ra Arkive)

Ten Years After's self-titled debut hit the British blues scene with the subtlety and precision of a wrecking ball in 1967, serving notice that what had once been confined to steamy haunts in London was now there for the world to hear. Cut live with vocals overdubbed later, Ten Years After is an impressive debut, showing off a tight band steeped not only in blues, but rockabilly, jazz, folk and even occasionally psychedelia.

The album paved the way for the band's acclaimed performance at Woodstock, which ensured regular placement on the album charts for years to come. For now, dig the first vinyl reissue of the ultra-rare mono mix of Stonedhenge, housed in its original gatefold cover artwork and meticulously mastered for the most discerning listener.

Super Bossa Compilation, a Collection of Unpublished and Revisited in Perfect Style Lounge / Bossanova .

Rsd Limited pressing

Mastered from the original master tapes. 

RSD 2016 Release limited to 1500.

RSD Limited pressing

1981 studio album.  James Ingram on the singles "Just Once" and "One Hundred Ways," 

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- BRAND NEW ALBUM
- A TRIBUTE TO ELLA FITZGERALD, WHO WOULD'VE
CELEBRATED HER 100TH BIRTHDAY IN 2017
- SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY GRAMMY AWARD WINNER
CARLA COOK

A hundred years after her birth, there are still plenty of lessons to be learned from listening to Ella Fitzgerald. But that's not the only takeaway that Regina Carter has gleaned from Ella's storied career. On her new album, Ella: Accentuate the Positive, the virtuoso violinist reveals the many aspects of Fitzgerald that have influenced her own remarkable path in music. That translates to an album that avoids the more obvious song choices in favor of more obscure though no less rewarding tunes from deep inside Ella's bountiful catalogue. Instead of trying to echo Fitzgerald's own choices and arrangements, or attempting the near-impossible task of evoking her beloved voice on the violin, Carter has done what has always set her apart - followed her own dauntless instincts, resulting in a singular new take on both familiar and hidden classics.

Carter's enchantment with Ella Fitzgerald continued from childhood into adulthood and she grew to realize how much technique and virtuosity were involved in producing a sound so warm and inviting. The ability to spark that connection was central to Carter's choice of songs for Ella: Accentuate the Positive. From the gospel-tinged performance on the opening Ac-cen-tchu-ate the Positive' to the airily funky arrangement of Crying in the Chapel' and the bluesy take on I'll Never Be Free' that sets the tone for the slinky groove of All My Live.'

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First Meeting is the only album from the short-lived British Jazz-Rock septet Trifle, founded by singer George Bean, which also included trumpeter Dick Cuthell, saxophonist Barrie Martin, keyboardist Alan Fealdman, guitarist John Hitchen, bassist Patrick King and drummer Chico Greenwood. The group folded shortly after this album was recorded as a result of the tragic death of its leader.

The brass arrangements are excellent and the mostly original material is definitely up to the standard. In retrospect this forgotten gem should have been listened to over the years if not its obscurity and prompt disappearance from the shelves, as it is another Brass-Rock classic.

DDD Records is a label and a store based in Paris.
Un Drame Musical Instantané is a collective of French composers led by Jean-Jacques Birgé. In 1984, they composed their own score to Dziga Vertov's groundbreaking 1929 film The Man With A Movie Camera.

This release features original 1984 copies of L'Homme A La Camera, as well as more recent material. In 2017, several producers were approached by DDD records to create new tracks or remixes using this rich and unusual recording as source material.

A1. Jorge Velez - Coquillage
The EP opens with Coquillage by US producer Jorge Velez. The word means sea shell in French, and this track is like putting one to your ear. Definitely on the more ambient side of things, Coquillage is full of eerie sounds, from the sea to marine wildlife and other unidentified sources which all create an unsettling atmosphere. Ever shifting and phasing, differently textured pads create a sense of wide open space and spiralling free fall through it.

A2. Un Drame Musical Instantané - L'Homme À La Caméra (Tuff Sherm remix)
Australian producer Tuff Sherm aka Dro Carey delivers a remix which plods along at 112 BPM with an infectious rhythm section thanks to terrific drum programming. Add a bunch of short samples, from metallic sounds to flute licks and many other instruments used in the original UDMI recording and the result is a stripped down remix that nonetheless remains full of surprises.

B1. Un Drame Musical Instantané - L'Homme À La Caméra (Eltron John remix)
Polish producer Eltron John's remix increases the BPM slightly. With the combination of flawless drum machine sequencing and a mellow bassline with a variety of UDMI samples, this is a tune where brass instruments, tubular instruments, lush pads, and other incidental sounds are used to great effect. There's an undoubtedly positive, uplifting vibe in this track which successfully uses UDMI's sounds in a house music context.

B2. Thurston Moore - 7-11
Closing the EP is this distinctive remix by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth fame. You think you're in a for a purely musique concrète trip as the song begins with prepared piano, beeps and heavily treated noise. That's until an infectious drum loop evocative of music played in warehouses rather than concert halls appears. Said loop is cleverly treated and gets noisier and noisier as the track progresses. The contrast between the track's more experimental approach and the immediate pleasure procured by the drums makes it quite unforgettable.

'Creation One' is a stunning eight track, jam packed album, so elusive but full of pure joy! Invigorating, stimulating, delightful, a treasure of rhythms grooves and breaks! 'Sombre Guitar' is the favourite to many, especially DJs! In the 1970's, composer and multi-instrumentalist John Danser formed Danser's Inferno, a funky Jazz-Rock-Fusion band, an ensemble of 14 very talented musicians. At age 14 John Danser emigrated from London and established himself in New York City where he earned a master's degree in music at the Manhattan school of music. In his early years, Danser played in classical as well as jazz gigs, simultaneously arranging and composing. He later went on to have an extensive musical career and at one point served as a bandleader at Concord hotel, during the Borscht Belt era, where he played for Sammy Davis jr., Milton Berle, Bob Hope and Judy Garland. - Rachel Kinoti