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At the end of the '50s, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue heralded the revelatory arrival of modal jazz. As the vibrations of these giant steps resonated across the world, European jazz musicians reassessed their bearings and began to steer a new course. Across the continent they sent roots down into the rich soil of the European folk and Christian liturgical traditions, extended their music along ancient routes of communication and trade to the Middle East, and reached across the crumbling ramparts of the European empires to the music of Asia Africa and Latin America.

The Hit Collection!Er war eines der beliebtesten Mitglieder des - Rat Packs', einer trinkfesten Sänger- und Schauspielertruppe um Frank Sinatra. Berühmtheit erlangte er nicht zuletzt als - Sportin' Life' in Gershwins - Porgy and Bess'. Seine größten Hits sind hier versammelt. Sie beweisen, dass er nicht umsonst - the world's greatest living entertainer' genannt wurde!

The earlier works of the Hungarian dj/producer duo called Savages y Suefo came out on UrbanWorld Records. Now, they continue their mission at Agogo Records with a nice 6 tracker vinyl 12". Side A contains three own tracks with guest vocalists like Judie Jay and MC Guacho. On the flip side you can find a self remix and two remixes from Rube and Renegades Of Jazz. The 12" is a melting pot of swing-hop, electro-swing, downtempo, dub and latin music.

One of the finest piano players and vocalists of post-war Chicago blues, Mississippi native, Sunnyland Slim first came to prominence playing on the Chicago scene with the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter and Muddy Waters. By 1947 he had landed a recording contract with Aristocrat (soon-to-be Chess Records), recording his first single, 'Johnson Machine Gun', in September of that year with none-other-than Muddy Waters on guitar. This, of course, led to Muddy's historic signing to the label soon afterward. 1961's Slim's Shout, however, finds this giant of the Windy City in far-off New Jersey, at a classic recording session for the Bluesville label. Here, Slim—backed by the legendary King Curtis (best known for his sax playing on recordings by the Coasters and Aretha Franklin)—lays down favorites like 'The Devil Is A Busy Man', 'It's You Baby', and the driving 'Shake It' (check out Robert Banks' organ solo on this track). Also featuring two bonus tracks not found on the original vinyl: 'Everytime I Get to Drinking' and 'Tired Of You Clowning'!
SIDE A: 1. I'm Prison Bound 2. Slim's Shout 3. The Devil Is A Busy Man 4. Brownskin Woman 5. Shake It 6. Everytime I Get To Drinking (bonus)

SIDE B: 1. Decoration Day 2. Baby How Long 3. Sunnyland Special 4. Harlem Can't Be Heaven 5. It's You Baby 6. Tired Of You Clowning (bonus)

Bringing us right up to date we have the alliance between Funkshone and Kenny Dope Gonzalez. Although aware of the work of Funkshone to date, Kenny recently revisited Purification and felt the need to remix this like many other Funk classics within his enviable catalogue and presents to you a continuation of an obscure Funk masterpiece and a worthy answer to Purification Parts 1 & 2; Purification Parts 3 & 4. While not many works of any genre come in 4 parts, this one does and is sure to set dance floors ablaze across the globe."

*During the gap of nearly 10 years since their last release, Fontanelle has been trying to transport themselves back in time to 1973 into Patrick Gleeson's Different Fur Trading Company studio.With the help of Randall Dunn's expertise (sunn O))), Black Mountain, Wolves in the Throne Room), it sounds like they made it!
*Rex Ritter's tour of duty with sunn O))) during Fontanelle's hiatus seems to have irreparably changed his DNA, as well as the band's. Adding an amazing array of horn players (many heard on sunn O)))s; Monoliths & Dimensions), Fontanelle has conjured a burly fusion jazz sound that has been dubbed, 'White Magus.'
*Gentry Densley (Eagle Twin), Steve Moore (Earth, sunn O)))), Hans Teuber, Eric Walton (Skerik), Jef Brown (Jackie-O MF) and Dave Carter are all featured on Vitamin F. The band, based in Portland OR, is comprised of Andy Brown (Jessamine), Rex Ritter (Jessamine, sunn O)))), Paul Dickow (Strategy), Brian Foote, Nudge, Leech), Mat Morgan and Borg Norum.
*The BLACK vinyl version of this greasy-groovy masterpiece of fuzzed out funk is imited to a one time pressing of 1,000.

At the end of the '50s, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue heralded the revelatory arrival of modal jazz. As the vibrations of these giant steps resonated across the world, European jazz musicians reassessed their bearings and began to steer a new course. Across the continent they sent roots down into the rich soil of the European folk and Christian liturgical traditions, extended their music along ancient routes of communication and trade to the Middle East, and reached across the crumbling ramparts of the European empires to the music of Asia Africa and Latin America.

TERANGA BEAT proudly presents the ROYAL BAND de THIÈS in their first ever and entirely unreleased 1979 recording. Singers and composers JAMES GADIAGA & SECKA will guide you through the sweet melodies, wicked rhythms and vocal traditions of Senegalese music, in a fabulous performance that combines MBALAX with AFRO-JAZZ.
While many bands in the world claimed the title of "Pacesetters" none can stand next to ROYAL BAND de THIÈS. The 9-member band with its dynamite percussion and horn sections will twist you like tornado! Tracks like "HOMMAGE À MBAYE FALL" will take you on a musical journey to the cultural crossroads of Senegal, West Africa's meeting point of European, Latin American and African musical traditions. This real-time, two-microphone recording gives the impression that the group is playing live in front of you, making it hard to believe it dates back 33 years ago! The liner notes of the double gatefold LP and CD booklet include more interesting details, outlining JAMES's & SECKA's musical careers along with the past and present of the band. We hope you will enjoy!

Kings of raw funk, The Apples have been creating genre melting, infectious groove for nearly a decade. Blending a composition of decks, horns, double bass, drums and electronic effects, The Apples create a big band vibe mixed with their Middle Eastern influences, to create a signature sound that pushes the boundaries of modern funk.
At their best, live, The Apples allow their origin of spontaneous composition to shine, working audiences into a booty-shaking, body heaving frenzy. Recent live appearances include WOMAD, Camp Bestival and Secret Garden Party festivals.

Breath in....ace Jimi Tenor album on Kindred Spirits!
Anyone familiar with Jimi Tenor will already know that his esoteric style has already earnt him a unique place somewhere between the worlds of jazz, techno, afrobeat, latin and many other cosmic ensembles. But with this latest LP Aether, Jimi delves even deeper to bring us one of his most expansive visionary records yet.
Aether has come together over the course of a couple of years, and illustrates some of the different projects that Jimi's been working on. One of the main seeds was planted after Jimi collaborated with OG afro-beat originator Tony Allen, after the sessions for their LP for Strut's 'Inspiration Information' series. Others songs were developed from Jimi's long-running tete-a-tete with Berlin-based afro ensemble Kabu Kabu. Throw in a touch of Martin Denny-esque exotica, some Arkestra-inspired space waltzes, and a few of Jimi's homemade instruments, and the result is a collection of tracks bristling with percussive energy, big band arrangements, inter-galactic spirituality.
Tracks like 'Dance Of The Planets', 'Eternal Mystery', and the opener 'Selvanakija', clearly owe a debt to Sun Ra, condensing the Arkestra's galactic space-walks into taut afro-cuban work-outs underpinning Jimi's trademark melodies and brass harmonics. But it's not just musically that the Arkestra has inspired the sounds on Aether. 'I read about Pat Patrick making his own bass marimbas, so I went and got a book from the library about making your own instruments,' said Jimi. 'Making your own instruments is good, you can find your own unusual tunings and overtones. It's a bit like when Sonic Youth make their own tunings on their guitars. It's all about making something a bit different from the usual temperate scale. That just doesn't sound interesting anymore. '
The track 'Universal Love' is one example of Jimi's home-made sound coming through, with an epic build-up climaxing with an instrument that sounds like an elephant had wandered into the recording session at Berlin's Lovelite studio. 'I just went into the forest and chopped down a big branch. I carved it myself, like one of those alpine horns or something.' This DIY approach is Jimi's way of bringing people together. 'I hope that when people see it live, they feel like they're a part of a sort of unprofessional group, like a hippy family or something. Sometimes when I see the latin percussion set-ups on stage, it all just looks so polished and clean. I'm often making my own claves for the whole band, just to get a bit of a different sound.'
A sense of togetherness is at the heart of Aether, and not just in the concert hall. It permeates Jimi's whole world-view, even embracing other worlds. Lyrically, the song 'Resonate And Be' captures what the LP is about, exploring the drama of the cosmos for our own spiritual and material well-being. Jimi explains, 'in our view there is only aether. Everything material is the resonance of the aether. We are, because our particles resonate the song of cosmos. We are all one.'

The Unity Sextet is a special kind of band. Buddy Franco, Fats Young Jr., Cassius Farqhuar, Junior Oliver, Chuck Waldron and 'Fat Thumbs' Ronnie met in spring of 2011 whilst playing at different jazz festivals in different bands with different genres ranging from traditional to experimental jazz.

The non vocal parts of the band Mountaineer have decamped for this
spectacular Deutsche-Bomb with two tracks that lay bare Fürsattl's love
for a vintage German sound. 'Rheinlust' kicks of with a gentle, metronomic
melody, a hefty kick and pulsing bass, and so it goes in that subtle hypnotic
groove, gently introducing synths and washes of sound until you feel like
you're on a German ringroad in a Delorean.
On the fip the infuences show again, with a nod towards Can, 'Links Der
Pegnitz' has a genius of kilter jazzy vibe with a hefty bass, genius guitar
fecks and killer percussion. There is the edge of Mountaineer here with the
delicacy of sounds, but the throbbing undercurrent sets these two tracks
apart.

Lonnie Lester was born in Dorena, Missouri in 1937, the oldest of thirteen children. In 1946 his family moved to Gary, IN. Encouraged by his grandmother, he started singing in church at the age of six. As a teenager he performed with doo-wop groups in and around Gary. In the mid 1970s he cut some R&B singles for the Nu-Tone label, incl. You can't go and Ain't that a shame which are featured on this 45rpm single re-issue. Both tunes are just perfect for any DJ who plays soul, funk and R&B. Regardless of what side you play, it will pack the dance floor for sure.

From R&S to Polydor. James Blake's cover of Feist & Chilly Gonzales's 'Limit To Your Love', released on heavyweight 10" vinyl

The third album of The Rongetz Foundation, also recorded in New York, will be released end of 2012 and features musicians such as Gregory Porter, Ronnie Cuber, Renee Neufville or John Robinson. On that session, Rongetz goal was to dig more than ever into compositions that are bridging Jazz with Hip-Hop and Soul music. It resulted in eight original pieces and a cover of legend Reggae pioneer Count Ossie, which compose this brilliant The Brooklyn Butterfly Session album. The project is already supported by tastemaker DJs like Gilles Peterson, Michael Ruetten and LeFto.
'Rongetz' (Stephane Ronget) is originally from France but is now living and working in New York City (USA).

01. Gogo Soul (feat. Gregory Porter)
02. Hard bop Merry go round (feat. Gregory Porter)
03. Eunice K (feat. Renée Neufville)
04. Sam's intro
05. A composer of Modern day (feat. John Robinson)
06. The Bolshoi drunk ghost
07. The braggart (feat. Marvin Parks)
08. Freaking sunshine
09. The Bolshoi drunk ghost (radio edit)

The first time ever on vinyl for these 1964 Rudy Van Gelder recordings for Blue Note; and astral strides beyond the flat highlife cuts originally issued. With Donald Byrd, Hubert Laws and Elvin Jones stretching out breathtakingly amongst resplendent Nigerian drumming, and anticipating the vibes of classic Pharoah and Alice Coltrane. Around thirteen minutes each side.

French electro swing master Minimatic joins Resense with two fun bringing joints.

The third album of The Rongetz Foundation, recorded in New York, will be released fall 2012 and features musicians such as Gregory Porter, Ronnie Cuber, Renee Neufville or John Robinson. On that session, Rongetz goal was to dig more than ever into compositions that are bridging Jazz with Hip-Hop and Soul music.
« Gogo soul » is the first single from the new album. A soul jazz compositon with the great voices of GREGORY PORTER, the jazz revelation of 2012.
Surely one of the jazz track of the year.
The project is already supported by tastemaker DJs like Gilles Peterson, Michael Ruetten and LeFto.

I Am An Instrument, When I Am Close To God I Am Finely Tuned, The Further I Am Away From God The More Out Of Tune I Am' (E.W.Wainwright)

The drummer E.W. Wainwright was the founder of A.R.O.J. a no profit association based in San Francisco.

The 'African Roots of Jazz project has the purpose of Educate, Entertain, re-cycle veterans of the arts back through the academic, spiritual and penal community. An Afro Cultural Spiritual Jazz album with more than 18 musicians and singers involved released on private press only! Extremely Rare!

Acid Jazz Silver Jubilee release, in 7" house bag. First ever 45 released on Acid Jazz Records (originally released as a fake US import, which fooled many a reviewer), marking the beginning of a new musical era. Galliano's sound defined the feel of the time, and the band enjoyed a productive relationship with producer Chris Bangs throughout the late 80s and early 90s, establishing themselves as first-class act of global proportions.

Rare album with 'la crème' of the Italian jazz history united for her majesty Lilian Terry, international voice of jazz. The album features tracks from the show 'Abito Da Sera' with vocal jazz tracks and intense
jazz gems from Enrico Intra formations!

Doctor Stereo is coming up with two swinging soulfulfunkdefied dancefloor shakers on his Resense debut !

Just in time to the beginning of northern hemisphere summer Giraffe Records presents two outstanding and unknown versions of one of world's most famous compositions Summertime (G.Gershwin).
On side A you listen to the sound of the the Old Metropolitan Jazz Band (OMB), Poland's best-known Dixieland combo. The song was taken from the 1974 album entitled Dixie Funk Spirale, starts slowly and full of calmness until it blows off your mind from the middle part up to the end. It's the OMB's hand-shaking with the amazing performance of Mister Billy Stewart.
Side B presents a Vocal Jazz cool-down version performed by The Dave Harris Trio with Shirley Harris (drummer) as vocalist. This song has been taken from their album Wise Owl recorded in 1973 and catches the audience at the deepest point of musical quietness.
This pressing is limited to a total number of 400 copies and gives an impression how creative a song or composition can be interpreted by different musician.

Six sides of Northern Soul, Deep Funk and RnB Club Monsters from the Crescent City
There have been plenty of bigger labels, a great many more storied ones, and quite a few whose ratios of killer to filler run a bit more in favour of the curious purchaser: but there's something special about Seven B. The powder-blue label and plain, simple logo may not always be an iron-clad guarantee that the music in the grooves of the 45 is great, but there's a real sense of magic about each and every one of the New Orleans label's releases, and here we've picked out the best and the rarest.
Of the 3x7's contained in this pack we first come up with the full length of "Pass The Hatchet", with Eddie Bo playing the musical chameleon linking funk, soul and the Mariachi. Eddie continues on side 2 with the bewitching "From This Day On" on which drummer James Black ended up kicking out the trumpet player and doing it himself; then 17-year-old Lenny McDaniel blasts a fiery trail of pure energy through 'Something Out of Nothing'; Inez Cheatham teams up with Eddie Bo to give us "Lover And A Friend" over James Black's monstrous backbeat; and finally Pat Brown renders her sole 45 "Good Got To Suffer For The Bad" before seeing the light and joining a church.

New studio album "Trans Atlantica" from Jazz legend Don Grusin and Shakatak supremo Bill Sharpe. Packaged with their previous album "Geography", previously only available as a download in the UK and Europe.

CD-Erstrelease des Jazz-Klassikers von 1966 von Jazz-Organistin Shirley Scott aus Philadelphia und Trompeter Clark Terry aus St. Louis. Soulful- und Upbeat-Jazzgrooves, inklusive Coverversionen von Count Basie's "Corner Pocket" (hier "Until I Met You") und Irving Berlin's "Heat Wave". Produziert von Flying Dutchman-Gründer Bob Thiele.

Spiritual vocal jazz of the highest order! The 11th release in the JAZZ DANCE SERIES comes from Deep Jazz, one of the finest bands on the Munich Jazz scene. Band leader and bass player Jerker Kluge is deeply rooted in the jazz music of the 1960s, as released on legendary labels Impulse and Blue Note. The core of his new album is the spiritual and modal jazz from this era, but of course Kluge´s own musical ideas and influences are added, creating a special musical cosmos that is additionally spiced by the individual talents of the involved musicians. Their debut 45RPM single features the Roland Kirks original Spirits Up Above backed by Kluge's own composition No Doubt. Both tunes feature the phenomenal voice of Julia Fehenberger who is best known for her work with the Boogoos and their now classic interpretation of the Art Ensemble of Chicago's Theme de Yoyo.
-special DJ edits of both songs - not to be found on the album -support given by guys like Gilles Peterson and Jürgen v. Knobloch (Jazzanova) -strictly limited to 500 copies

Der Blue Note-Klassiker von 1970 erscheint erstmals auf CD - remastered from Original Tapes! Horace Silver ist ein einflussreicher Jazzpianist mit grosser Blue Note-Diskografie. Zusammen mit Art Blakey gründete er die Jazz Messengers und war massgeblich an der Entstehung des Hard Bop beteiligt. "Total Response'" ist der zweite Teil seiner politischen "United States Of Mind" Phase Anfang der 1970'er.

Zwei Jazzfunk-Klassiker von 1977 und 1978 erstmals auf CD - remastered from Original Tapes! Jimmy Smith, der 'Daddy' der Jazz-Hammondorgel, veröffentlichte auf Blue Note und Verve. Seine beiden Spät-70'er Alben sind mit namhaften Musikern (u.a. Herbie Hancock) aufgenommen und enthalten viele Dancefloor-Filler, darunter auch Cover der Earth, Wind & Fire-Songs "Serpentine Fire" und "Can't Hide Love".

Erste Neuauflage der nahezu vergessenen, europäischen Jazz LP mit dreizehn führenden Musikern aus zwölf Ländern, aufgenommen 1961 vor einem begeisterten Publikum in der Kongresshalle in Berlin, produziert von Joachim-Ernst Berendt. Atemberaubend gespieltes Modern Jazz-Konzert, mit Ronnie Ross (bs), Albert Mangelsdorff (tb), Hans Koller (ts), Arne Domnerus (as), Sadi (vib), Franco Cerri (g), Martial Solal (p), Tete Montoliu (p), Dusko Goykovich (tp), Mufay Falay (tp), Erik Amundsen (b), William Schiöpffe (dr) und einem Vocal-Track, gesungen von der wunderbaren Monica Zetterlund - Kompositionen von Mingus, Monk, Sadi, Martial Solal und Francy Boland, mit original 1:1 Cover Artwork und Liner Notes.

"This is the fantastic funky jazz sound of Hilton Felton, and let me tell you that the cool, rhythmic, pulsating drive of this album will get next to your mind. The city of Washington DC claims Hilton Felton, we love him here and we want the rest of the country and the world to know of his amazing talents. Hilton Felton is a monster within himself, he can write, produce and is a wizard on the piano and Hammond B3. This album consists of five tunes recorded over the years 1970 thru '74 for his very own Hilton's Concept record company, and I guarantee you that he and his fellow band members w...

Brain Feeder's Austin Peralta gives the late Sun Ra a sunny re-working in fresh jazzwards L.A. styles ... awesome stuff!!

Fryers and Jazzman are used to dealing with tracks that fall under the radar for all kinds of reasons, but this legendary Sister Funk cut out of sunny Florida is almost unique in that it missed its chance to shine twice. Originally recorded as a hard-nosed James Brown inspired funk number, then again years later as a more open disco-soul inspired dance floor cut that fits in with the current trend of the new funky Northern sound.

The 9th release in the JAZZ DANCE SERIES brings you some serious, previously unreleased library funk!

Born 1921 as Friedel Berlipp near Hannover, Germany, Berry Lipman became one of Germany's most successful heroes of 60s and 70s groovy lounge-pop. Before that, he was an in-house composer for the record label EMI, working for Gitte, Chris Howland, Cliff Richard, and many more.