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Three copies known on 45, stunningly rare sides with great guitar work and driving sax breaks - unknown!

Classic slide guitar country blues from 1940 and now available for the first time on 45rpm - masterpiece!

"I gotta say the when I heard the track 'Why' I was VERY pleasantly surprised by how tight the band and the singer just blew me away. I cannot believe she is born and raised in Sweden but she is definitely channeling Lauren Hill vibes!"
- Amir / Kon & Amir

"Love it!!!"
- Rahaan

"Nice production, the vocalist is dope!"
- Ashley Beedle

"Great funk single, vocalist sounds like the new Alice Russell! Great double sider, solid release!''
- Nik Weston / Mukatsuku, Guynmamukat

"Nice to hear that our lovely neighbor has more soul sometimes than we have in Finland. Right on sisters and brothers. Well done."
- Lagerman

"Best voice if have heard on a new funk/soul record in a long time."
- Fryer

"Wow I love that! Like a female Curtis Mayfield with Lauren Hill gruff."
- Cosmic Boogie

I am a pianist, composer, improviser, performing artist and a multitasking musician in life,
currently living and working in Reykjavík.
I was born 1978 in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and have been playing the piano and keyboards since age of 9.
My main focus and interest is in improvisation, composition and performance of music.
How improvisation and composition can meet effortlessly as a creation of musical ideas and sounds.
I am also thoughtful of the general passion & drive behind creation of things, in what way they are presented and passed on to people, in music, arts and life in general.
Since childhood I´ve collaborated with a whole spectrum of artist, from obscure troubadours in the countryside to stadium bands, covering all fields og music, both in Iceland and abroad.
I have also composed and arranged a great deal of music for Theater, Film, Art installations, performances and videos of all kinds.
Released my first album Rask in 2002, and now I am currently composing and working on a series of records with solo piano music for Radio Bongo with Improvised Pianoworks I (broadcast01) as the first Radio Bongo release.

Romping female gospel tinged rocker flipped with steady femme blues shouter.

Off beat delivery, party lyrics and great guitar break with cool blues flip.

The 10th 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.

Finally, after 2 years of touring her debut album with the Mighty Mocambos, Gizelle Smith is now ready to reveal a first sample of her newly recorded solo material. The 45 is available for sale in very limited quantities as most of the edition is for DJ use only. Comes in authentic brown paper sleeve, with DJ-friendly vocal version and instrumental edit.

50's jump Blues shouters do not come much better than this belting two-sider. From the blonde wig wearing ferguson.

The single was released in the latter part of "82" it became pick hit of the week in Billboard Magazine in early "83". Both tunes were the first songs ever written by Harold, and his first recordings as a single artist.

The early 80's was a time of uncertainty. The economy was in a shambles and male/female relationships were starting to deteriorate, thus why is "A Shortage Of Love" is a pure reflection of the sentiment during those times.

Ironically, no one had flipped this record over until recently.

The band was a dynamic group of guys called The Brew City Band, with Johnnie Mills on guitar, Tommy Ford on bass, Michael Reese on keyboards, and Leonard Washington (deceased) on drums. The horns were arranged by Warren (Vito) Wiegratz now the leader of The Milwaukee Bucks (NBA) Basketball band. He is also the sax soloist. The background singers were Harold's sister, Charity Marie, his cousin, Cora Kemp, and his daughters, Latasha, and Taneka. This was recorded at Cornerstone Recording studio, a state of the art facility, engineered by David Seibaur.

Killer vocals and great delivery with harmonica backing get this 'train' chugging rhythm moving along

Herbie Hancock is one of the most prolific jazz pianists of the 20th century. A child prodigy, he played with the greats such as Donald Byrd and Miles Davis. He was one of the first to embrace and master the electric piano, but he always stayed true to the acoustic sound. In fact, he always bounced back and forth between his electronic and acoustic sound, touching upon almost every development in R&B, Funk and Jazz while retaining an original and distinctive voice.
'Sextant' from 1973 was recorded just before 'Headhunters'(MOVLP030), and can be seen in the same vein, but it's more than just an introduction to a masterpiece. It features a kind of post-modal, free impressionism while gracing the edges of funk. Three long instrumental tracks explore how far minimalism in jazz can go. Music On Vinyl is re-issuing this Hancock gem for the first time since 1973!

His two best federal rockers back to back

Belting two sided rocker and Egans' finest moment.

For a while now, going to see Los Fulanos has been one of the best things you could do in Barcelona (or anywhere else). Los Fulanos have gotten back that riffraff (dissolute) vibe of a pre-Olympics Barcelona. Their concerts are a party where Afro-Latin rhythms come together with a thousand other things, above all, Soul.

This record is the result of a 1964 jam session organised by Astor Silva and Wilson Das Neves and was originally released in 1975 on the Brazilian label Discos CBS.

Stunning Chicago blues rocker with driving atmospheric flip featuring thundering and aggressive guitar breaks.

A great deal of creative energy has gone into the making of this LP. Which somehow illustrates what a very wise one once said, 'If you want anything done right, do it yourself' and that is 'THE NAKED TRUTH'.' " Owen Marshall, 1975

ABOUT THIS ALBUM
Every once in a while, a record presents itself so defiant in its refusal of categorisation that it becomes the bane of those poor vinyl archaeologists whose business it is to file and classify. The aptly named 'The Naked Truth' is one such artifact, a wayfaring stray of an...

Fantastic 'unknown' rocker with neat vocals and cool guitar work.

Gainsbourg, the original bad boy of French pop, the man who updated the French chanson and made it hip again infusing it with the youth culture of the late 50s and 60s, ruled by jazz, drugs and free love. Very different from his celebrated later works, the music captured on this vinyl edition finds Gainsbourg mixing traditional chanson and big-band jazz rather than the avant garde pop that went on to define his career outside of France. This record presents a revealing insight into the early years of this iconic figure.

After Don Cherry, John Betsch Society, Raphael, a new reissue selected in the vinyl collection of HEAVENLY SWEETNESS. Once again, the label appears a forgotten album, which has passed the test of time so that it is rediscovered.
Solis Lacus is the first group of renowned Belgian pianist Michel HERR and a pioneer of electric jazz in the 70's in europe. The group regularly shared the stage with Placebo, Marc Moulin's cult band. There are even two musicians shared by both groups as well as the same sound and same groove so characteristic.
Solis Lacus is the European counterpart to sound experimentations of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, or the best albums of the CTI label such as Freddie Hubbard.

limited 10"

The Grits have been busy for years playing their raw and greasy funk and releasing some of the dopest 45s on labels like Music With Soul, Freestyle & Tropicalia in Furs. Here they come with a new psychedelic /garage edge and some blue-eyed soul vocal delights. "Strychnine" is a funked-up cover of The Sonics' proto-punk tune that sounds as if the Meters would jam with Dusty Springfield. The flip side "Funky Mile" is a spaced out original and even further beyond all usual categories of funk music.

The New Mastersounds' main touring markets are USA, Japan and Spain, but throughout UK, Australia and the rest of Europe there are funkster DJ's, collectors and general vinyl heads who have been keenly awaiting this release since the band's last 7 came out in 2009. The NMS just returned from their annual pilgrimmage to New Orleans where they played consecutive late-night shows to packed audiences at the House of Blues.

blend of African folk, American jazz and funk, and percussive horn, drum and chant oriented music called Afro Beat has experienced a grand revival. On the one hand you have labels re-releasing original Nigerian Afro Beat in all its glory. On the other hand there are dozens of new bands consciously carrying the legacy of Fela Kuti into the new century.
Mediacracy

reestyle Records is immensely proud to be the new home for one of the UK's most creative and in demand musicians, Jessica Lauren.

Since the early 1990s, the soulful, spacey jazz grooves of keyboard player Jessica Lauren have been a familiar part of London's alternative music scene, having in the past released her own original music on Soul Jazz Records, M.E.L.T 2000 and People Records. Jessica's keyboard skills have augmented the live performances and studio recordings ...

Teaser 7' vinyl for the 'Best of Perception and Today Records compiled by DJ Spinna and BBE Soundsystem' to be released in Spring 2012!

Perception Productions, a New York based label that ran from the late 60s through until 1974, was a strangely eclectic affair. Its roster stretched from a radical Afro-American poet through to the pop band King Harvest whose hit 'Dancing In The Moonlight' became a massive hit for the UK band Toploader a couple of decades later.

Nigeria Rock Special shines a light on the lesser known musical output that developed in Nigeria beyond the traditional sounds of highlife and afrobeat - young bands caught up in the wave of psychedelic rock that was sweeping Europe and the States in the late '60s.

Spurred on by Cream drummer Ginger Baker's visits to Lagos and his band Airforce (featuring many Nigerian musicians), the sound of fuzzed out rock reverberated around the universities and nightspots of Lagos and Ibadan.

Soundway's on-going commitment to documenting the diversity of the Nigerian recording industry is captured through this startling collection of tracks. Compiler Miles Cleret spent over five years working on the first set of Nigeria Special albums involving numerous trips to Nigeria interviewing musicians, researching recordings and scouring dusty record stores and warehouses for these elusive tracks.

Suffused with spiritual uplift but lacking any saccharine in either content or production values, Azanyah communicates in a language that harks back to the great message bearers of an earlier time: the musical language of Coltrane, Pharaoh and their fellow travellers, musicians who had journeyed deep into the wellsprings of the African-American and African traditions, and returned with complex, burnished artifacts that spoke of the highest truths with incandescent urgency. Its musical message underpinned by the deep pulse of the eponymous Mamaniji Azanyah's bass, The One is a docu...

Brighton-based 11-piece-funk-powerhouse The Impellers return with a hard-hitting double-sider. "The Knock Knock" is an authentic piece of heavy soul, spotlighting the gritty vocals of lead singer 'Lady' Clair Witcher, while the band busts loose on an instrumental take of the Kaiser Chiefs classic on the flip side, not available on any other format. A very apt 7inch to celebrate Mocambo Records' forty five #30...

The latest in the Dubplate series cleverly combines a cunning brass band take of an R&B classic with its original version, whilst the flip sees a blues legend get re-flipped for the dance floor!

Soul Jazz Records/Universal Sound are reissuing this classic dance jazz album digitally remastered and cased in bespoke original artwork exact reproduction on hardboard Jap-style box case CD and a very limited (1000 worldwide) heavyweight US-made heavy board vinyl edition.

Eddie Russ's debut album Fresh Out was recorded in Detroit in 1974. The album featured the group The Mixed Bag, which Russ put together in 1972 from members of the local Detroit jazz community, where he had made his base. Fresh Out, originally released on the independent Jazz Masters label, also later became the debut release for Soul Jazz Records when we first released the album in 1992 (20 years ago!).

In his long and distinguished career, the legendary Pittsburgh-born keyboardist Russ played with a stunning array of legendary jazz musicians that included Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Roland Kirk, Sonny Stitt, Sarah Vaughan, Hank Mobley, Cal Tjader, among many others.

Eddie Russ and The Mixed Bag released two more seminal classic jazz-funk albums in the mid-70s ('See The Light' and 'Take A Look at Yourself'). The Mixed Bag also released it's own album (with Russ appearing under the alias Gaff Dunson!) on Wendell Harrison, Phil Ranelin and Marcus Belgrave's collective Tribe label . Members of this group also recorded for Kenny Cox and Charles Moore's similarly styled Strata label - these labels being the two main independent jazz record labels in Detroit during the 1970s.

In 1992, on the strength of the release of Fresh Out, and the issue of the single 'The Lope Song' (which features on this album), both on Soul Jazz Records, Eddie Russ performed in Europe.

This is a 20th anniversary issue of Soul Jazz Records first album.

1. The Lope Song
2. All But Blind
3. Shamading
4. Hill Where The Lord Hides
5. You Are The Sunshine of my Life
6. Watergate Blues

Roy Brooks and the Artistic Truth's Black Survival album is a true holy-grail for deep and spritual jazz collectors around the world.

Black Survival is reissued here, digitally remastered and cased in bespoke original artwork exact reproduction on hardboard Jap-style box case CD and a very limited (1000 worldwide) heavyweight US-made heavy board vinyl edition.

This album was originally independently released to raise funds to combat the ongoing drought in the Sahel region of Africa (an area covering parts of Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Darfur, Sudan and Ethiopia).

In his long and distinguished career, the legendary Detroit-born drummer Brooks played with everyone from Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Max Roach, Charles Mingus. From 1959-64 he was in the Horace Silver Quintet performing on classic Blue Note albums such as Song For My Father.

During his lifetime Brooks released precious few solo albums. His debut, 'Beat', was released in 1963 on Motown's then new off-shoot jazz label Jazz Workshop. His connection with his hometown label dated back to his time working with The Four Tops

In 1972, Brooks formed the Artistic Truth. 'Black Survival', the Sahel Concert at the Town Hall was originally released on the small independent Im-Hotep Records in Harlem in 1974 (which also released Brook's earlier Ethnic Expressions).

After many years on the New York jazz scene, Brooks returned to Detroit in 1975, where he continued to perform with the Artistic Truth as well as forming the collective Musicians United to Save Indigenous Culture (MUSIC) along with Strata founder Kenny Cox and members of the Tribe collective, Wendell Harrison and Harold McKinney.

Black Survival appears in the book Freedom, Rhythm and Sound, compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker and released on Soul Jazz Books.

1. Black Survival
2. Here and Now
3. Sahel
4. Relief
5. Black Survival - Prologue