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  • Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio – Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio
    Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio – Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio
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    *Japanese Import CD* “In that quintessential breakthrough year of modern jazz — 1957 — Norman Granz was fond of pairing the legendary drummerless trio of Oscar Peterson with [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Donald Byrd – The Creeper
    Donald Byrd – The Creeper
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    *Japanese Import CD* “This LP was trumpeter Donald Byrd’s final album in the hard bop idiom and it went unissued until 1981. For the last time, Byrd was heard in […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bud Powell – Bud Powell’s Moods
    Bud Powell – Bud Powell’s Moods
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    *Japanese Import CD* Bud Powell plays a variety of standards and original tunes in his delightfully idiosyncratic style.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Roberto Menescal E Seu Conjunto – A Bossa Nova De Roberto Menescal E Seu Conjunto
    Roberto Menescal E Seu Conjunto – A Bossa Nova De Roberto Menescal E Seu Conjunto
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    *Japanese Import CD*  

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Laurindo Almeida & The Bossa Nova Allstars – It’s A Bossa Nova World: International Hits In Jazz Samba Arrangements
    Laurindo Almeida & The Bossa Nova Allstars – It’s A Bossa Nova World: International Hits In Jazz Samba Arrangements
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    *Japanese Import CD* Laurindo Almeida and his All-Star band cover traditional songs from all over the world in a Samba style.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Jun Fukamachi – The Sea Of Dirac
    Jun Fukamachi – The Sea Of Dirac
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    *Japanese Import CD* The follow-up to Spiral Steps, and just as groovin’ and hard-hitting.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sylvia Telles – Silvia
    Sylvia Telles – Silvia
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    *Japanese Import CD* A reissue of one of the best early albums of Bossa Nova, featuring tracks such as Cala Meu Amor and Amargura

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Chet Baker – Pretty / Groovy
    Chet Baker – Pretty / Groovy
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    *Japanese Import CD* A compilation compiling previously unreleased tracks by Baker with tracks from Chet Baker Quartet Featuring Russ Freeman.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – 3 Blind Mice
    Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – 3 Blind Mice
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    *Japanese Import CD* “Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers rode through the rough waters of significant record label, personnel, and sound changes in 1962. A young Freddie Hubbard took the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Elvin Jones – Dear John C.
    Elvin Jones – Dear John C.
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    *Japanese Import CD* “The second album by Elvin Jones as sole title rights leader (excluding the co-op ensemble that recorded the stunning and essential progressive jazz icon Illumination!) [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Hermeto Pascoal E Grupo – Festa Dos Deuses
    Hermeto Pascoal E Grupo – Festa Dos Deuses
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    *Japanese Import CD* An intense later album from Hermeto Pascoal’s group. Absolutely smokes.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Joe Pass – Simplicity
    Joe Pass – Simplicity
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    *Japanese Import CD* “An aptly titled release, as guitarist Joe Pass offers smooth, fluent songs, crisp, polished solos, and sentimental material.” – allmusic.com

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Donald Byrd – Byrd Blows On Beacon Hill
    Donald Byrd – Byrd Blows On Beacon Hill
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    *Japanese Import CD* “This 1956 (released in 1957) session is Donald Byrd’s quartet session. Utilizing a rhythm section of Beacon Hill’s finest — bassist Doug Watkins, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cannonball Adderley – Cannonball Adderley’s Fiddler On The Roof
    Cannonball Adderley – Cannonball Adderley’s Fiddler On The Roof
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    *Japanese Import CD* “It is a bit strange that none of the eight songs performed on this LP found their way into Adderley’s permanent repertoire for the altoist is quite […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gal Costa – Gal Tropical
    Gal Costa – Gal Tropical
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    *Japanese Import CD* A mid-career peak from Gal Costa, featuring tracks such as Samba Rasgado and Estrada Do Sol

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • McCoy Tyner – Asante
    McCoy Tyner – Asante
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    *Japanese Import CD* “The final McCoy Tyner Blue Note album found the innovative pianist during a low point in his career. His records were not selling that well, his mentor […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Caetano Veloso – Noites Do Norte
    Caetano Veloso – Noites Do Norte
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    *Japanese Import CD* “Veloso continues to show his pre-eminence as a singer and songwriter with Noites Do Norte. He may be almost 60, but he’s far from set in his […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Moacir Santos – Maestro
    Moacir Santos – Maestro
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    *Japanese Import CD* “For his Blue Note debut, Maestro, Brazilian composer Moacir Santos assiduously avoids his homeland’s familiar bossa nova and samba rhythms, instead reinventing [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Stan Getz – And The Cool Sounds
    Stan Getz – And The Cool Sounds
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    *Japanese Import CD* “Stan Getz plays with five different lineups on the recordings from 1954 and 1955 featured on Stan Getz and the Cool Sounds. The cool-toned, mellow tenor saxophonist [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Vinicius* & Odette Lara – Vinicius & Odette Lara
    Vinicius* & Odette Lara – Vinicius & Odette Lara
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    *Japanese Import CD* “The poet/performer Vinicius de Moraes and the vocalist Odette Lara make a wonderful team, and though their voices aren’t heard together as much as they should be [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Booker Little 4, Max Roach – Booker Little 4 & Max Roach
    Booker Little 4, Max Roach – Booker Little 4 & Max Roach
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    *Japanese Import CD* “Memphis-born trumpeter Booker Little was a bright light of the jazz world who died tragically young at age 23. A prodigiously talented hornman as well as a […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bill Evans Trio* – Bill Evans At Town Hall (Volume One)
    Bill Evans Trio* – Bill Evans At Town Hall (Volume One)
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    *Japanese Import CD* “This LP is a superior effort by Bill Evans and his trio in early 1966. The last recording by longtime bassist Chuck Israels (who had joined the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Caetano Veloso – Livro
    Caetano Veloso – Livro
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    *Japanese Import CD* “Caetano Veloso continues his free-thinking explorations of tropicalismo on this ambitiously arranged, elaborately packaged suite of songs devoted to whatever happens [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Bud Shank & Shorty Rogers & Bill Perkins – Bud Shank – Shorty Rogers – Bill Perkins
    Bud Shank & Shorty Rogers & Bill Perkins – Bud Shank – Shorty Rogers – Bill Perkins
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    *Japanese Import CD* A West Coast Jazz classic, featuring tracks such as Shank’s Pranks & Left Bank.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Andrew Hill – Dance With Death
    Andrew Hill – Dance With Death
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    *Japanese Import CD* “Recorded in 1968, but not released until 1980, Dance With Death was Hill’s 10th Blue Note album and it stands as one of the most gratifying though under-recognized [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wayne Shorter – Schizophrenia
    Wayne Shorter – Schizophrenia
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    *Japanese Import CD* “Wayne Shorter was at the peak of his creative powers when he recorded Schizophrenia in the spring of 1967. Assembling a sextet that featured two of his […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jun Fukamachi – Spiral Steps
    Jun Fukamachi – Spiral Steps
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    *Japanese Import CD* A masterpiece of jazz-funk/fusion from Jun Fukamachi’s all-star combo

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dexter Gordon – Clubhouse
    Dexter Gordon – Clubhouse
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    *Japanese Import CD* “Although tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon had moved to Europe in 1962, he made a return visit to the U.S. in 1965 that resulted in both this album […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jackie McLean – Bluesnik
    Jackie McLean – Bluesnik
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    *Japanese Import CD* “Bluesnik, Jackie McLean’s seventh session as a leader for Blue Note Records, was one of only two recordings issued by McLean in 1961. With a lineup of […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Lou Donaldson – Sassy Soul Strut
    Lou Donaldson – Sassy Soul Strut
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    *Japanese Import CD* “Sassy Soul Strut pairs Lou Donaldson with arranger George Butler to create a smooth, unabashedly commercial session some distance removed from the saxophonist’s [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Lee Morgan – Tom Cat
    Lee Morgan – Tom Cat
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    *Japanese Import CD* “It seems strange that the music on this CD was not released initially until 1980. Trumpeter Lee Morgan had had an unexpected hit with “The Sidewinder,” so [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jackie McLean – Vertigo
    Jackie McLean – Vertigo
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    *Japanese Import CD* “This 1980 recording released for the first time — “Formidable” from a 1959 session and five numbers from a 1963 McLean set. While [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius
    Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius
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    It’s impossible to hear Jaco Pastorious’ debut album today as it sounded when it was first released in 1976. The opening track — his transcription for fretless electric bass of [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything’s Beautiful
    Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything’s Beautiful
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    Everything’s Beautiful isn’t quite a tribute or a remix project. It’s not a collaboration between Miles Davis and Robert Glasper, as it is billed. On the surface, from a [...]

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Monk’s Dream
    The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Monk’s Dream
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    Monk’s Dream is the Columbia Records debut release featuring the Thelonious Monk Quartet: Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), John Ore (bass), and Frankie Dunlop (drums). Jazz scholars [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz Impressions Of Japan
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz Impressions Of Japan
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    Thirteen years into their tenure, the Dave Brubeck Quartet was still able to mine the creative vein for new means of expression. Despite the hits and popularity on college campuses, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
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    Dave Brubeck’s defining masterpiece, Time Out is one of the most rhythmically innovative albums in jazz history, the first to consciously explore time signatures outside of the standard 4/4 [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Further Out: Miro Reflections
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Further Out: Miro Reflections
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    Unlike most sequels, Time Further Out is a worthy successor to Time Out. Among the numbers introduced on this impressive set are “It’s a Raggy Waltz” and “Unsquare [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Robin Kenyatta – Until
    Robin Kenyatta – Until
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    Recorded and released after a two-year stint in Europe, Until marks alto saxophonist Robin Kenyatta’s American debut as a leader, after sideman tenures with Sonny Stitt, Bill Dixon, and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Rodrigo Amado / Chris Corsano – No Place To Fall
    Rodrigo Amado / Chris Corsano – No Place To Fall
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    “The longer one works as an artist, the more secure one’s own identity becomes — whether visual, sonic, textual, or otherwise, the goal is to be clearly oneself. It may […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ali* / Bordreuil* / Mattrey* – I Used To Sing So Lyrical
    Ali* / Bordreuil* / Mattrey* – I Used To Sing So Lyrical
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    JOANNA MATTREY – viola LEILA BORDREUIL – cello SEAN ALI – double bass Label: Astral Spirits – AS102 Format: CS, Album Country: US Released: 2019 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sfyria Trio – Rockefeller Concert
    Sfyria Trio – Rockefeller Concert
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    SAM DECKER – tenor saxophone CHARLIE KIRCHEN – bass MATT CARROLL – drums Recorded live at Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago, IL on May 30, 2017. Label: Astral Spirits – AS109 […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Earthgasm – Y.S.F.W.P. 02
    Earthgasm – Y.S.F.W.P. 02
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    “YARD SALE FOR WORLD PEACE 02 All tracks: Stephen Sharrett – Saxophone, electronics Anton Seder – Clarinet, electronics” Label: Yard Sale For World Peace – YSFWP02 Format: [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Earthgasm – World Wide Gasm
    Earthgasm – World Wide Gasm
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    “All energy music by Earthgasm and A.G. Seedhair recorded at Gemini Unity by Jonny Wulf 2018” Label: Double Dogging – DD07 Format: CS, EP Country: US Released: 2018 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Steve Reid Ensemble ‎– Daxaar (Recorded In Africa)
    Steve Reid Ensemble ‎– Daxaar (Recorded In Africa)
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    A collaboration between Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and jazz legend Steven Reid, Daxaar contains a brand new collection of rhythmic ideas captured during Reid’s first visit to Africa in over [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Pyramids – Lalibela (2013 press)
    The Pyramids – Lalibela (2013 press)
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    “The debut album by the Pyramids was inspired by the group’s visit to the Lalibela monastery in Egypt, and was recorded in Yellow Springs Ohio in early 1973. Drawing on […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Hatch Expansion – Texas Edition
    The Hatch Expansion – Texas Edition
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    This release is an orchestral expansion of the vocabulary of The Hatch. The duo work of Desprez and Rasmussen extrapolating into two local scenes in Texas. Label: Sonic Transmissions Records […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gil Scott-Heron – Small Talk At 125th And Lenox
    Gil Scott-Heron – Small Talk At 125th And Lenox
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    “Twenty-one-year-old Gil Scott-Heron had yet to make the full transition from poet to musician when he recorded his provocative 1970 debut, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox. His words, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
    Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
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    CD The Exploding Star Orchestra is Rob Mazurek’s vehicle for blowing minds and reshaping worlds. For more than a decade and a half, the multi-instrumentalist has guided the variably configured [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Tomin – A Willed And Conscious Balance
    Tomin – A Willed And Conscious Balance
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    CD Tomin’s debut full-length work, A Willed and Conscious Balance, answers a set of questions left unasked in recent years, as a new generation of artists re-energizes the tradition often […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz