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  • Stanley Turrentine – Rough ‘N Tumble
    Stanley Turrentine – Rough ‘N Tumble
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    All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Stanley Turrentine’s Rough ‘N Tumble Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
    As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
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    What our staff has to say: “A very good book about the scope of free jazz. The author being a music journalist has first hand accounts of viewing and interviewing […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Dr. Lonnie Smith – All In My Mind
    Dr. Lonnie Smith – All In My Mind
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    The Hammond B-3 organ legend and NEA Jazz Master releases All in My Mind, a spirited live trio album recorded at the Jazz Standard in New York City. All in My Mind opens with a powerful rendering [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dexter Gordon – Clubhouse
    Dexter Gordon – Clubhouse
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    One of the enduring mysteries of Blue Note history is that superb sessions such as Dexter Gordon’s Clubhouse (recorded in 1965) remained unreleased until the late 1970s. Recorded during [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jackie McLean – Destination Out
    Jackie McLean – Destination Out
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    he innovative hard bop of Jackie McLean evolved as the `60s progressed. Inspired by Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist ventured into the avant-garde but never let go of a soulful sense […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Luke Stewart & Jarvis Earnshaw Quartet – S/T
    Luke Stewart & Jarvis Earnshaw Quartet – S/T
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    Luke Stewart – bass Jarvis Earnshaw – sitar, loops Ryan Sawyer – drums Devan Waldman – alto sax

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Doug Carn – Adam’s Apple
    Doug Carn – Adam’s Apple
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    Doug Carn made four records for the Black Jazz label, more than any other artist, and each one topped the previous release’s lofty standard. Adam’s Apple was his last (1974) […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kamasi Washington – Heaven And Earth
    Kamasi Washington – Heaven And Earth
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    Kamasi Washington arrived on the international jazz scene from Los Angeles with a bang after the release of 2015’s three-disc, three-hour The Epic. While he’d been around for a [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • McCoy Tyner – Expansions
    McCoy Tyner – Expansions
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    Pianist McCoy Tyner was an acknowledged force of nature. On the aptly-named Expansions, Tyner fronts a remarkable band consisting of Woody Shaw on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Gary [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Rudolph Johnson – The Second Coming
    Rudolph Johnson – The Second Coming
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    The album title is apt, as this was saxman Rudolph Johnson’s second album for the Black Jazz label (and this reissue marks only the second time this 1973 album has […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Walter Bishop, Jr’s 4th Cycle – Keeper Of My Soul
    Walter Bishop, Jr’s 4th Cycle – Keeper Of My Soul
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    Keyboardist Walter Bishop, Jr. recorded the second album released by the Black Jazz label, Coral Keys, a masterpiece of Blue Note-style atmospherics infused with ‘70s soul-jazz. But a mere two [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space CD
    Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space CD
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    Recognized as a skilled and sought after collaborator, Ted Byrnes solo albums cast a wide net that capture Byrnes’ adventurous and omnivorous approach to solo percussion. An alumnus of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Crazy Doberman – — / Haunted, Non / Haunted – 2nd pressing
    Crazy Doberman – — / Haunted, Non / Haunted – 2nd pressing
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    The Doberman crew has been relentlessly touring the U.S. for years now, existing as a traveling band of frequent collaborators and changing lineups, consisting of often radically different [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Anna Hogberg Attack – Lena
    Anna Hogberg Attack – Lena
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    A primal force of something… real. I have listened back and forth to the new album of Anna Högberg`s “Attack” numerous times now and it hit me like a split […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Freedom, Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz Cover Art 1965-1983
    Freedom, Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz Cover Art 1965-1983
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    Soul Jazz Records are issuing a new flexibound paperback edition of their long out of print ground-breaking deluxe art book Freedom, Rhythm and Sound Revolutionary Jazz Cover Art 1965-83. This [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Vernacular – The Little Bird CS
    Vernacular – The Little Bird CS
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    Generational Muse “Forty years ago a group of hipsters fled Manhattan for . . . has it even been that long? I cannot fathom for I’m still alive and so […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Chris Williams & Patrick Shiroishi – Sans Soleil CS
    Chris Williams & Patrick Shiroishi – Sans Soleil CS
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    CHRIS WILLIAMS: Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn, Synth, Objects PATRICK SHIROISHI: Alto, Bari, Sopranino, Soprano and Tenor Saxophones, Clarinet, Electric Toothbrush, Glockenspiel Engineered by: [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gene Russell – New Direction
    Gene Russell – New Direction
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    The first album released by the most sought-after label, bar none, among jazz collectors! And since keyboardist Gene Russell was at the artistic helm of Black Jazz, it was only […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra & His Astro-Intergalactic-Infinity Arkestra – Nidhamu (2020 Strut Reissue)
    Sun Ra & His Astro-Intergalactic-Infinity Arkestra – Nidhamu (2020 Strut Reissue)
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    Strut present the definitive edition of Sun Ra’s ‘Egypt 1971’ along with the original albums ‘Dark Myth Equation Visitation’, ‘Nidhamu’ and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra Arkestra – Swirling (Europe Black Vinyl)
    Sun Ra Arkestra – Swirling (Europe Black Vinyl)
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    The planets align this October as the mighty Sun Ra Arkestra, under the direction of the maestro Marshall Allen, release their first studio album in over twenty years, ‘Swirling’. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Doug Carn – Spirit Of The New Land
    Doug Carn – Spirit Of The New Land
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    Of all the artists who recorded for the Black Jazz label, keyboardist and composer Doug Carn was the most prolific, releasing four albums for the imprint. 1972’s Spirit of the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz