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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
    Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
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    A selection of Philip Pearlstein’s illustrations from 1978-1980 Staple-bound zine with dustjacket. Moisture damage/staining along upper edge

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gallery Of Photography: Vision
    Gallery Of Photography: Vision
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    A pamphlet featuring work from the Vision Gallery, based out of Boston, circa 1980s Staple-bound zine with some discoloration

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • James H. Forest – Thomas Merton’s Struggle With Peacemaking
    James H. Forest – Thomas Merton’s Struggle With Peacemaking
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    “Written by Merton’s friend Jim Forest and drawing heavily upon their extensive correspondence, this booklet explores Merton’s beliefs about Christians and war, his life as a monk and his [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
    D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
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    “A collaborative work “featuring a fictional encounter between a businessman and a Portuguese girl on holiday in London” (from the front flap). The authors take turns writing [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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
  • Jean Genet – May Day Speech
    Jean Genet – May Day Speech
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    Transcript of Jean Genet’s May Day Speech, given in support of Bobby Seale after his imprisonment. City Lights, 1970 staple-bound zine. Some light wear and discoloration.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 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 – 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
  • Claude Simon – The Flanders Road
    Claude Simon – The Flanders Road
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    On a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
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    In his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
    Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
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    Poems, essays, and anecdotes accompany stories about a man sinking into the ground, an invisible monster, a woman who hates yawns, and miniature jaguars North Point Press, 1986 Hardcover edition. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fernando Arrabal – The Red Virgin
    Fernando Arrabal – The Red Virgin
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    Victimization and betrayal are frequently the themes of this Spanish writer, who saw plenty of both as a youth during his homeland’s Civil War. Based on an actual case study […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Peter Handke – Repetition (1st US Edition)
    Peter Handke – Repetition (1st US Edition)
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    Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s Repetition tells of Filib Kobal’s journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor.  He […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
    Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
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    Neither Victims nor Executioners was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In the essays […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
    Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
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    It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
    Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
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    Alberto Moravia’s nightmarish exploration of disaffected youth in fascist Italy. FSG, 1980 Hardcover First US edition. Light discoloration to dustjacket.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Anais Nin – Cities of the Interior: v. 2
    Anais Nin – Cities of the Interior: v. 2
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    Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
    Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
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    There’s Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Phil; Siegfried, the sculptor in burning steel; blind Albert and ninety-three-year-old Hiram; Foster, the New Age psychoanalyst; and Maxwell, the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vladimir Paral – Catapult
    Vladimir Paral – Catapult
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    This twist on the Don Juan story looks at the attractions and difficulties of freedom. In the course of his commute, Jacek Jost is suddenly catapulted out of his daily […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Celine – Fable For Another Time
    Celine – Fable For Another Time
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    Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Walser – Selected stories
    Robert Walser – Selected stories
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    How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Tommaso Landolfi – An Autumn Story
    Tommaso Landolfi – An Autumn Story
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    “Set during WW II, this is the first novel to appear in English by the celebrated Italian author of Words in Commotion and Other Stories. The narrator, an outlaw, takes […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares – Asleep In The Sun
    Adolfo Bioy Casares – Asleep In The Sun
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    Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Shadow Of The Sun
    Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Shadow Of The Sun
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    In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland’s state newspaper. From the early days […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction