"Liza With A 'Z'" is a multi-media production that has been showered with superlatives. It won numerous awards, including those for Choreography and Direction. However, a further award for the music... more
2011 release. Deep archeology into a long buried and previously undocumented chapter in the history of the early '70s loft era brings forth the revelatory Father of Origin, Eremite's box set... more
Limited Mobile Fidelity double 180gm 45 RPM vinyl LP pressing treats each phrase and every note as sacred communication. A landmark recording and masterful symphony of performance, composition, and... more
Weldon Irvine's debut as a leader remains one of the most fiercely idiosyncratic electric jazz outings of the early '70s. Innovative not only for it's moody, nuanced jazz-funk sensibility, Liberated... more
Trumpeter/flügelhornist Charles Tolliver often straddled the line between the lyricism of hard bop and the adventurous nature of the avant-garde. Released in 1975, Impact contained a stimulating... more
Adele Sebastian was an Afro American jazz flutist and singer, active from the early 70s (when she was still a teenager) until her untimely death at the age of 27 (!) in 1983 from a kidney failure. In... more
A lost bit of late Strata East - and an all-star session that never let's up! The album's a quartet effort - led by Stanley Cowell, but equally featuring participation from Billy Harper on tenor,... more
In a world where being loud seems to be the only ticket for attention, Arve Henriksen has somewhat quietly and without much ado established himself as an important, major player on the European jazz... more
This luxurious pink Cadillac color box set, 1973-1976-1979, brings together the first three albums of Jac Berrocal - Musiq Musik (1973), Paralleles (1976), and Catalogue (1979) - in which countless... more
In June 1955, in the Atlantic studio, standards provided the starting base for the long and wonderfully sophisticated improvisations by Lee Konitz and Wayne Marsh, who were at that time pupils of the... more
In contrast to some of the other rather more dawdling and laid-back MJQ LPs, "Fontessa" offers diversified and intense music. Nothing is routine, perhaps because the drummer Connie Kay had replaced... more
Herbie Mann - Herbie Mann At The Village Gate Herbie Mann at the Village Gate is a 1961 live album by jazz flutist Herbie Mann which was his third album for Atlantic Records, the main label for much... more
General opinion has it that Sonny Stitt always stood in Charlie Parker's shadow. That, however, is unjustifiable. The legendary jazz critic Nat Hentoff wrote, for example: 'Sonny has been one of the... more
This homage to Charlie Parker was originally released in 1964. Alto saxophonist Sonny Stitt was joined by pianist John Lewis, guitarist Jim Hall, bassist Richard Davis and drummer Connie Kay.
When you listen to Terry Calliers music, it really makes you wonder why it took three decades after the release of his debut album for this singer to be able to live from his music. 'Turn You To... more
When this LP was released in 1962, it was honoured with the maximum number of stars that Downbeat, the most famous of all jazz magazines, could award. Is there any better proof that the composer and... more
Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther - Original score composed by Henry Mancini. Producer: Joe Reisman. Reissue producer: Rob Santos. Recorded at RCA Victor's Music Center Of The World, Hollywood,... more
This exciting collaboration between cellist Boris Andrianov and father and son, pianist Leonid Vintskevich and saxophonist Nick Vintskevich is a modern jazz interpretation of six movements from... more
180 gram audiophile vinyl. Limited edition of 750 individually numbered copies on gold coloured vinyl. With I Am You (2007), Moulin had found the magic formula, finally bringing together everything... more
Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 collection celebrating the music of the King of Rock 'n' Roll himself, Elvis Presley. On this release, the music of Elvis is reinterpreted in a jazz setting by artists such as... more
Don't let the date fool you, released back in 1983 this modal to slightly free jazz outfit from California takes you on a journey back to the late 60s and very early 70s, into the spiritual realms of... more