• 1. Poppy Ajudha – Watermelon Man
      • 2. Skinny Pelembe – Illusion

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              • LP 5584591£36.99
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                  • LP 5505973£36.99
                    Part of Blue Note's 'Tone Poet' series.
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                  • LP (180 gram) 5880785£27.99
                    Classic Vinyl Series
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                    • LP (180 gram) 4849856£36.99
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                    Kenny Dorham & Jackie McLeanInta Somethin’ (Tone Poet)Decca / Blue Note
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                        • – Herzog
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                        • – Rojo
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                          • – Yazz Ahmed - It (Chick Correa)
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                          • – Binker Golding - Fort Worth (Joe Lovano)
                          • – Cherise - Sunrise (Norah Jones)
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                          • 3. – Parthenope - Don’t Know Why (Norah Jones)
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                          Lou DonaldsonSay it LoudDecca / Blue Note
                          One of the great Blue Note funk albums from 1969! Features Idris Muhammad on drums and Charles Earland on B3!
                          • – Say It Loud I'm Black And Proud
                          • – Snake Bone
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                          Seminal Herbie Hancock on Blue Note, produced by Duke Pearson.
                            Lonnie SmithDrivesDecca / Blue Note
                            Drivin' organ soul jazz on Blue Note, 1970, with sax work by Dave Hubbard and Ronnie Cuber
                              • LP 6514860£27.99
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