Early sixties album from vibesman Cal Tjader playing Brazilian and Mexican songs - featuring the cream of the west coast latin and jazz scene - Clare Fischer, Paul Horn, Milt Holland and more. Produced by the great Creed Taylor.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Cal Tjader, became known as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician. He also explored various other jazz idioms but...
In the mid 1960s, Chess Records released a series of The Real Folk Blues albums that compiled singles from the careers of some of its greatest artists....
Samba ’68, released on Verve in 1968, introduced Brazilian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Marcos Valle to a wider international audience....
Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso debuted in the music industry in 1965, recording a single each, when João Araújo, director of Philips (Universal Music)...
Released in 1972 by Philips Records, the album "Elis" introduced several new additions to Elis Regina's career. It was the singer's first album, produced...
With different classics songs, "Vida" showcases an artist in an exuberant phase, inspired by lyrics, music, and singing. At 36 years old, even while recording...
Time feels porous on 'Future Present Past', the second Impulse! statement from Irreversible Entanglements. Largely recorded at Van Gelder Studio, it carries...
Recorded in February and March of 1963 and released later that year on Verve, Jazz Samba Encore reunites Stan Getz with Luiz Bonfá and Maria Toledo in...
Released on Verve in 1965, The Shadow of Your Smile captures Astrud Gilberto in the early ascent of her solo career, placing her understated, conversational...
Awesome spiritual jazz of the highest order!Elevation, released in 1974 on Impulse! Records, finds saxophonist Pharoah Sanders expanding his spiritual...
Serious heavyweight jazz-dance classic!Spellbinder, released in 1966 on Impulse! Records, introduced Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó to a wider American...
The story of Chess Records is the story of American popular music in the second half of the twentieth century. Best-known for capturing the sound of acoustic...
Following Luminal and Lateral, artist-activists Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe present their third collaboration, Liminal. Conceived as a bridge between its...
Recorded in 1963, The Composer of Desafinado Plays documents the beginning of what would become a long-term creative relationship between Jobim and arranger...
A singular album from the jazz guitarist - more well-known for his later period funk records - Fisher grooves here with a stripped-down jazz sound and...
On this 1970 album recorded in Los Angeles, Donato departs from his Brazilian bossa nova roots, incorporating an eclectic, and electric, mix of funk, fusion...
These 1969 recordings (released 5 years later) combine Shepp’s free jazz bonafides and a blend of blues and funk through an African lens, all in a big...
Seminal release on Impulse featuring the spiritual vocalist supreme Leon Thomas on the anthem The Creator has A Masterplan.
Pharoah Sanders’ third Impulse!...
ESSENTIAL deep jazz featuring Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson! This is a true classic of spiritual jazz from one of our favourite artists! Recorded...
Extremely rare LP from Roy Brooks originally released on Motown's jazz imprint Workshop Jazz label. Original copies cost £100s of pounds - with good reason!
Roy...
Not wanting to overdo the word but this album is SEMINAL! This was one of two latin jazz albums recorded with Palmieri - the other one being for Tico....
With the 'Incredible Jimmy Smith' on organ and arrangements by Oliver Nelson this adaptation of Prokofiev's fairy tale offers a fine jazz interpretation...
Not only does this 1963 LP pair Jimmy's organ with the creative charts of Oliver Nelson, but also with Zoot Sims, Clark Terry, Jimmy Cleveland, Milt Hinton...
Propelled by a smoldering version of Screamin Jay Hawkins title track as well as tunes by French chanseures Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour - Nina Simone...
STUNNING NEW 180gm, heavy USA tip-on style gatefold sleeve audiophile reissue!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recorded...
Seminal USA Bossa Nova album by Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and the vocals of Astrud Gilberto. Includes the all-time classic "Girl...
Robert Glasper releases Keys To The City Volume One - a monumental testament to the magic of collaboration and improvisation captured live during his...
Robert Glasper's Let Go is an immersive, 13-track collection that delivers a serene listening experience. Glasper himself describes the album as a sanctuary,...
Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print UK Vinyl RLP 12-201,white/blue label 1961 pressing MONO some discolouration/ageing on back
Oh No helped shape the texture of modern independent hip-hop, introducing the world to his turbulent lyricism with the 2004 Stones Throw classic TheDisrupt...
Rare album of great funky soul jazz from guitarist David T Walker. Walker was a crack LA session man (often associated with the Jazz Crusaders). This session...
Robert Glasper's GRAMMY-nominated album, 'Code Derivation'.This unique project gives listeners two radically different versions of the same track - one...