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East New York Ensemble de Music At The Helm (1974)

Smithsonian Folkways

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East New York Ensemble de Music – Sun Flower

1. Melvana (Based on Turkish Religious Melody)
2. Ti-Ti
3. Sun Flower
4. Bent-el-Jerusalem

Amazing deep, deep jazz as featured on our "New Thing!" compilation! Includes heavyweight African/Eastern styles and the out-there 13 minute version of "Little Sunflower"!

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Charles Cha Cha Shaw Into Morning Smithsonian Folkways

Charles "Cha Cha" Shaw released his first solo album on Folkways in 1976 after having performed and recorded trumpet for pop and jazz icons like Curtis...

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Lead Belly Lead Belly Sings Folk Songs Smithsonian Folkways

Vital 1940s recordings of 15 songs featuring Lead Belly performing solo and accompanied by Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, and Sonny Terry.

Deep Cult and Roots Music

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Creole Songs of Haiti / Various Artists Creole Songs of Haiti Smithsonian Folkways

This recording combines vocal interpretations of Vodou (an Afro-Haitian religion) ceremonial songs and popular secular melodies by legendary Haitian singer,...

Deep Cult and Roots Music

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Mary Lou Williams Footnotes to Jazz, Vol. 3: Jazz Rehearsal, I (1950)Smithsonian Folkways

After rediscovering a tin box full of acetate recordings of jazz rehearsal sessions, Folkways founder Moe Asch pieced together a sequence that shows the...

– Little Joe

1. – Little Joe
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Lord Melody Calypso 1962 Smithsonian Folkways

This recording gives listeners more calypsos from one of the most famous calypsonians of all time, Lord Melody. The Cyril Diaz Calypso Combo and the March...

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Mary Lou Williams Black Christ of the Andes (1964)Smithsonian Folkways

Super-rare and highly sought-after classic modal jazz album finally reissued!HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

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Can You Dig It ?The Music and Politics of Black Action Films 1968 - 75 Soul Jazz Records

''Can You Dig It?' is as definitive as it gets, and treats its subject seriously, lovingly and with an attention to detail that makes it a necessary purchase....

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1. Roy Ayers – Coffy Is The Color
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Sarah Webster Fabio Boss Soul: 12 Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio (1972)Smithsonian Folkways

Tough, tough, tough proto-female rap featuring raw percussion and super-funky accompaniment. This is like Gil Scott Heron's '125th and Lennox' album meets...

Black Spoken Word Funk/Soul

– Work it out
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1. – Work it out
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Street and Gangland Rhythms Beats And Improvisations By Six Boys In Trouble (1959)Smithsonian Folkways

Street percussion, drumming, songs and chants recorded in New York in 1959 by a group of street kids. Kind of like a prototype Haryou Percussion Group...

Black Spoken Word

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Mary Lou Williams Mary Lou's Mass Smithsonian Folkways

The long-awaited reissue of Mary Lou Williams's magnum opus of religious jazz: Mary Lou's Mass. Newsweek called the score "an encyclopedia of black music,...

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1. – Willis
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Lloyd McNeill Asha (1969)Soul Jazz Records

New edition of this very rare deep spiritual jazz album, the debut release from flautist Lloyd McNeill released on his private-press Asha...

– Asha
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Sarah Webster Fabio Jujus - Alchemy of the Blues (1976)Smithsonian Folkways

Super-tough funky, funky, funky female proto-rap poetry from Sarah Webster Fabio. Killer! Armed with an incredible rhythm section this album is a classic...

Black Spoken Word Funk/Soul

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Chaka Khan What Cha Gonna Do For Me (1981)Warner Brothers

Awesome album! Includes the all-time boogie CLASSIC "I Know You, I Live You"! Essential! Superb New York Loft/Garage disco soul.

Funk/Soul Loft/Garage/Warehouse Classics Disco

– I Know You, I Love You

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Gary Bartz Music Is My Sanctuary Capitol

Classic jazz funk album produced by the brilliant Mizell brothers! Features "Music Is My Sanctuary" and "Carnival De L'esprit"!

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Sun Ra & His Arkestra The Lost Arkestra Series - Part 1 Kindred Spirits

3 unreleased tracks from the Art Yard vaults. On the A-Side 'Along Came Ra' ft. June Tyson. The B-side comes with a beautiful edit of 'The Sky Is A Sea...

– Along Came Ra
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Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Research Arkestra Planets of Life and Death Strut

Strut and Art Yard collude once more for the first release anywhere of a live Sun Ra performance from Amiens, France in 1973, Planets Of Life Or Death....

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Sun Ra And His Mythic Science Arkestra The Paris Tapes : Live At Le Theatre Du Chatelet 1971 Art yard / Kindred Spirits

Previously unreleased phenomenal astro-free jazz session from Sun Ra Live at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, 1971! The vinyl features three tracks...

– Discipline 27
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Joe Harriott / Amancio D'Silva Quartet Hum Dono Vocalion

Arguably one of the finest and highly sought-after British Jazz albums EVER!!!! This is the first time this jazz masterpiece has been re-issued...

– Stephano's Dance
– Spring Low, Sweet Harriott
– Ballad For Goa
– N.N.N.T.
– Hum Dono
– Jaipur

1. – Stephano's Dance
2. – Spring Low, Sweet Harriott
3. – Ballad For Goa
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New Thing!Deep Jazz in the USA Soul Jazz Records

New Thing! tells the story of Deep Jazz in the USA. Post-Civil Rights, Post- Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, Post-John Coltrane, this album shows how...

– Maulawi - Street Rap
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– Lloyd Mcneil - Home Rule
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1. – Maulawi - Street Rap
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Great deep funky fusion!

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Following on from their recent New Thing album of Deep Jazz in USA (Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Alice Coltrane, Archie Shepp), Soul Jazz Records are...

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The Blackbyrds Night Grooves (1978)Bgp / Fantasy

Featuring the rare groove classics "Happy Music", "Do It Fluid" and "Rock Creek Park"

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