Ella Fitzgerald Ella (1969)

Seminal

Definitive album.

Folk-funk classic! Check out 'Baby It's Alright". Bad Tune!

UK original vinyl

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Now, finally, after fifty years in the business, George Clinton is ready to deliver the whole P-Funk saga. It's a story without compare: the musical innovations, the rock-and-roll debauchery, the ups and downs of his career. More to the point, it's a story told by the man who made it happen, and told in his own unique style, which combines an almost photographic recollection of the events of his life with an impish sense of humour and a philosophical bent. There's no one like George Clinton, and no one better prepared to tell the tale of a half-century of innovation, triumph, disappointment, addiction, contradiction, artistry, fandom, fun, and - above all - funk.

Rare independent Highlife by Austin Power (not Mike Myers)

Original Nigerian vinyl.
Vinyl VG (listen actual audio), sleeve F/G- (lots of wear, tear to right edge of sleeve)
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
(Very rare independent release - none for sale on discogs)

Very cool original Oliver Nelson LP, arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson. Sounds like a proto-David Axelrod production from 70s. Deep!

Original Nigerian vinyl. Killer - check audio! Independent label.
Vinyl VG- sleeve G  
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+

It's a classic ...

Since his passing in August 2004, Rick James has remained a legendary icon whose name is nearly synonymous with funk music-and who help[ed popularized the genre, creating a lasting influence on pop artists from Prince to Jay-Z to Snoop Dogg. In Glow, Rick James and acclaimed music biographer David Ritz collaborated to write a no-holds-barred memoir about the boy and the man who became a music superstar in America's disco age. It tells of James's upbringing and how his mother introduced him to musical geniuses of the time. And it reveals details on many universally revered artists, from Marvin Gaye and Prince to Nash, Teena Marie, and Berry Gordy. 

Seminal jazz dance classic from vibes genius Johnny Lytle. 'Kiliano' was a well-worn cut at Gilles Peterson's Dingwalls club in the 90s.

Composer, arranger, bandleader, vibist and percussionist, Louie Ramirez was a major figure on the NY latin scene. Here, on his second outing for Fania, he covers mambo, boogaloo and tipico.

Comb & Razor Sound presents15 heavy tracks recorded in the decade between 1972 and 1982, spotlighting rare music from “Calabar” superstars such as Etubom Rex Williams, Cross River Nationale, Charles “Effi” Duke, The Doves and Mary Afi Usuah. The package features a magazine-style booklet containing a wealth of information about the milieu with rare photographs and illustrations. The Calabar-Itu Road is the major artery linking modern-day Cross River and Akwa Ibom States. And Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) will link the region’s music to the rest of the world!  

Essential stuff!

RARE Original Nigerian Vinyl LP VG+  /Sleeve VG (writing on sleeve)
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MO' META BLUES is a punch-drunk-on-culture memoir in which Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson tells his own story while tackling the greats, the lates, the fakes, the headliners, and the almost-weres of music, as well as pivotal moments in black art and culture. His book will reveal his own formative experiences, such as growing up in 1970s North Philly with 1950s doo-wop singers as parents, finding his way though music, and ultimately founding and rising up with The Roots, as well as some random musings about his run-ins with celebrities and playing with his idols. This book is a psychedelic amalgam of self-examination, music, pop culture, black culture, and is absolutely one-of-a-kind!

All time latin dance jazz classic! Includes the title track "Para Los Rumberos" (For Dancers) which says it all. As covered by Santana but this is the heavyweight original!

Rare Original Venezuelan issue Fania. VG/VG - listen actual audio

Nice vocal soul group

BACK IN STOCK - these are the last copies ever!

Direct from Brazil - Wicked new Brazilian book featuring 100 post-Tropicalia psychedelic records and their artwork that followed on from the groundbreaking and genre defining Tropicalia - Ou Panis et Circencis concept album from Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Os Mutantes.

Lo Borges, Os Brazoes, Brazilian Octopus, Ronnie Von, Rita Lee, Lula Cortes, Jards Macale, Milton Nascimento, Egberto Gismonti - they're all here!

Featuring text (in English and Portuguese) and artwork on all these utterly essential albums! Loads of rarities, loads of classics!

Limited copies!

Quality digital roots hi-life

Rare Original Nigerian vinyl.
Vinyl VG+ , sleeve VG
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+

Jazz writings.

Original Nigerian Vinyl! Digital highlife

Rare Independent Nigerian vinyl (not on discogs!) . VG/Sleeve G+ (wear)

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Jazz vocals, original 1965 USA vinyl. Rare

Nice version of Watermelon Man.

s/hand paperback biography

Rare Original Nigerian vinyl.
Vinyl VG+, sleeve G ONLY (lot of wear/stapled spine)
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+

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In 'People Get Ready', musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil-rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s has informed jazz in the years since then. They bring nuance to historical accounts of the avant-garde, the New Thing, Free Jazz, "non-idiomatic" improvisation, fusion, and other forms of jazz that have flourished since the 1960s, and they reveal the contemporary relevance of those musical practices. Many of the participants in the jazz scenes discussed are still active performers. A photographic essay captures some of them in candid moments before performances. Other pieces revise standard accounts of well-known jazz figures, such as Duke Ellington, and lesser-known musicians, including Jeanne Lee; delve into how money, class, space, and economics affect the performance of experimental music; and take up the question of how digital technology influences improvisation. 'People Get Ready' offers a vision for the future of jazz based on an appreciation of the complexity of its past and the abundance of innovation in the present.

RARE Original Nigerian vinyl. Nigeria digital roots reggae.

Vinyl VG+, sleeve VG
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+

Wicked quiet storm/uplifting soul  "Feel So Good" "Maybe I'm Amazed"

USA original vinyl

Second-hand hardback 

One of Cannonball's seminal 'in-studio/live' albums produced by David Axelrod. Intimate, well recorded and well-funky!

USA ORIGINAL VINYL