Herbie Hancock Mr Hands (1980)

This 1977 studio recording finds Herbie Hancock embracing his jazz roots. The straightforward trio setting puts Hancock’s piano front and center. Backed by Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams behind the drums, the recording features Hancock originals as well as the Trio’s take on Miles Davis’ 'Milestones'.

Though recorded at fabled San Francisco studio The Automatt, the recording was only immediately issued in Japan. To this day Japan is the only country to see a vinyl release of this session - until now!

An essential classic! The heaviest funky jazz ever recorded. Deep, deep, deep. As good as it gets!

180 gram audiophile issue vinyl.

Tough tough Headhunters-stylee fusion. Moody! Original sound track from the 1974 film 'Death Wish', written by Herbie Hancock.

w/ Ron Carter, Wynton Marsalis and Tony Williams

'Sextant' from 1972 was recorded just before 'Headhunters', and can be seen in the same vein, but it's more than just an introduction to a masterpiece. It features a kind of post-modal, free impressionism while gracing the edges of funk. Three long instrumental tracks explore how far minimalism in jazz can go. 

Seminal jazz funk fusion album including top funky re-version of Hancock's own "Cantelope Island". Also "Doin It" and "Gentle Thoughts" all with the great Headhunters in full effect.

Herbie Hancock's debut album in 1962 launched a phenomenal career. Features Freddie Hubbard and Dexter Gordon and includes the seminal 'Watermelon Man".

This formidable recording neatly summarises Herbie Hancock's work in the 60s. The title track, Cantaloupe Island, provided inspiration for US3, who sampled it heavily. Herbie's piano skills are matched by some exemplary trumpet work on Cantaloupe and Watermelon Man.

THIS IS A VERY GOOD REPRESENTATION OF HERBIES BLUE NOTE WORK, IF YOU
DONT WANT TO PLOUGH THROUGH HIS WHOLE ALBUMS OF THIS PERIOD.
MAIDEN VOYAGE, CANTALOUPE ISLAND AND WATERMELON MAN ARE ALL HERE.
RECOMMENDED. A GOOD BUY.

Brilliant, less-well-known Herbie Hancock album featuring a larger group than usual with guitar and trombone! Check the superb "King Cobra"! Recommended!

Stone cold classic Herbie Hancock featuring Freddie Hubbard, Ron Carter and Tony Williams! Includes the timeless 'Cantaloupe Island'

Great album fusing modal jazz piano with latin percussion  - a classic!

A really super record from Herbie Hancock - one that's almost completely improvised over Latin percussion.

Reissue of this mega-rare, blue-eyed crossover soul tune 'Baby Take My Hand' from 1971!

Solid soul/disco

Hot latin sounds! Looks cheesy but pretty solid big latin arrangements

Roy Ayer's still hot - man don't stop

Funky and SOLID

It's the jam!

60s guitar instrumentals.

HEAVY afro-cuban percussion jazz rock lp. Original USA vinyl 

Seminal fusion album - includes the killer "Brazilian Rhyme", "Runnin", "Serpentine Fire", "Fantasy"...as good as it gets! EWF's last great album.

Killer funky/jazz/rock.

Originally released in 1967. 180 gram audiophile vinyl sourced from the original masters

Fifth Dimension is the third album by the American folk rock band The Byrds and was released in July 1966 on Columbia Records.

30-track instrumental album from Koushik, who specializes in making that hazy, hip hop based downbeat shit that you could easily compare to contemporaries such as Four Tet (who released Koushik's first single on his Text label), RJD2, and DJ Shadow. What sets Koushik apart from the others is a beautiful 60s psych pop element that tends to pervade throughout. It shows itself in the spacious panned strings, acoustic guitars, and harpsichords that fall in and out of each other, and the beats have a harder regimented classic true school hip hop sound, that Fourtet and Prefuse tend to stray away from.

2 LPs on 1 CD. Includes the killer modal track 'Half and Half' and loads more. Deep and essential IMpulse albums

Jones brought in McCoy Tyner and Jimmy Garrison (both of whom played with him on Coltrane's My Favorite Things and would join him on A Love Supreme ) for the brilliant Illumination! ('63), then recorded another stellar LP for Impulse!, Dear John C. ('65). Jones is the engine driving Half and Half; Nuttin' Out Jones; Anthropology; Smoke Rings; Love Bird , and more!

The definitive funky soul jazz monster! Nuff tunes! Monster, monster, monster funk jazz bomb! Killer late 60s with 'Wiggle-Waggle'.

UK troupe, GoGo Penguin return with their a self-titled album for Blue Note; once again, blending their signature jazz style with electronic experimentalism that joins the dots between their contemporaries such as BadBadNotGood through to Radiohead and Aphex Twin.

Essential wigged-out rocky funk! Out-there psychedelic brilliance!

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib are in collusion once again, following up on their superb 'Pinata' album. Madlib experiments with a change in production, with results no less compelling and Gibbs' raps still hit hard. Featuring guest MC spots from the likes of Killer Mike, Pusha T, Anderson .Paak, Black Thought, and Yasiin Bey.

1978 original copy vinyl.

Original = Original USA Vinyl VG+ /Sleeve VG (wear,promo sticker)
100% Guarantee on this and all Original Vinyl at Sounds Of The Universe - 'if you're not happy we're not happy' or your money back!

Tough, tough Creed Taylor production with heavyweight CTI line-up - Bob James, Airto, Idris Muhammad, Eric Gale, Richard Tee and full orchestra. Deep version of 'Inner City Blues'.

Classic funk album from 1974 featuring the massive "Just Kissed My Baby", "People Say", "What 'Cha Say", "Jungle Man", "Hey Pocky Away", "It Ain't No Use" and "Africa"

This is the best Meters album !

Acid Jazz reissue this reissue of this ultra rare album featuring the modern soul / disco essential, 'Gonna Find A True Love'!

Brilliant double disc compilation of the best tracks from the great psychedelic soul-rock fusion band! Rotary Connection were fronted by the amazing voice of Minnie Ripperton and produced and arrange by the genius that was Charles Stepney! This compilation features loads of their best tracks including 'Respect', 'Sunshine of Your Love', 'Love Has Fallen On Me', and more!

'Cyan' is the third full length LP from San Francisco Bay Area-based band The Seshen. Contmeporary R&B/electronic fusion. Fans of Hiatus Kaiyote to Thundercat should check!

Seminal jazz funk deep fusion classic featuring "A Chance For Peace".

Essential in anyone's collection!

Multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer Stimulator Jones deliver his debut LP on the mighty Stones Throw. Every element of every track on the album is played and produced from the man himself, and draws on elements of hip hop, electro, soul and funk.

Powerful new spiritual jazz from Chile on Soul Jazz Records!

This album comes as a very limited one-off unique pressing of 1000-edition vinyl, limited editon CD and digital release.

Enrique Rodríguez and the Negra Chiway Band group have an instantly powerful and unique sound that is reminiscent of the ensembles of Sun Ra and his Arkestra as well as Horace Tapscott and his Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, one that channels the righteous spirits of Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and McCoy Tyner together with a stunning Latin rhythmical and new consciousness and percussive energy. Added to this are elements of the Samurai film soundtracks of Akira Kurosawa, Popol Vuh’s musical spirituality (especially their work with film director Werner Herzog), Tibetan Buddhism and over-blowing chants, that all combine to give a truly unique new sound.

Enrique Rodríguez is a composer, percussionist, keyboardist, and producer from Santiago, Chile, whose work shows many similarities with the music featured on Soul Jazz Records’ recent collection ‘Kaleidoscope - New Spirts Known and Unknown’, featuring new forward-looking jazz artists including Mathew Halsall, Theon Cross, Emma-Jean Thackray and Makaya McCraven.

Like all these artists, Rodríguez’s work is a progressive and experimental fusion of earlier influences that combine into a new and definitely 21st century ground-breaking sound that, on account of its South American setting, give the group its truly unique feeling. Hypnotic modal piano riffs, powerful brass and flutes, an army of Latin percussion instruments, and addictive vocal chants all combine in this powerful mix of radical 60s Afro-centric jazz, eastern spirituality and cosmology, and Latin American rhythmical movement.

Awesome!