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Alfred Lion considered pianist-composer Andrew Hill as unique as Thelonious Monk and documented Hill’s music with a fervor. Recorded in 1964 with a quartet...

Stanley Turrentine’s stellar 1964 album, In Memory Of, traversed swinging hard bop, beautiful balladry and African rhythms with the saxophonist fronting...

Stanley Turrentine’s 1966 soul jazz classic Rough ‘N Tumble finds a deep and bluesy groove that doesn’t let up from start to finish. Joining Turrentine...

Hammond B3 organist Freddie Roach began a run of Blue Note leader dates with his excellent 1962 debut Down To Earth. The deeply soulful set was a showcase...

Beautiful, a different Hammond B3 sound than Smith, fabulous ballads, great swing, this man should have been huge but disappeared back to Cook County in...

Pianist Andrew Hill burst onto the scene in 1963–64 with a torrent of creativity that produced five remarkable albums including Andrew!!! featuring saxophonist...

Following his excellent 1963 debut Evolution, trombonist Grachan Moncur III ventured even deeper into experimental waters on 1964’s Some Other Stuff,...

Duke Pearson’s great 1964 album Wahoo! was a perfect encapsulation of his talents as a pianist, composer and bandleader. Writing for a sextet featuring...

Trumpeter Booker Little made only a few albums during his tragically short life including his astounding debut Booker Little 4 & Max Roach recorded in...

The Three Sounds were one of the most prolific groups on the Blue Note roster from the late-1950s into the early 1970s. Led by pianist Gene Harris the...

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard burst out of the gates in 1960 with a torrent of creativity that produced six classic albums in two years including Here To Stay...

Booker Ervin cut two stellar Blue Note records in the late-60s including Tex Book Tenor which had to wait until 2005 for its first standalone release....

Saxophonist Joe Henderson expanded his palette on his vigorous 1966 album Mode for Joe with a dynamic septet featuring Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Bobby...

KILLER Blue Note album - 100% essential.

One of jazz’s most tragically overlooked geniuses, Herbie Nichols was a highly original piano stylist and a composer of tremendous imagination and eclecticism....

Super killer dance jazz classic Blue Note. 'Chilli Peppers' is one of the toughest tunes ever, a mainstay of Gilles Peterson/jazz dance back in the days...

The only one of tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks’ albums as a leader to be released during his too-brief lifetime, 1960’s True Blue is a hard bop masterpiece...

SEMINAL MONSTER LP!!The definitive jazz funk album produced by the Mizell brothers. A classic all the way featuring the essential rare groove cuts 'Change',...

Madlib invades Blue Note! Hip hop producer extroardinaire and world class jazz fiend Madlib gets let loose in the Blue Note vaults with his sampler!

Wicked 1967 album. Recommended.

Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, James Spaulding, Larry Ridley, Harold Mabern, Big Black. Classic Blue Note session.

Horace Parlan struck out in style as a bandleader in 1960 with a swathe of albums for Blue Note, amongst which was this dazzling display with his quintet....

All the best music has a community underneath it. The extended family around London’s Total Refreshment Centre (TRC) connects continents and generations,...

100% STONE COLD CLASSIC BLUE NOTE LP!The musical partnership between vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and tenor saxophonist Harold Land fully blossomed on...

"I’ve been waiting over 30 years for this to come out officially" Gilles Peterson "Donald Byrd in a super rare 1973 public appearance of the Mizell...

In November 1960, trumpeter Donald Byrd brought his quintet in to the Half Note Café in New York City to record this soulful, swinging, and highly enjoyable...

Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson’s 1966 album Stick-Up! found him in the company of a new band line-up with Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Lewis, and...

**Late 50s hard bop! Coltrane's second on Blue Note.** John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, bandleaderPaul Chambers – double bassKenny Drew – pianoCurtis...

Glenn Underground is the founding member of the Strictly Jaz Unit. He was raised on disco classics and freeform jazz in Chicago's Southside, the place...

Glenn Underground is the founding member of the Strictly Jaz Unit. He was raised on disco classics and freeform jazz in Chicago's Southside, the place...

Born and raised in the birthplace of House Music, Paul Johnson was known for his raw, soulful, and infectious sound, that helped shape Chicago's house...

Born and raised in the birthplace of House Music, Paul Johnson was known for his raw, soulful, and infectious sound, that helped shape Chicago's house...

Stone-cold ROOTS CLASSIC from the legendary Gladiators recorded for Studio One in the early 1970s and now on this freshly cut new crisp 45. This is THE...

Essential 1969 album from Gal Costa, one of the defining voices of the Tropicalia movement.It showcases a bold fusion of psychedelia, Brazilian pop, rock,...

Jackie Mittoo makes it clear why he's the funkiest reggae musician ever to live on earth. 'Get Up and Get It' is simply one of the TOUGHEST reggae/funk...

RIYL: Porter Ricks, NWAQ, Huerco S., Kit ClaytonSiccar Point is the second album release from Intertoto, and is a study of the geographical extremes on...

Boom female reggae funk MONSTER tunes! Two hardcore bomb dancefloor fillers from Jerry Jones originally released on Studio One in 1970.'There's A Chance...

Riding a hefty drop down bass riff courtesy of the track’s producer, acclaimed DJ/artist, Sub Focus, the Belfast / Derry trio, KNEECAP, have focused...

Two KILLA tunes from The Soul Vendors. Absolutely SEMINAL foundation groundbreaking late 60s reggae cuts from Studio One. The Soul Vendors (+ their other...

Discover a Hidden Gem of Brazilian Music. Recorded in the same whirlwind year as the legendary “Clube da Esquina” this self-titled solo debut finds...

Soul Jazz Records new Junglist! is a heavyweight selection of classic and rare original Jungle and features Krome & Time, Cutty Ranks, M-Beat, Bizzy B,...

Stones Throw Records debuts new imprint Listening Position with the long-awaited reissue of Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy’s spiritual jazz masterpiece African...

Melodies International next record features a previously unreleased collaboration between the Ariwa camp (Mad Professor’s label and studio) and young...

4 Reggae Legends unite in this new instrumental song. In addition to the riddim makers that are the backbone of this project; Mafia & Fluxy, this time...

Rare mid 70s Freddie Mckay vocal cut over a wicked early roots rhythm which is brought into focus on Gladstone Anderson tuff piano instrumental on the...

Alternative mixes of Phyllis Dillon's classic rocksteady cut of "Perfidia" with "Love The One You're With" on the flip. 7" single plays at 33rpm

Originally released as a J.A. white label in 1972, great vocal cut from Don Peart with instrumental on the flip. All Moodisc copies sealed & limited..

Ketu records say: Amade Cyrille was the man of people, loved and cherished by all. He was a great traditional musician who was singing only in local...

Ketu Records say: We had to travelled to Eastern Nigeria in order to meet Sammy Obot's siblings. They told us about Sammy Obot's story that you will find...

Ketu Records say: We spent many years to track the artists of The Faces. We first found Mr Collins, Mr Adolphus Oge and Sett Evie after, then Lucky Osokpo...

Al Wootton's debut on AD 93 expands his sound into immersive folk-techno landscapes that are at once meditative and also rhythmically alive. The 13-minute...

With Implodendo in una accecante oscurità (‘Imploding in a Blinding Darkness’), Gigi Masin explores the fragile space between doubt and illumination....

With Implodendo in una accecante oscurità (‘Imploding in a Blinding Darkness’), Gigi Masin explores the fragile space between doubt and illumination....

Leviathan Whispers is an album of longings, laments, deleriums and drones, savage and sublime. Brass and woodwind instruments sing over and through autumnal...

Recorded in collaboration with Nils Frahm at Berlin's Leiter Studio, Ganavya's fourth album is destined to carve its own path to recognition due to its...

An eerie, unsettling benchmark for wyrd television in the 1970s, Sky was created by Doctor Who writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin & is acknowledged as one...

Jeremy Thomas’ 1978 production of The Shout, adapted from a short story by Robert Graves and directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, is highly regarded amongst...

By now the Montreal-based producer has become a lodestar in dance music, yet this new project feels like him stepping back into his own lineage with renewed...

“The group has no niche, it doesn’t fit in anywhere,” explains Necessaries drummer Jesse Chamberlain in a 1980 Melody Maker interview. “We just...

Originally released in Turkey 1973, Özkent’s masterpiece (creation) of an all instrumental Turkish Psychedelic Funk album, filled with classic beats...