'Live At The Cookery' gives a definitive look at talented pianist Mary Lou Williams in her later years. In these duets with bassist Brian Torff, Williams...
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...
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,...
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...
Amazing deep, deep jazz as featured on our "New Thing!" compilation! Includes heavyweight African/Eastern styles and the out-there 13 minute version of...
Excellent recordings of Haitian voodoo music in all its many forms and variations. Comes with superb booklet.
Cuts from live Vodou ceremonies are juxtaposed...
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...
Great compilation of super-rare tracks from highly under-rated American jazz flautist and saxophonist Nathan Davis!
Thirteen tracks from ten mega-rare...
Sublime album: half are instrumentals by Shorter with Herbie Hancock, Wagner Tiso and Airto, but it's the other half featuring Brazilian vocalist Milton...
Beautiful spiritual deep jazz compliation of new artists from all around the world!
The music is influenced by jazz greats such as Alice Coltrane, Pharoah...
The third instalment from Jazzman's impeccable "Spiritual Jazz" series unearthing another sixteen '60's and '70's modal, esoteric and spiritual jazz obscurities...
Back in stock..All time roots classic from 1977 from the good doctor talking about an incident that actually happened in Jamaica with the poison flour!!...
Reissue of an unbelievably rare private press album that's chock full of the good stuff - all kinds of funky femme soul, cool n' groovy organ/flute/guitar...
How the music of USA, the Caribbean and Western Africa is connected by the slave trade with comparisons between the various musics and instruments in the...
All time classic tuff funky reggae cut from The Maytals which was originally a B-side!! Jump up party tune with rare intrumental version on the flip. don't...
Mellow rare groove classic featuring the blissed out must have title track "Everybody Loves The Sunshine", "It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind" and more!
During his nearly 40-year tenure with Folkways Records, Moe Asch, the company's founder, amassed a catalogue of almost 2,200 recordings that had expanded...
Limited to just 500 copies only. Unreleased material from '90's cult techno/electro outfit Photodementia. Seven futuristic techno tracks running just under...