Following on from the release of 'Tender in Lahore' earlier in 2020, 22a releases the full LP-length suite of improvised Ragas from a one day recording...
Original compositions alongside cover versions of classics by the likes of Alice and John Coltrane, The Stylistics, The Jackson 5, Pharoah Sanders, Kate...
Superb spiritual deepness once more channelling Coltrane, Tyner et al with the great Idris Muhammed on drums - this is a super tight set, wicked super...
**Essential Sun Ra release on Strut!** Sun Ra took his legendary Arkestra over to Egypt in 1971 to play a series of concerts which were later released...
Untouchable deep, spiritual jazz once more on Black Jazz from Doug Carn, with the soaring vocals of his then wife Jean Carn. Untouchable stuff!
Of all...
**A collection of Zimbabwean group Hallelujah Chicken Run Band’s tracks from 1974-1979.** Originally playing the Congolese Rumba and Afro-rock styles...
Fantastic album on Black Jazz, originally released in 1974 and featuring the seminal vocal version of Herbie Hancock's 'Maiden Voyage' - powerful, uplifting...
New, extraordinary music by Cosmic Vibrations ft Dwight Trible. An interplanetary journey from this new, LA based 6-strong ensemble of experienced musicians...
Volume 4 in the 'Mr Bongo Record Club' continues in the same mould as with previous editions; a selection of staff favourites and rare lost gems from the...
Without warning, this group of young girls from a remote region of Benin is shaking up the world of garage rock with breathtaking freshness, ingenuity,...
When David Bowie and Iggy Pop escaped LA to go Interrailing in the mid-70s, they heard a new European music that was largely devoid of Anglo-American rock...
Marshall Allen directs the Arkestra's first studio album in over twenty years, ‘Swirling'! This new recording represents the "continuation of a heartfelt...
When the band Trees Speak, coming out of nowhere, released an exclusive one-off 100-pressing white label 45, described as CAN/NEU! meets LIQUID LIQUID,...
The rags-to-riches chronicle of Penny Penny's life would be remarkable if he had only released his smash debut Shaka Bundu and packed houses for a few...
The Awakening are the heaviest of all the groups to release on Black Jazz Records - this is simply a spiritual jazz classic album - every track is superb....
Reissue of this crucial US electro-funk/no-wave LP from 1983! Features the party rousing classics, 'I Need A Freak' (as covered by Egyptian Lover and sampled...
Bunny Lee recorded a massive volume of remarkably consistent music in the 70s. This compilation brings together rare and unreleased cuts that put the listener...
Wewantsounds reissue this killer, in-demand, funky jazz rarity from trumpeter, Billy Brooks, featuring that classic break on 'Forty Days', as sampled by...
Truly seminal work, first published in 1977 by writer and photographer Valerie Wilmer, that details the incredible energy and characters behind the African-American...