"This album coincides with the release of the massive hardback deluxe book, Freedom Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz, original cover art compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, released on Soul Jazz Records featuring the cover artwork of many...

"...1968-81. Ghana in the 1970s: highlife, rock, and soul collide and merge with tradition and culture. New styles meet old styles. A new generation renews old musical customs. New fashions meet old fashions, creating new fusions. Soundway presents...

"Not another all-star rehash of Jaco's fretless pyrotechnics, Gospel for J.F.P. instead targets the writing talents of the late, great genius of electric bass. It's easy to forget how good of a songwriter Jaco Pastorious was, as this saavy record reminds us via interpretations of some of his better and less known pieces. Its wide-screen approach is clear in the opener, 'Three Views of a Secret' - a delightful meeting between gypsy guitarist Bireli Lagrene, fusioneer Hiram Bullock and Uruguyan vocal...

I gotta say that Bolan was never one of my personal favorites, although I did buy one 45 by T. Rex when I was 12. Arto Lindsay, Vernon Reid, Marc Ribot & Buckethead, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Chris Cochrane & others play the music of man so in touch with...

'Tom Cora's premature death in 1997 was a tragic blow to contemporary music. One of the founding members of the downtown improvising scene, Tom was a vital member of some of the most important cutting-edge groups of the the past twenty years, including...

Features Rez Abbasi, Paul Bollenback, Fareed Haque, Joel Harrison, Oz Noy, Kurt Rosenwinkel and many more!

“There are a mere handful of guitarists that have changed the way we think about the guitar over the past five or six decades. Pat Martino is perhaps one of the greatest and best-known of those icons.
The term "genius" is overused today, but Pat Martino was definitely one. His life story was the very definition of the word. Before Martino's passing in November, 2021, the Alternative...

"This is the second volume of “I Never Meta Guitar”, an ongoing compilation dedicated to the guitar, in its various possibilities and persuasions. It’s organized by one of the masters of this instrument, Elliott Sharp, and that says much about the...

In 1979, Ptose emerged from Niort, France. They were an experimental trio who released quite a number of releases, singles, compilation appearances, etc during 7 years of existence and earning them some comparisons to The Residents, and then they dissapeared from view. I own one of their albums, Ignobles Limaces, with a wonderful Mark Beyer cover and it’s a fun listen all these years later.
Obviously they made more of an impression on other musicians than I would have guessed, as this 19 track...

This features 5 solo improvised percussion/drum solos by : Frank Perry, John Stevens, Paul Lytton, Trevor Taylor and Eddie Prevost. As far as I know, all of these tracks are unavailable elsewhere. [FMR]

Sampler of artists from both the World Domination and Independent Projects labels. Includes tracks from Glenn Branca fans Tone, Half String, Scenic, and many more.

Pierre Favre Trio - Let's Talk About The Weather
Rolf Kühn Quartett - Circus Live
Peter Brötzmann Oktett - Finally
Joe Viera - Ed Kroeger Quartett - Vibration
Joki Freund Quintett - Five To Five
Marion Brown - In Memory Of John Coltrane
Joki Freund Quintett - Gluga Gluga Blues
"The long-awaited CD release of a true 'holy' modern/free jazz gems of the late 1960s. The original double LP was issued by Meno Liechtenstein's CB RECORDS- he was also the organizer of the...

Irving Stone was a fixture on the downtown music scene since the mid-seventies. Every musician knew and respected this longtime music aficionado who had seen everything from Bird with Bud to Dolphy with Trane. His presence at a gig always meant that th...

"The best known girl group in Texas during the late 60s was The Heart Beats of Lubbock. They made it to Hollywood for a Battle of the Bands contest on the Paul Revere and Mark Lindsay hosted TV show, Happening '68. The Heart Beats shut down all the other male groups and won the Battle of the Bands on nationwide TV. Considering that no one in the band was older than 17, this was quite an accomplishment.
All seven recordings by The Heart Beats are included on this album, along with other great female...

The roots of 'Brit-jazz' are right here. Conditionally recommended!

"First released in May 1961 as a (slightly premature) 10th Anniversary celebration of the famous Soho jazz venue. Founded in 1952, the Flamingo in Wardour Street played host to..

The soundtrack to one of the greatest jazz feature films ever made. Filmed over the four days of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. This CD reissue features 16 inspired and very musically diverse performances, especially for a ‘jazz festival’ programmed in 1958, which makes it all the more of a wonderful time capsule 60 years later! And Anita! And her hat!

1. Train and the River - The Jimmy Giuffre Trio
2. Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk
3. Loose Walk - Sonny Stitt
4. Sweet Georgia Brown...

PROMO

"Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & '80s -- a treasure-trove of rare and unusual recordings from East Africa. Spread out over two CDs, Kenya Special is accompanied by detailed liner notes, original artwork and photographs...

“Klar!80: a label with no program This compilation represents an initial -- and long overdue -- foray into the years 1980-82, when Klar!80 was a cassette label, paired with a shop of the same name in Düsseldorf. Founded by Rainer Rabowski, Klar!80 released 18 cassettes of varying length and a box set containing three 12" vinyl EPs which fetch handsome prices among collectors nowadays. The Klar!80 - Ein Kassettenlabel aus Düsseldorf 1980-1982 collection reaches even further back in time than the Sammlung...

With lp-only tracks by Adele Sebastian, Nate Morgan, Jesse Sharps, Billie Harris, Creative Arts Ensemble, Dadisi Komolafe, Rickey Kelley and Roberto Miranda. "All of this music was recorded in the early 80's. Seven of the nine tunes were released on di...

If you love/follow jazz of the 40s, you eventually end up here, if you didn't start here: with an appreciation and understanding of how the Hispanic (mostly Cuban, but others as well) residents of NYC mixed with the emerging boppers in the 40s and came...

"This compilation recalls an exciting time in the former West Germany when a real spirit of optimism prevailed and a musical phenomenon emerged which became internationally known as Krautrock. With performances from Karthago, Grobschnitt, Guru Guru...

For fans of psychedelic music, this compilation of tracks from 1969 - 1974 (late by US psych standards, but it took a few years for the patchouli oil to hit Africa) is well done and great fun and features music I doubt you have heard before. "This is v...

“Crammed's legendary MADE TO MEASURE Series of New Music was described at the time as the aural equivalent of a collection of art books. Charting a map of some of the most interesting instrumental music of the era, thirty-five albums came out between 1983 and 1995. The loose idea behind the title of the series was: this is music which has been or could have been "made to measure" as a soundtrack for other media (film, theatre, dance, video).
Several years ago the label discreetly started...

“Mixed Up Minds investigates the overlooked underbelly of British rock and pop from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Part Eleven of the intrepid series captures a further glimpse of the verbal rumblings from British suburbia with twenty melodic musings from a variety of unsung wonders whose place in the British pop phenomena is now safely secure. Featuring: Peter E Bennet, Robert Holman, Twice As Nice, Macon Jug, Titanic, Black Jacks, Peter E Bennet & The Cooperation Choir, Rastafari, Shillingford Mill...