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Torn Light Records
356 Ludlow Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
513-873-6995
Monday - Saturday
11:00AM - 8:00PM
Sunday
11:00AM - 5:00PM
Torn Light Records
356 Ludlow Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
513-873-6995
Monday - Saturday
11:00AM - 8:00PM
Sunday
11:00AM - 5:00PM
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Prestige – PR 7243 1962 USA Media Condition – VG Sleeve Condition – VG, ringwear on back of jacket. Back of jacket heavily stained.
If you were going to envision the ultimate avant-garde meeting-of-the-minds jam session, who would you pick? Even the most hopeful fan of strange and innovative music couldn’t have seen [...]
Reissue, originally released in 1979. Recorded live at WKCR Radio in New York City in 1978 and issued by Ictus the following year, Environment for Sextet encounters John Zorn at the earliest [...]
Originally issued in 1977, Trio Live was recorded in 1976, only a handful of days after Steve Lacy and Andrea Centazzo’s Clangs (ICTUSRE 001LP) was laid to tape, presumably capturing [...]
Reissue, originally released in 1977. In the history of free improvised music, there has been arguably no greater advocate for the idiom’s power and potential than the English guitarist [...]
Ictus Records’ reissue initiative fittingly begins with Clangs, the first LP issued by the label in 1976. Featuring Steve Lacy on soprano saxophone, bird calls, and pocket synthesizer (or [...]
The US release of Peter Brötzmann’s new book, Along The Way, chronicling the last decade of his artwork (2010-2020). This beautiful 228-page hardback featuring full color reproductions was [...]
Joshua Abrams’ first Natural Information album from 2010. In his book Powershift, published in 1990, writer and businessman Alvin Toffler predicted that the century ahead would be defined [...]
2021 repress. An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for [...]
Revised and expanded second edition of Hartmut Geerken and Chris Trent’s comprehensive reference Omniverse Sun Ra, originally published in 1994. Full-color 304-page hardcover book. French [...]
2021 repress. LP version. 180 gram virgin vinyl, with original artwork restored. Spiritual Unity, recorded on July 10, 1964, is the album that made Albert Ayler and ESP-Disk’ famous (or, in [...]
Lee Morgan’s magnum opus The Sidewinder—recorded in 1963 and release in 1964—was both a comeback and a coronation. The prodigious trumpeter had debuted on Blue Note in 1956 at the age of 18, but [...]
Knitting Factory Records is proud to reissue Music Of Many Colours on limited edition rainbow starburst vinyl, exclusive to Record Store Day. This is the first pressing of the album since the [...]
HE VOICE OF AFROFUTURISTIC SCIENCE NON-FICTION! Undoubtedly the most sublime constellation in the Sun Ra cosmos, June Tyson’s voice is the perfect guide through one of the most challenging and [...]
Celestial Love contains recordings made in September 1982 at New York’s Variety Studios, which had hosted countless Sun Ra sessions since the late 1960s. This was one of the last extended [...]
Columbia – PG 32866 1974 USA Media Condition – VG+ (disc 1) VG (disc 2) – plays a little noisy, but a good copy Sleeve Condition – VG, visible ringwear, torn sticker residue issue, [...]
Cadet – MJ-1017M 1975 Japan, reissue Comes with OBI and insert Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, some light brown spots from age
RCA, RCA Camden – RGP-1179(M) 1976 Japan, reissue Comes with OBI and insert Media Condition – VG+, few very light marks on both sides Sleeve Condition – VG, some brown marks [...]
Contemporary Records – VIJ-28076 1986 Japan Comes with OBI and inserts Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, few very light marks on cover
Freedom – PA-9742 1979 Japan Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, comes with insert & OBI, faint discoloration
Rough Trade – VIP-4222 1987 Japan, reissue Comes with OBI and insert Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, couple very light marks on back
Fontana PAT-1051 1974 Japan Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, comes with OBI, insanely clean copy
Impulse!, MCA Records – AS-9183 1981 Japan, reissue Comes with OBI and insert Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, there are some light brown spots inside gatefold from age
Contemporary Records – LAX 3026 1975 Japan, reissue Comes with OBI and insert Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, light ringwear
Freedom – K18P-9387 1985 Japan Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, comes with insert & OBI, faint discoloration on white parts of LP jacket.
Arista AB-4161 1978 USA Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+ White Label Promo
Arista – AL1905 1976 USA Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+
Columbia PG26 1975 USA Media: VG+ Jacket: VG+ Top copy.
“While living in London I had an apartment with a small garden. During the summer around 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning, just as the day began, birds would gather here one by one and [...]
Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, July 6, 1973. Impulse! – MCA-39120 1989 US remaster Media Condition – VG, couple light scuff marks on both sides, close [...]
QUAD ABC Impulse! ASD 9280 1974 USA Media Condition – VG+ (low end. little bit of noise, some visible marks) Sleeve Condition – VG, ringwear, drill hole on jacket. Bottom edge 1″ split.
Repressed; LP version. Obi; includes four-page insert. Wewantsounds present the first official release outside of Japan for The Mystery Kindaichi Band’s The Adventures of Kindaichi Kosuke, [...]
Compilation of Gil Scott-Heron tracks from 1975-1984. Arista – ALB6-8306 1984 US comp Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, record comes in original inner, light [...]
Miles Davis’ performance at Jazz a Vienne on July 1, 1991 became one of his final live performances before he passed away on September 28, 1991, and this previously unreleased set includes two [...]
Double vinyl LP pressing. This newly discovered live-recording of a performance of the Love Supreme suite is a revelation. Recorded at The Penthouse in Seattle on October 2, 1965, this recording [...]
First album by the David Murray Octet. Early 1980s free jazz. Black Saint – BSR 0045 1980 Italy Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG, crease in top right corner, some edge wear
Original pressing with black labels having red ring. Recorded at Plaza Sound Studios, New York City, August 26, 27, 28 and 29, 1969. Throughout the album Bill Folwell’s bass is heard on the [...]
2019 bootleg Polydor pressing. This pressing has a pressing error, a skip in first 30 seconds. In September 1968, Marion Brown, who moved to Europe two years earlier, recorded the soundtrack of [...]
The musician and spiritual seeker Alice Coltrane was much more than just John Coltrane‘s second wife. One of the few harpists to feature prominently in jazz, she was also a renowned pianist [...]
Recognized as a skilled and sought after collaborator, Ted Byrnes solo albums cast a wide net that capture Byrnes’ adventurous and omnivorous approach to solo percussion. An alumnus of [...]
Recorded January 1971 at Ossian & Magne Studios. Genre defying, spacey free jazz. SouffleContinu Records – FFL009 / Futura Records – SON 04 2015 France, reissue Media Condition [...]
Though it’s hard to pick a winner among the estimable Black Jazz catalog, this 1972 release from bassist Henry “The Skipper” Franklin would have to be near the top of the list. Franklin got his [...]
Bassist Henry Franklin’s 1972 release for Black Jazz, The Skipper, is one of the highlights in a label catalog full of many, and his 1974 follow-up, The Skipper at Home (“The Skipper” is [...]
2021 repress. “Originally released in 1972, Lord Of Lords was Alice Coltrane’s final album for Impulse! and the last installment in her awe-inspiring trilogy that also included [...]
2021 repress; gatefold double LP version. This version is unmixed. Arguably one of the world’s most important underground dance music producer/DJs Theo Parrish lends his hands to selecting [...]
2021 repress. “Magical, mystical, Afrocentric, progressive — words that could be used to describe any number of musical compositions by Sun Ra or his cosmic brothers and sisters, from [...]
2021 repress. “The go-go band’s sought after debut album. Enriched funk. Magical, mystical, Afrocentric, progressive –words that could be used to describe any number of musical [...]
2015 release. Originally released 1967; exact reissue, 180 Gram, Gatefold sleeve. Part of the Back To Black series. Including digital download code. “During 1967-69 avant-garde innovator [...]