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  • As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
    As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
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    What our staff has to say: “A very good book about the scope of free jazz. The author being a music journalist has first hand accounts of viewing and interviewing […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – Chicago Waves
    Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – Chicago Waves
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    In late November of 2018, long-time collaborators (& life-long Los Angelenos) Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson flew to Chicago to participate in the album release performance of [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Hermann Nitsch: Life and Work: Recorded by Danielle Spera
    Hermann Nitsch: Life and Work: Recorded by Danielle Spera
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    The oral autobiography of the controversial Vienna Aktionist, with archival materials and additional writings by Nitsch A pioneer of Vienna’s postwar avant-garde and the most notorious member of [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Gilles Peterson Presents: International Anthem
    Gilles Peterson Presents: International Anthem
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a double-LP-length compilation of tracks from Chicago-born record label International Anthem curated by legendary London-based radio host, DJ, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Plunky & Oneness – Made Through Ritual
    Plunky & Oneness – Made Through Ritual
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    Strut present the first international release in over 30 years by legendary Afro-jazz group Oneness Of Juju with their new album Made Through Ritual on 4th July 2025. In 1975, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra – Sleeping Beauty
    Sun Ra – Sleeping Beauty
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    Strut proudly presents a new edition of one of Sun Ra’s most celebrated albums, Sleeping Beauty, reissued in its original artwork for the first time. Originally released in 1979 on […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Plunky & Oneness – Made Through Ritual
    Plunky & Oneness – Made Through Ritual
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    Strut present the first international release in over 30 years by legendary Afro-jazz group Oneness Of Juju with their new album Made Through Ritual on 4th July 2025. In 1975, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer – Different Rooms
    Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer – Different Rooms
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    Different Rooms is a collection of songs and musical motifs we composed, edited, and collaged in the weeks between late 2024 and early 2025. Most of the recorded material was […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gilles Peterson Presents:  International Anthem
    Gilles Peterson Presents: International Anthem
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a double-LP-length compilation of tracks from Chicago-born record label International Anthem curated by legendary London-based radio host, DJ, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Perez Prado – Voodoo Suite / Exotic Suite Of The Americas
    Perez Prado – Voodoo Suite / Exotic Suite Of The Americas
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In reissues, this “inspired 16-minute tone poem” has been paired with its monaural predecessor, “Voodoo Suite.” The format is the same, but the success is greater. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Klaus Schulze – “X”. Vol.2
    Klaus Schulze – “X”. Vol.2
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    “Each track on X or “Ten” (since it’s Schulze’s tenth release ) is titled after famous German personalities, but it’s the provocative electronic music within [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Fanfare For The Warriors
    The Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Fanfare For The Warriors
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    “The Art Ensemble of Chicago’s first (and arguably most significant) period concluded with this high-quality studio session, Fanfare for the Warriors. The quintet (trumpeter Lester [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Steve Lacy ‎– Stamps
    Steve Lacy ‎– Stamps
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    “Steve Lacy and his quintet are well featured on this double LP which documents two appearances at European festivals. In addition to the soprano/leader, altoist Steve Potts has long been [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Alphonse Mouzon ‎– Morning Sun
    Alphonse Mouzon ‎– Morning Sun
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    1981 all-star session with Herbie Hancock (piano/synth), Lee Ritenour (guitar), Michael Brecker (sax), Freddie Hubbard (flugelhorn), Hubert Laws (flute), and Paul Jackson, Jr (guitar). Label: [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Chris Corsano, Ryley Walker, Andrew Scott Young – Belladonna Garnish
    Chris Corsano, Ryley Walker, Andrew Scott Young – Belladonna Garnish
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    So, Andrew Young and me have been playing together in noise bands or song bands since about 2008. we go way back. i first met him in chicago when i […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Easley Blackwood ‎– Twelve Microtonal Etudes For Electronic Music Media
    Easley Blackwood ‎– Twelve Microtonal Etudes For Electronic Music Media
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    “Easley Blackwood has composed and produced contemporary music that is quite beautiful,” wrote Frank Peters of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Feb. 22, 1981) in a review of the Etudes. He […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Donald Byrd ‎– Street Lady
    Donald Byrd ‎– Street Lady
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    Not so much a fusion album as an attempt at mainstream soul and R&B, Street Lady plays like the soundtrack to a forgotten blaxploitation film. Producer/arranger/composer Larry Mizell [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kenneth Rexroth / Lawrence Ferlinghetti With The Cellar Jazz Quintet – Poetry Readings In The Cellar
    Kenneth Rexroth / Lawrence Ferlinghetti With The Cellar Jazz Quintet – Poetry Readings In The Cellar
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    “During the spring of 1957 a series of fascinating experiments took place in San Francisco. The scene was the Cellar, a downstairs nightclub that used to be a Chinese restaurant. […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Spoken Word
  • Miles Davis – On The Corner (check condition, plays w/noise)
    Miles Davis – On The Corner (check condition, plays w/noise)
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    “Could there be any more confrontational sound in Miles Davis’ vast catalog than the distorted guitars and tinny double-timing drums reacting to a two-note bass riff funking it up on [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The John Coltrane Quartet‎– Coltrane (looks G+/plays closer to VG)
    The John Coltrane Quartet‎– Coltrane (looks G+/plays closer to VG)
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Considered by many to be his finest single album, Coltrane finds John Coltrane displaying all of the exciting elements that sparked brilliance and allowed his fully formed instrumental [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • V/A – Electronic Music Winners
    V/A – Electronic Music Winners
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    Winners of an International Electronic Music Competition organized by The League of Composers-International Society for Contemporary Music, U.S. Section, in the autumn of 1974. Competition judged [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • John Corbett – A Listener’s Guide To Free Improvisation
    John Corbett – A Listener’s Guide To Free Improvisation
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    “Improvisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they’re even suspicious of it. John Coltrane’s saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix’s feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar’s sitar [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Evan Parker / Bill Nace – Branches (Live at Cafe OTO)
    Evan Parker / Bill Nace – Branches (Live at Cafe OTO)
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    They had never played together before. They had never even met each other before this springtime 2024 concert at London’s Café Oto. Evan Parker, circular breathing maestro of the saxophone, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
    Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
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    “This 1978 recording finds the estimable British guitarist in the musical company of several members of the cutting edge of the Japanese jazz avant-garde of the time. These musicians, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • V/A – Extended Voices (Check Cover Condition)
    V/A – Extended Voices (Check Cover Condition)
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    This record has been outfitted with an additional store-designed, 1/1 cover, because we felt as a classic album it deserved more than a G sleeve. Please note the grading for […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Marion Brown ‎– Vista (Check Cover Condition)
    Marion Brown ‎– Vista (Check Cover Condition)
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    This record has been outfitted with an additional store-designed, 1/1 cover, because we felt as a classic album it deserved more than a G+ sleeve. Please note the grading for […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • George Antheil / Ronald LoPresti / Carlos Chavez / Alan Hovhaness – Ballet Mécanique / Toccata For Percussion / October Mountain / Sketch For Percussion
    George Antheil / Ronald LoPresti / Carlos Chavez / Alan Hovhaness – Ballet Mécanique / Toccata For Percussion / October Mountain / Sketch For Percussion
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    This record has been outfitted with an additional store-designed, 1/1 cover, because we felt as a classic album it deserved more than a G sleeve. Please note the grading for […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Andrew Hill ‎– Spiral (Check Cover Condition)
    Andrew Hill ‎– Spiral (Check Cover Condition)
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    This record has been outfitted with an additional store-designed, 1/1 cover, because we felt as a classic album it deserved more than a F sleeve. Please note the grading for […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Andrew Hill ‎– Smoke Stack (1970 Pressing, Check Cover Condition)
    Andrew Hill ‎– Smoke Stack (1970 Pressing, Check Cover Condition)
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    This record has been outfitted with an additional store-designed, 1/1 cover, because we felt as a classic album it deserved more than a P sleeve. Please note the grading for […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Roland Haynes – Second Wave (Blue With Black Swirl Vinyl)
    Roland Haynes – Second Wave (Blue With Black Swirl Vinyl)
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    This 1975 album is one of a kind in lots of ways. First, it’s keyboardist Roland Haynes’ only album. But more importantly, Second Wave has a sound—and line-up—unlike pretty much […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Chester Thompson – Powerhouse (Blue With Black Swirl Vinyl)
    Chester Thompson – Powerhouse (Blue With Black Swirl Vinyl)
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    With long-standing stints in Tower of Power and Santana, Chester Thompson just might be the most decorated and distinguished keyboardist in all of rock and R&B, let alone of the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sarah Davachi – Let Night Come On Bells End The Day (Yellow Vinyl)
    Sarah Davachi – Let Night Come On Bells End The Day (Yellow Vinyl)
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    A quietly stunning meditation on sound and space, Let Night Come On Bells End The Day sees Sarah Davachi sculpting slow, luminous improvisations for Mellotron and organ. Each piece unfolds […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sarah Davachi – Barons Court (White Vinyl)
    Sarah Davachi – Barons Court (White Vinyl)
    $33.00 | , Add to cart

    A landmark debut reissued: Barons Court finds Sarah Davachi crafting mesmerizing electroacoustic landscapes that invite deep listening and contemplation. Blending vintage synths and acoustic [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • John Zorn – Through The Looking Glass
    John Zorn – Through The Looking Glass
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    Medeski, Marsella, Hollenberg, and Grohowski are Chaos Magick—a powerful electric quartet formed to perform Zorn’s twisted and challenging compositions. Founded in 2021 as a spinoff of the heavy [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Azar Lawrence – People Moving
    Azar Lawrence – People Moving
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Don’t let the list of stellar sideman gigs (with Elvin Jones, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Woody Shaw et al.) make you overlook the solo work of saxophonist Azar […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8
    Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8
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    ‘Space 1.8’ is Sinephro’s debut album; each contributing piece is part of a connected, collaborative and deeply personal body of music. Performed and recorded at Pink Bird Recordings in Wanstead [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Rashied Ali / Frank Lowe – Duo Exchange: Complete Sessions
    Rashied Ali / Frank Lowe – Duo Exchange: Complete Sessions
    $45.00 | , Add to cart

    A Free Jazz masterpiece is again on the block—bigger and better than ever. Rashied Ali / Frank Lowe Duo Exchange is legitimately re-released on LP for the first time, mastered […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Brandon López* – vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile
    Brandon López* – vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    The more complete (although not full..) album title is: vilevilevilevilevilevilevile vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevil evilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Howard Mandel – Future Jazz
    Howard Mandel – Future Jazz
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    Jazz has always been an experimental art form, pushing the boundaries of the mainstream, searching for the new. As Howard Mandel reveals in Future Jazz, jazz today is still reaching […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Bobby Would – MUMIA
    Bobby Would – MUMIA
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    In The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche wrote, “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Mumia follows that trajectory in its quiet unfolding. It lingers, seeps in. There is no drama […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • John Wiese – GGA
    John Wiese – GGA
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    Released on Cali De Witt’s Teenage Teardrops label. 2 length side pieces from 2011 Wiese. Stereo mix of a 4 channel install. Label: Teenage Teardrops – TD-037 Format: Vinyl, LP, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Luft (Mats Gustafsson & Erwan Keravec) – Inhale Volume I
    Luft (Mats Gustafsson & Erwan Keravec) – Inhale Volume I
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    ”The debut record of LUFT – is a two volume album of exceptional explorations within the bagpipe and reed universe —— unknown music of poetic beauty and high energy cascades. […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Finn Loxbo / Karin Johansson – Vent
    Finn Loxbo / Karin Johansson – Vent
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    In a rain forest of moments. the eye hears what the ear sees. through each moment of karin johansson’s and finn loxbo’s music runs the firm conviction that all points […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gerry Mulligan ‎– Night Lights [1967 Stereo]
    Gerry Mulligan ‎– Night Lights [1967 Stereo]
    $50.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This is a rather relaxed recording featuring baritonist Gerry Mulligan and some of his top alumni (trumpeter Art Farmer, trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, guitarist Jim Hall, bassist Bill Crow, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Poncho Sanchez Conducted and Arranged by Clare Fischer Featuring Gary Foster and Alex Acuña – Straight Ahead (Pa’lante)
    Poncho Sanchez Conducted and Arranged by Clare Fischer Featuring Gary Foster and Alex Acuña – Straight Ahead (Pa’lante)
    $45.00 | , , Add to cart

    Tight Latin jazz/funk from the Mexican-American conga player Label: Discovery Records – DS-813 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released:1980 VG+/VG+. Light wear. B-side has some heavy [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Totality
    Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Totality
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    Totality! It can only be good news. The second convergence of Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas, years removed from the first, misses no steps and posits low-key revolutions in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra And The Arkestra – Sound Of Joy
    Sun Ra And The Arkestra – Sound Of Joy
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Sun Ra’s second album was a Delmark release recorded in 1957, although it was originally intended for the Transition label, which did not survive long enough to release it. Personnel: […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
    Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
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    Regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis’s masterpiece. This 1959 album’s influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical, has led music [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Meters – Fire On The Bayou
    The Meters – Fire On The Bayou
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    “By the time they released Fire On the Bayou in 1975, the Meters (now a quintet, with addition of Cyril Neville to the lineup) had graduated from regional cult heroes […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • John Coltrane – Trane: The Atlantic Collection
    John Coltrane – Trane: The Atlantic Collection
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this introduction to John Coltrane’s revered Atlantic recordings. Trane: The Atlantic Collection includes the hit single ‘My [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz