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  • Secular Music Group – Volume 2
    Secular Music Group – Volume 2
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    Secular Music Group returns to Love All Day with Volume Two, a long-playing and exceedingly strong follow-up which both condenses and expands the vision they began to lay out on […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Brigid Dawson And The Mothers Network – Ballet Of Apes [Electric Blue Vinyl]
    Brigid Dawson And The Mothers Network – Ballet Of Apes [Electric Blue Vinyl]
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    “Brigid Dawson was sometimes referred to as the “secret weapon” of Thee Oh Sees, her vocal harmonies offsetting John Dwyer’s husky yelps. When the two reactivated the OCS [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Etta James ‎– Etta James Sings Funk
    Etta James ‎– Etta James Sings Funk
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    Etta James covers a lot of ground in these interpretations of tracks by songwriters as diverse as the Louvins & the Gershwins Label: Cadet – LPS-832 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Susan Alcorn, Chris Corsano, Bill Nace – Live At Rotunda
    Susan Alcorn, Chris Corsano, Bill Nace – Live At Rotunda
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    “OM59/Live at #6. Numbered edition of 200. Silkscreened covers by Alan Sherry. Personnel: Susan Alcorn – pedal steel; Chris Corsano – drums; Bill Nace – guitar. Recorded [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra With Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold – Sun Ra With Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold
    Sun Ra With Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold – Sun Ra With Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold
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    “To understand the significance of the word ‘featuring’ on Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold, consider how infrequently Sun Ra used it and the exact way it had been [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Children Of The Sun
    Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Children Of The Sun
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    “Two classic SUN RA songs now available for the first time as a 7″ single !!! The infinitely wise drum-driven solar chant of CHILDREN OF THE SUN, with the profoundly […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Luther Ingram – Do You Love Somebody (Promo)
    Luther Ingram – Do You Love Somebody (Promo)
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    “Luther Ingram’s final LP for Stax’s Koko imprint features ten songs written by Ingram, Tommy Tate, and Johnny Baylor (Ingram’s late, notorious manager; many feel his [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Mandrill – Mandrilland
    Mandrill – Mandrilland
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    “With four superb and nearly flawless albums under their belt, it was no surprise to anyone when raves began pouring in for Mandrill’s ambitious August 1974 double LP Mandrilland. [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Kool & The Gang ‎– Light Of Worlds (looks G+, plays closer to VG)
    Kool & The Gang ‎– Light Of Worlds (looks G+, plays closer to VG)
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    Kool & The Gang at their best. S1 is packed with groovy cuts, such as Fruitman (later famously sampled by J Dilla), while S2 is a futuristic space-funk odyssey. Label: […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Last Train To Hazeville – Radio Topo #24
    Last Train To Hazeville – Radio Topo #24
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    Last Train To Hazeville – David hit us with the perfect end of summer mixtape. Dusty pop 45s, crying trumpets & all the weird feelings you get before fall. They’re […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Macie Stewart – When The Distance Is Blue
    Macie Stewart – When The Distance Is Blue
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    When the Distance is Blue is Macie Stewart’s International Anthem debut. The Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser describes the collection as “a love letter to the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Abdou El Omari – Nuits D’ete avec Naima Samih
    Abdou El Omari – Nuits D’ete avec Naima Samih
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    Oriental psych from the organ king of Casablanca, combining traditional rhythms with spaced out modern sounds. This is the second part of Abdou’s ‘Nuits’ trilogy. Mystical [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Family Atlantica – Cosmic Unity
    Family Atlantica – Cosmic Unity
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    Cosmic Unity’, like the band itself, mirrors the mixed-up, intercontinental terrain of their home town. Moving through genres as diverse as psychedelic highlife, steel-pan Ethio-funk, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dry Bread – Yamar / Words To My Song
    Dry Bread – Yamar / Words To My Song
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    “Steeped in Caribbean flavor and seasoned with a fistful of hand-percussion, “Ya Mar” was initially sidelined from 2009’s Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay. Phish fans may recognize this [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Captain Sky ‎– Pop Goes The Captain
    Captain Sky ‎– Pop Goes The Captain
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    Captain Sky’s first album, “The Adventures of Captain Sky,” is a cult classic that inspired countless hip-hop artists from the East Coast to the West, but his second album, “Pop […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
    Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
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    Few narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • James McBride – Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
    James McBride – Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
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    Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an unsettling symbol of the tensions between North and South, […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
    The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
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    “It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.” Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Maxx Traxx / Third Rail ‎– Maxx Traxx / Third Rail (Sealed!)
    Maxx Traxx / Third Rail ‎– Maxx Traxx / Third Rail (Sealed!)
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    “There was one irrepressible Chicago club act that refused to be replaced by any DJ’s sound system. Maxx Traxx (and Third Rail before them) were a scene unto themselves in […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Prince ‎– Originals
    Prince ‎– Originals
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    “Prince will forever be remembered as a commanding live performer, chart-topping recording artist, and music business revolutionary. Yet for all the time he spent in the spotlight over his [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Pretty Purdie And The Playboys – Stand By Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get)
    Pretty Purdie And The Playboys – Stand By Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get)
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    You’ve heard Bernard “Pretty” Purdie drum on more albums than you can count. Besides releasing some 30 albums as a bandleader, and acting as Aretha Franklin’s musical director, Purdie played […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Gilles Peterson Presents: International Anthem
    Gilles Peterson Presents: International Anthem
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    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
  • Gloria Barnes – Uptown
    Gloria Barnes – Uptown
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    “Insanely raw soul from 1971! Extremely rare and being reissued for the first time here. Gloria Barnes teams up with The Ohio Players and Lee Moses to create her only […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Dusty Springfield – Longing
    Dusty Springfield – Longing
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    In the early 1970s, Dusty Springfield relocated from her native England to Los Angeles in an effort to pursue new opportunities in her career and signed with ABC/Dunhill Records. Her […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Chester Thompson – Powerhouse (Blue With Black Swirl Vinyl)
    Chester Thompson – Powerhouse (Blue With Black Swirl Vinyl)
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    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
  • Beckie Bell – In Need Of …
    Beckie Bell – In Need Of …
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    Strut proudly reintroduces a sought after independent disco gem from the Topomic catalogue: Beckie Bell’s ‘In Need Of…’, reissued in full for the first time. Originally released in 1980, In [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • John Zorn – Through The Looking Glass
    John Zorn – Through The Looking Glass
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    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
  • 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
  • Various – Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth In Action Community Corporation Talent Hunt Winners
    Various – Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth In Action Community Corporation Talent Hunt Winners
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    Big Crown Records is proud to present the reissue of one of Brooklyn’s most sought after “holy grail” soul records, YIA Talent Hunt Winners. Youth in Action, Inc. (YIA) was […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • V/A – Blowin’ Through Yokohama!
    V/A – Blowin’ Through Yokohama!
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    Heavy soul and early rock n roll comp, featuring an insane track by The Payments. Label: Atomic Passion – AP 1958 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Unofficial Release Country: US Released:1996 […]

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Meters – Fire On The Bayou
    The Meters – Fire On The Bayou
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    “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
  • McCoy Tyner – Today And Tomorrow
    McCoy Tyner – Today And Tomorrow
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    McCoy Tyner’s fourth studio album has a split personality, with three tracks featuring an intriguing sextet of all-stars, and the rest with his trusty trio, done eight months apart. Perhaps [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sam Rivers ‎– Contrasts (180g Reissue)
    Sam Rivers ‎– Contrasts (180g Reissue)
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    “Tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers (also heard on soprano and flute) teams up in a quartet with trombonist George Lewis, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Thurman Barker (doubling on marimba) for [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Donald Byrd – Up With Donald Byrd
    Donald Byrd – Up With Donald Byrd
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    Features Herbie Hancock on piano & Kenny Burrell on guitar! Label: Verve Records – V6-8609 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1965 G+/VG. Noticeable light marks & [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • 7th Wonder – Climbing Higher
    7th Wonder – Climbing Higher
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    Disco/funk from Alabama, featuring the heavily sampled track Daisy Lady Label: Parachute Records – RRLP 9014 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1979 VG+/VG. Light marks, some [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Chet Baker ‎– Chet Baker Sings (Japanese Pressing)
    Chet Baker ‎– Chet Baker Sings (Japanese Pressing)
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    “As Gerald Heard’s liner notes point out, it’s difficult to decide whether Chet Baker was a trumpet player who sang or a singer who played trumpet. When the 24-year-old [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • James Brown – Sings Out Of Sight
    James Brown – Sings Out Of Sight
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    “Brown actually recorded this album in 1964, during his brief alliance with Smash; a court injunction from King Records prevented its release at the time, and it wasn’t issued until [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • John Coltrane ‎– Blue Train (French DMM Reissue)
    John Coltrane ‎– Blue Train (French DMM Reissue)
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    “Although never formally signed, an oral agreement between John Coltrane and Blue Note Records founder Alfred Lion was indeed honored on Blue Train — Coltrane’s only collection [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kim Weston – Kim Kim Kim [WLP Stereo – rare variant]
    Kim Weston – Kim Kim Kim [WLP Stereo – rare variant]
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    Kim Weston’s penultimate studio album, featuring Penny Blues. Label: Volt – VOS 6014 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo Country: US Released: 1971 VG/VG. Jacket has a bit of shelf wear, […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Bad Plus – Activate Infinity
    The Bad Plus – Activate Infinity
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    “Activate Infinity is the second album from The Bad Plus since the remarkable pianist Orrin Evans joined the trio back in 2018. With their sights set on a new trajectory, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Rashied Ali Quintet Featuring Frank Lowe – Sidewalks In Motion
    Rashied Ali Quintet Featuring Frank Lowe – Sidewalks In Motion
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    Rashied Ali stood as a magnetic force for the musical environment around him. In his last decades he sponsored rehearsal opportunities for young musicians, tightened up neighborhood street-corner [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Duke Ellington ‎– The Reprise Studio Recordings
    Duke Ellington ‎– The Reprise Studio Recordings
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    #1-8 is mono. All other is stereo. # 2-15 to 2-20, 3-1 to 3-5 Produced Under License From Atlantic Recording Corp., All Other Produced Under License From Warner Bros. Records, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Technicolor Band – Walks The Blue Circle
    Technicolor Band – Walks The Blue Circle
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    Technicolor Band is a revolving-cast, cross-genre improv unit based in Bloomington, IN. The group, initially instigated by multi-instrumentalists David Brown and Caleb Hickman as a regular [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis
    Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis
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    This book reassesses Miles Davis’ “electric period” and analyzes its continuing influence on contemporary music. While jazz purists often revile this phase – which encompasses the entire [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Lenny Breau – The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau – Live!
    Lenny Breau – The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau – Live!
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    “Recorded live at Shelly’s Manne-Hole in Hollywood, California, The Velvet Touch of Lenny Breau: Live! features a trio setting of Breau on electric guitar, Reg Kelln on drums, and Ron [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wilson Pickett – The Wicked Pickett [white label promo]
    Wilson Pickett – The Wicked Pickett [white label promo]
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    “A fabulous album, done when Pickett was in the midst of his best period at Atlantic. It had everything — great songs, wonderful production and arrangements, and a hungry, galvanizing [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Ted Curson Quintet – Live At La’Tete De L’Art: The Canadian Concert Of Ted Curson
    The Ted Curson Quintet – Live At La’Tete De L’Art: The Canadian Concert Of Ted Curson
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    A smoking modal set from the trumpeter’s legendary quintet. Label: Can-Am Records – CA 1700 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Canada Released: 1985 VG+/VG+. Jacket in shrink.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Coltrane – Olé Coltrane
    John Coltrane – Olé Coltrane
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    The complicated rhythm patterns and diverse sonic textures on Olé Coltrane are evidence that John Coltrane was once again charting his own course. His sheer ability as a maverick — […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz