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    Modest Jazz Trio – Good Friday Blues LP
    Modest Jazz Trio – Good Friday Blues LP
    $39.00 | Add to cart

    All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of The Modest Jazz Trio’s Good Friday Blues: Blue Note Tone Poet Reissue Mastered From the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray and Pressed at RTI. Featuring Jim [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
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    Prince Lasha Quintet – The Cry LP
    Prince Lasha Quintet – The Cry LP
    $30.00 | Add to cart

    Contemporary Records Series 180g Vinyl LP Reissue of Prince Lasha Quintet’s The Cry!. All-Analog Mastered from the Original Tapes by Bernie Grundman and Pressed at QRP. Released in 1963 on [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
    Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
    $30.00 | Add to cart

    Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series Reissue of Patrice Rushen’s 1974 Debut Album Prelusion on 180g LP. Available on Vinyl for the First Time Since Its Original Release 50 Years Ago. Mastered [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Sam Rivers – The Quest
    Sam Rivers – The Quest
    $18.00 | Add to cart

    «Improvising is sort of a real democracy kind of situation where everyone is performing in their own particular style or idiom of performing», stated Sam Rivers in December 1997 during […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cecil Taylor – Three Classic Albums
    Cecil Taylor – Three Classic Albums
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    Contains Jazz Advance, Looking Ahead & The World Of Cecil Taylor

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Richard Thompson – Beeswing
    Richard Thompson – Beeswing
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    In this moving and immersive memoir, Richard Thompson, international and longtime beloved music legend, recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir
  • Lee Morgan – The Gigilo LP Tone Poets Series
    Lee Morgan – The Gigilo LP Tone Poets Series
    $28.00 | Add to cart

    Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series Edition of Lee Morgan’s The Gigolo on All-Analog 180g LP. Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wayne Shorter – Juju LP Tone Poets Series
    Wayne Shorter – Juju LP Tone Poets Series
    $28.00 | Add to cart

    Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series Edition of Wayne Shorter’s Juju on All-Analog 180g LP. Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal in [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bashi Rose – Ritual of Rebellion
    Bashi Rose – Ritual of Rebellion
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Hank Shocklee said the most unique thing about hip hop’s genesis is that it was the first time non-musicians were responsible for making records. Before that, everybody involved knew what […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ted Byrnes & Michael Foster – Solfege CD
    Ted Byrnes & Michael Foster – Solfege CD
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    It’s always very special for me as a ‘harsh noise’ artist to be able to discuss the improvisational works of colleagues such as Ted Byrnes and Michael Foster as I […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
    Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
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    To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
    New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
    $13.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “The birth of NEW FREE JAZZ. A completely unhinged document of New Monuments. Fresh new quartet line-up. This is the next level, and the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dave Grundy – The Problem, The Questions, The Poem
    Dave Grundy – The Problem, The Questions, The Poem
    $11.00 | Add to cart

    The deeper goal of poetry has always been ritual. In Fred Moten’s early PennSound recordings, unbelievable, I listened in headphones for the year of 2010, the words, crawling and dripping, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Instrumentals
    Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Instrumentals
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Following the star-studded release of Jazz Is Dead’s second series, the venerated label returns with an intimate offering of selected instrumentals from the Series 2 sessions with the legendary [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Patton – Oh Baby!
    John Patton – Oh Baby!
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    Oh Baby! is an album by American organist Big John Patton recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label.[1]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Grant Green – Green Is Beautiful
    Grant Green – Green Is Beautiful
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal in Germany The Classic Vinyl Reissue [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
    George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
    $14.00 | , Add to cart

    Don’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926-2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Dorothy Ashby & Frank Wess – In A Minor Groove
    Dorothy Ashby & Frank Wess – In A Minor Groove
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Dorothy Ashby was probably the greatest—and certainly the most swinging—jazz harpist of all time, re-purposing an instrument best known for ethereal glissandos into a fully versatile voice in [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future
    Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Sons of Kemet return in 2021 with their new album Black To The Future. This release finds the UK-based quartet at their most dynamic – showcasing harmonically elegant arrangements and […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jackie McClean – A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80th Anniversary Edition)
    Jackie McClean – A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80th Anniversary Edition)
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series Curated by Don Was and Cem Kurosman; Great Reid Miles Covers (Part 3) Themed Installment Presented on 180g Vinyl LP In honor of Blue […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wasteland Jazz Ensemble – S/T 2xLP
    Wasteland Jazz Ensemble – S/T 2xLP
    $26.00 | , , Add to cart

    Out December 16th, 2022 – Pre-Orders ship immediately! “Wasteland Jazz Unit is a staple in the world of destroyed music. With countless releases cataloged by a literal who’s who [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
    Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays―meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems―and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • Sam Weinberg, Henry Fraser, Tyler Damon – Foment
    Sam Weinberg, Henry Fraser, Tyler Damon – Foment
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    “Foment” represents a first-meeting of New Yorkers saxophonist Sam Weinberg & bassist Henry Fraser with Chicago drummer Tyler Damon. Although the three musicians had not played in [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ndikho Xaba and the Natives – S/T
    Ndikho Xaba and the Natives – S/T
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “South African pianist / percussionist with a crew of San Francisco & Chicago players, including Plunky Nkabinde and Lon Moshe from Oneness Of Juju. […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gene Russell – Talk To My Lady
    Gene Russell – Talk To My Lady
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    In between acting as Producer on all of the Black Jazz label releases, keyboardist Gene Russell also cut two fine albums for the imprint, of which this is the second, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cleveland Eaton – Plenty Good Eaton
    Cleveland Eaton – Plenty Good Eaton
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    The jazz world lost a true legend when bassist Cleveland Eaton passed away in the Summer of 2020. This 1975 album, one of the real gems in the hallowed Black […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jackie McLean – Destination Out
    Jackie McLean – Destination Out
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    he innovative hard bop of Jackie McLean evolved as the `60s progressed. Inspired by Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist ventured into the avant-garde but never let go of a soulful sense […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space CD
    Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space CD
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    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 [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Vernacular – The Little Bird CS
    Vernacular – The Little Bird CS
    $8.00 | Add to cart

    Generational Muse “Forty years ago a group of hipsters fled Manhattan for . . . has it even been that long? I cannot fathom for I’m still alive and so […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gene Russell – New Direction
    Gene Russell – New Direction
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    The first album released by the most sought-after label, bar none, among jazz collectors! And since keyboardist Gene Russell was at the artistic helm of Black Jazz, it was only […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz