Label: Music On Vinyl Genre: Soul-Jazz Release Date: 2014  

Label: Red Earth Records Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2014 Article: F_0838

Suffused with spiritual uplift but lacking any saccharine in either content or production values, Azanyah communicates in a language that harks back to the great message bearers of an earlier time: the musical language of Coltrane, Pharaoh and their fellow travelers, musicians who had journeyed...

Label: Infiné Genre: Electronic Jazz Release Date: 2015

Cacophonic present a reissue of Musique Expérimentale, originally released in 1962. Further concrète explorations from the second generation of forward-thinking sonic auteurs that would push the boundaries of experimental music known collectively as the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, founded by Pierre Schaeffer. Having...

This is the third album by UK-based singer/songwriter, Myles Sanko, who originally hails from Accra in Ghana and debuted in 2014 with an LP called 'Forever Dreaming.' For various reasons, that particular album passed me by (though it was reviewed at...

Label: Archeo Recordings Genre: Jazz, Pop, Folk, World, & Country Release Date: 4/21/2018

Label: Jazzman Records Genre: Jazz Release Date: 7/20/2010 Article: F_0897 LP version, pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl. Limited, numbered edition of 1000 copies.

As a spare time dj and only one of the many thousands of record collectors on this planet (but avowedly one of the not so many from Austria) it's a wonderful feeling to share some of my personal favourite songs...

Cornbread Records present a reissue of Miles & Monk At Newport by The Miles Davis Sextet and The Thelonious Monk Quartet, originally released in 1963. Featuring the Miles Davis Sextet and the Thelonious Monk Quartet recorded in 1958 and 1963, respectively, this classic album features...

Label: Jazzman Records Genre: Jazz Release Date: 4/10/2012 Article: F_0973 LP version. Limited, numbered edition of 1000 copies

Breathtaking contemporary spiritual jazz from South Africa. When Tumi Mogorosi composed this suite for jazz musicians and opera vocalists, he had never heard the previous successful attempts by Donald Byrd, Max Roach or Mary Lou Williams to combine these seemingly "unfriendly" aesthetics. Tumi, born in 1987 and...

Jazzman Records presents some of the rarest and wildest British jazz ever recorded! The major stars of British jazz such as Stan Tracey, Michael Garrick, and Joe Harriott are now rightly recognized as the giants they were, and the legendary Brit jazz recordings of...

Remiscencescores a decent prize at online vinyl-selling platforms and it is worth every penny! It's a perfect "refuge from nasty reality", as the glorious British 20jazzfunkgreats blog once said. And it comes from a man that knows his trade: bass...

One of the greatest visionary in jazz history, Thelonious Monk, caught here in different formations -- solo, trio, quartet, and quintet -- including saxophone masters such as Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Griffin, and John Coltrane. Includes selections from Thelonious Monk Trio (1954), Monk's Music (1957), Brilliant Corners (1957), Misterioso (1958), and Thelonious Himself (1957). Label: Portraits...

Label: Trost Genre: Jazz Release Date: 6/17/2016 Article: F_0993 Akira Sakata, a legendary Japanese jazz musician active since the early '70s (Yosuke Yamashita Trio, Akira Sakata Trio) and a marine biologist, has toured and recorded with The Thing, Jim O'Rourke, Bill Laswell, Merzbow, Chikamorachi, et al. The Tale...

Label: Aguirre Records  Genre: Jazz Release Date: 11/2/2018 Article: F_1002  This is conscious free jazz featuring Roland P. Young, originally released in 1975 on the eclectic 1750 Arch records. "'1750 Arch was a beautiful Spanish-style hacienda,'recalls Young. 'It had a recording studio...

Ornette Coleman Trio, live at the Manchester Free Trade Hall on May 14th, 1966. Ornette Coleman formed a new trio with bassist David Izenzon and drummer Charles Moffett in October 1961. As the decade progressed, they expanded their musical palette to include trumpet and...

Genre: Jazz Label: Trost Release Date: 11/23/2018 Article: F_1041 LP version. A young, super-tight and intense power trio from Moscow, Brom genuinely push heavily, crossing over among improv, noise-rock and free jazz with Sunstroke. "One of the most amazing mixes of musical elements I have heard in...