on red vinyl - The first edition of a two part series, Heritage finds Mark de Clive-Lowe in the process of grand introspection about his Japanese heritage, with specific tracks as memories from the past illustrating the...

“Circle is a live hip-hop album that’s inspired sonically by the sounds of 70’s jazz and soul and pays homage to the aesthetic and sample-based grit and color of the beat scene.” Being a producer...

2019 repress - This Latin jazz album features a fantastic raw mix of funky bass, heavy drums, burning horn lines, and soulful vocals. One of the great Latin bands all-time. Formed by way of a scheme that aimed to keep Harlem...

For his final Prestige-related session as a sideman, John Coltrane (tenor sax) and Kenny Burrell (guitar) are supported by an all-star cast of Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums), and Tommy Flanagan (piano). This short...

After an invite from the Scottish arts center Hospitalfield to create new music for their 19th century Erard Grecian harp, he also utilized their grand piano, local field recordings, and other instruments to create a full...

Everybody Digs Bill Evans was a landmark recording for the young pianist and sported a unique album cover, featuring written-out endorsements from Miles Davis, George Shearing, Ahmad Jamal, and Cannonball Adderley. At a time...

Gary Chandler (born in 1938) started playing professionally in 1960 in the thriving Columbus Ohio club scene with Hank Marr, Don Patterson and Benny Maupin. He worked in the Motown Revue from 1965-67 and led his own group...

W.R.D. features some of the mightiest titans on today’s funk and jazz scene: Robert Walter (The Greyboy Allstars, Robert Walter’s 20th Congress), Eddie Roberts (The New Mastersounds), and Adam Deitch...

Ambiance’s first album released in 1979 on Da Mon Records, Los Angeles. Amazing private spiritual jazz-funk/fusion LP, now hard to find. Finally available again, fully licensed and remastered, with original artwork...

ABYSSINIA : Beat driven, rootsy and soulful explorations inspired by Te’Amir’s Ethiopian heritage. Featuring the psychedelic vocals of Dustin Warren, strings from Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, harp lines from virtuoso...

12" from Myele Manzanza. "The son of a Congolese master percussionist, born and raised in NZ listening to hip hop, jazz and dance music. Myele brings an eclectic style and diverse skill to his craft, creating a...

DOL limited edition 180g gatefold version with extra photos, a must for all serious completists. Taken from a pair of sessions taped during 1955-1956, Lady Sings the Blues finds Holiday in top form and backed by the...

European pressing of FLYING DUTCHMEN 1975 issue which has become a jazz funk fusion classic for it's spacey, spiritual vibe. Very limited in gatefold sleeve.When Lonnie Liston Smith left the Miles Davis band in 1974 for a...

DOL gatefold reissue of the 1963 album with E SEU TRIO. On this album he introduces some originally instrumental themes which would be mandatory in every Brazilian pop music songbook many years later. Themes here would soon...

A new star rises in the twilight of funky-soul-jazz as Ernie Hawks releases his debut album Scorpio Man on Timmion Records. The impressive trombonist/flutist is known to hold no punches when performing live in the ranks of...

Revolutionary, spiritual jazz from the unlikely city of Houston, Texas: the definitive issue, mastered from the original tapes. PRESENTED IN A TIP-ON GATEFOLD JACKET Bonus disc contains previously unreleased tracks...

In 2016, Cultures of Soul Records released Boston Creative Jazz Scene 1970-1983, a groundbreaking compilation spotlighting the often-overlooked progressive jazz environment that thrived in Beantown through the seventies into...

I heard about Seif Abu Bakr and The Scorpions maybe 3-4 years ago. Their album “Jazz, Jazz Jazz” ended up on my radar because of an eBay auction with the bids eventually rising daily up to a staggering 1000$. The...

Hans P. and Ernst Ströer are the Ströer Bros. Based close to Munich, Bavaria, they work as composers, arrangers, musicians, producers and authors, traveling between many different musical worlds. Hans plays bass,...

2018 repress of the 2017 reissue - John Coltrane transformed the inner architecture of jazz, throughout the mid-1950s and 1960s and long after his premature death at age 40 in 1967. No other American musician could be said...