New Originals 45 – you know the drill – B side samples the A side and the sample in question is JC Davis’ stone cold classic breakbeat A New Day as featured on DJ Shadow’s Entroducing LP sleeve...

Far Out Recordings present reissues of Brit funk classics. Keep In Touch (PINKY 001EP) and Stay were the first two 12" singles by the iconic Freeez, both self-funded passion projects of its founding member John Rocca,...

Believed to have been recorded in 1983, O Filho Do Homem is a newly discovered and previously unreleased single by the late Brazilian composer and keyboardist Ana Mazzotti. Though it's her only known studio recording of the...

2022 reissue as part of the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series Like Eric Dolphy before him, Jackie McLean sought to create a kind of vanguard "chamber jazz" that still had the blues feel and -- occasionally -- the...

‘Melodi’ is the second album from captivating duo Kit Sebastian (aka Kit Martin and Merve Erdem). Those familiar with the band's cult classic 2019 debut record 'Mantra Moderne' will instantly recognise their...

We've got a bit of an obsession with Hozan Yamamoto here at Mr Bongo! A legend of Japanese jazz, he is rightly regarded as a true master and was recognised as a "living national treasure" by the Japanese government...

Anything but indulgent, the much acclaimed American jazz and hip-hop prodigy, Jamael Dean, dreams big with a most ambitious new twenty-track album of tribune and social-political clout. Nothing less than raising the spirits...

Daptone Records is overjoyed to present All My Relations - the debut solo album from long-time Dap-Kings saxophonist, Cochemea Gastelum. Cochemea’s electro-sax leads an ensemble of percussive giants (members of Sharon...

Never released outside South Africa since its original release in 1974, Outernational Sounds presents one of the most sought-after international jazz exclusives ever to appear on South Africa's famous Gallo imprint: the...

At the vanguard of Melbourne's bustling underground music scene you’ll find Surprise Chef. A band very much on the rise, who with two exceptional albums under their belts, are picking up a rapidly swelling fanbase...

The Brkn Record is a new project led and produced by Jake Ferguson, the co-founder and bass player for the UK’s foundational deep jazz outfit the Heliocentrics. With fellow Heliocentrics co-founder and legendary...

The Mankunku Quartet's 1968 album 'Yakhal' Inkomo’ clocks in at just over 30 minutes of jazz perfection. This compact, and to-the-point, album would sit comfortably in amongst some of the best works in the catalogues...

this one is difficult to describe - dubstep/broken beat-tinged 140 jazz edits? Whatever it is, it's really well...

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 Bay Area musical scene. It’s little...

DAVE LEE dons his SUNBURST BAND alias and calls in the vocal talents of WAYNE HERNANDEZ with a slice of Brazilian flavored jazz funk. DAVE LEE himself delivers two versions alongside LOUIE VEGA and JOSH MILAN pairing up for...

There's early work with Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner in Charles Mingus' Jazz Workshop, work with Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, a stint in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and also one with Miles. There's his groundbreaking and...

Originally released in 1977, this first ever reissue of the critically acclaimed jazz/rock fusion album from Spain comes with an 8-page booklet of Spanish & English liner notes. The group's sole LP takes the listener...

Limited edition on colored vinyl, housed in a die-cut gatefold sleeve, with a 12x12" insert.Sam (Floating Points): Pharoah... Pharoah: Huh...? Sam: Were you asleep? I'm sorry... Pharoah: No no... I was listening... and...

2021 reissue - Omniverse, recorded in New York in 1979 and released that year on Sun Ra's Saturn label (catalog #91379) is a solid, overlooked set in the vast Ra canon. The tracks aren't so much compositions as excursions,...

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, released in 1973. Judging by the quality of their...