The project started simply because we were on tour with the band, had just finished FYF fest in LA, and had a week before picking up the rest of the tour in phoenix. on the way we stopped for a week near Joshua Tree National...

DOL die-cut colored wax. This 1959 release is considered to be one of the most accessible and adventurous LPs of MINGUS' career. The players include BOOKER ERVIN on tenor, HORACE PARLAN on piano, JIMMY KNEPPER on trombone,...

indie-only clear vinyl version - On Hidden Orchestra's eagerly anticipated third album, producer and composer Joe Acheson conjures an intricate yet expansive world of sound, built around a collection of birdsong and other...

2015 release; 2017 repress in a gatefold jacket. Far Out Recordings present a reissue of the seminal debut album from Azymuth, Azimüth, originally released in 1975. Having never seen a vinyl release outside of Brazil,...

Rescued from relative obscurity by DJ Amir’s 180 Proof Records, BBE is delighted to present a gem from the tiny yet highly influential catalogue of Strata Records. Preceding New York’s Strata East,...

Grammy Award winning composer, producer, singer and drummer Ronald Bruner Jr. presents the megalithic debut album, Triumph. Eleven cuts of deep fusion, soul, R&B, jazz and pop, Triumph was put together with...

2017 deluxe reissue on 2x 200g vinyl! Herbie Hancock's best seller — a jazz-funk masterpiece now on 200-gram vinyl! The second highest-selling jazz album of all time! Mastered at Sterling Sound by Ryan Smith Plated...

"GALAXIES LIKE GRAINS OF SAND" is the 8-song album from WARREN HAMPSHIRE of THE BEES and pianist GREG FOAT, recorded with a full orchestra, all analog to tape. British library music & 60's Italian soundtracks...

For decades the mysterious Hiroshi & Claudia LP has been an elusive jewel amongst the curious world of Australian private press LPs. With nothing more than cryptic broken-English album sleeve notes to reference, the...

Recorded during the summer of 1980 and originally released in 1982 on Spotlight Records, ‘PAZ are Back’ was the second (and arguably the finest) album by the London jazz collective, founded by vibraphonist,...

A very special release for UK Record Store Day: a previously unreleased Sun Ra solo piano improvisation recorded in June 1990 during an interview with presenter and DJ Jez Nelson at the studios of Jazz FM in London. As Jez...

The Father of Ethio-jazz serves his brand new studio album on Strut. 'Mulatu Steps Ahead' features nine examples of Astatke's ongoing fusions between Western jazz and more traditional Ethiopian modes, progressing a sound...

Australian guitarist/visionary Rob Thomsett's collected works – two LPs – are combined into one package as the fourth release in the Now Again Reserve series. Originally privately pressed in tiny numbers in...

Such Sweet Thunder is one of the many masterpieces composed by Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn. Recorded between August 1956 and May 1957, it was commissioned for the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario. The...

One of the funkiest drummers of all time, SOUL BROTHER reissues this 1977 jazz-funk classic on wax once again. Seven crucial tracks that have been sampled by DRAKE, JAMIROQUAI, LUPE FIASCO, 2 PAC, NOTORIOUS BIG, EMINEM, NAS,...

2013 180g repress - "Polish duo Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudlo have been making warm, crisp and complex beat-based music for a while now. It's just that they've been making it in Poland. There, they are among the best-known and...

The title of the new album refers to the glorious, rare moment in a New Orleans parade when the band stops to take a break but keeps noodling with their instruments for the crowd. Vibing, keeping the energy up, when...

180-gram vinyl version - Exact repro; originally released in 1966. "For those who might not be familiar, Mulatu Astatke is as important to the history of Ethio-jazz as Fela Kuti is to Afrobeat, defining the genre from...

Aketi Ray are an all-acoustic dub-jazz group from London playing compositions grounded in the instrumental music from post-independence Jamaica, Ethiopian, US jazz, West African percussion traditions, and UK steppas. The...

Limited to 300 copies. Alpha Pup Records announces the release of MAST’s second full length album Love and War_. Love and War_ is a highly conceptual and deeply personal new work based on jazz trained...