Belsta River (LP)
Original Swedish edition on Four Leaf Clover Records of the 1979 jazz/funk fusion album by the influential eclectic guitarist featuring Pekka Pohjola and Wlodek Gulgowski.
Quand Le Son Devient Aigu, Jeter La Girafe À La Mer. (CD)
1996 first CD re-issue on Futura of the solo leftfield jazz masterpiece by the French drummer from 1971, one of the most beautiful and original albums on the innovative label. Essential.
Agavi (LP)
Sole edition of the obscure 1981 Italian free jazz album on the microscopic Rombo label by a sax/bass/percussion trio. Never re-issued on either LP or CD. Autographed copy!
Zwischenspiel (LP)
Sole edition on KNSE International of the 1983 avant-garde jazz fusion album by the Swiss trio. Never re-issued on either LP or CD. With insert.
Trulofa Trio (2LP)
2011 double album on Sagittarius A-Star in an edition of 200 copies on 180g vinyl with paste-on cover by Danish free jazz trio. With insert.
Body English (LP)
Original Italian edition on Arista of the irresistible 1976 jazz/funk/disco album by the Polish fusion pioneer featuring Urszula Dudziak.
At Different Times (LP)
Rare original and sole edition with silk-screened cover of the 1971 free jazz album on Group-Music Productions by the Dutch quartet with Burton Greene guesting.
A Little Westbrook Music (LP)
1983 jazz-cabaret album self-released on the Westbrooks' own label, blending theatrical music and poetry with avant-garde improvisation. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
At The Frankfurt Jazz Festival (LP)
Original US edition with die-cut sleeve on Embryo Records of the live free jazz fusion album by the American saxophonist's quartet with European musicians.
Klub Plytowy (LP)
1972 split live album on Polskie Stowarzyszenie Jazzowe with the Polish band's jazz-rock fusion on one side and the post bop soul-jazz of the Julian Cannonball Adderley Quintet on the other.
Total Music Meeting 2001 (CD)
CD-only compilation of recordings from FMP's 2001 Total Music Meeting in Berlin released by a/l/l in 2002, featuring a.o. George Lewis, Sven-Åke Johansson, Hans Reichel, Carlos Zingaro, Paul Lovens, Axel Dörner, Günter Sommer, Mark Wastell, Simon H.…
Total Music Meeting 2002 (CD)
CD-only compilation of recordings from FMP's 2002 Total Music Meeting in Berlin released by a/l/l in 2003, featuring a.o. Barry Guy, Paul Lovens, Paul Lytton, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker and Thomas Lehn.
The Missing Link
Fred Anderson's 1979 session with Larry Hayrod, Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph, first issued by Nessa in 1984; the CD adds Drake's previously unreleased Tabla Peace.
Lifting The Sanctions
Solo acoustic bass by William Parker, recorded at Studio Spirale on November 29, 1997 with no overdubs; cover by Jeff Schlanger, painted live during the session. No More Records, 1998.
Jumping Off The Page
Rob Brown on alto saxophone and flute with Roy Campbell, Chris Lightcap and Jackson Krall, playing Brown's own compositions. No More Records, 2000.
Ancestral Homeland
The Roy Campbell Pyramid Trio with William Parker and Zen Matsuura, recorded in New York on February 12, 1998, liner notes by Campbell and Steve Dalachinsky. No More Records, 1998.
Soul Folks
The Frank Lowe Quintet with Bertha Hope, Jack Walrath, Steve Neil and Ralph Peterson, recorded in concert for WMUA on February 26, 1998. No More Records, 2001.
Deep End Shallow
Deep End Shallow by keyboardist and composer Curt Sydnor, with Caroline Davis on saxophone, Greg Saunier on drums and Aaron Dugan on guitar, recorded in Brooklyn in 2016. CDr edition of 100.
First Meditations on John Coltrane
CD version. This album is a tribute to the person and spirit of John Coltrane. It was produced by musicians who not only admire Coltrane but embody similar values.While it’s always a good time to honor Coltrane’s memory, this particular moment seems …
Automatic
Following the critical acclaim of her 2022 breakout solo debut, Sweet Tooth, and her rock project Deerlady, which was named a Stereogum Band To Watch, the eight-track album was born out of years of listening to repatriated recordings that came back t…
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Grant Green's 1966 Blue Note album of pop songs and standards, recorded at Van Gelder Studio on March 31, 1965, with Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone), Larry Young (organ) and Elvin Jones (drums).
The Calling
Hamiet Bluiett's baritone, D.D. Jackson's piano and organ, Kahil El'Zabar's drums, kalimba and voice. Recorded live in the studio in Montreal in October 2000 with no overdubs, The Calling runs on call-and-response, church organ and blues, with Bluiet…
Speaking In Tongues
One day in a Paris studio, December 1997. David Murray goes back to the gospel church of his Berkeley childhood with Fontella Bass, the voice of Rescue Me and the Art Ensemble's Theme de Yoyo, over Hammond B3, electric bass and guitar. Amazing Grace,…
Know Time
Paul Bley and trumpeter Herbie Spanier played free duets in Los Angeles in 1958, around the time Ornette Coleman passed through Bley's band. That music was never documented. In Montreal in August 1993 they tried again, with Geordie McDonald's rack of…
Solo
Paul Bley was born in Montreal in 1932 and left for New York at the start of the 1950s. He had already taken over Oscar Peterson's chair at the Alberta Lounge as a teenager. In December 1987 he came home, sat down at Studio Tempo, and recorded ten im…
Requiem For Julius
Five years after Julius Hemphill's death, the World Saxophone Quartet records its farewell to him: four horns alone, no drums, at Studio Victor in Montreal in 1999. David Murray's title piece, three Oliver Lake tunes, a Jack DeJohnette opener. The Pe…
Steppenwolf
Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1 March 1999. The World Saxophone Quartet plays a full concert and the tape stays in a drawer for three years. Justin Time released it in 2002 as Steppenwolf, and it turned out to be the last record John Purcell made wit…
Experience
Eight Jimi Hendrix songs for four saxophones, plus trombone, violin, electric bass and drums. Experience was recorded over three days, 13 to 15 March 2003, and released by Justin Time in 2004.
By then the World Saxophone Quartet had a new fourth voic…
Plays Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus died in January 1979. Nineteen months later, on 18 August 1980, his drummer of more than twenty years took what was left of the last Mingus band into Fonoprint Studio in Bologna and recorded six tunes for the Dutch label Timeless.
Dann…
I Didn't Know About You
Munich, Studio Meilhaus, 6 November 1990. Archie Shepp on tenor and alto, singing on three tracks, with Horace Parlan on piano, Wayne Dockery on bass and George Brown on drums. One day of work for the Dutch label Timeless, released the following year…
The Rise Of Atlantis
The only album under Carter Jefferson's name, produced by Woody Shaw and recorded in New York over two days in December 1978. Terumasa Hino, Harry Whitaker and Steve Thornton on the first side, Shunzo Ono and John Hicks on the second, Clint Houston a…
Paradise Space Shuttle
George Adams' first record under his own name for a US audience, cut in one day in New York, 21 December 1979, with Ron Burton, Don Pate, Al Foster and Azzedin Weston. Hard bop, a Sondheim ballad, a Mingus tribute, and the fourteen-minute Funk-a-Roon…
Live At Montmartre
Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen, 4 and 5 April 1985. The George Adams - Don Pullen Quartet with Cameron Brown and Dannie Richmond, and a guest who changes the sound: John Scofield on guitar.
This was the rhythm section of Mingus's Changes One and Chan…
Earth Beams
The first studio album by the George Adams - Don Pullen Quartet, recorded at Fendal Sound Studio in Loenen aan de Vecht, in the Dutch countryside, between 3 and 5 August 1980, and produced by the two leaders themselves for Timeless.
Adams on tenor an…
Cosmic Funk
Lonnie Liston Smith's second Flying Dutchman album, April 1974, and the first with the Cosmic Echoes and his brother Donald's voice. Produced by Bob Thiele. Electric piano funk on the title track, Shorter's Footprints, Mtume's Sais, and a sung versio…
Are You Ready?
Three long tracks, thirty-six minutes, cut live in front of a Montreux crowd. Are You Ready? is Harold Alexander's second and last record for Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman, released in 1972.
Alexander, from Charlotte, North Carolina, had played with B…
Under Fire
Recorded in New York in 1971, held back by Flying Dutchman until 1973, Under Fire sits between the Montreux live album and Bolivia in Gato Barbieri's run for the label, the years when he was moving away from free jazz and toward the folk material of …
El Pampero
Montreux, 18 June 1971. Gato Barbieri on tenor, Lonnie Liston Smith on piano, Chuck Rainey on electric bass, Bernard Purdie on drums, Sonny Morgan on congas and Naná Vasconcelos on berimbau and percussion. Bob Thiele produced, and Flying Dutchman iss…
Free Will
Gil Scott-Heron's last album for Flying Dutchman, cut over two days in March 1972 at RCA Studios. One side of songs with Brian Jackson, Hubert Laws, David Spinozza and Pretty Purdie; one side of poems over hand percussion, including No Knock and The …
Blues And The Soulful Truth
One day at RCA Studio A, 13 November 1972. Leon Thomas singing, with Pee Wee Ellis, James Brown's former arranger, running the session on saxophones, keyboards, marimba and, per the credits, coat hangers and firecrackers.
The title nods to Oliver Nel…