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Groupcomposing
Corbett vs. Dempsey presents a reissue of Misha Mengelberg's Groupcomposing, recorded in 1970 and originally released in 1978. Comprised of a one-time international free music supergroup, and originally released as the sixth production on pianist Men…
Babi
Corbett Vs. Dempsey presents a reissue of Milford Graves's Bäbi, originally issued in 1977 on Graves's own IPS label. This is the first reissue of one of the most legendary albums in the history of free music. Recorded live in concert in 1976, when G…
Keep Going
It's easy to be cynical these days, maybe difficult to imagine that music can change the world, but not for Joe McPhee and Hamid Drake. With Keep Going, they will make the planet a better place for humanity, a place to be humane, to preserve humankin…
Brace For Impact
Some recordings, the world is just not ready for them when they're made. In 2008, Swedish born, Austrian resident saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and Poughkeepsie, New York multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee made a suite of studio recordings, Brace For Imp…
European Jazz Sounds
A CD of unreleased live recordings and rare radio sessions. During the period 1953-1964 the Michael Naura Quintett was one of Germany's most successful jazzbands. The music of this eclectic quintet was strongly influenced by George Shearing, Dave Bru…
European Jazz Sounds
A collection of unreleased radio session recordings from the original tapes! The few recordings made by the New Jazz Group from Hannover in Germany are scarcely documented. The band was founded in -or around- 1954 by Bernd Rabe (alto sax and clarinet…
European Jazz Sounds
Remastered radio sessions from the period 1959-'66, recorded in Cologne. A 16-page booklet is included.
The Life And Art Of Jutta Hipp
This box provides a complete overview of this versatile artist, including Jutta Hipp’s complete recordings and featuring a collection of paintings, drawings and cartoons as well as letters and poems. The phases in her life – from post-war Germany to …
Schizo
Pianist Berndt Egerbladh was a prolific writer with considerable talents, who also recorded with Lars Lystedt. The three musicians in this trio (Egerbladh, Björn Alke and Sten Ödberg) were all on the same wavelength and able to change between differe…
Night Music 1974
A never-heard live session from the great Eje Thelin – a mid 70s set that has the trombonist working with a cool quartet that includes some Fender Rhodes from Harald Svensson – who makes a wonderful partner for Thelin's long-blown lines! Eje had alre…
Jazz Jamboree 62 Vol. 2
A CD-issue of excellent '62 live recordings from the highly regarded Swedish jazz trombonist
Jazz Under The Midnight Sun
A remastered vinyl reissue. The Lars Lystedt Sextet from Sweden played many international Jazz festivals in the early '60s. On the sessions presented here the band features the astonishing Leif Hellman and Lars Göran Ulander on sax. Edition of 500 co…
European Jazz Sounds
The 'European Jazz Sounds' series, that started around 1960 with legendary albums by the Michael Naura Quintet, Tubby Hayes and Max Greger, sees a welcome revival! This first volume presents the early recordings of the renowned Joki Freund Quintet fr…
More Modern At The German Jazz Festival 1966
An incredible meeting of talents – both American and European jazz musicians coming together at a festival that must have been one hell of a event – certainly more exciting than just about any jazz festival we've ever attended in our lifetime! Unlike…
Modern At The German Jazz Festival 1966
Double album with unreleased live recordings from the German Jazz Festival 1966 featuring all the big German names of the time - Albert Mangelsdorff, Horst Jankowski, Hans Koller, Rolf Kühn, Klaus Doldinger etc! Listen to Mangelsdorff's "Plakate" or …
International Holy Hill Jazz Meeting 1969
CD version. BE! JAZZ is happy to come up with a true “holy” modern/free jazz gems of the late 1960s. The original double LP was issued by Meno Liechtenstein’s CB Records – he was also the organizer of the “International Holy Hill Jazz Meeting” in Hei…
Eje Thelin At The German Jazz Festival
An amazing set from Swedish trombonist Eje Thelin – a live date, but a totally excellent session that stands as one of the best demonstration of his talents in the 60s! On the European scene at the time, Thelin was easily one of the most inventive pl…
Café des Pyrénnées
Edition of 500. Rare LP with Hans Koller, Albert & Emil Mangelsdorff, Joki Freund, Pepsi Auer and more of the German jazz elite. One of the long forgotten masterpieces of European -especially German-
Modern Jazz is the legendary 'Rhein Main Jump' al…
Nelson's Waltz
Wolf Escher turned to Modern Jazz while studying music in Dortmund. He played in the Peter Heidemann Quintet, and performed with Ingfried Hoffmann's big band at the Kölner Jazz Festival in 1967. In 1969 he recorded his first single with the Wolf Esch…
European Jazz Sounds
The few recordings made by the Modern Jazz Group, based in Freiburg, Germany, are scarcely documented. The MJGF was founded around
1954 by pianist Ewald "Waldi" Heidepriem, one of the pioneers of modern
jazz in Germany in the 1950s. The music of th…