Reissues
East Plants
BBE Music is proud to present another instalment in the J Jazz Masterclass Series: East Plants by Takeo Moriyama, one of Japan’s finest jazz drummers. A genuine ‘under the radar’ album known only to a handful of Japanese jazz collectors, East Plants …
Behind The Curtain - The Lost Album
**2022 stock** Rodion Ladislau Rosca grew up and got his musical education in Cluj, the third biggest city in Romania, during the relatively ‘open’ years of 1965-1972, before Ceacescu’s regime cracked down viciously on the cultural opportunities (and…
Ecophony Gaia
**2021 small repress** Deep, deep, earth music from Tsutomu Ōhashi and the Geinoh Yamashirogumi crew. A macrosymphony composed for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition in Osaka, Japan, 1990, Ecophony Gaia, was supposed to be the stunning,…
Jazz in Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden
**In process of stocking 5CD boxset includes poster, CD booklet, 5 CDs in cardboard wallets, housed all together in a clamshell box ** The radical discovery by Amir Abdullah of 5 two-track master tapes in the care of Hermine Brooks – widow of innova…
Location
**In process of stocking** Following on from the welcome revival of Lyman Woodard’s classic ‘Saturday Night Special‘ and drummer, Bert Myrick’s ‘Live ’n Well’ – which features the epic ‘Scorpio’s Child’ – BBE Records continue to dig deeper into the v…
Live ‘n Well
**In process of stocking** 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, Detroit’s original Strata…
Saturday Night Special
**In process of stocking** In association with DJ Amir’s 180 Proof Records, BBE is honoured to present another gem from the small yet significant Strata catalogue. A precursor to New York’s Strata East, Detroit’s Strata Records was founded in the lat…
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** 300 copies only, no repress ** DIY cassette culture - flowering across the globe during the late 1970s and 1980s - has proven, from a distance, to be among the most fascinating contexts of music to emerge during the last half century. Taking the f…
Divine Reeds
**Includes 12 page booklet with the illustrated life story of Tassos Chalkias** Radio Martika presents Divine Reeds by Tassos Chalkias - Τάσος Χαλκιάς. Epirótika! Greek psych folk as a soul medicine. A shepherd's fever dream or spiritual jazz from an…
Ena Tefariki
**Includes a 16 page booklet with illustrated liner notes** Radio Martiko presents Ena Tefariki, Oriental Shake, Farfisa Madness & Rocking Bouzoukis from the Greek Laika Movement (1961-1973) a double LP compilation of monster grooves, driven by a per…
Jack Wilson Feat. Roy Ayers
** Limited Edition of 300 Clear Vinyl ** This is Jack Wilson's debut album as a bandleader, originally released in 1963 for Atlantic label, featuring a young Roy Ayers on vibraphone, bassist Al McKibbons and drummer Nick Martinis. Jack Wilson was a f…
The Many Faces of Harry Beckett
The Many Faces of Harry Beckett is the first publication dedicated to the life and work of the legendary Barbados-born British progressive jazz trumpeter. It fulfils author John Thurlow’s lifelong ambition of creating a book which would pay a fitting…
Forget To Remember: Live Vol.2 1970
**Strictly limited to 500 copies. Digipak with bonus tracks and liner notes by Richard Williams** Jazz in Britain presents Forget To Remember: Live Vol.2 1970 by The Ray Russell Sextet featuring Harry Beckett. Previously unreleased live session rec…
Incipient ICP, 1966-71
The untold early history of Amsterdam's seminal collective. Founded in 1967 by three of European free music's leading lights -- pianist Misha Mengelberg, drummer Han Bennink, and saxophonist and clarinetist Willem Breuker -- the Instant Composers Poo…
Fire Without Bricks
The duo of saxophonist Larry Stabbins and percussionist Roy Ashbury was a mainstay of the London improvised music scene in the early 1970s. They recorded their lone LP, Fire Without Bricks, in 1976, and issued it in a tiny edition on the cooperativel…
Into a New Journey
Unearthed by The Mighty Zaf for BBE Music, Into A New Journey by Ambiance is an impossibly rare and sought-after private label spiritual jazz masterpiece from 1982 with Latin, Brazilian and Afro overtones. Ambiance was the ‘nom de guerre’ of an ever-…
Lair of the White Worm
**Limited edition of 300 audiophile 140 gr white premium vinyl. Full color gatefold sleeve with lyric inner sleeve.** This is (another) strange one. It’s a genuinely ‘lost’ album, by which I mean it is one the band and I recorded then abandoned becau…
Bleak House
** Deluxe (and pricey) edition, remastered from the original tapes ** Recorded over three sessions in 1968, Bleak House marks Terje Rypdal departure from psychedelic group The Dream and off to explore further territories. He would later become one of…
Necro Box
Edition of 106 copies, in wooden box. Atrax Morgue is the brainchild of Marco Corbelli as sound project started in the early nineties and focused in various areas related to the field of psychopathology: murder, violent death, sadism, necrophilia, s…
>(decrescendo)
Japanese “noise” masters The Gerogerigegege go quiet on the super limited vinyl edition of their 2019 tape for Tokyo clothing label Cav Empt, delivered via TTT. Showcasing the flip side to their abject noise and playful cut-ups, ‘>(decrescendo)’ see…