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Sauce and Dogs
* Second edition. Each cover have individual artwork, different from the 1st edition * Modern Free / Experimental Jazz with heavy Brazillian rhythms and thundering electronics from the mysterious (but obviously very experienced) group.
"Make it like …
Free Jazz in Japan: A Personal History
This book, the only history of free jazz in Japan, has been reprinted many times in Japan and is finally available to readers overseas in English translation. From its earliest stirrings in the 1960s until it reached international recognition in the …
It Is What It Is
In process of stocking. This release captures what is sure to become a legendary coupling. Virginia Genta and her long-time-partner-in-crime David Vanzan plus one Brandon Lopez, all amasse under the moniker Jooklo Trio. As you can imagine the meeting…
New York Total Music Company 1968 - SWR Broadcast
Restocked, very last copies ** Private edition, limited to 107 hand-numbered copies ** Broadcast from SWR, recorded at 10th Deutsches Jazzfestival Frankfurt, Germany, on March 24, 1968. This is is Cherry at his absolute best, encountering him with a…
Archive 2
This work is an uncut recording of the second part of the regular concert vol.57 (September 24, 1984, at Shibuya Jean-Jean) of the new Direction Unit led by Masayuki Takayanagi. It is a performance in which Hiroshi Yamazaki participates as a percussi…
Not Blues
* 2020 Stock * Not Blues is a live recording of the contemporary jazz group Masayuki Takayanagi Jazz Contemporary 4, which was formed in February 1969. It was the year when the group New Direction was formed and the first recording "Independence" und…
Meta Improvisation
Masayuki Takayanagi's live solo performances recorded from 1984 Hokkaido Tour, selected and edited by Otomo Yoshihide; incredible electronics and guitar work from the pre-Action Direct freestyle improviser... "This is Takayanagi's live solo performan…
A Jazzy Profile of Jojo
* 2020 Stock * A Jazzy Profile of Jojo is composed of standard jazz masterpieces interpreted by Masayuki Takayanagi. It was recorded in March 1970 immediately after the start of the New Direction (1969). Legendary recordings with Kaoru Abe such as "D…
Second Concept
* 2020 Stock * Jinya Disc presents a double live album initially recorded to cassette tape by Yoshihiro Tanabe, a student of Takayanagi Juku on November 25, 1979 at jazz club Taro, Tokyo. The album includes 12 tracks performed by Masayuki Takayanagi …
Live at Taro
* 2020 Stock *Jinya Disc presents a live concert recorded to cassette tape on June 24, 1979 (afternoon set) at jazz club Taro, Tokyo. Mastered at Kojima Rokuon. The album includes 4 tracks performed by Masayuki Takayanagi - Guitar, Kenji Kosei - Elec…
Then Now
Since their 1988 duo album Sonic Explorations and through a number of group collaborations, the duo of alto saxophonist Rob Brown and pianist Matthew Shipp have extended and evolved their uniquely astute and confident dialog, as heard in this magnifi…
The Clawed Stone
Matthew Shipp (piano), John Butcher (saxophones) and Thomas Lehn (electronics) in a studio album recorded in France in 2017, a uniquely voiced collective trio of transformative improvisation, Lehn's additions and modifications blending perfectly with…
What If?
* 2020 Stock * An authoritative meeting between two of New York City's strongest players - Matthew Shipp on piano and Nate Wooley on trumpet - distilled to their essence after work with saxophonist Ivo Pereleman, here performing a set of 12 Shipp com…
Symbolic Reality
* 2020 Stock * Six compositions by pianist Matthew Shipp for his String Trio with violist Mat Maneri and double bassist William Parker, their first Trio record since 2001's "Expansion, Power and Release" (Hat), their long history of working together …
We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
* Limited Edition of 300 Clear Vinyl * One of the major statements in the history of Jazz and African American liberation movements. Originally released in 1960 on Candid Records, Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite consists of five original compositions a…
In Italy - Volume One
Soul Note Vinyl present a reissue of Bill Dixon's In Italy - Volume One, originally released in 1980. Bill Dixon one of the great visionary composers and improvisers in modern creative jazz, In Italy - Volume One was recorded in Milan in 1980 and rel…
Al-Fatihah
Among the fiercest and greatest documents of Free Jazz is a lone LP - Al-Fatihah - self-released in Ohio by Black Unity Trio in 1969, the official reissue of which stands before us now. A hard cut diamond of pure fire and artistry, it’s a good as imp…
Spiritual Jazz 12: Impulse!
In Jazzman Records' latest chapter of Spiritual Jazz, the label returns to the source -- the Impulse! label, and the monumental influence of its most prominent artist, John Coltrane. Since the first release in the series back in 2008, Jazzman Records…
Dudu Phukwana and the "Spears"
Dudu Phukwana and the Spears recorded in London, but were only ever released in South Africa. The story behind this extraordinary music and the famous names involved are documented in this extended edition of Dudu Phukwana’s debut album.
In 1964 the …
Tetratne
Temporary Super Offer! It is surely significant that both Lovens and Stoffner use all four limbs to control their instrument. Lower limbs used principally to play bass drum and hi-hat in the case of Lovens, volume control and effects pedal for Stoffn…