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South African pianist and composer Chris McGregor led racially mixed Blue Notes in South Africa in the early 1960's. But touring and performing proved difficult, and tiring of continuous government harassment, in 1964 McGregor and the bands core members left their South African homeland.
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"Since their founding in the late 1990s, The Claudia Quintet has walked a unique path in contemporary jazz.
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"Positive Catastrophe is the brainchild of Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet) and Abraham Gomez-Delgado (percussion). Taylor is one of the most impressive of the latest crop of up and coming jazz musicians and Aib has long been expanding the boundaries of Latin-based music and jazz.
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"Led by vibraphonist and composer Jason Adasiewicz [a-dah-shev-its], Varmint is Rolldown's second release.
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"ransmit is the second album from the Steve Lacy repertory band Ideal Bread. This quartet of expert improvisers is made up of four strong players, all considered notable up 'n' comers to watch on the modern jazz scene.
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South African born and raised pianist/bandleader Chris McGregor formed the racially mixed Blue Notes in the early 1960's, touring and trying to get by in extremely difficult political circumstances as best they could.
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"Composer and pianist Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-82) is one of the top creative deities in the pantheon of American Jazz Greats. His tunes, once considered radical and appreciated by the cognoscenti, are now beloved standards.
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"For their sixth album, What Is the Beautiful?, The Claudia Quintet brings together the acclaimed compositional approach of leader John Hollenbeck with two of the most important male singers in improvised music, Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann.
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"Tres Cabeças Loucuras is the third album by Sao Paulo Underground. It's a very catchy, jazz + electronics album filled with sunny melodies, beats, noise, sounds and songs.
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"Holy Abyss is a collaborative effort between guitarist/composer Joel Harrison and bassist/composer Lorenzo Feliciati. Joining them are trumpeter Cuong Vu, Roy Powell on Hammond B-3 organ and piano, and Dan Weiss on drums.
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"Brit-jazz composer and arranger Michael Gibbs was born in 1937 in Zimbabwe.
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"Pixel, the powerhouse indie-jazz ensemble from Norway, makes an indelible first impression with Reminder. Led by bassist, vocalist and composer Ellen Andrea Wang, the band also features drummer Jon Audun Baar, saxist Harald Lassen and trumpeter Jonas Vemøy.
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"The 10 piece strong 'little big band' Positive Catastrophe was founded in 2007 by cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum and percussionist/vocalist/composer Abraham Gomez-Delgado.
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"Led by composer, drummer and three-time Grammy nominee John Hollenbeck, The Claudia Quintet have quietly but firmly and definitively recast jazz into shimmering new shapes inflected by classical minimalism, new music, progressive rock and post-rock.
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The Japanese jazz scene is finally getting the attention it deserves. Long written off as just a scene filled with copycats of American and European artists, jazz fans around the world are now discovering that there was some amazing music being created there. Some of the musicians like Terumas
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This release is part of the "Deep Jazz Reality" series that explores obscure jazz titles. Often the music touches on modal, spiritual, and even psychedelic jazz. While Japanese artists are often featured, the series is a bit wide open, touching on musicians from all over the globe.
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XRCD24 ediition of this audiophile reference album. XRCD features JVC's proprietary mastering process. The results speak for themselves. Typically these sell for quite a bit more but we uncovered a small cache in a warehouse 8,000 miles away from NJ.
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This set combines two eclectic figures from the Finnish jazz community.
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"Freddie Hubbard, the CTI Years 1970-1973. When top jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard began recording for the CTI label in the early 1970s, he combined his mastery of bop with forays into fusion and imaginative interpretations of contemporary rock and soul hits.
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Mike Longo is an American keyboardist who worked with Dizzy Gillespie for many years as well as having a somewhat successful solo career. The Awakening is probably the high water mark from his solo albums and its phenomenal.
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Four short but solid sessions combined into one CD.
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"In February 1973 Yle’s Pop Liisa show was visited by two bands. Petri & Pettersson Brass performed soulful big band rock music whereas Magyar inhabited the same beautiful psychedelic universe of childlike innocence and beauty that artists like Pekka Streng stemmed from.
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The Lightmen were a spiritual jazz ensemble based out of Houston in the early 70s. They were led by drummer Bubbha Thomas. You've probably never heard of them but you probably should have. Original copies of the Lightmen albums are quite rare and go for megabucks.
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Plain and simple, Takeo Moriyama is one bad ass mofo of a drummer. A staple of the Japanese "J-Jazz" scene, he's released many killer albums over the years. BBE has reissued his rarest album East Plants in cooperation with Moriyama and the original label VAP.
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