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For additional information, see the Global Shipping Programme terms and conditions - opens in a new window or tab. Estimated delivery within working days. Much of the work here features that blend of Havana roots and bebop performance that Machito and Mario Bauza pioneered during the postwar years — music that definitely draws strongly from some of the bigger groups and smaller combos in the US at the time, but which mixes their jazz lines with some incredible percussion and very lively rhythms. Rough-edged blues from the west side of Chicago — a stone classic from the mighty Magic Sam — a player who was taken from us all too soon!

On the west side, they mix plenty of soul in with their blues — and you can definitely hear that on this stone smoker — a record that has roots in the same scene as Syl Johnson, whose modes definitely creep into the groove at times! A really cool little album from the mighty Steve Miller — a set that's half live, half studio, and fully in possession of all Miller's mighty charms!

The guitar is fantastic — and really stretches out on some of the longer tracks — but as always with Steve, he's never slavish to his blues-inspired roots — as he always pulls something new out of his bag, and manages to charm the songs tremendously with that great vocal approach of his!

It's that quality that's the real Miller magic — that style that helped really push Steve and a rare few of his scene past the cliches of the blues rock scene a few years before — embracing the future while still revering the past, to make music as fantastic as this! Tripped-out greatness from the mighty Augustus Pablo — maybe one of the few cats in the world who could make the melodica sound like a cool instrument!

This package digs deeper than some of the straight album reissues on the market — as the Pressure Sounds team have really unearthed some great cuts that originally only appeared as singles — 7" and 12" tracks that mix together heavy, dubby rhythms with Pablo's snakey lines on the breath-blown keyboard — all for a sound that's completely amazing. And as always, a deluxe Pressure Sounds package — with excellent notes! An amazing debut from Rufus — a group so great, they were virtually a genre unto themselves during the 70s!

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CD Part of the Disco Fever 40 series! A sweet soulful stepper from the mighty Hank Crawford — a set that's got a bit of the bluesy lines promised by the title, but which also has some snappier soul jazz modes played by a larger ensemble! Hank plays a bit of piano, in addition to his trademark alto sax — and the set's got a style that bridges his roots with Ray Charles and some of the cooler, groovier modes of Atlantic Records jazz in the 60s.

The title certainly gets it right — as the album definitely brings a bit of jazz into the mix for the great John Mayall — given that the set features strong work from funky jazz heavyweights Blue Mitchell on trumpet and Freddy Robinson on guitar! Both are musicians that we love for their late 60s records on their own, and they work mighty nicely here with Mayall in a live setting — alongside heavy saxes from Clifford Solomon, and lots of great guitar, harmonica, and piano from John Mayall himself!

The style is still more blues than jazz, but definitely shows an expanding style past the more slavish roots of Mayall's early years — especially reflecting his new interaction with the American scene after the breakup of the Blues Breakers. LP, Vinyl record album Limited edition!

A trio of classic albums from The Whispers — with bonus tracks too! On the first set, the mighty group does way more here than just Whisper in your ear — as they're completely on top of their game, ending the 70s with a wickedly sharp sound that would help them stand strong for years to come! The group started in fragile harmony soul modes, grew with confidence in the 70s, hit a bit of a dancefloor mode — and here step off with this mature style that's totally wonderful — the best of all worlds together as one — shaped by arrangements from Tom Tom 84, Gene Page, and Keni Burke!

The Whispers album was one of a few to bear the group's name as its title — and it's also one of our favorite albums by The Whispers — a later gem with some really great songs, and a sound that shows the group strongly moving into hit territory! In some way, the album's almost a return to the mellow harmony soul of the group's roots — slowing down the pace from the disco years to craft some extremely great ballads and midtempo numbers. There's still a bunch of great club tracks too — like the classic "And The Beat Goes On" — but in a way, our favorite tracks are the mellower ones, like "Lady", "I Love You", and the sublime, "A Song For Donny", a tribute to the late Donny Hathaway, written around the music of his classic "This Christmas".

On Imagination, the group takes off from the Philly groove style of their late 70s work, moving into a style that picks up all the best touches of the early 80s LA sound — electro keyboards, but not too much; quiet storm production, but not so much so that the album's smothered in it; and a professional approach to harmonies and songwriting that showed that the group was still an unstoppable force in soul music!

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The Trojan vaults are deep, and mining them for this collection of mighty dubs is a task long overdue. CD Out of print. Forget everything you know about ska music from recent years — no Mighty Mighty cliches, no retro-styled clunkers, no two-toned sounds at all — just the real deal, the roots of the style, served up here in classic recordings that go right to the source!

These are the cuts that started it all — and which still sound way better to our ears than any of the countless imitations that have been crafted over the years — played with a freshness and a sharp edge that recent recordings can never hope to touch! The music here is the roots of reggae crafted in the soil of Kingston — recorded by the legendary Studio One Records, with all the soulful undercurrents you'd find in the rocksteady generation as well.

It's been a few years since Soul Jazz have served up a set of Jamaican grooves this tight — but it's been well worth the wait, given the track selection and always-stellar level of presentation from the label. LP, Vinyl record album Later pressing in a non-gatefold cover.

The Levert bloodline runs mighty strong — with roots in the harmony sound of the O'Jays, reworked here to a beautiful new mode for the 80s — in a style that helped the group really revive vocal soul for the decade! At a time when so many other groups were just letting the beats and keyboards guide their vocals, Levert returned to the best sort of older soul modes — bringing back that classic east coast care with the lyrics to sit alongside backings that still have plenty of 80s electro soul elements.

The blend is great, and clearly an inspiration for a generation of copycat acts to come in the 90s — but never handled by any of them this well. LP, Vinyl record album Cover has a cutout notch, light wear, and a name in marker. Stephane San Juan is saved by the drums, although the image on the cover makes it look more like he's being attacked by them! But all kidding aside, the set's dedicated to the great Brazilian percussionist Wilson Das Neves — who's spirit is alive and well on the album — while Stephan not only handles some mighty tight drums, but also calls out the tunes with these wonderfully raspy vocals!

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The style isn't exactly like Wilson's classic work, but definitely has that sweet mix of roots and contemporary elements he hit in the 70s — save for the fact that the grooves here are often a bit more complicated, and nicely can change up in the course of a single tune — which keeps things especially fresh. Gunesh might look a bit unusual on the cover — like some crazy mountain folk who've somehow gotten ahold of band instruments — but on the album, they've got this tight funky sound that's mighty nice — yet which is also still as unusual as their look! The instrumentation is jazz funk at the core — with lots of basslines and riffing guitar alongside the horns and heavy drums — but the phrasing, sound, and structure is quite unusual — maybe more influenced by their Russian roots , which also comes through in the occasional vocalizations!

The sound is hard to peg in a few words, but if you dig funky fusion, you'll find plenty to love here — on titles that include "Parting", "Deceit", "Ballad Of Destiny", "Oriental Souvenir", "Girl", and "White Dove". A 70s classic by one of the greatest Polish groups of the time — the mighty Breakout, who work here in a nicely raw, nicely spare version of blues-inspired rock! The group's got plenty of Chicago influence on both the guitar and harmonica — but they never use those instruments in any way that's too slavish, and instead mix them with their own Polish lyrics in an evolved style that really recalls some of the hipper UK groups of this nature from the start of the 70s — particularly those who were pushing past the roots into their own sort of territory.

Cover has some edge wear. Four ultra-rare records — all brought together in one incredible CD set — the third collection to document the brilliant sounds of Germany's Ego Recordings label from the 70s! First up is the album Reconciliation from Joe Haider — one of the 70s gems on the mighty German Ego label — an incredible small company who seemed to put out nothing but excellent music!

The set's led by pianist Joe Haider, and features a quintet with Andy Scherrer on tenor and soprano sax, Ack Van Rooyen on flugelhorn, Gunter Lenz on bass, and Todd Canedy on drums — all of them together welling up as way more than the sum of their parts, and cooking up an amazingly soulful set of tunes! There's bits of modal and American 70s spiritual soul jazz in the set — all played with a proud and buoyant style that unfolds majestically through the course of the album, never faltering in its vision or creativity.

Katzenvilla features the amazing trio of pianist Joe Haider, bassist Isla Eckinger, and drummer Pierre Favre — three very individual musicians who come together here as a group, but still retain a lot of their special energy! Haider's a lot more dynamic than usual — still with warm chords on the piano, but also some sharper edges — which seem pushed on by Favre's deft drum work, and his flowing sense of both melody and rhythm at the same moment. Eckinger's bass has these deep, soulful currents that we always love — and really grounds the whole thing in a wonderful way — on titles that include "Capricorn", "My Little Darling", "And Now", "Katzenvilla", and "Fate Of A Child" — all originals by Haider!

Pianist Fritz Pauer steps out on Water Plants — a trio date that's got a lot more warmth and soul than some of the musician's previous work from the German scene — a beautiful little session that balances the deep bass work of Isla Eckinger and the subtle drums of Billy Brooks.

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There's a loose, lyrical vibe to the record that shows a side of Pauer we might not have expected — and Fritz wrote some wonderful tunes for the album, including "Water Plants", "Sagittarius", "Tribal Dance", "For La Rives", and "Autumn Evening". The set features Wilton on tenor and soprano sax, Parlan on piano, and great rhythms from Isla Eckinger on bass and Billie Brooks on drums — all coming together with a sense of warmth and imagination that's completely sublime — much richer than some of Gaynair's other performances from the 70s, and with a sense of flow and soul that makes the album one of Parlan's best.

All albums come in tiny LP-style covers, and the box also features a bookle of notes! Given that the date of the album is , and most of the work has a sound from a decade before, the approach can be somewhat excused — but honestly, much of the material here would have done great on a commercial label as well — especially some of the more soul-based material.

A pair of classics from The Maytals — with bonus tracks too! First up is Monkey Man — one of the greatest trio albums ever from the Jamaican scene — a classic set that kicked off the sound of reggae for the 70s, while still holding onto the rocksteady sound of the years before! The vocals of the Maytals are tied together tightly, but still have a rough edge that's quite different than American group soul at the time — partly because the energy of Toots Hibbert is hard to contain, as he leaps forward with a great sense of spirit that paves the way for later solo stars to emerge from Jamaican groups.

There's a groove to the Maytals music that nobody else seems to get this right — or this tight — a fantastic criss-crossing of rhythms that's often nicely stripped-down, and which seems to set fire to the vocal interplay between Toots and the rest of the group — in a way that's as vocally explosive as the instrumentation at the core! Sure, these guys can harmonize as well as the rest of their contemporaries — but they've also got an even greater talent for trading back and forth, which seems to make every one of their tunes an instant groove.

A Kenyan group from the early 80s — one who work in a great mix of clubby modes and Swahili soul styles! There's keyboards on most numbers, but this isn't the synth pop of the South African scene, as the tunes here generally have deeper grooves overall, and the percussion is usually live — then mixed with electro soul elements that are mighty nice, and topped with group vocals on most numbers! LP, Vinyl record album In a very cool screen-printed sleeve, too! Very early work from singer Tracy Nelson — done years before her greater fame in the group Mother Earth, and with a folksy, stripped-down style that's mighty nice!

The set's one of a handful of folk classics that Prestige Records issued in the 60s — material that's way hipper than some of the pop-folk albums on other labels Terry Callier also made his debut in this series — and featuring a presentation that really keeps Nelson far from any attempt to cross over big, even maybe to mainstream folk audiences of the time.

Tracy mostly sings and plays guitar, but also plays a bit of piano too — and the album features contributions from Peter Wolfe on guitar, Charlie Musselwhite on harmonica, and Harvey Smith on piano. Whatever the case may be these tracks are some mighty fine dubs of early 80s reggae, with some nice effects over the stark roots y numbers as well as the sunnier rhythms. The title might seem a bit all-encompassing — but given the talents of the mighty Ralph Peer, it certainly fits!

Peer was one of the most pioneering figures in the early days of the recording industry — a talent scout who would endlessly search the country, especially the south, for overlooked artists — which led to a phenomenal recording legacy that includes some of the most important early blues, country, and folk music captured on record! Peer was also a genius about publishing, too — and worked for the industry as sort of a "song collector" — taking local compositions and reworked traditional numbers, and finding a place for them in the greater mainstream — often with efforts that have gone onto become huge standards over the past century.

This book tells the take of Peer's life and musical journey — with text by Barry Mazor, alongside some great images in a book-style package — complete with 3CDs that feature a total of 50 tracks in all — with music by a hugely diverse array of artists touched by Peer's talents.

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Sublime mid 70s work from The Average White Band — and a record that really has the group deepening their groove a bit — moving past the heavier funk of their roots , into some mellower grooves that are totally great! There's a great undercurrent of jazz in some of the playing here — a real consciousness for clever changes, hip instrumental flourishes, and some other fusion-inspired moments — although all delivered with an understated quality that's mighty nice. The feel's a bit like The Headhunters on their second album, or some of the great Wayne Henderson groups on Fantasy — a great mix of jazz funk and soul that makes the record one of our favorites by the group.

Winston Rodney's greatest work, and considering the volume of tremendous roots sides he dropped over the years, that's saying a lot! CD Out of print, punch through barcode. Razor-sharp funk from The Chapparrals — an Atlanta group from the 70s, and one with a great balance of ensemble grooving and deeper soul roots! Everything is not what it seems. Average teenager Will, quickly learns this when he discovers that the world he has been living in is nothing more than a clever lie.

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There's still a bunch of great club tracks too — like the classic "And The Beat Goes On" — but in a way, our favorite tracks are the mellower ones, like "Lady", "I Love You", and the sublime, "A Song For Donny", a tribute to the late Donny Hathaway, written around the music of his classic "This Christmas". Phospholutions - Long Island, New York. That's not Santa, as in Santa Claus — but a nickname for Santiago Salas, who works here in a very cool, jazzy mode! Brooklyn, New York, United States. Much of the work here features that blend of Havana roots and bebop performance that Machito and Mario Bauza pioneered during the postwar years — music that definitely draws strongly from some of the bigger groups and smaller combos in the US at the time, but which mixes their jazz lines with some incredible percussion and very lively rhythms.

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