Record Shopping Etiquette
The do’s, the don’ts, and best practices when it comes to shopping for vinyl.
Following a year where Mildlife broke through with three solid releases, including their debut EP Phase, the Melbourne-based jazz-funk quartet returns with an incredible new 12″ single titled How Long Does It Take?.
Two of Finland’s most highly regarded jazz musicians, in saxophonist Timo Lassy and drummer Teppo Mäkynen, release a brand new 7inch single off of We Jazz Records.
What do you get when you combine Fela Kuti, Mulatu Astatke, and David Axelrod? Basically you get the five-piece Belgium band Black Flower, and they just released their much-anticipated third full-length album Future Flora.
Ubiquity Recordings has recently reissued one of the most obscure and mysterious funk forty-fives to ever be discovered in Scorpio & His People’s 1972 ‘The Unforgiven/Theme From Movietown Sound’.
For Greg Foat’s ninth album, and first for the Athens of the North label, the London-based pianist collaborates with a multi-generational cast of brilliant British musicians on The Mage.
Following a string of brilliant limited-edition seven-inch singles over the last year, the Bristol-based quartet Ishmael Ensemble have released their highly-anticipated full-length debut, titled A State of Flow.
Following the reissue of Eumir Deodato’s 1965 Brazilian jazz masterpiece Ataque from his Os Catedráticos group early in the year, Far Out Recordings has also recently reissued the group’s hard-to-find seventies jazz-fusion recording Os Catedráticos 73.
The Chicago-based label, Past Due, has just released a lost album from one of the greatest funk bands of the seventies, the 9th Creation.
One of the leading groups on the London jazz scene follows up two highly-acclaimed EP releases, Juan Pablo: The Philosopher and Chapter 7, with their debut full-length album, titled You Can’t Steal My Joy.
Over the past few years, Chicago’s International Anthem has been one of the most forward-thinking labels, releasing breakthrough albums by Makaya McCraven, Ben LaMar Gay, Irreversible Entanglements, Jeff Parker, Jamie Branch, and others.
The new London-based jazz label Spiritmuse Records has reissued the highly obscure 1978 spiritual avant masterpiece Peace of Time by alto saxophonist and percussionist Abdullah ‘Mudon’ Sami.
WRWTFWW Records imprint, We Release Jazz has recently released the first ever live recorded performance by Marc Moulin’s legendary jazz-funk band Placebo.
Originally released on Nimbus West Records back in 1979, Soul Jazz Records and Outernational Sounds have reissued Horace Tapscott and The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra’s rare spiritual jazz masterpiece Live at I.U.C.C.