Tag: Reissue
Continuing the streak of putting out must-own releases, Paul Murphy and his label Jazz Room Records are reissuing Carlos Franzetti’s hard-to-find jazz dance classic album Graffiti, which was originally released on Guinness Records (not related to the drink) in 1977.
Back in 2017 for Record Store Day, Mr Bongo put out an official reissue of Arthur Verocai’s 1972 “holy grail” masterpiece. Since then, the UK-based label has reissued the album a number of times. Now celebrating it’s 50th Anniversary, Mr Bongo has put together an expansive special edition package commemorating it’s initial release.
Within about a month’s span, both UK labels We Are Busy Bodies and Be With Records are reissuing (or have reissued) two hard-to-find mid-seventies albums from Nucleus, which was an incredible British progressive jazz-fusion group led by legendary trumpeter Ian Carr that existed in different forms from 1969 all the way through to 1989. Both labels will be putting out the bands 1974 Under The Sun recording, as well as the group’s brilliant 1975 release, Alleycat.
With each incredible release, Paul Murphy’s Jazz Room Records has quickly become the source for essential jazz dancefloor reissues. The London-based label has most recently put out a welcomed reissue of the extremely obscure 1977 private-press jazz-funk album from South Florida trio Jazzberry Patch, featuring the late great Mike Longo as a special guest on Fender Rhodes.
Legendary London DJ Paul Murphy and his label Jazz Room Records continue to turn up the heat this summer with another essential in-demand dancefloor gem in Robin Jones Quintet’s 1971 Latin cooker Denga.
German-based Perfect.Toy Records, who just recently re-released Bobby Cole’s 1967 A Point of View LP, has officially reissued another incredible rare vocal jazz album, First Step by the Munich-based group Bhakti Jazz.
German-based label Perfect.Toy Records has recently officially reissued one of the greatest vocal jazz recordings of our time in Bobby Cole’s highly obscure 1967 album A Point Of View.
London-based Olindo Records has reissued one of the rarest and most essential recordings to come out of the Venezuelan salsa scene during the late sixties, in Los Kenya’s 1968 album ¡Siempre Afro-Latino!.
Legendary UK jazz DJ Paul Murphy and his Jazz Room Records label continues it’s unearthing of jazz dance gems with the recent reissue release of Youngstown, Ohio’s Tony Lavorgna and The St. Thomas Quartet’s 1982 soul jazz album Chameleon.
London’s Kalita Records, who consistently unearths essential gems, has recently reissued the obscure 1980 soulful disco-funk masterpiece Ultra/Sound from The IgG Band, which was made up of medical students at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.
