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Patent Pending was the first album by the Johnny Almond Music Machine and was issued on Decca's progressive imprint Deram in 1969. The album was one of the finest jazz rock albums of the era, by a band featuring Geoff Condon (trumpet, flugel horn), Johnny Wiggins (piano, organ), Jimmy Crawford...
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Negro É Lindo is the eighth album by Brazilian artist Jorge Ben, released in 1971. The title is a translation of the slogan "Black is beautiful" to Portuguese. The album has a song called "Cassius Marcelo Clay" paying homage to boxer and black activist Muhammad Ali. Rather than use overly...
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The long unavailable ninth album by Brazilian star JORGE BEN. Released in 1972, "BEN" comes from one of Jorge Ben's most artistically important phases, the early 70s. The album has some of Ben's most famous songs, "Taj Mahal" (plagiarized by Rod Stewart on his song "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?", as the...
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Reminiscent of the Clube da Esquina album he made the same year with Brazilian superstar Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges' 1972 solo debut proves that his influence on Nascimento was quite strong. The recording is texturally lush and dreamy, at times urgent and bizarre, and filled with the fantastic...
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1969 Chicago Soulful Psych group, four white boys featuring Ron Stockert playing a powerful Hammond Organ in the vein of Vanilla Fudge. Stockert went on to play with Carl Carlton (Everlasting Love) and Rufus & Chaka Kahn.
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European fusion at its best ! Philip Catherine has been on the forefront of the European jazz scene since the sixties, working with the likes Chet Baker, Larry Coryell, Tom Harrell, NHOP, Stéphane Grappelli, Charles Mingus. At the age of 18 he toured Europe with Lou Bennett and in 1971 Jean-Luc...
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45 rpm. On this 1968 album Collins definitely adopted the funky R&B Hammond vibe (while peppering his Texas Twang over top). There's a sensitive homage to The Meters on the lead off track "Do the Sissy" while some other cuts have a definitive Booker vibe. An amazing R&B/soul combination while...
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180-gram vinyl reissue. The epochal album released by Impulse ! in 1966 with a lineup enhanced by the addition of Rashied Ali on second drums and Pharoah Sanders on tenor sax.
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A lot changed between Gal Costa's pleasantly straightforward 1967 debut Domingo and her eponymous follow-up two years later. Domingo, also a debut for young Brazilian songwriter Caetano Veloso, featured a set of airy, somewhat standard bossa nova tunes, sung ably by Costa. Mere months after the...
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After Caetano Veloso broke out with his solo debut, the self-titled 1968 release recognized as the building block for the now infamous Brazilian Tropicalia movement, his friends and musical peers released similar albums, always upping the ante in terms of outrageousness and inventiveness. This...
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When his Brazilian LP first appeared on Philips in 1967, both Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso had released only a few singles individually, so this is the first long player from either of them. Although presented as a team effort, this LP is actually mostly Caetano Veloso's work, with him composing,...
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The Walker Brothers, teen scream material to rival the Beatles in '66, split in '67. Both Scott and John had taken lead vocal duty, but drummer Gary hadn't sung a note, nor written anything. He decided to put a tough new group together that could rival the forward-looking, chart-busting acts of...
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Gilberto Gil's second album is packed with some of the best songs of his career.Includes a bonus track.
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Françoise Madeleine Hardy became an international sensation during the early 1960s through her popular releases on Disques Vogue, the French jazz label that began showcasing chanson. Born in 1944 and raised in a single-parent household in the bustling Opera district of Paris, she had little...
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The magnificent Indo-Jazz suite by The Joe Harriott Double Quintet Under The Direction Of John Mayer. Features Kenny Wheeler on trumpet, band leader Joe Harriott on alto saxophone, sitar player Diwan Motihar and more. On Indo-Jazz Suite's release in 1966 its four tracks - 'Overture', 'Contrasts',...
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With a few more instrumental solos than regular Lobo albums, Cantiga De Longe takes advantage of the genius of the arranger/instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal. The album has other stars, including percussionist Airto Moreira and drummer Cláudio Slom. There are several important songs on this album:...
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Before Edu released this album, he tried to break the English speaking market by releasing his "Sergio Mendes Presents Edu Lobo" album. This collection of his hits that he rebuilt and sung in English, was an opportunity for this market to experience an authentically new-Brazilian sound that was the...
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Iconic film composer Ennio Morricone made an incredible contribution to popular music. Coming to prominence through his scoring of Sergio Leone's Westerns, there followed work for directing legends such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roland Joffè, Brian De Palma and many more, since...
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Welcomed reissue of the rare 1972 Progressive Rock album "Is a Friend?" by THE PARLOUR BAND. Issued by Decca's Deram imprint in 1972, this highly sought after release has been finally delivered on the vinyl format again. Featuring Craig Anders (guitar, vocals), Mark Anders (bass, vocals), Peter...
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Hermeto's first album recorded in Brazil, and his second solo album (the first one was recorded and released in the USA). Performs as composer of "Bebê" "Plin" and "Serearei", arranger, conductor and instrumentalist. The most experimental record of the master where he shows from beautiful themes...
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45 rpm reissue. Tracklist: Walking Down The StreetIf I Needed SomebodyFree LoveCause I'm A ManDanger SignsGrey SkiesI Love YouLove, Dance And SingA Thousand Ages From The SunI See YouStreet GirlAlexanderIt'll Never Be MeEagle's SonBlow Your MindWhat's Good For The GooseRave Up
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Recorded November 15, 1966 at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs - New Jersey, Tauhid is one of the most iconic album recorded by the tenor saxophonist. On his debut for Impulse ! the leader assembled an extraordinary line-up, defining the boundaries of the so-called spiritual jazz movement....
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The compositional minimalism of Jewels of Thought is a major thread through Sanders albums of this period, setting up a sparse canvas for colorful tenor saxophone meditations. In one instance Sanders' playing may be soft, beckoning and glad, while elsewhere his saxophone becomes a crazed, outraged...
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Karma is Sanders' third recording as a leader, and is among a number of spiritually themed albums the Impulse! record label released in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Although it is followed by the brief "Colors", the album's main piece is the 32-minute-long "The Creator Has a Master Plan",...
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