Aya Nishina Flora (2013) {tzadik Composer Series}

John Lee & Gerry Brown - Still Can't Say Enough (1976) {2013 Japanese BNLA Series 24-bit Remaster TOCJ-50546}
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© 1976, 2013 Blue Note / EMI Music Japan | TOCJ-50546
Jazz / Fusion / Neo Bop / Jazz Funk

Reissue with the latest 24bit/192kHz remastering. Features original cover artwork. Comes with a descripton in Japanese. Great work from John Lee and Gerry Brown – a pair of fusion stalwarts who added key help to a number of classic 70s sessions for other artists – and got to make a rare few albums like this on their own! Lee's on bass and Brown's on drums, and the pair are in perfect time throughout – working with Skip Drinkwater production, which helps them find even more focus than before, and shake off some of the more jamming aspects of their rock-fusion performances with others – a move that helps them come up with a wonderfully soulful sound in the process – very much in the best Drinkwater soul jazz style of the time!

The first five studio albums of the Southern rock band's career are collected in this 2013 slipcase box – Black Oak Arkansas, Keep the Faith, If an Angel Came to See You…, High on the Hog, and Street Party. Aside from 1975's Ain't Life Grand and the live album Raunch 'N' Roll Live, these are the most essential albums…

57-track, 5-CD set of albums from the legendary singer/guitarist and founding member of the Velvet Underground. Includes NEW YORK, SONGS FOR DRELLA, MAGIC & LOSS, SET THE TWILIGHT REELING and ECSTASY, each housed in a mini LP-style card picture sleeve.

Chico Hamilton - Peregrinations (1975) {2013 Japanese BNLA Series 24-bit Remaster TOCJ-50544}
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© 1975, 2013 Blue Note / EMI Music Japan | TOCJ-50544
Jazz / Post Bop / Jazz Funk / Groove / Drums

One more amazing chapter in the mighty development of drummer Chico Hamilton – a killer 70s session for Blue Note – and a record that goes way beyond his earlier experiments of the 50s, modal grooves of the 60s, and funk work for the Flying Dutchman label! The style here is fusion, but way fresher than the usual type – neither jamming rock-styled, nor mellow and smooth – and instead always tickled by Hamilton's sense of a unique rhythm, and his continued great ear for inventive use of reeds – in this case handled by Arthur Blythe on alto and Arnie Lawrence on soprano and tenor sax. The set's also got Steve Turre on bass and trombone, and both Barry Finnerty and Joe Beck on electric guitars – but the real genius is Chico himself, who handled arrangements and wrote most of the album's great tracks. Titles include the exotic number "Abdullah & Abraham" – plus "Andy's Walk", "Peregrinations", "It's About That Time", "Sweet Dreams", "On & Off", "Little Lisa", and "Space For Stacy".

Ronnie Foster - Sweet Revival (1972) {2013 Japanese BNLA Series 24-bit Remaster TOCJ-50567}
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© 1972, 2013 Blue Note / EMI Music Japan | TOCJ-50567
Jazz / Jazz Funk / Soul Jazz / Groove / Organ

"Let me begin by saying that this is not the greatest jazz album you've ever heard." So states critic/DJ Harry Abraham in the liner notes on the back of Sweet Revival, Ronnie Foster's second album as a leader. Abraham was obviously trying to deflect criticism that this record is, in his words, "a commercial album that could have just as easily been titled 'Ronnie Foster Plays the Top 40 hits of the Seventies With Horns, Strings and Voices,'" but nothing he could write would make this album acceptable to jazz purists.

Gene Harris - Tone Tantrum (1977) {2013 Japanese BNLA Series 24-bit Remaster TOCJ-50550}
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© 1977, 2013 Blue Note / EMI Music Japan | TOCJ-50550
Jazz / Jazz Funk / Soul Jazz / Keyboards

Reissue with the latest 24bit/192kHz remastering. Features original cover artwork. Comes with a descripton in Japanese. Gene Harris never veered closer to mainstream jazz-funk than Tone Tantrum – a slick, propulsive record recalling Donald Byrd's classic sessions with the Mizell brothers (not surprising, given that Byrd turns up on a few tracks here). It's very much a product of its time, channeling influences from underground disco to Stevie Wonder, and remains arguably the most blatantly commercial release in the entire Blue Note catalog.

John Zorn - The Hermetic Organ, Volume 7 - St. John the Divine (2019) {Tzadik TZ 8367} (Complete Artwork)
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© 2019 Tzadik | TZ 8367 | Tzadik Archival Series
Classical / Jazz / Avant-Garde / Modern Classical / Improvisation / Organ

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is a place of prayer, peace, spiritual renewal, and a temple to all who love the organ—and Zorn responds in kind with a remarkably soothing and peaceful exploration of lyricism and sonic variation. Interrupted only occasionally by a few trademark Phantom of the Opera explosions, the music is meditative, devotional, and at times achingly beautiful. Inspired by the mystical worlds of William Blake and the French organ traditions of Charles Tournemire and Olivier Messiaen, the music is an extended exploration in search of spiritual healing.

Gyan Riley - Stream Of Gratitude (2011) {Tzadik TZ 8078}
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© 2011 Tzadik | TZ 8078 | Tzadik Composer Series
Classical / Modern Classical / Avant-Garde / Chamber Music / Guitar

Gyan Riley is a virtuoso guitarist and composer from Northern California who has performed both as a soloist and in ensemble with various artists such as Zakir Hussain, Michael Manring, Dawn Upshaw, the San Francisco Symphony, the Falla Guitar Trio, the World Guitar Ensemble and composer/pianist/vocalist Terry Riley. For his first Tzadik release he presents an astounding recital of original works that draw upon and expand the rich legacy of classical music for solo guitar. Modern Etudes and more from this remarkable composer/guitarist now living in Brooklyn!

Ernesto Martínez - Mutaciónes (2004) {Tzadik TZ 7096}
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© 2004 Tzadik | TZ 7096 | Tzadik Composer Series
Classical / Contemporary Classical / Modern Composition / Chamber Music / Post-Minimalism

A native of Mexico, where as a young man he encountered and became friends with American marverick Conlon Nancarrow, Ernesto Martinez has been sculpting remarkably original polyrhythmic compositions for well over a decade. Inspired equally by Balinese Gamelan techniques, the player piano masterworks of Nancarrow, and Mexican folk traditions, Ernesto Martinez and his group Micro-ritmia blends complex and virtuosic hocketing techniques, meticulously performed on a combination of piano, marimba and altered guitars, with a striking sense of drama. Tzadik is proud to present the first recordings outside Mexico of this iconoclastic composer.

Ned Rothenberg - Ghost Stories (2000) {Tzadik TZ 7061}
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© 2000 Tzadik | TZ 7061 | Tzadik Composer Series
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Modern Creative / World Fusion

A downtown mainstay for twenty years, composer/multi-woodwind performer Ned Rothenberg makes his Tzadik debut with a stunning CD of chamber music. Acclaimed for work in a wide variety of contexts from the multi-metric funk of his Double Band to the large chamber jazz of Power Lines, Rothenberg here shows both range and focus in works for unprecedented instrumentations that have epic scope. Asian and western instruments combine in scores mixing improvised solo features with through-composed ensembles. Ghost Stories is one of Rothenberg's most accomplished works.