Contemporary / Spiritual / Free Jazz / Be-Bop

 
Style: Spiritual Freedom

Format: LP
Label: Idbib

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+

Doug Hammond, Muneer Abdul Fataah, Steve Coleman and their friends are taking Black Jazz to another level. Spiritual music with a message and a whole lot of freedom. The vinyl is a couple of light static clicks away from NM. Audible around 3 minutes in the clip.

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Style: Spiritual Jazz / Ethno Modal

Format: 2LP
Label: MPS

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Double LP filled with the best of Saba's "World Jazz" (Jazz Meets India, Sakura Sakura, Flamenco Jazz, Djanger Bali, Auto Jazz, Noon in Tunesia, From Sticksland With Love, Wild Goose, Tristeza on Guitar and El Babaku...) Worth every penny!

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Style: Spiritual Jazz / Deepest Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Milestone

Year: 1971

Condition: NM/NM

Indeed a milestone. Gary and his boys trooping through the funky spiritual jazz county as if they own it. Well - they do!

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Style: the maestro on the bass / Freedom Bass Suite

Format: LP
Label: Ring

Year: 1976

Condition: VG/VG+

One of the european kings on bass. And for sure the experimental bass kaiser. You wouldn't guess how entertaining a bass solo album can be. If his name doesn't ring a bell: Ali Haurand played with Third Eye, The Jan Huydts Trio, Tony Oxley, Wilton Gaynar, etc, etc. My first double copy went into the hands of Thurston Moore...

This copy here has an audible scratch in B1. No skips but quite a few pops (well around 20 rounds) Rest is NM. Priced accordingly

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Style: Soul Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Blue Note

Year: 1962

Condition: VG+/VG stamps and stickers

Mono Copy! Ear and Van Gelder stamp in run out-groove.

Heavyweight vinyl shows one faint scuff and plays NM. 

Cover shows sticker shadow on front and back as well as wobc.

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Style: Pensive Liberty / Solo Piano

Format: LP
Label: Océan

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

I save you from all this mad rare, never seen before bs and go straight to the vibe of this beauty. 5 out 7 tunes are unparalleled laid back and contemplative pieces. Beiers language is straight and honest, sometimes playful. They make it easy to fall in everlasting love...  I've also added one of the two hotter jams for you consideration.

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Style: Contemporary

Format: LP
Label: TCB

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+ punchhole

Contemporary Jazz with a modal feel, incredible string arrangements (did Dego & Marc Mac hear this before recording 4 pages?) and a SPIRIT. And with Doug Hammnond on drums by the way ... He also releassed this on his Idibib label. Sounding so damn fresh!!

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Style: South African Free Jaz

Format: LP
Label: Steeple Chase

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

Seldom SA freedom jazz dances in nicest condition. Dyani on bass featuring Don Cherry on cornet, Dudu Pukwana on sax and Nicra's Makaya Ntshoko on drums.

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Style: Indo Jazz Greats

Format: LP
Label: Metronome

Year: 1967

Condition: NM/VG- archival stamps and stickers and ex woc

Actually the roots of Indo Jazz! Recorded in London 1965.

Joe Harriott from the West Indies was one of the most prolific saxophone players at that time. He and his crew - including the great Kenny Wheeler - got together with a group of indian musicians around Dewan Motihar, who would later form the Dewan Motihar Trio that many of you Jazz Heads know from the Jazz Meets India album on Saba. From the hands of Michael Naura's radio archive straight to you!

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Style: Hard Bop

Format: LP
Label:  Contemporary Records

Year: 1958

Condition: VG+/VG stickered and stamped

Original first mono pressing!

Cover shows woc, wobc, a sticker on back and stickered and spamped labels. Vinyl plays great. It shows 5 small spots that create 10 pops in total spread across the record. I will include a cleaned version on CD-r.

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Style: Modal Gitte

Format: LP
Label: Hörzu

Year: 1969

Condition: NM/VG+

Gitte & The Band is a proper understatement since the band is Europe's top Big Bands at that time - the almighty Clarke-Boland Big Band. I guess she looks that confident because it was a pleasure to record the album! First pressing on Hörzu.

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Style: Modal Jazz / Contemporary

Format: LP
Label: P&P (Private)

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Seller: "Too bad this modal masterpiece did not make it onto a Giles Peterson comp in the early 90s." Buyer: "Thank you Mr Peterson!"

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Style: Bop

Format: 10" LP
Label: Savoy

Year: 1953

Condition: VG+/VG

Rare recordings of these giants from 1945/46. The vinyl is playing great. Some minor scuffs and hairlines have hardly any effect of the playback. The cover is borderlining VG+. All seams intact and no tears etc. But WOC on the back: The previous owner wrote the track titles with ballpen on the back's top. Label side B has a circular shop sticker. Probably from the 60s. Link to a full recording of this album for sale below. Please check!

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Style: Hard Bop

Format: LP
Label: Verve Clef Series

Year: 1953

Condition: VG/VG+

Original MONO version with etched Cat. # in runout. Both record and cover borderlining VG+. The vinyl shows some light scuffs and plays with occasional soft pops spread over the record. No deep scratches. The cover is even better with a bunch of wrinkles and a bit of well taped seam at the upper end. No cuts, tears, etc. Really great for a record that is 55 years old! Link to a full recording of this album for sale below. Please check!

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Style: Contemporary

Format: LP
Label: Vivid Music

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG  tears

Günther Wiesemann on piano, Dietmar Hippler on drums and flute plus Ali Haurand and Benno Gromzig on bass. Includes tunes inspired by McCoy Tyner and John Coltrane, an actual McCoy Tyner piece (Atlantis) and the live recording of the completely spontaneous Jazzrumba, the latter being my fave on the album.

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Style: Swedish Modern

Format: LP
Label: Philips

Year: 1973

Condition: NM/NM

Modern Jazz from two swedish milestones that sounds pretty cool, if you know what I mean. Especially when it explores the world. If I wouldn't know it should have been Nasi Goreng from Indonesia I would have guessed for Harissa. Delicious anyway!

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Style: Contemporary Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Thomas Stabenow's solo album from 1984 is a seldom seen rarity. All compositions on this release are written by bassmann Stabenow. From bass solo in Trio für Violone over duo and trios to quartet pieces - this record has it all. My fave is the drum and bass workout Stars but the pensive title track Chiara (8:12) is really wonderful either.

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Style: Contemporary

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+

Most excellent private Contemporary Jazz rooted in the coolest Hard Bop available.  Stabenow is not a hobbyist and his version of Green Dolphin Street is beyond beautiful.

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Style: Alphorns beatboxing

Format: LP
Label: Amadeo

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Changing news about Trombones for news about thrombosen. Sorry.

Two artists and their trombones experimenting upon the ventilation.

Sometimes they sound like alphorns, sometimes like Ready Rock C

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Style: Vocal Jazz / Bossa Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Jeton

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Wonderful 80s vocal jazz featuring excellent players like Ack van Royen, Jiggs Whigham, and Thomas Lauer. This record holds one of my favourite german Bossa Jazz tunes JUST FLY AWAY

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Style: Contemporary Freedom / Organic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Jazz Haus

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Percussive and playful freedom in Cologne. Standout track for me is the spiritual "black Jazz" inspired Tribute To The Eternal Black. Superjam!

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Style: Easy Free Jazz?

Format: LP
Label: Blütenstaub (Private)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

The Wütrio's first longplayer from 1981.

Free and easy describes this self released organic jazz album very well!!

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Style: Free Privacy

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Most excellent and pretty soulful free jazz with the exception of  the hard bopping Straight No Chaser. The remaining tunes are self penned compositions / improvisations.

Catalpa were 5 hobby musicians from Munich who recorded their only album in Hamburg. In over 20 years of digging for german jazz this is the second copy I came across ...

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Style: Organic Contemporary

Format: LP
Label: Move

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

I call this friendly, deep and also a tiny bit esoteric. Timeless compositions meet versatile improvisations. Highly recommended!

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Style: Modal Jazz / Oldtime

Format: 7" EP
Label: Private

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

Nicest copy of this uncommon jazz gem. All players are coming from a dixie or ragtime background. Nevertheless they have been playing with great names such as Mal Waldron or the local hero Joe Haider. When i discovered this i didn't expect much since the tunes are adaptions of german folk songs, but right the first track showed me that i was misdirected. Two of the four songs are fantastic modern jazz compositions. This is the original first issue with the foldout cover

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Style: Vocal Jazz / Experimental Contemporaries

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

By far one of my favourite vocal jazz records made in Germany. If you dig the work of Monika Linges, Lauren Newton and Silvia Droste you need to hear this. A little more experimental than the average easy scat bossa ladies and mysteriously rare although released on Polydor. Anyway it's about the music and not the pressing quantities so please ...

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Style: Swing / Modern Jazz / Spiritual Jazz

Format: 2LP
Label: Jazz Club Podium

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  

A private compilation released by a Frankfurt Jazzclub. Sides 1, 2 & 3 are filled with Swing and I must admit that it's not my cup of tea at all. Side 4 is what I bought this for. The Sextet "Sounds" plays three compositions by Nat Adderley, Cannonball Adderley and Benny Golson. My highlight is the self penned Sound Spirit - a ten minute long and very intense session!

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Style: Contemporary / Experimental Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM

This quartet is enjoying the DIY freedom without lacking any skills. Digesting spiritual as well as conteporary and free jazz these versatile guys made a highly entertaing album.

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Style:  Contemporary Jazz

Format: LP
Label: View

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Here's one of the harder to find records from the View-Records Jazz Series. Rob van den Broeck on piano, Harry Emmery on bass and Tony Levin on drums. Oldschool Piano Trio you might think. Well it's a piano trio, but it doesn't sound old school at all ; )

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Style: Soul Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM 

Excellent soulful Jazz by this unknown quartet from Northern Germany. It's a real pleasure listening to Gesche Clasen, the german Bobbi Humphrey, soloing on flute. Check out what she does in the modal Yesterday - first in the clip. Like new copy!

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Style: Contemporary

Format: LP
Label:  2-Meter

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/NM

Extremely well crafted and playful contemporary jazz.

All songs are more than worth a listen.

Please check the long soundclip!

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Style: Synthesized Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG 

Great synthesized and partly very ambient sounding Jazz. Night Music!! Featuring Unit's Volker Schlott.

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Style: Contemporary / Jazz / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Enja

Year:

Condition: NM/NM

Like new copy.  Don't buy it, so i can keep it!

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