Fusion Jazz / Jazz-Funk

 
Style: Lithuanian Grooves

Format: LP
Label:  Мелодия

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Wonderful Bossa influenced grooves from Lithuania. I remember seeing this for 3-digit pound prices on the lists of some London Rare Groove dealer in the mid 90s. I guess all copies went to Japan. Nowerdays this gem is a little more accessible.

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Style: Guitar Vibes

Format: LP
Label: Schnoog

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

Guitars by the pool And the AOR campfire too.

Plus that badass jam about Pam, ahem Pat!!

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG

And yet another Newcomer comp from Austria. This one holds the wonderful Fusion groover Quartual Guitar Madness, plus something for Beatles fans and that neo-psych  number that needs to be heard by Quentin T.

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Style: Fusion / Computer Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Sonet

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Danish keyboard wizard Kenneth Knudsen on the Computer Jazz Fusion trip with buddies Ole Theill and Michael Friis. First pressing with printed inner and Tapes missing on the back. Fortunately Tapes has not gone missing on the record either. Good one. Untitled and Anima and Pieces even better...

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Style: Svenska Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Pick Up

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG (small tear)

Yep - swedish fusion, but when listening you might think these guys are from Canterbury. Superfunky yet tricky rhythms and all golden solos...

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Style: Experimental Fusion / Percussion Party

Format: LP
Label: Achim Ranke Musik

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Private Fusion with lust for experiments.

The percussive parts might be most interesting...

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Style: Contemporary Greats

Format: LP
Label: Krem

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Hungary's first Jazz giant on piano teamed up with two youngsters to experiment in jazz. Expect a wonderful generation clash with love and understanding. With synth bass lines and upright action. With melancholy and force. With vocal percussion and blues. And with that Memory!!

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Style: Weirdo JazzFunk

Format: LP
Label: Guerilla Records & Tapes

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

"Clive Stevens is an English synthesizer genius whose brand of funk, fusion and rock is simply light years ahead of the competition."

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Style: Flute Salad

Format: LP
Label: Xanadu

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

Samba To Remember You By! I first heard that wonderful tune on comp selected by Malachi Trout in 1996 and was sold instantly. Can't get enough of it to this very day. Flute suckers of the world - on your knees! Here come the kings...

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Style: Monster Jams

Format: 12"
Label: Säkhö

Year: 2001

Condition: NM/NM

Oiling Boiling! When I first heard Cyclops Dance I thought It'd be the sickest Ninja Tune tune evah, but then it was a finnish Fusion Jam from 1977. I got obsessed and spent half a leg for the OG back in the 90s. Four years later this EP came out... It has Cyclops, a remix (unsure of the need) and the best tracks from Oiling Boiling's first album.

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Style: Dancefloor Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Sunnyside

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Yes, love is here. And it's as smooth as you'd expect it to be.

Partly modal, partly tearjerkingand always lovely!

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Style: Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: CTI (US)

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+

Bob's the father of the mother of breaks. Nautilus!

Haven't heard it in years and I'm goosebumps all over...

Idris Muhammad's rolls are too much for me!

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Style: No Less

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic (Ger)

Year: 1972

Condition: NM/VG+

Les is talking to me intensely. From that insane clavinet workout North Carolina to the much sampled version of Marvin's hymn to the epic lifechanger of a title track - what a record. Beautiful german copy with laminated sleeve!

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Style: Fusion Flowers

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/VG

Or rather flowery Fusion from Canada with excellent use of viola. If you like it pensive with a romantic note these guys will your new best friends!

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Style: Synthesized Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Jupiter (Ger)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Mindblowing  japanese Fusion that made it to Mutant Sounds even ; )

A real diversified LP by unknown master drummer Joji Hirota.

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Style: Library Gems

Format: LP
Label: KTS

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG

Mad rare library style Jazz Sweets / Easy Beat by Coppieters and the who's who in Cologne Jazz. Cover shows corner wrinkles. Comes with a letter by the man himself. His handwriting is juts half as beautiful as his songwriting... sensual and romantic without being too corny!

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Style: Fusion / Jazzrock

Format: LP
Label: Nemperor / Epic 

Year: 1977

Condition: VG+/VG+ inaudible hairlines

This all around amazong album is including the wonderful Don't You Know but you do know that ...

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Style: Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Frog

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM 

Spanish Fusion by the group around Santi Arisa (Fusioon), Max Sunyer (Iceberg). Including the dancefloor fusion monster Hunted By the Flesh and the insane boogie bastard Transmediterranean Express.

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Style: Northern Fusion / Elk Funk

Format: LP
Label: 1979

Year: Sonet

Condition: NM/VG+

There are no green mambas in Sweden fauna! The band sounds just as exotic and hazardous... Their sizzling version of Jazz Funk is one of my favoutites from the Northern territories. All killer no filler (no elks shot for this album)

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Style: Psych Fusion

Format: LP
Label: MPS

Year: 1970

Condition: VG+/VG+

Pike, Kriegel, Rettenbacher & Baumann going nuts in Berlin's Philharmonie in 69. Mad deep and psychedelic Fusion when Fusion was not yet invented!! Check the Secret Mystery of Hench !

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Style: Experimental Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Jazzpoint

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG

Martin Ederer solo on guitar, scatvocals, synthesizer, bass, percussion, drums & kettle drums. Funky experiments from the black forest!

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Style: Fusion / Spiritual / Modal

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Invisble private jazz from the late 80s. The recording date doesn't say anything about the music though. It sounds quite "out of time". Friends of these odd european modal gems and fusion heads will lick their lips. There's a lot to go for here. Maybe mentioning these guys covered Gary Bartz's Rise will make you curious enough to listen to the long soundclip?

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Style: Jazz Funk / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+ wobc

A strong german fusion album with proper accents on Jazz Funk, but on April the 5th we're really Glücklich with a modal approach and in the end Solar Plexus is actually going Disco. Cool Jazz to cool down also included!

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Style: Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Park

Year: 1975

Condition: VG+/VG+

Excellent Jazz Funk / Fusion by the group around synth wizard Jan Huydts. But not only the keayboard playing is at a very high level. Top notch tunes with a feeling!

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Style: Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Muza

Year: 1979

Condition: VG+/VG+

Finest Jazz Funk with a strong and beautiful voice.

One of the best of this genre out of Poland!

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Style: Boogie Fusion / Jazz- Cocktails

Format: LP
Label: Original

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

What an album by this short lived UK Fusion Quintet! Jazz-Funk with strong influences of boogie that was developing vastly in the UK back in these days. My fave is the sweet summer tune For You. Good vibes all the way!

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Style: Synth-Funk Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Deep Water

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG woc

Timeless Fusion with one foot in a golden pot called Synth-Pop and the other in a platinum Funk jar. Just let your ears be True To Themselves forget abou the hype and let the decision dance!

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Style: Pan Flute Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Electrecord

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG

Tircolea plays various pan flutes and it doesn't sound like the indio groups in city centers at all. The album includes some pan flute funk takes on famous melodies like Nature Boy and Hit The Road Jack but the self penned songs Dream Of A Nymphe (Rhodes Solo!) and Oltenia are the real hits in my opinion. And samples galore...

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Style: Flute, Funk & Synths

Format: LP
Label: Sonet

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+

Grab your flute (it can be a baguette too), hop on your bike and off to the synthesizer shop to get the infusion. Full biking fun in the second clip

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Style: Vibes, Vibrations!

Format: LP
Label: Impulse

Year: 1969

Condition: VG+/VG+ punchhole

Fluffy funky drums and butterfly vibes. A bit of Miles.

Unusal rhythms and the some. Microtonal Blues Band in the house!

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Style: Mellow Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Blue Thumb

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+  

If I say Soft Music Under Stars do you know what I'm referring to? Well please investigate while listening to Serenity - the Crusaders' #1 tune for maximum relaxation under stars. Apart from this masterpiece the album holds knightly soulful jazz funk gems...

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Style: Heavenly Sweetness

Format: LP
Label: CTI (Ger)

Year: 1976

Condition: VG+/VG seamwear, edgewear

Plain heavenly Jazz Funk imported straight from big island. Tunes to melt away with...

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Style:  Modal Jazz

Format: LP
Label: BN Records / Private

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

This is a private pressing and accordingly not that easy to find. It holds great versions of standards like All Blues, Take Five, St. Thomas or Coming Home Baby. And then are Still Alive track and Rolands Tune. WTF!!  I simply cannot believe how these guys have managed to stay unknown.....

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Style: Mellow Krautfunk

Format: LP
Label: Spiegelei

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  small tear

Alto's second solo effort includes some amazing "spacy Krautfunk". Check Flowers In The Garden and the title tune and you know what I mean...

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Style: Uni Jazz

Format: LP
Label: NTSU

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+

Sizzling Student Jazz from North Texas. Young guns serving funky Fusion with a strong horn section and some insane bass workouts too.

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Style: Funkiest Soul-Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Blue Note

Year: 1998

Condition: M/M sealed!

The best tracks from his first three albums: Love Bug, Blue Mode and On Broadway. Driving organ over breaks for days. Gretings from Lee Morgan, Grant Green, Idris Muhammad and Melvin Sparks. OGs cost a fortune!

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Style:  Scatting behind the Iron Curtain

Format: LP
Label: Melodiya

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Superb russian Jazz. Partly experimental.

And it's including this one track that just won't leave my head ... 

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Style: Fuzzed out Jazz-Funk

Format: LP
Label: Crippled Dick

Year: 1972/2002

Condition: M/VG

nothing but the almighty Bridge's Overdrive LP. Pre Passport psychedelic Jazz-Funk with a Vampyros Lesbos or  Wolfgang Dauner Group feel to it. OG goes for 300+ ...

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Style: Psychedelic Jazz Funk

Format: 7"
Label: AOK

Year: 

Condition: VG+/VG+  

A 70s health insurance giveaway... with silly but very entertaining anti drug kraut on side A plus an amazing piece of DIY psychedelic Jazz-Funk on side B. This totally ruins the Anti Drug vibe...

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Style: Fusion!!

Format: LP
Label: Melodiya

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Sven Grünberg's VSP Projekt plays the most mindbending fusion I've heard from behind the Iron Curtain. When I discovered this one in a batch of records I bought by chance in Estonia i totally freaked out ; )

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Style: Jazz-Funk

Format: LP
Label:  IC

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/NM

Nicest copy of Judy Roberts unbeatable first album. So many good tracks included on this record but Never Was Love is ruling it!! Easily makes me forget about Kitty Winter ;)

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Style:  Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1971

Condition: NM/VG+ 

These Certain Lions & Tigers are Peter Herbolzheimer, Dieter Reith, Herb Geller, Art Farmer, Tony Inzalaco & Ack van Royen. It's kind of a PRE-RHYTM COMBINATION & BRASS album and it's a KILLER... The break in the title track is still giving me shivers every time. Mad energy when the beat drops ... OG german first press with delicate silver laminated cover!

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Style: Rock / Jazz / Fusion / JazzFunk

Format: LP
Label: Private

Year: 198x

Condition: NM/NM 

Check this obscure private comp that even made it onto Waxidermy ; ) Freaked out Wolfram Brunke Gary Pacific Fuzz Funk (yes, the sought after Blue Onions) and some funky Jazz  and Kraut Funk tunes here. Extremely hard to find...

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Style:  Fusion / Contemporary Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Phenomenös (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Here's an unknown but excellent Fusion Quartet. They replaced the "usual" guitar by electric & acoustic violin. I've learned that a lot of people start to panic when they hear violin. Give it a try, it won't hurt :)

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Style: Funky Contemporary / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Bellaphon Danube Jazz Serie

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Excellent fusion Jazz from Austria released by Bellaphon for the limited Danube Jazz Series. When I first heard it I didn't believe it was recorded in 1985. It still has that warm 70s sound. And it has those damn funky fusion joints as well as contemporary beauties. Highest recommendation!

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Style: Jazz Funk / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label / Private

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  SIGNED! (WOC)

Impossible to find private Jazz Funk LP from Germany / 1984.

Simple instrumentation: Keys, Guitar, Bass and Drums - 

6 tracks, mostly around 6 minutes.... mostly with a Boogie influence!

Signed copy!

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Style: Timeless Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Workshop (Private)

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM 

Private jazz from Franconia, Germany. Focus on guitar!

Great improvisations, wicked drum & guitar breaks and some sophisticated scatting included. Highly recommended!

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Style: Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+  

Tight and ecclectic Jazz Funk by Klaus Lenz featuring the Who's Who in East German Jazz. Their sound might have been influenced by the powerhouse Jazz Funk sound of Peter Herbolzheimer's Rhythm Combination & Brass. Recorded live in Dresden 1973!

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Style:  Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Acanta

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG  WOC

This ain't nothing but a high quality pressing of the Lions & Tiger's El Soul Condor - a pre Rhythm Combination & Brass funky and soulful Jazz masterpiece. Listen to the title track - RAW ENERGY!!

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Style: Iron Curtain Classics

Format: LP
Label: Supraphon

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Superb synthesized Fusion by the #1 Fusion group of former Czechoslovakia. Martin Kratochvil doing what he does best on Fender Piano, Minimoog, ARP Omni, Oberheim 4-Voice Polyphonic & Vocoder!

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Style:  Various

Format: 2LP
Label: Teldec / Deutsche Phono Akademie  

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM   

A double LP of newcomer bands recorded live in Würzburg / Bavaria. Various styles included here, but mots remarkable are the Jazz-Rock / Fusion acts like Re, Tzahara, John Schröder Quartet and ZONG. The latter COMPLETELY blew me away with their latin influenced Caramba, but check out the rest of the clip as well PLEASE!!

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Style: Funky & Big

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG

Schoolband Jazz from Hamburg!! Including the funky numbers you want to hear on such an album. The self penned Merlin's Flight stands out ...

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Style: Jazzrock : )

Format: LP
Label: Philips

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Woohoo - Ex Ovo Pro & Matter Of Taste live!!! And have you heard of the New Trace Quintett, here's the only chance to have them incredible guys on vinyl....

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Style: Fusion / JazzRock

Format: LP
Label: CBS Germany

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

HIGH quality newcomer compilation featuring first outings of infamous Bands like Naima New Jazz Quartett, Marque Löwenthal Quartett, Breath, Quartet & Brass & the New Workshop Ensemble. Almost all tracks are exclusive....

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Style: Contemporary / Folk Jazz

Format: LP
Label: NorDisc

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG Ringwear 

Unusual sounds from Norway. A mix of cool contemporary jazz and folky vibes might not be that extraordinary, but if you add norwegian vocals it might be something special wether if you're norwegian or not.

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Style: Fusion / Latin Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Roof Records (Ger)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Sister Brigeen and brother Dave of OM's Christy Doran are the heads of KJOL. Their style is funkier than Christy Doran's experimental fusion and heavily recommended!!!!!!

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Style: Funky Piano

Format: LP
Label: Titan Jazz

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

This trio consists of Joe Kienemann on piano, Thomas Stabenow on bass, and Aldo Caviglia on drums. They are playing a wonderful laid back groove that is hard to resist. Funkfair is the climax. Olhos De Crianca keeps you going!

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Style: Fusion / Contemporary

Format: EP
Label: Private

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

First sidde runs on 33 the second on 45. That should explain the title of this tight Fusion EP from Switzerland! This was released one year before their album (more boogie-ish) and itstill sounds like proper Fusion Jazz. My fave is the epic (10 minutes plus) Easy Street - playful and deep!

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Style: Psych Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Electrecord

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+

Possibly the hottest Jazz recod outta Romania.

Psychedelic Fusion at it's BEST!

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Style: Mizells

Format: LP
Label: Salvation

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG

Dreamy but ultratight Jazz-Funk by Mr Hammond with alittle help by the Mizell Brothers and Freddie Perren featuring Harvey Mason, King Errison and the other space funk cadets.

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Style: Eastern Spirits

Format: EP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

Percussive yet relaxed indian influenced Fusion made in Germany. The short lived group only released this one EP - now very hard to find. An album was announced but never came. Too bad!! That album might have a been a huge GEM. This EP already is - all three tracks are great. Kaharwa and Der Ring Des Berbers are over eight minutes for extended listening pleasures. Power recommended!!

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Style: Latin Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Feierwerk

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

A private compilation presenting unknown Latin Jazz groups from late 80s Munich? Yes, please! There's three or four afro cuban tunes on this album that I can't talk about much since i don't understand it - too fast for me. But what I can tell you: it doesn't sound bavarian at all ;) The reason for buying this album are these two wonderful songs by Quintessenz who are actually only borderlining the term Latin Jazz. Their Ludenhausen, with that irresistible waltzy feel, might be the HIT of the album! Closely spaced with Kariba's Demasiado with a groove that sets you in motion instantly....

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Style: Funky Dark Contemporary

Format: EP
Label: Jazz Haus Musik

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Hard to find 3 Track EP on Jazz Haus Musik. Der Brüter is incredibly funky and dark while  Once I had a dream is an obscure trip with mermaid like vocals.... 

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Style: 

Format: LP
Label: Japo

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+

Back in the days of the Rare Grooves the opening track LOCK was one of my signature tracks for late late nights. Starting simple and superfunky, then turning into a wicked and complex headshaker and in the end you can easily mix in the next beat. Check out also the narrative Bachstelzer and the fizzy New Samba

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Style: Fusion Jazz / New Age of Fusion 

Format: LP
Label: Dorato

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Merge's sought after and hard to find first album. Don't pass on this one if you dig esoteric grooves with that special 80s sound. Jo Lienen, the mastermind of Merge doesn't like it that much if you compare his sound to Pat Metheny's but hey -  they both use guitar synthesizers and know how to handle a guitar so I dare to compare. 

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Style: Contemporary / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Club Niederöstereich (Private)

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Excellent contenporary jazz by pfrofs and semi professionals. I have never heard of Helmut Berger before discovering this record, so the amazement about these two guitar jams somewhere between pastoral and psychedelic couldn't have been bigger. Sorry for ruining the fun before your first listen! Last one in the clip is a pretty wild track called G-Waltz by Mirror Image (their only apperance on a medium)

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Style:  Oriental Fusion

Format: 2LP
Label: WEA

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM   

A magnificent double album filled to the brim with jazz & fusion gems. Some with wonderful oriental influences. Not to speak of Timna Brauer's magic voice.... wether she's scatting or sings the blues - it's a feast for the ears. Some tunes remind me of Rimona Francis' awesome selftitled LP on MPS. But enough of the words.....

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Style: Latin Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Nabel

Year: 1981 / 1994

Condition: M/M

Wonderful latin fusion jams galore on John Thomas' most sought after album. Monika Linges involved on the feathery Like A Samba. This is the 180g issue from the early 90s in LIKE NEW condition

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Style: Jazz Funk / Flyin' with Mizells

Format: LP
Label: Blue Note

Year: 1976

Condition: VG+/VG

That dude looks funny huh? I wish I'd seen a caricature of the Mizells too. These guys made it floaty as fuck again!

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Style: Private Pleasures

Format: 3LP
Label: IG Jazz

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

A 3-Record set recorded live in Stuttgart, Germany 1978. The first side is straight Dixie shit and I can't listen to that longer than 5 minutes. From side B on it's getting more and more interesting. My personal highlight is the last record. Opened by Peter Garratoni & Friend's amazing jam Rock For Li - followed by Syncrisis and Frederic Rabold jamming with percussionist Manfred Kniel. On Side F we find the complete unknown group Baobab with the incredible spiritual jazz funk tune Keine Nummer - rocking it over 6 minutes. The next group Muja is just as famous and they kick ass as well. Jan Jankeje and his Mlada Muzika crew are closing the set with two short but wicked drum and bass psalms. Also in the clip: Blowin Five by Styx, So What by Flute Jazz and A Night In Stuttgart by the Stuttgarter Jazz Workshop with Ala Heiler (À la Ala) on sax &

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Style: Flyin' Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Prosound (Private)

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG

Jazzier than Kraan, funkier than a mosquito's tweeter. This unknown band from Hannover has some great tracks to offer. Too bad there's just this one lovely album with tracks ranging from Jazz Funk over reggae-ish AOR top Latin Fusion.

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Style: New Jazz ; ) / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  

Snowball might be called a Passport offshoot. Why? Curt Cress, Dave King & Kristian Schultze! Defroster is their best and it includes this magic track TENDER STORM. When this one popped up in my mp3 player I always thought it was some end 90s New Jazz tune......

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Style: Modal Jazz / Contemporary

Format: EP
Label: Fusion

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  small tear

Unplayed back stock copy!! The title track is to be found on the excellent "The Spinning Wheel Of Jazz" compilation. BUT all tracks on this EP are great. My fave is the uplifting "Watch you sleepin". In demand and definitely not easy to find.... tiny sticker tear on front cover

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Style: Synthesized Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Stunt

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+

Breeziest Fusion from Denmark. Lots of good tracks here in the vein of Roidinger Computer Project and the title track is a hot Proto Burner ...

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Style: Mellow Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Fonit Cetra

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Including that highly unusual jam Cervia's Kites where drum computer meets clarinet.

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Style: Jazz Funk / Bavarian Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Jupiter

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Sizzling synthesized fusion with bits of bavarian influences thus free from saussage and beer associations. Highest recommendation!

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Style: Soul-Jazz-Rock / Boogie Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Zytglogge

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Soulful Fusion by this octett coming from the Zurich area. Well probably except from the vocalist, he sings in english and sounds like a native speaker (just like his name doesn't sound swiss). The guys play a most excellent mid 80s Fusion of Jazzrock, Soul and Boogie not forgettinhg the obvious latin tinged tune. Reminds me of bands like Zenit, Seawind and Merge...

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Style: Synthesized Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Turbo

Year: 1976

Condition: VG+/VG

Insane Jazz Funk. Overall great condition with an audible scratch in the weakest track of the album - Without You that is. The tracks you'd buy this for play fantastic!

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Style: Krautrock / Fusion

Format: LP

Label: RSM

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

Not to be confused with Snowball's Defroster LP.....

this is some obscure private pressed Kraut LP with this magic kraut voodoo track N'Goro Goro, the fusion jam Bonebreaker and the funky krautrock tune Criminal  with lovely synths ; )

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Style: Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Weryton

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Here's the hard to find first album by the short lived Oktagon project from Munich, Germany. Produced and mostly penned by Passport veteran Hermann Weindorf. His fellow Curt Cress plays the drums on this private release ...

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Style:  Hammered Fusion / Jazz Rock

Format: LP
Label: Vanguard

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/NM

Enjoy the warbly synthesizer madness of Jan Hammer triggered by Johnson's tight percussions

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Style:  Jazz Rock /Latin Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Babylon

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Excellent Kraut-Fusion from Germany's music capital - Hamburg : ) Here's their first album. More Krautrock and Funky Latin Rock orientated than their boogie-fusion bomb from 1984. Check the breezy GUAPA

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Style:  Progressive Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Bacillus

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG++ 

Virgo's first may easily be called their masterpiece! Especially the work on bass by Reinhard Glöder and the fantastic piano and rhodes playing by Henryk Darlowsky amaze me ever again!

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Style:  Kraut Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label / Private

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

A private pressed gem recorded at a youth club near Hamburg. Sounds pretty professional though and it has funky tracks, scat vocals and even some weirder moments.... highly recommended private Fusion!

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Style: Kraut Funk / Jazz-Rock

Format: LP
Label: Blubber Lips

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

Superfunky and very percussive Kraut-Funk meets slow Prog Disco! Released on Michael Bundt's amazing Blubber Lips label. The leader of the pack is a drummer with a soft spot for tuplets, so be prepared for some complex but tight tunes. Be prepared for tightest clavinet and moog action too!! 

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Style: Feather light Fusion

Format: CD
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/NM 

Warm, with the scent of wild flowers. Leaving the speakers like a summer breeze. Birldand's 3rd album has never seen a vinyl release. Enjoy!

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Style: Oriental Spiced Jazz

Format: CD
Label: Parachute (Private)

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  

Here's Bescay's second album - only available on CD (if one pops up ;) Relaxed contemporary jazz meets oriental spiced fusion.

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Style: Jazz-Funk

Format: LP
Label: Hörzu

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG++

Like new archive copy of this odd Jazz-Funk album featuring the young Markus Stockhausen on trumpet and flugelhorn. Including one of the funkiest versions of Watermelon Man I ever heard ...

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Style: Jazz Funk / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label / Private

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Timeless swiss Jazz Funk. Recorded 1987 but it sounds more like a late 70s production. Two guitars, trumpet drumd and bass. Funky Stuff, Psychedelic Drums and even some Jazz-Reggae. Check this undiscovered private pearl!

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Style:  Fusion

Format: LP
Label: MPS Metronome

Year: 1975

Condition: VG++/VG++ 

George Duke's 70s albums on MPS belong to the finest fusion records of the genre. I Love The Blues, She Heard My Cry is no exception. From mellow funk in Sister Serene or Prepare Yourself sampled by Madvillain over some nitty gritty blues faeturing Johhny Guitar Watson to awesome fusion fire in Giant Child Within You & Chariot - a feast for our ears! 

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Style:  Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Abracadabra

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

The label is called Abracadabra and the ladies of Tintomara really know how to put some magic into the music (the flute, the flute). Funky Fusion with latin influences was something common in Denmark in this period. The ladies didn't have to hide behind their fellow musicians.

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