Fusion Jazz / Jazz-Funk

 
Style: Cosmic!

Format: LP
Label: Gold

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  

Bruno's masterpiece with styles ranging from Ambient Synth Workouts over Cosmic Disco to heavenly Synthesized Jazz. All killer! 20 years ago I was COMPLETELY obsessed with it, now it's just regluar obsession ;)

T - A - U - R - U - S is calling you!!

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Style: Organic Fusion

Format: LP

Label: Mood

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

One of the strongest Mood LPs out there! Including the exciting "Fun Tango" - one of my lady's all time favourites in the car stereo. Made it's way from the original bin to the originals comp...

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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: 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: Yemenite Modal Jazz

Format: EP
Label: Fortuna

Year: 2018

Condition: NM/VG+

Wonderful modal jazz from Yemen via the lucky Tel Aviv connection. All gold (even the die cut lettering)

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Style: Percussion, Mallets and Synths

Format: LP
Label: Not On label

Year: 1985

Condition: M/M

Friends of organic percussion, Producers and DJs dancing hand in hand when Moisy and Burzlaff are On Tour. Wether it's mellow fusion, hypnotic Techno Jazz or tribal rhthms. These guys know their stuff!!

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Style: Fusion Not Fusion / Experimental

Format: LP
Label: SBF (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Stop for a minute - Mind your heart frequency and dive deep with this private experimental Fusion gem from Austria. Dynamic and diverse. And extremely unique.

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Style: Fusion World

Format: LP
Label: Open

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG light wrinkles top left

Fluffy French Fusion with lots of african and caribean influences. There are some unbelievably dreamy tunes here that remind me of Mushy & Lakansyel

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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's Computer Project. The title track is a hot "Proto-Something / Digi-Jazz" Burner ...

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Style: Odd

Format: 12"
Label: Playbones

Year: 1989

Condition: M/NM

This is wild! It sounds like some Jazz-Funk freaks got bored and jammed on speed. Pretty unusual stuff... PS. Running Through also works on 33!

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Style: Music Of The Earth

Format: 2LP
Label: Strut

Year: 1978 / 2022

Condition: M/NM 

Post-Mizzell JAZZ FUNK greatness by Patric Rushen and the tightest girls and guys around. THIS is a fresh reissue by Strut spread over 4 sides and features some extended mixes and a seeeerious Mr. K edit of Music Of The Earth!! Melting on the dancefloor...

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Style: Jazz Funk behind the iron curtain

Format: LP
Label: Panton

Year: 1973

Condition: VG+/VG wear and tear on back

Trippiest Jazz Funk by the band around keyboard wizzard Martin Kratochvil - the czech equivalent to Marc Moulin. The vinyl looks awesome but plays with light background crackle in the quiet parts. It has probably been played wet... "hippies, pfffffh!". I'll wash it a couple of times and will also include a cleaned rip.

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Style:  Modal Jazz / Latin Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Koch

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Here's a wonderful copy of a pretty hard to find gem. In twenty years of digging this is the 3rd copy I see. Too bad, because its an all killer no filler album. Recorded in 1983 with a timeless sound ... 

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Style: Balearic Jazz

Format: LP
Label: CTI (Ger)

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/VG+

Skip the guitar bop on side A and go straight to the über-balearic Concierto De Aranjuez that will put you in a trance immediately...

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Style:  Organic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Pacific Arts

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG 

Here you have a deep & organic Fusion album from the Pacific Coast with wide range of vibes. From meditative harmonies in Haiku to tribal rhythms in Aquarian Dance to deep jazz in Green Sun God - it's all here....

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Style:  Fusion / Bossa / Modal

Format: LP
Label: MPS

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  small split

 
There are very few Fusion LPs with singers of that quality out there and it's pure HEAVEN if you're a sucker for irregular rhythms (see pic 3). Bulgarian Beans comes in 11/8s and Five and Nine switches constantly between 5/8s and 9/8s.... amazing! And then there's Colours of Excitement ... original first pressing from 1978

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Style: Funky Fusion / Breaks for days

Format: LP
Label: Happy Bird

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG taped split

The Jazztrack's second album. To my ears more interesting than their first. Mostly because of the 13 minute long super percussive uptempo jam King Otto. Check out the amazing vocal percussion in this track!! And check out the lovely For Leni too ...

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Style:  Angelic Voices / Latin Jazz

Format: LP
Label: MPS

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Lovely copy of this amazing Clare Fisher production. Sounds even better than his Salsa Picante project. If you dig Latin Jazz with heavenly voices check this!!

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Style: Latin Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Nabel

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/NM

Wonderful latin fusion jams galore on John Thomas' most sought after album. Monika Linges involved on the feathery Like A Samba.

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Style: Latin Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Nabel

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG(+)

Wonderful latin fusion jams galore on John Thomas' most sought after album. Monika Linges involved on the feathery Like A Samba. Cover shows tiny woc on the back and the bottom right corner has a dent. The label shows a stamp by the north german Radio. This record was carefully used by nobody but Michael Naura for his radio jazz show!

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Style: Mellow Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Wea

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

Mellow fusion by dutch guitar master Jan Akkerman. He also plays bass and synths on this one. Also on Synths - Joachim Kühn... check out the ambient jam Cool In The Shadow and you may see why I call this my favourite Akkerman LP.

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Style: In love with FUSION

Format: LP
Label: Ballon Noir

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+

Hearing Quaternaire the first time was an orgasm and I am a little envious of those who are still virgins. I hop it's okay that I am just raising attention and not really saying anything about it. Wait - One thing: Open ears will help!

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Style:  Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Pläne

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

Welcome to Café Florian - one of the very few places in the world where Synthesized Fusion and spanish rhythms meet. The printed spine shows a spot in the lamination on top. I didn't see this until inspecting it CLOSELY.

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Style:  Fusion / Contemporary Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Thein

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

One of the boldest 80s Eurojazz LPs I know. Forget about Jazzwheel or Mr. Circle ; ) This is the real deal!! Wütrio's 2nd LP is lacking the "Sade softness" that most of the late 80s productions have. Wütrio has vocoders instead!!

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Style: Big Band Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: RCA Finland

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

Funky Big Bad Jazz 70s style by the finish version of the Rhythm Combination & Brass featuring nobody else but Olli Ahvenlahti, Eero Koivistoinen, Pekka Pohjola, Otto Berger, Esko Rosnell and of course - Clark Terry ;) Those of you who know any of these guys will...

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Style: Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Nabel

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/NM

Fantastic & Funky Fusion by this cologne bound quartet. Basic instrumentation: Guitar, Bass, Marimbaphone/Vibraphone and Drums. Maximum outcome. Six tracks between 3 and 10 minutes long. Listen to the fantastic Free Dance and you'll know what's poppin'!

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Style: Jazz FUNK

Format: LP
Label: Arista UK

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Mr Browne's best imho. I would have been more than happy with Charisma only. Fell in in love with that one Head over (w)heels...  but sooo many jams? WTF!

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Style: Kraut Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Erlkönig

Year: 1975/1979

Condition: VG+/VG+

Aera's first album. Wild, funky and free fusion from Frankonia comparable to Embryo Munju and Missus Beastley. Yep, that incredible mix of funky beats, horns flutes and synths / keyboards with a fat joint doing the rounds...

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Style: Norwegian Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label:  Metronome (Ger)

Year:  1977

Condition: NM/VG

Sought after Alex LP including the massive hit I Gotta Feel Something

and more of these funky scandinavian joints. Get curly!

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Style: Synthesized Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: ABC

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/VG+ corner cut

Quadraphonic Fusion meets Moog Funk.

Electronic Soundscapes and the Blues.

Experiments in elevators!

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Style: Funky Jazz / Sample F.A.Q.

Format: LP
Label: MCA

Year: 1970

Condition: NM/NM

Correct me if you please but I had this idea of Young Holt Unlimited being the Meters of 60s Soul Jazz. A sound stripped down to the very core and melodies to remember. Just A Melody they say - championing the understatement!

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Style: Japanese Breeze

Format: LP
Label: Kitty

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG soft corner bump

Superbreezy Fusion by Takanaka san.

Tickest to the Seychelles are VERY pricey.

This album isn't ... (if you don't have to pay for shipping from Japan)

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Style:  Experimental Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Avantgarage / Private

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

Like new copy! This album is setting free a lot of energy and it's less experimental than you might guess from a look at the cover (and label).  The quartet plays a variety of styles on this LP not without showing skills in the fast tracks ;) My fave are the slow etc. the modern Jazz-Funk groover Midnight Mover and the interstellar overdrive rocket Space Invaders

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Style: Synthesized Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Mama Barley

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG+

Jazz Funk in space. Floating chilled on moog rockets.

Occasional thrusts for energy updates. Grazie mille!

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Style: Northern Fusion / Organic Sounds

Format: LP
Label: Silence

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG

The swedish masters of progressive fusion have added some insane organic and mellow tones to their agenda. Don't miss these deep and percussive trips!

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Style: Kraut Jazz / Proto Nu Jazz ;)

Format: LP
Label: Rillophon

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+

An overlooked gem from Düsseldorf. Maybe people just heard the Charlie Parker cover at the beginning and stopped skipping through? Anyway, this album has some great contemporary (sometimes boppy) tunes with some superfunky drumming. The boys have some unbelievable energy! Check it out!

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Style: Cosmic Drums

Format: LP
Label: WEA

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG

THE drummer's record! Some tunes on it sound like awesome recent productions and they work great on the dancefloor!! Not your everyday drummer, eh?

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Style: Library Bliss

Format: LP
Label: Patchwork

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Side A warms up with some odd Fusion jams and prepares the ears for these wonderful cosmic floaters on side B. Library bliss indeed!

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Style: Fusion / Modern Soul

Format: LP
Label: Biton

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Mindblowing Fusion partly with latin elements and a whole lot of modern soul.  Including these insane groovy killer-jams Sandpit Love Affair, One More Leaf and Guillermo. Au backe!

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Style:  Contemporary Jazz / Jazz Funk / 80s Jazz

Format: LP
Label: YVP (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Teutonic cocktail Jazz at it's BEST!!!! 

Perfect for some margaritas by the pool.....

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Style:  Jazz Funk / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Epic

Year: 1978

Condition: VG/NM 

How would someone have a python on the cover to an album called cobra? Yes weird but in the end I don't give a damn and I guess most of the Fusion listeners wouldn't give a damn that this record has been gloriously sampled by Luke Vibert, who made a fantastic Acid Disco track from it. But you might be happy to hear that this dude has taste and that he sampled some fantastic stuff ;) This copy has audible scratches the beginning of each side. The hits are not affected and a clean CD-r is included.

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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: Super Fusion :)

Format: LP
Label: Toledo

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/NM

Funkiest Fusion TRIP by drummer Les De Merle and his crew.

Like new german pressing on the small Intercord sublabel Toledo

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Style: Dinner Music

Format: LP
Label: Watt/6 (ECM, Ger)

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+ small tear

Crazy Carla got a whole lot of wits. Here's one of my ALL time favourite LPs including Dining Alone, Ida Lupino and the crazy Sung Song Long!

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Style:  Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  some wear

Apart from the Dancefloor Jazz floorfiller Feedback Brother and some great Jazz Funk tracks this album has the lovely November... and that one is mega recommended!!

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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: Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: CBS (NL)

Year: 1974

Condition: VG+/VG seamwear

How many LEGENDARY fusion LPs are out there?

This legendary album set the standards for all killer, no filler...

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Style:  Percussion Meets Synthesizer

Format: LP
Label: CMP

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Two geniusses getting together to JAM. Synth & Percussion!

All killer no filler. Please listen to the whole clip!!

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Style: Spiritual Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic

Year: 1970

Condition: M/VG+ sealed, cut

Still sealed copy of this spiritual gem. Mr Lateef plays flutes, tenor sax, tambura, cymbals etc. Around him: Cecil McBee, Pretty Purdie, Roy Brooks, Ray Baretto and Chuck Rainey.

Quite antipodal to another flutist who bare breastedly released proto popjazz on the same label the same year. (i'm sayin no names since he made one amazing album with Cissy Houston a couple of years later)

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Style: Fusion Madness

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: Indian Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Eigelstein

Year: 1981

Condition: VG/VG+

Mindblowing Indo-Jazz Fusion recorded in Germany. Musicians include Rama Mani, Ramesh Shottam, Louis Banks, Braz Gonsalves, Ranjit Barot, Karl Peters and Rajagopalan. The record was produced by Embyro's Christian Burchardt... This is almost the same record as Louis Banks Sangam - City Life (the indian release) only that the german original holds one more track and sounds way better! Shanti is a substantial element creating the Autumn Air vibe. Playing VG+ with some clicks in B1 & B2 (in the 2nd clip). Clean Rip on CD-r included.

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Style: Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Frog

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

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: Jazz at the Blue Lagoon

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

Throw some liquids together for a nice drink and pick your nicest spencer jacket from the wardrobe - it's cocktail time again!

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Style: Jazzy Experiments

Format: LP
Label: FFF

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+ soc

Experimental Jazz Not Jazz from Hamburg, Germany.

Cars and elephants ruling this private release.

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Style: Belgian Bossa / Odd folks

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1976

Condition: VG+/VG+

I'm having a very soft spot for awkward bossa.

Andre is my hero! And then comes the synth line...

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Style: Jazz Funk / Synthesized Fusion

Format: LP
Label: WEA (Ö)

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG punchhole

The man behind my only Andre Heller LP.

The leader of the Objective Truth Orchestra.

The austrian genius on keys and synths.

The dude with hair. The jazz funk great...

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Style: Jazz Funk Elegance

Format: LP
Label: CBS

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+

A very elegant Jazz Funk album known for the The Groove. But please let me guide you to Felix Leo, the uncrowned king of the longplayer.

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Style: Psychedelic Jazz

Format: 2LP
Label: MPS

Year: 1972

Condition: NM/VG

This double LP set compiles  the Set's “Live At The Philharmonie” (1970) and “Four Reasons” (1969). It is a wonderful introduction to the psychedelic mysteries of the almighty Dave Pike Set. Help me fight my obsession: I don't really need all their albums PLUS this excellent compilation?!?

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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: Jazz Funk / Fusion!

Format: LP
Label: Muza

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

Shivananda is the first project by the infamous Keiser Brothers and Kurt Baebi from Switzerland (who also back Chico Hablas on his now in demand Events album). Expect Deep Jazz Funk with excellent use of the synthesizer (:,) and Disco Fusion!

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Style: Kraut Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Maikäfer Musik

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+ tiny rip

And yet another german private Fusion album.

This one is a beauty and  of a remarkable consistency.

In other words - almost all killer and definitely NO filler.

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Style: Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Aircastle (Private)

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Laid back Jazz Funk from the golden days of private pressings. "And Friends" is Jürgen Waidele's first and most impressive album to my ears. Funky guitar riffs, warm bass slaps and synth stacks over fat pounding drums. It has a bit of CTI sound at some points. Now please check it out and ...

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Style: Synthesized Fusion / Celestial Ambient

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.

Check these ambient pearls!

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Style:  Dutch Treat / Laid Back AOR

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/NM

Akkerman's self titled LP from 1977 is peppered with fusion style AOR hits. Streetwalker is the sweetest among them. You might have heard it in Tako's My friends in Gizeh mix. If you didn't - check it asap : )

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Style: Mellow Fusion / Summer Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Squirrel

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

The eagle eyed have already seen that this one is coming from the tiny Squirrel label out of the Black Forrest. Memories of the insane Squish LP are popping up, eh? Well if you're looking for boogie I have to dissapoint you. This record is alot more mellow and it's instrumental. Check it nevertheless. It's a beauty.

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Style: Synth Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: GNP

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM  light dish warp, plays great

Alex Cima is well known among connaisseurs of intelligent Cosmic Disco. His second album is standing in shadow of this monster but it shouldn't. If you dig library style oddities to dance and do the freak to check this immediately...

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Style: Fraiche Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Storyville

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG proper WOC collection

Danish Jazz Funk at it's best. Long tracks with a lot of drive and vitality plus some trippy moments here and there too. Pretty much in a RC&B vibe with fluffier drums. Thomas Clausen on the keys is laying down pure magic!!

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Style: Synth Funk / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Supraphon

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/NM

Wooohoooo! I have no idea how these guys found each other in times of the cold war, but what a gift is this? Viklicky is czechoslovakia's #1 fusion keyboarder, Bill Frisell might be known to one or two freaks here (1981 was really at the start of his career), Kermit Driscoll (sorry I have never heard of him) on bass and uh, the Stark Reality percussion force Vinnie Johnson on drum. And what does it sound like? Well, it's funkier than RMO, trippy as Magma and soulful like George Duke's 70s work on MPS. Sounds like something Daniel Dumile would have sampled ...

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Style: Electric Bebop

Format: LP
Label: Rockwerk (Private)

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

Excellent & prize-winning Fusion. With that special kind of Boogie influence which is significant for a few german synth-fusion productions from the late 80s. Hard to explain, but you might understand when you check the soundclip. Comes with a collection of xeroxed newspaper articles about the band, an A4 photo and a never seen before HUGE poster.

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Style: Tropical Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Pläne

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Bass dominated Fusion from a guy who has almost seen it all. He played with Lindenberg on Free Orbit, was part of Achim Reichel's Machines, played for Guru Guru, Tomasz Stanko, etc etc. Reading all that you might guess hes on the righht path, eh? Verification below...

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Style: Dancefloor Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Beat Goes Public

Year: 1994

Condition: NM/VG+

I can't tell you how happy I was in 94 to play out I've known Rivers on late aftenoon café gigs ;) And discovering Eli's Pork Chop or Andy & The Bey Sisters through this wonderful compilation selected by Russ Dewbury

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Style: Dancefloor Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Compost

Year: 1994

Condition: NM/NM

Rainer Trüby's first compilation. Putting acts like Sunbirds, Namaz, Kitty Winter and Catch Up on the map. Groundbreaking!

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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: Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: RRR (Private)

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Laid back Jazz Funk from the golden days of private pressings. "And Friends" is Jürgen Waidele's first and most impressive album to my ears. Funky guitar riffs, warm bass slaps and synth stacks over fat pounding drums. It has a bit of CTI sound at some points. Now please check it out and ...

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Style: J-Fusion / Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Inner City

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/VG

Most excellent Fusion from Nippons #1 man with the guitar (at least in my books). Travelling this road we experience various delights - from breezy Jazz Funk to dusty finger fusion!

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Style: Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Supraphon

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Side A has been sollely recorded to give czech granddaddies a little security. Hey it's a Big Band album! But on the B-Side they change it for the Big Bang instead. Kickin off with a voluminous Latin Fusion jam called Proclamation including wicked conga and peruccsion soli that majestically proclaim the rocking chair era over. Followed by an even scarier slice of wickedest Jazz Funk...

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Style:  Fusion / Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year:  1978

Condition: NM/VG

On this mighty fine album the east german Placebo ;) play 5 compositions between 6 and 12 minutes long. Tight & funky Fusion with partly dark and psychedelic atmosphere. 

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Style: Jazz Pop Folk

Format: LP
Label: Thema

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG

An austrian Newcomer compilation featuring Zenit's Departure 03, Andy Marek's weird Eurodance Jam Explosive Girl, pensive ambient Jazz by Werner Auer called Concave and a soothing ambient piece by austria New Age prophet #1 Gandalf.

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Style: Jazz Funk / Disco

Format: LP
Label: Mitsubishi Audio

Year: 197?

Condition: VG+/VG+ bg crackle in A2

Incredible Jazz Funk by Jun Fukamachi and New Colgen Band plus tropical synth Disco by Kyohei Tsutsumi And 585. Never seen this one before...

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Style: Jazz-Rock

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic

Year: 1971

Condition: VG+/VG (Ringwear)

Two "soon-to-be-giants" working on this new thing called Fusion or maybe arther Jazz-Rock? Even these dudes were young and wild... ;)

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Style: Organic Brazil

Format: LP
Label: veraBra

Year: 1990

Condition: VG+/VG+

Wonderful wonderful wonderful organic barazillian tunes by these three guys. You might have heard Nosso Destino on Proper Sunburn or Bartosz's mix, so listen to the other songs and have your head blown...

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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: 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:  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: 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: 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: 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: 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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