Fusion Jazz / Jazz-Funk

 
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 featuring Johnny Guitar Watson to awesome fusion fire in Giant Child Within You & Chariot - a feast for our ears! 

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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: Nighttime Music

Format: LP
Label: Nightwork (Private)

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Nightime Jazz recorded for an art film. Contemporary Jazz with that Modal approach and excellent scatting. Private and pretty much unfindable. A personal holy grail.

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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: 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: 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: 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:  Percussion Meets Synthesizer

Format: LP
Label: CMP

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/NM

Two geniusses getting together to JAM. Synth & Percussion!

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

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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: 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: 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: Jazz Funk!

Format: LP
Label: Capitol

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

Truly an all killer Jazz Funk album by this mighty trumpeteer.

Loved Cyclops so much that I treated it with scissors and glue.

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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:  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: 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: 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: 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: Med Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Amigo

Year: 197?

Condition: VG+/VG+

Incredibly beautiful mediterrenean Jazz by the group around Paolo Giaro and Riccardo Marongiu. Bossa vibes next to pensive Über den Berg moments.

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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: 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: 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: Lofty Sounds

Format: LP
Label: Palo ALto (It)

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG seamwear

Lofty Jazz Funk for soulful dancers with a sound as warm as if it was coming from Brazil. And it's just as winning as her smile!

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Style: Svensk Fusion

Format: LP
Label: MNW

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+ insert!

Egba still ruling on their 6th album. The group around Per TJernberg, Stefan Bloquist and Ulf Adåker bring all the variety possible to their version of Fusion. I dig Adåker trumpet a LOT.

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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: Latin Space Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Prestige

Year: 1977

Condition: M/NM Sealed!

World class percussionist Bill Summers of Head Hunters fame and his crew jamming the Jazz Funk sweat out of the latin bag. Caliente y aceitoso!

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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: 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: Latin Jazz / Modal / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: View

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/NM

Here's one of the best german Latin / Fusion / Jazz-Funk LPs ever recorded. Excellent scatting vocals meet a tight and funky jazz combo. Of course it's not easy to come by - it was released in small numbers on the tiny View label and only a fool would part with his copy ...

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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: Kraut-Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Inside

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

Powerful fusion with synths and clavinet.

Not to forget the guitar shred.

Plust that funky percussion jam

and Red Baron! originally by Billy Cobham.

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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:  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:  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:  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: 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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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: 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: 

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:  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: 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: VG+/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: 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:  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: 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:  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: 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: 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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