An obvious pick for sample heads with the famous ATCQ title track flip but a solid recording in its own right with Jimmy Heath really shining on tenor and soprano sax. This is the rarer French pressing pretty much nev...

Big fans of Dizzy Gillespie so this Verve compilation comes with firm recommendations. Am not even going to start listing who he plays with on the album as it practically showcase a who's who of jazz. Solid EX conditi...

Landmark jazz recording by Dave Brubeck and one of the best selling jazz albums of all time. Famous for the Paul desmond penned Take Five but all in all an excellent album pulling inspiration from the Middle and Far E...

Of the seventies Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers recording this is a firm favorite. Quality from first to last groove with Fantasy In D, Along Came Betty and the mindblowing title track. US original with record in ...

An interesting match up on Roulette with two albums compiling grand moments by grand talents in Art Blakey and John Handy. Lots of highlights to emphasize with East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon) by Handy and Sakeena b...

Excellent set on Muse Records with the famous and always inspirational sax player backed by Tommy Flanagan, George Mraz and Leroy Williams. Really dig the upbeat My Shining Hour and Enchilada Baby but all in all a gre...

Seldom seen Jack Brokensha recording on Savoy. Quartet setting with different personnel to his Australian Jazz Quartet. March Of The Siamese Children being my initial pick but the titlle track And Then I Said is might...

Wonderful spiritual concept album by Roland Kirk. Lots of tracks to emphasize like Serenade To Cuckoo, I Talk With The Spirits or Trees for starters. Enjoy the marvelous guest vocalist Crystal Joy Albert. Mono pressin...

Brilliant abstract jazz piece by famous singer Mose Allison for Atlantic. Some real funky treats on here with superb instrumentation by Pepper Adams, Bob Cranshaw, Joe Henderson, Joe Farrell and Jerome Richardson. Che...

This early sixties Pacific Jazz release could not have had a better title, the two gents, Richard Holmes and Gene Ammons, are seriously getting their groove on. Gene Edwards on guitar and Leroy Henderson on drums back...

You would expect that Soft Machine recordings from '76 would not be as good as their early work but this is another amazing album by the brits. Obviously a lot more synth and mini moog but we don't mind that at all. S...

Amazing how Stan Getz managed to combine modern jazz with the new bossa nova in such impeccable ways. This is one fine album from start to finish. Good for the cocktail hours or the morning after. Original German ster...

Essential Amiga jazz funk fusion release by Klaus Lenz and his Big Band recorded in Berlin. Don't get confused by the Big Band essemble here, it is a really funky record. Check the tittle track to catch my point. Dark...

Rare and recommended contemporary jazz recording by the Norwegian bassist backed by Dobrogosz, Motian and notably Kenny Wheeler. Listen to a snippet of the mellow A Song I Used To Play. Spotless condition.

German only Azymuth compilation with tracks from their later 80s recordings. A brilliant mix of funky Brazilian Jazz and Fusion tunes that makes for one excellent listening experience. Spotless condition with two x ma...

Scarce album by Eugen Cicero teaming up with Hans Rettenbacher and Kenny Clarke. All three are on fine form. Free improvisation on classical marches but as always keeping it funky. Stunning condition, bordering near m...

This album just does not get hyped enough. The drum, tumba and percussion work by Michel Delaporte and Jean Louis Viale is superb and perfectly supplements Jack Dieval's flawless talents on the piano. Listen to There ...

US Columbia 1st pressing of an essential Miles Davis recording. Famous in Jazz as well as Hip Hop circles for the extensive use of the title track. A great album with Miles increasingly influenced by fusion. Visual sc...

Fantastic live recording from Berlin with Thad Jones, Sam Rivers and the Art Farmer Quintett. All good stuff but the real highlight here is the immense afro beat percussion monster Percussion Complot by the Family Of ...

Beautiful copy of this DDR jazz masterpiece. One of my personal favorites to come out of the former East German republic. All is good but the highlight are Reverend Lee, Fusion and the killer dancefloor friendly Soul ...