If you like the electric 70s jazz/rock sound, there's a lot of great releases from the 70s and into the 80s from the Japanese jazz scene that is well worth investigating. This one is very reminiscent of Headhunters Herbie, with some great grooves, great playing, and a more than a touch 'o' da funk over 3 long tracks!

This is a solidly funky electric jazz album from 1975 featuring the leader on soprano and tenor sax, plus Mikio Masuda is here in total electric mode, laying it down on Fender Rhodes..

Tito Pueblo-vocals
Bill Gilonis-guitar (of The Work)
Ilja Komarov-bass
Trixa Arnold-drums

"Tito Pueblo, aka Rob Murphy (Orchestre Murphy), has been responsible for some terrible lapses of judgement & taste. Here he gives us an album of post-Beatles pop songs that deal with the key issues of our times - drinking, sex, love, melancholy, obsession, & drinking. Expect fake French accordion, ludicrous cowboy songs & Flamenco rip-offs."-Chris Cutler

Kelsey Mines - contrabass
Erin Rogers - tenor and soprano saxophones

“Scratching at the Surface is a new collaboration from Erin Rogers and Kelsey Mines. This collection of striking vignettes dives deep into sonic exploration, weaving together powerful low-end resonance and shimmering high tones. Inspired by the sea’s raw energy and quiet beauty, Rogers and Mines craft a mesmerizing soundscape of undulating rhythms, bold textures, and immersive mystery."

Kelsey Mines - contrabass, voice
Vinny Golia - piccolo and contrabass flutes, Bb clarinet, sopranino saxophone

“Avant-garde multi-woodwind maestro Vinny Golia and innovative bassist-vocalist-composer Kelsey Mines unite in a dynamic duo recording. Stripping back to just their voices and instruments, this collaboration delivers finely nuanced interplay where Golia’s rich spectrum of woodwinds weaves organically with Mines' deep rhythmic foundation and expressive vocal textures.”

So, what are the truly legendary groups in jazz? Probably less than a dozen: Duke Ellington's Orchestra, The Hot Five with Louis Armstrong, The Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, Ornette Coleman's original quartet, the John Coltrane Quartet, etc....

A new, previously unheard and unknown track by Charles with Eric Dolphy? Yeah, I’m in.

“The music Charles Mingus and his group recorded during his landmark 1960 sessions for Candid Records produced three of the most revered jazz albums of the era. INCARNATIONS is a new masterpiece thoughtfully assembled from rare and unreleased material from those sessions that stands proudly in the Mingus canon of masterworks.
All but one of the tracks here are from the November 11th, 1960 sessions Mingus...

This is two amazing shows in stupendous sound quality (those German engineers really know how to twiddle the knobs) from two incredible periods in Mingus’s career, with each show taking 2 CDs to present in full. And both are licensed and taken from the original tapes of Radio Bremen and neither one has been officially released before!

So, what are the truly legendary groups in jazz? Probably less than a dozen: Duke Ellington's Orchestra, The Hot Five with Louis Armstrong, The Charlie Parker...

This 1960 recording, his second on Candid, is absolutely one of the (many) great 60s Mingus recordings. This is one of the large number of totally fantastic jazz albums that were released by Candid during their short lived lifetime in 1960/1961 and is the first time this has been reissued from the original masters. Hugely personally recommended!

“At the time of this recording, Mingus had been working regularly with the piano-less quartet of Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond. The same...

Ted Curson - trumpet
Eric Dolphy - alto sax, bass clarinet
Charles Mingus - bass
Dannie Richmond - drums

For my money, one of the the top 3 Mingus albums and one of the top 10 60s jazz albums of all time. This is the classic album that has Charles announcing at the beginning, “Good evening ladies and gentlemen, we’d like to remind you that we don’t applaud here at the Showplace, so please restrain your applause . . . the reason is that we are interrupted by your noise”, and then

Charles McPherson, alto saxophone
Bobby Jones, tenor saxophone, clarinet
Jon Faddis, trumpet
John Foster, piano
Charles Mingus, bass
Roy Brooks, drums, saw

Recorded live on August 14-15, 1972 at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London, England.

“This is Mingus and his sextet at Ronnie Scott's club, recorded over two nights in 1972. This set is somewhere between four and five "stars" depending on the tune.
There's nine performances of tunes like (the 35 minute) "Fable

Second excellent album by synthesist Chuck van Zyl and guitarist Art Cohen. "The Ministry Of Inside Things are considered among the most innovative of US synthesists today. Influenced by the early music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Ash Ra Temp...

Either a very long CDEP or a short album (35), this is a really wonderful first release by a female singer/composer named Kelsey Michael, plus trombone, trumpet, sax, piano, bass, drums, & electronics (which are very subtle). The effect is kinda like a...

“As Minor Victories, Editors' Justin Lockey, Slowdive's Rachel Goswell, Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite, and Lockey's brother James (who makes films with Justin as Hand Held Cine Club) craft expansive songs that build on their combined musical heritage.”-AllMusic

This is an orchestral, expansive interpretation of the group’s one album.

“I first heard this orchestral performance by 'Minor Victories' on the ECHOES public radio program - and fell in love with the piece, and now their entire...

I've had the great pleasure of seeing this band twice and they are extremely entertaining as well as magnificent players/improvisors. And Phil is always a great hoot to see live! Phil Minton (voice), John Butcher (soprano & tenor saxophones), Veryan...

“Phil Minton is a jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter. He is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake with his own ensemble. Minton is perhaps best known, however, for his completely free-form work, which involves "extended techniques" that can be as unsettling as they can be mesmerising. His vocals...

Phil Minton: Voice
Veryan Weston: Piano, Organ, Voice

"Phil Minton and Veryan Weston, friends for many years, wrote a vocal project for a six-member choir on the topic of anarchism back in 1993. In the middle of the project stood the life...

"Unlike Bob Mintzer's '80s offerings on Cheetah (Source and Papa Lips), the band used on this session is a quartet made up of star talent: bassist Eddie Gómez, the elegant pianist Steve Kuhn, and drummer Steve Gadd. On first glance it might appear that Gadd is out of place among these more subtle members of the rhythm section. Being a consummate professional as a studio musician, Gadd is an excellent jazz drummer adding grace, subtlety and tension to a very sophisticated rhythm section...

Miotic are a math-rock/post-rock/brutal prog trio from Bologna, Italy. They say they are influenced by those sounds, and they certainly are, but they definitely have their own slant to that sound. If you like Upsilon Acrux, Dysrhythmia, Don Caballero, you

"In these challenging times, it's nice to count on something that seems to be getting better instead of worse. Miriodor have been around now for about 30 years, quite an accomplishment in itself, but perhaps more amazingly, every CD they release improves in some way upon the last. A case in point is Avanti! (Onward!), the band's seventh Cuneiform CD, released in May 2009.... On Avanti! Miriodor have climbed their highest peak yet and now stand patiently waiting for you to discover them."-All Music...

Bernard Falaise – guitars, bass, keyboards, banjo, turntable
Pascal Globensky – keyboards, synths, piano
Rémi Leclerc – drums, percussion, electronics

There are no other bands in North America that sound even remotely like Miriodor, whose new album Elements is their 10th studio release since their founding in 1980. This likely has to do with where keyboardist Pascal Globensky, guitarist and bassist Bernard Falaise, and drummer Rémi Leclerc are...

Bernard Falaise guitars, keyboards, turntable
Pascal Globensky keyboards, synths, piano
Rémi Leclerc drums, percussion, electronics
Nicolas Lessard bass, double bass, keyboards

"With a career going back over 30 years, French-Canadian band Miriodor have carved out an instantly recognizable sound that straddles avant rock and jazz...Miriodor have a wonderful sense of melody to counter their more experimental tendencies, and [the band] pulls off the ha