Rare classic work from Gloria Ann Taylor – working in a soaring setting
with the Walter Whisenhunt Orchestra! "Deep Inside You" has this unusual
flow – almost stop/start in energy, but with Taylor really soaring out
on her vocals, as some cool vibes and other sweet touches work some
magic in the background.
60s jazz meets Japanese bamboo flute – all in a session with a great mix
of groovy and exotic touches! The record's a unique meeting of jazz
and folkloric elements – done in a style that's a bit like some of the
late 60s sessions of this nature on MPS, but a fair bit groovier overall
– as the tracks are shorter and more focused, and often have a nice
sort of bounce at the bottom. Flute is by Minoru Muraoka, and
arrangements are by Takashi Ikeda and Kozaburo Yamaki, conducting their
New Dimension and New Emotion groups respectively. Bits of sitar bring
in an even groovier sound to the record – and the flute itself has some
oddly off-kilter notes that further trip out the tunes.
The best and most valued volume of GLP series featuring the fantastic
modal madness of "André", "Peroche", "Suoni Distorti" and the milestone
“Alfio” feat the flute by Alfio Galigani. The music goes from insane
Psychedelic tunes to Jazz, Funk and more Bossa and Lounge tracks with
plenty of Fuzz guitars, amazing Hammond job, and totally catching drum
Breaks. An insane trip into early gold Italian Psychedelic and
Underground vibes with loads of laden beats and grooves with the mark of
the legendary Italian quartet. Simply essential!
We're glad to announce the reissue of this gem by the Library 'cult' group I MARC 4.
Probably the toughest and most Psychedelic Nelson volume by the
legendary italian studio combo. A killer blend of Downtempo Funk, dope
atmospheres and themes and Lounge Bossa cocktail music. Includes just
fantastic tracks like "Distorsion-Mind" and "The Trip", heavy
Psychedelic shots with screaming organ, "Compression" with mellow
acoustic guitar and raw drums break plus other rare and mental tracks
with great samples and loops. Totally KILLER session and essential
Italian Library record.
Produced by Quincy Jones, Masterjam was the band's fourth album to top Billboard's R&B Albums chart, and also reached number 14 on thePop chart. The album includes the singles "Do You Love What You Feel",
their fourth #1 hit on the R&B Singles chart and also #30 on Pop,
"Any Love" (US R&B #24, 1980) and "I'm Dancing for Your Love" (US
R&B #43, 1980). In 1979, Chaka Khan found solo success with the
release of the album, Chaka, and its parent single, "I'm Every Woman", which became her signature song years before "I Feel for You".
However, Khan wanted to remain a member of her long-standing band
Rufus, a group she had joined in 1972. Since their 1973 debut, Khan had
led on most of the group's songs. While Ron Stockert, an earlier
member, had added vocals to the debut and their follow-up, Rags to Rufus,
Stockert left after complaining of their label's focus on Khan, and
Tony Maiden would begin to lead on more songs as the seventies drew to a
close, Khan's presence continued to boost the group.
For their first album with MCA Records, which had absorbed ABC Records
a year before, the group enlisted Jones to help them with the record
(Khan had recorded with Jones the year before for his album Sounds...and Stuff Like That!!).
The group, while still with Khan, was now starting to record without
her, while Khan was starting to express a view of going solo for good
while still performing with the group onstage. Despite this, the album
became a success upon its release. Following Masterjam Chaka Khan recorded her second solo album Naughty and Rufus Party 'Til You're Broke, released in 1980 and 1981 respectively. Khan reunited with the band again in 1981 for the recording of Camouflage.
Jones had also brought in the Seawind Horns for help, as well as The Brothers Johnson for additional percussion help. Rufus even does a funked-up cover of Jones's own "Body Heat".
Deep jazz from a teenage prodigy. The first self-released album by
vibraphonist/composer/arranger Phil Hewitt. Originally custom pressed in
a run of fifty pieces.
The first volume from the Nelson Records series by the infamous Italian
Jazz quartet composed of Maurizio Majorana on the bass (M), Antonello
Vannucchi at the organ (A), Roberto Podio at the drums (R), and Carlo
Pes (C) on guitar. Seminal, deeply Underground session by the legendary
Italian Library studio combo with tones of sleazy sounds starting from
the Psychedelic guitar riffs, the crazy tough Funk and the groovy
sharped beats to the lovely Jazz arranged theme music influenced by
Samba, Bossa Nova and Easy Listening vibes of the time. I Marc 4
provided some of the best cinematic and theme music of the time, and
this is one of their deepest productions. Top Italian Library LP
production and unmissable piece for collectors of the genre!
An incredible album from this hip studio combo – and one that's every
bit a Hammond jazz album as it is a sound library rarity! The set's got
more organ than usual from I Marc 4 – mixed with some tracks that have a
great piano vibe too – all at a level that's very soulful, and which
feels a lot more like a small combo working the US underground scene of
the late 60s – instead of a bunch of cats working overseas in an Italian
studio!
It's hard for us to realize today how fresh was how exuberantly jazz
flowered in the sixties. In the United States Miles Davis was about to
gather his magnificent last quintet, and Coltrane - his last wonderful
quartet, their music doomed by the encroaching changes, while our
jazzmen barely discovered their possibilities...This Lp,
originally recorded in December 1964, reflecting upon unlimited creative
potential of Polish jazz legend Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski who is joined on
this record by Polish jazz piano prodigy Karolak and the best rhythm
section in Poland those days: Sandecki / Dabrowski.
Taste :
Polish Jazz Quartet - Pola Elizejskie, Dwunasta W Nocy
Sweetly funky and very slinky – this is one of the best early 70s scores
by the great Italian composer Piero Umiliani! The record has lots of
bubbling electric piano, rumbling electric basslines, warm acoustic
percussion, and moody wordless vocals. At some level, the album sounds a
lot like the contemporaneous work by the great Italian Fender Rhodes
combo Crossfire – but it's also filled with a spacey madness that could
only come from the pen of Umiliani!
Taste :
Piero Umiliani - Hard Times
Download Lp (from easy tempo rip with alt. tracks) zippy or easy
Never before commercially released library breaks monster recorded in
1975! Consisting of Romano Rizzati (Walter Rizzati), Silvano Chimenti,
and a loose assemblage of primo Italian library session-players, I Gres
recorded three blistering albums of funky library music.
A sublime selection of work from this legendary sound library
ensemble – an Italian group who were so cool, so groovy, they were
virtually a genre unto themselves – able to step easily between funky
numbers, jazzy groovers, and these odd, offbeat styles that are
especially nice! These record wonderfully wraps together a legacy of
Italian sounds from the whole late 60s/early 70s soundtrack era – served
up here without any sense of ego or need for identity at all – just a
commitment to cool, compelling music – filled with plenty of grooves in
the process.
“Cream” by The Black Fire is a nearly impossible to find italian LP from
1973. A Library album that mix several themes including psychedelic
sexy whispered scat vocals, space synth lounge, lazy bossa with
spinetta, fender rhodes and a lot of congas, bongos and insane flutes;
it also includes the killer wah-wah funk tune “Alcoholic” used years
later as the opening song of the kung fu movie Operation Cobra aka
Squadra Omicidi Chiama Cobra.
Original colorful artwork by the painter G. Pinna.
Milk 'n' Chocolate is a 24-hour, 7 days a week
music station! With a variety of genres from Jazz,Library,Latin
grooves,Afro beats and Reggae,to Funk,Soul,R'n'B,Cosmic Disco &
Hip-hop.
This monster Underground Disco classic was produced by the legendary
Patrick Adams and it’s considered to be one of his best and rarest
pressings. Released in 1977 on P&P Records, “Dance Dance Dance” was
ahead of its time laying ground for the signature sound he’d soon to be
known for on productions for the likes of Inner Life, Loleatta Holloway,
Bumblebee Unlimited, and Musique. This Classic release combines a
smooth blend of Latin rhythms, an infectious bass line and Arp keyboards
that create a dubbed out cosmic vibe, while Marta Acuna’s dreamy vocals
glide in and out. This is the perfect tune to close out an hot Friday night dancing, a NYC Disco Classic.
A legendary bit of funky fusion from the French scene of the 70s – the
standout set from Cortex, a combo who's very heavy on the keyboards!
The tunes have a feel that's quite different than American electric work
of the time – funky, but also a bit breezy too – with a strong
Brazilian influence in some of the rhythms, and hip use of female vocals
alongside the Fender Rhodes – which makes for a double layer of sound
that's totally great! There's a bit of alto sax in the instrumentation,
but most of the sound comes from the interplay between keyboards,
voice, bass, and drums – rolling along in a sound that's stunningly
soulful, and which makes the record one of the hippest European dates
from the decade.
One of our favorite albums of all times – and a legendary testament to
the greatness of the Chicago music scene in the late 60s! Melvin
Jackson was the bassist in Eddie Harris' very successful group of the
time – and his playing on Eddie's trippy and funky records for Atlantic
is one of the factors that made them so great. Here, he's working with
an acoustic bass, amplified with electronics like a Varitone sax – and
this strange-sounding instrument is set up in a hip group that mixes
Cadet funky studio players (Phil Upchurch, Morris Jennings, Jody
Christian) with some of the brighter young players of the AACM (Roscoe
Mitchell, Lester Bowie, and Leo Smith.) Jackson's bass is looped
through all sorts of crazy effects, and the result is this amazing blend
of avant garde playing and groovy rhythms that is beyond compare!
Απ την Cleo Laine να τραγουδά All Gone για την ταινία του
Joseph Losey “Ο Υπηρέτης”,στις “Ομπρέλες του Χερβούργου” Vic Dana“I Will Wait For You”, στον Cole Porter “Julie London - So in Love” στηνBlossom Dearie “Lonely Town”, στην Billie Holiday“Stormy Weather” και μετά στην Καλιφόρνια, στο νέο-νουάρτου Robert Altman“The Long Goodbye” John Williams - Jack
Sheldon (vocal ), στον Howard Blake“The New Sounds - Night Tapestry
(Largo)”, στον Claude
Nougaro“Le Cinema”, στον Serge Gainsbourg “Angoisse” από
την ρομαντική κωμωδίατου Jacques Doniol
Valcroze “L'eau À La
Bouche”, στην Ζυρίχημε την Elsie Bianchi “No
Moon At All”, στην
Ελλάδα του 65 με τον Τάσο Παπασταμάτηκαι τους Forminx “Our
Last September”, στην Ιαπωνία με τον Ryo Fukui “Scenery” .
16 Jazzunmixedκομμάτια για να κάνεις τα φθινοπωρινά σου ταξίδια όπως και
όπου γουστάρεις…
Taste :
Cleo Laine - All Gone
Vic Dana - I Will Wait For You
Julie London - So in Love
John Williams - The Long Goodbye (Jack
Sheldonvocal )
