PURE PLEASURE

(2-LP set) Recorded when Hooker was well into his '60s "comeback," Get Back Home features the bluesman in a solo performance (a mode that best reveals the subtleties of his work). Tracks are: Get...

Saxophonist Wendell Harrison has lived by a standard philosophy for his 50-plus-year career: One must have complete self-autonomy. Both his music and business dealings reflect this. Besides being a...

Over the years they made many recordings together but this one is unique. Recorded whilst on a 1981 tour of Europe, Guy and Wells took a break from their backing musicians and amps to cut this...

Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London. Double live album. 180 gram LP x 2 in gatefold sleeve.

At the time of release Ebony reviewer Phyl Garland said "One needn't be a "piano freak" to appreciate a truly new recording. First of all imagine seven gifted and talented pianists sitting down to...

Don't let the date fool you, released back in 1983 this modal to slightly free jazz outfit from California takes you on a journey back to the late 60s and very early 70s, into the spiritual realms of...

In that wistful, screwball age that was the Thirties, one man, practically single-handed, launched an era of musical nonsense that had the whole nation humming bits of rhythmic fol-de-rol. It was Cab...

(2-LP set) This LP was originally released in 1971 teaming Hooker up with the blues revivalist band Canned Heat.

Vinyl reissue of the soul diva's 1973 album for the Hi label. 10 tracks, including her signature hit "I Can't Stand the Rain". Produced by Willie MItchell with the Hi rhythm section laying the...

Trumpeter/fl?gelhornist Charles Tolliver often straddled the line between the lyricism of hard bop and the adventurous nature of the avant-garde. Released in 1975, Impact contained a stimulating...