PURE PLEASURE

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

(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...

The recordings here were made at a pivotal moment in his career. In 1960, at 48 years old, he was no longer a star in the black community, but was becoming a folk legend. His deeply personal music...

After two visionary LPs for his own tiny Nodlew label, Weldon Irvine signed to RCA for Cosmic Vortex (Justice Divine), exploring the deeply spiritual and political terrain of his previous efforts on...

Weldon Irvine's debut as a leader remains one of the most fiercely idiosyncratic electric jazz outings of the early '70s. Innovative not only for it's moody, nuanced jazz-funk sensibility, Liberated...

The sublime Time Capsule remains Weldon Irvine's most fully realized and influential recording. A supremely talented multi-instrumentalist and composer, Irvine had a musical vision that was...

This 1970 release of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis orchestra is considered the best of all the albums they recorded together. Trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis are joined by trumpeter Marvin...

180gm vinyl LP pressing. The fifth part of the Strata-East Dolphy Series, Glass Bead Games is arguably the crown jewel of the Strata East movement, an amorphous genre that treads an unusual path...

Keb' Mo' covers classic peace and protest songs from the 60s and 70s. Backed by a full band including horns and backing vocalists on some songs. Tracks: For What It's Worth, Wake Up Everybody, People...

On Suitcase, his eighth studio release, Keb' Mo' (Kevin Moore) reunites with John Porter, the producer of Moore's critically lauded first album, and the result is a pleasant, mid tempo suite of songs...

Born in San Francisco, Rickey Kelly moved to Los Angeles in 1982. I first heard Rickey on the local Jazz station and that haunting sound on vibes was just too much to resist. He was working at...

(2-LP set) Vocally, Ms Kent has never sounded better. And there is so much to admire: her dulcet-toned mezzo soprano, with it's shimmery jazz lilt and translucent vibrato, her innate sense of swing...