A tote bag featuring the following five LPs:
Gabor Szabo - The Best Of Gabor Szabo - Red Vinyl
• A STUNNING RECREATION OF THE ORIGINAL GATEFOLD JACKET WITH A HIGH GLOSS FINISH!
• PRISTINE RED RTI VIRGIN VINYL!
• MASTERED BY BOB IRWIN, CUT BY KEVIN GRAY, AND PRESSED AT RTI FOR OPTIMUM AURAL PLEASURE!
Includes his stunning cover of Left Banke classic "Walk Away Renee."
Exotic jazz guitar mastery! Gabor Szabo’s singular style and authentic sound is on full display across a set of originals and choice covers highlighted by unusual instrumentation and ingenious arrangements. From the sitar-starring adaptation of “Paint It Black” to the Latin rhythms and bossa nova beats, Szabo’s savvy jazz guitar innovations shine throughout.
“Gabor Szabo was one of the most original guitarists to emerge in the 1960s; mixing his Hungarian folk music heritage with a deep love of jazz and crafting a distinctive, largely self-taught sound.” - Doug Payne (allmusic.com)
Collected from the jazz guitar guru’s mid-‘60s output, this first ever reissue of The Best Of Gabor Szabo exhibits his trademark transformations of fashionable hits of the time and also represents his enchanting original compositions. Pressed on red vinyl at RTI!
Includes:
Spellbinder • Witchcraft • Gypsy Queen • Paint It Black • Sophisticated Wheels • Yesterday • Walk On By • The Beat Goes On • Little Boat (O Barquinho)
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Al Cohn - Cohn On The Saxophone - Blue Vinyl
A swingin' beat-gen jazz classic back in print! Sax-man Al Cohn, best known for his work with fellow Lester Young tenor-sax disciple Zoot Sims, has all the pots bubbling on this classic 1956 LP. Five stars in DownBeat? You bet!
Al Cohn first sprung on the national scene as one of the saxophonists on the Woody Herman hit "Four Brothers," a crazy arrangement of "Jeepers Creepers" featuring each "brother" on a wild-and-crazy swingin' sax solo. Along with fellow "brother" Zoot Sims, Cohn became one of New York's leading sax men, forming with Sims a quintet that played in the hot beatnik jazz scene of the day, even backing up Jack Kerouac on a few poetry recordings.
Cohn on the Saxophonefinds our man Cohn taking the lead on a series of great jazz standards. Al's sax voice on this session is smooth, lyrical; almost like he's talking to you or telling a story. Dig his smooth, supple playing on "We Three," or the gorgeously blue-toned notes he hits on "Singing The Blues" -- Cohn is very much a man at home with his instrument, and the band lays back and lets him spin his tales.
When Cohn on the Saxophonewas released, Downbeat magazine gave it the prestigious and rare five-star rating -- and almost 60 years down the pike it still sounds as vital and delicious as it did when it was released. This lost jazz classic is finally yours to enjoy again, pressed onto blue vinyl, and neatly slid into a beautifully restored package. Only on Modern Harmonic!
Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.
Includes:
We Three • Idaho • The Things I Love • Singing The Blues • Be Loose • When Day Is Done • Good Old Blues • Softly As In A Morning Sunrise • Abstract Of You • Blue Lou
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Mundell Lowe - Blues For A Stripper - Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl
Beyond hip! From cool jazz to hard bop.
This extraordinary soundtrack, featuring many of the finest jazz musicians this side of anywhere, is a collection of small ensemble and large band arrangements so perfectly indicative of its era. It's beyond hip and runs the gamut from cool jazz to hard bop. Moreover, it authorized the virtuosic freedom of the best of New York's jazz community.
The swingingly cinematic score was commissioned for a Sexploitation classic entitled Satan in High Heels, the story of a woman caught in the decadent nightlife of the Big City. Mundell Lowe's compositions aptly complement and enhance the story's mood and atmosphere while often juxtaposing humor with strains of profound symbolism. The score, a stellar example of "jazz noir" however, is never decaffeinated. It's relentlessly vibrant and engaging.
Mundell Lowe's virtuosity knows virtually no bounds. His comprehensive and artistic musicality has placed him in among the top players in jazz. In addition to working at both NBC and CBS in New York he was the staff guitarist for Dave Garroway's original Today Show.
Both the film, and this score are respective examples of classic cult cinema. The music is often sensuous and sexy but at times as tough as a two-dollar steak. It's the real deal. Available on pristine, RTI pressed sheer cyan vinyl or CD both with extensive liner notes!
Includes:
Blues For A Stripper • From Munday On • Montage • Coffee, Coffee • The Lost And The Lonely • Pattern Of Evil • Satan In High Heels • East Side Drive • Lake In The Woods • The Long Knife
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Dick Garcia - Message From Garcia - Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl
Jazz guitar autodidact and 1956 Downbeat Critics Poll winner Dick Garcia struts his stuff while the likes of Bill Evans, Gene Quill, and John Drew try to keep up! The combination of Bird, Christian and his own personality meld here in Dick’s own swinging style, delivering repertoire so diverse it required three different backing bands! Message From Garcia presents Dick in various contexts so as to give the listener an idea of his scope - the material is diversified in order to give Garcia and the other instrumentalists a chance to speak of varied moods. The first group is a quartet typified by a quietly pulsating, yet exploratory quality on “Have You Met Miss Jones,” “I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire,” and “Potatoes.” The second unit finds its identification in the ensemble sound of the guitar and piano on “Ev’ry Night About This Time,” “Like Someone In Love,” and “Kimona My House.” The last group tends toward a more basic jazz quartet persuasion on “The Deacon,” “Stompin’ At The Savoy,” “If I’m Lucky” and “It Could Happen To You.” Modern Harmonic proudly presents this mid-mod guitar jazz gem pressed on translucent icy light blue vinyl!
Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.
Includes:
Have You Met Miss Jones • If I’m Lucky • Kimona My House • I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire • The Deacon • Stompin’ At The Savoy • Like Someone In Love • Potatoes • It Could Happen To You • Ev’ry Night About This Time
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Various Artists - Some Skin - On Yellow Vinyl
A bongo comp with unissued Jill Kroesen, Tak Shindo, and Sun Ra!?!?
Bongo Bongo Bongo!
The mere uttering of the word conjures up dreams and images of parties, beaches, tropical vacations, beatniks and poets, goatees and cha-cha heels, drinking espresso in coffee shops, and of the freedom of the road while getting your kicks on Route 66.
Fuzzy dice, bongos in the back. Bongo Rock! Bongo Fury! Bongo Madness! Beat on a pair of bongos and watch the party begin!
SOME SKIN is designed to get that party started. Just throw the platter on the Hi-Fi and let it spin. We’ve put together a group of rare selections, the majority of which are previously unreleased and come from quite possibly the most diverse group of individuals to ever metaphorically step foot onto a bongo comp. Dig?
We just hope the players on these recordings had some skin left on their palms after their beat bashing cooled down. And that you’re not all tuckered out from those frug and boogaloo workouts. If not, just press play and start it all over again. Pretty soon the ghost of Maynard G. Krebs may appear in a bongo fever dream on your dancefloor. Or at your Beach Blanket Bongo party. Do all 16 dances! Just keep on dancin’ and a-prancin!’
- Brother Cleve (mixologist, Sunralogist, keyboardist for Combustible Edison)
Includes:
Inspector Bongo - Jack Costanzo • Wild Percussion - Tak Shindo • Singing Bongos - René Hall • Where's Tim Schellenbaum's Violin - Jill Kroesen • Cinco Sin Titulo - Herb Schoenbohm's Quintet Ipanema (Featuring Manfredo Fest) • Escuadron de Policia - Jack Costanzo • Why Don't You Go To Hell! (Quero Que Va Tudo Pro Inferno) - Herb Schoenbohm's Quintet Ipanema (Featuring Manfredo Fest) • Cigarillo - Jack Costanzo • Bongo Birthday Surprise - Nicholas Carras • Trinidad Blues - René Hall • Where's Tim's Guitar - Jill Kroesen • Boyle Heights - Jack Costanzo • The Idea Of The Greater Age - Sun Ra & His Arkestra