Jazz

Sultry and sophisticated songbird jazz backed by guitar icon Barney Kessel! Includes culturally corrected cover art & photos featuring the real Claudia Thompson, 2 CD only bonus tracks, and new liner notes from Laina Dawes. “Goodbye to Love is both a collection of re-envisioned Jazz standards, crafted with a delicate touch and more importantly, introduces this young ingenue and highlights Claudia Thompson’s soulful voice to the world. On ‘Gloomy Sunday,’ Thompson's rendition is accompanied by...

This record is available exclusively through vinylmeplease.com. It can be purchased hereSultry and sophisticated songbird jazz backed by guitar icon Barney Kessel! Includes culturally corrected cover art & photos featuring the real Claudia Thompson and new liner notes from Laina Dawes. “Goodbye to Love is both a collection of re-envisioned Jazz standards, crafted with a delicate touch and more importantly, introduces this young ingenue and highlights Claudia Thompson’s soulful voice to the...

A former country picker, Garland excelled when he decided to cut some jazz sides, accompanied here by vibraphone prodigy Gary Burton in a set that emphasizes Garland's knack for understated yet warm improvisational flourishes.

Astro-Black mythology, astro-timeless immortality! • A RA CORNERSTONE, CUT BY KEVIN GRAY & PRESSED AT THIRD MAN PRESSING! Astro Black has long been known as a cornerstone of the Ra catalog. It is well recorded, features a superb Arkestral lineup, and successfully combines several of the styles in which Sun Ra orbited, from Saturnic jazz to astro-funk. Pressed on colored vinyl at Third Man Pressing and packaged with new cover art with liner notes by Robert Campbell (author of The Earthly...

Chet at home - In Living Stereo! The best-selling album of Chet's lengthy career! Having set up a home studio in the '50s, he would lay down backing tracks at RCA with session musicians, then work at home on his own with unlimited freedom to refine the genesis of Chet Atkins' Workshop! Pressed on premium RTI vinyl, from the original masters!The album reflected the continued diversity of his repertoire and ongoing flair for experimentation. Jazz standards like George Shearing's "Lullabye of...

Heralded hip hi-fi from '57! Chet's 1957 masterpiece! A stunning collection showing his virtuosity and diverse repertoire aimed to satisfy both his core country fans and a pop audience--including the rendition of "Walk, Don't Run" that inspired a Washington quartet's iconic hit cover. Hi-Fi in Focus, from the original masters, pressed on premium RTI vinyl! The distinctive cover of Hi-Fi in Focus set it apart from the usual Chet Atkins LP. The modern abstract photo, meant to depict high...

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...

A sultry and sophisticated songbird. The ultra-rare debut and sole output of a wondrous and mysterious vocalist, perfectly accompanied by guitar icon Barney Kessel. An Early Stereo marvel from the original 1959 tapes! Kessel was a jazz pioneer -- as one of the leading lights of the hard-bop movement, his jazz guitar was legendary, and he was ranked the No. 1 guitarist in Down Beat and Playboy for numerous years. He played with Sonny Rollins and Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald as well as...

These LPs are factory sealed with visible bent corners on the jacket. Please note: all sales are final, no returns or exchanges.Across the history of jazz, there is no wilder, more future-forward composer and performer than Herman Poole Blount, aka Sun Ra. Known as much for his wild on-stage persona as his innovative compositions, Sun Ra was the avant-garde bleeding edge of the jazz genre, introducing modal composition and electronic instrumentation before almost anyone else -- not to mention...

These LPs are factory sealed with visible bent corners on the jacket. Please note: all sales are final, no returns or exchanges.Electrifying ultra-rare album by '60s fretboard genius! Fretboard fanatics...fret no more! Here at last is the album that christened Jimmy Bryant with the distinct moniker of "Fastest Guitar in the Country." After a run of success with steel guitarist Speedy West on Capitol Records, Jimmy Bryant signed a solo contract with Imperial Records in the mid '60s. While...

These LPs are factory sealed with visible bent corners on the jacket. Please note: all sales are final, no returns or exchanges. • GARAGE & SOUL SCREAMER CREATES AN EXOTICA MEETS COCAINE VERSION OF SUN RA MASTERPIECES!• CUT BY KEVIN GRAY, AND PRESSED ON GOLD VINYL AT THIRD MAN IN DETROIT!• INCLUDES LINER NOTES FROM IRWIN CHUSID AND BROTHER CLEVE. SCORCHING PROPULSIVE RENDITIONS OF RA! Garage & soul screamer Barrence Whitfield channels the Saturnian ruler of the omniverse with a soul-tripping...

These LPs are factory sealed with visible bent corners on the jacket. Please note: all sales are final, no returns or exchanges.A lifetime of lessons in six-string-guitar-swing! Jazz-meets-country in an impossibly hot session, ca. 1959! A platter of lightning-fast picking and impeccable taste from the legendary George Barnes! The description on the back of the original album reads: "A wonderful collection of Western favorites that everyone will love--and played in the traditional Western...

Recorded in New York in 1979 and released that year on Sun Ra's Saturn label, this is a solid, overlooked set in the vast Ra canon. The tracks aren't so much compositions as excursions, pure jazz, lots of reflective piano in trio, quartet, and sextet settings. Features cover art interpreted from a favorite Arkestra hand drawn cover, and liner notes from Irwin Chusid. Includes 12 minutes of CD only bonus euphony! Also available on purple vinyl! INCLUDES: The Place Of Five Points...

Recorded in New York in 1979 and released that year on Sun Ra's Saturn label, this is a solid, overlooked set in the vast Ra canon. The tracks aren't so much compositions as excursions, pure jazz, lots of reflective piano in trio, quartet, and sextet settings. Features cover art interpreted from a favorite Arkestra hand drawn cover, and liner notes from Irwin Chusid. Pressed on colored vinyl! Also available on CD! INCLUDES: The Place Of Five Points • West End Side Of Magic City [Vita No....

Souren Baronian: trailblazing Armenian-American jazz and folk musician, founder of visionary fusion band Taksim, master of the saxophone, clarinet and such Middle Eastern instruments as the duduk, kaval and dumbek – and the man behind the three albums collected here, originally released in the early-to-mid ’70s on Souren’s own Carlee Records, and now lovingly reissued for the very first time. As the great man himself says, “World music is in today, and I was at the bottom end of this thing, I...

Preorder now! This title will be available October 2021. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. CD REISSUE WITH STRIKING NEW ARTWORK PLUS LINER NOTES BY CAMAE AYEWA (MOOR MOTHER)! I wonder what it takes to be a poem whispering inspiration inside the ears of the world? Nikki Giovanni is bold, honest and unrelenting in her poetic performance. Giovanni is a master poet who has not taken the easy road toward the...

Preorder now! This title will be available October 2021. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. CD REISSUE WITH STRIKING NEW ARTWORK PLUS LINER NOTES BY CAMAE AYEWA (MOOR MOTHER)! What does it mean to be a Black woman poet in America writing for liberation? “I am black alive looking back at you” June Jordan so masterfully said and it speaks volumes to what so many Black women poets in the 70’s and 80’s did for the...

Preorder now! This title will be available October 2021. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. 50th ANNIVERSARY CD WITH STRIKING NEW ARTWORK PLUS LINER NOTES BY CAMAE AYEWA (MOOR MOTHER)! Listen, the great Nikki Giovanni was protected. Inside the church, you can hear it. In the dusty silence, you can hear it. In the electric texture of the crowd, the buzz of the instruments, you can hear it. What you hear and feel...

Souren Baronian: trailblazing Armenian-American jazz and folk musician, founder of visionary fusion band Taksim, master of the saxophone, clarinet and such Middle Eastern instruments as the duduk, kaval and dumbek – and the man behind the three albums collected here, originally released in the early-to-mid ’70s on Souren’s own Carlee Records, and now lovingly reissued for the very first time. As the great man himself says, “World music is in today, and I was at the bottom end of this thing, I...

A STUNNING RECREATION OF THE ORIGINAL GATEFOLD JACKET!LP INCLUDES ARCHIVAL DOCUMENT REPLICA OF HOW RA WANTED TO SPEND HIS MAJOR LABEL ADVANCE!CUT BY KEVIN GRAY, AND PRESSED ON BLACK VINYL AT THIRD MAN FOR OUT OF THIS WORLD SOUND QUALITY! Intrinsic energies of mythic worlds! Pathways was originally issued on LP in 1975 as part of Ra’s ill-fated and short-lived ABC/Impulse! partnership. This Modern Harmonic edition has been exquisitely mastered from the four-track session reel. The Impulse! LP...

This record is available exclusively through roughtrade.com. It can be purchased here.Rock icons Deborah Harry and Elvis Costello join NYC avant garde collaboration The Jazz Passengers for a perfectly matched ‘97 album. The Passengers’ always entertaining grooves pair with Harry and Costello’s unmistakable vocal textures for exquisite originals and fresh takes on jazz standards, including the can’t-miss duet “Doncha Go ‘Way Mad”! Of course the vocalists get all the ink, but this is Roy...

Rock icons Deborah Harry and Elvis Costello join NYC avant garde collaboration The Jazz Passengers for a perfectly matched ‘96 album. The Passengers’ always entertaining grooves pair with Harry and Costello’s unmistakable vocal textures for exquisite originals and fresh takes on jazz standards, including the can’t-miss duet “Doncha Go ‘Way Mad”! Of course the vocalists get all the ink, but this is Roy Nathanson (sax) and Curtis Fowlkes’ (trombone) band including a stellar crew of jazzmen, Bill...

Preorder now! This title will be available October 2021. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. • AVAILABLE ON RED VINYL CUT & PRESSED AT THIRD MAN! • FIRST REISSUE OF THIS POWERFUL BLEND OF FUNK, SOUL, & POETRY! • STRIKING NEW ARTWORK PLUS LINER NOTES BY CAMAE AYEWA (MOOR MOTHER)! What does it mean to be a Black woman poet in America writing for liberation? “I am black alive looking back at you” June Jordan so...

Preorder now! This title will be available October 2021. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. • AVAILABLE ON BLUE VINYL CUT & PRESSED AT THIRD MAN! • FIRST REISSUE OF THIS POWERFUL BLEND OF FUNK, SOUL, & POETRY! • STRIKING NEW ARTWORK PLUS LINER NOTES BY CAMAE AYEWA (MOOR MOTHER)! I wonder what it takes to be a poem whispering inspiration inside the ears of the world? Nikki Giovanni is bold, honest and unrelenting in...

This record is available exclusively through vinylmeplease.com. It can be purchased here. • AVAILABLE ON CLEAR ORANGE VINYL CUT & PRESSED AT THIRD MAN!• 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BEAT GOSPEL TREASURE, WITH ITS FIRST VINYL REISSUE IN HALF A CENTURY!• STRIKING NEW ARTWORK PLUS LINER NOTES BY CAMAE AYEWA (MOOR MOTHER)! Listen, the great Nikki Giovanni was protected. Inside the church, you can hear it. In the dusty silence, you can hear it. In the electric texture of the crowd, the buzz of the...

Preorder now! This title will be available October 2021. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. • AVAILABLE ON YELLOW VINYL CUT & PRESSED AT THIRD MAN!• 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BEAT GOSPEL TREASURE, WITH ITS FIRST VINYL REISSUE IN HALF A CENTURY!• STRIKING NEW ARTWORK PLUS LINER NOTES BY CAMAE AYEWA (MOOR MOTHER)! Listen, the great Nikki Giovanni was protected. Inside the church, you can hear it. In the dusty silence,...

Growling and prowling like a more playful Wanda Jackson, Ann Delrene leads this trio down avenues of jazz, rockabilly, & folk, all from the comforts of a Missouri resort! A record that sounds as good as it looks, there’s no wonder folks have traded four figures for a copy! This private press treasure gets its first ever reissue! Here's one right here that goes way back for me. In fact this is one of the life-changers for me. Just looking at it and, “woah, what's she sound like?” and those...

Rock icons Deborah Harry and Elvis Costello join NYC avant garde collaboration The Jazz Passengers for a perfectly matched ‘96 album. The Passengers’ always entertaining grooves pair with Harry and Costello’s unmistakable vocal textures for exquisite originals and fresh takes on jazz standards, including the can’t-miss duet “Doncha Go ‘Way Mad”! Of course the vocalists get all the ink, but this is Roy Nathanson (sax) and Curtis Fowlkes’ (trombone) band including a stellar crew of jazzmen, Bill...

Growling and prowling like a more playful Wanda Jackson, Ann Delrene leads this trio down avenues of jazz, rockabilly, & folk, all from the comforts of a Missouri resort! A record that sounds as good as it looks, there’s no wonder folks have traded four figures for a copy! This private press treasure gets its first ever reissue! Here's one right here that goes way back for me. In fact this is one of the life-changers for me. Just looking at it and, “woah, what's she sound like?” and those...

First ever full release of these sessions from Morphine's Mark Sandman's "secret band!"Artwork created from Hypnosonics flyers created by Mark Sandman himself! Includes a zine style insert featuring more Sandman art, photos, and liners from Hypnos sax man Russ Gershon! In 1986, while Mark Sandman was still touring with his first major label band, Treat Her Right, and before he convened the now-mythical Morphine, he assembled what is often referred to as his “secret band.” Hypnosonics remained...

First ever full release of these sessions from Morphine's Mark Sandman's "secret band!"Artwork created from Hypnosonics flyers created by Mark Sandman himself! Includes a zine style insert featuring more Sandman art, photos, and liners from Hypnos sax man Russ Gershon!Cut and pressed at Third Man Records in Detroit In 1986, while Mark Sandman was still touring with his first major label band, Treat Her Right, and before he convened the now-mythical Morphine, he assembled what is often...

First ever full release of these sessions from Morphine's Mark Sandman's "secret band!"Artwork created from Hypnosonics flyers created by Mark Sandman himself! Includes a booklet insert featuring more Sandman art, photos, and liners from Hypnos sax man Russ Gershon! Prior to founding the band Morphine, Mark Sandman launched Hypnosonics, built around a stripped down drum kit with no toms and a piece of plywood in place of cymbals, played by Jay Hilt. With funk in its heart, Hypnosonics was...

First ever full release of these sessions from Morphine's Mark Sandman's "secret band!"Artwork created from Hypnosonics flyers created by Mark Sandman himself! Includes a zine style insert featuring more Sandman art, photos, and liners from Hypnos sax man Russ Gershon!Cut and pressed at Third Man Records in Detroit Prior to founding the band Morphine, Mark Sandman launched Hypnosonics, built around a stripped down drum kit with no toms and a piece of plywood in place of cymbals, played by...

“Ramones meet the elevator head-on (ouch!!) through the clever genius of Sam Elwitt, and time travel will never be the same again” - Joey Ramone (1999) The ‘99 cult favorite fortified with a rumbustious sitar illuminated take on “Rockaway Beach!” On colored vinyl. First ever complete vinyl LP release of this ‘99 Ramones bachelor pad pasticheIncludes a new take on “Rockaway Beach” featuring Sam Elwitt chewing out the rhythm on his sitarAbout the only way to sneak the Ramones into your wedding...

This record is available exclusively through vinylmeplease.com. It can be purchased here. An F-bomb saturated hip-hop call & response club cut...from Sun Ra?! • First ever reissues of this iconic demonic slice of Saturnian splendor, one of the most coveted releases in the Ra canon!• Features the emblematic “Nuclear War” anthem, earmarked to be played like an air raid siren when we as a society decide to pack up and call it a planet. A cut further popularized by Yo La Tengo.• Stunning new...

This record is available exclusively from Vinyl Me, Please as their Classics Record of the Month for October. Sign up here• (AAA) Lacquers Cut from the Original Analog Tapes by Ryan Smith, SterlingSound• 180g Black Audiophile Vinyl Pressed at QRP, Salina, KS• Includes Exclusive Listening Notes Booklet by Andrew Winistorfer This October, record club Vinyl Me, Please is featuring our reissue of Dreams, the landmark 1968 album from Hungarian jazz guitar legend Gabor Szabo,...

This record is available exclusively through vinylmeplease.com. It can be purchased here. • AVAILABLE ON LP FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 30 YEARS! • FEATURING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE QUEEN OF AFROFUTURISM, JUNE TYSON! • INCLUDES A BONUS CUT FROM THE SAME SESSIONS, NOT AVAILABLE ON THE ORIGINAL LP! True studio albums of Ra with the Arkestra are rare on this planet or beyond. This studio saucer is an interplanetary interpreter, here to convert even the faintest of heart to the sounds of Sun Ra....

• Long lost soundtrack to a (still) lost film, joining the party for the first time! • Your choice of gold vinyl with a replica of the original pressbook or CD with over twenty minutes of bonus swagger! • Deep funk groove that even includes a wild cover of a popular James Brown cut! • Features witty liners from Lisa Petrucci of Something Weird Video! An Organ Grindin’ Funky Good Time! While this 1969 Whit Boyd film may be lost to obscurity, thanks to the discovery of the original audio reels...

Glorious audio swagger discovered burieddeep in this mess of a film! Every minute previously unreleased outside of being buried in the mess of a film.Organ lead groove with a swagger only the undead could muster.Includes the entire infamous film on DVD and copious notes on the copulation conquests of Alucard! From out of a rotted tomb crawls the full score for the “film” Dracula (The Dirty Old Man)! Uncovered by archivist George Gimarc, these tapes, untouched for nearly 50 years and...

• Long lost soundtrack to a (still) lost film, joining the party for the first time! • Your choice of gold vinyl with a replica of the original pressbook or CD with over twenty minutes of bonus swagger! • Deep funk groove that even includes a wild cover of a popular James Brown cut! • Features witty liners from Lisa Petrucci of Something Weird Video! An Organ Grindin’ Funky Good Time! While this 1969 Whit Boyd film may be lost to obscurity, thanks to the discovery of the original audio reels...

An F-bomb saturated hip-hop call & response club cut...from Sun Ra?! • First ever reissues of this iconic demonic slice of Saturnian splendor, one of the most coveted releases in the Ra canon!• Features the emblematic “Nuclear War” anthem, earmarked to be played like an air raid siren when we as a society decide to pack up and call it a planet. A cut further popularized by Yo La Tengo.• Stunning new cover art blending favorite elements from the handmade original Saturn pressings.While the most...

An F-bomb saturated hip-hop call & response club cut...from Sun Ra?! • First ever reissues of this iconic demonic slice of Saturnian splendor, one of the most coveted releases in the Ra canon!• Features the emblematic “Nuclear War” anthem, earmarked to be played like an air raid siren when we as a society decide to pack up and call it a planet. A cut further popularized by Yo La Tengo.• Stunning new cover art blending favorite elements from the handmade original Saturn pressings.While the...

Glorious audio swagger discovered burieddeep in this mess of a film! Every minute previously unreleased outside of being buried in the mess of a film.Organ lead groove with a swagger only the undead could muster.Includes the entire infamous film on DVD and copious notes on the copulation conquests of Alucard! From out of a rotted tomb crawls the full score for the “film” Dracula (The Dirty Old Man)! Uncovered by archivist George Gimarc, these tapes, untouched for nearly 50 years and...

Tuba trombone drum punk! A crazed drum & brass reimagination of the piercing punkadelic music created by The Stooges! Thrashing cymbals and bashing drums locked in step with unrelenting tuba riffs, reinforced by otherworldly trombone writhing and sliding and bending (just like Iggy onstage), sounding somewhere between a disheveled wah-wah guitar or a kazoo. Available for the first time as a complete album, it must be heard to be believed! On your choice of CD or colored vinyl cut and pressed...

Tuba trombone drum punk! A crazed drum & brass reimagination of the piercing punkadelic music created by The Stooges! Thrashing cymbals and bashing drums locked in step with unrelenting tuba riffs, reinforced by otherworldly trombone writhing and sliding and bending (just like Iggy onstage), sounding somewhere between a disheveled wah-wah guitar or a kazoo. Available for the first time as a complete album, it must be heard to be believed! On your choice of CD or colored vinyl cut and pressed...

• AVAILABLE ON ON CD FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! • FEATURING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE QUEEN OF AFROFUTURISM, JUNE TYSON! • INCLUDES A BONUS CUT FROM THE SAME SESSIONS, NOT AVAILABLE ON THE ORIGINAL ALBUM! True studio albums of Ra with the Arkestra are rare on this planet or beyond. This studio saucer is an interplanetary interpreter, here to convert even the faintest of heart to the sounds of Sun Ra. Recorded with Arkestra veterans at the same NY studio that hosted countless Sun Ra sessions since...

• AVAILABLE ON LP FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 30 YEARS! • FEATURING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE QUEEN OF AFROFUTURISM, JUNE TYSON! • INCLUDES A BONUS CUT FROM THE SAME SESSIONS, NOT AVAILABLE ON THE ORIGINAL LP! True studio albums of Ra with the Arkestra are rare on this planet or beyond. This studio saucer is an interplanetary interpreter, here to convert even the faintest of heart to the sounds of Sun Ra. Recorded with Arkestra veterans at the same NY studio that hosted countless Sun Ra sessions...

Bass, organ, wah wah, va-va voom! • Comes with a DVD of the full 1973 spy thriller! • Includes a dot matrix printed insert - for your eyes only!  • A slab of 70s film funk pressed on green vinyl! The alleged inspiration for the hit television series Charlie’s Angels, Ted V. Mikels’ ‘73 spy thriller looks much better than it has any right to, with brash color, gorgeously attired babes, and some visually appealing shooting locations. Composer Nicholas Carras’ score for the film provided the...