Newly remastered, and with liner notes featuring quotes from fellow Tower of Power member Dave Garibaldi and Bay Area keyboardist Todd Cochran a.k.a. Bayeté that testify as to Chester Thompson’s greatness.
Wewantsounds announce a special edition of the legendary 1979 Masahiko Togashi album Song of Soil, recorded in Paris with Don Cherry and Charlie Haden and released on Japanese label Paddle Wheel. Supervised by Parisian producer Martin Meissonnier.
Collection of Live Performances from The Montreux Jazz Festival on 180g Double LP! Includes Rare & Unreleased Material from Claude Nob's Private Collection!
The voice of Afrofuturistic science non-fiction! Undoubtedly the most sublime constellation in the Sun Ra cosmos, June Tyson's voice is the perfect guide through one of the most challenging and varied musical legacies ever to be encountered.
A flowing jazz idiom that seamlessly combines multiple forms of expression –, while delving deeper into the meditative and highly concentrated realm of improvisation.
J Jazz compilation series has showcased some of the most creative, inspired, and sought-after jazz recorded in Japan during a golden period spanning the 1960s to the 1980s.
J Jazz: Free and Modern Jazz From Japan 1954-1988, a remarkable large-format book covering some of the deepest, rarest, and most innovative jazz music released anywhere in the post-war era.
Panamá 77 - a vibrant and verdant suite of multi-textural, jazz-laced psychedelic instrumental folk-funk - is the debut album by Panamá-born drummer and DJ Daniel Villarreal.
Time Is Slipping Away is an album by American R&B/jazz fusion producer, composer, keyboardist, and vocalist Dexter Wansel. It is the last of four studio albums released at Philadelphia International Records.
EMMY award winning soundtrack to a NETFLIX doc about MICHELLE OBAMA by the preeminent young jazz artist on the scene today Kamasi Washington - that's a pretty potent combo!
Earlier this year, avant-garde jazz titan Kamasi Washington premiered Harmony of Difference, an original six-movement suite, as part of this year’s Whitney Biennial.
The EP is the first new music from Washington since his universally acclaimed 2015 debut
Vinyl LP pressing. Kamasi Washington's sophomore album Heaven and Earth not only fulfills it's overarching ambition, but illustrates the dialectic between seen and unseen, real and imagined, citizen and culture, self and self.
The Epic is the story of Kamasi Washington and the Next Step and their mission: to remove jazz from the shelf of relics and make it new, unexpected, and dangerous again.
