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V.A. - Paul Murphy Presents The Return Of Jazz Club [Recorded 1952-1968] (2014)

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V.A. - Paul Murphy Presents The Return Of Jazz Club [Recorded 1952-1968] (2014)

V.A. - Paul Murphy Presents The Return Of Jazz Club [Recorded 1952-1968] (2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 410 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 173 MB | Covers - 66 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: BGP Records (CDBGPD 275)

Back in the '80s, Paul Murphy developed a cult following as the U.K. DJ who fueled the parties at the WAG Club's Jazz Room. By drawing heavily on the soul-jazz and hard bop records of the '50s and '60s, he developed something of an underground dance craze, one that ran parallel to Northern soul and one that got big enough to attract patrons as prominent as Jerry Dammers of the Specials. A record called The Jazz Club presented highlights from these swinging parties and Murphy continued to DJ outside of the WAG Club, but the trend faded away by the early '90s and, along with it, so did Murphy. Many years later, producer Dean Rudland eventually reconnected with Murphy via Facebook, a rekindling that led to this Ace compilation from 2014. The Return of Jazz Club: Dancefloor Classics from the Original Jazz Dance DJ is a 15-track collection culled from the Prestige and Riverside vaults…

Ramsey Lewis - Love Notes (1977) [Japanese Edition 2017]

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Ramsey Lewis - Love Notes (1977) [Japanese Edition 2017]

Ramsey Lewis - Love Notes (1977) [Japanese Edition 2017]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 238 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 83 MB | Covers - 22 MB
Genre: Soul Jazz, Jazz-Funk | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sony Music (SICJ 304)

A great little album of mid 70s funk from Ramsey Lewis - very much in the mode of his Earth, Wind, & Fire related work - no surprise, since the album's dedicated to Charles Stepney, whose influence was such a key part of the sound of the group, and of some of Ramsey's other Kalimba-produced albums from a few years before! Ramsey plays Fender Rhodes, mini moog, and Arp - and he gets help on keyboards from Stevie Wonder and Derf Reklaw, who also plays saxes and percussion on the set.

Milt Jackson & Ray Charles - Soul Brothers (1958) [Japanese Edition 2012]

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Milt Jackson & Ray Charles - Soul Brothers (1958) [Japanese Edition 2012]

Milt Jackson & Ray Charles - Soul Brothers (1958) [Japanese Edition 2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 233 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 90 MB | Covers - 20 MB
Genre: Jazz, Soul Jazz, Bop, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27162)

Not a vocal session from Ray Charles, but instead a set that showcases his great abilities in jazz - a side of Charles' talents that Atlantic was focusing on a bit more at the end of the 50s! The record's a collaboration with vibist Milt Jackson, who's nicely more loose and gritty here than in the company of the Modern Jazz Quartet - and in addition to piano, Ray also plays a bit of alto sax too - which comes as a nice surprise! Other players include the great Billy Mitchell on tenor sax, Skeeter Best on guitar, Oscar Pettiford on bass, and Connie Kay on drums.

Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement (1969) [Japanese Edition 2012]

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Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement (1969) [Japanese Edition 2012]

Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement (1969) [Japanese Edition 2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 318 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 112 MB | Covers - 15 MB
Genre: Jazz, Soul Jazz, Post-Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27019)

One of the most popular soul jazz albums of all time, and one of the best, although Harris (and trumpeter Benny Bailey) had never played or rehearsed with the Les McCann Trio before, and indeed wasn't even given the music. Perhaps that's what sparked the spontaneous funk coming through clearly on the tape of this show, recorded at the Montreux Festival in 1969. It's actually much more of a showcase for McCann than Harris, although the tenor saxist's contributions are significant. The sole vocal, a version of Gene McDaniels' "Compared to What," remains McCann's signature tune.

Jimmy Witherspoon - Hey, Mrs. Jones (1962) [Japanese Edition 2013]

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Jimmy Witherspoon - Hey, Mrs. Jones (1962) [Japanese Edition 2013]

Jimmy Witherspoon - Hey, Mrs. Jones (1962) [Japanese Edition 2013]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 203 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 71 MB | Covers - 23 MB
Genre: Blues, Jazz Blues, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27443)

One of the many unfairly overlooked albums from Witherspoon's early career, Hey Mrs. Jones is a marvelous discovery, although its lack of stylistic unity, whilst showing Witherspoon's versatility, also accounts for a occasionally confusing listening experience. The best cuts on the album are priceless Witherspoon - "The Masquerade Is Over" contains one of Witherspoon's most emotional and desperate performances, while "Have Faith" is a great gospel song, sung with genuine fervor. The album is marred slightly by a few novelty numbers, and it's hard to see anyone listening to "Pink Champagne" or "Lovey Dovey" many times, but this is a slight criticism of an album which is still one of Witherspoon's greatest.

Grover Washington, Jr. - All The King's Horses (1972) [Reissue 2008]

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Grover Washington, Jr. - All The King's Horses (1972) [Reissue 2008]

Grover Washington, Jr. - All The King's Horses (1972) [Reissue 2008]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 188 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 75 MB | Covers - 6 MB
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (0602517822894)

Grover Washington, Jr.'s sophomore date for Creed Taylor's Kud imprint was released in late 1972. Like its predecessor Inner City Blues, this session was produced by the label boss himself and was arranged and conducted by Bob James. Assembled for the date were large horn and string sections. The former contained stalwart talents like Detroit's Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone, and trumpeters Marvin Stamm and Ernie Royal. Other players on the session included what would become the heart of the CTI session crew: guitarists Cornell Dupree and Eric Gale, bassists Ron Carter and Gordon Edwards (who only appears on the opening cut), drummer Idris Muhammad (though Billy Cobham is also here), and percussionists like Airto Moreira and Ralph MacDonald…

Sonny Stitt & Don Patterson - The Boss Men [Recorded 1964-1965] (2001)

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Sonny Stitt & Don Patterson - The Boss Men [Recorded 1964-1965] (2001)

Sonny Stitt & Don Patterson - The Boss Men [Recorded 1964-1965] (2001)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 508 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 182 MB | Covers - 16 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Prestige Records (00025218525329)

In another of those two-fers that are going to tangle discographies for some time to come, this bears the title of a Don Patterson album, The Boss Men, and includes all of the material from that LP. However, this CD, though it's also called The Boss Men, is billed to both Sonny Stitt and Don Patterson, and combines the original Patterson The Boss Men LP with another album cut in 1965, Night Crawler, that was billed to Sonny Stitt, although it featured the exact same lineup (Stitt on alto sax, Patterson on organ, Billy James on drums) as The Boss Men. Not only that, the CD adds two cuts from a Patterson 1964 LP, Patterson's People, also featuring the Stitt-Patterson-James trio. As for the original The Boss Men, it's a respectable straight-ahead jazz-with-organ session…

Grover Washington, Jr. - Come Morning (1981) [Japanese Edition 2013]

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Grover Washington, Jr. - Come Morning (1981) [Japanese Edition 2013]

Grover Washington, Jr. - Come Morning (1981) [Japanese Edition 2013]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 242 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 95 MB | Covers - 16 MB
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27414)

Grover Washington blows over some great arrangements from William Eaton - full, but lean too - and with the same sort of slinky groove that always worked best for Grover back at Kudu Records. The sound is tight, but never too slick - that magically soulful approach that always made Grover a real standout from his contemporaries - one of the few cats who could smooth out jazz without ever losing its soul - thanks to lots of well-crafted lead lines on soprano sax!

Gil Scott-Heron - Free Will (1972) [Reissue 2014]

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Gil Scott-Heron - Free Will (1972) [Reissue 2014]

Gil Scott-Heron - Free Will (1972) [Reissue 2014]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 367 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 162 MB | Covers - 65 MB
Genre: Soul Jazz, Free Funk, Jazz Poetry | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: BGP Records (CDBGPM 281)

Gil Scott-Heron's third album is split down the middle, the first side being a purely musical experience with a full band (including flutist Hubert Laws and drummer Pretty Purdie), the second functioning more as a live rap session with collaborator Brian Jackson on flute and a few friends on percussion. For side one, although he's overly tentative on the ballad "The Middle of Your Day," Scott-Heron excels on the title track and the third song, "The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues," one of his best, best-known performances. The second side is more of an impromptu performance, with Scott-Heron often explaining his tracks by way of introduction ("No Knock" referred to a new police policy whereby knocking was no longer required before entering a house, "And Then He Wrote Meditations" being Scott-Heron's tribute to John Coltrane)…

Herbie Mann - The Beat Goes On (1967) [Japanese Edition 2013] (New Rip)

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Herbie Mann - The Beat Goes On (1967) [Japanese Edition 2013] (New Rip)

Herbie Mann - The Beat Goes On (1967) [Japanese Edition 2013]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 199 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 74 MB | Covers - 19 MB
Genre: Jazz, Soul Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27462)

Herbie Mann was quite unpredictable in the 1960s - from one album to the next, you never knew if he would embrace hard bop, bossa nova, Latin jazz, soul-jazz, or whatever else he was in the mood for. He could be commercial one minute, esoteric and experimental the next. One of Mann's more commercial LPs from that period, The Beat Goes On, is a generally funky, groove-oriented soul-jazz effort with strong Latin leanings. Much of the material brings to mind Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers, and comparisons to Pucho are unavoidable on cuts that range from Mann's "More Rice Than Peas, Please" to a version of Sonny & Cher's "The Beat Goes On" and a Latin boogaloo interpretation of Joe Liggins' "The Honeydripper" (which features King Curtis on tenor sax). Afro-Cuban rhythms are a high priority, although Mann gets into more of a bossa nova groove on vibist Dave Pike's "Dream Garden." Jazz purists hated this release, but let them say what they will - this LP is full of highly infectious grooves and makes a great party album.

Jimmy Smith - Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1964) [Reissue 2007]

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Jimmy Smith - Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1964) [Reissue 2007]

Jimmy Smith - Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1964) [Reissue 2007]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 255 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 81 MB | Covers - 9 MB
Genre: Jazz, Soul Jazz, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (0602517396937)

The combination of organist Jimmy Smith teamed with Oliver Nelson's big band featuring Nelson and Claus Ogerman's arrangements has arguably yielded mixed results. "Walk on the Wild Side" is probably the most acclaimed and potent of the pairings, while "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" produces more questions than answers. The music tends to be corny and overly dramatic, based in soul-jazz and boogaloo; it's dated even for this time period (1964) and a bit bland. Disparate elements clash rather than meld, the title track and "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" being perfect examples. If you can get beyond the hokey 007 theatrics, patriotic splashes, and sleigh bells, you do hear Smith jamming. Typical repeated two-note accents heard from the big band behind Smith do not urge him upwards - during "Pts. 1 & 2" of the title track, this specific element identifies and bogs down the piece - but the quicker second segment is a better…

Gil Scott-Heron And His Amnesia Express - Tales Of Gil Scott-Heron (1990) 2CD

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Gil Scott-Heron And His Amnesia Express - Tales Of Gil Scott-Heron (1990) 2CD

Gil Scott-Heron And His Amnesia Express - Tales Of Gil Scott-Heron (1990) 2CD
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 665 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 262 Mb | Scans ~ 18 Mb
Label: Peak-Top/Castle/Essential | # ESDCD 021 | Time: 01:54:37
Jazz Funk, Soul Jazz, Poetry, Spoken Word

Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues, and soul, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. His own term for himself was "bluesologist", which he defined as "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues." His music, most notably on Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul.

Nat Adderley - Autobiography (1965) [Japanese Edition 2012] (Repost)

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Nat Adderley - Autobiography (1965) [Japanese Edition 2012] (Repost)

Nat Adderley - Autobiography (1965) [Japanese Edition 2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 241 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 87 MB | Covers - 160 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Latin Jazz, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27011)

Cornetist Nat Adderley's first album as a leader after the collapse of Riverside found him switching to Atlantic and performing eight of his most rewarding compositions. With several brass players, Seldon Powell on tenor and flute, pianist Joe Zawinul (who provided the arrangements), bassist Sam Jones, Grady Tate or Bruno Carr on drums and guest spots by Victor Pantoja and Willie Bobo on Latin percussion, Nat performs such numbers as his greatest hit "Work Song," "Sermonette," "The Old Country," "Little Boy With The Sad Eyes" and "Jive Samba."

Duke Pearson - Prairie Dog (1966) [Japanese Edition 2012] (Repost)

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Duke Pearson - Prairie Dog (1966) [Japanese Edition 2012] (Repost)

Duke Pearson - Prairie Dog (1966) [Japanese Edition 2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 206 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 82 MB | Covers - 75 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27166)

This is Pearson in full soul-jazz mode, driven deeply by the blues, with an all-star band (not all members play on all tunes): drummer Mickey Roker; Harold Vick on soprano; James Spaulding on flute and alto; bassist Bob Cranshaw; trumpeter Johnny Coles; tenor George Coleman; guitarist Gene Bertoncini; and Pearson on piano and celeste. Most of these tunes start out delicately, almost like chamber jazz (nearly MJQ style), moving around on small melodic figures. "The Fakir" begins with a tender, gentle flute solo by Spaulding, and uproots itself by turning into a massive Latin-style groover based on the rhythmic middle of "My Favorite Things." "Prairie Dog" opens with the horns playing a slow, drawling blues that Pearson fills with his piano…

Shirley Scott - Something (1970) [Japanese Edition 2013] (Repost)

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Shirley Scott - Something (1970) [Japanese Edition 2013] (Repost)

Shirley Scott - Something (1970) [Japanese Edition 2013]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 168 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 66 MB | Covers - 159 MB
Genre: Jazz, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27335)

A groovy groovy electric set from Hammond giant Shirley Scott - a set that really kicks things up in the rhythm department, in a way ties the album as much to Atlantic Records soul of the 60s as it does to some of Scott's earlier work for Prestige! There's a great pulse at the bottom of the tunes - thanks to guitar work from Billy Butler and Eric Gale, and some sweet electric bass from Chuck Rainey - working here in the rhythm section with Jimmy Johnson on drums and Ralph MacDonald on congas. The combination of all these great players on one date really makes things cook - and Shirley's organ sounds groovier than ever - so much so, she also seems free to try out a few sounds here on piano and ondoline as well. Things take on a nicely trippy feel at times, and a funky groove at others.