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Frank Heppinstall/Lonnie Sattin Sweetheart 7 inch

Frank Heppinstall/Lonnie Sattin Sweetheart 7 inch

7 inch 2012/195x new Frank Heppinstall may not be famous (and he's definitely nobody) but his band swings hard & the crooning vocals are stellar. Smooth as Tex Williams during the verses, but with...
Jazzman $8.00

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Jimmy Nelson's Instant Ventriloquism lp

Jimmy Nelson's Instant Ventriloquism lp

lp 1964 VG+/M- Jimmy was the creator of the characters Farfel and Danny O'Day. He starred in some 1950's Nestle commericals & is well known, at least among those who think Trekkies live on the wild &...
Juro $8.00

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Pete Drake The Spook/Oriental Twist 7 inch

Pete Drake The Spook/Oriental Twist 7 inch

7 inch 2011/196x new Early 60s country doesn't usually mix in with badass riffage and effects pedals, but Pete Drake's steel guitar isn't like anybody else's. Drake was a Nashville studio musician...
Jazzman $8.00

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Amos Milburn I Done Done It/Greyhound 7 inch

Amos Milburn I Done Done It/Greyhound 7 inch

7 inch 2013/1954 new Party packin piano pounder Amos is as much fun as his dimples are adorable. He gives you Texas chicken shack boogie with whoops & hollers, low sax honnks, & also imitates a...
Jazzman $10.50

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Tony Drake Suddenly 7 inch

Tony Drake Suddenly 7 inch

7 inch 2012/1971 new The songwriter who wrote 'The Sly The Slick and the Wicked' (for the Lost Generation) couldn't seem to make it on the artist end, even though his buttery baritone was a perfect...
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Demon Fuzz Afreaka lp

Demon Fuzz Afreaka lp

lp 2003/1970 new Who could pass up a black acid rock/dj groove band called Demon Fuzz? Not me, brother. 70s British underground act that only existed for about a year, & are now heavily sampled. Yow,...
Janus $11.00

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Iggy and the Stooges Metallic KO cd

Iggy and the Stooges Metallic KO cd

cd 2007/1976/1974 new One of the more famous bootlegs of all time, of the colossal Stooges, loud, proud & imploding onstage (while their audience viciously pelts & heckles them) , at their last real...
Jungle $15.00

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Various California Funk cd

Various California Funk cd

cd 2010/1968-77 new California may be the home of Hollywood, but it's also the home of Huey P. Newton, Watts riots, and yeah, some heavy fonkin funk records. Lots of black power lyrics and some...
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Ash Ra Tempel cd

Ash Ra Tempel cd

cd 2012/1971 new Manuel Gotsching & Klaus Schulze (who'd already done time in Tangerine Dream) discover the floating power of the chord that never moves. Their 1st, best, & most cosmically melted....
MG Art $16.00

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Azanyah The One cd

Azanyah The One cd

cd 2012/1987 new Atlanta Coltrane-worshippers who have somehow not figured out that they traveled forward 20 years in a time machine to 1987. They're at their best when they're taking it slow rather...
Jazzman $16.00

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Bobby Jackson The Cafe Extra Ordinaire Story cd

Bobby Jackson The Cafe Extra Ordinaire Story cd

cd 2010/1977/1970 new Bass player Jackson ran a tiny independent jazz club fairly far off the national touring circuit throughout the 70s. He saw his spot as a way to inject jazz into the community...
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Boris Gardiner Every Nigger Is a Star cd

Boris Gardiner Every Nigger Is a Star cd

cd 2010/1974 new Gardiner became a bass player for Studio One in the late 60s, recording for the Heptones, Marcia Griffiths, Larry Marshall, Junior Marvin, etc. He was playing fat hotels & had...
Jazzman $16.00

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Ike Turner Real Gone Rocket cd

Ike Turner Real Gone Rocket cd

cd 2012/1951-59 new Turner struts across 1950s Memphis like a goddamn boss. He could play boogie piano as easily as brain-melting R&B guitar. He put together/produced most of the sessions he played...
Jerome $16.00

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Jason Henn Farm/Closet 7 inch + 3 inch

Jason Henn Farm/Closet 7 inch + 3 inch

7 inch + 3 inch 2010/2005 new Lathe by a really cool guy who had a radio show in Indiana when he was 10 years old, has since issued bootlegs of one-armed fiddlers & exploito 60s records. Drone on one...
Jason Henn $16.00

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John Heartsman and Circles Music Of My Heart cd

John Heartsman and Circles Music Of My Heart cd

cd 2009/1977 new Heartsman had scuttled around as a session player for years before settling into a low key residency at a club in Sacramento. He issued this set of live tunes- chosen by club...
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Lloyd Miller A Lifetime in Oriental Jazz cd

Lloyd Miller A Lifetime in Oriental Jazz cd

cd 2009/1961-05 new Nice one. Miller travelled for a good part of his life, covering Tehran, Germany, Paris and, ahem, Utah, all the while trying to play minor-key modal jazz on eastern instruments....
Jazzman $16.00

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Marvin Peterson and the Soulmasters In Concert cd

Marvin Peterson and the Soulmasters In Concert cd

cd 2010/1968 new Peterson is mostly known for funk jazz albums that he put out on MPS & Enja in the 70s under the nickname Hannibal. He also played on the wacky 'Gil Evans Plays the Music of Jimi...
Jazzman $16.00

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Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble Hard Luck Soul cd

Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble Hard Luck Soul cd

cd 2012/1971 new Here in America we just go ahead & lock up everyone who's black, so it's not so surprising when jazz or soul bands formed in prisons turn out to be pretty good ones. Recorded in the...
Jazzman $16.00

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Owen Marshall Captain Puff in the Naked Truth cd

Owen Marshall Captain Puff in the Naked Truth cd

cd 2012/1975 new Stoner organ instros. Marshall lived in Philly in the 50s, playing trumpet & hobnobbing with Lee Morgan & Chet Baker, who played a couple of songs he wrote. But in 1963, he lost his...
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That's Why Best of cd

That's Why Best of cd

cd 2012/1970-71 new A closer look at this Norwegian Xian folk act that had a couple of cuts on the compilation 'Lukk Opp Kirkens Dorer'. Oslo didn't really have 'Hair' touring through town, but...
Jazzman $16.00

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Various Dance the Latin cd

Various Dance the Latin cd

cd 2008/1959-74 new From foxy Latin vibraphone jazz that evokes tight skirts & high heels to nastyass congo funk that brings lowered cars with speakers in the trunk to mind instead, the Fania label...
Jazzman $16.00

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Various Florida Funk cd

Various Florida Funk cd

cd 2006/1969-75 new Flordia was a hotbed of visceral, volatile, gutbucket funk and oh duh-hamn, do those horns ever sound tight! Henry Stone's TK label was the biggest in the state (before they tried...
Jazzman $16.00

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Various Jukebox Mambo cd

Various Jukebox Mambo cd

cd 2012/1949-60 new The mid-50s were all about the exuberant exoticism of the mambo. And while Prado & Cugat are still best known as bringing the latin sound to US housewives, there's no reason why...
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Various Welcome to the Party cd

Various Welcome to the Party cd

cd 2008/1966-74 new Funkier than a mosquito's tweeter, here's a heavenly little collection of Jazzman's gracefully curated 7 inch series all in one handy spot. La Lupe's psychotic version of 'Fever'...
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Mij Yodeling Astrologer lp

Mij Yodeling Astrologer lp

lp 2009/1969 new Wacked out folk song yowls & yodels from a Swiss sheep herder that Bernard Stollman picked up in Washington Square Park, who said he could write interesting songs because he had a...
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Bo Diddley Is a Session Man lp

Bo Diddley Is a Session Man lp

lp 2011/1955-57 new R&B this loose & dirty didn't come from nowhere, of course. Bo'd been playing on the street around Chicago for about ten years, with his swizzling maracas master Jerome Green,...
Jerome $18.50

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Ike Turner Real Gone Rocket lp

Ike Turner Real Gone Rocket lp

lp 2012/1951-59 new Turner struts across 1950s Memphis like a goddamn boss. He could play boogie piano as easily as brain-melting R&B guitar. He put together/produced most of the sessions he played...
Jerome $18.50

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Lazy Smoke Corridor of Faces lp

Lazy Smoke Corridor of Faces lp

lp 2010/1969/1968 new Floating, airy, mist-drenched psych classic with Beatlesy vocals, church organ & backwards guitar. One of the biggest collectables of the late-80s & an orig. is currently worth...
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There's a New Dawn lp

There's a New Dawn lp

lp 2012/1970 new Dandy Doors/Byrds damage with lots of organ & a little flute. They're not overtly Xian (though at least some of the members would prove to be so as the band ran on for the next 25...
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Jandek Ready for the House lp

Jandek Ready for the House lp

lp 2008/1978 new American spirituality meets total existential discomfort, and it wails like a recently de-furred polar bear lost in a blizzard. Claustrophobic, lonely-hearted, supremely isolated,...
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That's Why Best of lp

That's Why Best of lp

lp 2012/1970-71 new A closer look at this Norwegian Xian folk act that had a couple of cuts on the compilation 'Lukk Opp Kirkens Dorer'. Oslo didn't really have 'Hair' touring through town, but...
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Jandek Chair Beside a Window lp

Jandek Chair Beside a Window lp

lp 2010/1982 new This one's best known because 'Nancy Sings' is the first appearance by an outside vocalist. Nancy's sister Pat also turns up on the next track. I like to recommend 'Chair' as a...
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Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble Hard Luck Soul lp

Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble Hard Luck Soul lp

lp 2012/1971 new Here in America we just go ahead & lock up everyone who's black, so it's not so surprising when jazz or soul bands formed in prisons turn out to be pretty good ones. Recorded in the...
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Pandit Pran Nath Midnight 2cd

Pandit Pran Nath Midnight 2cd

2cd 2002/1971-76 new Nath is basically a mystical & minimalist version of a Hindustani classical singer, so it's somewhat appropriate that he would meet up with the most mystic minimalists from the...
Just Dreams $23.50

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Tino Contreras El Jazz Mexicano 2lp

Tino Contreras El Jazz Mexicano 2lp

2lp 2011/1953-68 new Mexican drummer leading small & swishy 50s ensembles with leaping vibes, whooing background singers who sing from way down in their rib cages, tight hammond vamps & crisp,...
Jazzman $25.00

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Various Soul Spectrum 2lp

Various Soul Spectrum 2lp

2lp + 7 inch 2013/197x new Late 70s R&B that's in recovery from cocaine disco parties & Parliament-fueled acid trips. Bass walks that are nearly little girls skipping, tempos that are speeding...
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Various Gennett Old Time Music 4cd

Various Gennett Old Time Music 4cd

4cd 2010/1927-34 new Known best for it's early jazz catalog, the Gennett label, born as the arm of a piano company in Indiana, also recorded a ton of now-obscure hillbilly/blues sides. They were the...
JSP $26.00

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