NEVER STOP (2010)

This year's best. NEVER STOP!

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FLO & EDDIE - THE PHLORESCENT LEECH & EDDIE (1972)

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SHEARWATER IS ENRON (2010)

This is Shearwater's fully instrumental album. Reminded me of some of Tortoise's passages, with some gentle and beautiful piano pieces.

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GIVE THE VIBES SOME (1974)

Khan Jamal is an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. Ron Wynn describes Jamal as "a proficient soloist when playing free material, jazz-rock and fusion, hard bop, or bluesy fare.

Ultra-rare! Kick some xylophones ass!

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MDM (2010)

Solo album from Hurtmold's guitarist. Weird, experimental, groovy, urban style sounds. Whatever, che-che-check it out!

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WHO'S YOUR NEW PROFESSOR (2005)

Top quality jazzy solo album from The Sea & Cake's guitarist.

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Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood Ferguson - Suite for Ma Dukes (2009)

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DILLA JOINTS (2010)

The Roots fellows recorded this album made by a bunch of jams. Instrumental stuff with heavy grooves. Turn your speakers up and start the rappin!

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Peace. Out.

Danny Paul Grody - Fountain (2010)

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Inventions for Electric Guitar (1975)

Wolf People: meet Ash Ra Tempel.
Ash Ra Tempel: meet Wolf People.

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Catalyst - Catalyst (1972)

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Tokyo Jihen - Wolfpeople´ Selection

Sure Tokyo Jihen is best known for the characteristc japanese rock, but they sure have some jazzy tunes that are worth checking and crosschecking several times.

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Inversions of the Colossus (2010)

RJD2 (born Ramble John "RJ" Krohn on May 27, 1976) is an American music producer, singer and musician. RJD2 was born in Eugene, Oregon, and raised in Columbus, Ohio. He currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was signed to the Definitive Jux label where he released two largely instrumental hip hop albums and has produced tracks for many prominent rappers. However, he has now left Def Jux and has signed with XL Recordings.^[1] His 2007 album, The Third Hand, is a striking departure from his usual style and features RJD2 singing and playing instruments on nearly every track.

In 2009, RJD2 established his own label, RJ’s Electrical Connections and reissued three early records as well as a box set. RJD2’s new full length The Colossus was released on January 19, 2010 on his new label, which is distributed by The Orchard.

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The Indo-British Jazz Ensemble (1969)

"In 1969, the imaginative indie record producer, and jazz-lover, Mark Sutton, who owned his own recording studio in Soho, gathered together some of the finest session jazz musicians working in London together with husband and wife, Dev and Sitara Kumar to record a series of what we might today call "fusion". The result was "Curried Jazz". The producers for the sessions were the great Ken Barnes (find out more about him at the excellent Vinyl Vulture site)and Michael Hall .Victor Graham composed,arranged and conducted the pieces."

Isn't that the coolest cover ever !?

via Orgy in Rhythm

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J.Rawls. "The Crystal Liquid Project 2" (2008)

Known in the independent rap world for his production skills, J. Rawls has worked with everyone from Masta Ace, The Beastie Boys, Wordsworth, Black Star and J Sands (who he works with as one half of Ohio’s underground hip-hop group Lone Catalysts). With his earliest recollection of hip-hop from movies such as ”Wild Style” and ”Beat Street” and influenced by Madlib, Pete Rock and Jay Dee he has always produced and made music he has loved. In 2001 he released his solo debut called ”The Essence of J. Rawls”. He has released two more albums since, ”The Essence of Soul” in 2005 and ”The Liquid Crystal Project” in 2006.

via the excellent Rare & Groove Jazz.

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ICE ICE GRAVY (2010)

Check Tortoise's exclusive track. Think about a mix of everything that is in the unique sound from Tortoise.

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Tower of Power - Bump City (1973)

You got to Funkifize!

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AKIRA Original Soundtrack (1990)

AKIRA.

NEO TOKYO

Build An Ark - Dawn (2007)

"Build An Ark is a Los Angeles based creative music ensemble that was formed as an immediate peace action. During the hysteria after the events of 9/11/2001 the band came together to promote calm and peace in the world. The band is lead by producer Carlos Niño and vocalist Dwight Trible and includes members such as (Tribe Records founder) Phil Ranelin, (Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra elder) Nate Morgan, Adam Rudolph, (co-founder of the Pharoahs) Derf Reklaw, Alan Lightner, Lesa Terry, Joshua Spiegelman, Peter Harris, Trevor Ware, Baba Alade, Andres Renteria, Tracey Hart, Gaby Hernandez amongst others"

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Ron Carter - Empire Jazz (1980)

After a long period of hibernation, I´m back here, so lets celebrate it in grand style!

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May the Force be with you

VIATICUM (2005)

As Esbjörn Svensson's trio has developed into a first-rate contemporary jazz entity, the combined acoustic-electric sound he employs is more alluring and arresting with each recording. The subtle nuances of amplified keyboard shades that embellish his piano playing is a unique quality of E.S.T.'s music that sets them apart from the vast majority of combos who place a larger value on louder complements. Another aspect of this group is that they are truly a working ensemble with stable personnel, as bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Öström have joined Svensson in this trio for years. The meditative and surrealistic quality of this music is hard to deny or dismiss, as it is so refined and defined within a spiritual parameter -- unique unto itself, and beyond most modern categories. While the titles are elusively cryptic, they can shed some light on the musical content. "Tide of Trepidation" aligns itself to the ECM/Bobo Stenson school of piano thought, a mysterious type of composition with underlying, echoed electronic washes lapping up the melody. "In the Tail of Her Eye" is undoubtedly a slow, 4/4 song of brokenhearted regret, "What Though the Way May Be Long" is a poetic discourse on unseen destiny lying ahead, and "The Unstable Table & the Infamous Fable" intimates a film noir spy scene in its cinematic anticipation of held tension. Less inanimate, "Eighty Eight Days in My Veins" is cast via a shuffle mode in 6/8 time, more driven and chiming with a two-note contrapuntal buzzing insert. The slightly bouncing or bumpy modified tango line of "The Well Wisher" is very light on its feet, in a style that could be a cousin of Keith Jarrett. The most compelling track is "A Picture of Doris Travelling with Boris," as the trio conjures up an aural visage of sleepwalking movement or late-night paranormal mean streets with a sheen of electric light guiding the way. E.S.T.'s music is for specific tastes, but seems to have found common ground with fantasy imagineers, the baby boomer ECM crowd, and youth searching for parallels to the Bad Plus or Brad Mehldau. Viaticum is a successful effort, a progression from their previous efforts, and in many ways a new pathway to the future without relying on black holes.

- Via Allmusic

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ONE-ARMED BANDIT (2010)

Jaga Jazzist’s least jazz-rooted, most prog album to date, One-Armed Bandit is not associable with Tortoise and 2000s-era Stereolab merely for the assistance of John McEntire, who mixed it and is credited with analog synth processing. Echoing, at various points, both bands at their most rocking, Baroque, and searching, One-Armed Bandit dazzles early on. Throughout the 13 minutes that make up the title track and the following “Bananfleur Overalt,” the listener is pulled through a suspenseful succession of passages, like a score to a Mediterranean tropical cyclone, that work in tight-riffing bass clarinet, zipping vibraphone, buzzing guitar, sighing pedal steel, dancing harpsichord, and even some distant skronk-sax over galloping and tapping rhythms that switch time signatures with an oddly elegant twitchiness. Later portions of the album are larded with so many graceless, attention-deficit hazards that it’s unknown exactly what the band (or is that “groop”?) was attempting to accomplish — perhaps a challenge or, more specifically, instrumental paeans to Frank Zappa and Mars Volta with horn charts.

- via Allmusic

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Lula Côrtes & Lailson - Satwa (1973)

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Supa Qool DJ Uncle Q | Tribute To Yukimi Nagano ( 2009 )

"Yukimi Nagano (1982) is a Swedish vocalist. Nagano was born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden to a Japanese father and Swedish-American mother; she grew up listening to American folk because of her mother, but always had an affinity for R&B.

She is a vocalist of Gothenburg-based band Little Dragon, which she established with her close high-school friends Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrik Wallin (bass), and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards) Nagano has sung with Sweden’s electronica-jazz outfit Koop (band), and she and Erik Bodin play live with José González. Nagano is also featured on the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach on the songs Empire Ants and To Binge, both of which she co-wrote."

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LE PAS DU CHAT NOIR (2002)

Hypnotic, magnetic album by Anouar Brahem which adds a new dimension to our knowledge of this exceptional Tunisian musician. "Le pas du chat noir" gives the clearest indication yet of the work of Brahem as composer and features a spacious "chamber music" that resonates with the freshness of improvisation. The instrumentation is unique: oud, piano, accordion. Brahem's writing for this combination is highly evocative, meticulously controlled and sparse. Half of the magic, as he notes, resides in the not-played, in the marvellous mingling of overtones, sounds that rise from the piano to blend with the warm tones of the oud and the breath of the accordion's bellows. - ECM Press Release

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RISING SUN (2010)

Souljazz Orchestra is a Canadian Afrobeat band based in Ottawa that has had success in touring Canada and Europe.

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BULLITT (1968)

Best known for his "Mission: Impossible" theme song, Lalo Schifrin is an Argentinean-born composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor, whose jazz and classical training earned him tremendous success as a soundtrack composer. Born Boris Claudio Schifrin in Buenos Aires on June 21, 1932, his father was a symphonic violinist, and he began playing piano at age six. He enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire in 1952, hitting the jazz scene by night. After returning to Buenos Aires, Schifrin formed a 16-piece jazz orchestra, which helped him meet Dizzy Gillespie in 1956. Schifrin offered to write Gillespie an extended suite, completing the five-movement Gillespiana in 1958; the same year, he became an arranger for Xavier Cugat. In 1960, he moved to New York City and joined Gillespie's quintet, which recorded "Gillespiana" to much general acclaim. Schifrin became Gillespie's musical director until 1962, contributing another suite in "The New Continent"; he subsequently departed to concentrate on his writing. He also recorded as a leader, most often in Latin jazz and bossa nova settings, and accepted his first film-scoring assignment in 1963 (for Rhino!). Schifrin moved to Hollywood late that year, scoring major successes with his indelible themes to Mission: Impossible and Mannix. Over the next decade, Schifrin would score films like The Cincinnati Kid, Bullitt, Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry, and Enter the Dragon. - Steve Huey, All Music Guide

This is the cool soundtrack for the motha*^$3 bad-ass movie Bullitt.

Take it or leave it.

BEST DRIVING SEQUENCE EVAH.

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The Million Dollar Orchestra - Better Days ( 2008 )

" Like BBE labelmate and former Torontonian Robert Strauss, Glasgow’s Al Kent has a fantastic feel for the warmth and richness of disco. Clearly influenced by string-laden recordings from mid-’70s New York, the producer once worked with loops and samples, but now leads The Million Dollar Orchestra through one of the most magical modern takes on disco these ears have heard. Joyful from start to finish. " eyeweekly.com

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