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Strut return to the rich archives of Black Fire Records for the Drum Message album by Ghanaian master percussionist Okyerema Asante from 1977.
After playing a short spell early in his career with Ebo Taylor’s Blue…

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Brage Rognlien (trombone) needed a band to perform rythmic music at The Villa, a nightclub in Oslo. Brage and mate Martin Caspersen (organ) called old friends and managed to form a band with Oslo´s finest ska/reggae…

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Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali aka Muhammad X aka The People's Champion aka The Louisville Lip. Without any doubt the greatest boxer of all time.
I Am the Greatest is a comedy album by boxer Cassius Clay, released in…

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Compiled on this LP are rare gems produced between 1959 and 1962 by Jamaican jazz heavyweights such as Tommy McCook, Don Drummond, Ernest Rangling, Lennie Hibbert, Cecil Lloyd and others. This is highly swinging music…

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Hugh Masakela, live at The Record Plant on 24th February 1974. This legendary South African-born trumpeter became a major star when he appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, and he had a smash hit with…

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Jah Jazz Orchestra is an ensemble of jazzmen active on the Swiss, French and European scene that goes back to the roots of Ska – initially, and in extreme summary, a Jamaican take on American jazz and…

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'Nina Simone At Town Hall' is a 1959 live album by Nina Simone. It was recorded live at the Town Hall, New York, on 15 september 1959. This reissue features two bonus tracks: 'Vaynikehu' and 'Sinnerman', recorded live…

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‘Buena Vista Social Club’ is both the name given to this extraordinary group of musicians and the album, recorded in just seven days in 1996 in Havana’s 1950s vintage EGREM studios. It was clear from the…

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UK import!
Owen Gray was the island’s first home grown star to sing in a style that wasn’t mento, calypso or jazz.
This is a 180 gram vinyl reissue of his 1961 album. This was the first Jamaican album to be…

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"Live in Gouvy" was recorded in the summer of 2015 at "Ferme de la Madelonne" a historic jazz club in the countryside of Belgium. This record documents the incredible energy at a NYSJE concert. The fans in Gouvy love…

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By far one of the most outrageous performers of the early years of rock, prone to emerging from coffins on stage, with a flaming skull named Henry as his constant companion, Screamin' Jay was an insanely theatrical…

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Etta James was once considered one of the most overlooked blues and R&B musicians in the music history of the United States. It was not until the early 1990s, when she began receiving major industry awards from the…