HUMAN LEAGUE Fascination - Shrink (1983 UK 12" vinyl single, featuring the Extended and Improvisation mixes, glossy picture sleeve. The sleeve, still in it's original open shrink, shows minimal wear and the vinyl shows little evidence of play!VS569-12) more...
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GABOR SZABO Rambler (1974 UK 6-track vinyl LP, laminated gatefold picture sleeve. Classic mid'70s Bob James produced set that includes plenty of Szabo's trademark gypsy jazz style improvisation over some rock solid rhythms throughout. The sleeve shows very little wear and the vinyl is Excellent with minimal play only CTH1001) more...
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LEROY JENKINS featuring MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS Lifelong Ambitions (1981 Italian 6-track LP - Free Improvisation recorded live as a duo at Washington Square Church in '77, picture sleeve. The cover shows very little sign of wear & the vinyl appears near mint BSR0033) more...
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TIM BUCKLEY Lorca (Limited Edition 2006 US 5-track LP pressed on 180gram Virgin Vinyl, the fifth studio album from the legendary folk-singer, originally released on Elektra in 1970, a stunning selection highlighting Buckley's unique fusion of folk & jazz improvisation, housed in a deluxe picture sleeve with company card inner 4M146) more...
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TARJA TURUNEN & HARUS In Concert Live At Sibelius Hall (2011 German 12-track CD, featuring a live concert recording with a festive feeling, including the bonus recording Improvisation: Variations Sur Un Noël; digipak picture sleeve & still factory sealed) more...
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MANITAS DE PLATA Flamenco!! (1968 UK 10-track vinyl LP, southern Spanish music with sounds from Andalucia, Malaga, Grenade and improvisation on a Moorish theme, picture sleeve with notes on the reverse. The sleeve shows light shelfwear and thevinyl is Excellent with light signs of play) more...
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KEITH TIPPETT & ANDY SHEPPARD 66 Shades Of Lipstick (1990 German 16-track LP of spontaneous improvisation, picture sleeve. Apart from a small split to the centre of the spine, the sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear & the vinyl is flawless) more...
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MERZBOW / MATS GUSTAFSSON / BALAZS PANDI Cuts Open (Limiited edition 2022 UK 4-track double LP, with gatefold picture sleeve and pressed on Purple Vinyl. Another collaborative album of noise rock and free jazz improvisation. This copy remains sealed from new and is in mint, unplayed condition) more...
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HUMAN LEAGUE Fascination! (2022 UK limited edition 6-track 12" mini-LP pressed on BLUE VINYL, released as part of the 'HMV 1921 2021 100th Anniversary' series, originally released in 1983, including the Extended and Improvisation Versions of the title track plus Mirror Man, Hard Times, I Love You Too Much, You Remind Me Of Gold, picture sleeve with 'No. 64' series obi-style insert. This copy remains factory sealed) more...
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DEEP PURPLE All I Got Is You (Sealed 2017 UK/EU limited edition 5-track CD EP featuring the Album Version, also including Simple Folk (An Solo Guitar Improvisation By Steve Morse), Above And Beyond (Previously Unreleased Instrumental Version), Time For Bedlam (First Take From The Album Recordings) and Highway Star (Previously Unreleased Live Version). Housed in a digipak picture sleeve which remains factory sealed from new) more...
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KIERAN HEBDEN & STEVE REID The Sun Never Sets - Remixes (2007 UK limited edition 2-track 12" vinyl single taken from their collaborative album 'Tongues' and includes the Album Version plus UK-based producer James Holden [who has gained substantial fame for his tireless remixing and his instantly recognizable ethereal progressive house style with a very apparent attention to detail] delivers a great remix that will add even more explosive rhythms to the already spontaneous & concentrated style of improvisation! Matte picture sleeve with spot-laquered 'splashes'!) more...
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FRANK ZAPPA Rollo (2017 UK limited edition 2-track 10" single pressed on Clear Vinyl released exclusively for Record Store Day featuring The Petit Wazoo, a 10-piece band heavy on horn instrumentation that Zappa toured with in late 1972, including 'Rollo' in it's complete 3-part form [9:06] plus the unreleased recording 'Portland Improvisation', housed in the gold-embossed numbered & sealed picture sleeve BPR1230) more...
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DAVID SYLVIAN Playing The Schoolhouse (October 2015 UK limited edition black CD-R EP length composition by David Sylvian recorded in March 2015 in Norway. Based on an improvisation by Jan Bang and Sylvian, it also features contributions from Otomo Yoshihide and Toshimaru Nakamura; housed in a 5¼" x 7½" hinged metal tin with a circular sticker on front, with a transparent PET inlay, bonus postcard and in transparent PVC jacket. Apart from a couple of small indentations to the tin, th more...
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HUMAN LEAGUE Fascination! (1983 US A&M label 6-track 12" vinyl mini-album, including the Extended and Improvisation Versions of the title track plus Mirror Man, Hard Times, I Love You Too Much, You Remind Me Of Gold. The grey picture sleeve with yellow 'League' titling has a small deletion notch-cut to the top edge but retains its opened hype-stickered shrinkwrap and the vinyl looks barely played! SP-12501) more...
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NUBIYAN TWIST Jungle Run (2019 UK & European limited edition 10-track double vinyl LP, the second studio album from the twelve-piece British outfit who fuse groove-driven music from around the world with soundsystem culture and jazz-inspired improvisation, including the single Tell It To Me Slowly. Both vinyl discs are UNPLAYED housed in the picture sleeve which remains sealed within its original shrinkwrap STRUT198LP) more...
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LENNIE TRISTANO Lennie Tristano (Circa 1962 US issue of the 1955 9-track mono LP on the plum & red Atlantic label with black fan logo to the right, from one of the first jazz pianists to explore atonal improvisation. Includes the multi-tracked 'Turkish Mambo', experimental for its time with early Rudy Van Gelder tape trickery, housed in a heavyweight pasted laminate picture sleeve. The sleeve [VG-] has a horizontal hairline score mark in the middle not spoiling the artwork & a pin-hol more...
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DJANGO REINHARDT Djangologie 13 - 1942-43 (70s French 14-track LP compilation in the award-winning series on the French Pathé label, including the jaw-dropping Improvisation No. 3 - Parts 1 & 2, picture sleeve with recording notes. Despite a thin 1" hairline split in the top edge, the picture sleeve is otherwise Excellent & the vinyl looks barely played. Long live Django! 2C054-16013) more...
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NADJA / TROUM Dominium Visurgis (2010 German strictly limited edition 3-track LP pressed on 180gram Hazy White & Black Vinyl - This album finds Aidan Baker, Leah Buckareff & co in collaboration with Germany's Troum, recorded as a resultof a spontaneous improvisation in April 2008 at Ghutô-M Studios near Weser-river in Bremen, Germany. Housed in the picture sleeve with its printed card inner, the beautiful vinyl looks barely played DEN59)
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PAUL DESMOND From The Hot Afternoon (Limited Edition 2005 Japanese 16-track 24bit remastered CD, first released on vinyl in 1970, a fantastic blend of Brazilian song & jazz improvisation recorded by Rudy Van Gelder & starring Ron Carter, Airo Moreira, Edu Lobo & more. Includes six previously unreleased alternate takes & comes housed in a mini-LP gatefold picture sleeve with Japanese insert & obi-strip UCCM-9223) more...
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MILES DAVIS Kind Of Blue (2014 UK & European limited edition 'Music On Vinyl' series remastered stereo issue of his legendary 1959 5-track LP pressed on 180gram Heavyweight Vinyl. The barcoded glossy picture sleeve has Bill Evans' 'Improvisation In Jazz' sleevenotes printed on the reverse and shows just minimal evidence of shelfwear while the vinyl remains in excellent condition with only light signs of play MOVLP1131)
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GONG Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1) (2019 issue UK 6-track CD album, Newly remastered original BYG recordings - An avant garde collection of sound effects, jazzy improvisation and comic vocals, all displaying the group's sense of humour and wacky approach to their music. Presented in a stickered digipak picture sleeve. This item is sealed and is therefore Mint CHARLYP305) more...
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LED ZEPPELIN Live At L'Olympia Paris October 10th 1969 (2021 UK/EU limited edition 8-track vinyl 2-LP double album, documenting their second of three live appearances in Paris during 1969 and subsequently broadcast on FM radio. Featuring one of the heaviest versions of You Shook Me and a long improvisation section on How Many More Times. Picture sleeve factory sealed from new, limited to just 500 copies) more...
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ALAN DAVIE Phantom In The Room (Rare 1971 private press vinyl LP, fully laminated picture sleeve. Wonderful free/avant/improvisation jazz long player from the acclaimed painter/artist and musician featuring two side length pieces utilising piano, clarinet and Daniel Humair on percussion. The sleeve shows a little ringwear/small laminate crease and the vinyl grades Excellent with very little evidence of play ADMW004) more...
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ORNETTE COLEMAN DOUBLE QUARTET Free Jazz (70s US stereo issue of the 1961 LP on a green & orange Atlantic label, a milestone in spontaneous group improvisation [still controversial among jazz fans!] using two separate quartets panned side of the spectrum. Musicians include Donald Cherry, Scott LaFaro & Billy Higgins on the left channel & Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Charlie Haden & Ed Blackwell on the right, housed in a non-die-cut gatefold sleeve with Jackson Pollock artwork inside. more...
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DON ELLIS New Ideas (Rare 1961 UK first press 8-track mono LP on Esquire, wih flat edge & 'RVG' stamped in the run-out - Wonderful forward-thinking Jazz! Features outstanding experiments with time, chord structure & early free improvisation, expertly recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at his Englewood Cliffs studio, starring Jaki Byard [piano], Al Francis [vibes], Ron Carter [bass] & Charlie Persip [drums]. Comes housed in a unique front laminated flipback sleeve with modern artwork courtesy more...
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STAN GETZ And The Oscar Peterson Trio (1961 UK Verve label 7-track panoramic high fidelity LP issue of the 1958 original, in the Clef Series. As Nat Hentoff explains in the notes, this record is almost 'a private seminar in advanced butdirect improvisation'! Both these giants are backed by the equally formidable Ray Brown on bass and guitarist Herb Ellis. Front laminated and pasted picture sleeve with Specially Imported by EMI sticker intact. Recommended MGV-8251) more...
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KING PLEASURE The Source (1972 UK 21-track mono double vinyl LP, featuring Blossom Dearie, Paul Chambers, Percy Heath, Quincy Jones & many more. King Pleasure was the first to popularise the concept of applying original lyrics to well-known lines of jazz improvisation & the results are exceptional. The laminated gatefold sleeve is excellent & the vinyl reveals only light signs of play) more...
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EVAN PARKER Saxophone Solos (Hard to find 1976 UK 4-track LP on Incus Records, a British label specialising in free improvisation founded by Evan with Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley & Michael Walters. The LP features a set of four improvisations on soprano saxophone [something of a European answer to Anthony Braxton's marvellous For Alto solo outing from '69?] recorded by Martin Davidson at the Unity Theatre, London on 17th of June 1975, as part of a Musician's Co-operative concert. The pic more...
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ORNETTE COLEMAN DOUBLE QUARTET Free Jazz (US exclusive limited edition LP pressed on HIGH DEFINITION PREMIUM 180gram VIRGIN VINYL, originally released in 1960. 'Free Jazz' is a milestone in spontaneous group improvisation using two separate quartets panned to each side of the stereo spectrum [left channel: alto sax, pocket trumpet, bass, drums; right channel: bass clarinet, trumpet, bass, drums] that caused a great deal of controversy at the time - could this really be j more...
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MILES DAVIS Kind Of Blue (Mid-1980s Japanese issue of the classic 1959 5-track stereo vinyl LP in the 'Miles Greatest Collection 25' digitally remastered series, housed in its pasted picture sleeve replicating Bill Evans' notes on improvisation on the reverse plus Japanese/discography inner and top obi-strip. This copy retains its original open shrinkwrap with 'Seal Of Approval' shaped sticker intact 23AP2556)
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