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Track Listing:
1. Take the A Train
2. The Sicks of Us
3. Slowly
4. Lean on Me
5. Cherokee
6. Me and Some Drums

1. Simple Song
2. Order
3. Tuesday
4. 92
5. McCarthy
6. (Ben)
7. Monroe Park
8. Armchair

Side B:

9. Fix
10. Blue Ridge
11. Swing Low
12. F.C.A
13. Hang
14. Governor
15. Nameless

Side C:

16. South Bound 95 (Live)
17. Stride (Live)
18. Order (Live)
19. Tuning (Live)
20. Fix (Live)
21. F.C.A (Live)
22. Pinned Up (Live)
23. Nickel Bridge (Live)

Side D:

24. Simple Song (Live)
25. Clone (Live)
26. Nameless (Live)
27. Scuffle Town (Live)
28. Blue Ridge (Live)
29. Virus (Live)
30. Model (Live)

…As much as I'd love to relay all kinds of anecdotes about the challenges Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray encounter during the mastering sessions, I witness none. These boys know the sound of the facility and the Van Gelder masters like the backs of their hands…Back home a month later, I unpack some test pressings Chad Kassem has sent me…I hear the most realistic-sounding drums ever reproduced by my system. It's as though I'm sitting at the point of creation, experiencing the same high that brought such gifted musicians together as one. Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray, Chad Kassem, and Don MacInnis have done Rudy Van Gelder and his Blue Note artists proud. – Jason Victor Serinus, Stereophile, April 2008

Since his days with the Bud Powell Trio, drummer Art Taylor was an invaluable member of the Blue Note recording family. A.T.'s Delight is the only album made under his own name for the label and it is a remarkable one. Choosing great compositions by Coltrane, Monk, Denzil Best and Kenny Dorham, Taylor assembled a great quintet fronted by Dave Burns and Stanley Turrentine, often adding Patato's congas to the proceedings. The unique and varied arrangements and great playing pay tribute to the drummer's exceptional song selection.

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Track Listing:
Syeeda's Song Flute
Epistrophy
Move
High Seas
Cookoo and Fungi
Blue Interlude

New 180g 45RPM Audiophile Vinyl from ORG!

ORG is proud to present the ORG Ultimate Edition, a brand new series of great LP titles from the Impulse, Verve jazz and Chess blues catalogues. Cut at 45RPM by Bernie Grundman on his newly upgraded mastering system and tube powered lathe, these LPs will be plated and pressed by Pallas in Germany and sleeved in deluxe heavy duty gatefold jackets printed in Europe. They represent the very finest examples of the vinyl LP format available today.

Bernie Grundman Mastering recently upgraded his LP mastering and cutting system prior to starting work on the ORG LP reissues. These upgrades, together with the plating and pressing from Pallas Germany, will give the ORG LPs a sound never experienced before.

Bernie Grundman's Updated Mastering System:
• New customized dual mono power supplies
• New tape pre-amplifier: an upgraded hybrid design with single-ended in-out that is specifically triode on the input for the gain and EQ and feeds into a discreet solid state circuit that drives the output
• Brand new tape heads for the Studer playback tape machine including a complete hardwire with Cardas cables
• The power supplies on tube cutter amps have been updated and rewired with Cardas cable on the head leads and feedback
• The Studer in Bernie's cutting room is essentially transport only i.e. it is used for the superb stability of its mechanical parts. All the electronics (from the tape heads through to the cutting head on the lathe) have now been totally customized and hard-wired point to point
• The tube cutting amps used for the ORG LP reissues have just been re-tubed with ex-US military grade tubes from Sylvania

Original music to the score of the film classic Alfie, penned by legendary tenor player and, in this case, composer Sonny Rollins. The album, arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson features Rollins and an all-star cast, including notable sidemen such as Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Cleveland, J.J. Johnson and Roger Kellaway.

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Track Listing:
1. Alfie's Theme
2. He's Younger Than You Are
3. Street Runner With Child
4. Little Malcolm Loves His Dad
5. On Impulse
6. Alfie's Theme Differently

The band had developed a better understanding of writing and playing since Skapocalypse Now! The songs were cohesive, catchy and great to skank to. Some tracks were released on compilations and quickly became hits in the still underground Ska scene. After the unfortunate demise of Moon Ska Records, this CD was re-released on Hopeless Records in May of 2001, and now finally available on vinyl for the first time by Asbestos Records.

Track Listing:

Side A:

1 Skank By Numbers
2 Too Stoopid
3 Schoolboy
4 Mr. Smiley
5 Ball Park Skank
6 Thigh High Nylons

Side B:

7 Dysfunktional
8 Alone
9 Summertime
10 Murder in Tulip City
11 Gum
12 I Made Love to a Martian

7" Side A:

13 Brain on Ska
14 Insomnia

7" Side B:

15 Average Guy
16 Grow Up

COVERS
5. Rise Above
6. Deny Everything
7. Hateful
8. I Don’t Wanna Hear it
9. Macho Insecurities

DEMO
10. Showoff
11. Sweet Shop Syndicate
12. Never Met the Gooch
13. Fuckuturn
14. Scarysmurf
15. The Ronald Miller Story

UNRELEASED
16. Bookworm
17. The Unheard Chorus
18. 32 Frames
19. Wristrocket
20. News @ 11
21. Death and Taxes
22. S.O.S.

LIVE RADIO SHOW
23. Heart a Tact
24. Handy with the Tounge Sword
25. KO5-O564
26. Never Met the Gooch
27. The Penske File
28. Ph. Decontrol
29. Deny Everything

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Track Listing:
1. Dear John C.
2. Ballade
3. Love Bird
4. Everything Happens to Me
5. Smoke Rings
6. This Love of Mine
7. Anthropology
8. Feeling Good
9. Fantazm
10. That Five-Four Bang

For the first time, Ray enlisted a producer for her solo work. Greg Griffith (The Butchies, Le Tigre, Loudspeaker, Vitapup), a fearless listener and multi-talented musician, worked with Ray to incorporate a variety of sounds and influences to create her unique and evolving voice throughout the album. Guests include former Butchies and longtime Ray collaborators Kaia Wilson and Melissa York, guitarist Tomi Martin (Three5Human, Madonna, TLC), Brandi Carlile on backing vocals and special guests, Arizona.

Didn't It Feel Kinder is a thoughtful, political album and a call to reason by an artist who's intertwined activism and social consciousness into her music and remained fresh and relevent over a career spanning two decades.

Track Listing:
1. Birds of a Feather
2. She's Got To Be
3. Bus Bus
4. Cold Shoulder
5. Who Sold The Gun
6. Out On The Farm
7. SLC Radio
8. Blame Is A Killer
9. Stand and Deliver
10. Rabbit Foot

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Track Listing:
1. In a Sentimental Mood
2. Take the Coltrane
3. Big Nick
4. Stevie
5. My Little Brown Book
6. Angelica
7. The Feeling of Jazz

For years Duke Ellington and tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins promised each other that they would one day find a way to collaborate on an album. Finally, in 1962, they recorded at the famed Rudy Van Gelder Studios in New Jersey, with a small personnel from the Ellington band. The event was marked by the combination of the guest tenor's distinctive and expansive tones, the rich ensemble sound, and of course, the extraordinary Ellington compositions. Duke Ellington covered the piano and brought with him Aaron Bell, brass; Lawrence Brown, trombone; Sam Woodyard, drums; and Ray Nance, cornet and violin. What became obvious almost immediately was the interplay of Hawkin's tenor and Harry Carney on alto saxophone and the alto voicing of Johnny Hodges. Highlights include the infectious calypso-like opening of Limbo Jazz that moves from solos by Hodges, Ray Nance and Lawrence Brown to a solo by Coleman Hawkins. Ellington's classic Mood Indigo is the perfect vehicle for Hawkins with his rich, resonant phrasing. Wanderlust, which was first recorded in 1938, is revived here with Lawrence Brown and Ray Nance contributing to the blues mood of the piece. Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins features two legendary masters of jazz in a meeting that remains as masterful and thrilling as it did when it first took place in 1962.

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Track Listing:
1. Limbo Jazz
2. Mood Indigo
3. Ray Charles' Place
4. Wanderlust
5. You Dirty Dog
6. Self Portrait (Of the Bean)
7. The Jeep Is Jumpin'
8. The Ricitic

…As much as I'd love to relay all kinds of anecdotes about the challenges Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray encounter during the mastering sessions, I witness none. These boys know the sound of the facility and the Van Gelder masters like the backs of their hands…Back home a month later, I unpack some test pressings Chad Kassem has sent me…I hear the most realistic-sounding drums ever reproduced by my system. It's as though I'm sitting at the point of creation, experiencing the same high that brought such gifted musicians together as one. Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray, Chad Kassem, and Don MacInnis have done Rudy Van Gelder and his Blue Note artists proud. – Jason Victor Serinus, Stereophile, April 2008

Dexter Gordon considered this his finest album, and few would disagree. With the perfect rhythm section of Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins, this tenor giant reinvents standards like Three O'clock In The Morning, Second Balcony Jump and Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry and introduces his most famous composition, Cheese Cake.

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Track Listing:
Cheese Cake
I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
Second Balcony Jump
Love for Sale
Where Are You?
Three O'Clock in the Morning

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Track Listing:
1. Inception
2. There Is No Greater Love
3. Blues for Gwen
4. Sunset
5. Effendi
6. Speak Low

…As much as I'd love to relay all kinds of anecdotes about the challenges Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray encounter during the mastering sessions, I witness none. These boys know the sound of the facility and the Van Gelder masters like the backs of their hands…Back home a month later, I unpack some test pressings Chad Kassem has sent me…I hear the most realistic-sounding drums ever reproduced by my system. It's as though I'm sitting at the point of creation, experiencing the same high that brought such gifted musicians together as one. Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray, Chad Kassem, and Don MacInnis have done Rudy Van Gelder and his Blue Note artists proud. – Jason Victor Serinus, Stereophile, April 2008

Two weeks after Ike Quebec recorded his comeback album Heavy Soul for Blue Note, he was back at the Van Gelder Studio with the same band (Freddie Roach, Milt Hinton and Al Harewood), making a second album. The confidence paid off because It Might As Well Be Spring is every bit the classic the first album proved to be. Quebec's big-toned, vulnerable tenor playing is a thing to behold, as his heart-stopping version of the title tune, Lover Man and Willow Weep For Me attest. Easy – Don't Hurt is one of his blues masterpieces.

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Track Listing:
It Might as Well Be Spring
A Light Reprieve
Easy - Don't Hurt
Lover Man
Ol' Man River
Willow Weep for Me

New 180g 45RPM Audiophile Vinyl from ORG!

ORG is proud to present the ORG Ultimate Edition, a brand new series of great LP titles from the Impulse, Verve jazz and Chess blues catalogues. Cut at 45RPM by Bernie Grundman on his newly upgraded mastering system and tube powered lathe, these LPs will be plated and pressed by Pallas in Germany and sleeved in deluxe heavy duty gatefold jackets printed in Europe. They represent the very finest examples of the vinyl LP format available today.

Bernie Grundman Mastering recently upgraded his LP mastering and cutting system prior to starting work on the ORG LP reissues. These upgrades, together with the plating and pressing from Pallas Germany, will give the ORG LPs a sound never experienced before.

Bernie Grundman's Updated Mastering System:
• New customized dual mono power supplies
• New tape pre-amplifier: an upgraded hybrid design with single-ended in-out that is specifically triode on the input for the gain and EQ and feeds into a discreet solid state circuit that drives the output
• Brand new tape heads for the Studer playback tape machine including a complete hardwire with Cardas cables
• The power supplies on tube cutter amps have been updated and rewired with Cardas cable on the head leads and feedback
• The Studer in Bernie's cutting room is essentially transport only i.e. it is used for the superb stability of its mechanical parts. All the electronics (from the tape heads through to the cutting head on the lathe) have now been totally customized and hard-wired point to point
• The tube cutting amps used for the ORG LP reissues have just been re-tubed with ex-US military grade tubes from Sylvania

The perfect blend of passionate tenor saxophone and sensual baritone vocals, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman is one of the most romantic albums ever recorded. Both legends in their own right, John Coltrane as one of the most ingenious and inventive tenor saxophonists and Johnny Hartman the ultimate balladeer, their synergy on this 1963 recording resulted in a masterpiece that far surpassed the popularity of any of their individual recordings.

Musicians:
John Coltrane (tenor sax)
Johnny Hartman (vocals)
McCoy Tyner (piano)
Jimmy Garrison (bass)
Elvin Jones (drums)

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Track Listing:
1. They Say It's Wonderful
2. Dedicated to You
3. My One and Only Love
4. Lush Life
5. You Are Too Beautiful
6. Autumn Serenade

This classic live album showcases Joe Cocker in his absolute prime, his vocal performance driven by probably the hottest and most powerful band he ever had. Recorded at the Fillmore East during the first week on the road, Mad Dogs & Englishmen captures all the excitement and exhilaration of a tour that has gone down in history. Over thirty-five years later, it remains an extraordinary record, one that defines the spirit of a generation in much the same way as Woodstock and The Last Waltz. Reissued here on 180g Double LP!

Track Listing:
1. Introduction
2. Honky Tonk Woman
3. Introduction
4. Sticks and Stones
5. Cry Me a River
6. Bird on a Wire
7. Feelin' Alright
8. Superstar
9. Introduction
10. Let's Go Get Stoned
11. Blue Medley: I'll Drown in My Own Tears/When Something Is Wrong
12. Introduction
13. Girl from the North Country
14. Give Peace a Chance
15. Introduction
16. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
17. Space Captain
18. The Letter
19. Delta Lady

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This is a beautiful collaboration between two brilliant guitarists that recalls the sound of late '50's/early '60's pop instrumentals with a Cuban jazz influence. Many of the ballads evoke the feel of classic slow surf-guitar instrumentals. The recording expertly captures the electric guitar sound cleanly and with great detail.

Ry Cooder is best-known these days for his monumental Buena Vista Social Club project but should also be remembered for his fabulous emotive soundtracks and his series of eclectic albums ranging from country to blues to Hawaiian music. This new album re-introduces the pianist, organist, and guitarist extraordinaire, Manuel Galbán. In the 1950's, he pioneered a tough, rocking guitar style full of reverb and bent notes that is considered by Cuban musicians to be unique in their music. More than the American pop-jazz of the time, this collaboration hearkens back to the futuristic creations of modern Cuban composers of the period.

Says Cooder, ''Galbán and I felt that there was a sound that had not been explored a Cuban electric-guitar band that could re-interpret the atmosphere of the 1950s with beauty, agility, and simplicity. We decided on two electrics, two drum sets, congas and bass: a sexteto that could swing like a big band and penetrate the mysteries of the classic tunes. This music is powerful, lyrical, and funny; what more could you ask? Mambo Sinuendo is Cuban soul and high-performance.''

For the album, Cooder has enlisted the bassist for all the Buena Vista Social Club sessions, Orlando Cachaíto López. The percussionists include longtime collaborator Jim Keltner; Cooder's son, Joachim Cooder, another Buena Vista veteran; and the conga master Miguel Angá Díaz.

Now on domestic vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve!

Track Listing:
1. Dru me Negrita
2. Monte a Dentro
3. Los Twangueros
4. Patricia
5. Caballo Viejo
6. Mambo Sinuendo
7. Bodas de oro
8. Echale salsita
9. La luna en tu Mirada
10. Secret Love
11. Boleros sonambulo 12. Maria lao

…As much as I'd love to relay all kinds of anecdotes about the challenges Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray encounter during the mastering sessions, I witness none. These boys know the sound of the facility and the Van Gelder masters like the backs of their hands…Back home a month later, I unpack some test pressings Chad Kassem has sent me…I hear the most realistic-sounding drums ever reproduced by my system. It's as though I'm sitting at the point of creation, experiencing the same high that brought such gifted musicians together as one. Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray, Chad Kassem, and Don MacInnis have done Rudy Van Gelder and his Blue Note artists proud. – Jason Victor Serinus, Stereophile, April 2008

Art Blakey's most successful album gave us Bobby Timmons' Moanin' and Benny Golson's Along Came Betty and Blues March, tunes so powerful that Blakey played them almost every night for the next 30 years. This beautifully performed and recorded session made the Jazz Messengers a jazz institution and put Golson, Timmons and Morgan to the forefront of jazz.

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Track Listing:
Moanin'
Are You Real
Along Came Betty
The Drum Thunder (Minature) Suite
Blues March
Come Rain or Come Shine

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Track Listing:
1. Satin Doll
2. We'll Be Together Again
3. 'Round Midnight
4. For Heaven's Sake
5. Star Eyes
6. Blue Monk
7. Groove Waltz
8. Days Of Wine And Roses

1. Nutbush City Limits
2. Travelin' Man
3. Beautiful Loser
4. Jody Girl
5. I've Been Working
6. Turn the Page
7. U.M.C. (Upper Middle Class)
8. Bo Diddley
9. Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
10. Heavy Music
11. Katmandu
12. Lookin' Back
13. Get Out of Denver
14. Let It Rock

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Track Listing:
1. Salt And Pepper
2. S'posin'
3. Theme From Lord Of The Flies
4. Perdido
5. Star Dust
6. Surfin'
7. Lester Leaps In
8. Estralita
9. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
10. Touchy
11. Never....Sh!
12. My Mother's Eyes
13. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else Track Listing

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Track Listing:
1. Autumn Leaves
2. Love For Sale
3. Somethin' Else
4. One For Daddy-O
5. Dancing In the Dark

…As much as I'd love to relay all kinds of anecdotes about the challenges Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray encounter during the mastering sessions, I witness none. These boys know the sound of the facility and the Van Gelder masters like the backs of their hands…Back home a month later, I unpack some test pressings Chad Kassem has sent me…I hear the most realistic-sounding drums ever reproduced by my system. It's as though I'm sitting at the point of creation, experiencing the same high that brought such gifted musicians together as one. Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray, Chad Kassem, and Don MacInnis have done Rudy Van Gelder and his Blue Note artists proud. – Jason Victor Serinus, Stereophile, April 2008

One of the best known record dates in the history of modern jazz, the chemistry among Adderley, Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Sam Jones and Art Blakey is amazing. Their reworkings of Autumn Leaves and Love For Sale are masterpieces. Miles' title tune and Nat Adderley's One For Daddy-O are classics.

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Track Listing:
Autumn Leaves
Love For Sale
Somethin' Else
One For Daddy-O
Dancing In the Dark

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Track Listing:
1. Caravan
2. Bob's Place
3. Happy Times
4. Summertime
5. The 7th Day

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Track Listing:
1. Chim Chim Cheree
2. Brazilia
3. Nature Boy
4. Song of Praise

The first movement is defined by crunchy, danceable house beats that provide a sonic bedrock for the lush bubblegum harmonies that Armour never lets us down with. Tight basslines merge with drum machines and are colored with cloudy synthesizer passages and crystal-clear guitar lines to perfectly compliment the vocal melodies. Fall Apart Again is reminiscent of a West Coast version of Hot Chip, even breezier and sunnier with less irony and more hooks. Trembling, On the Verge adds to the formula by going back even further and ending up sounding like Hall & Oats with access to today’s equipment.

The second movement finds Armour in a more reflective state-of-mind with gritty electronics swapped for warm Wurlitzer tones, shimmering Southern California guitars and a subtle yet effective alt-country slant that provides a stunning contrast to the record’s first half. As Bright as the Stars is a little bit folk and the poppy hook is unavoidable. Also included here is the Prince of Wands, a carryover from Armour’s 7-inch which has been a DJ staple in New York for almost a year now. And, finally, The Light Of A Golden Day, The Arms Of The Night concludes with The Mystery, It Never Lasts, a finely crafted acoustic closer that finds the singer repeatedly calling out for Los Angeles in beautiful, angelic harmonies remeniscient of the late Elliott Smith.

Great lyrics, tight arrangements and lush instrumentation allow Armour to play with genre expectations on his own terms here, creating a blended concoction that feels like an old friend has come to visit and the bond is new again.

Track Listing:
1. Not An(other) Unlove Song
2. Fall Apart Again
3. Towards The Light
4. Trembling On The Verge
5. Flushed And Flamelike Themselves
6. Something Sweet
7. The Whole World
8. As Bright As The Stars
9. Prince Of Wands
10. The Mystery, It Never Lasts

The British one hit wonder who in the mid '60s topped the charts with the classic You Were On My Mind and then 1966's Pied Piper, which became a global smash hit and is still remembered as one of the defining songs of an era. Many had Crispian St. Peters pegged to become the new Tom Jones, but after just a few hits he completely dropped off the radar. Besides these two songs, he is also remembered for some comments he made about being better than the Beatles, claiming at one point to have written dozens of songs, all better than anything McCartney or Lennon had ever written. An incredible retrospective on a superior quality double 180g Import LP set.

Track Listing:
1. The Pied Piper
2. But She's Untrue
3. Goodbye to You
4. Willingly
5. At This Moment
6. That's the Way I Feel
7. You Were on My Mind
8. Your Love Has Gone
9. Jilly Honey
10. So Long
11. My Little Brown Eyes
12. It's a Funny Feeling
13. Your Ever Changin' Mind
14. Changes
15. No No No
16. Free Spirits
17. Sweet Dawn My True Love

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Track Listing:
1. My Ship
2. More I See You, The
3. These Foolish Things
4. Waltz For Debbie
5. It Never Entered My Mind
6. The Day the World Stopped Turning, The
7. A Slow Hot Wind
8. Funny World
9. Joey, Joey, Joey
10. Let Me Love You
11. Sunrise, Sunset

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Track Listing:
1. Go Li'l Liza
2. Quintessence
3. Don't Love Me
4. Love Song From 'Apache'
5. Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
6. Swingin' Scotch
7. Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree

1. Voyage Part 1 (19:45)

Side B

1. Voyage Part 2 (16:00)