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Michel Legrand

La Piscine OST + Un Homme Est Mort

Michel Legrand's cult soundtrack for ''La Piscine'' (1969) including the super rare 7'' for ''Un Homme Est Mort'' (1972). more...

• 01 La Piscine (Theme Principal)
• 02 Piege A Reflets
• 03 Dans La Soiree
• 04 Une Enquete

Various Artists

Tokyo Dreaming

A Major 2 LP exploration of Tokyo's cutting edge '80s sound through the music of Japanese cult label Nippon Columbia and its Better Days imprint, sele... more...

• 01 Ryuichi Sakamoto - The End Of Asia
• 02 Mariah - Shinzo No Tobira
• 03 Chika Asamoto - Self Control
• 04 Jun Fukamachi - Treasure Hunter

Kofi the Unknown

The Late Bloomer

Honing your skills is under-appreciated in times of instant gratification and the continuous stream of music. Rotterdam-based producer Kofi The Unknow... more...

• 1 embrace mistakes
• 2 waves
• 3 lockdown shuffle
• 4 the late bloomer

Bjorn Eriksson

The Easywood Killer

While working on a filmmusic job, Bjorn Eriksson started to fool around with a philharmonic orchestra plugin, and created his own crazy jazz combo. Th... more...

• 01 Fox Chase Horse Test Ride
• 02 Near Death Experience On A Nice Spring Day
• 03 A Lucid Dream Workshop
• 04 Lost Weekend In Paris

Sisonke Xonti

Ugaba The Migration

Highly anticipated sophomore release from saxophonist and composer Sisonke Xonti, winner of South Africa's 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for J... more...

• 1 The migration suite part 1
• 2 The migration suite part 2
• 3 The migration suite part 3
• 4 The migration suite part 4

Other Lands

Sounds For Isolated Souls

Recommended by: Staff Pick Of The Week

Other Lands proudly presents the first release on his own label: Circles And Phases. Having put out music under a number of names in years gone by on... more...

• 01 Head Soothe
• 02 Mu-D
• 03 See Sharp
• 04 Pine Barrens

Awkward Corners

Amateur Dramatics

Amateur Dramatics is Awkward Corners AKA Chris Menist's second LP in the space of a year. In 2020 – a time when the global pandemic gave artists more... more...

• 01 Paragraph One (After the Rain)
• 02 Marshland Lullaby (feat Kitty Whitelaw)
• 03 Partial Recall
• 04 No Words (feat Tamar Osborn)

We Jazz Magazine

World Galaxy

This is the first issue of the new We Jazz Magazine, 128 pages, 174 x 250 mm in size and printed on 140g Edixion paper with laminated 300g Invercote c... more...

Jorge Navarro

Navarro con Polenta

It's safe to say that starting a jazz album with a version of Led Zeppelin's ''Black Dog'' was quite a daring deed, to say the least. In Argentina — b... more...

• 01 Black Dog
• 02 Vamos Quedando Pocos
• 03 Lucky Southern
• 04 Repartamos El Funky

Hiroshi Suzuki

Cat

We Release Jazz is ecstatic (purrrr!) to announce the official reissue of Hiroshi Suzuki’s glorious jazz-fusion-funk Holy Grail Cat (originally releas... more...

• 1 Shrimp Dance
• 2 Kuro To Shiro
• 3 Walk Tall
• 4 Cat

Kems Kriol

Equanimity EP

Nous'klaer warmly welcomes fellow Rotterdammer Kems Kriol for his debut: Equanimity EP. Consisting of three beautiful downtempo excursions touching on... more...

• 1 Pirogue Clandestine (ft. Wantee Teelapa)
• 2 Catchupa Guizod
• 3 Bram zn Ding

Various Artists

Friends and Mentors

Recommended by: Ryan Elliott

V/A twelve on Thomas Xu's label, carrying, as the man himself states, ''the gifts and talents of individuals who I look up to and honestly enjoy the c... more...

• 1 Terri Whodat - Get Out Of There
• 2 Poseidon Neptune - Saht Nam
• 3 Meftah - Ur Utility
• 4 John Silas - 9th Creation (feat John Barera - short mix)

Thomas Xu

Places In Time

Thomas Xu of Sound Signature fame doing the do on his own label! more...

• 1 Going Public (Emotional Outer)
• 2 Easin
• 3 Tireda Being Tired (What Are We Here For)
• 4 Promise2 (Intentional Inner)

Various Artists

Autumn EP

Nine Eleven Records’ sole motto is to spread out the word that broken beat and jazz are not dead.

• 1 LBTQ - Beards And Broken Legs
• 2 Sofatalk - Deep In The Tropics
• 3 Kaidi Tatham - Endless Resumption
• 4 Footshooter - Cascades She

Hummingbird Archives

Soulful underground classics from the Lowlands

An ecletic musical representation of infamous Rotterdam Jazzclub BIRD with well-known and lesser-known Dutch artists from the black music spectrum, va... more...

• 01 Arifa - Naomi's Dance
• 02 Kijk Een Ster - Freedom feat Gregg Green
• 03 Scallymatic Orchestra Autumn - Forest Song
• 04 Monsieur Dubois s Amuse - Wicked Jazz Sounds (Leroy Rey Remix)

Africa Negra

Alia Cu Omali

Mar & Sol presents the new album of the legendary band África Negra,''Alia cu Omali''. New songs and some popular classics recorded between Lisbon and... more...

• 1 Alia Cu Omali
• 2 Fala Da Cu Beto
• 3 Gueguinha
• 4 Kua Sa Mina Ngue

Madlib

Shades Of Blue

Shades Of Blue is a project that turns over the legacy of the esteemed Blue Note jazz label to one of hip-hop's most unique artists, Madlib. On Shades... more...

• 01 Introduction
• 02 Slim's Return
• 03 Distant Land
• 04 Mystic Bounce

Lord & Dego

Lord and Dego

Recommended by: Staff Pick Of The Week

The sound of optimism in the midst of battle. A bold, impassioned cry – railing against the forces of greed at their depth of their depravity. A state... more...

• 01 Whos Gold Whos Gold Plated
• 02 Keep to the Left
• 03 Guess Whos Smoking
• 04 Life Happens Here

Various Atists

The Library Archive, Vol. 2

The funky, atmospheric, evocative and sometimes downright weird output of companies such as DeWolfe, Cavendish, Burton and the ubiquitous KPM have alw... more...

• 01 The Glass Eye
• 02 Mosey Rambler
• 03 Windie Man
• 04 Ice Cool

Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Jazz Is Dead 3 Marcos Valle

The third release from Jazz Is Dead records is features Marcos Valle, one of the greatest and most important composers, arrangers, writers and perform... more...

• 1 Queira Bem
• 2 Isso E Que Eu Sei
• 3 Oi
• 4 Viajando Por Ai

Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Jazz Is Dead 8 Brian Jackson

Jazz Is Dead’s Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad collaborate with Brian Jackson, legendary American keyboardist, flautist, singer, composer, and... more...

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• 03
• 04

Hugh Small & Brian Allen Simon

The Side I Never See

MAT is proud to announce the forthcoming release of ‘The Side I Never See’, by Hugh Small & Brian Allen Simon. Hugh forms half of Scottish post-punk d... more...

• 01 rocco
• 02 observation point
• 03 myxomorphia
• 04 source and origin

Wonky Logic

Transdimensional Fuunk

Last year, producer and multi-instrumentalist Wonky Logic released his debut album “0113”. Now, he continues to showcase his passion for wonky beats a... more...

• 1 Anti-Galactic-Colonisation
• 2 Blast Off
• 3 Trans-Species Fuunk Entanglement
• 4 Andromeda Style Fuunk

Prince Ozay

Oltremare

Recommended by: Detroit's Filthiest | Driss Bennis - OCB

Casa voyager lands in Napoli for the next chapter of the twr series. Prince Ozay unveils his ''method'' for surviving on the scam planet...machine lan... more...

• 1 Oltremare
• 2 Tamra Maew
• 3 Sarmoung Pt.2
• 4 Toad Bread

Mildred Rosner / Slim Gaillard and His Flat-Foot-Floogie Boys

Gefilte Fish & Matzoh Balls

Here’s a special melt in the mouth treat for lovers of old-time home cooking, and foot-tapping rhythms that we all know they just don’t make ‘em like... more...

• 1 Mildred Rosner (with Mendelsohn Orchestra) - Gefilte Fish
• 2 Slim Gaillard and his Flat-Foot-Floogie Boys - Matzoh Balls