• The Tuba Trio – Essence-The Heat and Warmth of Free Jazz

    The Tuba Trio consists of Sam Rivers, Joe Daley and Warren Smith. As you can see by the picture, this was recorded live at the Bim Huis in Amsterdam in 1976. Surprisingly the tuba sounds great in the free improv setting. I really dig Sam Rivers flute playing on this one as well as Warren [...]

  • Lokomotiv Konkret

    Mind numbing Sweedish free jazz with electronic accompainiment. That’s Claes Sweger’s business card taped to the cover. He must have given this record to the transvestite i purchased it from.

  • Cozy Eggleston – grand slam

    Heres a rare private press funky jazz record outta Chicago circa the late sixties. Cozy on tenor backed up by just a drummer and an organ player so its pretty stripped down. Has a smoky nightclub feel to it for sure. Killer stuff!

  • George Braith – Musart

    One of the most unique & beautiful jazz albums I’ve ever heard. Sounds ranging from exotica with wordless female vocals, to free jazz – often all within the same track. Worlds away from the typical one dimensional soul jazz that Prestige was cranking out at the time, and from most jazz albums that came before [...]

  • The Apollo Stars – power of source

    File under: frantic scientology jazz. Ten piece group guided by L. Ron Hubbard, this was released in 1974. It was recorded on the Apollo Ship which the scientoligists lived on in the early seventies because they were banned from about every country on the globe. I wonder if Beck has this album… Listen

  • Kenneth Patchen – Reads Jazz In Canada

    I am a sucker for both word jazz and Folkways so I figured I’d give it a try. Glad I did! Crazy beatnik vibe the likes of which so many records with wild covers promise but rarely deliver. The Alan Neil Quartet is backing him on this, and are super tight, but in no way [...]

  • Quintessence: Sonoma Rag

    Well know local Sonoma county jazz rarity allegedly recorded in a chicken coop in Petaluma. Because of the track “Cotati Funk” this record seems to have a reputation as a “private press jazz funk monster”, which it isn’t, and is hated upon for not living up to the hype that surrounds it. When you see [...]