Color Changes is considered by many to be one of the finest albums by trumpeter and pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, Clark Terry. Rather than have the usual jam session with the stellar sidemen he’d assembled, Terry utilized specific arrangements by Yusef Lateef, Budd Johnson, and Al Cohn for the date. At the time…
Clark Terry Quartet Thelonious Monk – In Orbit (Original Jazz Classics Series) Recorded in New York in 1958, and released the same year, In Orbit is trumpeter Clark Terry s sixth album as leader. Featuring Thelonious Monk on piano in his only Riverside outing as sideman, the album also features Sam Jones (bass) and Philly…
Classics Of Love s first full-length features a slew of high energy tracks which favor the band s neo-hardcore approach, but also includes ska and punk songs, as well as a few surprises. Recorded in a raw and unaffected style by Grammy winning producer Jack Shirley, Classics of Love s eponymous first record is bound…
Alvis Records Christmas Bells Are Ringing CLAY AIKEN – Multi-platinum recording artist Clay Aiken is back with a stunning new version of the Bing Crosby classic Do You Hear What I Hear?, the first single from his highly anticipated Christmas album Christmas Bells are Ringing, set to be released. Aiken s unique interpretation infuses the…
Beyond The Willow Tree is a hauntingly beautiful anthology of folk songs chronicling the experience of a young black man growing up in the segregated south. A balanced mix of covers and originals, Cleveland Francis body of work seamlessly blends deep, soulful vocals with the stripped down acoustic instrumentation of folk. In the late 60…
Tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan blew in from Chicago in 1957 and put the NYC jazz scene on notice with a trio of excellent Blue Note sessions including Blowing in from Chicago co-led with John Gilmore, the self-title Cliff Jordan, and Cliff Craft. This third album featured Jordan at the helm of first-rate hard bop quintet with Art Farmer on trumpet, Sonny Clark on piano, George Tucker on…
Birdwatching is the second LP by the emo band Cliffdiver from Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is set to be released on September 20, 2024. The album was recorded with Brett Romnes, who has also worked with Mom Jeans, Hot Mulligan, and Free Throw. The first 500 copies of the album will be a limited edition on…
 Clipping celebrates the 10th anniversary of their 2014 Sub Pop debut, clppng, with a new colored-vinyl edition, limited to 1,000 copies. clipping. Makes party music for the club you wish you hadn t gone to, the car you don t remember getting in, and the streets you don t feel safe on (Press release for…
cLOUDDEAD s debut album, compiling six 10 EPs that appeared between 2000-2001, is aurally dense and obscured. A sprawling mass of miniature beat-suites and Dadaist lyrics, this strange and beautiful 3xLP would influence a myriad of sub-genres (cloud rap, hauntology, lo-fi hip-hop, etc.) in the two decades since its initial release. Only the three members…
Cluster s tenth album, not counting their collaborations with Brian Eno or Neu s Michael Rother, finds the duo of Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius in a somewhat peculiar place. Their landmark early electronic work was hugely influential on the English post-punk synthesizer bands of the late 70s. Curiosum, released in 1981, just as some…
2022 restock. Originally released in 1972, this is the second album by legendary German ambient pioneers Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Moebius and Roedelius essentially create ambient electronic soundscapes that ebb and flow, droning on in a suspended world of anti-gravity where machine has conquered man. Includes bonus CD of the album.
2016 re-release of Bureau B s 2009 reissue. The fourth full-length album by legendary German electronic music duo Cluster, originally released on Sky Records in 1976. Sowiesoso follows on from their most highly-acclaimed album, Zuckerzeit (1974). Michael Rother s influence was clearly audible on the latter, Cluster already having recorded two albums with him under…
Cluster was the pioneering German duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius. Formed on the cusp of the 1970s, they were a part of West Germany s nascent Kosmische Musik scene. The group would use restrained improvisational techniques similar to Gruppo Nuova Consonanza, working with both electric and acoustic instruments (organ, guitar, tone generators, cello, etc.) to create a…
Originally recorded and released in 1977, this pioneering ambient album brought together several legends of progressive electronic music: Brian Eno, solo artist and collaborator with David Bowie, Robert Fripp, and Roxy Music; Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius aka Cluster, both of whom made dozens of ground-breaking recordings throughout the 70s; and Conny Plank, who recorded…
The first live recording of Cluster (Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius), and their only collaboration with Austrian musician Joshi Farnbauer (drums and percussion), recorded in Vienna in 1980. A sonic throwback to their early years, reissued on CD. Were one to be presented with two separate stacks of Cluster recordings — one composed of their studio work, the other of live…
COALESCE s Live at BBC Maida Vale Studios captures the band s ferocious live radio performance for BBC radio, featuring tracks from the band s OX period, including Wild Ox Moan , Through Sparrows I Rest , and The Villain We Won t Deny .