Recorded on the final night of their tour at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2003, this special 16 track live package from the Jazz-funk legends Level 42 is packed with classics. The band are at their brilliant best performing hits including 'Lessons in Love' and 'Something About You' that have underlined the reasons why the group have always been at the very top level of modern day music.

Pour son quatrième album, le guitariste maltais basé à Paris développe, à la tête d’un groupe multiculturel, un ensemble de compositions qui challenge le jeu tout en n’excluant ni la douceur, ni le sens de l’espace. Soliste de la ligne claire, d’une articulation qui ne souffre aucune imprécision, Sandro Zerafa parvient à capter et restituer dans son art une sorte de lumière : celle qui révèle les beautés du monde et éclaire nos âmes sensibles par la musique. « More Light », et l’on en a bien besoin.

Betty Davis' second full-length featured a similar set of songs as her debut, though with Davis herself in the production chair and a radically different lineup. The openers, "Shoo-B-Doop and Cop Him" and "He Was a Big Freak," are big, blowsy tunes with stop-start funk rhythms and Davis in her usual persona as the aggressive sexual predator.

The first Dollar compilation to be released on CD was issued by Castle Communications in 1992. It contains the whole of the 'Shooting Stars' album plus 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'O L'Amour'. It also features a few b-sides and two previously unreleased tracks 'Sugar Sugar' and 'Living Each Day For You'.

Light In the Attic have outdone themselves again with this latest reissue of what is surely Betty Davis' best and most coveted work. Her iconic voice is transported by the legendary productions of, to name a few, a couple of peeps by the name of Miles Davis, Teo Macero and Herbie Hancock. According to the label, what is special about this release is its pioneering stance on jazz, where across nine songs these greats pretty much already started and finished the free-jazz sound. For the late 1960s, this is some truly special and forward-thinking material; a clear precursor to the mad, improvisational - and often misinterpreted - seminal album by Miles Davis himself, On The Corner. This is mostly unreleased material, and the LP comes with a booklet of interviews and rare photos. Unmissable.

Lester Young & Harry "Sweets" Edison - Going For Myself (1958) {Poll Winners PWR 27294 rel 2012}
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© 1958, 2012 Verve / Poll Winners Records | PWR 27294
Jazz / Cool / Saxophone / Trumpet

This release presents the complete original Verve LP "Going for Myself" reuniting Lester Young and Harry “Sweets” Edison, one Pres’ last studio albums ever. Backing Pres and Sweets are superb musicians like Oscar Peterson, Louie Bellson and Herb Ellis. Five extra tracks have been added to the contents of the original album, including three alternate takes and two tunes not included on the originally issued set.

I think we’ve said it before, but we have no hesitation in saying it again – Pleasure are one of the finest bands to come out of the world of mid-70s R&B. As such it is an honour for us to be working our way through their catalogue as part of BGP’s Funk & Jazz Classics Series. This time our journey has reached the group’s fourth album for the Fantasy label, “Get To The Feeling”. This should have been the LP where they crossed-over and made them famous with similar chart success to that of their fellow jazz-influenced funk outfits such as the Blackbyrds and perhaps even more relevantly, Earth Wind & Fire.

Duke Ellington - Welcome To The Clubs: Blue Note 1956-57, Hickory House 1957, Storyville 1959 (2014) {La Maison du Duke MDD 005}
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© 1956-59, 2014 La Maison du Duke | MDD 005
Jazz / Mainstream Jazz / Big Band / Progressive Jazz

La Maison du Duke is proud to present a collection of unpublished recordings of Duke Ellington, which come from an important stock of Ellington archives (Clavié collection), acquired by the association, which only a few collectors had access to today . The CDs are reserved for members of the Maison du Duke association and are not intended to be marketed.