Primarily motivated by the desire to keep a good stock on all of Keith Tippett's classic early works, as well as otherwise unavailable excellent recordings from a cross-section of Brit-Jazz/Canterbury/RIO/Soft Machine alumni, and thanks to the efforts of two of our very good British customers whom we thank in anonymity (as they desired), we finally made a breakthrough in acquiring a reliable and steady-cost supply of the Voiceprint family of labels (including Jazprint, Blueprint, La Cooka Ratcha, Whatdisc, Resurgence, 231E47st, and the Gentle Giant club label Glass)
This British indie label has never had good distribution in the states (and has had absolutely none in the last few years!) and the meager amounts and selction we've been able to offer previously was at the caprices of wildly fluctuating prices, causing us to charge up to *$18-19 at times for some titles, while occasionally being able to offer small amounts at close-out prices on our sale lists due to disenchanted importers dumping "worthless" titles - of course, they won't order more or newer titles when we ask them!
*(Some US distributors who currently carry a few of these titles are now charging up to $18-19 wholesale (!); we'd have to sell these in the low-mid $20s, which some deep-catalog chains are doing. We refuse to do so)
Pay particular attention to some of the items listed, as they are new releases we've never seen offered before (Like the Howard Riley/Barry Guy/John Stevens "Organic" album, the Gentle Giant live series, and others)
All Voiceprint and associated label titles are now $16 each

SPECIAL LIMITED OFFER FOR ALL ORDERS RECIEVED BY THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON 12/31/02: BUY 3 OR MORE TITLES FROM THIS LIST AND PAY $15 EACH!!!

(PLEASE NOTE: Since Tippett fanatic Manny assembled this list he tossed in some other must-have Tippett items at the end of the Voiceprint list (that we have stock on) which are from the Disconforme, Repertoire and Cuneiform labels to give a rounded selection of Tippett's entire career. These are not part of the "three or more" Voiceprint sale and are marked with a ** at the beginning of the entry as a further reminder.)

PETER BANKS - Can I Play Something For You?: Pre-'YES' Years 1964-68 (Blueprint 301; UK) Rare cuts and unreleased demos from the various groups that original Yes guitarist Banks was in from the very start of his career including songs done by Syn and Mabel Greer's Toyshop (both with Chris Squire), and Yes!.
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PETER BLEGVAD & JOHN GREAVES - Unearthed (231E47st 102; UK) Peter Blegvad is a cartoonist,surrealist and musician, a maverick storyteller and song philosopher with a vivid imagination.He is an original member of the legendary avant garde,cult favourites Slapp Happy. John Greaves was the original bass player for radical 70's collective Henry Cow. This spoken word examination of the human condition,with musical assistance from Greaves first surfaced as a limited pressing in 1995. This rarity has now been remastered,with new artwork by Blegvad and is now available as a commercial release for the first time.
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PETER BLEGVAD - Choices Under Pressure: An Acoustic Retrospective (Resurgence 143; UK) Peter Blegvad sings relaxed versions of songs he wrote on several of his '90s solo albums and also from the self-titled Slapp Happy album on virgin (plus two new songs)while playing guitar and clarinet; backed by John Greaves on el bass, Danny Thompson double bs, and guitarist/arranger/producer Jakko Jakszyk also filling in on keyboards, percussion and flute. Not to be missed!
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PETER BLEGVAD - King Strut (Whatdisc 9; UK) Finally re-issued! When originally released in 1990 on Silvertone, King Strut was critically lauded as a masterful collection of articulate and insightful short stories set to music, or as Blegvad himself put it '...condensed narrative in rhymes...' Amongst the fantastic selection of musicians contributing are Andy Partridge (XTC), Peter Holsapple (REM), B.J. Cole (Verve), Syd Straw, Danny Thompson, Chris Stamey and Anton Fier.
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SARO COSENTINO - Ones And Zeros (Resurgence 129; UK) Keyboardist Saro Cosentino's song album 'One's and Zero's' is a successful mixture of musical colours, a project that has evolved for years, lending itself to the contributions of musicians of very different musical and cultural backgrounds each one leaving their own personal touch on the project. Vocalists on this album are Peter Hammill, Tim Bowness, Karen Eden, and Pandit Dinesh; musicians includeTrey Gunn, Jakko Jakszyk, David Rhodes, Shankar, Gavin HarrisonKudsi Erguner and John Giblin!
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ELTON DEAN/ALAN SKIDMORE With JOHN MARSHALL & CHRIS LAURENCE - El Skid (Voiceprint 230; UK) Ogun are excruciatingly slow at releasing their back catalogue of creativer Brit-Jazz treasures of the 70's, so it is with gratitude to those who made this classic album get a CD issue outside of Ogun's reissue program (such as it's not). This is a long lost album which fans of the Canterbury Scene and Soft Machine have been waiting for. Elton Dean (Soft Machine and In Cahoots), Alan Skidmore, Chris Laurence and John Marshall ( Soft Machine) are the brilliant line up on this recording. Striking artwork along with great tracks will make this a must for followers of the Canterbury Scene and Soft Machine.
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GENTLE GIANT - Live Rome 1974 (Glass 101; UK) 69 minutes of an excellent performance from the tour for their sixth album 'Power And The Glory' taken from the bands archive of PA mix [board] tapes. Especially compelling is the 27 minute medley "Nothing At All/Plain Truth"!
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GENTLE GIANT - In A Palesport House (Glass 102; UK) 7 cuts from Torino,Italy Jan. '73 right before their Fifth album 'In A Glass House' taken from the bands archive of PA mix [board] tapes. Tracks 8 & 9 are from the 'In Concert' TV show appearance
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GENTLE GIANT - Interview In Concert (Glass 103; UK) 9 cuts from Hgrpstem, NY 7/3/76, including a very long medley of songs from "Octopus". Recorded on the tour for their eighth album 'Interview', taken from the bands archive of PA mix [board] tapes.
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GENTLE GIANT - Endless Life [2 CD set] (Glass 108; UK) Endless Life contains two previously unreleased (appx board tape quality) live concerts by powerful live band! Recorded on the Free Hand tour of the U.S. in October 1975, the first disc was recorded at the Music Hall in White Plains, New York and the second at The Community Theater in Berkley, California. Amongst the highlights is the 15 minute Excerpts From Octopus, which includes Boys In The Band, Knots and The Advent Of Panurge, the amazing violin solo on Plain Truth and the drum solo on So Sincere.
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ALAN GOWEN & HUGH HOPPER With NIGEL MORRIS - Improvisations (Voiceprint 186; UK) Rare unreleased but well-worth-the-listening recordingsfrom the last three years of Alan Gowen's (National Health) life, during which he collaborated with Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine) on the classic album Two Rainbows Daily. The first three cuts are a trio with Nigel Morris captured live 9/21/80 at South Hill, Bracknell; the remaining cuts, France May '78, are the duo improvising four pieces and performing Elton Dean's "Ranova"!
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JOHN GREAVES - Accident (Blueprint 234; UK) More pop than prog from theHenry Cow/National Health bassist, Accident is a collection of songs as remarkable for its atmospheric breadth as for its consistency of vision, creating a musical climate which is uniquely Greavesian, precisely situating Peter Blegvad's haunting texts. Greaves plays keyboards, bass and sings, accompanied by a Euro-mix of Gongos (Pip Pyle), Caravanners (Geoff Richardson), Magmites (Yocko Seffer) and a host of others. Accident says goodbye to an era and hints uncannily at what was to come in the 80's but, above all, like all Greaves' work, is resolutely fixed outside any mainstream you could dream of. Why Accident? Greaves says: "Because in music there aren't any".
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JOHN GREAVES - Parrot Fashion (Blueprint 233; UK) John Greaves produced Parrot Fashion in Paris back in 1984 and unfortunately it was only available in France, which meant that the rest of the world failed to hear this astonishing album. Although it's credited as being a solo album, Parrot Fashion is very close to being a band project featuring the combined musical talents of Mireille Bauer, Denis Van Hecke, Francois Ovide, Kristoffer Blegvad and Alexis Drossos. Peter Blegvad is also on hand to contribute his songwriting skills, ensuring that the music contained on this CD is as unique and startling as its cover artwork.
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JOHN GREAVES - The Caretaker (Blueprint 347; UK) John Greaves has had a long and distinguished career having been a member of Henry Cow and later becoming a highly respected composer and solo artist. 'The Caretaker' is John's brand new studio album and is a follow up to 'Songs' (RES112CD). This new album not only has songs written by John but also by Peter Blegvad (Slapp Happy) and Andy Partridge (XTC). This album will appeal to both John's and Peter's loyal fanbases and features striking attention grabbing artwork.
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JOHN GREAVES - Songs (Resurgence 112; UK) John Greaves has had a long and distinguished career having been a member of Henry Cow and later becoming a highly respected composer and solo artist. Here is perhaps his greatest 'pop' effort, backed by Sophia Domncich, Paul Rogers, and Francois Ovide. Featuring special guest vocalists Robert Wyatt (3 truly Overpewering from start to finish! excellent songs!) Caroline Loeb, Kristoffer Blegvad, and S'Ange.
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[SLAPP HAPPY] DAGMAR KRAUSE/ANTHONY MOORE/PETER BLEGVAD - Camera (Blueprint 332; UK) A reunion of the trio of talents who were known as Slapp Happy in the '70s, who, along with Henry Cow, started the'RIO' movement. Here Dagmar stars as Melusina with additional roles by John Harris, Quentin Hayes, Nicole Tibbels and Ewart James Waters performing an opera originally written for television by Moore (music) and Blegvad (lyrics) and backed by a woodwind and brass ensemble led by the Balenescu (string) Quartet.
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DAGMAR KRAUSE - Tank Battles: The Songs of Hanns Eisler (Blueprint 318; UK) Helped with her desire to bring out an album of songs by the early 20th century German songwriter Eisler by Tom Waits expressed interest in the project, Waits' bassist and musical director Greg Cohen (Masada) arranged and produced this diverse group assemblage that included guest musicians Michael Blair, Danny Thompson, Alex Balenescu, John Tilbury and Lindsay Cooper and a large ensemble including accordion, marimba, banjo, woodwinds. This is a tour-de-force album for Dagmar, displaying the full breadth and depth of her uniquely emotional and compelling voice!
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HOWARD RILEY - Trisect (Jazzprint 116; UK) Originally one of three LPs in a 1980 Howard Riley box set 'Facets' on the Impetus label. This is Howard Riley solo, the great jazz piano genius/improviser/composer who blew minds previous to this with his CBS albums ('Angle' and 'The Day Will Come') of the early '70s.
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HOWARD RILEY - Singleness (Jazzprint 110; UK) A rare solo recording from 1974, barely circulated as an LP, established the outline of Howard Riley's directions apart from group interaction (his 6 records previous). An important step in the road of this still growing master piano improvisationist.
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HOWARD RILEY - Duality (Jazzprint 113; UK) A solo studio recording from 1981, this presents a marked contrast to his solo piano recordings made years past and in the future.
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HOWARD RILEY/BARRY GUY/JOHN STEVENS - Organic (Jazzprint 116; UK) Originally one of three LPs in a 1980 Howard Riley box set 'Facets' on the Impetus label. This is a wonderful and powerful improv session between three giants: Riley on piano, Barry Guy on doublebass, and John Stevens. For those who love SME and all things "outbetween"!
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HOWARD RILEY/ELTON DEAN QUARTET - Descending Circles (Blueprint 221; UK) The 2nd release (1995) by this piano-and-sax-led unit that includes Mario Castronari and Mark Sanders.
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PETER SINFIELD - Stillusion [aka Still] (Blueprint 223; UK) Legendary art-rock lyrisist/composer/producer Sinfield wrote the lyrics for the first four King Crimson albums (guaranteeing him a place in rock history!) as well as for early '70s ELP, and produced the 1st Roxy Music album as well as recordings for PFM. His only solo vocal record from that period, Still, is a woundrous jewel-textured musical odyssey deftly performed by musicians as varied as Keith Tippett, Greg Lake, Ian Wallace, Mel Collins, John Wetton, Robin Miller (all Crimsonites) as well as Keith Christmas, Tim Hinckley, Brian Cole and Richard Brunton.
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SLAPP HAPPY - Sort Of (Blueprint 318; UK) The classic first album by this originator (along with Henry Cow) of the Rock-In-Opposition [RIO] movement. Here are The first appearances of Dagmar Krause, Peter Blegvad and Anthony Moore, backed by the powerfully creative musicianship of Faust: Gunther Wusthoff, Werner "Zappa" Diermaier, and Jean Herve Peron (Faust also backed them on the rejected-by-Virgin first recording of their 2nd album,, Casablanca Moon. The Faust version was released years later as Acnalbasac Noom - Virgin got it backwards!) An odd, classic Masterpiece!
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SOFT MACHINE - Live 1970 (Blueprint 290; UK) Tracks 1 & 2 are from a performance on 2/14/1970 at the London School Of Economics with Lyn Dobson , Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper, and Robert Wyatt. The rest of the tracks on this CD formed the entirety of the previously released 'Live At The Proms' (Royal Albert Hall 8/13/70 with Elton Dean, Ratledge, Hopper and Wyatt) LP/CD on the Reckless label, though the starting cut "Out-Bloody-Rageous" has had its beginning edited here. But don't let that deter you from getting your hands on this absolutely great performance!
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SOFT MACHINE - Live At The Paradiso 1969 (Blueprint 193; UK) An absolutely phenomal and definitive document of Soft Machine at the time of their 2nd album! Recorded at the Paradiso in Amsterdam on 3/29/69. Robert Wyatt drumming and vocals, Hugh Hopper bass, and Mike Ratledge keyboards. Highly recommended!
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THIRD EAR BAND - Songs From Hydrogen Jukebox (Blueprint 283; UK) This recording evolved from a performance that took place at The Arts Lab in London's Drury Lane in 1969. It features an incarnation of the band as a six piece, before they signed to the Harvest Label. Includes classic line up of Glen Sweeney, Lyn Dobson and Martin Carter.
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THIRD EAR BAND - Magic Music [aka New Age Magical Music] (Blueprint 257; UK) The first of the albums done after the classic early '70s output, this maintains the high quality of those early releases, with Glen Sweeney, Lyn Dobson, Mick Carter and Neil Black. " Third Ear Band music is a reflection of the universe as magic play illusion simply because it could not possibly be anything else. Words cannot describe this ecstatic dance of sound, or explain the alchemical repetition seeking and sometimes finding archetypal forms, elements and rhythms - contradictions are their energy force, dualities are discarded in favour of the tao, each piece is alike or unalike as trees, grass or crickets. This is natural, magical music that doesn't preach, but just urges you to take your own trip."
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DAVID THOMAS & RONNIE GUNN - The Giants Dance (Blueprint 223; UK) Pre-Genesis scholars (no, not biblical!) will know singer/guitarist David Thomas (no, not the Pere Ubu one!) and keyboardist Ronnie Gunn as the creative team behind a 60's band The Spoken Word that included Anthony Phillips on guitar and Peter Gabriel on drums!!! A charming pot-pourri of songs and instrumentals mainly dating from the late-sixties to mid-seventies, The Giants Dance represents a glorious insight into the work of two early contributors to the mighty Genesis legacy. The Giants Dance, as Peter Gabriel eloquently states in the sleevenotes that accompany the album, is "full of atmosphere, interesting chord progessions, poignant singing and quirky arrangements." The Giants Dance - a very English (pre-art rock) treasure.
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KEITH And JULIE TIPPETT - Couple In Spirit II: Live At The Stadtgarten, Cologne 1996 (La Cooka Racha 137; UK) If only to prove that the amazingly fertile and vastly colorful canvas of their stunning first improv duo effort [1988] was not merely the result of studio overdubbing, one needs to hear this amazing display of spontaneous musical conversation that goes beyond telepathy and ultimate musicality, and ascends to the spiritualty that is behind all beauty. Keith on piano woodblocks pebbles maraca bells, and the abstract vocalist Julie (formerly Miss Driscoll, the chantreuse with Brian Auger and the Trinity in the '60s!) with thumb piano, recorder, and wind chimes.
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KEITH TIPPETT - Blueprint (La Cooka Racha 146; UK) Along with the "Ovary Lodge" trio album which followed it (think of this as Ovary Lodge "0") this is one of the spectacular all-time classics [1972] of spontaneous improv. The level of telepathy here between pianist Keith, bassist Roy Babbington, Julie Tippetts on voice /guitar/recorder, Keith Bailey percussion, and ultra-sensitive vibrationist [percussionist is the wrong word for] Frank Perry is stunning: you really can't believe that these are not written pieces...and you can't believe that it's purely acoustic either, so incredible and beautiful is the array of tapestry and texture on display here! And yet these disclaimers: "All music on this album is improvised" - Keith Tippett; "The sounds are acoustic - no electronics are involved " - producer Robert Fripp. Don't miss this!
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KEITH TIPPETT - Friday The 13th (La Cooka Racha 136; UK) Originally released only in Japan, this is a stunning solo live performance from the early '90s. Tippett's approach to piano is as though the instrument were an entire orchestra (as opposed to, say, Cecil Taylor's piano representing 88 drums); he wrings out huge clusters of dense sound, that, should you get lost in the spell of it, you might forget what combination of instruments, and how many or what of them are electronic (one instrument live, and neither!)
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[KEITH TIPPETT/HARRY MILLER/FRANK PERRY] OVARY LODGE - Ovary Lodge (Whatdisc 4; UK) Along with Keith Tippett's "Blueprint" album which preceded it (think of that as Ovary Lodge "0") this is one of the spectacular all-time classics [1973] of spontaneous improv. The level of telepathy here between pianist Keith, original Blue Notes bassist Harry Miller, and ultra-sensitive vibrationist [percussionist is the wrong word for] Frank Perry is stunning: you really can't believe that these are not written pieces...and you can't believe that it's purely acoustic either, so incredible and beautiful is the array of tapestry and texture on display here! And yet these disclaimers: "All music on this album is improvised" - Keith Tippett; "The sounds are acoustic - no electronics are involved " - producer Robert Fripp. Don't miss this!
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[KEITH TIPPETT] MUJICIAN And THE GEORGIAN ENSEMBLE - The Bristol Concert (Whatdisc 7; UK) Recorded prior to the first of their 5 studio releases on the Cuneiform label, Mujician (Keith Tippett: piano, Paul Dunmall: saxes, Tony Levin: drums, Paul Rogers: double bass), formed in England in 1988 as an improvising collective, were involved, along with vocalist Julie Tippetts, in an experiment with 12 Georgian musicians in 1991. It was decided that the jumping-off point for this collaboration between musicians, and indeed musical cultures, that had never met before, would be some of Keith's compositions from his large ensemble recordings, primarily the Centipede - Septober Energy, KT's Ark - Frames, and KT Septet - A Loose Kite albums. This is the final performance (the last of four performances: 2 in Tbilisi and 2 in England) captured live by the BBC at St George's Brandon Hill and and released 9 years after the fact. The uncontained exuberance that rises out of these new versions is due in no small part to the Georgians discovering a hitherto unknown musical freedom in the approach to charted music (in some ways a parallel to the political freedom being reached for in their homeland at that time). Highest recommendation!
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KEITH TIPPETT/HOWARD RILEY - Interchange [aka The Bern Concert] (Jazzprint 109; UK) Their 3rd duet album, previously released as "The Bern Concert", this one is recorded at the Swiss Radio DRS studio in Bern on 12/8/93. These two master improvisationalists of the keyboard become one multilingual voice yet anew!
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KEITH TIPPETT/HOWARD RILEY - In Focus (Jazzprint 111; UK) Originally an LP on the Affinity label, this is one continous improvisation in concert 6/13/84 at the Tramshed, Woolwich, London during the Greenwich Festival. Two master pianists with contrasting styles, both firmly rooted in the jazz and classical traditions, explore new terrain with one empathetic voice!
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KEITH TIPPETT/HOWARD RILEY - First Encounter (Jazzprint 114; UK) Originally one of three LPs in a 1980 Howard Riley box set 'Facets' on the Impetus label. this new cd edition contains all of the concert which was only presented in edited form on LP. These two masters of piano improv jazz construct and destruct forms and motifs while surging forward, continually enlarging the foundation, and its incipient energy, upon which a new form rises till the very end!
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JULIE TIPPETTS - Shadow Puppeteer (La Cooka Ratcha 101; UK) 2000 release. Only the third album Julie has released under her own name in as many decades ('Sunset Glow' in 1976, and as Julie Driscoll - '1969', after leaving Brian Auger And The Trinity in '68), this was a true labor of love, three years in the making, with all voices and instruments (zithers, bells, chimes, allsorts) performed and recorded solely by herself in an 8 track studio. It would be interesting to compare experiences with those who read the booklet 'lyrics' first if you happened to instead listen first, or vice versa (if you didn't), as this long but always interesting voyage into primal chanting, geniatical chorusing, and odd textural beauty only touches infrequently upon the implied [english] language of the printed text for the various parts of this song cycle, yet still manipulates the listener through the moods and emotions expressed, much like the conscious puppet(s) who cannot fathom the forces that motivate them. (All the preceding = Highly Recommended!)
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THE FOLLOWING ARE NOT PART OF THE VOICEPRINT "3 or more for $15 each" sale" (But there dang great prices to begin with!):

**KEITH TIPPETT GROUP - 'You Are Here...I Am There' (Disconforme 1963; Spain) Keith Tippett's first album from 1970 was also the first appearance on record for Marc Charig, Elton Dean and Nick Evans; this sextet is completed by Jeff Clyne and Alan Jackson (and producer Giogio Gomelsky on bells). An amazing debut for these just-in-their-twenties jazzers, who had been setting the London jazz scene on it's ear with this material live for over a year before recording the album.
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**KEITH TIPPETT GROUP - Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening (Repertoire 4449; Germany) Keith Tippett's name is probably familiar to those who are fans of '70s British jazz OR bands like King Crimson, the Soft Machine and Blossom Toes (all whom benefited from Tippett's ivory mastery on some of their greatest albums).This is a legendary all-time classic of '70s Avant-British Jazz, and a long time high-priced rarity on LP! Keith's (and his Group's: Elton Dean, Marc Charig and Nick Evans) 2nd album from 1971 is augmented by Robert Wyatt, Phil Howard (both members at different times in Soft Machine) and Bryan Spring on drums, Roy Babbington and Neville Whitehead on bass, Gary Boyle on guitar, and Tony Uta on percussion - on all tracks! Brilliantly structured and arranged compositions from Tippett [3], Evans[3], Dean [1] and the [mutated by Dean and Charig] Hugh Hopper/Soft Machine title tune allowed for plenty of free expression from the indivdual players and gave birth to a personalized new-jazz style that put Tippett in a class of his own. A tour de force, this energized treasure is one of our (Bruce and Manny's) favorite Euro-jazz recordings of all time and should be owned and known by avant-music freaks around the world!!
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Also Italian Akarma import LP for $20.00

**[KEITH TIPPETT] CENTIPEDE - "Septober Energy" [2 CD Set] (Disconforme 1965; Spain) This is a legendary all-time classic of '70s Avant-British Jazz, and a long time high-priced 2 LP rarity! Keith Tippett's 3rd album from 1971 is a 50+ piece orchestra including (hold onto your pates!) Mongesi Feza, Marc Charig, Elton Dean, Dudu Pukwana, Ian MacDonald, Larry Stabbins, Gary Windo, Alan Skidmore, Karl Jenkins, Nick Evans, Paul Rutherford, John Marshall, Robert Wyatt, Roy Babbington, Harry Miller, Jeff Clyne, and vocalists Maggie Nichols, Julie Tippetts, Mike Patto, Zoot Money and Boz Burrell, and guitarist Brian Godding (replacing Robert Fripp from the tour, who was too busy producing this recording!). Tippett's brilliantly structured and arranged 4-part suite allows for plenty of free expression from the indivdual players. Influenced by (but not derivative of) great composer/arranger suites of Mingus, Ellington et al!
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**MUJICIAN [KEITH TIPPETT/PAUL DUNMALL/TONY LEVIN/PAUL ROGERS] - Spacetime (Cuneiform 162; USA) Since Mujician formed in England in 1988 as an improvising collective, the band has released 5 CDs on Cuneiform, who, in the words of The Wire, perform "...measured & powerful music, mining a rich free-jazz vein". Mujician is composed of four of the biggest names in the European jazz and improvised music community: Paul Dunmall: saxes, Tony Levin: drums, Paul Rogers: double bass, Keith Tippett: piano. But this "supergroup" is also a true co-operative, a collective critically praised for its sensitive interplay and coherent voice. As The Penguin Guide To Jazz on CD stated, "[Mujician are]...utterly central to free jazz in Britain". Spacetime another essential slice of improvising "Brit-jazz", features Mujician experimenting with shorter formats, and includes 15 pieces, none longer than 10 minutes, recorded live in the studio.
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**MUJICIAN [KEITH TIPPETT/PAUL DUNMALL/TONY LEVIN/PAUL ROGERS] - Birdman (Cuneiform 82; USA) Mujician are an extraordinary UK improvising/free jazz quartet, featuring Keith Tippett-piano, Paul Dunmall-reeds, Paul Rogers-bass, & Tony Levin-drums. Intense-yet-controlled, with dynamic interplay from all four musicians. Mujician's music is notable for its wide range of musical interplay, its contrast between fiery freedom & calm melodies, and for it's wide variety of tonal color. They manage to be both ''avant garde'' & ''in the tradition''. ìThe interplay among the four musicians is incredible - this is a listening band. The music may be unfettered & spontaneous, but the players are disciplined & sympathetic to the musical moment.î-Goldmine. ì...in the fine tradition of the Art Ensemble, Roland Kirk, or Mingus at his most out; solid intuitive, organic improvisation with all concerned leanding their ears. A-ì-Montreal Mirror. ìA major statement by a very fine bandî-The Wire.
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**MUJICIAN [KEITH TIPPETT/PAUL DUNMALL/TONY LEVIN/PAUL ROGERS] - Colours Fulfilled (Cuneiform 102; USA) Their most recent recording, & the best place to start! Mujician are an extraordinary UK improvising/free jazz quartet, featuring Keith Tippett-piano, Paul Dunmall-reeds, Paul Rogers-bass, & Tony Levin-drums. Intense-yet-controlled, with dynamic interplay from all four musicians. Mujician's music is notable for its wide range of musical interplay, its contrast between fiery freedom & calm melodies, and for it's wide variety of tonal color. They manage to be both ''avant garde'' & ''in the tradition''. ìThe interplay among the four musicians is incredible - this is a listening band. The music may be unfettered & spontaneous, but the players are disciplined & sympathetic to the musical moment.î-Goldmine. ì...in the fine tradition of the Art Ensemble, Roland Kirk, or Mingus at his most out; solid intuitive, organic improvisation with all concerned leanding their ears. A-ì-Montreal Mirror. ìA major statement by a very fine bandî-The Wire.
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**MUJICIAN [KEITH TIPPETT/PAUL DUNMALL/TONY LEVIN/PAUL ROGERS] - Poem About The Hero (Cuneiform 62; USA) Mujician are an extraordinary UK improvising/free jazz quartet, featuring Keith Tippett-piano, Paul Dunmall-reeds, Paul Rogers-bass, & Tony Levin-drums. Intense-yet-controlled, with dynamic interplay from all four musicians. Mujician's music is notable for its wide range of musical interplay, its contrast between fiery freedom & calm melodies, and for it's wide variety of tonal color. They manage to be both ''avant garde'' & ''in the tradition''. ìThe interplay among the four musicians is incredible - this is a listening band. The music may be unfettered & spontaneous, but the players are disciplined & sympathetic to the musical moment.î-Goldmine. ì...in the fine tradition of the Art Ensemble, Roland Kirk, or Mingus at his most out; solid intuitive, organic improvisation with all concerned leanding their ears. A-ì-Montreal Mirror.
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**MUJICIAN [KEITH TIPPETT/PAUL DUNMALL/TONY LEVIN/PAUL ROGERS] - The Journey (Cuneiform 42; USA) The first release by Mujician - an extraordinary UK improvising/free jazz quartet, featuring Keith Tippett-piano, Paul Dunmall-reeds, Paul Rogers-bass, & Tony Levin-drums. This was recorded live at a festival by the BBC, & has some of their most freely improvised work. Mujician's music is notable for its wide range of musical interplay, its contrast between fiery freedom & calm melodies, and for it's wide variety of tonal color. ìThe interplay among the four musicians is incredible - this is a listening band. The music may be unfettered & spontaneous, but the players are disciplined & sympathetic to the musical moment.î-Goldmine.
CD $13.00 STOCK