With bassist Roberto Miranda and drummer Sonship in 1981.
Featuring a tremendous, side-long reading of Dark Tree.

The more expensive iteration is from Acoustic Sounds.

A precious glimpse of his undocumented New Jazzmen lineup, with Freddie Hubbard, Jaki Byard, Reggie Workman and Nathan Davis.
“Everywhere we’d go people would say, this is the best Jazz Messengers we’ve heard,” remembers Davis. “And because of the way Jaki would play and Reggie would go, it was like a semi-freedom thing… with Messengers heads, you know… but when we got to soloing…!”
It’s easy to take Freddie Hubbard for granted. One of the very greatest jazz trumpeters of all time; he kills it here. Check him on Blue Moon and the twenty-four-minute rendition of his own composition Crisis.

Not for the faint-hearted — dark and dirty psych improv from Chie Mukai, Eric Cordier and Seichi Yamamoto (Boredoms). Moody, subterranean squalls and drones, blowing up like a bad-tempered Fushitsusha.

Wonderful early recordings, some of his very best, from a small club, six yards by twelve, in 1973.

The 1994 return of pioneering electronic guru Richard ‘Heldon’ Pinhas to the forefront of the French underground scene. The fruits of a two-year collaboration with John Livengood from Red Noise and Spacecraft, inspired by Norman Spinrad’s novel Rock Machine. First vinyl issue.

Expertly natural recordings of an intimate concert in 1980.

‘What would happen if Erykah Badu, DJ Screw and Sa-Ra had a baby? You’d get Liv.e’ (NPR).
‘Martian soul music’ (Fader).

With Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, John McLaughlin, Airto, Gary Bartz, Wayne Shorter — different lineups around 1970 — running jazz into Sly and JB and way out the other side.
Vinyl from Music On Vinyl.

‘Finally available on vinyl, Grant Green’s near perfect slice of jazz funk and soul, recorded live on two cold January nights in 1971. Powerhouse drummer Idris Muhammad and soulful tenor star Houston Person were brought in to supplement Green’s current band featuring Ronnie Foster on organ and Clarence Thomas on soprano and tenor sax; and Blue Note producer Francis Wolff recorded. This treasure was never released, though, till a 2006 CD issue. Sounding incredibly fresh and live, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more real stamping of Grant Green at the top of his game. The LP blends extremely hypnotic and wild funk such as their opening cover of a local funk hit Jan Jan by the Fabulous Counts next to laidback renditions of early 70’s soul favorites Walk On By, Patches, and One More Chance by the Jackson 5. It perfectly captures the magic of hearing a legendary band effortlessly doing their thing in a small club while the audience unwinds after a long work day. Green pulls it all together with his melodic genius and perfect delivery. Great artists make it seem so easy. No pretensions here, just a killer band burning up the stage with unmistakable chemistry. Maybe you can’t go back in time, but if you close your eyes and light a cigarette, you might be convinced you’re sitting in a wood-paneled club on Detroit’s Westside enjoying Grant Green and his band tear it up.’
LP reissue supervised by Third Man, in Detroit.

The great Frankie Beverly and Maze in full effect, in 1981. High amongst the best live-in-concert albums of all time.
‘As spiritual as secular music gets,‘says Nelson George; ‘a document of a love affair between singer and audience.’

Red hot NTU Troop; recorded by Radio Bremen.
Firing versions of Ju Ju Man… Celestial Blues… an unmissable twenty-five minutes of I’ve Known Rivers…