HAWKINS SCREAMIN' JAY
2013. Originally released only in France on a very rare 10" record in 1958, this is the first taste of the unique Screamin' Jay Hawkins to reach the European market. Featuring his early classics like 'I Put A S..
MONGO SANTAMARIA
2018. 1963 album from the Cuban conguero Mongo Santamaria. Featuring his brilliant cover version of Herbie Hancock's classic title track, along with numerous compositions of his own, this is one of Mongo Santamaria'..
BRUBECK DAVE -QUARTET-
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BROWN JAMES & THE FAMOUS
2016. The third studio album from James Brown and The Famous Flames, originally released in 1960. Though the title track was a cover of The "5" Royales, it's guaranteed that James Brown is who everyone on ..
CRYSTALS
2016. Released on the heels of the immortal hit title track which went to #1 on the charts in 1962, 'He's A Rebel' is the second album from one of the greatest girl groups of all-time, The Crystals. Lead by legendar..
WALKER SCOTT
2018. One of the most beguiling and enigmatic figures in popular music, Scott Walker (born Scott Engel) began his career in Los Angeles playing as a session bassist and recording demos. This eventually led to severa..
MITCHUM ROBERT
2018. While filming in Trinidad in 1957, Robert Mitchum soaked up local music talent like Lord Melody and Mighty Sparrow, resulting in this amazing experiment of pure Caribbean calypso in which the number one icon o..
DIDDLEY BO
2016. Reissued on 180-GRAM VINYL, with bonus tracks and a free download, it's Bo Diddley's third album originally released in 1960. 'Have Guitar Will Travel' is a classic of electric guitar driven blues and R&B...
JACKSON WANDA
2017. A vinyl-reissue of the 1959 LP by the "Queen Of Rockabilly", Wanda Jackson. Originally on Capitol Records, the album includes a couple of covers of early rock hits such as 'Tweedlee Dee' and 'Kansas ..
RONETTES
2017. Before they hit it big with Phil Spector and his Phillies label, the vocal trio from Harlem (best) known as The Ronettes recorded numerous sides for Colpix Records. This LP on 180-gram vinyl (including a downl..
HOOKER JOHN LEE
2017. Inspired by the folk revival of the late '50s, John Lee Hooker took a break from playing electric Chicago blues in order to return to his country blues roots with an LP that featured the sound of just the man ..
JAMES BROWN
2017. The seventh studio album from the godfather of soul, Mr. Dynamite himself, the hardest working man in show business, James Brown. 'Prisoner Of Love', originally from 1963, features pure R&B and mid-tempo s..
JOHN LEE HOOKER
2017. Collecting material recorded between 1955 and 1959 in the de facto capitol of the blues, Chicago, this is John Lee Hooker at his absolutely finest. Already some 40+ years old at the time of recording, Hooker w..
CHENIER CLIFTON
2017. One of the originators of Zydeco, Creole and Cajun music, born out of the south-west Louisiana swamplands, Clifton Chenier began his career in the mid '50s, recording for Art Rupe's legendary R&B label Spe..
MONK THELONIOUS
2017. 'The Unique Thelonious Monk', originally issued in 1956, was the legendary pianist's second LP for the Riverside label, with which he would have a fruitful relationship resulting in over a dozen albums. As alw..
VÝBEROVKA
2017. Led by Charles Mingus and Max Roach, this 1960 recording was made, in some regard, in protest. Mingus formed this group with the such future leaning artists as Eric Dolphy and Max Roach, and the vocalist Abbey..
JACKSON WANDA
2017. Originally released in 1962, this compilation is the definitive collection of Wanda Jackson's rocking, rockabilly sides. Featuring her finest singles, including 'Fujiyama Mama', 'Mean Mean Man', and 'Hot Dog! ..
MILES DAVIS
2017. Following the recordings in 1949 and 1950 that would comprise 'Birth Of The Cool' and help create the sub-genre of Cool Jazz, Miles had already moved on to the next thing. By 1951 he was recording hard-bop of ..
TONY SHERIDAN
2017. Tony Sheridan may be famous for only one thing at this point in time: performing with The Beatles in their earliest incarnation. But, at the time, in 1961-1962, he was a top beat performer and a charismatic si..
BIG MAYBELLE
2017. 'Blues, Candy & Big Maybelle', collects singles from the mid-'50s on, including one of her biggest hits, 'Candy'. Killer jump blues and R&B from one of the finest, Jackson, Tennessee's own Big Maybelle..
ANGELOU MAYA
2017. At age 28, prior to her fame as a poet and author, Maya Angelou was performing modern dance and singing calypso tunes in San Francisco nightclubs. This is a merely footnote in her history, it is in fact a fine..
SCREAMIN JAY HAWKINS
2017. By far one of the most outrageous performers of the early years of rock, prone to emerging from coffins on stage, with a flaming skull named Henry as his constant companion, Screamin' Jay was an insanely theat..
DION
2016. Featuring Dion DiMucci's unforgettable voice and his classic NYC R&B/doo-wop backing, this is the sound of the Bronx circa 1962. Though one might dismiss Dion as merely teeny-bopper fare, he was a massivel..
HOLIDAY BILLIE
2016. Though she had been performing professionally since the late 1920s, as a teenager in Harlem, during its Renaissance, the immortal Billie Holiday didn't play a single night on the European continent until 1954...