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Debut album by the English rock band The Soft Machine (named after William S. Burroughs' novel), one of the best known exponents, along with Caravan, of the "Canterbury Sound". This masterpiece was released in 1968 and features the trio of Robert Wyatt (d

Emerald City Nights: Live At The Penthouse (1965-1966), brings forth a collection of previously unreleased recordings of the iconic pianist Ahmad Jamal captured live at the hallowed Seattle jazz club. Featuring trios with bassists Richard Evans and Jamil

Elemental Music presents the Kenny Barron Trio live at the Brecon Jazz Festival in Wales, 1995. A never-before-issued concert recording by the NEA Jazz Master featuring 10 kinetic, think-as-one performances by Barron, bassist Ray Drummond and drummer Ben

This remarkable previously unreleased recording captures two jazz masters—pianist Mal Waldron and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy—in an intimate and inspired duo performance recorded live at Yoshi’s in Oakland, California, on June 8, 1994. Longtime collabo

Elemental Music proudly presents Michel Petrucciani - Kuumbwa, an extraordinary never-before-released recording captured live at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, California on May 11, 1987. This breathtaking performance documents the only known tour of

Light as a Feather was the second studio album by Chick Corea's band Return to Forever, following Corea's 1972 LP that introduced the group. The album features Corea on electric piano, Joe Farrell on flute, soprano and tenor saxophone, Stanley Clarke on d

Kathy Smith's 2 (1971) stands as the most daring and accomplished work of enigmatic singer-songwriter Kathy Smith. Emerging from the same Orange County, California scene as Tim Buckley and Jackson Browne, she recorded two hauntingly beautiful albums for R

The eighth album by American saxophonist and composer Pharoah Sanders, Village of the Pharoahs was released in 1973 on the Impulse! label. Sanders plays both tenor and soprano sax and takes some spirited vocals. One of the highlights is "Memories of Lee M

Released on the Impulse label in 1969, Albert Ayler’s album Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe was entirely written by Ayler's partner, Mary Maria Parks. Along with The Last Album, which contains outtakes from the same session, this was Ayler's la

Released in 1970, Psychedelic Shack was the twelfth studio album by The Temptations for Motown. All songs were composed by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong and produced by Whitfield. Instead of presenting the classic Motown sound, the album tries its h

The Temptations and their producer Norman Whitfield had experimented so successfully with psychedelic soul on their previous release, Cloud Nine, they continued on that path with the group's eleventh album, Puzzle People, in 1969. Featuring the #1 Pop hit

The 16th studio album by Diana Ross & The Supremes, Let the Sunshine In was issued by Motown in 1969. Included is "I'm Livin' In Shame," the sequel to the previous year's #1 hit "Love Child," as well as the Smokey Robinson song "The Composer," which hit #

The fifteenth studio album released by Diana Ross & the Supremes for the Motown label, released in 1968. This was the group's first studio LP (excepting covers and tribute albums) not to include any songs written or produced by any member of the Holland–D

A mysterious European model/chanteuse with a deep voice, Nico's solo 1967 debut Chelsea Girl was released mere months after the groundbreaking The Velvet Underground & Nico album. Titled after Andy Warhol's experimental 1966 film of the same name, the dar