Music on Vinyl

Originally released on the Beserkley label in 1976 (though most of the material was recorded in 1973), The Modern Lovers eponymous first album is a universally lauded proto-punk classic. It's an album that bridges the gap between The Velvet Underground, a

Mercurial bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus was signed to Columbia Records for the briefest of time during 1959. His Columbia recordings, however, remain some of the most inspired, mood-jumping jazz in history. The flowing sadness of "Goodbye Porkpie

Clearly Sam Cooke’s most intimate, most soulful and ultimately most realized recordings. Night Beat has the feel of a private performance captured after hours when the audience had gone home and the singer was singing purely for the love and soul of his s

Scorned by critics at the time of its release, Miles Davis' 1972 album On The Corner is now seen as a forerunner of Post Punk, Hip Hop, Drum and Bass and Electronic music, thanks to its revolutionary recording techniques.

Miles wanted to reconnect with

Agharta was recorded on the afternoon in 1975, at one of two concerts Miles Davis performed at the Osaka Festival Hall in Japan. He performed with his septet—flautist and saxophonist Sonny Fortune, bassist Michael Henderson, drummer Al Foster, percussio

A collection of material recorded between 1969 and 1972, the period just after Bitches Brew, Big Fun was not issued until 1974. By then, Davis had moved on in other directions, so it became a much-neglected album. The compositions are too scattered to mai

Sam Cooke, inventor and true King of Soul, recorded Mr. Soul in the same year as Night Beat [MOVLP163], and seems to be its more adult counterpart, with soulful ballads taking up most of the album. A laidback tempo and rich arrangements lay the foundation

Davis, Miles: Tribute to Jack Johnson (MOV version) LP

Recorded in two days in the summer of 1967 Nefertiti is Miles Davis' last fully acoustic album, with no compositions from Miles himself. Most tracks are written by Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock. Best known for its unusual title track, where the horns kee

It has been said that Jazz stopped evolving when Davis wasn't there to push it forward. Even if that isn't true, Miles Davis certainly was one of the greatest music innovators of the 20th century, pioneering Cool Jazz (with the 1949 recording of Birth Of