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Browse by Label: FLYING DUTCHMAN
Artist:
CYRKLE, THE
Title:
The Minx Soundtrack
Label:
FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:
LP
Price:
$11.50
Catalog #:
AMS 12007LP
Exact repro reissue of a clean-cut pop rock band's 1967 soundtrack to a porn movie. After mainstream hits like "Red Rubber Ball" and "Turn Down Day," this sort of thing would appear to be when their career took a dive, but this is actually the coolest thing Tom Dawes was ever involved in before writing commercial jingles for 7Up and Alka-Seltzer.
Artist:
SMITH & THE COSMIC ECHOES, LONNIE LISTON
Title:
Cosmic Funk
Label:
FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:
LP
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BDL 10591LP
Pianist/keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith played on such classic Pharaoh Sanders' albums as
Karma
and
Thembi
, but 1973 saw his emergence as a band leader when he formed the Cosmic Echoes. 1974's
Cosmic Funk
is their second album, featuring vocals from Lonnie's brother, Donald Smith. Aside from renditions of Wayne Shorter's "Footprints" and John Coltrane's "Naima," this record marks a transition away from Smith's earlier free jazz roots, moving into spacious, funk/fusion territory on cuts like "Peaceful Ones" and the title track. Gatefold, exact repro reissue.
Artist:
SMITH & THE COSMIC ECHOES, LONNIE LISTON
Title:
Expansions
Label:
FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:
LP
Price:
$11.50
Catalog #:
BDL 10934LP
The band's third album, 1975's
Expansions
, masterfully taps into the lush grooves and infectious melodies of the spiritual jazz continuum, with all that stuff about peace, humanity and tranquility delivered in a way that's fully digestible and authentic. A timeless, soul-jazz masterpiece, featuring bassist Cecil McBee, soprano saxophonist David Hubbard, tenor saxophonist Donald Smith and drummer Art Gore. Gatefold, exact repro reissue.
Artist:
SMITH & THE COSMIC ECHOES, LONNIE LISTON
Title:
Visions Of A New World
Label:
FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:
LP
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BDL 11196LP
1975's Visions Of A New World, the band's fourth album. Hand-me-down Wikipedia bullshit aside, this album delves deeper into the cosmic soul-jazz meditation of the albums before it, and it truly succeeds with an unmatched level of purity in its late-night, mid-tempo funk. Highlights include the danceable opener "A Chance For Peace," the vaguely Middle Eastern groover "Love Beams" and the world-cosmic soul of "Colors Of The Rainbow." Gatefold, exact repro reissue.
Artist:
HOLMES, GROOVE
Title:
Theme From Six Million Dollar Man And Other Selections
Label:
FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:
LP
Price:
$11.50
Catalog #:
BDL 1146LP
Gatefold exact repro from New Jersey/Philly soul monster Richard "Groove" Holmes. Selections include "Disc-O-Mite," "Salsa De Alma," "Once Is Not Enough," "Dumpy Mama" and "Double Scale." Copies of this man's gigantic orange sweatshirt have been sold on internet auctions for boner-loads of money.
Artist:
SCOTT-HERON, GIL
Title:
Pieces Of A Man
Label:
FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:
LP
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
FD 10143HLP
Gatefold exact repro reissue on 180 gram vinyl of Scott-Heron's definitive album, originally released in 1971. "
Pieces of a Man
is an album of fine songs. Because most of the accompaniment by an excellent assemblage of musicians here calling themselves Pretty Purdie and the Playboys: (Purdie on drums; Ron Carter, an astounding bass man; Burt Jones, guitar, Hubert Laws, flute and sax, and Brian Jackson, Scott-Heron's collaborator, on piano) is in a jazz style, the songs have a loose, unanchored quality that sets them apart from both R&B and rock work. Scott-Heron sings straight-out, with an ache in his voice that conveys pain, bitterness and tenderness with equal grace and, in most cases, subtlety. Frequently the nature of the jazz backing is so free that the vocals take on an independent, almost a cappella feeling which Scott-Heron carries off surprisingly well. But what is most surprising about the album, especially after an exposure to the awkwardly fashionable poses of his poetry, is Scott-Heron's assurance and directness as a songwriter. There are occasional lines that seem to have slipped out of youthful poetry into mature songs ('Why should I subscribe to this world's madness?') and the long final cut, 'The Prisoner,' tends to get bogged down in its own 'heaviness.' But generally the material is tough and real, 'relevant' while avoiding, on the one hand, empty cliche and, on the other, fierce rhetoric, its own kind of cliché. --
Rolling Stone
Artist:
SCOTT-HERON, GIL
Title:
Free Will
Label:
FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:
LP
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
FD 10153HLP
Gatefold exact repro reissue on 180 gram vinyl, originally released in 1972. "Gil Scott-Heron's third album is split down the middle, the first side being a purely musical experience with a full band (including flutist Hubert Laws and drummer Pretty Purdie), the second functioning more as a live rap session with collaborator Brian Jackson on flute and a few friends on percussion. For side one, although he's overly tentative on the ballad 'The Middle of Your Day,' Scott-Heron excels on the title track and the third song, 'The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues,' one of his best, best-known performances. The second side is more of an impromptu performance, with Scott-Heron often explaining his tracks by way of introduction ('No Knock' referred to a new police policy whereby knocking was no longer required before entering a house, 'And Then He Wrote Meditations' being Scott-Heron's tribute to John Coltrane). His first exploration of pure music-making,
Free Will
functions as one of Scott-Heron's most visceral performance, displaying a maturing artist who still draws on the raw feeling of his youth." -- All Music Guide
Artist:
SMITH & THE COSMIC ECHOES, LONNIE LISTON
Title:
Astral Traveling
Label:
FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:
LP
Price:
$11.50
Catalog #:
FD 10163LP
Astral Traveling
is the 1973 debut album from Lonnie Liston Smith and his band, The Cosmic Echoes, here featuring George Barron on soprano and tenor sax, Joe Beck on guitar, Cecil McBee on bass, David Lee Jr. on drums, James Mtume and Sonny Morgan on percussion, Badal Roy on Indian tabla drums, and Geeta Vashi on the Indian tamboura. Traces of Smith's prior work with giants like Pharoah Sanders and Roland Kirk can be heard on this album, Smith's first step toward an astounding soul-funk cosmos. Gatefold, exact repro reissue.
Artist:
APPLETON & DON CHERRY, JON
Title:
Human Music
Label:
FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:
LP
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
FDS 121LP
Exact repro reissue. Gatefold sleeve. Originally issued by Flying Dutchman in 1970 (current CD reissue is on Water). "
Human Music
is the name Don Cherry and Jon Appleton have chosen for their first collaboration. Cherry, known best for his exceedingly imaginative jazz improvisation, and Appleton, known for his unusual approach to electronic music, combine several musical traditions and come up with an entirely new sound. Cherry's recent explorations into folk, ethnic and exotic music provide a range of tone color which is subsequently modified by and joined to the music Appleton produces with the synthesizer. The live interaction of these two musicians is complemented by synthesizer configurations which are programmed to respond to the different instruments played by Cherry (wood, bamboo and metal flutes; kalimbas, earthquake drums; coronet with traditional mouthpiece and bassoon reed)."
Artist:
COLEMAN, ORNETTE
Title:
Friends and Neighbors: Ornette Live at Prince Street
Label:
FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:
LP
Price:
$11.50
Catalog #:
FDS 123LP
Grey area exact repro, including gatefold, originally released on Flying Dutchman in 1970. Recorded live at Ornette's storefront performance space "The Artists' House", located at 171 Prince Street in NYC, NY. The jam session features Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell, and some kids from the neighborhood. Free vibes abound. "This disc contains one of Ornette Coleman's lesser-known sessions. In addition to his own alto (and occasional trumpet and violin), Coleman is joined by Dewey Redman on tenor, bassist Charlie Haden, drummer Ed Blackwell, and (on one of the two versions of 'Friends and Neighbors') a variety of friends who sing along as best they can. Actually, the most notable tracks are the two extended pieces, 'Long Time No See' and 'Tomorrow.' The music is typically adventurous, melodic in its own way, yet still pretty futuristic." --All Music Guide
Artist:
SCOTT-HERON, GIL
Title:
Small Talk At 125th And Lenox
Label:
FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:
LP
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
FDS 131HLP
Gatefold exact repro reissue on 180 gram vinyl of Scott-Herron's debut album, originally released in 1970. "Disregard the understated title;
Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
was a volcanic upheaval of intellectualism and social critique, recorded live in a New York nightclub with only bongos and conga to back the street poet. Here Scott-Heron introduced some of his most biting material, including the landmark 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' as well as his single most polemical moment: the angry race warning 'Enough.' Still, he balances the tone and mood well, ranging from direct broadsides to clever satire. He introduces 'Whitey on the Moon' with a bemused air ('wanting to give credit where credit is due'), then launches into a diatribe concerning living conditions for the neglected on earth while those racing to the moon receive millions of taxpayer dollars." -- All Music Guide
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