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HONEY 056LP
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RELEASE DATE: 6/24/2022
Honey Pie Records present a reissue of The Jazz Epistles' self-titled album, originally released in 1959. The Jazz Epistles were the very first South African jazz group who broke away from the swinging and danceable jazz forms in vogue during the 1950s. A group formed by strong personalities like pianist Dollar Brand, later known as Abdulah Hibrahim, trumpeter Hugh Masekela, saxophonist Kippi Moeketzi, trombonist Jonas Gwangwa, bassist Johnny Getze, and drummer Makaya Ntschoko. A bunch of jazz modernists who already in the late 1950s, under the influence of the American "Bop" attitude began to switch on a more complex and hip music style. In 1959, just before breaking up, the Jazz Epistles released their first and only album, a great piece of work which stands as the first album released by a Black South-African band. A cultural manifesto as part of the anti-apartheid struggle of the time.
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HONEY 055LP
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Honey Pie Records present a reissue of Elza Soares's Se Acaso Você Chegasse, originally released in 1960. A highly distinctive personality! A dark, dense, raspy voice as a strong and deliberated expression of her poor social origins. For all her entire life singer Elza Soares was one of the strongest and most respected Brazilian performers across genres. Originally released in 1960, Se Acaso Você Chegasse was her second album. A superb and tuff statement on the black side of samba and bossa styles. A lively, colorful, energetic collection of songs based on a stream of big-band arrangements by the great Oswaldo Borba (E Sua Orquestra). A treasure in the whole history of Brazilian music.
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HONEY 042LP
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South Africa is in fact the only country in the whole African continent that has developed a strong jazz tradition. Initially influenced by the great American stylists, (Ellington, Gillespie...) South Africa gradually developed its own soulful style based on a distinctive taste for melody and a deep sense of groove. Masterfully selected from the so-called "Golden Age" of the genre, (late '50s/ early '60s), this compilation represents the best introduction to the work of a large and varied body of musicians and composers who inevitably developed their music as part of the historical Anti-Apartheid struggle, and as means of self-expression in the dark times of exile. Kippie Moeketsi, Hugh Masekela (in The Jazz Epistles), Dollar Brand, Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana (in Chris McGregor & The Castle Lager Big Band), Mongesi Feza (in Chris McGregor & The Castle Lager Big Band), Barney Rabachan, Nick Moyake (in Chris McGregor & The Castle Lager Big Band), and of course the queen Miriam Makeba are just some of the main voices represented here. A bunch of true warriors. Also features John Mehegan, Dollar Brand Trio, and Gideon Nxumalo.
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HONEY 044LP
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Originally released on Colpix Records in 1963, this striking release consists of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers performing selected music from the Broadway musical Golden Boy. Arranged by three master musicians, Wayne Shorter, Curtis Fuller and Cedar Walton, the music is performed by an amazing all-star line-up featuring Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Julius Watkins (French horn), Bill Barber (tuba), James Spaulding (alto sax), Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Charles Davis (baritone sax), Cedar Walton (piano), Reggie Workman (bass), and of course Blakey "the Boss" on drums.
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HONEY 054LP
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Honey Pie Records present a reissue of Quincy Jones & Band's I Dig Dancers, originally released on Mercury in 1961. Deliberately presented as a dance music release, this brilliant Quincy Jones album comprises material from two marvelous big band performances recorded the year before in Paris and New York. Here the great composer and arranger leads a first class "dance organization", a top-flight big band featuring the cream of NY jazz musicians, among them: Clark Terry and Freddie Hubbard (trumpets); Curtis Fuller and Melba Liston (trombones); Phil Woods, Oliver Nelson and Sahib Shihab (saxes); and Stu Martin (drums). An exquisite platter of highly swinging and danceable grooves signed by the genius of Quincy Jones.
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A marvelous compilation as tribute to the genius of Allen Toussaint, one of the greatest musicians, composers and arrangers in the history of American popular music as well as an incredibly influential figure in the New Orleans R&B tradition. NOLA Soul features a selection of 16 Toussaint's productions within the crucial time frame 1960-1963. 16 gems performed by the cream of the New Orleans scene: Irma Thomas, Lee Dorsey, Aaron Neville... The best of southern soul music experience. Also features Ernie K-Doe, Benny Spellman, Chick Carbo, Chuck Carbo & His Band, Willie Harper, and Art Neville.
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Originally released in 1963, and arranged by four distinctive musicians, among them alto sax genius Benny Carter, Recipe For Soul stands as one of Ray Charles's most eclectic and erratic releases of the period. A highly varied sequence of pop standards, lowdown blues, jazz big band numbers, after-hours ballads and country tunes like Harlan Howard's "Busted" one of his best early-'60s singles.
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Volume 1 of two volumes split on two LPs (alongside HONEY 039LP), this is Thelonious Monk's complete concert at the Montreal Jazz Festival in August 1965. At the head of his last great quartet featuring Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums, Thelonious "Sphere" Monk was in top form delivering a strong set of angular tunes including originals such as "Straight No Chaser", "Evidence", "Epistrophy", "Blue Monk" and a rare interpretation of a classic standard like "April in Paris".
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Volume 2 of two volumes split on two LPs (alongside HONEY 038LP), this is Thelonious Monk's complete concert at the Montreal Jazz Festival in August 1965. At the head of his last great quartet featuring Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums, Thelonious "Sphere" Monk was in top form delivering a strong set of angular tunes including originals such as "Straight No Chaser", "Evidence", "Epistrophy", "Blue Monk" and a rare interpretation of a classic standard like "April in Paris".
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HONEY 051LP
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This compilation comes as a perfect introduction to vintage Italian jazz. A fine selection of some of the best Italian mainstream jazz masters of the sixties and seventies such as the young trumpet genius of Enrico Rava, or maverick film music composer Piero Umiliani, whose jazz influence is well known worldwide. Throughout this record you will bump into both famous and obscure swing/bop stylists of the likes of bass player, Giorgio Azzolini, trombonist Dino Piana, tenor saxophonist Gianni Basso, and drummer Gil Cuppini, a bunch of true pioneers who made the sound of Italian jazz. Also features Maurizio Lama Trio, Sergio Fanni And His All Stars, Attilio Donadio, Franco Mondini, and Modern Jazz Gang.
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HONEY 048LP
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Reissue. Originally recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in August 1960 and released in February 1961, Caribè shows the great multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy in the unexpected context of the Latin Jazz Quintet. A fascinating combination of apparently distant elements where Dolphy's masterful playing shines through every harmony and groove displayed by this solid Latin Jazz Quintet featuring Juan Amalbert (congas), Gene Casey (piano), Charlie Simons (vibraphone), Bill Ellington (bass), and Manny Ramos (drums, timbales).
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A live experience on its own! A never before released live recording from the Lady Soul! On July 21, 1970, Aretha Franklin made her appearance at the great Antibes Jazz Festival in the south of France. At the head of a twelve-piece backing band, Lady Soul gave a great performance based on a fine set-list full of hits such as "You Send Me", "Dr. Feelgood", "Spirit In The Dark" and a couple of tributes to British pop, via two heartfelt renditions of the Stones' "Satisfaction" and the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby". Line-up features: Aretha Franklin (piano, vocals); Donald Towns, John Wilson, Charles Horse and Clay Robinson (trumpet); Chancey Outcalt and René Pitts (trombone); Louis Barnett, Miller Brisker, Donald Walden, Charlie Gabriel (saxophone); Truman Thomas (organ); Ted Sheely (piano); Leslie Harvey (guitar); Melvin Jackson (bass); Hindel Butts (drums); Evelyn Green, Almeta Latimer and Wyline Ivy (backing vocals).
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HONEY 043LP
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RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2021
Honey Pie Records present a reissue on Babatunde Olatunji And His Percussion's Zungo!, originally released in 1961. A much-needed reissue of another obscure Afro-jazz piece of vinyl. This is legendary percussionist and activist Olatunji's classic album originally released in 1961 and featuring jazz heavyweights such as Yusef Lateef, Clark Terry, George Duvivier, and master percussionists like Ray Barreto and Montego Joe, among others. Zungo! sounds as some sort of an ongoing orgy in Afro percussion grooves with Olatunji at the head of a large and varied group including horns, guitar, bass, multiple percussion and drums, plus a 13-piece choir.
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HONEY 045LP
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$21.50
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RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2021
Third installment in James Brown's early singles collections series. Another essential release covering the crucial 1960-1961 time frame, when Brown and his Famous Flames began to define their innovative R&B style especially through the release of the hit album Think! Needless to add that the album includes immortal tracks such as "You've Got The Power", "I'll Go Crazy", "Baby You're Right" and "Think!"
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Fourth installment in James Brown's singles collections series. A new great chapter covering a crucial two-year time period in Brown's career. A breathtaking selection featuring 16 immortal hits, including "Lost Someone", "Night Train" and "Prisoner of Love" among others.
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HONEY 041LP
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$21.50
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RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2021
Honey Pie Records present a reissue of Joe Cuba Sextette's Steppin' Out, originally released in 1963. Joe Cuba, New York's Latin music icon, "the King of Latin Boogaloo" is considered a pioneer in the so-called Nuyorican culture. Originally released in 1963, this is a highly infectious mix of dance numbers and love songs based on a wide range of percussive instruments, timbales, congas, bass, piano, vibes, and lots of hand percussion. If you feel ready to move your feet in various exotic energizing styles like mambo, pachanga, and cha cha cha, this is the right album for you.
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HONEY 040LP
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The one and only Laurel Aitken, a true pioneer in Jamaican music, superbly backed by the Skatalites with: Baba Brooks - trumpet; Tommy McCook - sax; Lester Sterling - sax; Gladdy Anderson - keyboards; Lloyd Brevette - bass; and Lloyd Knibbs - drums. A seminal combo who laid the foundation for generations to come. Intermittently recorded in 1963 at Federal Studio in Kingston, this is pure cool Jamaican sound and groove at its best.
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This is Yusef Lateef's quartet caught live in Germany in October 1971. Lateef on tenor sax, flute and oboe, presents a classy quartet featuring Kenny Barron on piano, Bob Cunningham on bass, and master Albert "Toothie" Heath on drums. Not much in Lateef's ethno-world trip, just tons of solid grooves and waves of blue notes, a timeless formula to be enjoyed unreservedly.
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Honey Pie Records present a reissue of Jack Nitzsche's Lonely Surfer, originally released in 1963. Jack Nitzsche, a close collaborator of master producer Phil Spector, was an American musician, arranger and film music composer who worked extensively as keyboard player with high caliber rock stars like the Rolling Stones and Neil Young, among others. The Lonely Surfer originally released on Reprise Records in 1963 was the first album under his own name. An all-instrumental mix of surf aesthetic and eclectic orchestral arrangements featuring great west coast based studio musicians such as guitarist Tommy Tedesco, drummer Hal Blaine, and pianist Leon Russell. A golden summer classic full of surfing sounds and vibes that can be easily summed up in one word: timeless.
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Repressed. Talking about the foundation of Jamaican music, the Alpha Boys School in Kingston can be considered as one of the places where it all began. Back in the day, under the direction of Sister Mary Ignatius, the school was the place where young boys from the poor neighborhoods in Kingston could embrace an instrument (mostly brass and drums). Then history tells us that some of these kids became among the most influential musicians in the history of Jamaican jazz, ska, and reggae. Joe Harriott, Dizzy Reece, Tommy McCook, Don Drummond, Cedric Brooks, Rico Rodriguez, Johnny Osbourne, Leroy Smart, and Yellowman are just some of the fruits of such a great community art project. Now this compilation contains some rare gems produced between 1959 and 1962 by Jamaican jazz heavyweights such as Tommy McCook, Don Drummond, Ernest Ranglin, Lennie Hiibert, Cecil Lloyd, and others. This is highly swinging music inspired by the Black American tradition with a unique and inevitable Caribbean flavor. Also features Wilton Gaynair, Lance Hayward, Totlyn Jackson, The Eric Grant Orchestra, Cecil Lloyd Group, The Workshop.
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Minit Records was an American independent record label, originally based in New Orleans and founded by Joe Banashak in 1959. Hereby all the singles released by singer Aaron Neville between 1960 and 1963, one of the key figures of the local scene and founding member of the Neville Brothers. The first of his singles that was given airplay outside of New Orleans was "Over You", the opening track of this amazing and mandatory compilation.
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Honey Pie Records present a reissue of Elza Soares's A Bossa Negra, originally released in 1961. One of the most shocking but ultimately uplifting stories of Brazilian music: Soares grew up in extreme poverty in a favela, at 13 was forced to marry a man who raped her, gave birth to three stillborn children -- but still fought her way to the top of the industry, married Garrincha, lost him to booze and loose women, in addition to their son and her mother in car accidents. And she is still going strong! This is probably her best album and indeed is absolutely lovely, grooves like nothing else. She sings with passion and fire in her lungs like the fabulously versatile singing magician she is. Her husky voice became her trademark. After finishing A Bossa Negra -- her second album -- Elza went to Chile to represent Brazil in the 1962 Football World Cup, where she met with Louis Armstrong personally.
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RESOLICITATION -- double-LP, previously solicited as a single-LP. Hugh Masekela, live at The Record Plant on February 24th, 1974. This legendary South African-born trumpeter became a major star when he appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, and he had a smash hit with "Grazing In The Grass" the following year. This superb set was originally broadcast on KSAN-FM, and captures him at his infectious best.
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Honey Pie Records present a reissue of American jazz/blues vocalist Lorez Alexandria's For Swingers Only, originally released by the Argo label in 1963. The opener "Baltimore Oriole" is still considered a rare-groove forerunner. Personnel on this session include: Lorez Alexandria (vocals), Ronald Wilson (tenor saxophone, flute), John Young (piano, arranger), George Eskridge (guitar), Jimmy Garrison (bass) and Phil Thomas (drums).
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A great collection focused on Marvin Gaye's early Tamla productions. A breathtaking sequence of soulful hits released as singles between 1961 and 1963. The Prince of Motown's lush vocals shines through on every single track of this unmissable album. This is pure sweet soul music at its best.
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