Kent Carter - Beauvais Cathedral 1975 Emanem lp OG RARE Electronic Jazz Avant NM

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Welcome to our ( further continued!) Winter Special 2026 "Gigantic" Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz, Spiritual, Fusion, Private Press, Part 3.The main focus is jazz-funk, spiritual jazz, fusion, soul-jazz, rare groove lp's, largely from the late 1960's-1970's into the early 80's, all originals, no reissues! WE COMBINE SHIPPING! :)
150 lp's, all originals (no reissues!), many have soundclips, which are from the actual record!

This week features part III, there was so much we just didn't have the time to properly list in the first two auctions, (there also will be a Part IV later in Spring, of curated grail pieces!), this one has a lot of amazing rare jazz-fusion, heavy jazz-funk, cinematic library style jazz-funk rare groove, the funkiest instrumental jazz-rock, leftfield electronic jazz, rare private presses, spiritual jazz/avant and tons of open drum breaks! Beginning with quickly rising to grail status Sam Morrison - Natural Layers 1977 Chiaroscuro record on to  albums like Gil Scott-Heron's 1977 masterpiece "Bridges" on Arista, numerous MPS records from George Duke, to Rhythm Combination, and Csaba Deseo, an extremely rare unknown jazz-fusion private press by Rob Dame (No, not the known "November"!), a large # of lp's from the ECM label, Jan Hammer's hype rare 1977 "Melodies" (Peep David Earle Johnson's "Time Is Free" 1977 Vanguard lp if you dig that one!), sureshots like Lonnie Liston Smith's "Expansions", Mike Longo's "900 Shares Of The Blues" on Groove Merchant, the 1st press 1974 Impulse! John Coltrane - Interstellar Space, the 1968 Ozzie Torrens - Boogaloo in Apartment 41 lp on Decca, Woody Shaw, Herbie Hancock, Grassella Oliphant, M'Boom, The Peddlers 1972 UK Only "Suite London", rare Nanette Natal, Caroline Peyton, and so much more :) 

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* After this week's auction, (In no particular order) we have in the auction pipeline:
A major Modern soul/Gospel Boogie/AOR lp's
A "golden era" late 70's - early 70's funk/soul lp's
A Psych / Rock / Country / Alternative rare lp's
A Random Rap GFunk Indie R&B, Rare Hip-Hop, Neo-Soul, New Jack Swing CD's & Tapes
A Part 4 "Giant Jazz" sale lp's
A funk/soul/boogie 7" 45rpm's
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Media Grade:  NM (top copy, I've kept well preserved, in MOFI sleeve, played delicately, happy to send soundclips!)
Sleeve Grade:  VG+ (light storage wear, isolated chipping on spine, one inch slice *not full split, top seam upper left hand area, light discoloration on back cover, overall a fairly nice copy, see photos!)
Year / Label / Catalogue #:   1975  /  Emanem Records (Indie label, *insert joke about how until Dre came along!*)  / 3306 Stereo (1st press)  
Brief Comments: Utilizing multi-tracking, recordings of Radio, tape splicing, Kent Carter composed these all originals on the label best known for some of Steve Lacy's avant jazz lps, he is joined on A6 by Phillip Ponchon on a second Cello, and B2 by Michala Marcus on Flute & Melodica, basically Kent Carter was a master Cello / Double-Bass player, who had an idea for a very experimental album, utilizing in particular the Cello, but also double-bass, recordings of the Radio, and I first got into this record, ironically enough because of Dr. Dre, a comment he made, about loving the sound of Cellos, how it adds, got me intrigued, I found some rare classical Cellist lps (Janos Starker, Jacqueline Du Pre, Daniel Shafran, my personal favorite & keeper "Ennio Bolognini"), which by the way, on that RCA Daniel Shafran classical grail is a 30 second line that is soooo Chronic 2001 style(!), Cello is still my favorite classical instrument (or instrument most associated with classical music), but this one blew me out of the water! It's avant-garde, but very accessible, listenable (it's not "harsh", or "atonal" at all), it's got very rhythmic tracks, like A1, A4, B2, that are difficult to describe, it's definitely jazzy throughout, an ambient pulse pervading it, hypnotic, from front to back, as if Ron Carter took LSD at the Peabody Conservatory, with full access to mixing consoles, tape splicing, a radio to field record, and just did how he felt..... 
Now, anyone whose followed, seen the auctions past (and to come in future!), knows the level of jazz-funk, rare groove, "classic" & Modern Soul, I'm into. I'll admit, other than maybe Sun Ra (who I don't personally think of as Free Jazz), and a few accessible outliers, this would be unusual. Well, to my jazz-funk, rare groove, 4/4 syncopated funk drumming fam, as well as spiritual jazz, modal jazz fam, I invite you to consider this addition, because it is a breath of fresh air, needed in between, for samplers, there's so much untapped matierial to add that extra special spice to your beats, and because it is, in the words of Miles Davis, who made distinctions of music on one criteria, that being "good music", it's good music, it isn't trying to be difficult or pretentious for the sake of a misguided attempt to impress John Cage fans, it isn't an experiment in "how atonal, harsh, abrasive, can we make this, until only one "esteemed" critic at the New Yorker can pretend he listened to it and called it music (I say he, because I have found women music critics don't play, Yvonne Daniels for example), it's not a derivative record, there's nothing else quite like it, but it's not purposely the sole aim "to be as different as possible", it's Kent Carter, trying to be as Kent Carter, as possible, the human creative spirit inside, using his gifts, to make a vision come to life, and that is what really sets it apart, he succeeds completely.
He recorded with Paul Bley, Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron, Noah Howard, Robin Kenyatta, Carla Bley, several times in Japan with top Jazz players there... the 1978 Children at Play ECM lp, the dope modal jazz lp by Bobby Bradford also on Emanem, he even did a French library record in 1986(!), electronics, and his trusty Cello, among many recordings. 
He has other solo recordings, but none I think capture something so complete, so uniquely Kent Carter, something about it, you just want to play it again, and each time you pick up on things you didn't before, it's never a boring listen, it's one I still very much would want to hang on to, but I also know it's time to let it go to a new home, to bring that magic, that special indescribable feeling, I and others have gotten on each spin.... May it go to a loving home :)
Gorgeous OG press, rare as hen's teeth! :)



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