Various - Wanted: JazzThe always affordable Wanted series returns this week with another set of beautifully presented, expertly selected comps covering a variety of genres. Tackling jazz was always going to be tricky so the folks at Wagram serve us a survey in two parts. Volume 1 treats us to luxurious grooves, mournful ballads and dreamy difters from the likes of Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie and Letta Mbulu. A1. Art Blakey Big Band Feat. John Coltrane

Good times

turned their amps all the way up

some of the best library music defies all categorization

The most ambitious song is a dense instrumental

railing against hypocrisy

“Mentally Mad” plus “Traveling At The Speed Of Thought (Hip House Club Mix)” and “Ego Trippin (Bonus Beats)” coupled for the first time ever on vinyl

dance music

freak-out of guitar heroics

It was produced by the group's production team The Bomb Squad

It took twenty years to realize that these strange

and why such things were a matter of weeks rather than anything else

” The album cover was created in collaboration with photographer Neil Krug and features a symbol of humanity all but swallowed whole by the surrounding environment