My Jazz World - MPS Hookup

    That's "Most Perfect Sound" and not the Beatles crazy WWALT member. MPS is the best German 60's & 70's Freaky Hipster Jazz label EVER, in my humble opinion. There probably weren't many. Their best stuff strikes a fine balance between being outre' but still having a groovy dancefloor vibe, super fun stuff yet still very good jazz. There were a couple of Crippled Dick comps that came out a while back, "Between or Beyond the Black Forest" I & II, that I think are absolutely essential. I pretty much buy anything I find on MPS no questions asked, especially if it has a cool funky cover. Most of the good ones do.

This Wolfgang Dauner is actually on a different label, everything else I have by him is on MPS and this is very typical of his style

Anyway, all of the above are available on that Jazz World blog, I suggest you grab them. The Wolfgang Dauner and Volker Kriegel in particular are the kind of thing I'd see and have to buy as some $35 Japanese import so thanks again to whoever first dropped that on this crowd.