Ann Sexton The Beginning (1977)

First ever UK reissue of this cult and mega rare soul album from Ann Sexton! Features her legendary northern soul floorfiller 'You've Been Gone Too Long' plus the club classics 'I Still Love You' and 'You're Losing Me'!

Reissue of this wicked, funky, female, Memphis southern soul album from 1977!

1973 debut LP from Ann Sexton - it's a classic!

Wicked southern funky soul collection from 72

Original = USA Vinyl VG+ /Sleeve VG

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Includes Esther's killer version of Bill Wither's 'Use Me'

Super funky Herbie Hancock spin-off project featuring the musicians from his classic 'Headhunters' album. Includes the ultimate funk track "God Made Me Funky"!

You need this album! 

All-time seminal album from Marlena Shaw recorded for Chess in 1969, arranged and produced by the great Charles Stepney and Richard Evans, featuring the 100% essential tunes 'Woman of The Ghetto', 'California Soul' and much more.

Ethio-jazz hero Mulatu Astake and His Ethiopian Quintet "Afro-Latin Soul" album from 1966! As the title suggest this is more leaning towards the Latin-soul jazz sound. Beautiful vibes, piano, and drumming from Mulatu with stirring haunting melodies. Recommended!

This has to be the greatest rare groove album ever: it's brimming with classic tracks such as the 2 step perfection of Heart's Desire, Holding You Loving You, and Never Miss a Thing, and the uplifting disco boogie of Let Your Concience Be Your Guide! What can I tell you? It's a corker! Very highly recommended! You need this album!

Absolutely essential jazz funk album! A rare groove classic and the only album James Mason recorded. Every track's a winner but look out for "Sweet Power Your Embrace", "Free" and "Slick City" in particular! You need this album!!

Legendary funk album with loads of great tracks and much sampled breaks, recorded by a group of American musicians living in Paris in the early 1970's.

Wake Up You! tells the story of the Nigerian rock scene around their civil war of the late 60s. A scene that developed during time, pays homage to the now-forgotten musicians and their struggle, and brings to light the funk and psychedelic fury they created as they wrested free of the ravages of the late 1960s and created thrilling, original Nigerian rock music throughout the 1970s.

Top funky soul cut.

MINT UNPLAYED 45

In the 1970s, Clement Dodd’s legendary Studio One Records went through an amazing period of re-birth working with new artists such as Willie Williams, Lone Ranger, Michigan and Smiley, Horace Andy as well as continuing to work with classic artists such as Alton Ellis, Freddie McGregor, etc. 

Re-versioning classic Studio One rhythms became the order of the day in the 1970s, not just with Studio One boss Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd, but with every Jamaican producer of note employing their own in-house musicians to copy the music emanating from Brentford Road. 

The music on Studio One Rub-A-Dub features classic and rare tracks from this amazing period, from the likes of Cornel Campbell, The Heptones, Johnny Osbourne and many other legendary artists. Sleeve-notes are by Chris Salewicz, the acclaimed writer who has written books on Joe Strummer, Bob Marley, The Rolling Stones and many more.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble are back with 'Book Of Sound'. The eight sons of legendary jazz trumpeter, Philip Cohran perform and compose their third album for Honest Jon's. 'Book Of Sound' retains plenty of rhythmic heft, but the absence of a drummer opens up space for a notably varied instrumental palette - acoustic guitar, piccolo, synthesiser and alto sax all find their place on the album. Highly recommended!

Rising Osaka-based composer Seiho meticulously crafts electronic music in futuristic fusion. Collapse is the full length album amalgam of dance floor / Rave dominators, and hidden doorways into hypernuanced free jazz & musique concrète.

Hard to find on vinyl. Classic CTI stuff from 74. Heavyweight fusion with Airto Moreira, Ron Carter and George Benson in the line-up plus full orchestral ensemble.

This album is wicked! Killer female deep southern soul. So many good tracks on this album!

Classic funk outfit from London! Includes the legendary tracks 'Bra' and 'The Message'!!!

Highly Recommended!!!

UNBELIEVEABLE!

Not every day you get a previously unknown, unreleased 1966 album from Yusef Lateef! This is incredible - Lateef at the height of his creative powers, signed to Impulse Records alongside John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones etc as part of the radical New Thing movement of radical and spiritual jazz.

The previous year Lateef had recorded another live album Live at Peps, featuring the seminal jazz dance modal tune Brother John (which appears on Club Date).

Not only is the music the DEEPEST and most SPIRITUAL jazz we think ever performed at Ronnie Scotts, it is also one of the best live recordings that we have ever heard - fantastically mastered. Check the fantastic eastern flavours on tracks like "angel Eyes' and 'Song of Delilah' or the Roland Kirk-esque 'Last Night Blues'.

This really is an amazing, understated deep album - we think every home should have one!

The best Sun Ra album! Super-deep, funky odd-ball jazz with spooky whispered vocals! Cult classic deep experimental jazz with an outer-space alien groove! Highly recommended!

Seminal album! 

Rollin In The Deep, Rumour Has It, Someone Like You - every track a winner!

Words cannot describe the beauty of Weldon Irvine's music. 'Liberated Brother' (later covered by Horace Silver) is one of two seminal albums released on his own Nodlew label in the early 1970s (the other album being Time Capsule). Deep, deep spiritual, funky jazz.

Absolutely KILLER very rare independent label Nathan Davis LP, 1971. Deep, deep jazz reissued for the first time ever! ESSENTIAL!

E-S-S-E-N-T-I-A-L deep jazz from 1970s Ethiopia! Mulatu is a cult figure for fans of both 1970s indy deep jazz (think Strata East) and African music - his records are highly prized among collectors and break fiends so it's a real joy to have these lovely reissues! This is super-deep space jazz of the highest order!

Highly recommended!

A definitive collection of singles released by Sun Ra across his illustrious career, spanning 1952 to 1991. Released prolifically during the 1950s and more sporadically thereafter, primarily on the Saturn label, the 45s offer one-off meteorites from Ra’s prolific cosmic journey, tracing the development of his forward-thinking “Space-Bop” and his unique take on jazz and blues traditions. The collection is hugely varied, ranging from Ra’s spoken word recitations and his early work with Chicago vocal groups to the different phases of his Arkestra, small group and duet recordings. The singles are also unpredictable vehicles for Ra’s music, combining different tracks from different sessions and occasionally making available music which was recorded many years beforehand.  

FULL TRACKLISTING:

CD 1

1. Sun Ra – I Am An Instrument

2. Sun Ra – I Am Strange

3. The Nu Sounds With Sun Ra – Chicago Usa

4. The Nu Sounds With Sun Ra – Spaceship Lullaby

5. The Cosmic Rays With Sun Ra And Arkestra – Daddy’S Gonna Tell You No Lie

6. The Nu Sounds With Sun Ra And Arkestra – A Foggy Day

7. Billie Hawkins With Sun-Ra And His Orchestra – I’M Coming Home

8. Billie Hawkins With Sun-Ra And His Orchestra – Last Call For Love

9. Sun-Ra And His Arkistra – Soft Talk

10. Sun-Ra And His Arkistra – Super Blonde

11. Le Sun-Ra And His Arkistra – Saturn

12. Le Sun-Ra And His Arkistra – Call For All Demons

13. Le Sun-Ra And His Arkistra – Demon’S Lullaby

14. Le Sun-Ra And His Arkistra – Super-Sonic Jazz

15. Le Sun-Ra & His Arkistra – Medicine For A Nightmare

16. Le Sun-Ra & His Arkistra – Urnack

17. The Qualities – It’S Christmas Time

18. The Qualities – Happy New Year To You!

19. Yochanan (The Space Age Vocalist) – M Uck M Uck (Matt Matt)

20. Yochanan (The Space Age Vocalist) – Hot Skillet Momma

21. The Cosmic Rays With Le Sun Ra And Arkestra – Bye Bye

22. The Cosmic Rays With Le Sun Ra And Arkestra – Somebody’S In Love

23. Le Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Hours After

24. Le Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Great Balls Of Fire

CD 2

1. Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra – October

2. Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra – Adventur In Space

3. The Cosmic Rays With Sun Ra And Arkestra – Dreaming

4. The Cosmic Rays With Sun Ra And Arkestra – Daddy’S Gonna Tell You No Lie

5. Hattie Randolph With Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra – Round Midnight

6. Hattie Randolph With Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra – Back In Your Own Back Yard

7. Le Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Saturn

8. Le Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Velvet

9. Yochanan “A Space Age Vocalist” With Sun Ra And His Arkestra – The Sun One

10. Yochanan “A Space Age Vocalist” With Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Message To Earthman

11. Yochanan With Sun Ra And His Arkestra – The Sun Man Speaks

12. Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Space Loneliness

13. Sun Ra And His Arkestra – State Street

14. Sun Ra And His Arkestra – The Blue Set

15. Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Big City Blues

16. Sun Ra And His Arkestra Featuring Pat Patrick – A Blue One

17. Sun Ra And His Arkestra Featuring Pat Patrick – Orbitration In Blue

18. Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Hell #1 (A.K.A. Out There A Minute)

19. Little Mack With Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Tell Her To Come

CD 3

1. Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra – The Bridge

2. Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra – Rocket # 9

3. Sun Ra And His Astro-Solar- Infinity Arkestra – Blues On Planet Mars

4. Sun Ra And His Astro-Solar- Infinity Arkestra – Saturn Moon

5. Sun Ra And His Astro-Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra – Journey To Saturn

6. Sun Ra And His Astro-Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra – Enlightenment

7. Sun Ra And His Astro-Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra – I’M Gonna Unmask The Batman

8. Sun Ra And His Astro-Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra – The Perfect Man

9. Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Love In Outer Space

10. Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Mayan Temple

11. Sun Ra – Sky Blues

12. Sun Ra – Disco 2021

13. Sun Ra – Rough House Blues

14. Sun Ra – Cosmo-Extensions

15. Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra – Quest

16. Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra – Outer Space Plateau

17. Sun Ra Arkestra – Nuclear War

18. Sun Ra Arkestra – Sometimes I’M Happy

19. Sun Ra Arkestra – On Jupiter / Cosmo Drama (Prophetika 1)

20. Sun Ra Arkestra – Cosmo Drama (Prophetika 2)

21. Sun Ra – I Am The Instrument

All tracks on CD 1 and tracks 1-12 of CD 2 feature on 3LP Vol. 1.

Written and produced by Larry Mizell, their first collaboration! It's a classic! Nuff tunes, seriously deep funky heavy 70s jazz monster