Brother Jack McDuff & David Newman Double Barrelled Soul (1968)

Following on from our new Acid-Mysterons Invade The Jackin' Zone, 

Soul Jazz Records are re-releasing theis long out of print classic album Acid – Can You Jack? Chicago Acid and Experimental House 1985-95.

Double CD set with 48-page outsize booklet and slipcase. Two separate volume of super-loud heavyweight 180gm double vinyl (each with free download codes) housed in heavyweight sleeves. Also now available here as an exclusive to this site  digital download for the first time.

The extensive sleevenotes to this release charting the phenomenal rise of Chicago house and acid music are written by Tim Lawrence, author or the the definitive book on dance music ‘Love Saves The Day’, as well as the Arthur Russell biography Hold On To Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene 1973-92.  Lawrence also wrote the text for Voguing and The House Ballroom Scene of New York, 1989-92, also published by Soul Jazz Records/Books.

The album features all-time classic full-length 12" tracks such as Phuture’s ‘Acid Trax’ and Sleezy D’s ‘I’ve Lost Control’, Jamie Principle’s ‘Baby Wants to Ride’ alongside many rare and experimental tracks including , Marshall Jefferson’s “Go Wild Rhythm Tracks”, Virgo's 'Take Me Higher' and many more.

The large booklet also contains exclusive photos and interviews with a number of the key players in the birth and rise of Chicago’s original house music scene from originators like Jefferson, DJ Pierre and Adonis to second wave artists like Cajmere and Roy Davis Jnr.

Killer!

Reviews of Acid - Can You Jack?:

'Impeccably timed compilation from Soul Jazz Records' Pitchfork

'Soul Jazz can do no wrong in terms of compiling in my eyes' Resident Advisor

'Suitably comprehensive, featuring many of the touchstone works now widely considered classics'XLR8R

C-L-A-S-S-I-C deep jazz masterpiece on the cult indy label Tribe out of Detroit! This is essential leftfield jazz with vocals and a soul music influence - as deep as it gets! Very highly recommended!

Beautiful spiritual deep jazz compliation of new artists from all around the world!

The music is influenced by jazz greats such as Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and Jimmy Smith!

Recommended!!

Later deep jazz album from the legendary Alice Coltrane featuring strings and more!

Reissue of an unbelievably rare private press album that's chock full of the good stuff - all kinds of funky femme soul, cool n' groovy organ/flute/guitar jazz and a good ol' dose of the blues!

This is the fourth installment in Jazzman's HOLY GRAIL series.  Sacramento multi-instrumentalist Johnny Heartsman's hopelessly obscure self-pressed double LP of top grade funky jazz & soul from 1977, carefully repressed on CD and vinyl (limited to 1000 vinyl copies only). The original LP has been fetching silly money on-line! Jazzman have now reissued this spectacular album with it's original artwork!

From the mid '50s to the late '60s he recorded countless sessions, backing up the likes of Jimmy McCracklin, Lowell Fulson, Sugar Pie DeSanto, and many, many more. In the early '70s he took up a low-key residency at a small Sacramento jazz club. Here, Heartsman finally got to do his OWN thing. And his thing went down so well with the local audience that he decided to record some material and offer an LP for sale. The album was quickly snapped up by the Basin St West regulars, and very few escaped the local area. A couple of decades later, and sadly a little while after Heartsman himself had passed away, a couple of copies surfaced on the funk collectors scene in LA and whispers and rumours of a set of sustained quality funky soul and jazz began circulating slowly. Very few copies have appeared since, making the LP almost as legendary as the long and hidden career of the man himself..

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

The Holy Grail of modern soul!  Share in the secret and find out why this album is so highly regarded!

Very highly recommended!

Classic jazz funk album written and produced by the magnificent Mizell brothers! Includes 'Lansana's Priestess'.

After making their debut on Soul Jazz Records 'Box Of Dub 2' and two well received singles for Kode9's Hyperdub, King Midas Sound finally drop their highly anticipated album!

King Midas Sound are fierce dubby electronics producer Kevin Martin aka The Bug and well-respected poet and lyricist Roger Robinson! The collaboration is faultless with Roger's eerie whispering tones melting within The Bug's incredibly intense blanket of bass and atmospherics perfectly. Roger sets the tone of the album with a ghostly spoken word rhythmic chant on 'Cool Out', the Bug adds a slow walk of lazy stomping bass and machine noise. 'Waiting For You' has a deep soulful melacholic feel to it, with Roger's emotive deeply personal lyrics dominating most of the track. Armed Rogers lyrics of love, loss and heartache, the album has a meditative smokers feel to it, and similar to The bug's previous production 'Waiting For You' has a deep menancing, unsettling feeling and with tracks like 'The Earth Will Kill You' where the duo become a trio accompanied with backing vocals from Hitomi (from Dokkebi Q) on this album is likely to have you looking behind you constantly with severe paranoia! 

Will appeal to open-minded dub afficionado's, dubstep heads aswell as fans of SA-RA, Portishead etc! 

VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Forget the wack cover - this is a serious compilation!! Similar to Soul Jazz Records Philadelphia Roots CDs with seriously obscure tracks.60s and early 70s Funky Soul from Philadelphia showing the true roots of Disco music that would follow 5 years later. Recommended. Wonderful collection of funky Philadelphia based groups who blessed the scene between 1968-1973. Many of these recordings have been re-mastered from the original reels for the first time! Before many of these musicians were making music you hear on television and movies, they played under different names and labels during the late '60s early '70s, mostly as funky jams recorded for tax write-off purposes!" Artists include: Interpretations, Brothers of Hope, Hidden Cost, Daley Diggers, Sam Reed Band, Alliance, Cupit, Race Street Chinatown Band, Electric Indian, French Connection, Pat & The Blenders and Ando Orchestra

Heavyweight classic Jazz album from the tenor sax man Ramon Morris featuring Albert Dailey, Cecil Bridgewater and a great funky production by Sonny Lester on Groove Merchant, 1974.

Super-rare and highly sought-after classic modal jazz album finally reissued!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

Definitive jazz funk album produced by the Mizell brothers. A classic - all the way!

Overdue repress for this excellent 32 track double CD marking Hyperdub’s first five years of life as a record label, comprised of one disc of prior highlights, and one of material that debuted on this comp.

Includes Burial, Cooly G, Darkstar, Flying Lotus, Ikonika, Joker & Ginz, King Midas Sound, Kode9 & The Spaceape, Mala, Martyn, and Zomby!!

Many of the tracks made their first and only appearance on CD here, long since sold out of their original 12” vinyl versions. 

There's little need to talk up the importance of Hyperdub artists' influence upon the electronic music landscape of the present and recent past.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

This is a classic slice of super-slinky 1980s jazz funk chugging, plodding electronic disco genius! The A side 'Rise' has the break that was sampled by Notorious BIG for 'Hypnotize'! Tip!

*CLASSIC Arthur Russell album - issued for the first time on Vinyl*

Arthur Russell was a performer/composer from the downtown NY scene of the late seventies and early eighties whose music was all but ignored during his lifetime but who has been posthumously lauded in the most glowing of terms and has consequently become a key influence on many of today's most interesting producers and musicians such as DFA, Hot Chip and Polmo Polpo.

This is a reissue of a 1992 album that features the folkier (and very beautiful) side of his diverse output alongside some excellent leftfield electro style tracks. It includes the original, unremixed version of his stunning collaboration with Elodie Lauten, "In The Light Of The Miracle", "My Tiger My Timing" and the awesome "This Is How We Walk On The Moon"!

Classic Prince action! Sexy Dancer is very rare and sought after on a 12" so grab one of these and save yourself a hundred quid! Ace!