The Best of the Black President is the 13 track guide to Fela Kuti’s massive and manifold creative career. Fela was a musician, arranger, producer, political...
‘Overtake Don Overtake Overtake’ was the penultimate album of newly recorded studio material released by Fela before he passed in 1997.Like its immediate...
‘Why Black Man Dey Suffer’, recorded in 1971, was originally deemed too controversial for release by EMI, his label at the time. Having recently been...
“Gentleman is the last of Fela's early 1970s albums recorded with the Africa 70. The title track can be interpreted literally or as a metaphor concerning...
By 1972, when Music of Fela: Roforofo Fight was originally released (on two vinyl albums, Music of Fela Volume One and Volume Two), Fela was becoming one...
Knitting Factory Records release the next installment of long-awaited vinyl reissues from the Fela Kuti catalog. Box Set #5 was co-curated by Fela’s...
Fela Kuti made some frantic albums in his career--ones that popped with his enthusiastic political disobedience and ones that roared with fury at the Nigerian...
From the vaults of Philips in Nigeria comes this collection of mysterious trumpeter and bandleader Bola Johnson. Unmissable 60s and early 70s recordings...
Reissue of this rare afro disco track By Orlando Julius. This multi cross cultural and universal sound was recorded in 1976 and released in few copies...
One of the best original dub albums from 70s Jamaica, produced & mixed by Lee Perry with King Tubby. Killer hardcore roots rhythms from The Black Ark...
100% stone cold classic roots album, recorded at the Black Ark by Lee Perry with an all-star line up of musicians.
Deluxe Edition double album - Record...
Legendary session recorded in Milan in 1978, this quartet recording gives John Gilmore, Michael Ray and Luqman Ali the space to improvise and solo more...
Killer dub album from the then Prince Jammy. Mostly dubs of Black Uhuru's "Black Sounds Of Freedom" album for Jammy.
Mixed at King Tubby's studio, originally...
Phenomenal gospel-jazz album with The J.C White Singers joining Max Roach in radical interpretations of traditional African-American gospel standards such...
Quality rare soul jazz LP on Blue note (blue/black liberty pressing) w/ Sonny Red, Hank Mobley, McCoy Tyner, Walter Booker and Freddie Waits
Original...
Studio One Classics features a non-stop selection of stone-cold classic Studio One killers! Spanning 40 years of the legendary label, this album is a celebration...
Special new 25th anniversary edition of this most popular and highly-acclaimed of all Soul Jazz Records' Dynamite! series - 300% Dynamite is jam-packed...
Killer double-sided funk soul single - on one side you've got the female funk bomb 'Tell Mama', then on the flip is THE version of the classic 'I'd Rather...