What an album! Essential stuff including Bartz's seminal 'I've Known Rivers' based on the Langston Hughes poem. Also 'Dr Follows Dance' and loads more. Killer!
Gary Bartz was in the artistic eye of the hurricane that was the Black Power movement at the turn of the 70s and these two albums tell it in no uncertain...
Two great late 70s sessions both produced by Orrin Keepnews. One featuring Tyner alongside Ron Carter and Tony Williams, the other Eddie Gomez and Jack...
At times a homage to the earlier roots of Jazz and R'n'B but with a surreal sense of humour throughout, no more so than on "Strange Lullaby" and "Big...
Gary Bartz was in the artistic eye of the hurricane that was the Black Power movement at the turn of the 70s and these two albums tell it in no uncertain...
Another superb compilation of rare African music from Sound Way Records with a 16 page booklet full of loads of notes and photos. This album focusses on...
Another killer compilation of 60's and 70's Biguine, Afro & Latin sounds from the French Caribbean on the brilliant Soundway label!
You may be familiar...
Fantastic new compilation of super-rare latin music from the ever-brilliant Soundway label! Panama connects North and South America and its music reflects...
100% Essential album includes the classic Acid and The Soul Drummers!
This is perhaps the single most famous latin album there is, featuring the classic...
This is a killer funky soul fusion album on Kudu featuring Phillips' great version of the Gil Scott-Heron classic "Home Is Where The Hatred Is". Line-up...
ESSENTIAL deep jazz featuring Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson! This is a true classic of spiritual jazz from one of our favourite artists! Recorded...
Top compilation of 1970s music from Belize in Central America that fuses North American funk and soul with afro-latin and reggae influences! There is...
Great album from Basic Channel/Rhythm and Sound's Maurizio AKA Mauritz Von Oswald, alongside Vladislav Delay and Max Loderbauer!
Excellent expansive...
Wicked bargain priced African CD!
Afrobeat Revoution takes Fela's intoxicating cocktail of Nigerian highlife and James Brown swagger and blends it with...
Quartet line-up with John Hicks, Walter Booker and Idris Muhammad. Includes an excellent version of the jazz dance classic "You've Got to Have Freedom"!
Two of Eddie Harris's superfunky mid 70s (75/77) releases on one cd where he entered into rare groove territory whilst keeping to his jazz roots. Recommended.
Another unquestionably ESSENTIAL late-sixties standard-setting soul album from the undisputed queen of soul, Aretha Franklin!
This is truly amazing music...
Great compilation of vintage reggae-tinged funk from the Bahamas! The second in the Numero label's series of exploration of the panAmerican funk experience,...
Cult disco remixer John Morales is back with a third volume of unreleased remixes from the NYC underground.
John Morales alongside remix partner Sergio...