Harvey Mason Marching In The Street (1975)

Killer boogie jazz fusion par excellence!

Produced by Barry Gibb

Jazz funk

Jazz dance fusion

Third solo studio album by Iggy Pop and his first record since The Stooges' Fun House and post-Stooges Kill City without any involvement from David Bowie. Released in 1979, featuring "I'm Bored" and "Five Foot One". 

Great seep vocal version of Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage

1984 original lp

Features the uptempo "Tender Lovin"!

Original = Original USA LP Vinyl VG+ /Sleeve VG+

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1980 album

Classic soul boy funky jazz istrumental

Fusion

Vintage Eddie Kendricks, circa 1978!

Late period DIon

Disco, 79

w/ I'm All Out of Love

Original unplayed USA 45

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'KWASI' is basically a massive 2 min drum track with a monster jazz fusion dancers tune at the end. Check it out! (listen audio for last part!)

Original USA 7"Vinyl VG 
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Proto-rap in original USA picture sleeve!

O.D. is the A, but Black Thighs is the tune - wicked Percussion + proto-rap. Killer.

Harvey/Loft/Gallery style rocky proto-disco with massive synth bassline re-doing a late 60s prog. classic! Very groovy tune we think!

Unplayed Original USA 45

Quality Detroit soul from 1975, this is one of the most classic, mid tempo northern soul tunes - finally reissued!

Out-of-print - as new

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil is an important cradle of Afro-Brazilian culture, and home to musical styles that form the bedrock of much of today's popular sounds. In this book, author Kirk Brundage gives the reader a special and intimate glimpse into the sacred rhythms of the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé, providing context, a historical overview, and practical information on playing the rhythms.

Seminal electric Miles. USA original 2XLP gatefold vinyl.

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Great funky version of the Sonny & Cher classic ! Produced by Rick Hall at Etta's classic Muscle Shoals sessions.

UNPLAYED Original USA 7"Vinyl VG /Sleeve VG
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BACK IN STOCK!! Welcome repress of this awesome tune which originally was a b-side!!  Highly recommended, buy before it disappears again. Back to back classics haunting middle-Eastern-sounding gem!  Check other Treasure Isle 7"..

The berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira. This study explores the berimbau's stature from the 1950s to the present in diverse musical genres including bossa nova, samba-reggae, MPB (Popular Brazilian Music), electronic dance music, Brazilian art music, and more. Berimbau music spans oral and recorded historical traditions, connects Latin America to Africa, juxtaposes the sacred and profane, and unites nationally constructed notions of Brazilian identity across seemingly impenetrable barriers.

The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music is the first work that considers the berimbau beyond the context of capoeira, and explores the bow's emergence as a national symbol. Throughout, this book engages and analyzes intersections of musical traditions in the Black Atlantic, North American popular music, and the rise of global jazz. This book is an accessible introduction to Brazilian music for musicians, Latin American scholars, capoeira practitioners, and other people who are interested in Brazil's music and culture.

Rare Nigerian vinyl.
HEAVY! Quality Fuji sounds!
Vinyl VG, sleeve G+(lot of wear)
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Great and unusual Horace Silver album in a deep funky vein with vocals from Andy Bey singing about how to lead a spiritually righteous life! This is the best of the three "Phases" albums.

Original first edition gatefold blue and white liberty pressing blue note. USA pressing. With original Blue Note inner sleeve.

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Reissue of these two classic soul tunes sung by the wonderful Linda Clifford and both produced by Leroy Hutson!

RARE & KILLER. Wicked tunes. Seminal Blue Note 1968. Lee Morgan, Jackie McClean, Frank Mitchell, Cedar Walton, Victor Sproles and Billy Higgins. Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder.

Nice moody version of Stevie's classic played by Ray Charles mid-70s. Funky!

Unplayed/mint  but few crackles at beginning.

This album coincides with the massive new exhibition Soul of A Nation - Art in the Age of Black Power at Tate Modern, London.

Watch Channel 4 news piece here

Read Guardian feature here

The album shows how the ideals of the civil rights movement, black power and black nationalism influenced the evolvement of radical African-American music in the United States of America in the intensely political and revolutionary period at the end of the 1960s following the assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and the rise of the Black Panther party.

Featuring groundbreaking artists such as Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Ayers, Don Cherry, Oneness of Juju, Sarah Webster Fabio, Horace Tapscott, Phil Ranelin and many others, Soul of A Nation shows how political themes led to the rise of ‘conscious’ black music as new afro-centric styles combined the musical radicalism and spirituality of John Coltrane and radical avant-garde jazz music alongside the intense funk and soul of James Brown and Aretha Franklin and the urban poetry and proto-rap of the streets.

The Soul of a Nation exhibition draws on the links between Black art forms – art, music, poetry - and how they came together during the civil rights and black power era as part of the wider black arts movement across the United States.

Iconic African-Amercian revolutionary figures such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Angela Davis, John Coltrane, Muhammad Ali all appear in the radical artworks of Barkley L. Hendricks, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Lorraine O’Grady and Betye Saar.

Stuart Baker (founder of Soul Jazz Records) will appear with the curators on the panel of Jazz for Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power discussion at the gallery as part of the show. You can book a ticket for this event here

The Soul of a Nation album comes with extensive sleeve-notes and exclusive photography in a large 36-page outsize booklet and slipcase. Double gatefold vinyl album edition comes with full colour inners + bonus download code and includes full sleeve-notes/photography.

Read More Reviews of the Soul of A Nation Exhibition:

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It's a funky/disco classic!

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An album resulting from exactly the same 1960 sessions as the better-known 'A Night in Tunisia'

Original =B1-84245 1988 pressing

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Reissue of these two gems from South Africa's dance music history. 'Bayanyonyoba' is a house tune from the kwaito-era of '93 and 'Don't Judge Me Bad' is a wicked boogie jam from '87!

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The pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston is one of the world’s most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller whose career has spanned five continents and more than six decades. Packed with fascinating anecdotes, African Rhythms is Weston’s life story, as told by him to the music journalist Willard Jenkins. It encompasses Weston’s childhood in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood—where his parents and other members of their generation imbued him with pride in his African heritage—and his introduction to jazz and early years as a musician in the artistic ferment of mid-twentieth-century New York. His music has taken him around the world: he has performed in eighteen African countries, in Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, in the Canterbury Cathedral, and at the grand opening of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina: The New Library of Alexandria. Africa is at the core of Weston’s music and spirituality. He has traversed the continent on a continuous quest to learn about its musical traditions, produced its first major jazz festival, and lived for years in Morocco, where he opened a popular jazz club, the African Rhythms Club, in Tangier.

Rare LP from the great tropical and funky Shadow

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RARE Original Nigerian Vinyl VG lot of surface marks plays fine listen actual audio/Sleeve VG- (lot of wear)
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The funk / disco dancer A-side ‘Outlaw’ was originally released as a private press 45. Since the early 80’s a few copies were in circulation, and since, this obscure single has become high on the wantslist. The B-side ‘Buffalo Funk’, is previously unreleased break-beat loaded instrumental from the same session taken from the master tapes. Killer!

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Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and mixes with the local musical styles it encounters. Known for its appeal to workers, the music takes on different styles and meanings from place to place, and even, as the contributors to this collection show, from person to person. Cumbia is a different music among the working classes of northern Mexico, Latin American immigrants in New York City, Andean migrants to Lima, and upper-class Colombians, who now see the music that they once disdained as a source of national prestige.

The contributors to this collection look at particular manifestations of cumbia through their disciplinary lenses of musicology, sociology, history, anthropology, linguistics, and literary criticism. Taken together, their essays highlight how intersecting forms of identity—such as nation, region, class, race, ethnicity, and gender—are negotiated through interaction with the music.

Super killer dance jazz classic Blue Note. 'Chilli Peppers' is one of the toughest tunes ever and the album is solid.

Rare blue/black Liberty original copy of the vinyl,

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