Tough, tough, tough proto-female rap featuring raw percussion and super-funky accompaniment. This is like Gil Scott Heron's '125th and Lennox' album meets ESG! WICKED!!!
Includes Glimpses as featured on the recent Soul Jazz Records album Fly Girls!
Charles "Cha Cha" Shaw released his first solo album on Folkways in 1976 after having performed and recorded trumpet for pop and jazz icons like Curtis...
Super-tough funky, funky, funky female proto-rap poetry from Sarah Webster Fabio. Killer!
Armed with an incredible rhythm section this album is a classic...
‘Fly Girls!’ celebrates the 30th anniversary of female rap on record
This double-CD (and limited edition two volumes of super-loud double-vinyl) narrates...
Amazing deep, deep jazz as featured on our "New Thing!" compilation! Includes heavyweight African/Eastern styles and the out-there 13 minute version of...
The long-awaited reissue of Mary Lou Williams's magnum opus of religious jazz: Mary Lou's Mass. Newsweek called the score "an encyclopedia of black music,...
Following on from their recent New Thing album of Deep Jazz in USA (Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Alice Coltrane, Archie Shepp), Soul Jazz Records are...
** Now available on vinyl **
Super rare funk album released on smithsonian folkways in the early 1970s. "The music of the Montgomery Express is a buried...
Super-deep music from Mali, Gambia and Senegal. A double CD featuring Griot Music, Africa's story tellers, also known as the ministers of the spoken word!...
Classic Richard Evans production at the mighty Chess Records from 1967. featuring mainstay of the label Ramsey Lewis in full flow along with Cleveland...
KILLER, KILLER, KILLER !
Released in approximately 1990 this is by far the best collection of "sound-boy" tunes. Live recordings from dubplates with...
During his nearly 40-year tenure with Folkways Records, Moe Asch, the company's founder, amassed a catalogue of almost 2,200 recordings that had expanded...
This is the heaviest Funky Afro Latin Jazz record you have ever heard, but not only that - it's never been released before! This is Sabu's band from...
Absolute killer funky Reggae album on Studio 1 - loads of top foundation tunes on here, amazing how many rhythms that are still Jamaican staples today...
Street percussion, drumming, songs and chants recorded in New York in 1959 by a group of street kids. Kind of like a prototype Haryou Percussion Group...
Wicked funky Turkish obscurity! This is the first-ever reissue of some of the most amazing Turkish music ever recorded: wild, raw and with fuzz guitar...
Excellent recordings of Haitian voodoo music in all its many forms and variations. Comes with superb booklet.
Cuts from live Vodou ceremonies are juxtaposed...