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    Straight No Chaser #100

    Straight No Chaser

    A year in the making and weighing in at a whopping 144 pages #SNC100 Vol.1 maintains the Interplanetary Sounds : Ancient To future vision and unites fresh new features with re-mixed classics from the archive.

    Oh yes and there's a six page feature on Soul Jazz Records! (and Brownswood too!)

    FEATURES

    NU SKOOL: IG Culture meets Steam Down, Kahil El'Zabar, Shirley Tetteh, Rosie Turton, Ishmael Ensemble and James Brandon Lewis & Thomas Sayers-Ellis.

    ARCHIVE: Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef, Abbey Lincoln, Dr John, Terry Callier, Gary Bartz, McCoy Tyner & Fontella Bass.


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