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 terms.
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...
Great album from Basic Channel/Rhythm and Sound's Maurizio AKA Mauritz Von Oswald, alongside Vladislav Delay and Max Loderbauer!
Excellent expansive...
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"!
Another unquestionably ESSENTIAL late-sixties standard-setting soul album from the undisputed queen of soul, Aretha Franklin!
This is truly amazing music...
Free-wheeling, jazz improvisers Ill Considered open a new chapter with this album 'Liminal' Space, featuring Tamar Osborn, Sarathy Korwar, Theon Cross...
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...
**Repress of the 2014 hip hop classic!** Blasphemy, the collaborative album from esteemed Mello Music Group producer Apollo Brown and Ras Kass, is a thought-provoking...
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....
Classic album of deep, deep, funky jazz......Includes 'Astral Travelling', as covered by Pharoah Sanders. Heavyweight line-up including Cecil McBee on...
Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes' groundbreaking albums for the Flying Dutchman label don't get the attention from jazz fans that they should....
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...