Herbie Hancock Secrets (1976)

Classic fusion album featuring a killer set of funky-jazz fusion. Heavyweight!

'Sextant' from 1972 was recorded just before 'Headhunters', and can be seen in the same vein, but it's more than just an introduction to a masterpiece. It features a kind of post-modal, free impressionism while gracing the edges of funk. Three long instrumental tracks explore how far minimalism in jazz can go. 

Brilliant early Gil Scott-Heron album. One of his rarest on the great Flying Dutchman label.

Awesome jazz funk album featuring Charle Stepney and members of Earth, Wind And Fire. Check out the stunning title track!

For any of you who don't know this album, it is one of the heaviest fusion albums ever - mixing jazz, funk and what sounds like jungle (20 years before it existed!). Wicked!

Includes the swirling "Whirlwinds" and a funky, brassy version of Steely Dan's "Do It Again"!

Nice funky jazz compilation from Atlantic 75

Both these killer tracks feature on the classic “Inside is Love” LP from 1979. Two modern soul dancefloor fillers, previously both released as singles but not in their full length versions like here. Essential!  

Author Tim Lawrence (Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene) compiles 'Love Saves the Day: A History Of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979'. Part 1 (of 2) focuses on this important decade of American music, featuring music from the likes of Wilson Pickett, Jackson 5, Gladys Knight And The Pips, James Brown and more!

Includes the disco classic "Can You Feel It" and the stomper "This Place Hotel"

Recorded one month after Gilberto's "Girl From Ipanema" hits the charts. Bossa Nova with arrangements by Joao Donato, Don Sebesky and Claus Ogerman.

Top fusion from keyboardist Foster with heavyweight accompaniment from Ndugu Chancler, George Benson, Phyllis Hyman and more.

Amazing, super-funky album supervised by Charles Stepney with the classic trio line-up of bassist Cleveland Eaton and EWF's Maurice White on drums! Includes "If You've Got It, Flaunt It", "Do What You Wannna", "Uhuru", "Bold And Black" and more!

For fans of funk, soul and jazz, it doesn't get much better than this 1973 album. Originally released on Weldon's own Nodlew Records this is sublime stuff - from 'Deja Vu" to "Time Capsule" and much more. Essential reissue!

New fully remastered re-release of Soul Jazz Records’ ‘The World of Arthur Russell’, the seminal collection of Arthur Russell’s essential music back in print on awesome limited-edition heavy deluxe triple vinyl and deluxe CD edition.

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This album brings together some of Russell’s best-loved and most accessible works including his wide-ranging music both solo and in groups including Dinosaur L (the essential ‘Go Bang’), Loose Joints (the equally classic ‘Is It All Over My Face’) as well as rarities such as the 7” only ‘Pop Your Funk’, Indian Ocean’s ‘Schoolbell/Treehouse’, Lola’s ‘Wax The Van’ and more.

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“Arthur Russell fused the avant-garde with disco and sounds like nothing else on earth.” The GUARDIAN

“Russell is the great enigma of the New York music scene” THE WIRE

“Simply one of the best compilations of this or any year.” RECORD COLLECTOR

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Arthur Russell’s music effortlessly crossed musical boundaries making it timeless. His dance music credentials are faultless and this collection features mixes from Larry Levan, Françcois Kervorkian and Walter Gibbons. Similarly, his song-writing, musicality and performance skills are equally cherished as composer Philip Glass wrote, ‘this was a guy who could sit down with a cello and sing with it in a way that no one on earth has ever done before or will do again.’

When Soul Jazz Records’ The World of Arthur Russell first came out in 2003, Russell’s music had slipped into near obscurity. Nearly 18 years later there are over a dozen releases of his music, reissues of his original albums and more. ‘The World of Arthur Russell’ is the classic first collection of his work available once more.

Nice bossa nova album from Cuban-born pianist, composer and arranger.

Original UK Vinyl VG+/Sleeve VG
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W/ Ron Carter, Pretty Purdie, George D'Alto, Ray Mantilla. Flying Dutchman 1974

MASSIVE! With "Loran's Dance". KILLER CTI jazz/funk bomb from Idris Muhammad with hip-hop samples galore! EPIC.

St Germain's breakthrough classic 'Tourist' goes back underground with a set of killer house remixes from the likes of Ron Trent, Jovonn, Osunlade, Nightmares on Wax, DJ Deep, Atjazz and more!

Funky Harris on piano and saxophone with four vocal tracks including the groovy "Get On Up And Dance"!

Original = Original USA Vinyl VG+ /Sleeve VG+

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Big band bossa sounds - easy now!

Heavyweight fusion from 74 with Airto, Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Pete Cosey, Keith Jarrett and Carlos Garnett - an allstar lineup if ever.

**Repressed!**

Reissue of this CLASSIC deep, spiritual Chicago house gem from the one and only Ron Trent that was originally released on his peerless Prescription label back in 1995.

Top selector and SOTU favourite Sassy J curates her faultless 'Patchwork' compilation for Rush Hour, featuring exclusives from the likes of Ron Trent under his Warm guise; Mark Mac as Nu-Era; Dego producing under 2000Black; one from the excellent Aardvarck plus Alex Attias & Sassy J together as OJA and loads more KILLER tracks!