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"!
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...
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....
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...
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...
Another killer compilation of 60's and 70's Biguine, Afro & Latin sounds from the French Caribbean on the brilliant Soundway label!
You may be familiar...
Fantastic new compilation of super-rare latin music from the ever-brilliant Soundway label! Panama connects North and South America and its music reflects...
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...
Crazy, deep jazz from 1968! 'The Inflated Tear' describes the incident where Roland was in hospital and a nurse gave him an injection which led to him...
Another unquestionably ESSENTIAL late-sixties standard-setting soul album from the undisputed queen of soul, Aretha Franklin!
This is truly amazing music...
Legendary session recorded in Milan in 1978, this quartet recording gives John Gilmore, Michael Ray and Luqman Ali the space to improvise and solo more...