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 Bass Drum"!
Soulful, uplifting spiritual stuff from two of soul music's finest vocalists. All star Atlantic line-up - Bernard Purdie, Arif Mardin arrangements, Hubert...
Herbie Mann was no jump on the bandwagon guy when it came to bossa nova - he was one of the first to head off to Brazil and this album was recorded in...
This album is hardcore!
Recorded in Rio w/ Baden Powell, Dom Um Romao, Durval Ferreira, Paulo Moura, Sergio Mendes, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luis Carlos...
Ed Sheeran is set to release his new album ‘-‘ (Subtract) - the last in his decade-spanning mathematical album era - on 5 May 2023 through Asylum/Atlantic...
Black Dog, Stairway to Heaven ...
This is the fourth Led Zeppelin album. The band intentionally left it untitled, with no indication that it was even...
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...
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...
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....