2024: BLACK SPECTRUM

 

CLASSICS & REVIVAL

 

PART 1

Gospel, Soul & Funky Revival

 

Baby Rose x BADBADNOTGOOD - Slow Burn (Secretly Canadian)

 Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)

 FaithNYC - Love Is A Wish Away (Good Deeds Music)

Fantastic Negrito - Son Of A Broken Man (Storefront Records)

Judith Hill - Letters from a Black Widow (Regime Music Group)

Kevin Burt And Big Medicine - Thank You Brother Bill; A Tribute to BillWithers (Gulf Coast)

Lady Blackbird - Slang Spirituals (BMG)

Lettuce - Live in Tokyo (P-Vine, 2004; Remastered, Kufala)

 Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes (Polydor)

Staples Jr. Singers - Searching (Luaka Bop)

The Harlem Gospel Travelers - Rhapsody (Colemine Records)

 

Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell (Daptones Records)

PART.2

Gospel, Soul & Funky Reissue/Anthologies 

 Dennis Coffey - Finger Lickin Good (Westbound, 1975/ RE., ORG)

Dr. John - Frankie & Johnny (Sundazed Music)

 Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Singles 1969-1972 (Stax)

 Jiro Inagaki & His Friends - Funky Best (Columbia, 1975 / RE. Cinedelic)

Little Richard - Right Now! (United, 1973 / Remastered, Omnivore)

Ohio Players - Observations in Time; The Johnny Brantley-Vidalia Prod.(Omnivore)

The Round Robin Monopoly - Alpha (Truthm 1974 / RE, Craft)

Va - Beehive Breaks (Numero Group Records)

Va - Eccentric Soul The Tragar & Note Labels (Numero Group)

 Va - I'm Glad About It The Legacy of Gospel Music in Louisville 1958-81 (4CD-LSP)

Va - Miami Sound 2 More Funk & Soul From Miami, Florida 1967-74 (Soul Jazz)

Va - SAM Records; The Sound of New York City 1975-1983 (2CD-Edsel)

WHERE FUTURE UNFOLDS

Avant-Black, Avant Beats, Hip-Hop, 

Nu-Soul, Contemporary R&B...

 Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal (Top Dawg Entertainment)

Freeway & Jake One - The Stimulus Package 2 (General Principle)

Ka - The Thief Next To Jesus (Iron Works Records)

Kendrick Lamar - GNX (pgLang/Interscope)

Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note)

Mourning [A] BLKstar - Ancient//Future (Don Giovanni Records)

Moor Mother - The Great Bailout (Anti-)

Rapsody - Please Don’t Cry (Jamla-Roc Nation Records)

 Sault - Acts Of Faith (Forever Living Originals)

Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia (Columbia)

 

 

AFRO SUCCURSALE & TROPICAL FUNK

Hot Brass,  Jazz-Funk, Afro-Funk, 

Tropical Funk, Ethno-Funk/Soul

 

Addict Ameba - Caosmosi (Black Sweat Records) Italia

BADBADNOTGOOD - Mid Spiral (XL Recordings)

Ezra Collective - Dance, No One's Watching (Partisan)

Jembaa Groove - Ye Ankasa We Ourselves (Agogo Records)

Kolonel Djafaar - Getaway (Batov Records)

Konkolo Orchestra - Future Pasts (Rocafort Records)

Larry Manteca - Zombie Mandingo (Four Flies Records)

Nomade Orquestra - Terceiro Mundo (Morning Birds Music-Tratore)

Oluma - Cooking Time (One World Records)

Orgōne - Chimera (3 Palm Records)

The Sorcerers - I Too Am A Stranger (ATA Records)

JAZZ SPECTRUM

PART 1

Jazz Spectrum - Generic

 

Amaro Freitas - Y'Y (Psychic Hotline)

 The Bad Plus - Complex Emotions (Mack Avenue Records)

Charles Gayle / Milford Graves / William Parker - WEBO (Black EditionsArchive)

Charles Lloyd - The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)

 Darius Jones - Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (Aum Fidelity)

 Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem)

Mary Halvorson - Cloudward (Nonesuch) 

Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)

Sun Ra Arkestra - Lights On a Satellite (In+Out Records)

Patricia Brennan Septet - Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic Records)

PART 2

Jazz Spectrum - Ethno Jazz

 Accra Quartet - Gb​ɛ​fal​ɔ​i (Travelers) (FPE Records)

Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi - Altera Vita (BBE)

Ibrahim Maalouf - Trumpets of Michel-Ange (Mister Ibé)

 Ganavya - Daughter of a Temple (Leiter Verlag Records)

Jaubi - A Sound Heart (Riaz Records)

 Joel Lyssarides & Georgios Prokopiou - Arcs & Rivers (ACT)

Lionel Loueke & Dave Holland - United (Edition Records)

Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O - True Story (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)

Nduduzo Makhathini – uNomkhubulwane (Ble Note)

Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko - Bamako-Chicago Sound System (FPE)

Oded Tzur - My Prophet (ECM Records)

Satya - Songs of the Fathers: A Celebration of the Music of Abdullah Ibrahim (Resonant)

PART 3

Jazz Spectrum - Reissue/Retro-Anthologies

Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert (Impulse!)

Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Message to Our Folks (BYG, 1969; Remastered)

Black Artist Group - For Peace and Liberty, In Paris Dec 1972(WeWantSounds)

Bobby Hutcherson - Classic Blue Note Sessions 1963-70 (Mosaic-7CD.BOX)

Charles Mingus - Incarnations (Candid) Recs 1960

Chick Corea - Trilogy (Deluxe Edition 5CD) (Concord)

Chick Corea Elektric Band - Complete Studio Albums: 1986-91 (Candid-BOX) 

David Lee Jr. - Evolution (Supernatural, 1974; Remastered, Soul Jazz)

 McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson - Forces Of Nature: Live At Slugs (Blue Note) Rec. 1966

 Miles Davis - Miles '54 - The Prestige Recordings (Craft)

Sonny Clark - The Complete Blue Note Sessions (Mosaic Records)

Va - Black Jazz Records; The Complete Singles (Real Gone Music-Black Jazz)

Va - East Wind Revolutionary Japanese Jazz in the 70s (Universal Japan-2CD)

Va - Reunion in the Black Forest The Sounds of MPS Vol. II (MPS)