2025: BLACK SPECTRUM

 

 

CLASSICS & REVIVAL

 

PART 1: Gospel, Soul & Funky Revival

 

THE ALTONS - Heartache in Room 14 (Daptone Records)

 
 ANNAHSTASIA - Tether (Drink Sum Wtr)

 

ANNIE & THE CALDWELLS - Can't Lose My (Soul) (Luaka Bop)

 
BOBBY RUSH & K. W. SHEPHERD - Young Fashioned Ways (Thirty Tigers)

 
CANDY STATON - Back To My Roots (Beracah Records)

 
CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE - Look Out Highway (Forty Below Records)

 
CURTIS HARDING - Departures & Arrivals Adventures of Captain Curt (Anti-) 

DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS - Flowers (Dead Oceans Rec)

 

NEW STREET ADVENTURE - What Kind Of World? (Acid Jazz) 

 

KENDRA MORRIS - Next (Karma Chief Records)

 

MAVIS STAPLES - Sad and Beautiful World (ANTI- Records)

ROBERT FINLEY - Hallelujah! Don't Let the Devil Fool Ya (Easy Eye Sound)

 

CLASSICS & REVIVAL

 

PART 2: Gospel, Soul & Funky Reissue / Anthologies

 

 LAFAYETTE AFRO ROCK BAND - Disco Frankenstein (Strut)

 

JOHN LEE HOOKER - The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (BMG)

 
 KOKO TAYLOR - Crown Jewels (Alligator Records)

 

RECORD PLAYER - Free Your Mind (Now-Again Records-2CD)

 
SHIRLEY BASSEY - The Singer  (Classic and Undiscovered Gems 1962-79) (Strawberry-3CD)

 
RAPTURE - Rapture (Now-Again Records)

 

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE - SLY LIVES!  ( Epic-Legacy)

 

Akasaka Soul Funk 1969-1977 (180g Records) 

 

Didn't I Blow Your Mind Thom Bell The Sound of Philadelphia Soul 1969-1983 (Kent)

  

Disco Discharge Presents More Sin; Box of Sin Volume 2 (Edsel-5CD-BOX)

 

Eccentric Soul - The Linco Label (Numero Group)

 

Paul Weller Presents That Sweet Sweet Music (Ace Records)  

 

WHERE FUTURE UNFOLDS

 

 

Avant-Black Avant Beats, Hip-Hop, Nu-Soul, Contemporary R&B...

 

BACKXWASH - Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag Records) 

 

BILLY WOODS - Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz) 

 
CONFUCIUS MC & BASTIEN KEB - Songs for Lost Travellers(Native Rebel) 

 

DAMON LOCKS - List of Demand (International Anthem Recording) 

 

 EARL SWEATSHIRT - Live Laugh Love (Tan Cressida-Warner)

 

GABE 'NANDEZ & PRESERVATION - Sortilege (Backwoodz Studioz)

 

KEIYAA -  Hooke’s Law (XL Recordings) 

 

LEXX - Rhythm Of Love (Lexx Music Records)

 

LITTLE SIMZ - Lotus (Awal Records) 

 
LONNIE HOLLEY - Tonky (Jagjaguwar Records)

 

 QUINTON BARNES - Black Noise (Watch That Ends The Night Records)

 

 

ROCHELLE JORDAN - Through the Wall (Empire Records)

 

 

AFRO SUCCURSALE & TROPICAL FUNK

 

Hot Brass,  Jazz-Funk, Afro-Funk, Tropical Funk, Ethno-Funk..

 

 

AFRODREAM - Guiss Guiss (Rubik Recordings)

 

ANTIBALAS - Hourglass (Daptone)

 

BUDOS BAND - VII (Diamond West Records) 

 
THE CIRCLING SUN - Orbits (Soundway Records) 

 
KOKOROKO - Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood Recordings) 

 
RAPHAËL PANNIER QUARTET -  Live in Saint Louis, Senegal (Miel Music)

 

SILVIA BOLOGNESI & ERIC MINGUS - Is That Jazz? (Fonterossa Records) 

 

THE SORCERERS - Other Worlds and Habitats (ATA Records)

 

WEB WEB - Plexus Plexus (Compost Records)

YALLA MIKU - Yalla Miku 2 (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

JAZZ SPECTRUM

 

PART 1: Avant Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Great Black Creative

 

AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS - Solace of the Mind (Red Hook Records)

 
ANNA HÖGBERG ATTACK - Ensamseglaren (Fönstret Records) 

 

BEN LAMAR GAY - Yowzers (International Anthem) 

 

COSMIC EAR - Traces (WeJazz Records) 

 

DANIELE CAVALLANTI A WORLD SOUND - A Wall Of Sound  (Felmay)

 
FIELDWORK  - Thereupon (PI Recordings) 

 

FRANK KIMBROUGH - The Call (Sunnyside Records)

 

GARD NILSSEN ACOUSTIC UNITY - Great Intentions (Action Jazz)  

 

HANGING HEARTS - Where’s Your Head At (Ropeadope)

 
JAMES BRANDON LEWIS QUARTET - Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt Rec) 

 

THE NECKS -  Disquiet (Fish or Milk Records) 

 

OMAR SOSA - SENDAS (Ota Records)

 

 PATRICIA BRENNAN - Of The Near And Far (Pyroclastic Records)

 

SILVIA BOLOGNESI - Jungle Duke (Caligola Records)

 

JAZZ SPECTRUM

 

PART 2 ; Reissue/Retro-Anthologies

 

 

ART PEPPER - Surf Ride (Savoy, 1957; Remastered, Craft Recordings)

 

BENNIE MAUPIN - The Jewel In The Lotus (ECM, 1974; Reissue)

 
BILL EVANS TRIO - Haunted Heart The Legendary Riverside Studio.. (Craft-2CD) 

 

BOBBY WATSON - Perpetual Groove (Red Records, 1984, Remastered)

 
CATALYST - Perception (Muse, 1973 Remaster., Jazz Dispensary)

 

CHARLES MINGUS - Mingus At Monterey (Mingus, 1965; Remastered, Candid)

 

CHARLES ROUSE - Two Is One (Strata-East, 1974; Remastered)

 
CHICK COREA - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Solid State, 1968; 2025 Reissue)

 
ELLA FITZGERALD - The Moment of Truth; Ella at The Coliseum (Verve-Universal)

 
JOE HENDERSON - Multiple (Milestone, 1973, Remastered, Jazz Dispensary)

 
MILES DAVIS - Miles’ 55 - The Prestige Recordings (Prestige Recordings)

 
NINA SIMONE - A Single Woman - The Complete Elektra Recordings (Omnivore)

 
MIN BUL - Min Bul (Polydor, 1970; Remastered, Free Flow Archive)

 
NANCY HARROW - Wild Women Don't Have The Blues (Candid, 1961; WEB Remaster)

 
PHAROAH SANDERS  - Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (Strata-East, 1973; Remastered) 

 

PHAROAH SANDERS - Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Rec.s (Elemental)

 

RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK - Seek & Listen - Live At The Penthouse (Resonance)

 

TONY SCOTT - Manteca (Sonet, 1973; Remastered, Flow Archive)

  

aa.vv - Strata-East The Legacy Begins (Strata-East Records)

  

aa.vv - Spiritual Jazz 17; SABA MPS (Jazzman Records)