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Gil Scott-Heron’s second album, “Pieces Of A Man”, showed that his collaboration with musical partner Brian Jackson was very special. The record contained some of Gil’s most revered songs, including ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’, ‘Home Is Where T

Gil Scott Heron’s brilliant 1971 Flying Dutchman album ‘Pieces Of A Man’ was his debut studio album coming a year after the live ‘Small Talk On 125th And Lennox’ and marked a shift from the spoken word format of that record into more song based work. Gil

Eddy E Giles – Soul Feeling (Part 1)
Chester Randle’s – Soul Brothers Testify (Part 1)
Abraham & The Casanovas – Soul Power
Dynamic Adam & His Excitements – Be A Man
Camille Lil Bob – Stop
Dennis Landry – Miss Hard To Get
Freddie Love – Everbody’s D

Every one of us has a favourite record label. I think for many of us at Ace towers, Stax is pretty much at the top of the pile. The independently owned Memphis label recorded soul for 15 years, both up-tempo and impassionately down. It scored hits in the

Memphis never really recovered from losing Stax. If you want to make music in the southern states of America these days you go to Atlanta. But maybe it wasn't all bad, there's a fair chance that Rick Dees' awful Disco Duck would have ended up on the legen

Howard Williams (check his amazing Japan Blues show on NTS radio!) has assembled a compilation of Japanese funk, soul and disco for Ace Records offshoot BGP International.

From mavericks like Haruomi Hosono of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, with his low-d

Lonnie Liston Smith’s 1975 jazz-funk masterpiece is released on 180g black vinyl in a nice thick card gatefold sleeve. Former Miles Davis and Pharoah Sanders keyboardist Lonnie saw all his musical ideas coming together for this, his third album. The title

Gil Scott-Heron never had a pop hit single; he was more important than that. With ‘Johannesburg’, ‘Home is Where The Hatred Is’ and ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’ he wrote songs that resonated beyond the world of disposable chart-toppers. That’s n

So Super Funk Is Back and I would venture to say that it is the best so far.

Now of course, I would say that, wouldn’t I! Just in case you are not convinced by my good word alone, let us run through some of the super rare, unreleased and classic funk t

I love this album!

Yes I know we should really be giving you some unbiased run-down of the merits of the tracks on this here slab of shiny disc (or slightly larger two-piece vinyl alternative), but I thought I'd get that unfettered love for the produc

Various: Let's Do the Boogaloo LP

There is sometimes an element of giggling and laughing involved in putting together an Ace compilation. Not condescending or rude laughter, but more the sort that you get when you are young and Santa Claus has been with a large pile of presents. It's an u