Excellente compil', sur laquelle on retrouve notamment les frères Evans, de Soulive, ainsi que John Medeski et Matt Schofield. Bless.

'American rock gets back to its soulful roots'. Bless! 

Larry Young was part of the earliest fusion experiments in the late 60’s/early 70’s, playing on Miles Davis’ “Bitches Brew”, recording with Jimi Hendrix and being part of Tony Williams’ groundbreaking “Lifetime” project.
By 1975 Young was signed to Arista and ready to fire up a full on 70’s style jazz-fusion assault with his group Fuel.
The first, “Larry Young’s Fuel” is one of THE essential electric jazz sets of the 70s – and features the classic break cut "Turn Out the Lights" – plus other great tracks that include "Floating", "Fuel for the Fire", "I Ching", "H+J=B (Hustle + Jam = Bread)" and "New York Electric Street Music".
The follow up album “Spaceball” in 1976 takes the fusion of funk, rock, soul, and jazz to new heights. The sessions found Young behind the boards as producer and behind the keyboards as a player, utilizing everything from a Mini Moog to a Hammond B3, a Fender Rhodes to a traditional acoustic piano.
The resulting project is thoroughly funky and often called the absolute best of his post-Blue Note recordings. Young was only 38 when, in 1978, he checked into hospital suffering from stomach pains, and died from untreated pneumonia.
Both albums became highly collectable “rare grooves” among the UK funk, soul and jazz fans.

Ah l'ex-Yougoslavie, les Balkans, leurs groupe de Rock et leurs Big Band, qui regorgent de pépites comme celles que nous offre cette superbe compile. De ce que j'ai compris, Jugoton était le plus gros label de l'époque, devenu aujourd'hui Croatia Records. Bless.

Dernier album de ce trio originaire de Seattle que l'on connaît bien sur ce site. 

So Funky, So Groovy. Big Up !

Selected by Larry Grogan / Funky16Corners.com

Communicators & Black Experiences Band – Is It Funky Enough? (Duplex)
Tender Joe Richardson – Hip Huggin’ Mini (Hot Biscuit)
Jackie Moore – Singin’ Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On (Kayvette)
Emperors – Mumble Shingaling (Brunswick)
Willie & the Mighty Magnificents – Funky 8 Corners (All Platinum)
Billy Sha Rae – Do It (Spectrum)
Rufus Thomas – Do the Funky Penguin (Stax)
Maceo & All the Kings Men – Got To Getcha (House of the Fox)
Rimshots – Save That Thing (All Platinum)

Caribbean Funky Grooves

Destruction by the Nkengas originally hit streets in 1973, overflowing with heavy Afro-beat, Afro-rock, and gritty highlife. Few copies were pressed, and today it can take months of searching to find a copy of this coveted gem. It came about during Osita Osadebe and His Nigeria Sound Makers's UK tour. Financial hardship led members of the Nigeria Sound Makers to break off and form another group while in London, the Nkengas.

Next, the Nkengas were introduced to Jamaican born Sonny Roberts, well known in London for his Orbitone record store and label. After the recording sessions, the band returned to Nigeria and became known as the Ikenga Super Stars of Africa, finding much success in West Africa. Despite their later popularity, the heights of funky rawness in this early effort were seldom duplicated.

Reissue by Secret Stash Records in 2013.

Secret Stash is a Minneapolis based label centered around 60's and 70's Soul, Funk, African & Latin records. Big Up!

Tracklisting :
01. Pax Nicholas and the Nettey Family - Ata Onukpa
(from Daptone LP 2009 reissue)
02. Nkengas - Nkenga Special
(from LP 'Destruction' Tackle records 197?)
03. Mapp Brown - Murry Hup
(from 45t Sonafric 197? Cameroun)
04. Compaoré Issouf - Dambakalé
(from Sacodisc Cote d'Ivoire 1980)
05. The Black Hustlers - Hospital
(from Eboni Records Togo 197?)
06. Christy Essien - Rumours
(from Lp 'Give me a chance' 1981 Afrodesia Nigeria)
07. Doty Gouock - Wouck
(from Musique mondiale Cote d'ivoire 197?)

Tracklisting :
01. Bob Pinodo - Africa
(from 'Show master of africa' LP, 1978 / Essiebons) GHANA
02. Rex Lawson - Osima
(from 'The Highlife King in London' LP, 197? / Phonodisk) NIGERIA
03. Orlando Julius - Ise Owo
(from 'Ise Owo' 7 inch, 197? / Philips West African) NIGERIA
04. Tony Grey - You Are The One
(from 'Oh My Darling' LP, 1982 / EMI Nigeria) NIGERIA
05. Opamanbuo International Band Of Ghana - Show Me Your Love
(from 'Show Me Your Love' LP, 1981 / Niger Bridge) GHANA

Tracklisting :
01. The Funkees - Too-Lay
(from 'Too-Lay / Cool It Down' 7 inch, 1975 / Contempo) NIGERIA
02. The Peace - Peaceful Man
(from 'Black Power' album, middle 1970s / ) ZAMBIA
03. De Frank and His Professionals - Psychedelic Man
(from 'Psychedelic Man' album, 19XX) TOGO
04. Orchestra African Fiesta - I Got The Feelin (James Brown cover)
(from 'Chantal Komonela Ngait Te / I Got The Feelin, 19XX / African Sukisa) CONGO
05. Aktion - Groove The Funk
(from 'Groove The Funk' album, 1975 / Clover Sound) NIGERIA
06. BLO - Mind Walk
(from 'Step Three' album, 1975 / Decca) NIGERIA
07. E.T. Mensah and His Tempos Band - Mensah's African Rhythms
(from 'Mensah's African Rhythms' album, 1969 / Decca West Africa) GHANA

Tracklisting :
01. Ebo Taylor - Atwer Abroba
(from 'Twer Nyame' album, 1977 / Philips) GHANA
02. Ebo Taylor Junior and Wuta Wazutu - Mondo Soul Funky
(from 'Gotta Take It Cool' album, 1978 / Polydor) GHANA
03. Orchestre Poly Rhytmo de Cotonou - E Wa Dagbee
(from 'E Wa Dagbee' 7 inch, early 70s / Albarika Store) BENIN
04. D'Almeida Blucky Et Les Black Santiago - Les Nanes
(from 'Entente Africaine' 7 inch, 19?? / L.A. Aux Ecoutes) BENIN
05. T.P. Orchestre Poly Rhytmo de Cotonou Benin & Yehouessi Leopold - Aiha Ni Kpe We
(from 'Volume 4' album, 1978 / Albarika Store) BENIN
06. El Rego Et Ses Commando - Djobime
(from 'Djobime' 7 inch, 19?? / African Songs) BENIN
07. Joe King Kologbo - Another Man's Thing
(from 'Another Man's Thing' 7 inch, 1973 / Decca Afrodisia) NIGERIA
08. K.Frimpong and His Cubano Fiestas - Kyenkyen Adi M'awu
(from 'K.Frimpong and His Cubano Fiestas' album, 1976 / Ofo Bros) GHANA

Wonderful Afromix by Loik Dury. Vinyl Sound Only. Big Up!

Funky Flute Grooves From The 60s & 70s

Label M founder Joel Dorn is the same Joel Dorn who produced many of the great Atlantic jazz albums. Now that Dorn has access to that legendary Atlantic catalog, he's taking advantage of some of the classic flute tracks of that era to make a statement about that instrument's coming of age in the 1960's.

Burkinabe Dance Music of the 70's.
Amadou Traoré (1944 –2014), better known as Amadou Balaké, was a popular singer from Burkina Fasso. During his career, which lasted over 50 years, Balaké recorded and performed in different parts of West Africa as well as New York and Paris. In the early 21st century, he was a member of Senegalese salsa band Africando. His music combined different traditions from his home country, primarily Dioula (Mandé) and Mossi, as well as Afro-Cuban music.

Rythmes mandingues, Soukous, Salsa, Funk & Afrobeat

 Marijata ‎– This Is Marijata (Mr Bongo, 2017)

Tim Maia, The Brazilian Soul Funk Godfather !

Dans la série Word Psychedelic Classics. Une excellente compilation très R&B.

El Rego is a true legend of African Soul Music.

Here for the first time on album are 12 of his greatest recordings from the late '60s and early '70s hand-picked by Daptone Records. Afro-Soul collector/DJ Frank Gossner had spent years combing West Africa tracking down 45s by Theophile Do Rego (aka El Rego) before nally meeting him face to face in his home in Benin. The music of El Rego varies astoundingly in style and rhythm: traditional rhythms of Benin played with modern instruments, John Lee Hooker-esque blues, Fela Kuti inspired afro-beat, afro-cuban claves, and straight-up James Brown style funk.

New Orleans Soul incorporated the soulful vocals of the gospel church, the driving beat of rhythm and blues, as well as traces of the second-line parade bands and the latinized rhythms of the city. Here you will find New Orleans soul in all its glorious variations – from the deep, deep soul of singers Aaron Neville, Willie Tee and Robert Parker to the storming northern soul of Maurice Williams and Eldridge Holmes, the funky soul of Eddie Bo, Lionel Robinson and Ernie K-Doe all alongside the Crescent City’s finest soul sisters – Irma Thomas, Betty Harris, Jean Knight, Inell Young and more!

This album features the work of revolutionary jazz artists who created new radical music infused with the values of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Self-determination, economic power and musical freedoms explode as the avant-garde collided with Black Power and Afro-centricity.

Groupe allemand, voici leur 1er album, qui balance sacrément... Bless.

Shaolin Soul (1998, Delabel)

Shaolin Soul (Episode 2) - (2001, Hostile Records, Because Music)

Shaolin Soul (Episode 3) - (2014, Parlophone, Because Music)

Shaolin Soul (Episode 4) - (2018, Because Music)

Shaolin Soul Plays Motown - (2019, Because Music)

Soul Power. La Matrice du Hip-Hop. Yo!