Various - The Best Of Black Jazz Records 1971-76 Artist_Madvillain Listening to these 15 albums

Listening to these 15 albums led Russell to revisit the acoustic piano versions of Gil's old songs that they'd captured in those initial New York recording sessions

Wenha’s inaugural release

referencing timeless sounds as much as a sense of the cutting edge

Bartees Strange

Melodies are both abrasive and ebullient

Various - The Best Of Black Jazz Records 1971-76 Artist_Madvillain Listening to these 15 albumsThis album brings together some of the finest music ever released on Black Jazz Records which in its short four year history, between 1971 and 1975, released over 20 superlative albums which all successfully blending spiritual jazz, funk and soul jazz of the highest calibre. Similar to other independent jazz labels at the time, including Strata East Records and Tribe Records, Black Jazz focussed on a number of key artists, most of whom first