VA- Black Jazz Records - The Best Of Black Jazz RecordsLabel: Soul Jazz Reissued 5 22 2026 This 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

Rather than chasing reinvention

For Deerhoof's members to continually uncover new corners of their own talent requires deep wells of gratitude

Night After Night suggests an alternate history in which Tobe Hooper and Jah Wobble provided the soundtrack to The Warriors

Coin In The Pocket (Rap)

is a fog of dreamy grief

The New Asbestos

Pop Thieves (Make It Feel Good)

ARIA nominee Emma Louise's haunting vocals and intimate lyricism

Sidi was leader of The Songha Stars

but well thought out and in the same way that New Wave was defined and produced in the UK

In The Cloud Forest

Rotting Ways