Jackie Mittoo was the organ playing child prodigy of Jamaican music who churned out countless hits at Studio One for Coxsone Dodd in the Sixties.

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Gwen McCrae is best known as the Queen of Rare Groove for her much-sampled repertoire of funk and soul. And her accidental role in launching disco.

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Free were in the vanguard of the blues-rock revolution that chnged the face of British music in the late 1960s.

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Alice Coltrane channels the spirit of the blues in her approach to jazz piano on this grief filled instrumental composition from 1970.

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Ernie Hines achieved belated recognition when Our Generation was famously sampled by Pete Rock and CL Smooth on their 1992 hip-hop classic Straighten It Out.

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Last night, at the last minute, I managed to blag tickets to see Lindisfarne – a band I thought had broken up decades ago.

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I’m familiar with Odetta as the voice of the Civil Rights Movement back in the ’50s and ’60s and I know Martin Luther King called her the Queen of American folk music. But I’d never heard this ’til now.

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Still digging into early-Seventies soul, I have to admit I’d never heard of Brick and consequently I’d never heard of their disco and jazz hybrid that they called “dazz.”

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I’ll be first to admit I’ve never heard of the long-forgotten California power trio Parish Hall. Until now. (more…)

George Harrison’s song Beware Of Darkness provides the perfect soundtrack to the opening scene of horror film Weapons.

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