Original BBC review written by Daryl Easlea Buy this album on Amazon. Positivity was the joyous fourth album from Incognito, the vision of former Light of the World guitarist Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick, and their third release on Gilles Peterson’s Talkin’ Loud imprint. Packed with positive, on-message grooves, it is a Read more…
Original BBC review written by Daryl Easlea Buy this album on Amazon. There is no messing around here. The 60 tracks of The Trevor Nelson Collection – recorded between 1979 and 2010 – do indeed, as the sticker on the CD cover screams, represent “The Biggest R&B Club Classics Of Read more…
Original BBC review written by Daryl Easlea Buy this album on Amazon. Released in January 1968, Lady Soul completed a remarkable 12 months of achievement for Aretha Franklin. Having been signed to Atlantic in 1966 after years in the doldrums at Columbia, her Jerry Wexler-produced albums, I Never Loved a Read more…
Original BBC review written by Daryl Easlea Buy this album on Amazon. Recorded with production team of Dre and Vidal (A Touch of Jazz alumni Andre Lewis and Vidal Davis), World Outside My Window was Glenn Lewis’ soulful, slow-burning debut album. Although he initially set out to be an animator, Read more…
Original BBC review written by Daryl Easlea Buy this album on Amazon. Luther Vandross’ third album Busy Body is the apex of his collaboration with producer and bassist Marcus Miller, and it positively leaps out of the speakers with the synthetic stabs of opener I Wanted Your Love. One of Read more…
Original BBC review written by Daryl Easlea Buy this album on Amazon. The elation of hearing The Supremes’ second album is evident from the first handclaps of the opening title track. The marriage of writing and production team Holland-Dozier-Holland and the former “no-hit” Supremes (Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Read more…
Original BBC review written by Daryl Easlea Buy this album on Amazon. Although mainly remembered today for her sassy 1986 hit, Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ on But the Rent, Gwen Guthrie was one of the most talented vocalists in early 80s RnB. Having cut her teeth in the 1970s as a Read more…
Original BBC review written by Daryl Easlea Buy this album on Amazon. One Nation Under a Groove immediately welcomed new listeners inside Clinton’s parallel universe, with all of his ideas, mythology and strangely monikered players. For example, Bootsy Collins is one of the ‘Bass Thumpasaurians’ on the album, and Bernie Read more…