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Gilles Peterson, well known for his Brownswood label, BBC radio show and phenomenally deep crates, takes the challenge and pays tribute to one of his favorite labels, Black Jazz Records … ‘I stumbled upon a Doug Carn album and my life changed”.
Far more than simply a “Best Of” collection, Gilles successfully links the disparate corners of Black Jazz’s first class soul / jazz / funk catalogue from 1971 to 1976, with tracks by Calvin Keys, Doug Carn, Kellee Patterson and label head Gene Russell, while making the listener nearly forget the thread that ties the tracks together.
At the apex of the mix, he drops one of the all time great spiritual jazz cuts, Doug Carn’s ‘Higher Ground’, its hymn-like quality a surprisingly apt lead-in to Cleveland Eaton’s nine-minute funk chant ‘All Your Lover, All Day, All Night’, itself a tribute of a quite different sort, and yet the mood remains constant. The mix could easily incorporate tracks by other early-to-mid 1970s like-sounding giants Tony Williams, Earth Wind & Fire, Sugarcane Harris, or Funkadelic, but the label’s five years of existence more than suffice to provide enough raw material for this devastating journey. ‘Black Jazz Radio’ is one of a three-part series of mixes, co-ordinated with remastered reissues of the original albums on CD, featuring liner notes by Downbeat writers Frank-John Hadley and John Ephram, and newly discovered photographs and artwork.