A Skatalites charger and a jolt of vintage Ethiopian ska rumpus.

Head-to-head Bunny-Lee-supervised knees-up-mother-browns.

Two jazz burners.
A shuffling, r&b version of a Lerner & Loewe tune from Brigadoon, by way of Nat King Cole.
Plus an instrumental one-away featuring Baba Brooks, Roland Alphonso and Lester Sterling. One of the reed players puts his foot in it, with a squawk, but who cares. Guess that’s why it’s previously unreleased and such a precious release now.

Utterly essential for any fan of Brazil’s legendary counter-culture movement. Gathering all the main players, such an amazing array of talent, this LP acted as a kind of manifesto.

His comeback, forty years after Histoire De Melody Nelson, with the same signature mix — Axelrod-style orchestral sensibility and stoner funk-rock framing his own louche vocals, and poeticised and punning verses.

Outstanding roots from 1979, produced by Prince Hammer. Tough dub. too.

The great roots singer totally bossing this killer piece of late-eighties digi Lovers.
Like the Singing Melody excursion on the same stone-classic I Won’t Give Up rhythm, this is previously unreleased.

The complete Columbia solo studio recordings, 1962-1968.

Monked standards, with Pettiford and Blakey.