World Needs Changing – Street Funk & Jazz Grooves 1967-1976 – Various Artists CD (BGP)

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1. Head Start – Bob Thiele’s Emergency
2. All Power To The People Pt 1 – Joe Savage & The Soul People
3. The World Needs Changing – Hank Jacobs & Don Malone
4. Just In Time To See The Sun – Leon Thomas
5. See-Saw Affair – Cesar 830
6. Now Is The Time For Love – Darrow Fletcher
7. Free Will (Alt Take 1) – Gil Scott-Heron
8. Walk Tall – Esther Marrow
9. Medley: Get Ready / Uptight – Little Eva Harris
10. American Woman / Sissy Strut – Willard Posey Reunion
11. Soul Patrol – The Original Soul Patrol
12. Do It (Inst) – Johnny Griffith Acc By Billy Sha-Rae’s Band
13. Love Hijacker (Inst) – George Jackson
14. Expansions (7″ Edit) – Lonnie Liston Smith
15. This Is The Me Me (Not The You You) – Richard “Groove” Holmes & Brenda Jones
16. Mr Perfect – Tina Bryant
17. That’s The Way It Goes – Elaine Armstrong
18. Mama Soul – Harold Alexander
19. Rudypoot – Huck & The Soul Patrol
20. Love Tones – Melvin Sparks

Weight 120 g
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World Needs Changing – Street Funk & Jazz Grooves 1967-1976

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Various Artists

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The late 60s were a time of incredible change in black American Music. Civil rights had brought some advances but there was still much to do. In the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King politics got radical, whilst financial gains were relished. ‘The World Needs Changing’ reflects the growing confidence of black music in a decade of change.

Soul, jazz and funk was a mirror onto the black urban world, and represented a growing confidence and sophistication. Records like Lonnie Liston Smith’s ‘Expansions’ (presented here in its rare 7 inch version) or Leon Thomas’ ‘Just In Time To See The Sun’ show jazz musicians reaching for the discos without losing their spiritual self. Gil Scott Heron, Esther Marrow, Darrow Fletcher and our super rare title track (selling for £200 recently) show the political struggle continued to bubble away.

The majority of the music made at the time was still aimed firmly at the feet, and we’ve rare collectors items by The Original Soul Patrol, Ceaser 830, club classics by the Willard Posey Reunion and Little Eva Harris whose medley of ‘Get Ready/ Uptight’ has been massive in London for a couple of years now. Our trips into the vaults allow us to include two amazing cuts from Fame’s short lived Memphis studio from George Jackson and the mysterious Tina Bryant. – Ace Records

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