1.Donald Byrd – Places And Spaces – Blue Note
Beautiful early 70’s jazz funk long player from the Byrdman, endlessly uplifting horn lines and strings.
2.Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders – Jive
Tip, Fyfe and Ali at their finest with help from Busta Rhymes on seminal cut ‘Oh My God’ one of the finest hip hop albums point blank. Period.
3.Eddie Russ-The Lope Song – Soul Jazz
Funky as a gent’s toilet with flute mania to even it out (dope).
4.Mos Def Feat Slick Rick The Auditorium – Downtown
From Mos Def’s album ‘the ecstatic’ heavy middle eastern style production from Madvillain with excellent storytelling 16 bars from The Patch-Slick rick who shows why he is still one of the most revered of MC’s to ever spit.
5.J Rawls – The Liquid Crystal Project – Hum Drums
Fantastic instrumental album, jazzy but the beats are strictly b-boy, perfect chillmans bluntferatu record.
6.Banda Black Rio Maria Fumaca / Casa Forte – Atlantic
Brazilian funk sextet, crazy fresh arrangements, awesome players.
7.Incognito – 100 Degrees And Rising – Talkin’ Loud
Bluey Manuick the highly under rated bandleader with his British band rocking for over 3 decades the real funk and Latin goodness. Respect.
8.Donny Hathaway-Live – Atlantic
Search and buy this record, pound for pound my favourite male soul vocalist, emotive and heartfelt singing and playing on this special as the flannigans album. Sadly Donny crippled with depression took his own life aged 37,a sad loss for soul music but this record is a fabulous testament to an inspirational musician.
9.Betty Wright The Clean Up Woman – Atlantic
Big tune in my gaff, my daughter Bonita aged 2 goes off to this with a crazy wiggle, giggle combo-classic.
10.D’Angelo – Voodoo – EMI
Baaaaame this is the sexathon LP head to toe in 40 denier black tights swinging on a homemade harness and pulley system in my front room. Morning!!
‘Misdemeanour’ by The CB’s is out now on Jam City Records. Buy it here: https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/206918/Misdemeanour
