Ike Turner Presents The Family Vibes ‎– Strange Fruit (1972)

1. Happy But Lonely
2. Heep-A-Hole-Lot
3. Jumpin'
4. Neckin'
5. Bootie Lip
6. Soppin' Molasses
7. Sweet
8. Sixty-Nine
9. D.M.Z.
10. I-8-1-2 (I Ate One Too)
11. Pardon Me

Ike Turner - organ, arranger
Jackie Clark - guitar
Claude Williams, Mack Johnson - trumpet
J.D. Reed, Jimmy Smith - saxophone
Larry Reed - piano and saxophone
Edward Burks - trombone
Warren Dawson - bass
Soko Richardson - drums

Ike Turner & The Kings Of Rhythm ‎– A Black Man's Soul (1969)

1. Thinking Black
2. Black Beauty
3. Ghetto Funk
4. Black's Alley
5. Black Angel
6. Getting Nasty
7. Funky Mule
8. Philly Dog
9. Scotty Souling
10. Up Hard
11. Nuttin' Up
12. Freedom Sound

Ike Turner - guitar, piano, vocals
Jesse Heron - trombone
Washee - saxophone
Tina Turner - vocals
Jesse Knight - bass
Fred Sample - piano
Teasky Tribble - percussion
Mack Johnson - drums

Ananda Shankar ‎– A Musical Discovery Of India (1978)

1. Namaskar
2. The Hill Train
3. Kaziranga Beat
4. Akbar's Jewels
5. Brindavan Revel
6. Dawn At Varanasi
7. Discovery Of India

James Brown - Messing with the Blues (1957-1985)

1. Like It Is, Like It Was (The Blues)
2.  Don't Cry Baby
3. Caldonia
4.  Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door
5.  Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
6.  Good Rockin' Tonight
7.  I Love You, Yes I Do
8.  Messing With the Blues
9.  Waiting in Vain
10.  For You My Love
11.  Blues for My Baby
12.  Every Day I Have the Blues
13.  Love Don't Love Nobody
14.  Love Don't Love Nobody
15.  Goin' Home
16.  Have Mercy Baby
17.  Kansas City
18.  The Bells

1.  Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)
2.  The Things That I Used to Do
3.  Need Your Love So Bad
4.  Like a Baby
5.  Honky Tonk, Pts. 1 & 2
6.  Suffering With the Blues
7.  Further on up the Road
8.  Radio Spot
9.  Talk to Me, Talk to Me
10.  Kansas City
11.  Wonder When You're Coming Home
12.  Like It Is, Like It Was (The Blues, Continued)

Marvin Gaye - A Tribute to the Great Nat "King" Cole (1965)

I had some computer issues but glad to be back!
Here's Marvin and The Funk Brothers

1. Nature Boy
2. Ramblin' Rose
3. Too Young
4. Pretend
5. Straighten Up and Fly Right
6. Mona Lisa
7. Unforgettable
8. To the Ends of the Earth
9. Sweet Lorraine
10. It's Only a Paper Moon
11. Send for Me
12. Calypso Blues

Esther Phillips ‎– Black-Eyed Blues (1973)

1. Justified
2. I've Only Known A Stranger
3. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
4. Black-Eyed Blues
5. Too Many Roads
6. You Could Have Had Me, Baby
7. Tangle in Your Lifeline

Jerry Dodgion, Pee Wee Ellis - alto saxophone
Pepper Adams - baritone saxohpone
Boz Burrell, Ron Carter - bass
Alan Shulman, Anthony Sophos - cello
Ian Wallace - drums
Charlie Brown - guitar
Arthur Jenkins - percussion
Tim Hinkley - piano
Jon Faddis, Marvin Stamm - trumpet
Alfred Brown, Emanuel Vardi - viola
David Nadien, Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff, Harold Kohon, Harry Lookofsky, Irving Spice, Joe Malin, Max Ellen - violin
Carl Carldwell*, Joshie Armstead*, Lani Groves, Tasha Thomas - backing vocals

Strings arranged by Bob James
Produced by Creed Taylor
Engineered by Rudy Van Gelder

Black Girl Original Soundtrack Recording (1973)

1. Black Girl
2. B.J.'s Step
3. Get Me To The Bridge
4. Mother's Day Song I
5. Power
6. Mother's Day Song II
7. Black Girl Cue I
8. No World For Dreamers
9. I Am Your Mailman
10. What It Is
11. Earl (Still A Pearl)
12. Chock-lite Puddin'
13. Black Girl Cue II
14. Chock-lite Puddin' Cue
15. Sister

Written and produced by Ed Bogas and Ray Shanklin
John Hunt - trumpet
Sonny Stitt - saxophone
Merl Saunders - organ
Betty Everett, Rodger Collins, J.J. Malone, Walter Hawkins - vocals

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis in Chicago (1973)

1. Superfly
2. For Your Precious Love
3. I'm So Proud
4. For Once in My Life
5. Preacher Man
6. If I Were Only a Child Again
7. Duke of Earl
8. Love Oh Love
9. Amen

Curtis Mayfield
Jerry Butler
Leroy Hutson
Gene Chandler
Phil Upchurch

Hubert Laws - A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich (1978)

1. School's Out
2. I'm Your Fool
3. Tiger's Pad
4. Trackin'
5. Rehabilitation
6. Drop And Pop
7. Somebody Right Now
8. Something To Feel Good
9. I Can't Leave You Sweets
10. I'm Your Fool (Butler's Theme - Reprise)

Hubert Laws - flute
Tom McIntosh - trombone
Barry Finnerty - guitar
Mike Richmond - bass
Victor Lewis - drums
Victor Feldman - percussion

Hugh Masekela - You Told Your Mama Not to Worry (1977)

1. You Told Your Mama Not To Worry
2. Hangover" (Babalazi, aka "I Haven't Slept")
3. Soweto Blues
4. Black Beauty
5. Mami Wata" (aka Mamiwater)
6. Makonko
7. The Mandingo Man

Hugh Masekela - flugelhorn, piano
Stanley Todd - guitar
Ernie Baiddoo - bass guitar
Paulinho Da Costa - percussion
Frank Todd - drums
Christine Clinton, Elvin Brown, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Richard Sirleaf, Stanley Todd, Julia Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Waters, Oren Waters - vocals

David Axelrod ‎– Heavy Axe (1974)

1. Get Up Off Your Knees
2. Cast Your Fate To The Wind
3. You're So Vain
4. My Family
5. Mucho Chupar
6. Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing
7. It Ain't For You
8. Everything Counts

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - alto saxophone
Jackie Kelso - alto/tenor/baritone saxophone, flute
Jay Migliori - tenor/baritone saxophone, flute
William Green - alto/tenor saxophone, flute
Dick Hyde, George Bohanon - trombone
Allen De Rienzo, Oscar Brashear, Snookey Young - trumpet
George Duke  - electric piano, keyboards, Piano, Synthesizer
Billy Fender, Don Peake, Johnny "Guitar" Watson - guitar
Rudy Copeland  - moog synthesizer
Gene Ammons  - tenor saxophone
Nat Gershman - cello
Jack Shulman - violin
King Errisson - congas
Roy McCurdy - drums
Gary Nuttycombe, William Hymanson - viola
Alexander Neiman, Henry Roth, Jerome Reisler - violin
Billie Barnum, Gwen Owens, Olga James, Stephanie Spruill - vocals

Ceasar Frazier - Hail Ceasar! (1975)

1. Hicky Burr
2. Ellie's Love Theme
3. See-F
4. Hail Caesar!
5. Make It With You
6. Runnin' Away

Ceasar Frazier - organ
Melvin Sparks - guitar
Houston Person - tenor saxophone
Cecil Bridgewater - trumpet
Gordon Edwards - bass
Buddy Caldwell - congas
Idris Muhammad - drums

Melba Moore - A Portrait of Melba (1977)

1. You Are My River
2. Promised Land
3. I Don't Know No One Else To Turn To
4. Standing Right Here
5. Just Another Link
6. Living Free
7. Is This The End
8. Love And I Aren't Strangers Anymore

Booker T. & the M.G.'s - Hip Hug-Her (1967)

1. Hip Hug-Her
2. Soul Sanction
3. Get Ready
4. More
5. Double or Nothing
6. Carnaby St.
7. Slim Jenkins' Place
8. Pigmy
9. Groovin'
10. Booker's Notion
11. Sunny

Booker T. Jones - organ, bass guitar, guitar, keyboard
Steve Cropper - guitar
Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass
Al Jackson, Jr. - drums

The Impressions - Three The Hard Way (1974)

1. Make A Resolution
2. Wendy
3. That's What Love Will Do
4. Something's Mighty, Mighty Wrong
5. Mister Keyes
6. Having A Ball
7. On The Move
8. Three The Hard Way (Chase & Theme)