Tommy Stewart - Riding High

Catchy Hotlanta sun-soaked strings and smiles.

Tommy Stewart - Riding High - Tommy Stewart - 1976

Max Roach - Equipoise

Stanley Cowell's tune, with Gary Bartz on sax and Charles Tolliver on trumpet plus a much newer, wobblier take from Ninja Tune's Dwight Trible.

Max Roach - Equipoise - Members Don't Git Weary - 1968
Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio feat. Sa-Ra - Equipoise - Equipoise CDS - 2005

Evelyn 'Champagne' King - Smooth Talk

Strong groove, catchy hook and some lovely guitar in the breakdown.

Evelyn 'Champagne' King - Smooth Talk - Smooth Talk - 1977

Edu Lobo - Vento Bravo

Real Musica Popular Brasileira from Edu Lobo. Atmospheric, as you might expect considering he had spent most of his time working on film scores before this album.

Edu Lobo - Vento Bravo - Missa Breve - 1972

Greetings *2

Time to kick start again with some more great music. After a long holiday in Australia and Japan, I'd wondered whether it was worth posting a few single tracks every week, especially considering all the great sites out there lovingly posting complete hard-to-find albums at 320kbps. However in the end I've decided it is, simply because maybe a few new songs a week is really all that anyone can handle. To that end I will endeavour to post only the music I really love and want to introduce, so you can go out and buy records and go to concerts. And, if I'm quiet for a couple weeks at a time, it's simply because I don't have something to share that's worthy of your discerning attention! Thanks to everyone for the comments and emails and I will be more responsive in the future - it's great that there's such a community of real music lovers out there.