THE BEST OF BLACK JAZZ RECORDS
Soul Jazz are re-issuing their classic Best of Black Jazz Records for the first time in five years. Originally released along with their other Deep Jazz releases such as Universal Sounds Of America, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Steve Reid, Tribe and Soul Jazz Loves Strata East, this album features the best of the artists who recorded for Black Jazz Records during the first half of the 1970s. For many of the artists this was the only label they recorded for and consequently many are collectors items today. Artists include Doug Carn, The Awakening, Kellee Patterson, Calvin Keys and many more. Black Jazz Records is one of very few independent Jazz labels in the US that managed to survive in the 1970s.

Alongside Black Jazz the other main labels were Strata-East in New York and Tribe Records in Detroit.

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