Various Artists

A really heady collection of cuts – one that starts with jazz, and moves into a whole host of other righteous styles too – all to sum up a 70s mode that's as much about empowerment as it is peace!

Think of the cuts here as being in the much farther reaches past the styles initiated by Impulse Records and the Coltrane generation – to a point where the artists here aren't just copying modal and spiritual jazz styles, but infusing them with all sorts of new inflections of their own – at a level that makes the whole collection a really wonderful discovery!

As with previous volumes, there's titles here we never would have heard otherwise – and tracks on this LP for Vol 6 include "Algunas" by Jimmy McGary, "Bless Your Soul" by Lucky Brown & The SGs, "Night In Tunisia" by A La Ala, "Cataracts" by Musica Orbis, "History" by Charles Lamont, "Januschka" by Frederic Rabold, and "Savior's Waltz" by New Day.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Musica Orbis ...... Cataracts
• A2. Charles Lamont ...... History
• A3. Jimmy McGary Quartet ...... Algunas
• A4. Lucky Brown & The S.G.'s ...... Bless Your Soul

• SIDE B
• B1. À La Ala ...... A Night In Tunesia
• B2. Frey-Tiepold-Thierfelder-Lang ...... Colibry
• B3. New Day ...... Savior's Waltz
• B4. Frédéric Rabold Crew ...... Januschka