Various Artists

A tremendous entry in this great series that seems to go out of its way to prove that you can't judge a book by its cover – as the whole thing has nothing to do with flowers in a field, and instead overflows with rare jazzy cuts from the 70s! There's a very special vibe to the Praise Poems series – not jazz funk or spiritual jazz, but a breed that's somehow in between – often nicely compact, and with vocal cuts as much as instrumental – very obscure work, but always wonderfully groovy too – at a level that has you realizing that even if you think you know a lot about jazz, there's always a lot more to learn.

TRACKS:

• 01. Bobby Cole ...... "A Perfect Day"
• 02. Helmut Pistor's BRJ Band ...... "Promise For The Future"
• 03. Ladykiller ...... "Mercy Mercy Mercy"
• 04. Portraits in Sound ...... "It's Time For Music"
• 05. Harve and Charee ...... "Got To Turn Away"
• 06. Allison & Shaffer ...... "Moon Madness"
• 07. Klaas Craats Six ...... "Water Gardens Of The Moon"
• 08. Gemini ...... "If You're So Smart"
• 09. Flash ...... "Around This Time"
• 10. Garndarf ...... "Song For A Girl"
• 11. Fang Buzbee & Sutton ...... " Frozen Love"
• 12. Penn Central ...... " Make It Happen"
• 13. The Menagerie ...... "They All Seem To Know"
• 14. Hans Hass ...... "Welche Farbe Hat Der Wind"
• 15. Ron & Sally Price ...... "California Feeling"
• 16. Kris 'n Dale ...... "Memory Shelf"
• 17. David White ...... "I Want To Have You A Long Time "
• 18. Vision ...... "Girl We Really Done It This Time"