When this two-LP set was initially released in January 1971,  Canned Heat  was back to its R&B roots, sporting slightly revised person...

A little darker this time out (hence the title),  Bruce Cockburn 's fourth album find even greater rewards. Backed by a complete band,...

Terry Smith 's rare late-'60s LP was an accomplished set that showcased his fluid, modern bop-influenced jazz guitar in both big b...

Soul singer  Barbara Massey  and jazz guitarist  Ernie Calabria  paired up for this rare 1971 album. With  Calabria  having worked with  N...

After All  may have only been a band in the loosest sense of the term, but its only record is a quite wonderful -- if ultimately difficult...

Released not long after  Quincy Jones  was operated upon for life-threatening brain aneurysms, the music community was glad to have this a...

Drawing on rock, salsa, and jazz,  Santana  recorded one imaginative, unpredictable gem after another during the 1970s. But  Caravanserai ...

Alan Bown  made an improbable rock star -- though it could be argued that he was never really a "star." With the trumpet as his...

Black Sugar  is a funky Latin-rock band from Peru, mercifully reissued for a latter-day audience by Lazarus Audio Products. "Viajecit...

Though American,  Amory Kane  was based in the U.K. when he recorded this, his second album;  Fairport Convention  bassist  Dave Pegg , in...

Baden Powell  is a Brazilian musician with a solid international reputation. A gifted instrumentalist and composer, he bridges the gap bet...

Ghana's  African Brothers Band  has thrived and survived through three decades of social and political transition and turmoil througho...

The second long-player from  It's a Beautiful Day  is an exceedingly more pastoral effort than the band's self-titled debut. As ma...

Isao Suzuki & His Fellows featuring Kunihiko Sugano and the prominent leader of the Jazz Rock style during the eighties in japan, guit...

With its endless, droning minor-key riff and mumbled vocals, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is arguably the most notorious song of the aci...