Timelessly killer, essential music, and a humongous commercial success, this is the key record bar none in the binding of jazz into funk.

Dazzling, smash-hit, fully-fledged blend of flamenco, reggaeton and post-Timbaland r&b, with a Middle Eastern flavour to the singing. It’s the re-telling of a medieval story about a woman locked in a tower by her husband, and her escape. There’s even an Arthur Russell sample.
Lost in the Christmas rush here, but so nice we’re serving it twice.

All nine in the box, properly remastered, packaged in replica mini-LP sleeves, with original documentation, and new notes from scholar Michael Eric Dyson and BW himself.