The Head To The Sky set especially is a must-have. Zanzibar does it every time.
One of their best, most diverse LPs: gritty soul, country hillbilly, raucous funk — the classic Nothing Before Me But Thang — and bagpipes galore on The Silent Boatman.
A moody, ambitious, intriguing record, originally released by Audio Fidelity in 1964.
Just two side-long tracks — and an amazing lineup, with Walter Davis on piano, bassist George Tucker, and two drummers together, Edgar Bateman and the great Andrew Cyrille.
The sleeve-notes quote a Downbeat article from the same year, claiming that Dickerson was the most important vibraphonist since Milt Jackson: ‘instead of solos made up of one related note following another, Dickerson often builds areas of sound, placing them one on the other, creating a total effect.’
This is knockout.
Luminous, swinging, soaring soul music from 1971; richly arranged by Horace Ott.
His spectacularly seminal 2003 LP, plus fourteen hard-to-find or previously unreleased cuts, including seven instrumentals, and the celebrated freestyle Street Fighter.
On white, yellow and black vinyl, in a wide-spine, birthday-boy sleeve.