The 1980 LP by this versatile organist, mainstay of the Washington jazz scene, who played with everyone from Chuck Brown to George Benson. Featuring the funky dancer Bebop Boogie, teeming with jazzy elan, and replete with breaks ‘n’ beats opening and numerous breakdowns, school of Take Me To The Mardi Gras.

Chris King from Dust To Digital giving a heap of Turkish 78s the pile-em-high, sell-em-cheap reissue treatment. Naff artwork and crap notes, but some marvellous music to wheedle out, no doubt.

Very nice, evocative mixture of ska, meringue, swing and co, from 1960, suited and booted by Dub Store.

Two spaced-out, synthed-up, house tearaways; a chunk of totally fucked-up dancehall; dub techno. A guitar solo and tincture of Fleetwood Mac to boot. TTT measures.

Crucial Arthur — with a deadly Walter Gibbons mix.

Pipa master Wu Man and her Uyghur, Tajik, and Hui collaborators explore connections between the musical worlds of China and Central Asia.

From 1982, with his boom tune Buttercup. Arrangements by Teena Marie; Jamaican pressing and sleeve. CA was at Motown from 1972 — behind the scenes on Songs In The Key Of Life, for example.