Soul Jazz Records
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"Soul Jazz Love Strata-East (1994), Universal Sounds of America (1995) and Strata-2-East (1997) feature a fine selection of the Strata-East Records's space jazz output." --Sholem Stein |
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Soul Jazz Records is a British-based record label. The label started in the 1990s, releasing compilation albums of predominantly black music, including reggae, soul and jazz. The label has since expanded its style, and has released further compilations of post-punk, electronica and world music, alongside a number of artist studio albums and singles.
Album releases on the label include The World of Arthur Russell, The Sexual Life of the Savages, A Tom Moulton Mix and That's My Beat.
Albums
SJR17 London Jazz Classics 2
SJR19 Soul Jazz Love Strata-East
SJR20 Jessica Lauren - Siren Song
SJR22 Brasil
SJR23 Esperanto - Esperanto
SJR26 London Jazz Classics 3
SJR27 Universal Sounds of America
SJR29 Nu Yorica!
SJR32 Chris Bowden - Time Capsule
SJR34 Faith
SJR36 Nu Yorica 2!
SJR37 Batucada Capoeira
SJR38 Grupo Oba-Ilu - Santeria
SJR39 Chicano Power!
SJR40 100% Dynamite!
SJR41 200% Dynamite!
SJR42 Barrio Nuevo
SJR43 300% Dynamite!
SJR45 Nu Yorica Roots!
SJR46 400% Dynamite!
SJR47 New Orleans Funk
SJR48 Studio One Rockers
SJR49 Philadelphia Roots
SJR50 Studio One Soul
SJR52 Osunlade - Paradigm
SJR53 Saturday Night Fish Fry: New Orleans Funk and Soul
SJR55 500% Dynamite!
SJR56 Studio One Roots
SJR57 In the Beginning There Was Rhythm
SJR58 Studio One DJ's
SJR59 Sandoz - Chant To Jah
SJR60 A Certain Ratio - Early
SJR62 Mantronix - That's My Beat
SJR64 ESG - Step Off
SJR65 A Certain Ratio – B-Sides, Sessions & Rarities
SJR66 Hustle! Reggae Disco
SJR67 Studio One Scorcher
SJR68 Studio One Story
SJR72 Miami Sound
SJR74 Nice Up the Dance
SJR76 Joe Gibbs - Joe Gibbs Productions
SJR77 New York Noise
SJR80 Jackie Mittoo and The Soul Brothers - Last Train To Skaville
SJR82 British Hustle
SJR83 Arthur Russell - The World of Arthur Russell
SJR84 600% Dynamite!
SJR85 Studio One Ska
SJR88 Hu Vibrational - Beautiful
SJR89 Studio One Dub
SJR90 Konk - The Story of Konk
SJR91 Ammon Contact - Beat Tape Remixes
SJR93 Chicago Soul
SJR94 Bell - Seven Types of Six
SJR96 Studio One Classics
SJR97 Studio One Funk
SJR98 The Sound of Philadelphia
SJR100 The Gallery
SJR101 Burning Spear - Sounds from the Burning Spear
SJR102 Studio One Disco Mix
SJR104 Sugar Minott - Sugar Minott at Studio One
SJR105 Spirits of Life - Haitian Vodou
SJR107 Soul Gospel
SJR110 New Thing!
SJR111 Acid
SJR112 The Sexual Life of the Savages
SJR113 Mark Stewart - Kiss the Future
SJR114 Studio One Roots 2
SJR115 Microsolutions #1
SJR116 Studio One Lovers
SJR117 Mercenárias - The Beginning of the End of the World
SJR118 Tropicalia
SJR120 Tom Moulton - A Tom Moulton Mix
SJR121 Studio One Women
SJR122 Steve Reid Ensemble - Spirit Walk
SJR125 Big Apple Rappin'
SJR126 New York Noise Vol. 2
SJR127 Sound Dimension - Jamaica Soul Shake Vol. 1
SJR128 Studio One Soul 2
SJR129 Soul Gospel Vol. 2
SJR130 Sandoz - Live in the Earth
SJR132 Rekid - Made in Menorca
SJR133 The Sisters Love - Give Me Your Love
SJR136 Tumba Francesa - Afro-Cuban Music from the Roots
SJR137 Studio One DJ's 2
SJR138 ESG - Keep On Moving
SJR139 Hu Vibrational - Universal Mother
SJR140 Sand - The Dalston Shroud
SJR143 Studio One Scorcher 2
SJR144 Cinco Anos Despue (5 Years On)
SJR146 Dynamite! Dancehall Style
SJR147 New York Noise Vol. 3
SJR148 Studio One Rude Boy
SJR150 ESG - Come Away With...
SJR151 Studio One Groups
SJR153 Do It Yourself
SJR154 Studio One Rub-a-dub
SJR156 Studio One Kings
SJR158 New York Latin Hustle!
SJR159 Rumble in the Jungle
SJR161 Box of Dub — Dubstep and Future Dub
SJR162 Drums of Cuba — Afro-Cuban Music From the Roots
SJR164 Brazil 70 - After Tropicalia
SJR166 Studio One Dub Vol. 2
SJR167 ESG - A South Bronx Story 2 - Collector's Edition: Rarities
SJR168 Studio One Roots Vol. 3
SJR170 Soul Jazz Records Singles 2006-2007
SJR171 Jamaica Funk — Original Jamaican Soul and Funk 45's
SJR172 Box of Dub 2 - Dubstep and Future Dub
SJR173 Sound Dimension - Mojo Rocksteady Beat
SJR177 An England Story
SJR178 Steppas' Delight — Dubstep Present to Future
SJR185 New Orleans Funk Vol.2
SJR186 Tetine - LET YOUR X'S BE Y'S
SJR188 Secondo - A Matter of Scale
SJR190 Ragga Twins - Ragga Twins Step Out
SJR191 Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Les Stances A Sophie - A Motion Picture Soundtrack
SJR194 Soul Jazz Records Singles 2008-2009
SJR196 Dancehall — The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture
SJR201 Dub Echoes
SJR202 Subway - Subway II
SJR204 100% Dynamite! NYC: Dancehall Reggae Meets Rap In New York City
SJR206 Fly Girls
Fly Girls! (full title Soul Jazz Presents Fly Girls: B Boys Beware - Revenge of the Super Female Rappers) is a music compilation of female rap artists that celebrates the genre's 30th anniversary. It was released by Soul Jazz Records in November 2008.
The history of female rap on record begins in 1979 in New York City as the clamour of the city’s artists, record companies and producers strove to make it onto vinyl in the wake of The Sugarhill Gang’s squillion-selling hit, "Rappers Delight"[1] – released that year on the former soul singer Sylvia Robinson’s Sugarhill Records. It would be the Winley family - comprising sisters Tanya, Paulette - who made the first female rap record produced by their mother Ann and released on their father’s label, Paul Winley Records.
Aside from the singing/rap styles that earlier soul artists such as Aretha Franklin[2], Shirley Ellis[3], Millie Jackson[4] and Laura Lee[5] would occasionally adopt in their songs, female rap (like rap itself) had its antecedents in the groundbreaking black poetry of the 60s and 70s with radical, free-thinking poets such as Nikki Giovanni[6], Camille Yarborough[7] and Sarah Webster Fabio[8] - all of whom are included here – vocalising hitherto unheard expressions of female and black self-determination in their work. These strong, educated, political women not only led the way stylistically but also helped define how a female artist could make their own career path - weaving creativity, politics and family in a way that Missy Elliott[9], Queen Latifah[10] and others have since followed - establishing the boundary-breaking career paths of many female artists in rap. Hip-hop is a culture of which music is only a part; nowadays (and to an extent from the very beginning) the most successful female hip-hop artist is often singer, DJ, actress, manager, political and social agitator and more in multiple combinations.
Hip-hop’s story begins in the tenement blocks and community centres of the South Bronx. In the first three years-or-so history of hip-hop (1976-9) - before the first rap records were made - aspiring female artists could watch onstage the early female MC role models of Sha-Rock (the first female MC in the group Funky Four Plus One[11]) or the Mercedes Ladies[12] (the first female MC and DJ crew). With Tanya and Paulette Winley’s ‘Rappin and Rhymin’ on vinyl by 1979 it would not be until the following year that the first all-female crew made it onto vinyl when The Sequence[13] (featuring a then unknown Angie Stone) was astutely signed, once again, by Sylvia Robinson to Sugarhill Records.
Robinson was not the only woman on the business side of hip-hop. There was Kool Lady Blue who first brought rap out of the Bronx and into downtown NYC at the Roxy nightclub and also later managed The Rocksteady Crew. Monica Lynch who rose to head of A and R and president of Tommy Boy Records, and later vice-president of Warners, comments that because hip-hop was new it did not have the hierarchy of the traditional music industry and women were thus able to move more easily into executive roles. Later, as we shall see, many of the artists moved into the business themselves taking control of their careers and aiding others.
Roxanne Shante is certainly the first female rapper to make a career out of her music. Shante and fellow Queens-resident and producer Marley Marl fought their corner for both their borough (taking on Boogie Down Productions and the Bronx) and anyone else who dared call themselves ‘Roxanne’ in a slanging-match known as The Roxanne Wars[14]. This verbal jousting had its antecedents dating back to the ‘dozens’ of the playground and tower-block (‘Your mother is a …’, ‘No, your mother is a …’) and to the Griot storytellers of Africa. Roxanne Shante, and many others here, effortlessly subverted this - and many other - male-dominated traditions to create and re-write new histories.
Tracklisting
Disc: 1 1. You're Goin' Down - JJ Fad 2. Get Off Your Ass And Jam - Anquette 3. Pump Up The Bass - Princess MC 4. Vicious Rap - Winley, Tanya 5. I Got Da Feelin' - Sweet Tee 6. Ego Tripping - Giovanni, Nikki 7. Cha Cha Cha - MC Lyte 8. B-Boys Beware - 2 Sisters 9. Success - Cookie Crew 10. Simon Says - The Sequence 11. Paper Thin - Bahamadia 12. I Can't Stop - Sparky Dee 13. Ladies First - Queen Latifah 14. To The Beat Y'all - Lady B 15. Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) - Elliott, Missy 16. Sucker DJs - Dimples D 17. Give It A Rest - She Rockers 18. Bite This - Shante, Roxanne Disc: 2 1. Bite This - Various Artists 2. Give It A Rest - Various Artists 3. Ladies First - Various Artists 4. Paper Thin - Various Artists 5. Success - Various Artists 6. To The Beat - Various Artists 7. I Cant Stop - Various Artists 8. Untitled - Various Artists
SJR213 Deutsche Elektronische Musik
SJR214 Can You Dig It? The Music And Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-75
SJR219 Freedom, Rhythm & Sound - Revolutionary Jazz & The Civil Rights Movement 1963-82
SJR222 Steppas' Delight 2
SJR226 135 Grand Street New York 1979
SJR229 Riddim Box - Excursions In The UK Funky Underground
SJR230 Rara In Haiti
SJR234 Future Bass
SJR236 Invasion Of The Mysteron Killer Sounds
SJR239 Bossa Nova And The Rise Of Brazilian Music In The 1960s
SJR242 Brazil Bossa Beat ! Bossa Nova And The Story Of Elenco Records, Brazil
SJR243 Delta Swamp Rock - Sounds From The South
SJR244 The Black Caribs Of Belize
SJR246 The Lijadu Sisters - Afro-beat Soul Sisters
SJR248 The Legendary Studio One Records
SJR253 Harmony, Melody & Style - Lovers Rock In The UK 1975-1992
SJR254 Jende Ri Palenge
SJR255 Voguing And The House Ballroom Scene Of New York City 1976-96
SJR256 Studio One Sound
SJR258 Country Soul Sisters
SJR259 Delta Swamp Rock Volume 2 - More Sounds From The South
SJR260 Studio One Ironsides
SJR265 Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2
SJR266 Acid - Mysterons Invade The Jackin' Zone
SJR267 Country Soul Sisters Vol.2
SJR268 New Orleans Funk Vol.3
SJR269 New Orleans Soul
SJR270 Inner City Beat! - Detective Themes, Spy Music And Imaginary Thrillers
SJR271 Studio One Ska Fever! More Ska Sounds From Sir Coxsone's Downbeat 1962-65
SJR272 Punk 45: Kill The Hippies! Kill Yourself! The American Nation Destroys Its Young, Vol. 1
SJR274 Calypso: Musical Poetry In The Caribbean 1955-69
SJR275 Gipsy Rhumba
SJR277 Studio One Rocksteady
SJR278 Punk 45: There Is No Such Thing As Society. Get a Job, Get a Car, Get a Bed, Get Drunk!, Vol. 2
SJR279 Punk 45: Sick On You! One Way Spit! After the Love & Before the Revolution, Vol. 3
SJR281 Studio One Dancehall - Sir Coxsone in the Dance: The Foundation Sound
SJR286 No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds of the North-West Grunge Era 1986-97
SJR287 Gwo Ka: Music of Guadeloupe, West Indies
SJR288 Black Fire! New Spirits: Radical And Revolutionary Jazz In The U.S.A 1957-82
SJR289 Disco: A Fine Selection of Independent Disco, Modern Soul and Boogie 1978-82
A1 –Sympho-State You Know What I Like 5:58 A2 –The Fantastic Aleems* Featuring Corky Hodges Movin' To The Beat 6:42 B1 –Something Extra Sexy Lady 5:04 B2 –Stwange Poweple Get Up (Let's Rock) 9:36 C1 –Chemistry (8) Skateboard 6:06 C2 –Cirt Gill & The Jam-A-Ditty Band* Turn This Disco Out 5:53 C3 –Sugar Bear Johnson When Your Jones Come Down 6:43 D1 –Retta Young* My Man Is On His Way 6:44 D2 –The Imperials Fast Freddie The Roller Disco King 6:12 D3 –Cordial (2) Wave 6:12
SJR290 Degrees of Shade: Hot Jump-Up Island Sounds from the Caribbean
SJR299 Punk 45: Burn, Rubber City, Burn - Akron, Ohio: Punk and the Decline of the Mid-West 1975-80
SJR302 Popol Vuh - Kailash
SJR307 Sounds of the Universe: Art + Sound 2012-15, Vol. 1
SJR309 Nu Yorica! (Reissue, Remastered)
SJR311 Disco 2: A Further Fine Selection of Independent Disco, Modern Soul and Boogie 1976-80
SJR312 Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83
SJR321 100% Dynamite! (Reissue)
SJR322 Hieroglyphic Being - The Acid Documents
SJR323 Coxsone's Music: The First Recordings Of Sir Coxsone The Downbeat 1960-62
SJR324 Studio One Dub Fire Special
SJR325 Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Tales of Mozambique
SJR326 Studio One Showcase: The Sound Of Studio One In The 1970s
SJR328 New York Noise (Reissue)
SJR329 Punk 45: Chaos In The City Of Angels And Devils - Punk In Los Angeles 1977-81
SJR331 Count Ossie & The Rasta Family - Man From Higher Heights
SJR332 Coxsone's Music 2: The Sound Of Young Jamaica
SJR333 Africans With Mainframes (Hieroglyphic Being & Noleian Reusse) - K.M.T.
SJR334 Boombox 1: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro, And Disco Rap 1979-82
SJR335 Venezuela 70 - Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth
SJR341 Nigeria Freedom Sounds!
SJR344 Nigeria Soul Fever
SJR345 Betty Harris - The Lost Queen Of New Orleans Soul
SJR346 Tee Mac - Night Illusion
SJR354 Punk 45: Les Punks - The French Connection
SJR355 New Orleans Funk Vol.4
SJR367 Studio One Rocksteady Vol.2
SJR368 Hustle! Reggae Disco (Reissue, Expanded)
SJR369 Laraaji – Celestial Vibration (Reissue)
SJR370 Boombox 2: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro, And Disco Rap 1979-82
SJR371 Vodou Drums In Haiti 2
SJR373 Lloyd McNeill Quartet – Asha (Reissue)
SJR374 Lloyd McNeill Quartet - Washington Suite
SJR375 The Skatalites - Independence Ska And The Far East Sound
SJR392 Space, Energy & Light - Experimental Electronic And Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88
SJR393 Soul Of A Nation: Afro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power
SJR394 Hierogyphic Being - The Red Notes
SJR396 Studio One Supreme: Maximum 70s & 80s Early Dancehall Sounds
SJR398 Black Man's Pride
SJR399 Yoruba! - Songs & Rhythms For The Yoruba Gods In Nigeria
SJR401 Dancehall (2017 Edition Reissue): The Rise Of Jamaican Dancehall Culture
SJR402 Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3
SJR405 Brasil (Reissue, Remastered)
SJR409 Deutsche Elektronische Musik (2018 Edition Reissue)
SJR411 Boombox 3: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro, And Disco Rap 1979-83
SJR412 Nigeria Fuji Machine - Synchro Sound System & Power
SJR424 Black Man's Pride 2
